Champion / Josh Newman (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
orange_sun) wrote2013-09-13 02:05 am
orange_sun) wrote2013-09-13 02:05 am
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...I refuse to actually count how many comments or months it's been but whatever, question meme for Josh and Echidna. If you want to ask about David Menlo in Demonverse that's also fine! Or monsters but I reserve the right to make mysterious faces.
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What matters to him, and pretty much the sum of interest in the situation, is that they're happy with the choices they've made, and that's where he ends up stepping in to beat people with outside perspective. He thinks they might be good for each other if they decide they're interested in each other, but he's aware he's not really a judge of other people's romances? And he really would never presume to be or want to be, unless he was cheating like crazy and actually prophecying, which he can't do in Aather. (And even then he'd use the smallest intervention possible, because seriously.) I'm really just mentioning this because I recall him nudging the Flamels slightly, Perenelle in particular.) The point is, even if it might seem like he was pushing it a little with Mau, he was pushing him mostly to make a conscious choice, whatever the outcome happened to be. And to choose whatever would make him happier! The same for Edmund, a little less explicitly, with a side of "also don't just assume things about other people's choices because that's a little dumb, bro".
I guess the resonance there is that it arises from the same phenomenon? Josh really wants his favorite people to be happy. He wants them to be free to reach for things that make them happy and believe in their own happiness. I think arguably he wants that more than he wants his own happiness, at least subconsciously. He kind of has a thing about helping people, looking out for them, being active, etc! (Which is tempered by self-determination feelings -- a lot of which have arisen from the experience of being powerless and being powerful, now that I think about it. But he wants to act for the better.) And also, in general, he's got it pretty good and he knows it and he wants other people to have it as good as he does. That kind of thing was threaded in among the keyboys thing and a significantly less personally difficult expression of it is basically driving what he does about the possibility of Mau/Edmund.
How's Nick handling Camelot?
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Actually what I mean is I'm afraid I can't answer that question properly because of mysterious plot things.
He's fine though! He's not out of his element, much; it's not a draining place for him to be. He hasn't made much personal progress, but that's also because I haven't really been playing him, and all the things I'm planning to do with him depend on factors YET TO BE REVEALED.
Same for Echidna? And/or, what does she think of all these ~personal monsters~ people have been beating on?
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The thing about Echidna is that she's almost always in her element. She's probably not going to be a Persona with a huge character arc; she is what I conceived of her to be and I'm happy with that, even if it means she's kind of static. Her focus isn't on place so much; it's on the heroes and what they're asking her for and how they strive. And honestly, she's loving that. People are going out and throwing themselves against the Darkness, they're coming to her regularly to test themselves against her children, everyone is striving to become more and better than what they were. And that's kind of the core of what she is, that striving. So she's loving it.
The personal monsters thing is basically a really deep expression of that. When you can't confront something within yourself in an ordinary way, but you want to, she can change the context and present it to you in a form you can challenge more effectively. So of course she loves the people who come to her for it, and is happy when they succeed.
Personally, she thinks everyone is a sweetheart in general (people who aren't tend not to tag her, probably fortunately) and wants to grandma at them all. The weather and the supply shortages are annoying but nothing she can't work with -- she's kind of wistful that she can't easily bring out wine or just randomly feed people, and that her quest rewards are less good than they should be, but Camelot itself is an environment that by its nature forces people to strive in all ways, so that's a bonus for her.
What's Jill thinking of doing when she gets all her memories back?
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If Edmund outright rejects Jill as a knight, though, it'll probably be increasingly difficult for her to be around him, so if she gets all her memories back before he does (which is pretty likely, since she only has like eight left or something) and he rejects her, she might Good End instead. Or if he got all his memories back and actually acknowledged her as his knight, if he Good Ended and wanted her to come with him, she'd go with him. She'd still stay and Legacy if he Good Ended but was fine with her staying to support Amethyst, though; she doesn't need to be right by his side to be his knight, and if that was the assignment he gave her she'd be okay with it. She'd be torn! But she'd be okay with it.
Anyway, that's all kind of short term. Once Aather is saved, like I said, she's planning to march back and yell at a God Lion and try to give her friends a more complete picture of what's going on. Beyond that, it is once again up to Edmund, but ever since the Loveless game, she's had fantasies of traveling across different worlds and helping people with him.
Okay. Give me the list of gods, Personae, and general assholes on Josh's Eventual Punching List and why they made the cut. Also, if you're so inclined, what his battle strategy would be with them once he'd had a chance to size them up, and how the interesting fights would likely go.