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megaTEN ([personal profile] tenshinoakuma) wrote2011-06-29 12:23 am

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Just got caught up with Homestuck after many hours of reading/watching/listening to it. I AM FREE.

Homestuck's one of those things that I think is incredibly cool, but I guess you could say I don't really cognitively understand it. Thus, I can't really say much about it except make inane statements about how cool it is.



You know... I think I'm going to miss RPing Joshua. He comes so easily to me now, and I guess I'm just going to miss easy tags and the trolling and the dickery and the various philosophical conversations he had.

But I well and truly think that the chapters of his RP story are done. I don't think there's anything else for me to learn from him, and I believe everything significant I ever wanted to cover by playing him (whether I consciously knew of them or not) has been done. I don't feel any urge to play him in another RP; there's nothing left for me to do with him.

...Okay, that's not entirely true. It'd be more correct to say there's nothing I want to do left (in a new RP).

There's always a small part of me that considers apping Joshua when I'm browsing RPs. Because I know I can. Because I know it'd be easy. But... you know, I can't bring myself to do so; it's not fair for other players and potential appers if I'm not going to put my heart into it. I guess I'm kind of glad [livejournal.com profile] vatheon already has a Joshua; I'm not very good at resisting temptation! I might consider throwing him into open RP memes or something, but honestly my ass slow tagging speed and the highly temporary nature of such memes doesn't really do me any good.

I guess what I'm really saying is that it feels like such a waste to have gone through all that effort to become good at playing Joshua, only to suddenly stop. But maybe it's for the better. Retiring at my peak. Or, well, just after it, I guess.



ANYWAY.

After a conversation in chat, it does kind of occur to me that canonmates for Onion Knight is a rather special case, even in an RP that allows AU alternates (e.g. KH!Squall and FF8!Squall) in the game at the same time. Because the characters in Dissidia are supposedly directly ripped from their canon rather than being AUs (like in Kingdom Hearts), it's pretty safe to say that for most of the Dissidia characters, their canons are their original games, not Dissidia. While Dissidia is an opportunity to show interactions between the characters that you might not necessarily see in their canon, personality wise, they are still pretty much originating from their canon, not Dissidia.

I just don't think that you can say Dissidia is their canon for the vast majority of the characters. By default, you're going to have to talk extensively about their canon history; even if they don't remember it fully, it's still a part of them. Personality, you're going to have to pull from their canon because you're not going to see as many nuances in a 5 hour storyline + the other tidbits scattered throughout. And you can't just ignore their canon personality because that would just be silly.

As such, even if you managed to figure a way to appropriately slide Dissidia canon into a character's canon history, I believe the canon would still be the character's original canon(s). Plural because of characters like Cloud and Cecil who have more than one game to their name.

I admit I don't know as much about the earlier Final Fantasies (as well as the ones after 10), but at the very least, the characters who'd actually be more defined by Dissidia than their original game are Warrior of Light and Onion Knight. Cosmos, too, since she's an original character to Dissidia. In the usual sense of the word, Warrior of Light and Cosmos would be the only possible Dissidia canonmates Onion Knight could have. Well, possibly Chaos and/or Garland, too, but I don't know enough of FF1 canon.

But... at the same time, characters who've been taken from their original game don't really stop being canonmates for Onion Knight, even if Onion Knight is not necessarily their canonmate.

Backing up a little, but the main advantage with canonmates is that you basically have instant IC CR, as well as an almost guarantee you have someone to blather on about the canon to OOCly. I've yet to contact people about this, since we've got a Cloud and Zidane in the game, but regardless of whether they remember him or not, Onion Knight does. And I think Onion Knight genuinely cared for his friends fellow warriors, even if he wouldn't admit it to their faces. So he's automatically got an investment in them (something that would take longer if he was getting to know someone from scratch), even if they don't necessarily have an investment in him.

Kind of interesting to think about, actually.



It also amuses me that all the characters I would currently consider playing in addition to Onion Knight are all kids * A*a Gold (Pokémon Special, pre-HGSS because wtf is going on there), Rhyme (TWEWY), Lucas (MOTHER 3). I don't want to be that person who only apps pedobait D:!!1!

But I'm sticking to just Onion Knight; I'd like to have time to still continue doing uni work, among other things.