HMD meme

[arielmods]

HMD

It's that time finally! Here's our How's My Driving? post. This sitewide meme will go up on the 20th of every month and it's encouraged that everyone post! Please post a list of your current in-game characters as a reference for other members to use for comments or critique.

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Comments

[pulledfromthepit]

You bring up some very good points. There's one I don't quite agree on, but ultimately the failure was still mine since I know I have what I think are good reasons for it, but if it didn't translate in the playing then that's still an issue.

1. I really can't argue with this. Honestly, I think some of this comes from my also playing a S7 Dean in another game where he's kind of "fuck it all, who cares?" and I kind of got my wires crossed a bit. He really should be more questioning and mistrustful and I failed to put that in like I should have.

2. This is the one I don't entirely agree on. He's been with Thrawn a few times by then and started to develop some trust there and I sort of see Dean as the type of person who, once it's given, trust is pretty solid until he's given a reason to withdraw it.

Still, I probably could have either made that more clear or had him be a little more curious about it. You're right that this one was my trying to jump ahead to the fun and that's no excuse. I should have put more effort into that response.

3. Again, it feels like short-cut roleplaying.

Pretty much exactly right. Chi and I had plans for how it was going to affect them and be a big deal, but I pretty much dropped the ball on that. I put all my focus on the "avoid it, forget it, pretend it didn't happen" coping mechanism they've got going on and neglected to play up his guilt and anger.

Honestly, I think I was avoiding thinking about it a little myself, since we started to get the "omg that's so disgusting, you should be ashamed, you might as well be playing OCs if you play wincest" kind of wank and I just think I was trying to minimize my wank exposure. It's still me dropping the ball, though, so you're totally right.

Some ret-conned re-education might be the best solution, definitely, since despite my screw-ups, I really do love some of the CR I've built and would hate to ret-con it instead.

Thank you, again, for taking the time to do this and pointing out specifics I can work on. It's very helpful and I will try my best to correct the issues. :)

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2. With a bit more development, I probably could see Dean conceding to someone like Thrawn on the basis of his strength as an authority figure (the way Dean instantly obeys his father, for instance), but as I've mentioned with other parts of your characterization, it feels like any trust was given far too soon and too easily for that. I also think Dean's trust is a little more selective, because after all, with people like Bobby and Castiel and even Sam, Dean usually puts up a bit of resistance if there's anything he has qualms about, and this scenario definitely should have raised a few flags.

3. I can kind of see how that would have an impact on your playing, and it's a shame you didn't quite get to play it out as intended. For future, though, stick to your guns, because this is a game for extreme kinks whereby the only problem with incest should be playing it badly. Moar delishus angst and horror and self-recrimination plz. :9

Anyway, thank you for listening. I appreciate being able to get it off my chest, because I do like the idea of Dean in this setting. I just want to see him reacting more true to canon, and hopefully now that you don't have to deal with the additional stresses of the game you can throw yourself into fleshing him out a bit more.