HEADCANON MEME

[mr-irony.livejournal.com]

1. Make a post listing the characters you play here and, optionally, characters you play at other games too
2. People ask you questions about your characters
3. You respond; pretty simple huh?

Comments

[allmylove_inspace]

This game:
1. Ai Tanabe

2. Georgia Mason

(I can do others, too, if anyone is interested as to who I play.)

[loyal-judas.livejournal.com]

I want to know more about Georgia, I find her interesting. ^-^

and I'm interested in who else you play

[truthaftertheend]

What do you want to know? It's hard for me to babble without a start. ^_^

[loyal-judas.livejournal.com]

everything

What makes her tick? what motivates her to do what she does, and I also wanna know more about her sickness. *overly curious*

[allmylove_inspace]

Georgia's motivation: Well, part of it is in her society is a distrust of corporate news media since when the Rising happened (aka when the zombie plague broke out), a lot of the established media was all 'LOL, pranks/flash mobs/crazy teenagers/terrorists' long past when most people were 'shit, zombies!' and sharing survival tips via the Internet. Heck, even the CDC broke the story first by some doctor getting past the PR 'don't say anything until we figure this out' by posting to his daughter's blog.

So the image of the lone reporter, responsible to no one but the truth, came back a lot stronger. Plus, George's parents were involved as bloggers -- her mother's previous career isn't mentioned, but her mother developed a reputation as an internet celebrity for being daring (or stupid). And Georgia's dad is credited for using his course website and the college radio to keep a lot of college students alive. So she essentially grew up in a media circus, which messed her up in some ways, but kind of gave her the idea of the power of Truth.

(About the only other Big Idea is her loyalty to her brother, who, unlike her parents, does have the whole unconditional love thing for her. Her parents pretty much adopted Georgia and Shaun after their kindergarten son died in the zombie outbreak. Mrs. Mason had to shoot him after he was bit by zombie golden retriever -- so it's kind of understandable Georgia's parents are a bit messed up, and really never got over the death of their son to really bond with their adopted son and daughter.) )

As for the zombie plague, the inactive form might be airborne enough that every mammal has it in Georgia's world, but it's asymptomatic and mostly dormant. It occasionally destroys cancerous cells the immune system misses and hinders colds and flus. Georgia has the rare misfortune that it did partially activate in her eyes, which pretty much busted her ability to cry and her irises' ability to contract. Hence the dark glasses and risk of eye damage.

The active form starts multiplying uncontrollably and hijacks' the host's nervous system to change behavior into 'kill and eat everything moving and, if there's not any other zombies, spread your fluids to make more'. The author got the idea from some types of ant parasites which change ant behavior, IIRC. A lot of the protein goes into either tissue repair or making more virii, hence the 'eat everything'.

(Not too clear why dying activates the virus, besides to keep the zombie mythos theme. Other things can do it, but dying is the big one.)

[loyal-judas.livejournal.com]

Wow! Thank you, that's exactly what I wanted to know! (And some of it I didn't even know I wanted information on.)

[truthaftertheend]

This is everyone, or everyone recent

Other games

[truthaftertheend]

Elsewhere
-- Current
• Akin, Xenogenesis by Octavia Butler
• Allen, Vision of Escaflowne (TV)
• Alphonse Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist (first TV)
• Amelia, Slayers (TV)
• Harry Dresden, Dresden Files (books)
• Iroh, Avatar: the Last Airbender (TV)
• Ken, Digimon Adventure
• Marla Mason, Marla Mason books by TA Pratt
• Miles Vorkosigan, Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Peter Pettigrew, Harry Potter
• Rezo, Slayers (TV)
• Urania, Greek mythology
• Wormmon, Digimon Adventure
• Zelgadis, Slayers (TV)

-- Former
• Aang, Avatar: the Last Airbender (TV)
• Izumi, Digimon Frontier
• Katara, Avatar: the Last Airbender (TV)
• Lafiel, Crest of the Stars
• Martina, Slayers
• Michael Carpenter, Dresden Files
• Tailmon, Digimon Adventure
• Toph, Avatar: the Last Airbender (TV)

After that, you get into some things even I don't remember. Like playing Corran Horn from the Star Wars EU for a friend who was a MAJOR X-Wing fan -- which was almost a decade ago.

[loyal-judas.livejournal.com]

/Super impressed

Oooh, peter, huh? We've got almost all the marauders at Vatheon 'cept him. ^-^

[allmylove_inspace]

Well, I'm booked up in games, or I'd offer to play him.

[grand-excubitor.livejournal.com]

Miles ♥

Is it difficult to maintain his hyperactivity?

[allmylove_inspace]

I'm helped by two things -- one I decided to pick up older Miles who is a tad more restrained, and I also play him in a dressing room style game, where I don't have to bring him into comment unless I'm in the mood. But I have a lot of hyperactive characters on that list (Aang and Amelia both can be).