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[Ascension] The funny thing is I'm actually a little against regular DWRPing Kadam
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because she's too memetically badass
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It works in Ascension because everyone is on board with it
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but in any kind of panfandom setting she'd just be another OC
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and if in that context if someone apped a "Super smart oldtype who is kind of good at everything and totally hardcore and everyone thinks she's a great commander because she's not scared of anything and likes-
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-to mock enemy commanders and has an army of gundams and once shouted an entire army into standing down while ramming her battleship into things"
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I would hella roll my eyes
IT'S HALLOWEEN
Yeah, in Ascension it was a small group and everybody was present for the worldbuilding around everyone else's characters.
IT'S HALLOWEEN
Kadam being great was part of the premise of the setting.
IT'S HALLOWEEN
She'd never work in a jamjar.
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I might be more on board with
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RPing young Kadam
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awkward geeky teen Kadam
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still in the closet Kadam
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Then bring in modern Kadam for a time travel plot
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and everyone's like "Is this REALLY the same person?"
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"SHE HAD AN EYEPATCH"
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"SHE WAS TERRIFYING"
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"The Kadam WE know hunches because she doesn't like to loom over people"
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now I want a Gundam Ascension cast in a jamjar where half of them are aged down and the other half are from main continuity
IT'S HALLOWEEN
Okay I could almost see modern Kadam working in an RP with more focus on her just being stern and kind of cool and less on her being terrifying.
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and are just constantly 
oh god teen ivan with his voice breaking and all that
oh god teen ivan with his voice breaking and all that
IT'S HALLOWEEN
Like, a game without many constant terrible threats or her having access to crazy military technology.
IT'S HALLOWEEN
Then on the rare occasion it DOES come up it's just this brief flash of terror that nbody can quite process.
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omg teen ivan yes
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Kadam is the oldest member of the cast, right?
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Sera's probably pretty close but I have no idea how old Ivan is
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probably in his 40s?
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...shit, I'd play hotheaded teen Sera when she still got really worked up about things
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Young Kadam is still all "fuck you I will do what I want" but she doesn't have a battleship to back her up
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so it ends up being less 
Star Wars- The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)
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and more 
Scooby Doo Theme Song
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all Solving Mysteries As A Determined Teen!
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She's this kind of awkward gangly tall kid who doesn't like to attract too much attention and isn't that good at dealing with people
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and then you try to push her too hard and suddenly you run into this steel wall
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and you're all "where did THAT come from?"
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Anyways I'm very strongly tempted to make a journal for Kadam
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Because this user name isn't taken
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there is no more perfect username
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Truly the moment that really solidified Kadam as a character in my head
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The funny thing is I was intending her to be a more sedate background character who focused on giving everyone else chances to be awesome
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You know like you'd expect out of a gundam carrier commander
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and now she's a memetically terrifying badass
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This is a problem I have with protags sometimes
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The original plurk I mean
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To the point where in Planeocracy I realized, in quick succession, that Souji was a Gary Stu and that nobody cared.