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2, 3, 7, 12 for Cassian!
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1, 4, 10 for JB
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Cassian 2. Does this character swear? How do you figure out where it's appropriate for them? What are their swearing preferences?
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He does sometimes! Not all that frequently, and a lot of the time it's not SWEARING swearing so much as "for crying out loud" kind of stuff
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the EXASPERATION
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ParrotDad because he lives with an imitative bird and an impressionable gremlin, spaceman because he maintains a REAL TIGHT GRIP on his constant simmering fury
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little pitchers, big ears, that kind of thing
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he will occasionally drop an F-bomb under stress, and of course spaceman will swear like a sailor to blend in if he needs to, but in general it's not his preferred mode of expression
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3. Do you worry more about having this character say too much, or too little? (If you worry about this at all.)
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are you kidding, I worry about EVERYTHING
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how dare you imply I don't worry about it, meme
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Cassian - 11, 1
JB - 11, 7
Screwup - 6, 8, 10
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BUT he's a taciturn guy for the most part, especially when talking about himself, so occasionally I have to curb the impulse to have him chatter and divert some of those FEELS into narrative
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he's a gd spy, you guys
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yes just give us all the narrative workings
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let us see the cogs!!
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the rube goldberg machine of his inmost thoughts
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1. Describe this character's voice in one sentence. oh hi I initially read this as "one word" which would be a lot harder, wow
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If I get a whole sentence I think I would probably say: Cassian doesn't waste words.
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ooooo I like that very much
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7. What’s something you think would be easy to get wrong or miss while writing this character?
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honestly I think it's the flipside of 1. it's easy to get sidetracked into rambling, which is one thing Cassian absolutely never does.
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he's extremely direct, even when he's lying through his teeth
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11. Are there any specific parts of canon that you refer to more than others to help with voice?
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hmmm
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I mean, let's see
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1) I actually have a pretty decent aural memory? and 2) I have largely memorized the film at this point
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So there's no particular MOMENTS or anything so much as if I'm doubtful about a line I'll play it back in my head to see if I can actually hear him saying that
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12. Has this character’s voice (or your strategy for writing them) changed since you started playing them?
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ffff hm
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not really? I think I've just gotten less hesitant
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occasionally I feel like I'm getting lazy, but mostly I think it's just that I'm more confident
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3, 8, 12 JB
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JB 1. Describe this character's voice in one sentence.
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It's like talking to a rusty slot machine, basically.
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3. Do you worry more about having this character say too much, or too little? (If you worry about this at all.)
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usually too little, because part of the point of playing him from this canon point is he's still figuring out how to function like a person again, but also you gotta give people something to work with
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that is SO tricky
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reticent characters in general area REAL HARD to RP. "my character hates/is scared of people, won't communicate" OH WELL THEN WHAT BUDDY???
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eeeeexactly
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the ...nice? thing about JB is he's got several sets of internal pressures going that don't allow for leaving people hanging
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so I can usually poke him in SOME direction
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first and foremost being that his mother did not raise a RUDE YOUNG MAN
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precisely
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i don't know what it is about JB that screams "my mother was a very formidable lady and I had many sisters" but he has it.
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AGREED
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4. What do you notice about this character's choice of words that helps define their voice for you?
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oh god, that's a tough one
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he's very plainspoken, I guess? he can be spookily monosyllabic or he can be very cogent and sometimes charming, but he's not given to Speeches
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that's Hero shit and he is a Sidekick, thank you very much
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/snickers!/
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7. What’s something you think would be easy to get wrong or miss while writing this character?
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okay uh
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I'm gonna have to condense this lest it turn into a fanfic rant
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but the balance between "snarky little cuss" and "profoundly kind and nurturing" is important to get right
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I'm thinking about fanfics I specifically enjoy A LOT and yeah, yeah I see that
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plus a dash of 'deeply weird due to certain traumas'
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yeah, and honestly? I don't think he gets enough credit for having been kind of weird all along
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heck yeah THE GREAT DEPRESSION counts as a trauma!
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THAT TOO
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deeply weird from trying to nurse his best friend to health for a decade
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deeply weird from co-raising all those sisters in steep economic uncertainty
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he's a nerd, y'all.
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he's just not as marked and defiant a nerd as Certain Other People
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yep
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all of this! he's a complicated dude
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the stress of being the ablebodied provider (and then suddenly NOT being that anymore)
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also just -
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okay maybe this is my final answer
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he's got a lot less toxic masculinity garbage going on than it maybe looks like he does
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OOO YES I AGREE!!!
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it always seemed like there was a clear line between 'stuff he was performing because it was Expected and he KNEW IT' and 'stuff that he deeply felt'
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YES
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look those boys grew up on the Oz series and I firmly believe he's an Ozma stan
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Like I always say when the topic came up, this is the guy who took his best guy on a double date to the science fair
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hahaha yes
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and honestly that scene does so much work
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it does it really does
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and that's still the foundation of all the people he becomes later, SO.
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neeeeeeerrrd
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such a nerd
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JB 10. What sets this character’s voice apart from other characters you play?
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hmmmmm
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I... how to put this
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I think he's. more unselfconscious? more spontaneous?
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a lot of my muses are the kind of people who like
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hone things before saying them
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nodnod that makes sense
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think about the phrasing, about what impressions they want to convey with the information
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JB just kind of says what he has to say
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he is a thoughtful person, and he's CAPABLE of guile, but he doesn't work on his words
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and she's back
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JB 11. Are there any specific parts of canon that you refer to more than others to help with voice?
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that whole intro sequence in TFA, again
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it's REALLY DEFINING even though we never see him like that again
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and That One Awful Scene in TWS
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and honestly a lot of bits from Civil War even though that hasn't happened yet in his timeline
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because I honestly love his characterization in that a lot
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but all of those are very different voices for him and at the point I'm actually playing him he's all jumbled up and still FINDING his voice again
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12. Has this character’s voice (or your strategy for writing them) changed since you started playing them?
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hmmm. it's a little hard to say because I don't actually play him very often! but I think if nothing else I don't fall back as easily on fanon
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because I've been unhooked from MCU fandom for several years at this point
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Clone son!
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Screwup 6. Does this character have any particular catch phrases, gimmicks, or turns of phrase they use often? How do you handle them while writing?
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honestly I have not written him at all enough to have an answer for this one. GOALS.
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8. If you had to choose one specific aspect of this character’s voice that you think is the most important, what would it be?
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right NOW all I really care about is that he sound plausibly CT
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everything else is like. negotiable at this stage
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and finally Screwup 10. What sets this character’s voice apart from other characters you play?
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I think I probably do not have anyone else as SELF EFFACING
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he is the Softest of Boys
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actually no, Rene could compete
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but Screwup is that particular clone kind of Don't Mind Me
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did you know I love him
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'plausibly CT' is so tricky. Because it's so much more than 'vaguely new zealand accent'
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IT REALLY IS
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it's very hard to define but it's a whole Thing
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it's...deferential but...also kinda like 'I'M the supersoldier here, I do KIND OF know best'
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very very polite and FULL OF GOODWILL and also terrifyingly competent
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yeah!!
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and, in some of the older ones, Cautiously Hinting At How Things Are Sortof Bullshit
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haha yeah
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they discuss it by not discussing it, it's very sneaky
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so they think
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they're not saying, they're just saying.
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there's this whole base personality! and then you have individual things
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REALLY IT'S SO FASCINATING
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it's why they're so memeable
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because you CAN make sweeping statements that apply to all of them without being horrifically offensive
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(Efy's face the first time Screwup informs her that she's just voided his warranty)
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(she HALF BELIEVES HIM)
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(until she eventually goes 'OH this is like how we all used to joke about how every minor upset would set off our runaway chips!')
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children oh my god
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LET US HAVE OUR GALLOWS HUMOR they say
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sidebar that in the jamjar when Jyn and Cassian acquired the cat
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they naturally advertised "found: one furry quadruped"
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and some well meaning Earth girl suggested that if it belonged to someone it was probably microchipped
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OH NO
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and Jyn's eyes got very big
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and then very narrow
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