who dares question me

[impostorsyndrome]

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:

• 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'!

Comments

[sulit]

What is the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to Allura?

[patchricide]

I had to think hard about this one, because the normal things that come to mind wouldn't necessarily embarrass her. It's weird, because I do think of her as being more uptight than other characters. But she had no problem sporting the hairstyle in the icon, for example. And even when she's in situation she clearly has a problem with, like getting cast as Keith in the Voltron Show — her reaction is more reluctance than embarrassment?

I think a big part of that is that... there's a theme I like about her, and it's that she's very future-minded, always facing forward to the point that it distances herself from the past and present. So when she's confronted with a problem, she jumps to solving it — and when she's in a shameful situation, she's more concerned with pulling herself out of it than the shame itself. Any reaction is quick and not dwelt on for long.

I think what she does find embarrassing are the moments where she feels like she's not living up to the high standards she sets for herself. Like when she first started piloting the Blue Lion, and could barely control it — despite flying alongside a team of experienced pilots. But again, it's hard to say, because that's not the sort of stuff she dwells on.