(it’s goddamn cold where the heckity are you in texas)

(Little northeast of Dallas. And since I work overnight, it feels even colder then… And this isn’t the first time my car’s gotten ice on it, just the first time this year it’s actually frozen shut when I needed to use it. (And when I had to leave work as well, so my dad had to pick me up.) :V )

(On the other hand, got to see the sea of untouched, fresh snow over the largely empty parking lot. May have just been two inches or so, but that be rare here. I do love the cold and snow, but I’d rather be able to get in the car and attempt to drive, if it’s all the same.

…Kai says I should have made snow angels. Or build a snowman. Kai, I was on lunch break. Biiiiit more focused on having to buy and eat food at work when I normally don’t than playing in the snow. :V )

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(Okay, you people in the inbox I’ll get to, don’t worry. And replies from recent things as well. But I should say I won’t post anything until Saturday, with one exception on Spider’s blog in a mo. And a reblog. But I’m clearly not gettin’ through my drafts like I want, so on that day, I’ll post the ones I have gotten done over the course of trying to work on them along with the more recent threads. …Which isn’t as much as I’d like… I’ve definitely not been as focused as I want to be. …And still haven’t fixed my sleep schedule, because cold just makes me want to stay in bed up until I have to actually leave for work… Well, I try. And then get other ideas to do. And then watch videos because I can’t write and eat something at the same time, apparently… So, yeah, small heads up.)

(Ahaha… I… seem to be in the mood for working on that secret thing right now… Maybe it’ll be a Valentines gift? Sorta? Don’t really think it’s along the lines of Valentines, but… convenient excuse as to why I’m furiously working on this? Kai’s actually pretty sated right now, just grinning and watching me work, which is odd, considering how active he likes to be, but I’ll take it. It certainly is interesting, if him being content to let me work on it is any indication.)

(You know you’ve played a game too much when you pick it up after a good five months and manage to get an 894 combo when your high score is 965… Jeeze. I can’t tell if it’s actual skill of just muscle memory, much as I repeated it over and over… Think I love the samba marathon in Rhythm Thief a biiit too much…)

16, 2, 10

  • 16. One thing that draws you to a character to make you want to roleplay WITH them (as your partner’s character)?
  • (Character-wise, I’m not really all that picky about who I’ll RP with. Now, some things may wear on my nerves writing-wise, depending, but it hasn’t really been an issue. Obviously, I’m more drawn to characters I know myself, but beyond that… Not really? Exciting, thought-provoking, or along the more mundane… The characters themselves really don’t have exact parts I can pick out that would make me want to RP with them over someone else. Though Kai’s interest kinda determines how often anything will progress.)

  • 2. A question you’re surprised no one has asked.
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    Oh, jeeze. I have to think of the question that other people should have asked? Ummm… Most things related to Spider on his blog, really. I know I talk with the Hakuba RPers quite a bit about him, but I don’t mind answering things about the guy OOCly, since it’s difficult to go into his whole backstory I have for him, why he is how he is, experience with Toichi, without prompts to do so. Is why I reblog headcanon things there, though that’s also to build more for him there as well. Just kinda want more people to know him outside of how he acts with Sugaru and simultaneously chatting with and scaring the Kaito(u)s.

    For Kai though… Really, just anything about how he acts, I guess. For canon or my Kaito. Also partially extends to the phobia thing. Never been asked, never had to decide on anything. I tend to post things myself on how he thinks, so I’m not too surprised there, but I’d love some questions to ask about canon more. I even reblogged a meme for that, but I didn’t get too much with that… Really, one of the funnest things for me is to have my own version of the character that still has reason for all of his actions in canon or non-canon movies and OVAs and such. *glances at that movie 10 Hakuba disguise posting* I don’t know, I just really like those and tend to be surprised when no one even takes the opportunity to ask more about it. Some do, but not to any great extent. Though I also dare you people to ask how stable my Kaito is, hehehe…. *hides*)


    10. One bad part of writing in general?

    (Not just writing, but most forms of art in general would be wondering how other people see it. Most readers are fine with how things are written, whether with flowy paragraphs with good description and structure, or just ‘point a to point b’ type of writing, but wanting to know what people really think about what’s being shown, praise or criticism, is something I’ve noticed a lot. It tends to drive stress because, while writing and such is fun, rarely does anyone not care what others think about how they’re doing. For me, I’m laid back enough to not worry too often, but as I’ve written fanfiction before, and done other forms of art like drawing and editing pictures and making amvs, I know I’ve constantly checked to see how many views something got, what people review and comment, and it’s just a worry I wish didn’t exist, but am accepting of the fact it does. It happens to everyone, and I’m sad when it gets the better of people to take the fun away from what they liked doing when people’s opinions drive a decision. Forms of art are very dangerous to the mind in this kind of way, if people genuinely like doing it.)

    1, 15, 17~

    1. A headcanon you’re not sure of yet.

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    (Hmm… That’s a bit hard, since most of my headcanons are made up at random, and I generally approve of them immediately… Hmm… Honestly, my biggest headcanon I have involves Toichi’s last show, which of course is never set in stone for any Kaito, really. Never going to accept what the new anime showed for it, since aside from Spider interactions and discussions, I do tend to fall back on manga interpretations. I mean, I’d like to do my ramble on that eventually, maybe tonight since  I’m already thinking about it, but I guess in general… Oh. Pffft. How he got his fear of fish. It would be a quick and random thing to come up with, since phobias actually don’t need much to be built, but nothing’s ever stuck out to me out of my ideas that I approved of.)


    15. One thing that draws you to a character to want to roleplay them?

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    (Ah… I’ve actually thought about this one before, because of ‘who I liked vs who I’d want to RP’ in the Professor Layton games. Aside from ‘they have to catch my interest’, really, it’d have to be… well, psychological side of me says mentality. But it’s only part of it. Like, I play Kai, but wouldn’t play Shinichi/Conan, even if they could have similar ways of thinking due to circumstances. And I have nothing against Shinichi. For PL, I like Randall, Descole, and Clive, but would only play Descole, even if Randall is actually very similar to Kai in many ways. Well, I did play the Masked Gentleman of sorts on Halloween, but that’s the thing… Even back before when I was only considering RP, I knew MG was one I could play, but Randall wasn’t. I don’t know… A lot of things go into who I’d Rp I guess, including unanswered questions about the character, interest in how they think, having a lot of ‘what ifs’ for the character, and… well, probably that they’re in the grey area of morality, to an extent. Characters up for interpretation that no one knows everything about, even if they know the character themselves. And in most ways, Kai and Spider are opposites. One’s a popular character everyone knows, one’s a non-canon but still official MK character that’s just a huge mystery. But for all his fans, not everyone actually looks into Kaito beyond the fun, so that’s why I like him especially.

    …To sum up, I believe I like to play characters that make me think and wonder things about them.)


    17. A character trait you think is overused?

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    (There… well, there are quite a lot of those… And as many good writers and characters I’ve seen, those don’t always intersect… I mean, if I look at a list, one that comes to mind that I don’t consider is stubbornness. But that’s more of a general person thing, not a character trait to really pick on… A lot of people will have a stubborn streak at times… Maybe just angstiness? Not that I don’t enjoy it, but reading manga and such, and though I’ve fallen out of reading actual books right now, I’ve read far more than enough to notice that almost all important characters have to go through some sort of angsty phase, or just be like that in general. It’s mostly due to the fact writers like to have things happen either in the past or present that can make a character more interesting. Better written characters get past it fairly well, but people tend to like ones that don’t, and looking at broody characters can only be interesting so many times before it gets old. All interesting characters have bad moments, but the best ones manage through it, in all honesty. Ones that don’t, *looks at Sasuke from Naruto and so many other action shonen anime, and quite a few from shoujo and other types as well*, …eh, they tend to get on my nerves a bit. Would try to think of more TV and books type things, but manga what I gravitate towards first, so… *shrugs* Angst is fine, but jeeze, moderate if you want to hold more people’s attention.)

    {That Aoko is so much cuter, and she’s a detective!}

    (Yep~ I do think I like proto-Aoko better in comparison to the MK one as opposed to the Kaitos. Just a bit. She seemed a lot more interesting. *whispers about how the alternate timeline for her being a detective and such is affected by her not seeming to have a mother in MK, and how Kid might not exist in that world completely, which is also why Ginzo is nicer and generally more laid back, and why her mom is still there. No Kid to chase constantly*