Question Meme!

[appleofhiseye]

It has been long enough for a question meme! Ask me questions and I will ask you questions back and I will get to hear about everyone's characters

I have Apple/Shirayuki and Haruki at Aather and Jack in the queue
Leo and Jack at CFUD
and Apple/Shirayuki at Court

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[doublefaced]

First impressions for Ami?

[appleofhiseye]

Apple thinks she’s really nice!! Half of the time they talk she just takes everything Ami says at face value and she just goes gosh what a sweet person :Db She’s fairly positive and has plenty of energy and is nice and polite!1 For Apple that means she’s really easy to engage in conversation and she doesn’t feel awkward approaching her at all. Sometimes she’ll hit a point in the conversation and be like “wait…is she fronting really hard” :|a!!! But she doesn’t have a reason to bring it up unless she feels like it’s hurting Ami, so she is just sitting with it in the back of her mind for the moment. If anyone asked she’d probably say they’re friends, because she feels like they’re friends '^'b Mmmore recently she was SUPER DISTRESSED that Ami died and will be making sure to check up on her ;;;

REVERSE

[itsjustafayz]

How is Apple feeling about Breeze latelyyy

[appleofhiseye]

She still thinks Comet is super cool haha /o\!!! Her confidence and ability to be chill in almost any situation is something Apple straight-up admires. On some level she knows there’s no way that someone can be TOTALLY FINE with everything that goes on without…something being wrong…but she always comes off as so chill that Apple doesn’t feel the need to press it. Comet will occasionally make comments that remind Apple of herself (like not needing help, etc.) so she will note them and keep them in the back of her mind but not worry about it unless it seems to be a problem. There are some things she wants to bring up, like “YOU DIED ARE YOU OKAY 8(“ or poking about her life back home, but she ends up skittering around it instead. She knows Breeze doesn’t want to be treated like a kid so she doesn’t want it to come off that way, which just makes her avoid it altogether oops. So she is just making a mental list of things Comet likes and she will eventually just throw them at her because that’s how Apple shows people she cares about them.

RE…VERSE I can think of other questions later

[glorious]

Any changes for Apple and Selenia?

[appleofhiseye]

Hmm not too many I think! They’re stable so she’s pretty mellow. A part of her is always a little concerned that they’ll go off at each other again but she has also decided that she DOESN’T CARE!!1 and if it happens it happens. Sh-she is…fully ready to burn every bridge if she has to in order to keep herself where she wants to be, and she has hit a point where she won’t have any qualms about doing so. But it’s not like she WANTS to or intends to so she would try to seek a compromise if at all possible. It’s not likely to happen at this point though; it’s only something she keeps in the back of her mind. Having someone to sit down with and talk about things with her is nice!! Especially when she’s prone to keeping everyone at surface-level conversations and closing off anything deeper than that just by the way she handles conversations. He’ll sit down with her and ask questions and that’s something she needs because she won’t talk about things unless people ask her about them oops. Being able to see eye to eye about games/etc. has definitely helped too since it’s more working together than being frustrated by each other. It is a nice chill zone when she is kind of a mess everywhere else!!

Anything back??

[fishpanties]

How we doing, Apple? Either Aather or Court!

[appleofhiseye]

I can do both!!

Aather is pretty good! I don’t think there’s any super big update? But being stable is good. They can just chat and take memories and be chill! Which she is just fine with; she enjoys being able to take memories with people and listen to them talk about their lives or help piece things together if something is confusing. She’s definitely avoiding touching any hot topic buttons and will try to steer away from anything confrontational because she knows she’s a hot mess of being unable to deal with anything and doesn’t want to drag Aoko into that. She’s a little concerned about how Aoko’s holding up with everything that’s happened, but to her it also looks like Aoko is dealing with it okay so she won’t feel like she needs to broach it unless Aoko does herself :|a

Court they only had one thread in which she backed up and fled so there isn’t too much there '-'a Coco is her friend and she’ll always feel that way! But with so many people coming and going from different timelines or being different people she is not going to get attached because there is a high chance of her leaving. And discussions about the murderlibrary have never been positive for her when she tries to talk to other people from there so she wanted to cut that off super quick. She will be friendly-neutral to the extreme because that is her default with everyone, basically.

Rrrreverse if there’s anything? Otherwise tell me if you have any app plans in the future!!

[pchaaair]

REEELATIONSHIPS??

In Aather and Court.

[appleofhiseye]

Apple is super comfy with Tavros in Aather! She knows if she gets worn down she can just go flop on him and he can likewise flop on her. They share similar interests and can do fun stuff together!! Even when it’s dumb silly stuff, and really he’s one of the few people she does dumb silly stuff with and it always cheers her up. She appreciates that it’s easy to talk to him and do things with him and they can occasionally judge each other but it doesn’t ruin their friendship. She can fuss at him if she feels like he needs it and he can fuss back and it’s just how they are, even if they get stubborn at each other by now they seem to know better than to push it. She is glad that he is no longer super status’d because it seemed like it was wearing on him…! And that he’s not dead, TAVROS DYING CONSTANTLY IS DISTRESSING ;^; There are a lot of things she doesn’t always get about troll society and how he thinks of things, but she always feels like she can ask if there’s something that she just Doesn’t Get (which is a lot of troll stuff lbr). He is one of her plantbuddies, I don’t think she’d know what to do without him. B-BE SAD AND ALONE, MAYBE?! She isn’t fully aware of how much she relies on him because a lot of their interactions are things she takes for granted. But he helps her to flop and vent her frustrations and also allows for plenty of positive thinking in order to push things in the right direction. Apple loves Tavros a lot ;;

In Court she is equally comfy with Valerian!! For a lot of the same reasons, I think. Just with…like, idk, caveats. She got thrown into the picture on good terms with everyone so she doesn’t have any reason to be mad or leave! And in Court she’s kind of wrapping her head around the idea of Sage is Family. But she was fully ready to quit 5ever after GM and she has not forgotten that. Nothing has blown up in Court, but she is having vague feelings that something happened while she was in the picture judging from how Dragonfly reacted when he first arrived and a few other conversations (I DON’T THINK SHE WAS TOLD ABOUT DANGERBEAR OUTRIGHT I have the memory of a sieve tho so correct me if I’m wrong). She is kind of suspicious because she knows Valerian would be willing to sweep things under the rug to keep things peaceful. BUT she also wants to keep things peaceful so she just throws herself at other things that need to be dealt with instead. She knows that if there is a day where she just wants to be a sad lump and go into the cuddlepile he will be there and it will be okay.

Rrrreverse?? I can come up with original questions later

[pchaaair]

Tavros is really comfy with Apple. Like, best friend forever!!! Comfy with her. There's a lot of familiarity and he knows that he can flop on her like he lets her flop on him and they do a lot of silly and fun things together!! Or serious fun things, whatever. But she is one of the few people that he will really stop and listen to and think about what she has to say if he's about to do something reckless and stupid or if someone tells him to take care of himself. The only other person off of Ruby that can do that is Comet. :'D SO YOU'RE SPECIAL APPLE. But it's basically like you said, they can casually judge each other for dumb things and it doesn't ruin how close they are, and they can be fussy at each other and they are both stubborn and push but know when to stop pushing and just take it!! Whenever they get into that kind of mood. '^' If he didn't have Apple he would probably be really sad and alone and he wouldn't know what to do with himself if she weren't around because he depends on her that much and WOW I GUESS HE WAS MORE CODEPENDENT ON HER THAN I THOUGHT until I really started typing my thoughts out haha ;w;/ since I remember saying the other day that Tavros wasn't as codependent as Valerian. I was wrong.

Valerian is SO CODEPENDENT. It's comfy! But he's also scared to say a lot of his actual thoughts and some of the things that happened after Apple left because he's scared Apple would leave and!! He doesn't want Apple to leave. He was managing okay without Apple around in Deco but then the moment he saw her again ALL OF THAT CODEPENDENCY CAME BACK and now he's really scared that if he even fucks up just a little Apple will leave him forever, even with that conversation they had in Paru's one post a couple of months ago. He's sweeping things under the rug for peace and!! Because he really doesn't want Apple to leave because he's like 90% sure he would end up just going not. Getting out of bed ever again. Apple leaving him would make him really really really depressed like it did back after GM and. He doesn't know if he can do that again. He doesn't know if he can have all of those feelings again after he worked so hard to try to stop being that weepy broken kid! SO. HE WILL SWEEP EVERYTHING UNDER THE RUG FOREVER with a vague "bad things happened." And then he is content that things are peaceful and he will throw himself into taking care of animals and then cuddle with Apple whenever he wants to be a sad lump because that's just what they do.

UHH... if Kyuubey asked Apple to be a magical girl would she take it and what would her magical girl form be like :U

[appleofhiseye]

DEPENDS ON WHICH APPLE uh I think at this point court!Apple knows better than to trust anything coming to her with the promise of a wish, and aather!Apple had Sayaka on her team so she...realistically knows better...( '-')a That being said they could both be frustrated enough to take it depending on the situation! Aather!Apple would have a higher chance of taking it because haha what is being able to do anything anymore. And because Shirayuki's mangaka draws cute things she'd look like this all white mage'd out!! There would be lots of plant and healing symbolism in there, and she wouldn't have much offensive power at all. Strictly support/defense magical girl! So she'd need backup sob.

Uhh ANY PLANS FOR ANY OF YOUR CHARACTERS? Things you want them to do/ways you want them to grow/etc.

[seasidelove]

I want Tavros to grow into having more self-esteem. He's kind of been in a steady decline and now he's stuck in this rut that he can't get out of! So my plans are to get him to keep growing out of that. Unfortunately his memories right now don't help because lolHomestucklol with Tavros and his life is shitty and I'm stuck until the gigapause is over to see how the story ends with Tavros so! He's going to keep getting memories of him hanging out with Vriska during those three years in the timeskip and those three years of him wanting to date Vriska and being dead and all of that. '^' So. Yes. My goal and the things that I want him to do is really solidly grow out of that, which has been one of my goals since the very beginning! HE GOT HIS CONFIDENCE UP and he's good at fronting confidence now even when he's not confident but his self-esteem never really went up with it.

With Nagisa, I want her to keep growing as a person. I want her to stay resolute and I want her to stay stubborn! She is Nagisa Motomiya, one of the most reckless girls in AKB0048. She likes helping people, she wants to find a way to break the system so that she doesn't even have to consider the thought of hurting other people, she wants to be able to like nearly everyone she meets ... and this will probably come crashing down on her! But she's still Nagisa and her head is stuck in the clouds even if Chieri has to ground her. So, she's hopelessly optimistic!

REVERSE, anything you're hoping to do with your characters?

[appleofhiseye]

I don’t have a ton of plans for Haruki right now beyond wrapping things up with him before Jack gets in! D-doing three in aather sounds too daunting and the legacy train cut down a lot of the queue so Jack will most likely be getting in faster than expected. Haruki has kind of achieved what I set out for with him; he has a weird kind of balance in that he is ultimately willing to bus everyone for Kazuki still, but he’s retained the value for life that he lost as canon went on. He’s made friends and grown to genuinely care about people outside of Kazuki and Yuki! And he’s trying to find a way to reject his fate rather than embracing it as the best solution, because everyone died oops.

JACK IS NOT IN YET but ultimately I want him to retain the confidence he obtained in book four and then lost in book six because almost all of the side characters just lost their development in that book or got sucky endings :T IMA FIX THAT or at least keep him from bottoming out. But of course it depends on which team he ends up on because he’ll be heavily influenced by them and how they play! I am trying not to set specific plans for him because my track record with having characters gain positive things from aather is not doing so well lol.

For Apple I am just attempting to get her back on track with like. Talking and connecting to people! She has been systematically destroying all of her support systems and putting up fronts and going through the motions, which she can successfully do and be FINE even in the long run, but she will get more out of the situation if she sits down and talks to people and works through things with others. She’s mentally burned a lot of bridges and isolated herself so I am just throwing her out to see if she will click enough with someone enough to be like "hey, we should sit down and talk about how Not Okay we are and try to find a solution to that." There will be one step in the right direction and then a few days later there will be three steps back, she is all over the place... Interacting with all of the newer people helps because it gives her a mental check of not being so resigned to things, even if it results in her banging her head against a wall and not being able to change anything. I am keeping my fingers crossed for her to get something positive out of plot and maybe get something positive out of her quest for helping the Darkness’d statues.

Also in general I like it when my characters take memories with other people so I want to do that more with all of them!!

Questions are so hard. TELL ME WHAT SONGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR CHARACTERS

[supersensitive]

HARUKI I THINK WE MIGHT BE FRIENDS NOW???

[appleofhiseye]

I THINK SO TOO??? Is this a social link level up

Haruki is glad that they can be friends with only minimal awkwardness it makes him feel less guilty about murdering him. ( '-') Snow is so mellow it's such a nice change of pace

[unsugared]

impressionsssssssss?

[appleofhiseye]

Right now she’s just pure Neutral with him! Which is actually a step down from most people because her default is more of a Positive Neutral haha. She recognizes that they’re all in a sucky situation and doesn’t care if he doesn’t like them, he doesn’t have to like them \o/ And dying and getting hurt is obviously not fun, so she can sympathize with him being distressed about that. She’s willing to help him out where he needs it! But him not being willing to show respect for the people he’s living with was where he crossed a line with her so she has very little patience for him. She is constantly doing things and juggling a million tasks and she reached a point where she just assumed Sapphires would take care of themselves because everyone is always off doing their own thing. Having a teammate that she views as childish and irresponsible is hilariously stressful for her because she’s like I HAVE NO TIME TO BABYSIT YOU!!1 And she…doesn’t view him as a teammate…he is just some person that lives in the same cabin that I couldn’t kick out :U! OR WELL THAT IS PROBABLY AN EXAGGERATION since she will still be polite and help him out if he needs it. But she has no tolerance for him, sob.

Rrreverse?

[unsugared]

HE DOESN'T REALLY GET APPLE and because her actions, to him, don't seem very consistent (you were angry at me and ignored me but then you helped me and didn't ignore me???) he doesn't know how to read her... He does assume things aren't 100% okay between them, but since he doesn't get her and she doesn't seem like she's going to take the initiative he's fine with leaving things as they are. He appreciates that she helped him during Mira's game, but since he didn't get a chance to thank her he was kinda like... o well... i guess that's how it is...

probably if there comes an occasion where the frustration of not being able to deal with apple outweighs the effort it would take to talk to her he might try, though idk how successful it would be. he finds the initial reason apple got mad at him was pretty unreasonable so that + his being unable to read her actions makes him think she's just generally kind of whimsy in an uptight way.

state of the apple?

[appleofhiseye]

did you want words

[unsugared]

I'M CURIOUS SO MAYBE but not a lot if it's too effort

[appleofhiseye]

I wanted to wait until plot was over in case she went on an emotional roller coaster ANYWAYS!! Excuse the tl;dr I am just vomiting words out.

Right now she’s doing pretty okay! She has pretty much been a mess since way back towards the end of Wonderland, but she can be perfectly functional still so not a lot outwardly changes. For a long time she was really determined to offer support to everyone and do her best to help!! And then she did a really big 180 after Mira’s parasite game and just. Shut everything down so that she could function because there were still things to do and she couldn’t let it get to her. And she has been that way ever since and sometimes feelings leak through. Mostly they only show when she gets frustrated by feeling like she can’t do anything; a lot of her sense of self-worth in Aather is tied to her ability to support people and help them when they need it. She has the very strong perception that every game can be broken and if she can’t break it and people die it’s because she didn’t try hard enough, oops. There aren’t a LOT of them so it doesn’t happen that often, but they still happen once every month or two in IC time I think? So her self-esteem takes a hit like once a month. Most of her reactions are a very conscious effort to not be down on herself and accept help if it’s offered and keep herself functional; at the very least she logically knows that she can’t take everything on her own shoulders!! But there was SUCH a strong feeling of Sapphire being a group that breaks games and helps people when she first arrived that it’s just ingrained in her and she can’t fathom something outside of that.

In Aather she built herself up around the people she came to know and trust, and most of those people happened to be on Sapphire! (Dealing with her and TEAMS is a whole different mess because she dislikes teams and what the teams do to people, so she’s very aware of that notion all the time.) But Sapphire was good at being independent but still being there for each other. They would all still be friends even if they weren’t on Sapphire!! She came into Sapphire with the idea that she helps people and heals people and she doesn’t ever hurt them, and everyone on the team supported that which was really important to her and helped her connect with them.

Right now she recognizes that there are people on Sapphire that are willing to support her and she is willing to support them, and even if they don’t agree on something they can try to work their way to a consensus. But as a whole group she doesn’t feel connected to them and doesn’t feel like they are a team and avoids referring to them as such; they have moments that she gets buoyed by, but they are not necessarily strong moments to her and they’re not something she’s felt with the collective whole of the team. But part of that is because a lot of them are also new! Apple still thinks of Nil as new along with Aladdin and Candy, so that’s almost half of the team. Her perception of Sapphire as a “team” is how they interact together in games and it’s usually her and Selenia and knights in games. So she tends to identify more with knights as “teammates” than with Sapphires :|a And as a result she is awkward and fidgety and unsure, because she doesn’t know if they’ll agree with her when push comes to shove. She went through that roller coaster with Selenia for a long time where they were constantly butting heads on what to do in games and she’s hesitant to get close to anyone if there is a chance of that repeating itself. But it’s not just with Sapphires, she’s awkward with everyone because she’s in a constant state of WHAT DO I DO…WITH PEOPLE…shutting down most of your feelings makes it really hard to interact with people, who knew!!

BUT THAT WAS KIND OF A TANGENT I meant to say that because of that in general she is being flaily and awkward towards everyone but also weirdly honest in her point of view. She is a character that can very easily grab onto hope where she sees it! And although there are a lot of things that wear her down there is still enough that she can pull herself up and stay upbeat and mean it. But that is coupled with her expectation that she can beat anything bad that comes their way, so she takes a big mental blow whenever something bad happens and she literally can’t do a thing to stop it. HENCE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER th-there are constant ups and downs depending on what happens and how much agency she has regarding it. Right now she is on a high because plot just ended and they got spring that no one had to be murdered for and they helped the Snow Queen and Gerda and that will last until the next trauma game.


I’m sorry that was too long, WILL YOU TELL ME IF YOU HAVE ANY PLANS FOR CANDY or any app plans or plans for your characters in general