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

[attainment]

Canonically, what would you say is the main theme of Jaime's "character arc"? Do you feel like you've been able to expand on any of it within MoM?

[khajidont]

Oh gosh, the main theme of Jaime's arc is cheesy as hell and I love it - in the end, it's all about the importance of making emotional bonds with those around you, support from your friends and family, and a strong sense of personal responsibility. DO THE RIGHT THING AND LOVE YOUR FAMILY, KIDDOS. A lot of this is an extension of the universe he belongs in, where secret IDs are a Big Deal, those who provide you with emotional support are kept out of the loop, and parents are, for the most part, dead. Jaime told his best friends and his family about the suit immediately, nobody dies, he goes to them when he needs help, and more importantly, we see that motivation for doing heroic things doesn't have to come from tragedy, but from having a loving foundation.

This is a tricky one to expand, because most of his supporting cast isn't available! What I've been having the most fun with is the fact that Jaime's emotional bonds, while extremely strong, are not far reaching; he doesn't have that many friends. Being here forces him to create an all new support group that he's not nearly as comfortable with, and more importantly, to impart being Emotionally Healthy with the more damaged corners of any jamjar. He's also slightly less emotionally healthy, but again, jamjars. :')

And back at you! Seeing as T&B is comprised of corporate superheroes, how has Barnaby coped with this shift into doing the whole hero gig as volunteer work? What does he think of it?

[attainment]

Aw, Jaimeeeee. idgaf if it's cheesy, that sounds fucking adorable. /CHINHANDS And that's a good point about jamjars LOL.

Barnaby doesn't care for pro-bono hero work. He sees it as a valid occupation, just like any other job, and he can't understand the mentality that getting paid for hero work means you're somehow greedy or morally deficient. With so many experienced heroes in their midst, it seems pretty foolish not to fund at least a small group who can go at it full-time. In his opinion, full-time heroes could help cut down on imPort-related crime, do a more efficient job of protecting the citizens, and shorten response times in the event of a terrorist attack or other emergency.

And, okay, the extra revenue back home was nice too, LOL, but Barnaby would like to use a good portion of his money to help kids in foster homes and orphanages. (Or, in MoM's case, native children in addition to regular imPort kids who don't have any experience supporting themselves, but don't want to register with the government.)

The funny thing is that, unlike a lot of comic book heroes who've wound up in Heropa, Barnaby has more agency under this system than he did back home. But since he finds his corporate employers preferable to the government here (corporations' needs and wants are pretty straightforward, no one is really sure about the government's goals, public money is tied to public opinion, etc), and he's so used to Hero TV's way of doing things, that it's not something he himself yet realizes or has thought about much.

Why does Jaime continue to keep his identity a secret?