How's My Driving?

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To the best of my abilities, I'll keep an ongoing and alphabetical list of everyone's HMD comments here below for your browsing pleasure.

A - H	I - P	Q - Z
Alex (Rosella) Alms (Brian, Allison, Neil, Frankie, Tommy) Ary (Raphael) Ashley (Jack) Audrey (Olivia, Amory) Bon (Mr. Orange, Jerry) Caru (Cain, Poncho-kun, Katan) Cass (Slick) Cella (Mae, Sif) Chris (Pepper) Christa (Gabriel) Cricket (Akira) Dawn (Mara, Cinna, Haji) Ellie (Ginny) Emma (Howard) Eppy (Natasha, Simon) Eri (Faith, Castile, Donna, McGonagall) Faith (Fred, Molly) Gadgets (Ariadne, Mr. Blonde) Haunt (Euphemia)	Inji (Percy J.) Jaina (Roxas) Jane (Yuri, Tony) Jansen (10, Harry) Jessi (Akito/Agito/Lind) KaOS (Evil Ed) Katie (Peter) Katya (Pig) Katya II (Karl) Kaye (Marta) Kestrel (Elmer) Kimmeh! (Ikki) Kris (Sam) Kristi (Dean, Buffy, Lucy, Rose) Laura (William) Lee (Huey) Liam (Arya, Nathan) Lila (Tyr) Lisa (Dawn, Derek, Jenny) Lysoke (Cassian, Glenn) Mai (Rain, Mercy) Marion (Stephen, Dulcie, George) Melon (Saya) Mici (Saya, Eden, Capt. America, Mr. Pink, Billy, Edmund) Molly (Dr. House, Mr. White) Mouse (Charlie) Nao (Gazelle) Neko (Ken, Setsuna) Nelly (Eames) Nyte (Solomon, Rido, Piglet) Parsnip (Liam) Pixy (Chase)	Rae (Wilson, Todd, Doc Brown) Raine (Estellise, Akane) Rey (Kira) Rizu (Break, Hazuki) Rumi (Liz) Ruxi (Rosiel) Sarah (Bucky, 11) Setine (Thor) Tam (Curt, Teddy, Sparrow) Taryn (Alisha) Thorn (Kazuma) Tona (Tessa, Amy, The Archive, Rhodey) Toss (Merlin) Val (Elliot) Valya (Raymond, Jack, Robert) Veda (Justin, Penny, Chekov) Vee (Carla, Marie, Anna) Yuki/KGaara (Aion, Klarth) Zekoi (Mithos) Zen (Rita)

Comments

[dignity_misery]

I had a two hour drive to make today and ccccould not get your spiderlady off my brain the entire time because I really did want to give some kind of feedback but didn't really know what I wanted to say. So I guess this will probably not be terribly constructive and more... just some thoughts/things that this seemed as good a time as any to articulate, I guess. Sorry about that. It is, unfortunately, mainly about the spiderlady because I haven't yet learned much about the others. I hope to remedy that over time :c (Sorry about that initial thread with Eden, I shouldn't have tried while dizzy on cold meds orz I will try again some time)

I have a hell of time playing off of Saya, which is not a bad thing, it's mostly just the conflict of me being a really tonal sort of person and her lacking it as a part of her character. If it were actually *me* trying to interact with her, I'd just not, but Carla isn't me and I sort of have to really push myself extra hard to work through it. Being pushed is never a bad thing, I just know I fall on my face pretty obviously sometimes in trying.

Part of my struggle is in the fact that Saya is a unique entity on Carla's landscape, and thus Carla has a really unique feeling about her that I am always struggling to identify to the coherent whole, but. Carla is really distinctly submissive to her, which... considering. Birdboy. Is not news, but I'm not really used to her being submissive to other women. So I guess if I have to be constructive in some way that is something I would point out to your credit, that she's very indomitable without always being overt about it.

But uh. I would love to let her and Carla do more things but Carla is....... actually kind of scared of her, because she is a little bit in love with her, which is fueled by her jealousy for Saya embodying so many of the traits that Carla lost. Uhm so.... I guess to sum up. It's really unique and complicated CR that I'm terribly fond of and I feel really bad when I'm tripping over myself. sob.

Oh right, and from an OOC standpoint... I know I said so at the time, but I really appreciated your help coming into the game and getting crazy daisy settled.

[wandbreaker]

Oh, good golly. First off, thank you - I always appreciate feedback on the OC's that's well thought out and this particularly makes me happy because if this is how she's effecting Carla, then I'm doing something right.

I love their relationship because in Saya's head, she's so clearly in charge of 'team sociopath' - that is to say that she might not act like it, but she is physically and mentally stronger than the others simply because she is in fact a spider, so the fact that Carla is submissive kind of works in how her own worldview works. ANYWAY.

I always like to get OC's situated because I play two of them and I know that it can be hard to get them involved in game, so you're welcome! Thank you so much for the feedback!

[dignity_misery]

One of the thoughts that I occurred to me on my drive through the endless cornfield of Indiana was that... while Chase and Blonde get a lot of attention as her big sources of comfort, Saya is really at the root of it all. Pretty literally the spider in the middle of the web of people Carla feels closest to, so you're definitely on the ball!