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Mikoto:

I didn't love Mikoto when I decided to app him. I really liked him, and I'd thought he was a really interesting character ever since that episode where you find out he has a girlfriend. And I knew I could play him, and get him in which was the important thing at the time. So I emailed Yuu-chan, and she pointed me to the Day of Revolution, at which point I really did fall in love with him. The fact that he knows she used to be a guy really surprised me, I didn't expect him to be that accepting. I love the fact that even though he is really stubborn and set in his ways and doesn't get things, he can still be this amazing supportive boyfriend okay so he was basically created to be Megumi's perfect boyfriend XD. The humour in Mikoto comes from laughing at his pain, but it's always fascinated me the way it's presented, because if you look at it from Mikoto's point of view it really isn't funny. It means that while I think it's fairly easy for me to be funny with him just by writing how he reacts to things, I don't tend to see those threads as funny unless I come back to them at a later date or someone actually tells me it's funny and I suddenly go "Oh, I guess it is". Which is fine with me, cause I love playing him and his freaking out at things, with or without looking at it from an outside perspective.

I think Mikoto is probably the simplest of the trio to have the appearance of accuracy with in terms of RP. All you have to do is freak out and yell a lot. But I think there's a lot more to him than that, that comes out more when he's in situations with people who don't tease him or worship him. He's definitely got the easiest voice for me though, and I'm really enjoying translating his bits in Puripuri+ because they just confirm things I'd extrapolated.


Kei:

When I first thought of apping into CFUD, Kei was one of the first characters to occur to me. Vampires kind of ping me anyway, but this guy is... not a normal vampire. And I did and still do think that the idea of a vampire teaming up with a street gang is brilliant. I love that he's kind of eternally 20 mentally as well as physically- he can keep up with the gang in the main part while they're all still young but he just doesn't know how to deal with things. It's not just that he'll appear to be the same age. It's the reason he can hang out with them mostly as a peer despite being over a century old, although it's still more complicated than that since he did basically raise Sho, Toshi and Shinji and I love that dynamic too. And of course I love the whole... idea of his canon, how it happened, the fact that it even could happen considering that the four lead actors have three different mother tongues between them, and mostly don't speak each others' languages. Nevermind Gackt basically chasing down Hyde and topping him into being the vampire in the first place.

I sometimes wonder if my voice for Kei is alright (I know I translate it a bit differently to how it is in the subtitles), but I really feel like I have a very strong grasp on him as a character, on what's going on in his head and how he works as a person. And I love taking the songs that make up part of his canon and trying to work out exactly if and how they apply to him, and how that changes things. Which mostly affects how I see his backstory with Luka and his continuing emo about it.

Kousaka:

I adore Kousaka, and I always have ever since I first watched the first Genshiken anime. I think he's hilarious, and I love every single one of his "Kousaka moments", and I just love him a lot. okay. I knew I'd app him the second it occurred to me that I could app him, and you can pry him out of my cold dead fingers. He's just such a joy to play. Kei requires thinking, and Mikoto can be exhausting if he's in full freak-out mode, but Kousaka is just... Kousaka. He just cruises along at his own pace in his own world, and nothing can shake him out of that. One of the things I love most about him is that he's only oblivious in very selective ways. He's actually incredibly perceptive when it comes to knowing how people tick, and analysing situations. He just doesn't see any reason to alter his behaviour in the face of this knowledge. He kind of likes everyone equally, and treats everyone equally, even if he knows they're a crazy murderer or a jesus or whatever (Saki-chan is a bit of an exception to this, but not as much of an exception as she'd like). I love that he's a nikoniko character who isn't masking inner emo or angst or evil behind his ^_^ face, he just really is happy all the time.

I'll admit it now that I lot of my headcanon for how Kousaka's mental processes work I extrapolate and exaggerate from my own. I know I'm oblivious, so I'm obviously not nearly as bad as he is, but it still makes it very easy for me to slip into his head. As far as I know I'm the only Kousaka RPer out there, but I'd be really curious to see someone else's take on him, since I do have very set ways of thinking about how he sees the world and reacts to it (which sometime I might try and essay on more than I have here).

Isabella:

I've been in love with the ParaKiss anime ever since it was first being aired. I loved all the characters, especially Johji *_* but Isabella never stood out to me. When Johji apped I actually sent her a PM telling her I was thinking of apping Miwako. When I eventually read the manga though, suddenly Isabella became my focus. I mean, I'm already pinged by gender issues but I discovered I really loved her as a character as well. Especially her backstory chapter, which is just about the most adorable thing I've ever seen. I love that she lives in this world where she's this fine lady in a mansion with a rose garden and a butler named Sebastian, and is totally in love with a gentleman called George. And she knows he's a horrible person, and loves him anyway. In her world, looking good is the most important thing in the world, and failing to do so is shocking. She walks this line between being kind and caring and the mother figure of the group, and also being totally self-indulgent and determined to live how she wants (a lot of which is probably Johji's influence ♥). I also love her trauma faces, but how quickly she recovers back to perfect composure (speaking of which, I love the contrasts between her and Mikoto too XD).

I'm still not entirely used to her voice, but I think I have a pretty good handle on her character and I'm having so much fun because she really is totally different to my others (of course that's always what I aim for in my apping of people).