Time for Hanajima's Wave Report

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick three of your icons for each of your characters.
2. I might ask specific questions about the icons! What context were they pulled from; what coloring technique you used, wtf is with those keywords, ect.
3. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
4. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.

( My icons + explanations go here. )

More may come later, since I left some comments that haven't been replied to yet. I think that's it.

Man, I really hope I didn't screw up the HTML anywhere.

I feel like a sheep, but I'm avoiding writing a paper here, okay. :/ Also it seems useful.

"Comment and we'll work out what we can assume that our characters do together offscreen! We can even assume our characters have seen each other around, even if they haven't met onscreen, if it seems logical."

( Hanajima, Hyatt, Hisui, Momoko, Maria, Sara )

I have a list of 6 characters I currently play or have played; they are listed 1-6 in no particular order. Ask me questions using the numbers 1-6 and after I get a few questions I'll go through and answer them using the character listed to each number.

For Example! "What would happen if 6 kissed 3?" or "Death battle between 1, 2, and 5, who wins?"

You may make up as many questions as you like!

ETA: OKAY I am answering questions now since it doesn't look like I'm getting any more. You can still ask a question if for some reason you want to, just... don't look at the responses first. \o/

YOU KNOW THE DRILL. Blah blah blah ask me questions about my characters blah blah blah. Go ahead, give me something to do besides schoolwork.

(Hanajima, Hyatt, Hisui, Momoko R., Maria, Sara)

I've done one of these before -- it's useful for me because I tend to be one of the less active players -- but that was about half a year ago, and now it seems like they're going around again, so. Here goes.

Poll #1071778
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

I would like to play moar with:

((One of those all-purpose, always-open IC posts. Comment here at any time if there's ever anything you want to do with Hanajima.))

Hanajima Saki (wave_report): 3,102 comments (33.53%), played since 2005-05-25 (829 days at 4 comments/day)
Hyatt (slightly_anemic): 3,035 comments (32.81%), played since 2005-10-10 (691 days at 4 comments/day)
Hisui (hes_my_master): 1,281 comments (13.85%), played since 2006-11-05 (300 days at 4 comments/day)
Ryuugasaki Momoko (mud_on_lace): 1,258 comments (13.60%), played since 2007-01-28 (216 days at 6 comments/day)
Maria Tachibana (onthebattlfield): 575 comments (6.22%), played since 2007-05-20 (104 days at 6 comments/day)

Total comment count: 9,251 since 2005-05-25 (829 days at 11 comments/day)

... haha I fail. Everyone's comments per day are down from last time, except Hanajima's and Hyatt's, which are the same. Hyatt is a lot closer to catching up with Hanajima now, though -- they've gone from a difference of 275 comments to a difference of about 65. Momoko, meanwhile, is perpetually on Hisui's tail but for some reason has not yet managed to pass her. Probably because I've been playing Momoko less lately.

I don't know what it was, exactly, that brought this on, but it struck me today how few non-canon friends (or, hell, enemies, or just... people they've talked to more than once and have some kind of opinion about) my characters have, and when I really thought about it, it kind of snowballed into this mass of player emo and I wanted to get it out instead of letting it fester so. Here I am. This may not be the most coherent thing ever because it is three in the morning and my head hurts, but here goes anyway.

So here's the thing: I basically fail at threading with any given character more than once. I don't know what the problem is, exactly -- probably some combination of lack of activity and fear of jumping with a side of reluctance to post -- but it's definitely there. Hanajima, after more than two years, has not a single meaningful non-canon relationship. It's not that she had some and then the people left -- she just has none. She had a few people that were maybe kind of friends, but she hasn't talked to any of them in forever, because, you know. I fail. Hyatt had one friend not from her canon, but he left, so she has zero now too. Hisui actually has a number of non-canon relationships, but every single one was sort of transferred over from Kohaku -- she doesn't have a single friend (or enemy) that she's made on her own. And she doesn't even thread with those people very much (at least, not lately). Momoko has no real relationships either -- she had a few potential ones at first, but again I haven't threaded with any of the people lately. And Maria... well, Maria's got her thing with Kino where I'm not sure they can be called friends, but they occasionally have long semi-philosophical discussions about war and things or are forced to participate in embarrassing soap operas, either way... anyway, I'm happy with that, but I think Kino's the only one Maria's threaded with more than once in the three months she's been here.

So... yeah. I'm really not happy with all this, on the whole. I mean, I know you can't force camp relationships and whatnot and going into things going "THIS WILL BE MEANINGFUL, DAMMIT" doesn't work, but... well, there will be times where one of my characters threads with another character and I go "wow that was really awesome, [character] should really talk to them again sometime," and... I don't. I fail at following through. And now that I write it all out, it seems terribly obvious that the solution is to get over my fear of jumping (and posting) and go talk to these people instead of waiting for them to come to me, but I just... I don't know.

And... I'm kind of falling asleep and losing my train of thought, so I'll just end this here. In conclusion: I suck. Listen to me whine about how much I suck. Whine moan angst emo sadface etc.

"Would you hit it?" poll results

Ryuugasaki Momoko: 0 (damn right, she doesn't go there)
Hyatt: 3
Hanajima Saki: 4
Maria Tachibana: 5 (and one of those votes is mine)
Hisui: 6

I'm kind of surprised that Hanajima did better than Hyatt, but I guess the blood thing is just a bit of a turn-off. (Also, you all fail for not voting for Maria. Well, all except Tot, chaos, Kohaku, and that one audience member.)

I wasn't going to do this, but Kyou's program thing is just so shiny.

Hanajima (wave_report): 2,675 comments (36.72%), played since 2005-05-25 (737 days at 4 comments/day)
Hyatt (slightly_anemic): 2,405 comments (33.02%), played since 2005-10-10 (599 days at 4 comments/day)
Hisui (hes_my_master): 1,058 comments (14.52%), played since 2006-11-05 (208 days at 5 comments/day)
Momoko (mud_on_lace): 979 comments (13.44%), played since 2007-01-28 (124 days at 8 comments/day)
Maria (onthebattlfield): 167 comments (2.29%), played since 2007-05-20 (12 days at 14 comments/day)

Total comment count: 7,284 since 2005-05-25 (737 days at 10 comments/day)

I am such a sheep. Blame it on the fact that I'm still stuck in bed and it's harder to entertain myself than I thought it'd be. :| of course I'd probably have done this anyway, but OH WELL.

Poll #994042 Hanajima!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 3

Have you read/seen Fruits Basket?

If so, does Hanajima in camp match your general impression of Hanajima in canon?

If you haven't, could you briefly describe her based on my playing?

Does your character's impression of her match your OOC impression of her?

Do you have any specific problems with her? (here or in comments)

Do you have any specific problems with my conduct as a player? (here or in comments)

Select option three?

( And the rest... )

ETA: Comments are screened.

Me: xen0glossy

I play: Hanajima (wave_report), Hyatt (slightly_anemic), Hisui (hes_my_master), that other Momoko (mud_on_lace), and Maria (onthebattlfield). ... I'm sick of typing out my Momoko's last name, shut up.

Available on: IRC (usually as Hyatt or Maria, though occasionally as Hanajima or Hisui); gchat (hanajima.hyatt[at]gmail[dot]com); AIM (amusedpenguin); YIM (easilyamusedpenguin[at]yahoo[dot]com; MSNIM, if anyone still uses that (dolphinnajoy[at]hotmail[dot]com)... yeah I have far too many instant messaging programs.

Timezone/Language: EST and English (though, uh, I also speak Spanish (almost fluently) and Japanese (rather less so), for what that's worth?)

Goals: To entertain myself and hopefully others while remaining IC?

Betaing: I will happily beta for canonmates and other characters I like, but as a warning... I'm a good beta for technical things like spelling, grammar, and wording, and I can beta for voice, too, but I am horrible at betaing for content. So basically, I can tell you if you're OOC and if you've structured that sentence awkwardly, but I can't tell you if you're funny enough or if the... premise, so to speak, of your app makes sense.

AUs: Hahaha no. Well, unless it's the kind of AU with no sex.

How I Play: I can be pretty slow replying (particularly with Maria, at the moment, but that's because she's new), and though occasionally I'll be really active (for me, at least) for a week or two at a time, I'm not the spammiest spamwhore on the block. Also, I don't post very often with any of my characters -- I prefer to ninja in the night other people's posts.

Scheduling Issues: I work evenings, so I have to do things either before 6pm or after 11 or so.

Jumping: Go ahead and jump me! It's probably the best way to get a hold of one of my characters if you want to talk to her, since as I said, I don't post much.

Thread Dropping: y- yeah I do this a lot. Sometimes (mostly with Hisui and now Maria) it's because I've run out of things to say oh Hisui why is it so hard to make you converse with people, but about as often it's because I've forgotten or gotten distracted or something. So if I've dropped a thread and you don't feel like the conversation is over, just poke me.

Crack vs. emo: I loev crack. A lot. I mean, there's a reason I play a character from Excel Saga. I am not opposed to the occasional SRS THREAD, but longer-term emo tends to make things Not Fun for me.

Comfort Levels: Uh, I'm not really sure what this question is asking? I'm pretty comfortable with most things. I can't really remember a time when a player has taken a thread in a direction that made me feel uncomfortable, so. I don't know.

Concrit: Yes please! I live in constant fear that I Am Doing It Wrong (okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but still), and if you tell me what I'm Doing Wrong, then I feel better because I know what it is and I can work on fixing it. (You can also tell me that I'm not doing anything wrong, but I probably won't believe you.)

I don't think this is worth a CFO post, but it's something that the people who play with me may want to know, so.

I have a job now, and I'll be working evenings until ten or eleven PM (EST) most days, which (combined with the fact that my place of work is half an hour from my house) means I won't be around for prime CFUD playing time. I'll still be up far too late, and I'll be around during the day, but I'll be missing for most of that six-to-midnight slot... thing.

... only I do it by weeks, because doing it by days is too depressing. Also I am rounding up to whole numbers, because... I like them.

Hanajima: Weeks in camp: 102 / Comments: 2479 / Avg. comments per week: 24
Hyatt: Weeks in camp: 80 / Comments: 2266 / Avg. comments per week: 28
Hisui: Weeks in camp: 29 / Comments: 966 / Avg. comments per week: 33
Momoko: Weeks in camp: 17 / Comments: 907 / Avg. comments per week: 53

Total: Weeks in camp: 102 / Comments: 6618 / Avg. comments per week: 65

It looks like things have become pretty unbalanced in Momoko's favor lately, whee. It looks like she's close to catching up with Hisui, which will be a first for me -- but it's been pretty much inevitable from the start, since I got Momoko only two months after Hisui, and it's easier to make Momoko talk to people. The others are still pretty close to being even, as far as comments per week go. I do need to get out and play more in general, once I'm not being topped by finals and app-writing -- I was doing pretty well there for a while, but Real Life always gets the best of me eventually.

I haven't done one of these since... a really long time ago (before I got Hisui, let alone Momoko), so: relationship/first impressions/wtfever meme for Hanajima, Hyatt, Hisui, and Ryuugasaki Momoko. C'mon, help me procrastinate on my final papers. |D

Yes sir yes sir, three questions full! One for-- okay, that's enough.

Poll #962729 I'm a sheep.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

I would like to play more with:

I would rather...

Hyatt-mun needs to get off her ass and play moar in general, y/n?

Just a little something that I did out of curiosity and which no one else will care about:

weeks played: ~80  comments: 2056   ~26 comments/week    (wave_report  )
weeks played: ~60  comments: 1747   ~29 comments/week    (slightly_anemic  )
weeks played: ~12  comments: 485     ~40 comments/week    (hes_my_master  )
weeks played: ~1    comments: 160     ~160 comments/week  (mud_on_lace  )

I'm not quite sure what to make of that, really. It's just kind of interesting. Maybe the longer I have a character, the less I play her? I'm actually less surprised by Momoko's relatively high comment count (about half of that is probably from the intro post) than I am by the fact that Hyatt has fewer average comments per week than Hisui, despite the fact that Hyatt is much easier to play and I can bring her out even when I'm too tired and brain-dead to get a grip on the other characters' voices. I blame Kohaku.

... Wow, that second-to-last sentence is a bit of a run-on, isn't it?

I uploaded all the songs that I took keywords from. There are a lot.

Hanajima

Takahashi Hiroki- Hang Out the Washing
Mutou Yoshiaki & Shiina Kayta- Sora o Miagete
Kajiura Yuki- In Memory of You
MELL- Comment te Dire Adieu
Suzanne Vega- The Queen and the Soldier
L'Arc~en~Ciel- Stay Away
They Might Be Giants- No One Knows My Plan

Hyatt

(Sadly, I do not have a copy of Secret Agent Man or The Hairbrush Song.)

KOTOKO- Princess Bride!
Changin' My Life- Smile

Hisui

Okuda Miwako- Aozora no Hate
Yaida Hitomi- I'm Here Saying Nothing
Shimamiya Eiko- To Lose in Amber
Kakazu Yumi- Now Until Forever...
Simon & Garfunkel- The Dangling Conversation
Ooishi Rumi- It's Just Love
Sendai Eri- Biancaneve Bruno
Minami Omi- In the Stillness
Okui Masami- Dare Yori mo Zutto...
Nakama Arisa- Sora to RARA
Ilaria Graziano- Monochrome
Kajiura Yuki- Solitude by the Window
Emilie Autumn- Gothic Lolita
Lia- Light Colors
Emily Curtis- Maybe Tomorrow
Shimamiya Eiko- Fuyuzora no Kiseki
angela- Shangri-La