Dropping Essay Meme!

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Kodachi Kuno - getrhythmic
Comments: 11,714

Noooot bloody likely. It's kind of funny with Kodachi, in fact, because it's not like she's an amazing social butterfly or anything. Really, she inherently either dislikes or is disinterested in other people, and yet she still gets a lot of play, and is generally pretty easy to bring out. Through sheer longevity she has the most camp relationships out of any of my characters, and she probably has the most well-defined set of interests as well, because I've played her for so long that I've got a lot of personal headcanon for what she does when she's not badtouching Ranma or mocking her brother. And... while she doesn't care for more than a very small handful of people in camp, she'll still allow herself to humor the witless commoners of camp because she has to pass the time somehow and it's not like she can avoid it as much as she'd like to anyway, and if they do something to deserve being openly mocked that's what she'll do because it's not like she really cares what they think anyway. So it's not as hard to throw her out there as one might think considering that it's Kodachi Kuno and all.

I will say, though, that I'd. Probably put dropping Kodachi into serious consideration if Ranma and Kuno both dropped. Because without either of them in camp she'd probably end up becoming very miserable and quick to be incredibly abusive and cruel towards others, and. Yeah. She'd pretty much just completely focus on how much she wants out and how much she hates almost everyone, and I'd really rather not play through all of that bridge burning. But without those conditions being met, she's probably the character I'd drop last because of the fact that I've been able to consistently sustain her for like nineteen months, and she has a tendency of making new and interesting relationships more than anyone else I play.

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Steven Hyde - deadbeatgoeson
Comments: 2,572

Hyde's actually come closer to being dropped more often than any other character I have, mostly because of the nature of how he tends to get played. There's a very distinct pattern with Hyde; I'll spend two or three weeks not playing him and starting to go "... well, shit, maybe I should drop him, it's been a good run," and then I'll suddenly have a day or two where I play the hell out of him and remember why it's good to have him around. Hyde is a backburner character, but he's a backburner character by choice; he doesn't care for being really social in the first place and he doesn't go out of his way to make any lasting connections. He shows up, has enjoyable Schadenfreude moments (others', not his own), and maybe has casual conversation with people every now and then, and then goes back to his cabin and stops caring once again.

That being said, I could drop him and not feel horrible about it; Hyde... doesn't really have any real, major connections with people in camp despite being in camp for nearly a year and a half. He has people he likes and enjoys talking to, but that's different. But I probably won't drop him any time soon; if I absolutely had to, he'd probably go second, but I enjoy having him around too much for that.

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Stacy Rowe - ifuwant2bloved
Comments: 3,121

O-oh, Stacy. I would say that about... seven months ago or so she was at a place where I would have absolutely hated dropping her; she had too many great relationships with people and she was my lone social character and she was easy to get out. And... none of those statements are really true anymore! Most of the people she was close with have dropped, I have Ty Lee now and playing her is a little like playing Stacy without the obvious insecurities, and all of this means that Stacy's amount of play has kind of decreased drastically. And I feel really bad about that because she deserves more attention from me than she gets, and I think that if I play her more she'll probably get new camp relationships because it's just sort of how she is, but it still means I have to focus on getting her out so she's not just threading with the same people, and. We'll see what happens.

As far as dropping goes, I... well, I have no intentions of dropping Stacy any time soon, but I wouldn't be horribly surprised if I didn't have her a year from now. If she does end up dropping, she had an absolutely wonderful, fabulous run in camp that I enjoyed the hell out of, and if she doesn't, that's great because I love playing her and mostly just need to play her more. It helps that she's sort of... developed on her own to the point where she's grown into being more like how she is at the end of her canon than what she was like at the point in canon I apped her from. She's a bit more confident in herself, she's able to tease people a little (but only a little), and she isn't completely eager to please everyone ever anymore; if someone's being a complete jerk she'll acknowledge it (though she'd never ever ever try to call them on it because she's still terrified of confrontations). It was a natural and logical progression for her and I'm glad she's made it, because it makes her easier to play and have deal with the fact that much of the people she was close to are gone now. But if she goes, she goes, and I'd miss her but such is life, really.

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Hidan - feelsyourpain
Comments: 2,532

Nope, not happening any time soon. I felt a little insecure with Hidan in my... first month of play? When I still had new character jitters, mostly. But since then I've been absolutely fine with him; he actually requires the least thought to play out of any character I have. He's a very straightforward guy with a fun, easy voice, and though he's an asshole he's not the kind of guy who really goes out of his way to be an asshole to most people (except for canonmates, who he's usually a complete dick towards), it's just how he is and he can get along fine with people in spite of it. If anything, my biggest complaint regarding Hidan is that I wanted more canon for him, especially in regards to fighting because he's both really fun to use in fight threads and really frustrating to, because he's just... stab hack kill curse ritual with little variety beyond that. But aside from that, he's easy. I don't play him all the time unlike Kodachi or Ty Lee, but when I do it's fun and easy.

So basically, I'll only drop Hidan once he either ceases to be fun or if my life really gets so absolutely hectic and stressful that I have to drop most, or all, of my characters. It's not that he has amazing, deep relationships, it's just that he's incredibly easy and fun and it's nice to have characters like that.

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Takashi Kamiyama - justicesquared
Comments: 608

... a-ah. And on the OTHER end of the spectrum we have Kamiyama. The biggest problem I have with Kaiyama is that when I play him I feel as if I have to try to be funny, because he's a very funny character from a very funny canon, and I'm... really not that funny when I'm actually trying to be funny. I mean, if you'll indulge the fact that I'm a horribly pretentious person, I view RPing and acting in sort of the same vein, especially since I've been taking classes for the latter and I've been seeing more parallels as a result. And one of the things with acting, or at least the school of thought my instructor taught me, is that you're not actually supposed to play a specific emotion or anything like that, you're just supposed to play the character and the character's actions in that situation. I can do this with all of my other characters; I'm not playing them to be funny or anything, the closest in regards to that is Hyde who I have to think about for things like witty comebacks, but really I'm just playing them themselves.

Kamiyama, conversely... he has a personality and a character and it's a very funny one, but it's also somewhat inconsistent; he's just about as smart or as dumb as the story/gag requires him to be. So I can't really... get a foothold one way or the other so I start worrying if I'm playing him too rigidly and formally when I should be playing his dumb, informal, spastic side more, and. Yeah. I think I love his canon and cast in its entirety more than I love Kamiyama himself, and whilst camp is certainly as cracky or crackier than Cromartie High School, playing Kamiyama outside of that world with those people is difficult because part of what makes him funny is that he's this serious, goody two-shoes twit in this school filled with uneducated, unmotivated punks. The Student Council thing pretty much threw Kamiyama a huge lifeline and it's been because of that that I've been able to play him for the past couple of months, but. I don't know. I intend to rewatch/read his canon and see if I can't find stuff for him to do, but if I'm still feeling as forced in a couple of months as I am now, I expect Kamiyama will be gone within the next six months. Hilariously enough, I think I'd miss the Freddie pet account as much as, or more than, missing Kamiyama; throwing Freddie into a thread now and then is great fun, actually, but he's not who I apped (because he's unappable), so. Yes.

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Ty Lee - head_overheels
Comments: 1,628

... yes, Ty Lee, in less than two months, got a thousand more comments than Kamiyama managed in twice that time. So that should give you an idea of just how much I adore playing Ty Lee and how little I think of dropping her. I mean, first of all, she's still new, secondly she has absolutely amazing canonmates who I enjoy the hell out of playing with, and thirdly, she's just too fun and easy to play. If it absolutely came down to Kodachi vs. Ty Lee and I could keep only one, I'd probably keep Kodachi due to longetivity and the knowledge that I can probably play her forever as long as Ranma and/or Kuno are there, but that being said, Ty Lee's pretty much my primary in terms of who I play the most, so hey.

I also think she could possibly survive even if all of her canonmates dropped. I mean, it would be hard and she'd be glum over it for a while, but she's Ty Lee and she would do her best to not show it, and she's survived on her own before in canon and did it well enough to the point that when Azula came to take her from the circus to go CAAAPTURE THE AVATAAAAR (or kill, y'know, same diff), Ty Lee initially said no because she enjoyed the circus too much. So Ty Lee. She's a survivor. Rock and roll.