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Enjolras ([livejournal.com profile] patria_ou_mort): 7,817 comments (15.64%), played since 2006-01-17 (2,176 days at 4 comments/day)
Maladict ([livejournal.com profile] bad_addict): 6,142 comments (12.29%), played since 2006-05-16 (2,057 days at 3 comments/day)
Tatsumi Seiichirou ([livejournal.com profile] kagekachou): 18,413 comments (36.83%), played since 2006-07-08 (2,004 days at 9 comments/day)
Takeuchi Sora ([livejournal.com profile] inheritthewind): 8,187 comments (16.38%), played since 2007-12-17 (1,477 days at 6 comments/day)
Van Grants ([livejournal.com profile] masterpartyvan): 1,820 comments (3.64%), played since 2008-07-13 (1,268 days at 1 comment/day)
Rorschach ([livejournal.com profile] outoutdamnblot): 1,007 comments (2.01%), played since 2008-12-08 (1,120 days at 1 comment/day)
Captain Jack Harkness ([livejournal.com profile] inthemoodnow): 2,699 comments (5.40%), played since 2010-08-29 (491 days at 5 comments/day)
Charles Xavier ([livejournal.com profile] mind_over_metal): 3,904 comments (7.81%), played since 2011-07-12 (174 days at 22 comments/day)

Total comment count: 49,989 since 2006-01-17 (2176 days at 23 comments/day)

ALMOST TO 50,000

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Or, "This replaces any obligation I have to ever essay about Charles's personality. No, really."

Mommie Dearest Meets Peck's Bad Boy )
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[Warning] Note that there may be triggering material in any of the links here, particularly in user icons.

Text lifted harmlessly from [livejournal.com profile] socchan, who shamelessly ganked from [livejournal.com profile] filladex, who shamelessly jacked from [livejournal.com profile] russia_sushi, who shamelessly jacked from [livejournal.com profile] capkink.

In the recent LJ news post LJ-staff sneakily mentions that "Comment pages have been redesigned!" with no further information and that these changes will go live on Tuesday, 20th Dec 2011. These changes had been communicated to Russian language user-base for some time in their Russian beta-site, but this post was the first indication of the change for English-language users.

These changes means NO MORE VISIBLE SUBJECT LINES TO COMMENTS starting Tuesday, which means most meme activity will become difficult if not impossible. After pages of comments there has been only one message from the LJ-staff which tells users to switch to S2 style if they want to see comment headings. The S2 styles, which are not only unable to handle large numbers of comments but are also not very accessible to everyone. The only reason given for this change, is that (no subject) on collapsed comments entries with no heading looks ugly, and that "less than 1% user base uses headings".

So, if you don't like this change and specially if you have paid journals, please go and make your voice heard, please please try to remain calm and polite and rational, and remember that ficcing and RPing and Memeing is not the only thing that goes on, on LJ and that LJ provides a very important platform for the Russian political blogosphere, (which is not very happy with this change either). But please make you voice heard (and spread the word if possible).


For a screencap of the new comment form, go here [Russian language] (via [livejournal.com profile] ceilidh in this comment on the news post). Why yes, it does look like it would take more time to load, in addition to making accessibility more difficult!

Polite comments requesting LJ staff to change their mind on this matter are being encouraged at both the news post and comment in question.
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This is a post in Two Parts.




Part 1

Here's the story, boys and girls:

Starting today, I'm plunging into the depths of my biggest SMing mission thus far in my career. Done bigger shows before! But not with me in charge.

So Enjolras/Maladict/Tatsumi/Takeuchi Sora/Van Grants/Rorschach/Captain Jack Harkness/Charles Xavier will be hiatused. For a while. I will continue threads that I already have going, but it will probably be at a rate of about one reply every 1-2 days. Though if you see me around, I am always up for terrible cameos, of course.

And here's the thing -- I'm in rehearsal for two weeks, but then the school has winter break. So I will hiatused from now until Saturday, December 17. Then I'll be around for the rest of December, with some holiday busy-ness.

And then I am going to fucking disappear for the month of January. As in making a comm post where all of my characters have turned into Russian stacking dolls or something, so that I'm not even tempted.

IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU WANT HIJINKS WITH ME AT ANY POINT BEFORE FEBRUARY 2012, HIT ME UP DECEMBER 18-31.




Part 2

So this happened between Charles and Erik on November 30. It was non-isolated and heated enough that you don't need to have super-hearing ahemJulian to be aware that there was some... shouting.

Also, Charles would have been really punching the shit out of things in his training with Babs the next morning, so his hands will have been looking kind of beat-up during the first week of December.
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QUOTES MEME: Choose five quotes that suit your character from here.

"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." -Francis Maitland Balfour

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control." -Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)

"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try." -Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), in Good Housekeeping

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." -Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable." -Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
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Enjolras ([livejournal.com profile] patria_ou_mort): 7,788 comments (16.38%), played since 2006-01-17 (2,058 days at 4 comments/day)
Maladict ([livejournal.com profile] bad_addict): 6,141 comments (12.92%), played since 2006-05-16 (1,939 days at 3 comments/day)
Tatsumi Seiichirou ([livejournal.com profile] kagekachou): 18,321 comments (38.54%), played since 2006-07-08 (1,886 days at 10 comments/day)
Takeuchi Sora ([livejournal.com profile] inheritthewind): 8,177 comments (17.20%), played since 2007-12-17 (1,359 days at 6 comments/day)
Van Grants ([livejournal.com profile] masterpartyvan): 1,811 comments (3.81%), played since 2008-07-13 (1,150 days at 2 comments/day)
Rorschach ([livejournal.com profile] outoutdamnblot): 1,006 comments (2.12%), played since 2008-12-08 (1,002 days at 1 comment/day)
Captain Jack Harkness ([livejournal.com profile] inthemoodnow): 2,491 comments (5.24%), played since 2010-08-29 (373 days at 7 comments/day)
Charles Xavier ([livejournal.com profile] mind_over_metal): 1,800 comments (3.79%), played since 2011-07-12 (56 days at 32 comments/day)

Total comment count: 47,535 since 2006-01-17 (2058 days at 23 comments/day)





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Sticking my academic schedule here. Classes are just about the smallest thing on my plate -- I'll also be in production throughout the year, which means that there is a constant stream of rehearsals, meetings, office work and performances that have no set repeating schedule. I'll be doing an estimate of my overall state of semi-hiatus/hiatus for the year based on my most updated information.

Basically, my activity level will become very low, sporadic and unpredictable. But I still want to do things with you! This will hopefully help to plan. The most important part of this, however, as with any schedule, is the following note: SUBJECT TO CHANGE. I might end up unexpectedly available! Conversely, I might end up unexpectedly unavailable/drunk. But this gives a general shape of things, at least.

Class Schedule - Fall 2011 )

Availability Projection )

Applies to: Enjolras, Maladict, Tatsumi Seiichirou, Takeuchi Sora, Van Grants, Rorschach, Captain Jack Harkness and Charles Xavier
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...no, I really am going to link that song, like, all the time.

The following is distilled from the iTunes playlist I have that is more than three times this size. For this, I didn't repeat any artists, and I also didn't put in anything from Wicked because you could basically score the entire movie to that soundtrack and it felt like cheating. On a whole, I tended, as I usually do, toward arc rather than necessarily musical taste. Hence, the large amount of semi-obscure showtunes and 90s pop.



Track Listing + commentary (to be expanded upon) )

Bonus: Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty - You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly
and that's the reason my good looks and my figure's gone/ and that's the reason I ain't got no hair to comb/ and you're the reason our kids are ugly little darlin's
My favorite grumpy old married couple song.

Other Bonus: Linda Eder - Even Now
even now, I remember all the empty spaces you filled with love/ even now, every corner of the world we shared is still filled with love/ even now, not a day goes by when I don't ache for you
Already had this one uploaded for Erik, so why not. EMOTIONAL POWER BALLAD!!11!1
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1K comments, first impressions/relationship meme, where the hell did all of those comments come from so quickly, etc.. Be warned that I will be asking for reverses. Also, that this might take me a while, since yesterday's internet blackout left me quite behind.

Erik, you don't count, you're getting your own essay or something.
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So, Charles is a telepath. To steal from my Stats/Permissions:

Super-duper telepath. Including, but likely not limited to...

-Basic mind-reading. It's just like any other sense -- he can be just casually hearing the thoughts of people around him or be actively listening in.
-Commandeering other people's senses (kind of like having human spy drones...)
-Commandeering other people's, uh... persons. Basically, he can turn other people into human puppets. It's entirely as god-moddy as it sounds.
-Talking to people inside of their heads (which, given his ability to hear other people's thoughts, means that he can have entirely mental conversations with people, telepaths or not)
-Exploring memories, even those no longer consciously remembered
-Erasing memories

Only other telepaths seem to know when Charles is being sneaky inside of their heads (sometimes he's obvious).


If there's anything mentally remarkable about your characters, I'd love it if you would please drop me a comment! Mental shields, mental blocks, amnesia, telepathy, etc. and anything else you can think of that might be relevant to our interests.

Obviously, I am not going to godmode anyone without their permission. I am usually on IRC if I'm RPing and can also be reached through gmail/gchat, so please, please talk to me! I'd love to do all sorts of stuff, and the sky's the limit and I put my IC powers at your OOC service for funtimes.

Also, if you want to have fun with it, I think something that might be fun would be that, if you ever feel like it, please feel free to indicate what your character is thinking during any thread that we're having together. It doesn't even have to have anything to do with anything. If we're talking about srs bizness monsters attacking camp and your character has a random craving for pizza, feel free to note it! Again, sky's the limit. If there's anything that you think would be funny or dramatic or meaty, I want to take advantage of that opportunity!

Finally, Charles is not shy about the brain-talking. I'm going to use italicized blue text as my mental convention. If you see that talking to you, then that's Charles talking with his brain! And if you have some sort of mental shield that means that Charles is shouting into the wind, just continue with your BAMF business, you.

Basically: I don't want to god-mode people. Communication is key, and I always, always want to talk to you. And I also am really eager to do all sort of crazy telepathic shit with you.
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Age: 30*
Height: 5'7" (170 cm) standing... shorter in the wheelchair
Blood Type: --
Birthday: 1932*

*Charles is seen in 1944 and 1962. The young Charles is credited as being 12, which makes sense. The older Charles, however, is credited as being 24. Which defies both math and getting your doctoral degree at a reasonable age. So I'm sticking with Charles having been 12 in 1944, which would make him 30 in 1962.

Medical Info: Up until very recently, Charles was, medically speaking, a very normal young man. He was pretty healthy and relatively fit, though certainly not excessively so on either count. Things would probably look a little strange if you gave him a brain scan, but otherwise, absolutely nothing out of the ordinary.

And then he got a bullet thrown into his spine.

He was wearing a bullet-proof suit at the time, so the bullet didn't actually enter his body, but the impact was, naturally, enough to cause traumatic spinal injury that left his legs paralyzed. I'm saying that sensation starts becoming severely spotty right above the top of the hips and is completely gone by the time you reach the top of the thighs.

Pulling him from the very end of the movie would mean that this happened to him at most a couple weeks ago. So there's still a lot of pain, and he's still adjusting in a very major way.

Eyes: big baby blues
Hair: brown, thick

Physical Traits: Slim build, though not lean -- kind of soft around the edges. A tendency toward tweedy-looking clothing. Quirks his left eyebrow something wicked. And he's not wearing cherry lip gloss, his mouth is just naturally like that.

What's Okay To Mention Around Him/Her: Go for it. Charles is meant for breaking.

Abilities: Super-duper telepath. Including, but likely not limited to...

-Basic mind-reading. It's just like any other sense -- he can be just casually hearing the thoughts of people around him or be actively listening in.
-Commandeering other people's senses (kind of like having human spy drones...)
-Commandeering other people's, uh... persons. Basically, he can turn other people into human puppets. It's entirely as god-moddy as it sounds.
-Talking to people inside of their heads (which, given his ability to hear other people's thoughts, means that he can have entirely mental conversations with people, telepaths or not)
-Exploring memories, even those no longer consciously remembered
-Erasing memories

Only other telepaths seem to know when Charles is being sneaky inside of their heads (sometimes he's obvious).

He can also play a mean game of chess.

Notes for the Psychics: Unless you are absolute god-mode, you will not be able to get into Charles's head (or get past the blocks in there, I suppose, is more accurate). And if you are up there in the power scale, please talk to me about it. Charles himself isn't actually a god-mode against other telepaths. While not a babymutant, Charles is still young and hasn't reached the height of his power yet.

Empaths, on the other hand, would probably get a sense of some deep, recent trauma, no matter how calm he looks on the outside. And the calmness isn't totally an act -- it would feel genuine as well. It's just not the entire story.

Can I shapeshift/bodyswap/spit at/step on/etc?: Sure, just talk to me for the body-swapping, natch.

Hugging/Kissing/Other non-violent physical contact: GO FOR IT.

Maim/Murder/Death: His boyfriend already did the first, but you're more than welcome to continue the work. I'm also really open to getting him killed, too.

Cooking: If he had to cook for himself, he... wouldn't starve. It's not one of his strengths, though.

Other: British accent! That he picked up in Westchester, NY, apparently. idkmybff movieverse.

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