aww yeah it's question meme time

[hackitude]

Time to bring back one of my old faves...

the QUESTION meme

Simple and easy! Here's how it goes:

1. POST a top-level with your character name

2. REPLY to other people's top-level with a question for that character

3. ANSWER the question you were asked

4. ASK a question of that person's characters in return!

We go back and forth like this asking questions in a thread until one or both of us runs out of questions!

QUESTIONS CAN BE ANYTHING. Serious or silly as you want! What does Jane think of (x)? What does Sarah have for breakfast? How many times a day does Alex masturbate? What's Tom's dream job? The only limit for questions is your imagination.

Replies can be as monosyllabic or as tl;dr are you want; it's up to you. Go wild kids!

Comments

[hostage]

I dunno, Jesse's craziest drunk story is probably related to that time he let his home become a literal crackhouse and he played Suicidal Lord of the Tweakers and this story probably isn't very fun at all so if you asked him he'd probably make something up. Like filling a swimming pool with bubble bath and diving into it from a second story window. See, that's a fun story you can tell people without making them uncomfortable.

Jesse has nothing left to say to his parents. "I bought the place," was good enough for him.

He desperately wants everyone who's dead because of him to not be dead anymore. He would trade his own life for that, no hesitation.

What was Joel like as a teenager?

[shittybirthday]

jesse :( WHY ARE YOU SUCH A SAD. :( :( :((((

(that segment in his life where he let his house turn into a crackhouse was so fucking sad. dfkjfgd.)

joel as a teenager. well, there's hardly anything about joel's past in the game. there are zero photos of his parents or any indication anywhere in his house in the beginning of the game as to who his parents are/where they fit into his life. so from that, i glean that he didn't have a good relationship with his parents, and in fact possibly even cut them out of his life. so from that i headcanon that joel and his younger brother, tommy (who is about 6-7 years younger than joel) were raised by their mother, who was a single parent and divorced joel's father when joel was a little boy.

his mother worked two or three jobs to make ends meet, so joel was often left in charge of tommy. he was a pretty quiet teenager, had some anger issues, didn't talk a whole lot about his feelings, was pretty introverted. he was good at subjects like woodwork, art and music in school and was pretty decent at maths. average at everything else, though. he spent a lot of his spare time escaping in music when he wasn't playing sport; he had a small group of friends at school that he played music in a band with. he had fantasies of being a singer and being famous and a professional musician, but that changed along with any hopes of getting into college when his girlfriend became pregnant when joel was 17. he ended up marrying his girlfriend when he was about 18, divorced her by the time he was about 21. he was still looking out for tommy a lot, too, when sarah was born.

he was basically the kind of teenager that felt pretty resentful towards his father, had some resentment towards his mother with how she was never home, wanted to go out and do normal teenage things but often had to watch tommy. he bottled a lot of things up, could get pretty moody, kind of had to be the "man" of the family from a young age. but he was also pretty laid back for the most part, was kind of shy around girls, and would do anything for people he cared for.

ugh i still feel like i'm trying to work out this part of joel because i have to completely headcanon it based on the tiny snippets we get here and there about his past.

what would jesse do if jane showed up in mom?

[hostage]

Oh nooooo baby Joel...........

Also I answered that here!

[shittybirthday]

oh no, jesse :(

alright, i'll ask something else! jesse becomes ellie's guardian because joel dies/disappears back home. how does he raise her?

[hostage]

Ter...ribly? Ellie's about the same age as he was when he got addicted to drugs, which means it's also around the age when his own parents gave up on him. So he has no idea... what you do... with a kid that age. Aside from leave them to their business. Like, he wouldn't begin to know how to lay down the law with her. The second she'd go off and do something without his permission he'd be like... Well, fuck. I don't know what to do about that. Guess I better just get over it. And if she came to him for advice on things, his advice would generally be useless or flat-out bad. He'd love her so much and he'd be as attentive as possible, but he'd always be more of a friend than a parent and always try to do the cool thing instead of the thing that would give her a sense of stability or order. He'd spoil her rotten and unintentionally encourage bad behavior through sheer lack of rule enforcement. Or lack of rules in general. It's kind of how I think Aunt Ginny raised him when she took him in: all the love in the world but too much enabling behavior. Ellie might grow up to be just like him, which is the opposite of what he'd want.

How would Joel's life have gone if Sarah had never died but the world still went to shit?