the | in character | critique meme

[dedikated]

Have you ever just wanted to tell someone flat-out what you think of them as a person? Does your roommate have this one quirk that drives you up the wall, like dripping apathy all over the kitchen sink? Sometimes all it takes to be the best person you can be is a dose of self-awareness, sometimes what it takes instead is a cluebat to the head... and sometimes they just have a stupid name you can never quite spell right.

For all this and more, have I got the meme for you!

THE LOWDOWN
i. Post a header with your character's name.
ii. Comment in-character to other people's headers. With what? Depends on your CR! Maybe they're a good person and really should keep on keeping on, maybe literally everyone can see they need to suck it up and confess already, maybe they'll change their wicked ways if just one extra person casts aspersions on their pompadour. Bring in examples if you want, as with any helpful critique. Be as creative as you like!
iii. Other characters will comment to yours, no doubt overflowing with well-meaning advice on how to be the best person they can be. Your character is free to respond. Excuse you, maybe despair is still in fashion??
iv. A probably unnecessary reminder, but just remember, this is not a place for OOC crit! There are other, more appropriate channels for that.
v. Here are quick links to the Dreamwidth inbox and recent posted comments page if you want them.

Shamelessly borrowed from empatheias

Comments

[mismanagement]

[These two have that in common.]

True. We have that in our favor.

[circumitus]

[Feelings are so lame, mang.]

Was shot in the head recently. Would now be a terrible time to admit that?

[mismanagement]

[....what.]

I--I'm not sure there's a good time to admit that? What was the circumstance?

[circumitus]

Happened sometime when people were still killing each other.

Anyway, the point is -- am hard to kill.

[Not the fact that she was shot in the head.]

[mismanagement]

Oh. [There's not much to say about that.] Are - are you all right?

[circumitus]

Yes. Was healed by someone. Am fine now.

[mismanagement]

[Maketh has to wonder about that. Not that the wounds haven't been dealt with, but the...rest.] All right. Just...be careful.

[circumitus]

[The rest being the fact that she's going to continue to be an emotionless robot for a while -- that might be a problem in the long run.]

Can handle it.

[mismanagement]

Like I handled it?

[She asks quietly, because they both know that what Maketh did was not handling it.]

[circumitus]

Does it matter?

[mismanagement]

I think it does.

[circumitus]

You said it yourself. We deprive our enemies their "food", the better our odds. Just don't have to feel anything anymore.

[mismanagement]

I did say that. [She's regretting it now, a little.] But -- it should matter. What we do to win shouldn't --

I don't want you to do this. All right?

[circumitus]

Why? If it can help, even a little, isn't it worth it?

[What's a little lack of a lot of humanity, anyway?]

[mismanagement]

Not if it changes you in the long run. If it changes you into something worse.

[circumitus]

Am not being changed. Have been like this before, if nothing else.

[Because reverting back to your robot ways is such a good alternative.]

[mismanagement]

That doesn't make it better.

[circumitus]

Doesn't make it anyone else's business, either.

[mismanagement]

Why must you make this so difficult?

[circumitus]

[Sorry, Maketh. It's what she do.]

...Because.

[mismanagement]

[why.]

I see. You're going to be childish about it.

[circumitus]

Thought it was a rhetorical question, anyway. Does this mean it wasn't?

[Were you seriously looking for a valid answer?]

[mismanagement]

Apparently not.