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avalaughs2021-08-05 08:04 pm
impostorsyndrome) wrote in avalaughs2021-08-05 08:04 pm
who dares question me
QUESTION FOR A QUESTION MEME
We all like hearing about each other's characters! We all like talking about our own characters! With this groundbreaking new meme, now you can finally do both, for the very first time in DWRP history!
The Guidelines:
Now get to askin'!
The Guidelines:
- Post a toplevel listing the characters you play! If you have any boundaries you want to set re: questions you might receive (e.g. "No NSFW questions for this character"), do that here too.
- Tag other people asking them questions about their characters. What kinds of questions? Up to you! Canon questions, headcanon questions, meta questions, some random thing you've wondered since that thread you had two months ago, it's all fair game.
- Need ideas? I was passed this excellent gallery of various questions memes, so feel free to crib from these or just use them as inspiration.
- Answer the questions you receive, and, once you've done that, hit the person back with a question of your own about their character(s) too!
- You can end it there, or continue to go back and forth asking questions until you're out.
Now get to askin'!
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spoilers for LB2 but nothing after
Kadoc in Avalon is from a canonpoint mid-LB2 prologue (so after Kirei stabs 'n' grabs him but before he actually gets to Atlantis), and IMO even at that canonpoint I think the writing is on the wall that Kadoc is going to be redeemed before the Lostbelt arc is over. I have a few reasons why I'm pretty confident in this! I feel like the plot takes basically every opportunity it can to display that Kadoc isn't actually a bad dude and to nudge him in the direction of Chaldea, when it could just as easily turn away from that. Maybe what I should say is that there are several forks in the road along the way and at every single one of them the plot conspires to make him "important in the future on the Chaldea side." The fact that he's even alive at all after LB2 when they could have just killed him and gotten his character out of the way if he wasn't going to play a future role; the fact that he went as far as to agree to help Chaldea in the LB2 prologue and that only didn't happen because of outside interference; the fact that he's clearly very uneasy about his place among the Crypters now that he's failed at his own Lostbelt, and he has no real motivation anymore to support their goals, especially after Kirei flat-out told him his only remaining purpose was housing his unused Sirius Light; the fact that Anastasia tells him in her dying scene that she knows he'll always do the right thing in the end, in a scene that's very narratively coded as if she's saying something relevant and correct.
In general too, Kadoc is pretty consistently written as showing sympathy to Chaldea and anxiety about the Crypters—it's just that he usually doesn't voice it. It's often written in asides like him going " . . . " when Beryl says something shitty, or displayed by him being unable to be convincing when he's trying to be an asshole to Mash's face in LB1. Basically, I don't think the writers would bother with not only keeping him alive despite multiple opportunities to kill him off and making a point of him being Not So Bad if he were going to just end up doing the villain thing in the end and then dying.
SO TL;DR yes I do think the evidence points to, if not future teaming up, at least future collaboration of some sort!!
I don't know much about Itaru but I saw in his info post that he used to be a chuunibyou, TELL ME ABOUT THAT, it sounds hilarious
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now as for itaru, he used to be a chuuni when he was a kid! he had a rough childhood growing up, so he coped by imagining himself as a reincarnation of lancelot (from the in-universe videogame called Knights of the Round, but he's also a bookworm so he really could be kinning lancelot from the arthuriana itself as well, help) and even pretended that he could talk to the fairy companion lancelot has that only he can see! he even named the fairy familiar he got in avalon after said companion, god.
he mostly grew out of it once he graduated from highschool and got a job, but he still thinks that eyepatches are cool and even in avalon he's prone to call out anime-esque special attacks every time he uses elemental magic. it does help him get more into character in the plays he gets to perform in so it's not all that bad?? but ohhh my god imagine encountering a guy yelling "I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD AND ANIME ON MY SIDE" in public because that's itaru.
ok but speaking of kadoana, what would he think of PHH ana? and between that ana and LB ana, which one does he prefer?
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I don't know anything about A3 but I know we have a pretty decent sized cast here! Which castmate does Itaru have the most complicated relationship with and what's it like? I'm dying, I love that he kinned Lancelot and now here he is in Camelot, lmaoooooo
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as of right now, he's pretty chill with his current castmates in avalon! all of them are nagging him to get an actual job instead of lazing around in his room all day (bc he's essentially a total shut-in if you ever take away his salaryman job) and he does lowkey appreciate them for giving him a kick in the pants... but you know how it is. bleh. huge shoutout to their director, izumi, though - he had to make her pretend that she's his sister that he's taking care of just so he won't have to go to his office's after party and go straight home to game all weekend. and the lie extended to his roommate who had to pretend that he's engaged to izumi and it's.... yeah, hashtag complicated but in a totally funny way LMAO.
so let's talk about the castmate who's not here yet! namely his fellow actor from spring troupe, masumi usui. masumi is a high schooler who has this super big crush on their director that's bordering on obsessive, so that's fun... he's pretty belligerent too so he couldn't gel with itaru's easygoing, lazyass nature at first. masumi also wanted to grow up faster so that the director can notice him, so seeing itaru be a manchild is like ???? why tf are you like that. so when they were both casted as co-leads in a play, masumi was forcing himself to act more mature in hopes that the director would praise him and stuff like that, but his performance suffered in the process. so with the help of kicking his ass in a fighting game, itaru gave him some pretty sobering advice about how reaching 20 wouldn't magically transform anyone into a proper adult (he's proof of that lol) and even if masumi was able to keep up w the act, he obviously cannot keep up the front forever, because itaru is also proof of that. masumi takes this to heart and starts acting more like himself from then on... but still dislikes itaru for being cringe. which is, you know, totally valid. itaru actually keeps up with a Lot of fronts to cope, and kadoc seeing his gross gamer side of him is just one of them.
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BUT YES PLEASE DO a3 has like, zero gameplay though, so most people are gonna be bored of it, but it has tons and tons of story and it's pretty solid too!! jazzhands