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The form:
<b>Player name:</b> <b>Characters played:</b> Character :: Fandom :: Character LJ <b>Personal concrit link:</b> <b>Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N:</b> <b>Other comments?</b> Please refrain from posting pictures, .gifs, videos, giant text, sparklies, blinking and moving tags, and &c. in top-level comments

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

Caru

[misterblackbird]

Player name: Caru
Characters played:
♛ Cain Hargreaves || Godchild || misterblackbird
♞ The Man With No Name || "The Dollars Trilogy" || withloadedguns
♜ Katan || Angel Sanctuary || one_that_leads

Personal concrit link: ♚: anon-enabled, ip-disabled, and screened--in the hopes that you may find it useful and informative.

Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yes, and yes.

Other comments? Ask me questions, tell me things. I'm glad of any comments, questions, remarks, advice, suggestions, thoughts, letters, Morse code, telegrams, or smoke signals regarding my characters. I always get inspired after HMD--for whatever reason, it always makes me want to play more. I'm glad of any feedback at all. Let me know what you think.

I do know I haven't been around as much of late--my work schedule has been a little crazy (I'm glad of the work, sure, but it's really cramping my RP style), but know that I'm stalking everything ever. And I will be up to speed again as soon as possible.

Also, as ever, any comments, questions, suggestions, confusion, rage, anguish, hate, frustration, death threats, coded letters, bribe money, scientific papers, research proposals, internship applications, or flaming bags of dog poo intended to be directed at one, Prof. Dr. Laszlo Jamf (laszlo_jamf), can also be left here for his attention.

Re: Caru

[oceantrauma]

I, still, absolutely love how you play Cain, even after this long. And Katan. I am SO GLAD you brought him back. I just want to squish him.

Almost ashamed we have so little CR at this point, but work is kicking my butt, too. Hopefully that will change in a month or so.

Thorn

[errandry]

Player name: ... eternally Thorn.
Characters played: Kazuma Mikura :: Air Gear :: errandry
Personal concrit link: Tick tick boom.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Always!
Other comments? Uhhh, general impressions of the character are always good even if you're canon blind! '-'

Re: Thorn

[oceantrauma]

Totally canon blind, but he amuses me. I like seeing his comments around.

Mici

[synanthrope]

Player name: Mici

Characters played: Saya Wallace | Original | synanthrope
Eden Mac Cionaoith | Original | eiremagic
Steve Rogers | Captain America: The First Avenger | punchedhitler
Mr. Pink | Reservoir Dogs | pinkeffinprofessional
Billy Kaplan | Young Avengers | inmyothertights
Edmund Pevensie | The Chronicles of Narnia | wandbreaker

Personal concrit link: Here!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: If you like! IP logging is off, anon is on.
Other comments? NONE.

[destinedtobeunpopular]

I love Edmund, so much, and I was so happy when you tagged me. And so far, I love your portrayal of him too. He's a beautiful thing~

Kimmeh!

[crowing]

Player name: Kimmeh!
Characters played: Itsuki "Ikki" Minami :: Air Gear :: stormking.
Personal concrit link: always right here.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: YYYYY.
Other comments?

Let's be honest here, this is my first time playing from both Air Gear and seriously playing a main protag/shounen hero. Until now, I've really only dabbled in that sort of quaint little mix of horror. If you're familiar with the canon, please tell me how I'm doing! How is my voice? Is he shounen enough? Is he barely reaching that meter? Is he too much of horrible person? Not enough of a horrible person?

Please, ask me questions or even just give me general impressions. I enjoy concrit of all sorts.

GIVE ME YOUR EVERYTHING!

Re: Kimmeh!

[worldofourown]

ARGH! I LOVE YOUR IKKI SO VERY MUCH! HE'S SUCH A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE TROUBLEMAKER!

Srsly, I adored his little philosphical chat with Karl. His mannerisms and attitude are fabulously IC, and I'm mightily hoping they have more interactions soon! <3

Val

[forhishonor]

Player name: Loserface Val
Characters played: elliot nightray → pandora hearts → forhishonor
Personal concrit link: check it
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: yes! c:
Other comments? I'd just like to apologize for being miserable with tagging other posts of late. School's been kicking my ass, but I'm trying to branch out more this month! Plz to be bearing with me on this. /o\

[destinedtobeunpopular]

Your Elliot is fabulous.

I HAVEN'T SEEN MUCH YET admittedly, so I don't really have much else to say, but I absolutely love him so far, he's great.

[ignipotent]

Player name: Audrey
Characters played:

Olivia Dunham | Fringe | entangles
Amory Felix | OC | fatespoken

Personal concrit link: You'll find them pinned to the top of my characters' journals!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Do as you please!
Other comments? N.

[haring_to_go]

I just wanted to say that I absolutely fricking adore your Olivia voice. I've only really read through her posts and not really any of the threads, but it's spot on and I can always hear her in my head. I really don't know how you do it.

Neko

[oceantrauma]

Player name: Neko
Characters played:
Ken Ichijouji :: Digimon Adventure 02 :: oceantrauma
Setsuna Mudou :: Angel Sanctuary :: beyourarmy
Personal concrit link: Anon-enabled, far as I recall. You can leave crit for Setsuna there, too. Too lazy to hunt his link down.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yes
Other comments? I LIKE IT ROUGH. Don't hesitate to let me know if I'm not doing well. I know I only brought Setsuna in recently, but it's never too early to speak up about something. I've played Setsuna for FAR too long and worry about getting comfortable with him. Ken is still new so I fret.

[firstaid]

It's been so long since I've seen Digimon and I haven't seen the subbed version, so... but I really do get memories of my childhood when I see your Ken, with how kind he is to everyone and just how he wants to be involved. He's a pleasure to tag, and definitely a friend there to help out.

Cricket

[superbeast]

Player name: Cricket
Characters played: Akira Udou :: Air Gear :: superbeast
Personal concrit link: here.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Y
Other comments? I'm still trying to get the hang of-- everything dfhgsdg both in game and in finding my stride with Akira in general, so any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[forhishonor]

I'M SO GLAD YOU APPED INTO POLY. I don't know squat about Air Gear, but I love Akira's personality and every tag I get from you is always so much fun. <3

Inji

[ethos]

Player name: Inji
Characters played: Percy Jackson ][ Percy Jackson & the Olympians / Heroes of Olympus ][ ethos
Personal concrit link: Here you go.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Sure.
Other comments? I've realized I'm less ooc with him the less I tldr in brackets sob bad habit, but I'm not sure if I'm there yet! Any suggestions or things that seem off to you that I can tweak, however small, I'd really like to hear them. Also, my schedule and time zone has me backtagging lately, so I appreciate everyone being so cool about it. Thanks in advance, I'll get back to this when I get home from work ♥

Re: Inji

[worldofourown]

Oh, dude! I was so happy to see a Percy Jackson on Poly, and I freakin' love how you play him! He's so perfectly PERCY! It's fantastic! <3 Karl needs more cr with the little, ahem, juvinelle dilenquient. Their initial talk, brief as it was, was loads of fun! <3

Jessi

[sixwinged]

Player name: Jessi
Characters played: Agito, Akito, & Lind Wanijima :: Air Gear:: sixwinged
Personal concrit link: ✖
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: yes.
Other comments?

[errandry]

Frankly, at this point, is there anything new to say? You know I adore your sharks. Even after all these months! Tagging with them makes me roll ridiculously all over the couch. Despite Agito's... consistent tsun and Akito's... even more consistent air of terrible topping, things never get dull. I kind of love how much energy you put into them and getting them around—Akito especially, considering I think we've discussed before how limited his canon appearances are.

SERIOUS CRIT-WISE—no, I'm serious about the seriousness. If you're looking for facets to explore, yyyyou could do more with Agito's thinky side, maybe? You've his tsun, his contempt and his impulsive violence down, but he's the team's battle genius, and I'd love to see that in the rotation a bit too! The paranoid bit in the conversation he had with Kazu in the desert was cute, for example—along those lines, I suppose! ... I realise I basically sound as if I'm asking for Agito to be constantly paranoid, but I'll trust you to get what I mean.

Anyway! Favoriiiiite, come tag in-game with me more and not in memes. Let's do all the stupid things, darling.

ALEX! ♥

[primrosella]

Player name: Alex

Characters played:
Princess Rosella | King's Quest | primrosella

Other comments?
LAW SCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! /fistshake

Right, but yes, school is ridiculous and I've still got two more months of it, but I will do my best to keep up and be around despite it. And I love answering questions, so please do ask me them!

[shall_yield_us]

Bawwww, I haven't got the recent chance to tag Rosella ( WHICH WILL CHANGE >( ) but fight the good fight against school dominance, Alex, it's always cool seeing the pretty princess around ;;

Kestrel

[undespairing]

Player name: Kestrel
Characters played: Elmer C. Albatross :: Baccano! :: undespairing
Personal concrit link: here!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: five minutes after posting this the answer shall be Y.
Other comments? None of any relevance!

Re: Kestrel

[beyourarmy]

So, I don't remember too much of Baccano!, and I have yet to read the light novels, but whatever. Just seeing a happy character makes my day, regardless of how you're playing him. I can't judge that, but I just wanted the chance to say I like Elmer and hope to see him around more when I get the time to BE around more.

Nelly

[signatures]

Player name: Nelly
Characters played: Eames :: INCEPTION :: signatures
Personal concrit link: Here!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: YES AND YES! I love anon, so whatever makes you comfortable.
Other comments? I am very, very hard to offend, so please don't feel shy / worry I'll blow up / etc.

[entangles]

Hi, I love Eames.... yes, yes I do. With Inception especially, so much rides on interpretation and extrapolation, and I have loved and still love what you've done with him.

And even though it was one thread, I have to say: Olivia's interactions with Eames are fun as hell. Their antagonism and her snippiness- he brings out one of my favorite sides of her.

(Also, thank you muchly for plotting with me!)

Kristi

[dudeimbatman]

Player name: Kristi
Characters played:

Dean Winchester :: Supernatural :: dudeimbatman
Buffy Summers :: Buffy the Vampire Slayer :: whattingawhat
Lucy Locke :: Original Character :: mightbeconcussed
Rose Tyler :: Doctor Who :: iwasherefirst

Personal concrit link: Right here All of my characters have HMD's either at the top of their journals or linked in the side bar as well.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Allowed, not encouraged. I'd rather be able to look at specific interactions to get a better feel for what's being discussed. I promise, I don't bite.
Other comments? Hrm, I'm going to do a canon review for Buffy because sometimes I feel like she's a little off/too down so if you've got suggestions/constructive crit that might help me there, I'd appreciate it.

[archivy]

Kristiiiiiii. First of all, it's always a pleasure to RP with you, with any of yours, and you're so nice OOC as well! Secondly, 'tis sad that Tim isn't on that list anymore, Tessa will miss him/misses him already. Thirdly, I think your characters all have a distinct voice and that's great, so keep it up.

I can't really say much about Buffy, since I never really watched her canon, but I enjoy seeing all the things you do with her. I also, always and forever, love reading Dean's interaction with just about anyone.

[haring_to_go]

Player name: Parsnip
Characters played: Liam Lunettes :: Pandora Hearts :: haring_to_go
Personal concrit link: here!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Either anon or logged in works for me. If you leave anon, please check back once in a while in case I have questions to get us both on the same page.
Other comments? w-what do I put here!

Throw me anything you've got even if it's just that I need to do better at following up on CR or tag around more or something. I'd love concrit, but general impressions and feelings on Liam will help me out a lot too. I still have a bit of ways to go at checking the comms regularly, but I'm doing better then the first HMD so I'm actually pleased with that.

[oceantrauma]

So, I warned you, USELESS COMMENT~! But, I like Liam. No clue about the canon, but his desert post amused me so much, and I think part of that has to do with the player's writing ability, so whether or not it was IC? I do know I ENJOYED it. His personality, in general, is just amusing to bounce Ken off of, since Ken is pretty straight-forward logic, even if he does things impulsively.

[eppy]

Player name: eppy
Characters played:
natasha romanoff :: mcu :: duplicities
simon bellamy :: misfits :: invisibilities
Personal concrit link:
natasha and simon.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: allowed but not encouraged.
Other comments?
i have no comments, so enjoy this gif.

[archivy]

I haven't really played much with Natasha, but from what I've seen of her in other threads, she's wonderfully kick-ass.

She and Rhodey need to interact more, y/n? /gets right on to that

Raine

[firstaid]

Player name: Raine
Characters played:
Estellise Sidos Heurassein :: Tales of Vesperia :: firstaid
Akane Kurashiki :: Zero Escape: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors :: morphic
Personal concrit link: Here!
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Anon is allowed, but I'd like to know who I'm speaking with so discussion can happen
Other comments? Really, anything is nice. Be honest (but kind, please) and we'll discuss!

Re: Raine

[oceantrauma]

I think I've already said what I think of your Estelle? If not, I like how brave you are with her. You get her out there and have stuff happen to her. She's not passive, as she shouldn't be, but I've seen her played that way. Or maybe it was just inactivity? Either way, I appreciate the difference I can see in your version of her.

She's pure-hearted and sweet, but has a dark portion to her, as others have mentioned. You make her lively and vivid with all of her emotions. It's a beautiful thing to see.

I don't know anything about Akane, but I like her, so that counts for something.

Dawn

[ravenrants]

Characters played:
Mara Lesser :: OC :: cry_reaper
Cinna :: The Hunger Games :: threadthefire
Haji :: Blood+ :: whithersoevergo
Personal concrit link:
There's HMD posts on each pups journal (or should be). I don't have a master HMD set up yet.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N:
Not at this time.
Other comments?

I think I've been kinda fail, I'm a little burned out here at Poly and I know it's affected my play. I may be dropping Cinna, but I'm on the fence about it.

If you have any suggestions, or plot ideas, I'm open, or tell me how I'm doing it wrong because my focus has been off and that's probably shown in my play.

Dawn

[dudeimbatman]

Dawn, oh how I adore you. The only one I really play with a lot right now is Cinna and holy hell I adore him. He's just absolutely perfect so keep doing what you're doing with him!

I love Mara as well. I believe I've told you before but she's so well crafted and layered that I wouldn't know she was an OC if I didn't know.

Yes, that statement makes sense. SO

Valya

[saidrepent]

Player name: Valya
Characters played:
- Raymond Leon || In Time || saidrepent
- Jack || BioShock || wouldnotkindly
- Robert Fischer || Inception || pinwheeled
Personal concrit link: Raymond, Jack, and Fischer each have their own with anon enabled and IP logging disabled.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Y!
Other comments? I am well aware that I need to get Fischer's activity boosted, sob. Other than that, please let me know what I can do to improve upon any of my characters!

[archivy]

Valyaaaa.

Ray is wonderful, I think. I don't know his canon, but you play him very consistently as sarcastic, distant and somewhat arrogant and it's great. He's such a joy to read. I especially love his interactions with Ivy, for the awkward. I hope that the learning process of how to deal with a child will take a while, because I enjoy it so much.

Jack I sadly have not paid much attention to, but I want to change that. He certainly seems very interesting and I think I shall throw both Tessa and Ivy at him at the next best opportunity, oh yes.

Fischer, like you said, needs to be more visible and active. if I should app Saito, I want all the interaction between them. All of it.


So basically I only had something to say to Ray ajdakhsd never mind me ;;

Ary

[bedsidemanners]

Player name: Ary
Characters played: Raphael :: Angel Sanctuary :: bedsidemanners
Personal concrit link: Here
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Y
Other comments? Due mostly to personal issues my activity has been all over the place, but things have stabilized. Ummm. Feel free to comment on or ask anything! I've played Raphael for eons, mostly in DRs of ill repute, so I do fear getting a little too comfortable and inadvertently straying from the source material.

Re: Ary

[beyourarmy]

I think you know by now I love your Raphael. I love, especially, how he and Setsuna have all of this venom between them, but there's some sort of...something. I can't put my finger on it, but it's like you can tell if things went to hell and they had to, they could totally work together. It's all there in the banter we've done with them so far, and I have so much fun with it.

Also, completely love watching the interactions with Michael and Raphael, and totally admit to stalking them. ...just realized, we have no girls, do we? AS cast needs more girls.

laura.

[feigns]

Player name: laura
Characters played: ( william herondale ) ( the infernal devices ) ( feigns )
Personal concrit link: here.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: y
Other comments? due to rl issues that i'd rather not go into detail here about, my activity has been a bit shoddy the last month, and i ended up having to hiatus at the end of february. hopefully things will be a bit better and i'll be able to improve on that front shortly. please feel free to comment on or question anything, though!

Re: laura.

[inmyothertights]

I still have no read this canon and probably won't (I'm sorry.) but I have to say that I love seeing Will back. You do a great job keeping him consistent, and his relationship with Saya is a joy to play. Kindly continue, I'm hoping things improve for you RL wise!

Toss

[destinedtobeunpopular]

Player name: Toss
Characters played: Merlin :: Merlin (BBC) :: destinedtobeunpopular
Personal concrit link: Anon-enabled and IP-disabled
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Allowed, but not encouraged.
Other comments? Just got in a couple of days ago, but if you have anything already, do feel free to tell me! Or just let me know how I'm doing so far.

[wandbreaker]

Hullo hullo! There isn't much to say except that I think your Merlin is adorable, and I love his CR with Ed so far. I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays out!

Lysoke

[thefrogknight]

Player name: Lysoke
Characters played:
Cassian :: Godchild:: deathstrumpcard
Glenn :: Chrono Trigger :: thefrogknight
Personal concrit link: ♜
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Y
Other comments? Wow, I have an obscure line-up now. :|a

Also, both boys have HMDs in their journals where comments are screened, if you'd rather.

Re: Lysoke

[coyote_walking]

I really like Rain's interactions with Glenn so far!

Nao

[virginwings]

Player name: Nao
Characters played: Gazelle :: Air Gear :: virginwings
Personal concrit link: Here.
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: Yes.
Other comments? Can't think of much, but open to anything!

[errandry]

So, Gazelle's the sweetest and I enjoy your voice for her! It's got that crisp but kind of derpy sound that I remember, and I'd love to see her around more, saying her usual overly forthright things or just going :O at all the City's million puzzling things because you play her adorably.

I'd also enjoy seeing her break out of her Kaito-related shell a little! I can understand her clinging a bit, since he's probably all the more important to her from that particular canon point, but—I don't know, I kind of loved those moments in canon where Gazelle stepped away from the self-sacrificial spotlight or the sappy scenes with her true love and showed spine. Where she called Kaito on acting like a coward and running from the Takeuchis, for instance, or when she saved That One Guy Nike dropped from the sky whose name I can never remember, or when she ultimately chose to shoot herself in the head. Not that we've that kind of drama ongoing in the City at the moment, but! It's a few other sides of her you could play with if you felt like it?

Gadgets

[boutant]

Player name: Gadgets
Characters played:
Ariadne :: Inception :: boutant
Mr. Blonde :: Reservoir Dogs :: blonderazorshiv
Personal concrit link: here and here
Anonymous allowed/encouraged? Y/N: um I think so /squints at DW... I don't mind as long as you come back to it and have a dialogue with me.
Other comments? FOREVER CONCERNED about vocal patterns, especially with Blonde since he's still fairly new to me and doesn't... talk much...

[feorge]

You's a ho.

And by that, I mean you's a fabulous ho.


This is a compliment.