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Mods of Kiseki RPG (kiseki_mods) wrote in kiseki_rpg,
@ 2015-01-30 13:29:00

Current mood:	bored
Entry tags:	concrit meme, meme, mod post, ooc

Concrit meme - Take 79!
Time for our monthly How's My Driving meme!

- Comment to this post with a list of your characters. You may add any commentary you'd like, such as things you'd wish to get feedback on.

- Reply anonymously to the other players, giving concrit on how they're playing/their characterization/their interactions/etc.

- Flat-out negative comments will get screened/frozen/deleted, and can be grounds for banning if they're bad enough. Game rules apply here as well, so don't use it as an excuse to insult others. How can you tell the difference between giving crit and bashing? The second has no purpose. Giving crit means you want things to improve - by clearing out a misunderstanding of a character's actions, by helping a player manage activity better, by pointing out where characterization might be off, etc. If there is a situation with a player that's really problematic and would start big trouble here, consider taking it to us mods instead.

- Simply giving positive feedback is just fine! Of course, we encourage these to be as elaborate as possible, as it's always better to get an idea of why a character/player is doing things right.

This is non-mandatory! If you aren't comfortable with the HMD, or don't feel like posting every time, or whatever the reason is, you don't have to post to it. However, don't be that person who gives crit to others and then doesn't open up for crit themselves.

On that same line of thought - we're a small game! If nobody comments, then the meme doesn't work. If you receive comments, try to leave at least one of your own to somebody else. It's always better if we have many replies, and various POVs.

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betterwithher
2015-02-02 02:07 am UTC (link)

Thank you anon! I would like to say, I think you're right. I hadn't really noticed just how often he refers to Joan in his thoughts, but it's true that at this point he would be a lot less dependent on her, regardless of how much he still relies on her.

I will say that as far as him being less vulnerable, I think he's been a lot more so than in the past, but that it's always to a limited extent, something that canon seems to support. In the show, for example, you can see he's come a long way in opening up to others and allowing himself to let people in, but he's also mostly demonstrating this vulnerability around people he's come to consider "family" (Joan, Gregson, and Bell).

I also play him as being in denial about just how decent of a person he actually is and how much some people mean to him. The Sherlock I currently play cares for Kitty, but has yet to realize that he loves her despite making the analogy of him being her "father figure". He says that he's only ever loved three people in his life and names Joan, his mother, and "Irene." In Kiseki he's realized he loves Jamie for who she really is, not just for who he believed her to be, but in the show, he seems to be in denial about his feelings despite evidence to the contrary. I think the point where he truly begins to understand how important Kitty is to him is the episode where a man is interested in her, and he does everything in his power to keep her occupied so she doesn't get upset by the advances or potentially hurt. When Kitty tells him that what he did made her feel "protected and loved," there is a very noticeable shift in how he handles the situation, offering to take her and her date to an exhibit so that Kitty can be around the suitor while feeling safe. It's a very small, but telling gesture, something even Kitty seems pleasantly surprised with.

Sorry to vomit Sherlock feels and headcanons, let me get back to your points >>;;; I have been having him approach others when they're upset and try and have him comfort them in his own way while still not seeing how much he actually cares about them. With Art after the Bridge, he's giving him advice while wanting to maintain some distance lest Jamie decide to mess with him again. With Robin after Porthos leaves, he wants to reassure her while being hostess about the situation. In the Valentine post with Snow, its a combination of wanting to help while also knowing he may not be someone she wants to open with like say, her husband or children. All of these are people he's come to like, but again, he's not always good at understanding how deeply he can actually feel at times, but he'll get there!

But I'll try and be more clear about his vulnerability in the future, because it IS very much part of the new Sherlock and when I update him, you'll definitely see it more. Thank you once more for bringing this to my awareness as well as the Joan fixation. I will definitely try and be more attentive to these matters and work on them going forward ^^

I've been intending to have Sherlock find another person to bond with like he did with Miko and I do actually have two people in mind for that. Stiles and Real!Syaoran are the people I can see him taking under his wing, but I wanted to touch base with their muns first ^^;; I think JL and I agreed some time ago that there was some potential with Syaoran, so I'm going to keep up with their CR and see what happens.

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(Anonymous)
2015-02-02 03:00 am UTC (link)

Thanks for taking the time to clarify everything! When it comes to a character like Sherlock, sometimes it's tough to figure out just what's going on in his head even with the best of muns highlighting in introspection/brackets or with memes on plurk. I appreciate you taking the time to write that all out for me, it definitely makes things clearer. I wish I had more to add to that other than this tiny comment after you wrote so much.

I will add though in regards to what you've said here and what you said to the anon above, I think you could definitely benefit from some more ooc communication. Lately, when you plurk about the game, it's usually with comments like "I can't do tags tonight, will try tomorrow" or "just finished tags, now going to bed", and thus all your plurks become a timeline for your tagging styles but doesn't offer insight into what your characters are thinking or reaching out to other players to get some threads going or hash out ideas. I know that sometimes it can be intimidating to just jump in or something like that, but I think that especially with someone like Sherlock, being more communicative oocly will really help for others to interact with him.

Hope that helps, and again, thanks for taking the time to write that all out. :)

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betterwithher
2015-02-02 01:56 pm UTC (link)

It does help, and thank you for the suggestion about interacting more outside the game. That's something I do have trouble doing, largely because I don't want to bother others or but in when people are plotting things for their characters. But you're right in that it would clarify where I'm coming from in terms of how I play my characters and in trying to get them more involved with others.

Thank you for your help and I hope I don't let anyone down ;-;

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