(ooc) hmd catch-all

[steeledskin]

concerns and constructive criticism are both welcome. but you can also use this post to contact me for plotting purposes or whatever else you might be interested in. aside from playing sansa in the occasional game i'm a huge fan of psls + aus + meme threads so if there's anything you might like just go ahead and ask.

alternatively, feel free to message me on this account. take care!

Comments

[eisdamme]

Your Sansa is one of the best (if not the best) I have had the pleasure of stalking. ER, READING. No, seriously, you write her (and write in general) like a boss.

CARRY ON BEING FUCKING FABULOUS.

[steeledskin]

holy cow. first of all -- thank you. she's a (i'd like to think) complex character and it's genuinely a pleasure to hear that i'm not royally screwing that up. her restraint and passivity can, at times, make her a boring-to-tag-and-read risk for other players and so i'm always pleased when that proves not to be the case.

AND second of all your comment reminded me i need to update the above blurb to include each. so a hundred more thank yous for that as well.

[princessia]

Hi there! I have not watched or read GoT before and I've mainly asked my more canon familiar friends to fill me in on it. Reading Sansa's threads with other characters, I'm confused about Sansa's interactions with Elize and Miah on the Huntress. I understand the latter has dropped awhile back and that our characters are now on different ships, but it's something that has been bothering me and I thought it would be best to get it off my mind.

Is Sansa's age from book canon or are you using show's ages along with the book canon? I couldn't find the info on your application. I found it unusual that Elize was referred to as a "young woman", unless it relates to GoT's medieval-setting and being a twelve-year-old is considered a "young lady" in her canon. I just found it strange since Elize's demeanor is very much not like a young woman.

As for Miah, the character's clearly a non-human character and noted a few times in her actions. I noticed Sansa hardly reacts to her appearance and she doesn't seem the type of character who would get accustomed seeing non-human type characters so quickly.

It feels there's very little reaction towards these characters compared to what I've seen in your threads with other characters. Or I might be overthinking your shorter tags. Both characters have an easily accessible info post and I was under the impression that you might not have read them before tagging them due to lack of interest? I wanted to continue their thread until proper closure, but I admit that I'm concerned that you might not actually be interested in tagging with me.

[steeledskin]

hi! first, i wanna thank you for your comment.

sansa's age has been raised (only slightly) to the show's age for a number of reasons. mostly as a means to make some of the darker and more triggering aspects of her character a little more playable in a panfandom setting. all the same, she would view elize as a 'young lady' -- in westeros, a 'lady' is not simply a demarcation of gender but a noun of some distinction. even a five year old daughter of a noble lord is a 'young lady'. on top of this, westerosi society denotes womanhood by menarche (or when a girl begins menstruating). obviously, she has no way to know this very personal fact about elize, but she can be ballparked at around that age. and so, by westerosi standards, sansa can comfortably assume her to be a young woman. this wouldn't mean that a forty-year old grizzled knight from westeros wouldn't turn around and call elize a child (he probably would!) but sansa vehemently calls herself a woman for this reason within her own internal monologue, and so i believe she would project that onto other girls as well.

i'm sorry about a ball perhaps being dropped with miah. in truth, sansa had threads around the calibrations rooms well in advance of her first entry and so she'd already been forced to witness a lot of strange things, appearances, and circumstances and so miah was not the first unexpected sight she's seen in the fleet. sansa certainly isn't accustomed to non-human characters, but i do have canon basis (if you'd like to see it) for how when presented with someone who looks different, she is more apt to pretend like the difference doesn't exist than to call attention to it. she mistakenly believes that this is the polite and lady-like way to behave, and that's how she behaved with miah. i had also taken into account that their conversation was rather removed (over the network) instead of in person.

in the end, threads were dropped because, as threads get older and time gets tighter, i prefer to focus on newer material. i wasn't feeling a great deal of chemistry between our characters, and perhaps wrongly assumed you felt the same. if you'd like to take another crack at it, i would be quite happy to do so.

hope this cleared a few points up!

[princessia]

Thank you for clarifying and taking the time to better explain Sansa's character and canon setting for me! Her replies do make a lot more sense to me now.

Honestly I wasn't feeling much chemistry in our thread together either, but I was hoping it would change as it progressed further. I may have been under the wrong impression and worried you weren't interested in threading anymore (some of it over silly reasons like maybe Elize is too boring or being canon unfamiliar with her might have put you off?), so I wound up dropping it.

I would like to give it another go even if they're on different ships now! Perhaps when there's another better opportunity for them to interact. Maybe the scenario on the Huntress just wasn't right for them or a different setup would've been better. If it doesn't wind up working out, it's understandable since not all CR will click all the time.

I admit that I can sometimes be slow in threads, so they do wind up getting old. That's my own fault. I'll better take into consideration about the timing should we thread again!

[steeledskin]

honestly, a lot of the grief here is probably stemming from the fact that sansa can be quite difficult to build cr with. your characters come across as very sweet and accommodating, which means sansa will of course default to distant (and dull) politeness. there's nothing wrong with this, of course! it means that things might be a little hum-drum before any sort of breakthrough occurs.

in the meantime, i'm also playing peggy carter. we could arrange something between your characters and peggy. she's much more outgoing, and you might have a more enjoyable time threading with her if sansa's cookie-cutter (by design) answers are not your thing.