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.

Comments

[aa_vision]

So, Fandry.

I feel like there's a real closeness between Fandral and Loki despite EVERYTHING. I'm looking at it sidelong, but it's kind of deep and sad and, er, incidentally betrayed with spiders. Talk to me about Fandral's relationship with the shady outsider versus his relationship with Thor, god of awesome blonde broness. How does Fandral balance the two? Moderate between them?

Fandral is both kind of chill and totally down with freaking out when it's time to freak out. What his basal state like? Is he a chill dude trying to beat back the madness of the world, or an intense dude who's gotta keep his chill because someone has to.

Bulleye

Why the violence, man. why.

[aa_fandral]

F

He loves Thor and hates Loki so it balances really good right now. As children, however, he was closer to Thor, straight up. Loki, he didn't really understand or try to. The log we wrote when they were children I think symbolizes one of a handful of times when they could have forged a real connection (OR MAYBE I ALWAYS SAY THAT ABOUT ALMOST-TINYSEX), but immaturity and coincidence buried it. As they are portrayed as the more 'socially intelligent' (I use that term very lightly, maybe 'cunning' is a better term) of their group, I feel like their childhood was probably a series of relational Missed Connections. They had great chemistry that gradually faded away until components remixed to an explosive desire to kill each other.

I think maybe they also just gave each other bad feelings, in part due to their faint similarities, like cats hiss at snakes. 'Missed Connections' is not to say I easily picture a universe in which they were the best of friends.

Fandral and Thor, on the other hand, were probably the exact converse. I figure they were both mellow and sometimes-annoying li'l blond bro kids and it was only because of constant exposure (in part due to shared interests, and Fandral's social-climbing efforts), but they probably had fewer sharp or poignant moments. Into adulthood of course they got into horrific scrapes, spilled blood together, had stories and mourned when fellows fell. As a result, over time, I figure they bricked together an extremely strong and powerful friendship that's as stable and almost inert as stone. Fandral has been canonically shown to follow Thor blindly. Bromance!

I believe Fandral's basal state is really laid back because he's frankly a really old dude who's seen a lot and built a pretty strong sense of identity. Fandral knows who he is! He is even aware he has some weird issues with romantic relationships.

On average, Fandral has a lot of emotional equilibrium which results in a distinct shortage of reactivity. Yeah sure he tried to kill Loki, but I have had alts who would have punched Sif through a wall out of misdirected anger over Loki, or whirlwind made out with, asked out, attempted to seduce, and thrown a storming hormonal fit over Bruce in this space of time by now. For all that Fandral is experiencing A Lot Of Feelings lately, he is not acting on them. He is pretty good at letting things float on instead of doing anything that is going to have fatal or permanent consequences he will regret. Lacking maximum acuity in analytical skills or whatever, he nonetheless values accuracy, which in part relates to his physical abilities (e.g., superspeed, agility) which in part trickle down to his social conduct. Sometimes, his aversion to sloppiness results in patience.

In short, Fandral is too old to think that learning from one's mistakes is the best way to learn.

B

A girl's got to eat.