#sonoficeandfire

❤ - Any tumblr senpais?

Oh goodness, I have a few.  I think I'm about to gain more in the other fandom I've begun roleplaying in, as well, but I'm still getting my feet wet there, so nothing is concrete.  However, right now~

   ⇢ sonoficeandfire     ⇢ eyes-of-deceit     ⇢ takaochii (my long-term senpai.  Ironically, the only one tumblr won't let me @mention.)     ⇢ ....I thought there were more.  I swear there were more.

❣x2 - An unpopular opinion I have.

    ⇢ Dynasty Warriors: As excited as I get with new character releases (many of which I'm still anticipating!), I also kind of wish that Koei would take a step back from that for a bit in order to focus more on the characters we already have.  With so many in the roster, it's impossible to really develop anyone anymore, even the main figureheads of the era.  While the days of individual Musou Modes are long gone, I'd like to see the heavy majority of available characters have more dimensions to them than "one personality trait, one complementing flaw, and one joke trait" (e.g., Ling Tong's laziness [both his defining trait in recent games and his joke trait, and arguably also his flaw] and his rivalry with Gan Ning; Zhong Hui's self proclamation as the "Chosen One" and his desire to rebel and take things over, with no other reason than, "Well, I'm the Chosen One, so that's why"; Sima Shi's love of baozi and his Sima Family Laughter being one of the most overused gags in the Jin storyline).  Each instalment has degraded almost every single character a little more, even those present in only two games.  Even if we didn't get more character depth on the level of personality, I'd love to see their relationships with others developed more.

    ⇢ Three Kingdoms: Against global opinion -- Liu Bei was not a hero, in my eyes.  Against fandom/common scholarly opinion -- (Bonus!  Muse-related!) Sun Hao was a terrible ruler who did terrible things that cannot be excused, yes, but how much of history remembers him is based firmly in the traditional philosophical mindsets that go along with an emperor who loses their empire.  Many of his misdeeds are exaggerated, and his virtues and positive actions, whatever their longevity, are sometimes spoken of as being sub-par or failing entirely, when in fact, he was capable of good things, and did good things.  In this, my opinion is that he was not quite as terrible of a ruler as many people prefer to think of him as (though I would still never want him as my emperor).

⋆ - A ship I have with my character.

Just one?! D:  Uh.  HaoLai.  HaoMei/YuanMei.

❧ - A ship I have with your character. (For Youmei)

YouJie !!

✗x2 - A ship I can’t stand !!

   ⇢ Sima Yi/Jiang Wei.     ⇢ Zhou Yu/Sun Quan

☒x2 - A fact about the mun.

   ⇢ I am a bun.  An actual bun.  Sniffsniff, hophop, nudgenudge, earwiggle~!     ⇢ I am really, really passionate about Three Kingdoms history (as much as it makes me twitch to call it 'Three Kingdoms'), even if my specialities rest in Wu and Jin history, and cultural/philosophical/geographical/etc. aspects of the time.  Though I had an upset when trying to get it active again two weeks ago, I run an ask blog over here~.... //shameless self-promotion; many resources still need to be added, as well/

☑x2 - A fact about the character.

    ⇢ He lets his past define him, as much as he tries to keep it where it should be: in the the past.      ⇢ He puts the weight of the problems he's involved with entirely on his shoulders.  Often, he'll try to right them in some way, but if the effort blows up horribly or he's too far into his later timeline of being a tyrant, he'll quietly wallow in his guilt while partaking in activities that temporarily help him to forget how far he's fallen or how much he's failed those who had such high expectations of him.  Eventually, he can't even retreat in that way, but he continues his escapist and violent patterns out of habit, out of wanting to keep up his unstable and terrifying persona to protect those close to him after accruing so many enemies, and because he doesn't feel there's any way to redeem the person he's become.  When he hits his lowest points, he locks himself away from the world entirely, letting the corrupt government run itself until he returns.

✾x2 - Why I chose my character.

It was for a mixture of reasons, really.  I wanted to see a darker side to Wu in the roleplay community, even if it began in lighter roots.  I had many headcanons about Sun Hao that I wanted to portray, although since some of them directly involved one of my other characters, I had my inhibitions.  However, as time went on, I felt more and more trepidatious about him being played by someone else (I'd tried at one point to convince Rae, for example, to take him up), and I discovered that this was due to the muse having been woken up within me.  Due to the reason listed above and my insecurities at being able to play such a character (as well as a mention from another member in the community that we "didn't need anymore Wu/Sun muses"), I'd been suppressing and rejecting him quite a bit.  Once I realised that, I gave in, other opinions and my self-consciousness be damned, and he became my strongest and most well-developed muse almost immediately.

☄ - My opinion of you (for lotusofwei)