anyway quentin is doing pretty well, other than baby's first dropped CR. he's sad about his friends but he knows that home is probably a better place for most people than duplicity. he's happy with his contract partner and with the CR he has
i'm starting to put more effort into deepening his CR with certain people (dorian and caliban are high on this list, so are jeff and sombra, but there's more and i intend more when i'm off hiatus) and that's going well and making me happy
and he's not the first person to observe that quentin is too precious for dup, but quentin has at least some understanding that the way being The Way He Be has paid off for him in dup is rare af
in fact sometime soon i'm gonna do an update to the meta i wrote early on, where i talked about how the tragedy of him as a character is having to hide and protect this open and loving heart and how dup so far has made him drop that facade and rewarded him for it
orla is doing pretty well, considering i apped her a couple weeks before going on hiatus. she's working on making connections and has her eye on a lot of different people to get in contact with
she's gonna start trying to get a contract when i'm home, ideally with someone who will take on both her and her wife, but she doesn't have super high hopes that anyone will take them both. she may not even be upfront about seeking that at first, so she doesn't scare away potential contracts that would work for her
i have to take some time over the network post to decide how she'd balance what she wants and what she wants people to know about her, so that might happen after the new app cycle but before the event
she's still stripping at the scratch despite what happened to her there, she doesn't love that this is just kind of a reality for sex workers in dup but she feels she came out ahead and that the benefits outweigh the risks
jamie idk man i go back and forth in my feelings on jamie. he's not in any real danger of being dropped or anything, but ultimately he's kind of built around being withdrawn and requiring a great deal of trust with people and that's always hard to really get moving in a sex game
he IS building that trust with a couple of people and there are several more i think he might build it with but he's currently still shy of, for various reasons
it's kind of interesting, playing characters who are quite experienced with kink in this game where part of the premise is that you will get thrown into kink whether you're experienced or not
jamie is very experienced, orla has done a lot with her wife although her experience isn't very broad, quentin's knowledge was probably 80% theoretical but he had some experience and a lot of knowledge