Weekend hiatus!

Hey guys. I know it's pretty bad of me to do this right after apping a character, but I'm going home for a week and don't know how much I'll be around.

Hiatus or demi-hiatus for the next week. ♥

Okay, I'm really bad with honorifics and will probably screw them up with Tamaki, but here is what I am going to attempt to do:

1) Not use honorifics with Western characters! Tamaki likes to make people comfortable and address them in ways they'd like. He grew up in France and knows Western customs damn well, so he won't use Japanese honorifics with them.

2) Using "miss" instead of "-san"! I remember this better.

3) Really only using honorifics for things I can't really translate well, like "-kun," "-sempai," and the occasional "-chan."

SO YEAH THESE ARE MY RULES FOR MYSELF watch me fail at sticking to them.

This is a crit post for Shinn Asuka, Tamaki Suoh, Allelujah Haptism, Sheryl Nome and Jomy Marquis Shin.

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Character: Tamaki Suoh
Series: Ouran High School Host Club
Character age: 17
Canon: Once upon a time a poor girl named Haruhi Fujioka went to an obscenely rich school where there was a whole club of billionaire pretty boys devoted to flirting with girls. The prettiest and flirtiest boy of all was named Tamaki Suoh, the president and “king” of the titular Ouran High School Host Club.

In and out of the club, Tamaki is eternally charming, and sweet-talks almost every woman he meets with over-the-top (but completely sincere!) flattery. However, this rich romantic is often completely out of touch with reality. Tamaki has been known to completely tone out people around him while soliloquizing about his sinful beauty, and although playful rejection or teasing from his clubmates frequently sends him to emo in closets, he’s often oblivious to people’s negative intentions towards him and faces even the most hateful people with a smile. Additionally, Tamaki’s ultra-luxe upbringing has given him an intense curiosity about and interest in the ways of the “commoners” who live outside his super-rich posse. Still, at the end of the episode day, Tamaki is usually able to use his boundless energy, good-nature, dedication to the well-being of others, innocence, and heroism to bring happiness to the girls around him.

Amazing. Amazing! Amazing! Long have I heard tales of the ingenuity of the common folk, whose poverty is matched only by their astounding resourcefulness, but never have I seen such a breathtaking display of frugal brilliance! For the common folk of Japan, who scrimp and save to take even one vacation, this camp is the ultimate in thrifty get-aways. Nowhere else in the world could the penniless masses experience toucans from South America, living trees from a horror movie, and squirrels from someone’s ‘How To Draw Boy’s Love’ book in one place! But most importantly, for the destitute, overworked people whose suffering produced the phrase ‘I’ll sleep when I’m dead,’ this establishment’s director has produced the ultimate in time- and money-saving holidays – a summer camp the common people can attend when they’re dead!

Bravo, Mademoiselle Sayre! Bravo!

But fear not, my lovely guide: even this camp’s commoner delights cannot keep my attention away from you for long, Miss Grey! Fair zombie maiden, were you, perhaps, related to the famous Englishman Earl Grey? The resemblance is striking. Ah! I feel that I was stolen from my bed in the dead of night by strangely-touchy gorillas just so your lovely, monochromatic visage would be the first thing I saw upon awakening. . . that I was vigorously embraced by a swarm of tentacles just so you could see your reflection sparkling in the tears that sprang to my eyes. . . that I was strapped to a chair just so you could untie me with fingers as soft and prone to falling off as the delicate blossoms of the panty tree . . .! But oh, my undead princess, I would happily do all of this and more to make my beauty a part of the afterlife experience at Camp Fuck You Die. Indeed, this enthralling body that God created should be on display for all to see – perched upon the heights of the tallest volcano like a masterpiece in a museum, dangling from the highest flagpole like experimental sculpture in a modern art gallery, in plain view for everyone to enjoy this peerless work of art!

Aha, Miss Grey, if you’d prefer I stayed by your side, there’s no need to cling quite so tightly. Just say the word, and this divine masterpiece is yours for the day. If you can bear to part with me for only a moment, I’d be delighted to find a local delicacy suited to your ladylike palette, something we can share on a romantic stroll beside the lake. . . are you fond of Tuesday soup? Chestnuts roasting on a duckling fire? Credit crunch? Though recent events may give it a slightly harsh flavor, my princess, you can chase away its bitterness with a taste of me.

– on second thought, Miss Grey, perhaps you could remove your fingers from my hair – aha, and your teeth from my skull, and – what do you mean, you only loved me for my brains?

Shinn (since May '05 // 49,762 comments) … I thought of dropping a while ago, when our Gundam cast dried up. But as soon as I got started playing him again, I remembered how easy he is to play, and how much fun I have with him. And every time I see people bash GSD in general or Shinn in particular, I love him a little more. tl;dr I barely ever think about dropping Shinn unless I’m in a serious funk, and even then I don’t consider it too seriously. You can pry him out of my cold, dead, dropping-everyone-from-CFUD hands because I love the place he has in camp, with the canonmates he has left ( ♥ ) and with everyone he's met over the last two-and-a-half years.

Meer (since June '05, few months' break, reapped November '07 // 20,326 comments) … heh.. When I dropped her this summer, it was because she felt played out to me. I’d played out all her major plot points, her cast was gone, I’d heckled everyone there was to be heckled, and felt like everything I did was a repeat of something else I’d done before. She’s fun now because she’s getting back in the swing of things and that’s fun to play out again, but I don’t know if I’m going to hit a dry spot and give up on her again.

Tamaki (since April '06 // 12,490 comments) ahaha I consider dropping sort of frequently, because I don’t play him all that much, and his cast is gone, and he’s had a good year and a half? Year and three quarters? Something like that. The threads he has seem kind of isolated, and I never manage to build them into relationships anymore. In the end… I just have to remember that I love those individual threads for the fun I have playing them, and accept that he’s sort of on the backburner. He used to be everywhere and talking to everyone, but in the end, that just wasn’t sustainable for me.

Euphie (since March '07 // 12,911 comments) is oh god so tough. I just feel… boring. And sugary. And boring boring boring some more. I’m scared to do serious plotlines because I’m so bad with them, but without them it feels like nothing’s happening to her and she seems so STATIC that it makes me want to throw caution to the wind and update to episode 25 in a big case of "FUCK YES SUNRISE!!1!" Whiiiiich I will never do, but it's nice to think about sometimes. All that said, I am really hoping that I can hold on to her long enough to find out whether or not she's a zombie. P.S. I hope she is. I love trainwrecks.

Ben (since June '07 // 2,458 comments) won’t drop until June, unless Revelation sucks when it's released in March. Why? Because I want to wait until the last book of LotF comes out. This gives me a clear timeframe of “not allowed to drop until ____” which is sort of… I don’t know. It’s comforting to have a goal of not-dropping for myself? Also, I don’t feel bad about putting him on the backburner or not playing him everywhere like I do with Tamaki, because Ben’s not as amazingly social as the rest of them are.

Also, René Tamaki Richard Grantaine Suoh.

The rest of mine are buried, right? TIME FOR A NEW ONE.

This is a totally open crit meme. If you have any concerns about anything -- IC or OOC -- this is the place. IP logging is off.

Mafia Registry.

I’ve thought for a while that it would be really nice to have a list of people who will intervene in threads that are going directions you’d rather not. So if you’re willing (if you’re not busy when someone asks) to intervene in a thread for a bit and have characters who can and would help strangers in need, please take a moment to fill this out.

Character:
Crack or power intervention:
Power level 1-10 (if applicable):
Summary of powers (if applicable):
Other:

And include contact info if you would. I’m not expecting essays (though link ‘em if you’ve got ‘em), just a very short rundown that people can skim if they’re in trouble. For example:

Character: Tamaki Suoh.
Crack or power intervention: Crack.
Power level 1-10 (if applicable): N/A.
Summary of powers (if applicable): N/A.
Other: Tamaki is an excellent distraction, and is very good at redirecting emotional abuse or completely changing the topic in awkward situations.

Character: Ben Skywalker.
Crack or power intervention: Power.
Power level 1-10 (if applicable): 5?
Summary of powers (if applicable): Some mind control, telekinesis, chopping up weapons with a lightsaber.
Other: The Force is a pretty handy excuse for noticing people in trouble and stepping in to help them out.

Contact: IRC (Shinn, Euphie, Tamaki, Ben) is best.

POST YOUR RESPONSES HERE, AND WE'LL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL PHONEBOOK OF MAFIA PEOPLE.

I'm not sure I've ever done an essay meme, but here's my first --

Shinn, Meer, Tamaki, Rue, Euphie.

Go, fight, win. &hearts

Haruhi?

Age: 17.
Height: 183 cm (6'0).
Weight: Unknown.
Medical Info: Blood type A?
Eyes: Blue.
Hair: Blond.
Physical traits: Hot.
What's Okay To Mention Around Him/Her: Anything! Warning: pinged by mommy emo.
Abilities: None.
Notes for the Psychics: Nothing interesting!
Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: Ask.
Maim/Murder/Death: No. If you have some wildly extreme case, ask. If you don't talk to me first, I will declare that your bullets/ninja kicks/etc. turn into rubber chickens within a foot of Tamaki.
Cooking: hay thar little girl do you want some instant ramen
Kissing/Touching/Hugging/Etc.: Tamaki is VERY PHYSICAL. However, I'll turn this onto a note on touching in his icons -- if you want to play with what's happening in the icon (a hug, touching, etc.) then go for it. If you don't, then don't. Please choose the path with the least dorama!
Emo, Angst, Drama: I'd rather not. Tamaki comes from a happy canon and does dumb and stupid and depressing things if you manage to really get him emo. So please don't. ♥

Five-things meme. :D

OH YES. Shinn, Meer, Tamaki, Rue, Luke.

Scan from For Richer, For Poorer. D'aw.

Late to the party, but FANTASIES MEME.

I don't care if I know you or not, NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED. Which means that at least everyone gets an episode of Tamaki Inner Mind Theatre.

MY TRUST IN YOU GOES HERE for Shinn, Meer, Tamaki, and Rue.

... an imaginary dollar says the lowest score Meer and Tamaki give will be higher than Rue's top score.

Sup, meme.

Comment here and I'll respond with the icon of mine that I associate with interacting with your character, or that I associate with our characters' relationships, for Shinn, Meer, Rue, and Tamaki.

... either comment with all your characters or remind me who you play 'cause. 8D

These are all apps I really liked, and which I occasionally point out to people as paradigms of certain elements of apping. Here's, uh, the list, if anyone's curious.


- A Distinct Voice (Part I). Scroll down to Axel #3. Even if you don't read the canon section, you can already tell what sort of character it is.
- A Distinct Voice (Part II) and How To Do Fresh and Interesting Stuff With Old Camp Tricks. Tomo-mun and I had a discussion, at one point, about how it was tough to app normal girls, but this app pretty much hit up just how to do it.
- How To Get Your Funny's Worth For Your Word Count. Short but hilarious.
- Working Your Canon Into Camp And Not Being Over-Reliant. Hiruma's app here. The character's still focused on canon goals, but makes them funny and relevant to people who have no idea wtf this series is by giving them some of camp.
- How To Insert A Pop Culture Reference Well. I didn't even vote it in, but it's a perfect example of fitting a generic catchphrase to fit perfectly and smoothly into the app and with the character.
- Giving Your App Closure. I still think of this app as being amazingly well-written because it comes full-circle and winds up with a really strong ending as a result.