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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He might be getting more empathetic, if that's possible. He literally feels the suffering of others now, so that ends up making him a little gentler in his day-to-day dealings with people. He's very worried all the time about how everyone's doing and he kind of feels like it's his responsibility to make things better, because he has that power. He never really has a break from that. Like his first instinct now is to touch someone and give them a little boost, because even if they're not injured, he can still ease their fatigue or whatever.

This has also led to him getting very frustrated with people who set out to actively hurt others. Sadism was never his thing, but now it's especially offensive to him. How can anyone just go out and hurt people? Don't they know what people are going through already?

...This is hilarious because he's literally poisoning thousands of people every day. But there's some dissonance there, because he still tells himself that they're choosing to use the meth. All he does is provide the stuff. He'll feel a lot more conflicted if the business itself gives rise to violence (that he's aware of, because he is quite shielded from the goings-on of Penguin's side of the business).

The specific execution of his power does ease his self-hatred a bit, too. It's fitting that he suffers. It's like passive self-flagellation. The more he heals people and the more pain he's in, the more he chips away at his past sins. Not that healing a paper cut can ever make up for murdering an innocent man, but maybe eventually he can balance the scales enough to justify the fact that he's still breathing. Because at least he serves a good purpose, right?

What would the government have to do to earn Kotetsu's favor?

weh :(

Maaaan they would have to change their tune a lot. They would need to provide string-free support to all minors and at the very very very least transitional support for unsettled, but preferably just separating out the hero/vigilante system from registration altogether. He's used to Heroes needing to be approved by a Justice Bureau so it's kind of really weird to him for there to be this carte blanche 'say you're loyal to us and we'll let you do whatever wrt heroing'.

He'd also want them to straight-up spill everything they know about the original native Heroes and the Porter and the last wave of imPorts, including any classified shit they might have, because he's fed the hell up with their lack of transparency and feeding them only minor nuggets of info when it suits them.

More than that, though...what he largely wants from the government is respect. He hates feeling like a tool to be used and then thrown away at the military's convenience (which is ironic, considering the way NEXTs and Heroes are treated by his own society, but he's a bit too close to it to really realize that), and he wants to see the government showing some sign they actually care about them as individuals and not simply replaceable weapons in a foreign war.

Really, though, Kotetsu isn't inherently distrustful of governments like Jesse is, so the fact that he's grown to resent this one to the extent he has is pretty difficult to come back from. He got put into a government PR job when he first arrived and he actually kept it all the way until the Summer Games despite absolutely hating the work, so the fact that he can't even pretend to support the government for a few hours 'on the clock' anymore says a lot. I can't see him actively supporting registration ever unless the government did agree to give benefits to everyone no strings attached regardless of status and it was merely an indicator of legal heroing vs illegal, and even then he honestly still couldn't blame anyone for not doing it.

Does Jesse intend to keep making meth forever/until he is eventually caught, or is there any kind of ceiling he's hoping to reach wherein he takes his cash and distributes it to his bros and retires, set for life?

The cash isn't just for him and his bros. He's assigned Saul to getting a fund started that'll support imPorts independent of the government, all through anonymous donations. That's how he intends to launder most of his money (the money that doesn't go back into growing the business, that is). And he wants that money to be pristine by the time it reaches imPorts, so it can never be traced to him and therefore can't be seized by the feds.

The thing is, that's never going to be enough money. He can put in about a million dollars a month, but there are a lot of imPorts and this needs to support all of their needs: food, clothing, housing, education, healthcare... He can work himself ragged, but it's going to be used as quickly as it comes in.

Not to mention, he also wants to allot resources to building secret bunkers and a weapons stockpile, because guess what? The Summer Games scared the shit out of him. If it's not the government coming after them, then somebody is, and they aren't ready for it. He wants to make sure imPorts have a safe place to retreat to. But that's a plan for the far future. He's still trying to get the hang of the business overall.

Jesse's definitely accepted that he'll be doing this until he's caught and executed (being a drug kingpin is a capital offense, at least where he comes from). It's a matter of time, for him, and his main concern is making sure no one goes down with him when that time comes. He has no plans to retire... ever. (Though if a child ever dies as a result of his activity, he's done for good.)

How does Kotetsu feel about drugs??

HMMMM. well. there is some slight canon evidence toward delinquency in his teenage years (a.k.a he had a reputation for never losing a fight and the gang leader from the neighboring town kept trying to challenge him to one, and the class president gets on his case for not going to some school function and he's just like eh, i wasn't interested sry), but at the same time he's had tunnel vision for being a Hero since he was ten years old, and Heroes are supposed to be Good Role Models!!! so while I imagine he's probably like, smoked pot a couple times or drunk underage at a party, he's likely always been on the straight and narrow for the most part. Still, at that age, I can't see him really giving much of a fuck if other people got drunk or high underage.

Now that he's older, and a dad, though, he's more or less a walking D.A.R.E. commercial, LMAO. Don't do drugs, kids, it's bad for you!!! As far as adults doing drugs...well, he'd disapprove, probably, but it's also something he'd mostly consider not his business, unless they were about to do something stupid and dangerous like get behind the wheel while intoxicated, or they got like, violent and aggressive. :T Oooooor if they had a kid in their care, he would frown so heavily on being intoxicated in a child's presence.

If Jesse could go back in time and change any one of his past decisions, which would he choose?

Jesse's mistakes are so numerous, from his current perspective, that if he was given the opportunity to go back in time, he only has one choice: he has to kill his younger self. He knows himself. No amount of warning would be enough. His past self would end up doing something selfish or trying to be clever and only make things worse. He doesn't trust himself at all to actually make the changes that would have to be made. So the only guarantee is ending his life altogether. And as far as future-Jesse's concerned, no one would miss him anyway. His life isn't worth the hundreds of lives lost because of him.

That said, I previously had Jesse in Exsilium, which was a time travel game, and this is how it ended for him at a different canon point, after he'd already become aware he wasn't to blame for near as much as he thought.

What would Kotetsu do if he could change the past?

oh man i remember reading that back around the time you first joined MoM. so many feelings....

WELL if Kotetsu had to go back and tell his younger self to do something different, he probably wouldn't really listen either >_> Imo Kotetsu sort of needed his life to spiral downhill a bit to get the wake-up call necessary to make things better with his kid.

But if he got like, literally rewinded to an earlier point but still had all of his memories, he'd probably insist on sticking by Tomoe's side at the hospital that day she died instead of going to work like she asked. Aaaand he'd probably try to tell Kaede the truth about his identity a lot sooner. :|a Probably spend a lot of time agonizing over what to do about Maverick, because how do you even tell someone their father-figure killed their actual parents and lied about it for twenty years while screwing with his memories....

What would Jesse do if his parents and little brother showed up in game?

Jesse AGGRESSIVELY DOESN'T CARE about his parents so he would aggressively ignore them. By which I mean, even if they were standing right in front of him at a swearing-in, he would look just slightly to the left of them and pretend he doesn't see them. Look at how much he doesn't need you, mom and dad. Look how good he's doing all on his own. He doesn't look like a drug addict, does he? DOES HE? HE LOOKS SUCCESSFUL AND BELOVED, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE IS, AND HE NEVER NEEDED YOU, AND FUCK YOU, MOM AND DAD.

- That said, if they were ever really in trouble, you know he'd be there in a heartbeat. Maybe to be a little smug about it, but also because he would flip the fuck out if anything actually happened to them. They're his family, even if they've exiled him.

Jake is a whole different story. Here's a situation where Jesse, for once, knows what's better for Jake than his parents do. So he'd persuade Jake to not register and to come live at the Xavier School with him (because while he's genre-savvy, it hasn't blown up yet, so he trusts it more than government housing). And he'd mostly let Jake do his own thing but keep an eye on him like a good big brother. BECAUSE HE IS A GOOD BIG BROTHER, MOM AND DAD, AND FUCK YOU.

Also Jesse would regress to being a teenager emotionally while projecting an image of maturity whenever his parents were looking. Because. He has some raw feelings. And god does he love rubbing their faces in his illegitimately-obtained but self-made riches. You thought he was just a loser but now he's a RICH loser, and FUCK YOU, MOM AND DAD.

Makes it rain and walks away backwards with both middle fingers raised.

What if Kaede was here and she fell in with the wrong crowd?