Question Meme [OOC]

[aa_fandral]

Ask me questions about my character(s) and I will answer. The meme is entirely OOC, questions and answers both. Use it as a fun time to find about about character's choices, motivations, feelings, actions, or anything else you've been wondering.

I play: Mystique (Raven Darkholme), Fandral, and Bullseye.

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[aa_banner]

As the high-charisma member of the team Fandral seems to find himself in the role of diplomat/the one with any tact. Is this something he has had to work at or does it come naturally to him?

How has his working theory in re: thor and the spider changed his relationship with Loki?

This question is probably inevitable, sorry. Why Bruce?

How does he feel about the Hulk at this point? Esp with the whole 'having been used as a projectile multiple times' thing?

Bullseye:

As the pilot engineer of Schmidt's murder train: HAVING FUN YET?

[aa_fandral]

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THIS IS GOING TO SUCK BEAR WITH

Fandral has to work really hard at diplomacy, actually. Although he's capable of somewhat fancy social footwork, he honestly spends most of his time with his friends, who are plain-spoken and amicable, and chasing ladies who intend to be caught. He is a warrior (or career killer, words words) at heart and, while he's been involved in plenty of important battles, deciding the fate of worlds on the edge of one's sword is different to having to be wary not to take a verbal shit in the wrong place. It makes him uneasy, but he's good at hiding it.

At this point, Loki has essentially confessed he killed Thor, albeit in elliptical, vague ways that wouldn't hold up in court. As a result, Fandral wouldn't piss on Loki if he was on fire. In what is perhaps a dark mirror of the Thor and Death log, Fandral currently thinks Loki's only worth is his importance to the survival of worlds. Not to oversimplify, tho: his hate comes from a place of love. As written in drabble, he loved Loki despite not really liking or knowing him that well, in that 'for-granted,' 'you have to' way that one loves family-- as he had expected to be loved in return. Fandral is hugely disappointed in both his own judgment (i.e., he fought so hard for Loki, also in part because of Sif; compounded guilt ftw) and Loki himself. The trust is dead and, given they have never succeeded in talking, that is unlikely to change until something else major does.

BRUCE. He said a lot of it in the noodle shop, the obvious stuff: Bruce has a lot of good man qualities that Fandral generally likes in friends, and a sharp skepticism that would probably keep at bay the mistakes Fandral and his friends' usually make. They also get along well and are open-minded enough to mesh good exploring middle territory (or remote regions of outer-space, whatever you want to call it). Esoteric characterological qualities aside, uhh.

1) He thinks Banner is handsome, 2) He couldn't articulate it this way, but: he really enjoys they way they have been switching off on this inherently flirtatious push-pull between jadedness and idealism/honor/spirit of exploration. They have taken turns playing tour guide in strange new cultures, reminding each other of important duties/opportunities/whatever, and being a bit discouraged about their shit (i.e., needing to be pulled out of that). Fandral has spent like 800 years hitting on people, so he can recognize the flirtatious angle to that, even if it's oddly more comfortable and friendly/genuine than most of his actual liaisons ('hey baby I live in an alien palace, want to check out my place'). Finally, 3) Fandral finds intelligence quite attractive in a way that has nothing to do with sex which is probably why he doesn't really look for (or avoids) that in his innumerable lady lovers.

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[aa_fandral]

TBH Fandral is tediously practical about the Hulk, with regards to him being a potent weapon for justice. Vanaheim is saved and well over 50% of the kills in that first scene went to him, that sort of thing. This tedious practicality probably conceals some of the blindness that Fandral has to the dangers posed to himself, stemming from 1) he likes Bruce, 2) Likes Bruce, 3) as demonstrated repeatedly in source material, the Asgardian brigade tend to be a bit blind to problems within the group, and 4) his life is imperiled fairly frequently. He should probably be a little bit closer to Natasha Romanoff's lipquiver trying not to pee inside black catsuit end of the fear spectrum, but he's not.

He doesn't like being thrown around. That sucks.

See my answers to Wanda re: Hulk in the duels.

B

Bullseye is in a really good place in his life right now.