#I think Mal would enjoy ttrpgs

[lorddetaur]

Unlikely friends (?)

[gammija]

the visual of a train slithering like a serpent is deeply unsettling in a way that doesn't seem intentional

how does john instinctively know what a taxi is, but doesn't recognize a wheelchair on sight

[starlit-mansion]

6, 7, and A for neil. and yknow what. for malcolm too. i wanna know about the dilfs

Neil

6.) Do they consider laws flexible or immovable?

Flexible, though I guess I would put him at a lawful-neutral alignment. But not lawful stupid, just like... as someone who works best within a system, he will be very open to pushing things for an edge case, but he still generally respects that this is the best way to order the world.

7.) What triggers nostalgia for them most often? Do they enjoy the feeling?

Returning to places he's been in the past will put him back into the headspace that he left in for a long time, and it'll take weeks to stop ruminating on it. I think it would be hard to say he "enjoys" it but it's more like he finds it very valuable to have this concrete sense of his own continuity?

A.) Why are you excited about this character?

For why I've gotten back into him: Finally found a new angle that gets back into some of the complicated stuff I like about him without being as beholden to the lore of the dead game he's from. I'm big on the reduce reuse recycle philosophy for OCs... Hell, I still haven't fully found a place for Amaranth to live on but I keep trying.

As for why I latched onto him in the first place: Kind of dorky but picking him to play with more when we were expending the lore of the ttrpg game he originated in as another player's backstory/NPC was the first time I realized I could just... fully play with the kind of character I liked a lot? A lot of fanfic that I wrote when I was 20 was about a pathetic divorced pencil pusher and I just kind of wrote it off as a temporary interest sparked by the feedback loop of having a fandom friend who was also *really* into it but uh... no, it's a whole fucking thing for me. And continues to be a thing. I'm allowed to emotionally latch onto and be horny for fictional middle aged divorced guys with male pattern baldness if I want. Speaking of...

Mal

6.) Do they consider laws flexible or immovable?

Immovable but not infallible? It's hard not to feel a sense of despair living under a draconian government, and it doesn't feel like it's possible to effectively maneuver within them when you're marginalized in a meaningful sense. Some laws are morally neutral or morally correct to break, but also. He's def had to work though the legal system on complicated problems several times and hates the systems but wouldn't really think of fully circumventing them.

Tbh, I'm not sure if i've gone too deep or too narrow with these and if it's supposed to be "is your guy a punk criminal or law abiding citizen" but worded fancy, or if it's like... what is their philosophical stance on authority?

Also. He does speed a lot if he thinks he can get away with it.

7.) What triggers nostalgia for them most often? Do they enjoy the feeling?

I think sounds, particularly music. For the most part, no. Nostalgia and regret come hand in hand.

A.) Why are you excited about this character?

I think he's hot lmao. This is pure self indulgence. I like a particular kind of guy and i like it if he's having a relationship with a bubbly younger woman and I keep writing and drawing it and being drawn to it if i can at all find a way to it in media.

Speaking of the reduce reuse recycle directive, there's a lot of aspects of Mal that I unconsciously looted from a human AU of an alien OC I had (like, it's funny how many things they have in common in retrospect), but I guess i just keep coming back to a basket of the same ideas. I'm sure I will also steal a few other things from Mal in return if I ever go back and do more with Sep (who's kind of like if Mal was a decade older, never had kids and was way more of a househusband lmao)