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

[lyingheart]

The speed and the technology. All of the culture here is a shock, but the worst is dealing with the expectations with speed (everything so fast) and the technology that has very little familiarity to anything back home. Top it off with the way laws here hold different ages as adult or not-adult, and those expectations, and it's been difficult adjusting when the majority viewpoint is so strange compared to what she's used to elsewhere.

It's one of those constants, too! As in constantly running into those things that bring her up short, or being confronted again and again with how she doesn't inherently get or understand the use of all these technologies, up to and including not knowing how to do on the new comm what she could do on the old comm. WHY THIS HOW IS IT AN UPGRADE WHY DOES SHE HAVE TO LEARN IT ALL AGAIN etc etc!

What has Armin found he likes least about the modern world?

[blondtactician]

There are a lot of things that Armin's really ambivalent about, like how much varying tactile input he gets when going out, things like bright flashing lights, sudden loud noises, the smells from cars and pavement and things that are unfamiliar that his mind struggles to place. In a way he sort of brings hell onto himself because he can't let his mind be at peace about things, he wants to know and understand everything which is probably half of the reason he winds up getting a headache and needing to withdraw, when it comes to anything he sees as "learning" he'll work himself into a bundle of raw nerves. Similarly, he loves the immediacy of technology but also dislikes that means most people are going to be weirded out to get a handwritten note or letter, and that you are expected to text before turning up at someone's house, because doing that actually makes him more nervous than just showing up, like you would with a friend if you didn't have a cell phone.

I think what he likes the least is the wastefulness of society, seeing people dump trash or throw out food. Ideologically it's difficult for him for him, like "there's this whole wide world out there and you're just gonna dump garbage in it" or "there are people who are starving in this same neighborhood and you don't value your food enough to finish it" etc. More than that it disturbs him more than a little how adept people become at carelessness, how they justify any situation or simply don't think it can be helped. He doesn't mind frivolity and he wants to appreciate that there's room in people's lives for that, since it's evidence of amazing human innovation, but he can't help but think about who's suffering so some people can live this way. The fact that this above all is something that remains part of human nature is intensely frustrating, even if it doesn't seem like a big deal to most people. In his further research into the government and history of the country, he feels similarly about a lot of the injustice in the world. The strong continue to prey on the weak, governments and religion control the lives and thoughts of others and they don't even want the spoils of it and now there's islands of garbage in the ocean WTFFFF.

Does Annie have any guilty pleasures (or if they're not guilty, perhaps just more secret indulgences), and if so, what?

[lyingheart]

When it comes down to it, her guilty pleasure is really exploring any sort of relationship (friendships, bonds, that kind of thing) with people not from back home who know about what she's done back home. It's generally tenuous, and it's... while well aware that nothing makes it okay, and not able to accept if people are just going to go and say they "forgive" her for what she never did to them personally anyway, but actually talking with these people, relaxing in fractions to let her sense of humor show through, getting to know people and allowing those bonds to be more than superficial. When people are telling her about themselves and it's just like... sometimes meaningful things, sometimes stupid things, just. Choosing to bond or prompting her into talking, it's a thing she's awkward with but does like.

She does, for whatever reason, like people, even if she still can't just. Magically stop holding herself back or trying to basically give people every reason to stay away since that's an easier reaction and thought process to fall back on. Which she knows may be better for everyone else? So that's where the guilty pleasure part of it comes in.

What about for Armin? If he has one, what is his guilty pleasure here? Or secret indulgences?