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!

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annie leonhart | attack on titan

[lyingheart]

[sleuthtastic]

what is annie's favorite knock knock joke

(i ask the hard-hitting questions.)

[lyingheart]

i laughed when i read this question, darn it

her favorite knock knock joke is the one that's never happened

her other favorite knock knock joke is the one that knocks (her) out

[lyingheart]

okay since i'm tacking this on late WHAT

is veronica's largest wtf moment so far in game?

[hoboagogo]

WHO DOES ANNIE LIKE.

Or, as a more serious question- since outing herself as a titan, what (if any) struggles has Annie had to cope with? be it how people deal with her, or any difficulties-- or hell, anything made easier? What changes have happened that the rest of us may not be privy to?

And has it affected her internally, as well? Would she feel more free, having it out, or just not care, etc etc.

[lyingheart]

ANYONE SHE HASN'T KILLED is this a real question or not it's its own little meandering

Hahahaha the fact she's got people around her who know what she's done and who handle or ignore it to various degrees is a struggle. hell, in the cases where it's being ignored, she's uneasy? she doesn't feel like it was a bid for forgiveness, since all but a handful of the people here will never have it personally effect them, but it was about forcing some accountability out there, and maybe acceptance down the line. she really, really could not have anyone she would connect to past a superficial level without that being known between them, and it's still present to the extent that she'll tell people who were not here at the time about herself in order to give them that chance to end associations and be entirely justified as to why. because she is defensive on a level of trying to save herself from connecting to people who are (rightly) going to cut ties knowing what she's capable of, regardless of her intent or tendencies in behavior in this world.

so she's dealt with people who use what she's said as a way of inflicting emotional hurt over physical, she's had the threats to her physical well being (Lunatic has been the big source of that, Levi is Levi forever as far as she's aware), she's had people who are curious because they want to understand better for whatever end of their own, she's faced the question of why and had it be one she can never adequately answer partly because I don't have the canon for that but eh, she's had people become rightfully standoffish and mistrustful. After all, she doesn't attempt to give a context to what happened, and she won't - she calls herself a murderer and leaves it at that. (I think the only person she's given a full accounting of what she's done to is Wally, actually, and even that was couched as Do you think I could ever call this self defense?)

Consequently, it's... actually made her work toward being able to help the world over hurting it, and partly because people like Wally West and Tony Stark have consistently pointed out that you need to make the decisions to be a better person and stick to them. It's not all because influences are positive, either; Lunatic threatening to kill people for his form of justice is as much a factor in cementing that actions as insane as that can't be supported, and there should be accountability, but not Lunatic's form of accountability. The ongoing way she'd been butting heads with Inumuta had been part of that, too - she wanted people to be angry and uncomfortable, and he was both, and still is, even if they're talking again. It's not something easy to take in, and being sporadically called a mass murderer on network is both annoying and a reminder that it's only a perspective shift and the relative peace here that prevents her from walking that path for anyone's sake. Even her own.

About the one thing it's made easier, amusingly, is connecting to the people who know. A few people she handles more carefully for their insistence on sticking by her (Minako, Kay), not for a lack of thinking people are allowed to make their own decisions, but the way in which they said they'd stick by her and Reiner and Bertholdt. Shiinjiro is one of the people in the inbetween category, because it isn't anything really discussed or stated either way, and so she puts him in the "may or may not be accepting at face value" region, along with others reacting in a similarly under...stated? Way. The ones who didn't go with full out claims of friendship, etc. Then after that she has the category of people who told her or made it known this is something they've been struggling with, like Wally, or Artemis, Kanaya, Inumuta, or even Light, and now Ken Kaneki, who aren't people outside of her general peer group, but more within those young adult years. Jayden is in a different sort of "he doesn't understand aspects of the world that I'd prefer he never learns first hand" group, and then those who don't know... like John Mandrake, are in another group of her figuring out when to tell them. Which is probably more kind than how she let everyone else know all at once, since she does this one on one.

Her reactions to adults past those years is different, because those people responded differently, and she has a sort of - different way of relating to people who overall reacted more as Adults than anything else. Regardless of when it was a positive or negative reaction, it was more freeing? Because these are the people who are established personalities. Young adults (teens) are still adapting and forming; they're less steady to rely on, in her experience, but also something of a concern, because they're the people shes more inclined to bond with closely because of their relative ages. Her bonds to older adults (I laugh, since that's anyone in their twenties and beyond) are all across the board for different reasons, and have been made stronger since her confession based on their reactions, and she appreciates them with a grain of salt toward differences in ages and experience. Really, the way she feels about them is different from her peer group, and the kind of respect she has for people like Miranda (gone), Thundercracker (...gone), Tony Stark, Will Graham, Shepard, Senketsu (EVEN IF HE IS ONE YEAR OLD HE GOES UP HERE), John Watson... you get the general idea of the whos (Knock Out, Bumblebee, the list goes on) is one that can also accept they know and have seen and witnessed terrible things, but that you can endure and make out of those things something less terrible. There's good that comes out of the world, not just the chaos and lack of clarity. They have the experience in their lives to say this, and it's more than her sixteen years can give her, and she knows that lack of perspective is helped by hearing from those (minus Senketsu, his is a different experience) people who have it.

Internally, past what I'm rambling on about above, it's shifted her compass from spinning around at a loss for what the hell to do - there's no flow in this world that mirrors back home, no easiest pathway of least resistance that she can fall into, other than extreme ignorance, and she can't stomach that - to focusing on "moving forward" and whatever that means. Also finally allowing herself to consider friendship as an actual possibility, of connecting with people on a more than professional level. Which is also scary as hell. By the by. Starting with Bertholdt and Reiner and then being tentatively open past that, with people who both state they're her friends, and people who have shown more of the struggle over what she'd confessed, and who she felt had every right to walk away. Hell, Wally saying he'd still be willing to be friends, because isn't what she trying to do now is live a better life and not cause terrible things for people made her cry in happy relief which freaked him out at the time BUT THIS IS PROGRESS!

She does feel more free in a sense of relief for having it out. Boy does she care, she cares so much about it that she'll keep picking at that with each new person she gets closer to in order to give them the same panorama of a very specific portion of her past, before she'll really let herself get any closer.

It's pretty hideous, but she is trying to be held accountable... and trying to drive people off at the same time. It's easier to be hated. You have like, zero expectations to fail when someone has decided to have nothing to do with you.

DOES THIS ANSWER THIngs sobs

[lyingheart]

okay so here is where i will put the question in return SO:

In being alive here, knowing he isn't back home, what struggles has Shinjiro been facing? I thiiink did he learn Minato also died back home, sometime after he had? What is going on for him internally with this kind of knowledge, and knowing, or hearing, that the expectation is people might be sent home full stop should the Porter come back under control, like in 2010?

And as an additional thing, what's been bringing him the most happy moments in this world?

[selfimage]

annie's definition of what "monster" means, and how she feels about the term being applied to others as well as herself?

[lyingheart]

Monster as a term feels like a word that's used to apply to "anything that I don't understand that frightens me" from how she's seen it be used so liberally in MoM and on this Earth; for example, not long after being here, Lucifer's event ran with the werewolves and the zombies? Now the zombies were kind of beyond help, but the werewolves were all people who'd been cursed and the only response people had to these victims was to slaughter them. And that knee jerk reaction has never changed that she's seen, because people are too good at separating any actual sense of "humanity" (by which she means relatability or emotional and logical connection to) from the individuals involved. She's seen that disconnect between various different species here, and there's usually a history behind it when it gets vitriolic - there are others, like vampires, in this case Kanaya, that again, she can see where it's a frightening thing, when out of control. That applies to Connor now too, or any damn imPort with a power other than "making a good sandwich."

Monstrous is what actions are done, not an inherent quality of a person up to the point where they're not actually a psychopath, but that word is a bit outside of what she knows at the moment. So the things she considers monstrous right now are those actions taken to deliberately harm and justified as being okay - Lunatics actions, for one, the actions of serial killers for another, the justifications that arise during war - and there are people here who have done monstrous things. They aren't necessarily monsters on their own.

When applied to her, she accepts it; she doesn't think she's just a monster, but she doesn't think she isn't, if that makes sense. Connecting just to humanity feels impossible, and she's not going to say she isn't also this other thing, this Titan, because she... is. She also can see being a "monster" in the eyes of others, but the motivations for actions matter a hell of a lot - why do they do things perceived as monstrous? Are they still perhaps monstrous, but something manageable? Can it be mitigated and controlled? Yes? Then dismissing people as monsters is inadequate. Call them one and deal with them, that's something else. Write them off as a monster and rinse your hands of them?

Well, that worked with Lucifer, didn't it? (Basically deal with the problems at hand, and recognize when someone is a threat for the things they'll do for their own sake and motivation versus people who operate on a different scale of survivability.)

Basically she needs more context with people, because the label is too easy to give. Monsters aren't simple. They come out of something, they came from somewhere. Why are they monstrous, and what that monster-ness means to her, is a case by case basis.

Which is different from her being afraid of things, and managing those fears, because she has a lot more of those since this world and the imPorts are a group of freaky people she's constantly navigating internally, but not people she lives in a constant state of fear of, if that makes sense. People with frightening capacities she can't, well, counter, at least not easily, versus actually being in a state of fear over things she can't counter. Accept it and move on! This also doesn't qualify someone as being a monster, but its worth noting she separates the two.

[lyingheart]

then because that answer was long QUESTION IN RETURN here:

Aracely - how is she currently handling life here in the MoM-verse? How does feeling people's emotions tend to color her perceptions of those around her, or more specifically, let's say her housemates?

Loki - actually I'd be curious for his definition of what "monster" means in turn.

[infomodder]

has she read up on Greek myth with regards to Titans if they're not/that's not already a thing in universe?

If not, would she ever? If she did, what would she think?

titanide is a fun word isn't it

[lyingheart]

Not at all a thing in universe as far as we're aware, though it's always possible we'll get jossed later by Isayama. FOR NOW, NOT A THING.

She has done some reading up on the Titans because it comes up in affiliated circles to reading up on the fates. And her thoughts are HOLY COW THERE ARE VERY MANY and they did a great many things, good and ill - I mean. Look at the sun and moon. Titans. (Originally.) The moon often still is, and it's weird having a collection of stories where it's not just Titans locked underwater, but Titans who also were better things, or at least more necessary parts of the world in Greek mythology. Helios, Selene, Prometheus... there are some interesting Titans out there to examine and think over.

Also not enough eating of people wow. (Highlights how dissimilar they really are to the concept on her world.)

[lyingheart]

because i'm lame my questions are getting separated so HERE WE GO:

What does Will make of his eclectic collection of not-friends among the people not from Baltimore here?

Unrelated, but what's his biggest fear at present in the gameverse? If he has one!

[handwringing]

Is Annie interested in seeing more of the world now that more of it is open to her (assuming she could get a passport even if she probably can't ever haha...)?

[lyingheart]

Yes, she is! She actually has a passport, but she hasn't made decisions on any one place to go, or see, and it's more from an overwhelming number of choices (and a ... dislike of airplane travel that would make it more feasible) than anything else preventing her. She'd probably enjoy going with someone else who likes studying culture or is the sort to drag her along on all the touristy things, I think, but she's content on her own to go and witness and wander, seeing what mankind can do when left to its own devices, go to places of ancient history and be impressed by the longevity of things. The British Isles, Egypt, China, South America... she'd probably first be attracted to those places of ancient history with landmarks or things she can see and touch which are part of that testament to human change over time.

Maybe the Great Wall of China, for a certain degree of tongue in cheek, or to look at the still standing Berlin Wall in Germany, for a very sad, stark, and cold reminder of what humanity does to itself. Though if she were in Germany, she'd also want to visit the memorials to WWII... and would not do well through those, but hey.

[lyingheart]

okay since my answers are bulky QUESTION HERE:

How does Elsa feel about herself and her sense of responsibility towards others in regards to her powers here, versus back home? Has she felt any more free in this context than she did back home? Any closer to having better control of what she can do, or any acceptance of it being a part of herself?

[runningstart]

why the heck is the giant woman scared by other people's powers i mean really

[lyingheart]

ROTFL TRACE I KEEP NOT KNOWING IF THIS IS REAL OR NOT

And the simple answer is because she can't control or mitigate other people's powers. She doesn't go around as a forty-six foot tall Titan all the time, she's much squishier like this, and (for example) Wally can literally move faster than she can think. Freaking hell dude that is scary! People can teleport? Read minds (though not hers, as it turns out)? SUMMON FIRE? Have technopathy? These aren't easy things to accept, and that's not even getting into the people with world destroying powers, apparently. INSERT GRUMPYCAT FACE HERE.

Remember, she's used to largely working on her own, not on cohesive teams, so that means facing all of this alone from her POV, and no. No thanks. No thanks leaving now! It is something she deals with, obviously, and it doesn't rule her interactions, but being aware of how frightening these things can be helps her stay aware of keeping them in mind, and kind of balancing that against the natures of the people who wield those powers. Like Wally, he's too good a person to be super scared of for what he can do, but it will still get her to jump from time to time simply because er. Fast moving. It's a very good thing he doesn't pair that with his temper around her hahaha.

QUESTION: How are Wally's team dynamics here in MoMverse going right now?

[godly]

Annie's happiest moment in MoM? Worst moment?

[lyingheart]

Pathetically answering this real fast OR PARTIALLY I'll come back at lunch but:

So far her happiest moment is probably when Wally made her cry.





And that's pathetic.


BUT TRUE!

[acclimatized]

What is Annie's favourite smell/scent?

[lyingheart]

cool morning rain where you really get the scent of the soil in the air, kind of that loamy thing, and the sharp tang of trees and lower lying flora that cuts in. that and various mountain scents remind her of where she grew up/trained, and those are generally a mixed bag of memories, but they get fond with distance.

she probably likes how eren smells too or else she spends way too much time dropping that boy and enduring his stench, so i'll give her the benefit of the sweaty boy doubt FOR WHAT THAT'S worth

sobs

With John, what's his favorite scent?

[blondtactician]

What does Annie dream about?

[lyingheart]

god, dreams are hard. in general i don't think she remembers her dreams, or her nightmares, except for the fact they happen. probably if there's anything reoccuring, it's about a sense of relief and freedom and just... stupid things, like walking down a mountain path at sunrise, turning around and watching the fog over a river or a lake. hearing birds as they're flitting around early on. recently, sunrise at an oceanside. freaky dreams about being unable to swim in dark waters.

if you mean dream about in the sense of goals, it's even less firm - probably having a life that goes on past everything she's lived now, not ending encased in crystal forever, but even with that... she doesn't know what kind of life it'd be. UNRESOLVED in like every way.

Question for Armin: what makes him happiest here in MoMverse?

[ferroustigmata]

annie y u so hot

baby got beak