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Notes:
I'm not actually around, Semagic is doing the work for me, so you guys do the name that fandom! :D
Also... the amount of not posted secrets today worries me. Perhaps some of you could do with a refresher on the rules and regulations?
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 47 secrets from Secret Submission Post #048.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken link, [ 1 2 3 4 ] not!secrets, [ 1 2 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] WTF?, [ 1 ] Teal Dear Rant Sans Secret But Amusing Enough To Make A Seperate Category For Because Of The Tattoo.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Friday, December 7th, 2007.
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(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 05:21 am (UTC)(link)And it's a secret, I wouldn't expect the anon to go into super fine detail and thought about whether or not s/he cared about the characters' OOCness/stagnation/inconsistency/whether or not they dine at Arby's. I imagine s/he didn't one hundred percent expect some kind of, you know, well. Spanish Inquisition. I mean, you certainly don't see all the people gushing over that Trinity Blood cast's talent getting argued point for point at every turn -- what with all that undying adoration over there, I figure you needn't get all up in arms over a single person, or a scattering of people as it were, simply. Disagreeing with your depiction of the characters.
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With words like: "How can ic you can be if you've never read your own canon?"
By stating those words should have had like a background support. This is why I return it with: "How do you know how they characters are supposed to be or act unless you know the characters? o.O" or rather "how do you know if they are ic or ooc or if we read or not when your own reading is not that broad?"
Do you see?
I, in fact, thanked the person for bringing poings I HOPE I can improve. Such as put abone. However, I disagree with the criticizing without knowing canon as personal basis for my own critiques, not just this case. It's another topic completely.
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McAnon/Teal Deer OTP
(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 05:45 am (UTC)(link)I...have no idea what you mean by the second question.
In regards to the first: alright, so your objective knowledge of this canon is up there, what with having read the original canon, etc. etc. Objective, as in cold hard facts with no personal ideas cast on them whatsoever, not even a theory -- just the plain and pure storyline and characters therein. I would even cede you have more objective knowledge about the characters than most members of the fandom.
But that attitude, right there, is what can be considered condescending: because you have this private knowledge of the characters, because you "know the characters" better than, you don't seem very willing to accept the fact that anyone -- these people who are not so acquainted with the canon as you -- would even think of calling your perception of the characters into question. So you come on in where the OP is presenting the facts as s/he sees them, yourself armed with a multitude of knowledge which many members of the fandom would never have even heard of before and may never hear of again, and are incredibly quick to shoot this person down with facts you may very well be aware are not public knowledge -- facts which any critic would have to take a glance at and just...shrug their shoulders and accept. Because they can't disprove that, and it leaves absolutely no one with room to disagree.
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Really now (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/105718.html?thread=23813622#t23813622)?
I present myself trying to explain why and how it happened because the OP:
- Hasn't read the novels completely. Or hasn't been paying the right amount of objective attention (perhaps for the bad work Tokyopop did in translating as I heard from many complains in every corner of the fandom?). This why it surprised me that he/she/ said to have read the first two novels in English and yet told that Lilith, for instance, introduced IN RAM I and ROM I with brief mentions as Abel's old lover and the Dark Saint who fought against demons as as a "tragic mothergoddess" which isn't even accurate to what the little OUT of the novels is with her. That's only an example. Therefore, I gave her a background for her to judge with accuracy, including the plot focus. I DO AGREE with her observations of Orden centric. It's basically 'cause the good guys aren't making important moves against them. When we have a William, for instance, he tried to get Radu and Esther away from Dietrich. There was a struggle between William and Isaak, etc. However, the good guys' ranks are completely... smaller. There IS an Abel and a Seth. They could tell Lilith one day to help, but Lilith wouldn't work with Seth whom she SEES as an enemy of the world. Other than that, there was deadly ill!Caterina, Francesco without his Inquisition (Who hired Iscariot), Ion, Mirka and Asta who are not very powerful. Mirka's just arrived. Thankfully, Tres was applied so gives Caterina SOME hope. Tres was with Caterina in the Orden, he's the muscles to her brain.
But what I forgot to tell the OP is that Orden... kills itself: there's HUGE internal conflicts. Helga & von Neumanns (sans Kaspar who is sheltered from it) vs Dietrich and Isaak. In RAM, Helga, Balthasar and Melchior were killed by Isaak and Dietrich. They are from pre Public Enemy in the City, but the conflicts are subtly starting.
- Admitted (at least what I understood, please correct me if I'm wrong, OP?) that has recently checked and didn't know the development behind choices and such. The characters have been around since April (in Dietrich's case). Saying Radu never rebels, for instance, when he has and a lot... To the point he tried to KILL/ATTACK Dietrich, clued me in this. There is a period of peace, and one of rebellion, it goes in cycles with Radu's natural contradictive nature. Always for selfish reasons. Radu is even described by the Mangaka (as OP is familiar with Manga) as "such little, selfish person inside" and "fails" at being a human being. That's basically the sum of his traits.
I, as Ruxi, don't agree you can criticize characterization without knowing the canon. But if someone does, by all means, they can do it. I just won't agree with that. This case isn't exceptional, that's a personal thing I have since my times as fanfiction author.
McAnon should probably grab some lunch soon.
(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)Look, I'm not entirely interested in the canon background or the information you're presenting; I'm not even interested in the argument itself re: IC blah blah in canon blah blah look at this here blah. I've barely read the thread between you and the OP.
The point: The OP knows the canon, but not to the extent you do. Personally I find the idea that no one can criticize you without knowing the canon to be...a little...hmm. Narrow-minded, maybe? I don't like the idea of RPers who claim to want to improve actively invalidating criticism from anyone who doesn't "know as much" as they do. If you'd rather the person give you a thorough critique with canon basis, if you'd rather people be ABLE to give you a thorough critique, then why not present them the canon firsthand? Why not translate scenes and then make your points from there, and let them be able to interpret the scene and decide whether or not they agree with you? You seem pretty content with leaving critics in the dark, forcing them to operate on secondhand knowledge while remaining an absolute authority on the matter.
I suppose in the scheme of things there's nothing wrong with that, because there's nothing really that can be done unless you make the explicit decision to pinpoint where this and this happen, to argue with more concrete evidence and to let critics argue with canon basis. But, I don't know, if you want to remain as you are then I don't see why you should even bother asking people HEY GUYS HOW'S MY RP DRIVING if you don't like your style being called into question, and if you're the only one who can prove yourself wrong.
Go and have lunch?
Er, I told I was taking in account what the OP said before (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/105718.html?thread=23827958#t23827958)? Which I do.
However, I don't agree with her interpretation of the series theme or the idea of how to rp such thing. She sees the series should be rped as some good guys overcoming bad guys via humanity and such... which feels certainly more "Manga" ish, rather than the elaborated political scheme from the novels in which good guys can lose and has a more realistic touch.
Now her view ISN'T inaccurate, just different from my own as we both have different canon source preferences (she admitted to NOT wanting to continue to read the novels). And I won't accommodate to suit her taste in themes, because would have a problem with inconsistency of randomly and suddenly switching theme and feel.
I will take account her criticism and show more smooth sociopath Dietrich in sekkrit. He not always even act as that, one of his many scripts to play, but if she's more familiar with the Manga, might as well give her a glimpse of that as I did in the past.
If you'd rather the person give you a thorough critique with canon basis, if you'd rather people be ABLE to give you a thorough critique, then why not present them the canon firsthand?
I could translate! That's a good idea. Thanks. I might translate Public Enemy one day, if the OP is interested and not swearing off novels as they said? I'm kind of busy right now helping with translating a Hellsing chapter and working on a summary for Tres appearances in the novel, after that. I'm game.
McAnon loves the McRib.
(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)Really, I'm not entirely sure why the idea wouldn't have occurred to readers of the original canon sooner. Unless they WEREN'T interested in giving out that kind of information and were content to remain singular authorities and whatnot. Feels like your argument and obstinacy here has shifted a tack, but hey, I'm game with that too.
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Oh, of course. But ONE of purposes of the Orden has been fulfilled: the threw the Vatican and Empire in war. Empress was killed. The Vatican destroyed. Etc. Etc. The fact is the world changed JUST as they wanted it to change.
This doesn't mean in the very end, Albion won't be more powerful than Germanicus or King Ludwig II won't recover his rightful power. But at the point the author has written: the Orden has a victory. Orden isn't Cain, mind you.
That reflects Canon. But by all means and purposes, in rp games, particulary multifandoms, could work on other direction: Seth could kill Dietrich one day, when in canon it's him who causes her demise, or Lilith could have nanos take over and become 04, etc. It's all about the circumstances in game (or so I think?).
Really, I'm not entirely sure why the idea wouldn't have occurred to readers of the original canon sooner. Unless they WEREN'T interested in giving out that kind of information and were content to remain singular authorities and whatnot.
We're lazy? To transcribe that IS hard job. People who have access to Chinese language translation have been working on some bits and pieces. Still it's not the same than translate Manga, narrative is far trickier. Specially with the science fiction babble that threw me off of WTF Sunao's saying there. Like the glicerine in Radu's hands or how a Doppelgangers shapeshift with the cell-relocation. It's JUST so akward to read and wonder if you're reading right.
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(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)Not lazy. Disinterested.
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I perfectly understand this. But also has to deal with activity and IC-interaction. Protagonists, if they don't have a clear plan or power resources, won't win because they are magically protagonists. In the game, they are in equal level to any character, after all. That's why it's a game in which they don't have authorial intent's automatic advantage. And, as I said before, Orden has almost everyone in ranks and takes like many of the good guys to take down one of them. The numbers are also against them.
If we get more good guys players, then this WILL surely change.
Good thing we have excuses to not DO a masacre the protagonists (mostly: the political background and intrigue they are immersed with).This isn't TB only happening: Naruto, Bleach, Death Note crews, etc, there's a clear advantage to the villains for sheer power/intelligence level in a neutral ground. This would change, of course, if good guys do some sort of backlash. Astaroth declared Radu a traitor in public, for instance, making have serious consequences in his social life (this is just for reference, that the good guys HAVE been moving. But there's also a problem in HOW to move: Orden's supposely uber secret, MOST of the good guys don't even know they exist/who their members are, etc).
I completely understand the OP's feeling but do you see my point too? I am fully aware Orden is winning, but isn't hard to imagine ways to make it crumble from their acts. Most of good people are new characters and they need to enlist allies before going into a suicidal struggle against seemly well behaved society members. ;)
I do get the point, but also OP should realize TB setting is in itself horribly secretive and adamant with confidential information. That Vatican won't easily cooperate with the Empire when Francesco so close and watching. If they did, it would be OOC. They are also enemies, they have a tentative, secret truce.
I hope you don't think this was an immature answer. I was trying to give you a loose picture of the rp situation (as you're unawere): political intrigue characters who are antagonists arrived, seized allies and control the ground FAR before protagonists are applied.
I know it'll be difficult to get it UNLESS you have been reading since the beginning.
Arby's anon! (Ho shi-- we're branching out!)
(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)The reason why I butt in, kind readers and gentle anons and nongentle anons and other notanons is to comment on protagonists!
I perfectly understand this. But also has to deal with activity and IC-interaction. Protagonists, if they don't have a clear plan or power resources, won't win because they are magically protagonists. is something I must debate about! And say that yes, they do win because they are magically protagonists. Take YuGiOh, for example. The protagonist should, most often, never win! When they do it is a stroke of luck, chance, the villains fucked up, AN ANCIENT SPIRIT INVADED THEIR BRAIN AND STARTED KICKASS CRUISECONTROL! that sort of thing. Protagonists LEVEL UP! JUST in nick of time.
This isn't TB only happening: Naruto, Bleach, Death Note crews, etc, there's a clear advantage to the villains for sheer power/intelligence level in a neutral ground. This would change, of course, if good guys do some sort of backlash. This ties to it as well. Antagonists are supposed to have a sort of 'advantage' but protagonists have that factor X of being protagonists. That's what makes successfully playing antagonists in RPs so difficult. They have to maintain the balance of being their antagonist-y self as well as balance and maintain story atmosphere. They have to compensate and coordinate and work twice as hard as the protagonists. Is this fair? Nah, maybe not. But the very best RPs with antagonists are always the ones where it feels like canon, no matter how slated against the protagonists the situation is! Because you want to be recognizable from an outside perspective.
Pissed off reader syndrome is when something completely left wing appears to happen against authorial atmosphere and intent. It is almost never fair. But it happens and I, as the arby's anon, believe it to be valid.
Would you like fries with that?
Re: Arby's anon! (Ho shi-- we're branching out!)
In my honest opinion? That makes it for a bad role playing (and writing too, IMO, I'm not familiar with YuGIOh, so I can't elaborate further opinion).
They have to maintain the balance of being their antagonist-y self as well as balance and maintain story atmosphere. They have to compensate and coordinate and work twice as hard as the protagonists. Is this fair? Nah, maybe not. But the very best RPs with antagonists are always the ones where it feels like canon, no matter how slated against the protagonists the situation is! Because you want to be recognizable from an outside perspective.
But we're in a multifandom rp, not in a canon TB rp, not in the novels (in which SO far, the antagonists HAVE the advantage and then the author died).
Sorry, but I don't agree.
Arby's again
(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)Jus' sayin', from my POV there's a reason why the characters might be drawing crit or question marks. And I can say that I've seen it work to be what I thought was rather sexyness in other RPs before.
It's chill if you don't like my definition of sexy! Totally frigid~.
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(frozen comment) WENDY'S ANON
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(frozen comment) Wendy's anon strikes back!
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McAnon's head/McWall OTP
(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)LOL yeah good thing because that'd be what I'd call...to put it politely, a poor decision.I understand that the antagonists have done this and this and this, but really I don't see the point of the protagonists even being there if there's absolutely nothing they can do, if you are making this into a villain's story. I do hope there is a strong degree of OOC cooperation there, otherwise I'd have to feel so very sorry for your protagonist players indeed.
I obviously haven't! And, hopefully just as obviously, I don't intend to.
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And I don't think the situation is hopeless! Honestly. That was, IMO, an exaggeration. It's not like the bad guys are slaving the good guys. They are nicely apart and occassionaly poke each others. That's it. Why? Because of an intrigue setting and bad guys work on basis of customers (that often cross good guys). Current customers aren't. So. One bad guy (Dietrich) is tricking a good guy (Esther) as he DID before canonically. That's it.
I do hope there is a strong degree of OOC cooperation there, otherwise I'd have to feel so very sorry for your protagonist players indeed.
There is agreement! :D I play Lilith, after all, who is like the dead but BIGGEST hero in her canon. However, she doesn't act unless there's a genocide happening. :/
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(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)LOL YES A CHARACTER IS A CHARACTER IS A CHARACTER can and will be labeled; a story without a protagonist/antagonist formula inevitably encounters problems; no, it absolutely does not matter how much you like or empathize with a villain, because at the end of the day s/he IS an antagonist and any high school literature class could tell you that a protagonist advances a plot while an antagonist stagnates it and is therefore meant to be defeated.
I'm done with this. Absolutely nothing I am saying is getting through to you and I'm honestly beginning to question your intellect, which is a big red internet police alarm to bring this "discussion" to an end.
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(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)There should, maybe, be apologies for how the secret was worded. But also it wasn't meant as a critique or a discussion. The secret itself (as I thought secrets were intended to be) was just an outlet for the sort of immense keyboard/possibly tl;dr feelings I had at the moment. The secret itself was already tl;dr a bit in that I didn't want to say "I know everything, these people suck" but rather "I find myself questioning the play and it makes me go >O they're so OOC but I can't actively say on some of them since I haven't read the novels and some characters are novel only which makes me question if they've read the novels since I myself have seen no translations for fans to read except the official TP and the few pieces I managed to find on the forums." Which is a far more convoluted not-really-in-the-secret sense.
Sorry to be confusing, but I thought I'd toss my reasoning out there. (And, perhaps, you could argue secrets are supposed to be vague and quick with little 'background support' considering any secret with x amount of text is tl;dr or has the names of the people/rps/fandoms/whatever not features or fuzzed out.)
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I know what your point is. You want to see more diversity and not RCO. Like I said above. In the days we have a William, he fought Isaak and tried to have Esther/Radu away from Dietrich.
And I forgot to say it..... RCO isn't a happy family. Ax/Inquisition/Empire /sunlight only killed Radu ('cause HE wanted to die) and Kaspar (because he was distracted by fighting William and Kaja took advantage in burning him). Both victories were... well, frankly weak, out of luck.
RCO has eliminating themselves with their internal conflicts. The von Neumanns and Helga vs Isaak and Dietrich it's PART of the storyline. There's even a story focused on this called Public Enemy. Helga, Melchior (pressumbly, we don't know his final fate) and Balthasar died on Isaak's and Dietrich's hands. We are plotting for political inner struggle that Caterina player (who WAS waiting for Tres to be applied recently or she had no protection. Tres and Caterina joined the Orden in Canon) will use. :) But rl constrains make us pause this.
After all, Caterina's strategy in canon was to turn Dietrich against Cain, internal conflict. RCO very powerful outside, but crumbles with internal power play. Because he (Dietrich) still hasn't got a crisis of faith, Caterina player will likely use the factions inner battle on her benefit (factions being Germanicus vs old Ostmark/Austria. Ostmark was conquered by Germanicus long ago, for the record).
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(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)I guess you're trying to show me what you think I've missed in the plot? I am not entirely sure, but this information isn't a surprise to me, I did know some of it, at least. Which I do understand, we come form different perspectives, and I am fine and dandy with that.
I find it difficult to properly articulate myself and hope to just bow out with this comment since it seems that we're not really connecting with what we're saying. Since all I feel I'm getting from this is "she's throwing all this canon at me which I either have read before/have no access to and it's not really helping anything/seems just pointless canon toting" and I am sure that by now (or perhaps, comments earlier) you have a developed a very "wow this anon is obnoxious and shallow and missing the entire point of TB" or some such.
Thank you for your time.
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I find it difficult to properly articulate myself and hope to just bow out with this comment since it seems that we're not really connecting with what we're saying. Since all I feel I'm getting from this is "she's throwing all this canon at me which I either have read before/have no access to and it's not really helping anything/seems just pointless canon toting" and I am sure that by now (or perhaps, comments earlier) you have a developed a very "wow this anon is obnoxious and shallow and missing the entire point of TB" or some such.
No, no! Not at all. I was trying to bring up what I forgot to say last night (was late here and went to bed) when you brought up the RCO centric (which is completely truth): RCO's weakness ARE themselves, rather than their enemies, just to make it clearer. EVEN if they are winning and more numerous, they'll kill each other. It's in their nature.
Hopefully this wasn't too random, but talking to other anon reminded me I forgot to tell you this. It's just for you to know. Sorry if you felt was out place. I was absent minded last night and I forgot that clarification. -_-