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actual cockroach Nicholas D. Wolfwood ([personal profile] trailofblood) wrote2014-10-09 10:03 pm
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question meme

Wolfwood hit 2,500 comments at some point or another so GOOD ENOUGH, question meme goooo

My current roster is Pound/Wolfwood and Minotaur/Bass at Kyriakos, and Pinocchio/Jiro at Aather! And of course you can ask me things about previous characters/other stuff too.
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[personal profile] hatebound 2014-10-10 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
wELL.... . . .. .

It's hard to say until it happens, but if he were to remember that soon, it'd probably be sorta like that- he'd suddenly be more tense around Vash, but adamantly try not to let it show so it'd pretty much all be in body language. And he'd hate it, because he doesn't hate or resent Vash or anything?? But it may take him some time to shake off the feeling of witnessing that kind of insanely destructive power coming from one man.

But if (more like when) Vash picks up on that and starts avoiding him he'd get even MORE aggravated at himself over it and aggressively try to get over it, which may or may not involve stalking following him around despite avoidance. Maybe he'll make him more food, idk. I imagine he'll be able to overcome it well enough, and maybe he'll even be okay around Vash when he gets featherblorting skills back??? WE'LL SEE. Though at this point it's really not the monstery stuff that bothers him at all so much as the IMMENSE GODLIKE POWER, since that's more like. Wow feeling tiny and insignificant and powerless next to this dumbass wearing a donut hoodie who could disintegrate me with a flick of his finger if he felt like it.

Speaking of featherblort, how will Vash deal when he gets that skill(s) back?
featherduster: sigh, judging (why this)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-11 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
STALK HIM AND BAKE FOR HIM omfg you tsundere shit...............


Featherblort lmaooo, it... depends on the memories he gets back before he gets that skill. If he remembers like, basically any of volume 5, he'll probably quietly freak the fuck out and lock himself up for a while. SORRY, IF U NEED VASH THE STAMPEDE HE IS JUST NOT AVAILABLE FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS. Buuut if he remembered some of the more positive ("positive") experiences, or at least being in more control, that will help him keep his cool a lot. I also decided to build in (some) level of conscious control with the skill, so it won't be like AWFUL POWER INCONTINENCE the way it was in volume 5, which will also help a lot.

Either way he'll probably be mildly cagey for a while and very reluctant to let on to anyone what's going on and live in constant fear of someone witnessing featherblorting \8D/

i want you to elaborate on that little unconscious The Gay For Vash tho bc hilarious
featherduster: -- (got me like a loaded gun、 golden sun)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-11 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
yes very manly :') no homo :') if he actually forsakes spiking his hair for any length of time (like after submitting to Phoenix's HAIR SPIKE SUPERIORITY!!) i hope Wolfwood suffers greatly, i'm just sayin


OK SO I'M THE LAST OF US BLIND, aside from obviously zombie apocalypse, and some stuff Jay has told me, but I can say with confidence bordering on certainty that he would cry. A lot. BECAUSE I MEAN - that's most of the human race being effectively exterminated and it's not like there's An Enemy to blame or anything, it's just... zombies... virus... thing

BIG FAT FUCKIN GHIBLI TEARS, and probably hug Ellie for good measure because lmfao GOD

Of course if he found out her blood is full of potential Miracle Cure that would be another thing, because that means there's a potential solution and maybe humanity in her world can get better!!!!! And then he stops lying awake at night thinking about a world that's not... even... his (Except that's a lie, he still will 8[)

tl;dr nobody fuckin tell Vash the Stampede about Ellie's world


TELL ME SOME STUFF you're stoked about doing for either of your losers, or stuff you're looking forward to, or stuff you're pipe dreaming about
featherduster: ?, thinky (buffering buffering buffering)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-16 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
well you've already accomplished some of this since i last replied so lol A+ GOOD JOB


THE PROBLEM WITH ME is that I never really have plans for anything, I just kinda go with the flow. As far as pipe dreams though I really want him to continue amassing a loli army that then beats him up when he's being stupid. I'd really like for him to open up/genuinely trust more people in general (he's slowly getting there!!) because it'd be fun to play and also good for him to let more people in. In that vein I'm hoping people start to dig under his surface of Vashness a little and figure out he's a fridge horror mess underneath.

There's also some heavier stuff I'm looking forward to playing with, like the inevitable ethical implications of his existence and him wondering if he even has any right to exist; having people around to backhand him will be especially helpful there. Wondering to himself what he's going to do about Knives, and depending on memories, probably worry that he'll fail or has already failed. He's also going to have to face the inevitable realization that not everyone can always be saved, especially in Kyr, which will be like the equivalent of his having to choose to shoot Legato. So that'll be... fun.

Also the gay and the domestic, yes. Just being 100% married, I want it. I'll know we've succeeded when Vash considers questing for a pull-out daybed thing for his room.


Tell me about Pound's worst insecurities & fears because I enjoy characters' pain
featherduster: uhoh, bullied, sheepish (that's not what the instructions said...)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-16 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay well re: Eye of Michael/Chapel: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



What he knows is:

Assassins
Plant worshipers
PROBABLY kidnapped Wolfwood
DEFINITELY TORTURED WOLFWOOD FOR AT LEAST 4 YEARS
PROBABLY under Knives' supervision in some way bc Plant worshipers
Did we mention plANT WORSHIPERS AND TORTURING WOLFWOOD

Right now Master C just kind of blends into the general horror category of the Eye rather than as a DISTINCT horror, but memories will change that, like whenever he remembers the Ark. And I'm taking the official translation for that one over the scanlation bc he straight-up tells Master C to FUCK RIGHT OFF and that moment was important to me. BUT ANYWAY.

He's very very quietly distressed because he's scratched the surface of Wolfwood's fucked up past and he doesn't like it AT ALL, he has reason to think that Knives is actually crazy enough to set up a friggin religion for himself (and Vash??? HE DOESN'T KNOW), and there is not one but TWO organization of people-torturing assassin freaks running around at home. That they remember. There may even be more.

TL;DR HE'S REALLY REALLY REALLY DISTRESSED but he's compartmentalizing it like he always does. Starting to think he needs a vice of his own, just not smoking. Cuz gross.

RE: Insecurities & fears!

His biggest fear is hands down not being able to save/help people, which is a p. legit fear to be having in Kyr, and one he's going to have to confront and overcome repeatedly. He's afraid of the weakness he's gleaned in Queen, because this whole realm is dependent on her. He's afraid of Nyssa or other shitty Echoes amassing enough power to pose a greater threat than they already do. He's afraid of not being able to stop/break this system in anyway way. ETC ETC ETC

More and more lately he's also afraid of people he cares about ending up in the pods, especially Wolfwood, since he was already down there before. Wolfwood in particular he's slowly becoming more emotionally dependent on (which will freak him out once he realizes it) and he's been lucky so far in that none of his good friends have really gone away. But he's seeing it happen to other people and it is balllssssss. He doesn't have his canon-self's aversion to becoming really attached to people on a personal level, so he's setting himself up for a lot of heartache later.

VERY INSECURE ABOUT HAIR SPIKE INFERIORITY (do I kid, am I serious, who knows)



So what's up with Wolfwood's bizarre honesty hour and is that gonna last, or should Vash savor it while it's there
featherduster: vibing, neutral (this probably explodes)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-16 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
ASKS ALL KINDS OF INVASIVE QUESTIONS like what his favorite color and food are


lmfaoooo the ~*~special friend~*~ business... I should preface this by saying that he takes nothing Star says overly seriously BUT it's true that he doesn't mentally categorize Wolfwood the way he does his other friends, and it's not really just a trust thing. Wolfwood honestly is the #1 person in his life, and in canon that kind of happened accidentally as a matter of circumstances, but here their friendship is an actual concentrated effort on both of their parts, and that - matters a lot, to him? With the amount of compromising and careful work and consideration they put into it, it's honestly like they already ARE in a relationship, just without the romance. And he doesn't really think about romance ever, but frankly if he did, he wouldn't really have any objections. THE HURDLE HERE IS WOLFWOOD, GOOD JOB

The emotional dependence freakout probably won't be until further down the line, when he has more memories and more complexes and more reasons to remember that trust is a finnicky thing and emotional ties are dangerous. When we meet him in canon, his distance from everyone is such a flippant, inherent thing that I feel like it just got knocked into him over time; he moves around a lot, people die a lot, he lives FOREVER and humans don't, he's a dangerous guy to be around, he's got monster issues, so all these factors combine to make him an emotionally distant person. And as he gets those issues back he'll realize that being this intertwined with people is probably not a SUPER great idea, for him OR them, and will then

I don't even know

Probably have a quiet crisis over it, but I doubt he'd have the heart to actually push people away, especially if it's that far down the line.


my mind is blanking but if you have more self-indulgent questions left in your big bag of self-indulgent questions, fire away
featherduster: vibing (brofist)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-16 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
He wouldn't do... much... because I mean there's not much to do. He'd probably doodle on his pod again in the VAIN HOPE that trick'll work twice, but then he'd just have to compartmentalize that and move on like he always does. He'd probably make a point of watching out for Omelettes in his absence, and also probably come drop by his pod to talk at him instead of actually talking to anyone else about how shitty he feels bc hahahaha nah. But he'd also be convinced Wolfwood will wake up eventually, which helps. And in some small way it'd be a relief, because at least Wolfwood doesn't have to face things like bad games or bad memories while he's sleeping. Vash would just quietly miss him basically all the time but suck it up, right.

Re: the second thing, honestly, priority numero uno is always Wolfwood's happiness, so if Wolfwood were happy, that's all that really matters to him. There would probably be some requisite 'oh.......' there but it wouldn't be a conscious thing and it would be ruthlessly smothered, in any case. He'd even wingman for him if it came to that, he'd just have to ignore his own feelings in the process.

SAME QUESTIONS I'M ORIGINAL
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[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-16 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Accuse him of having hit his head or otherwise having impaired judgement

Are you ok Wolfwood?? Did something happen?? Do we need to take you to a doctor

HE BASICALLY WOULDN'T TAKE SOMETHING LIKE THAT SERIOUSLY AT ALL LMAO especially coming from Wolfwood, sorry pal. Gruff not-confessions buried inside insults are about all he could ever really expect from Wolfwood and anything else just wouldn't parse through his Wolfwood-to-English translator

Or he'd get butthurt and accuse him of making fun of him, ALSO POSSIBLE........

IF IT TURNS OUT there's some kind of option for characters who've died in their worlds to return to said worlds, would Wolfwood go back to Gunsmoke? Or would he fuck off to another world entirely? OR STAY DEAD?? (This assumes they've won, so fully memoried is in effect)
featherduster: sheepish (i can explain tho)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-17 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
if they're adopting twelve orphan kids they might as well be YOUR orphan kids, Wolfwood, you absolute fucking moron :'|

Vash obviously wouldn't mind it at all - it would give him a chance to show Wolfwood how much the world has changed even in the short time since he died, and more selfishly, it'd be nice to just... have somebody he trusts around. After Kyr, where he's constantly surrounded by people he really likes and trusts to some degree, going back to planet Everybody's-Trying-To-Kill-Me will be kinda bittersweet. So having Wolfwood around will mitigate that at least somewhat. ... And iirc he's also being pursued by Earth's Federation Forces on top of the typical bounty hunters so it'd be nice to have a good gun at his back. It'll be kinda like old times only with less apocalypse hanging over their heads, which means they might even enjoy it.

And then maybe after a while he'll decide the world is doing a good enough job taking care of itself now and he can go live as a nondescript black-floppy-haired loser somewhere with his grumpy companion and a cat and a bunch of orphan kids. Meryl and Milly can come too but they gotta stow the TV cameras at the door.


So when Wolfwood remembers what his ACTUAL mission was (to guide/safely deliver Vash to Knives rather than kill him), how's he gonna take that? Will that be better or worse?
featherduster: sheepish, tired (ahhhhhh......)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-17 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually unlocked Tessla on his registry not long ago so HA HA HA WE'LL SEE.........

The memory itself is just going to be him & Knives breaking into the lab, finding the report, finding the corpse, and then passing out, but none of the stuff that happened after. So it's... definitely gonna be a huge kick in the teeth, because he has a memory of Knives telling him humanity would absolutely betray and hurt and try to exterminate them, which his knee-jerk response to is NO YOU'RE WRONG!!! but then there it is. Tessla. It 100% happened and humanity is shit. (And it will also definitively answer that question Wolfwood had about "what made him change?" while not at all answering "so why aren't you just like him?" hahahaha)

It'll probably also make him 100% more leery of telling anyone he's not human, because after he and Knives were ALL ABOUT!!! befriending humanity, they found out humanity basically doesn't see them as people at all and is willing to experiment on them TO DEATH for the sake of nothing more than curiosity. It's not that he'll suddenly snap and decide to hate humanity like he did when he was a kid, but it's a lot like finding out your closest friend keyed your car and let the air out of the tires and stole your girlfriend and got you fired and burned your house down all at once. Very... very disappointing... (and distressing). It would pretty effectively jumpstart his existential crisis, too, because wow are the Plants' lives really worth so little to people?? Why??

Will probably also cry a lot l o l it's gonna suck basically


What's Wolfwood gonna do if Vash lets him SEE that shard :')
featherduster: neutral, soft (ask me about my severed hand)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-17 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
He actually probably would...

If only because he feels like Tessla needs to be remembered by as many people as possible, and he wants humans to realize that Plants Are People Too. It's sorta the same reason he let Wolfwood see the other Plant memory - he played it off like it was just too hard to explain and easier to show the shard (which WAS true, lbr), but the real reason he did it is because he wants people to realize Plants are people, especially bc he's been led to believe that humanity doesn't even know their magic lightbulbs are sentient.

The more people who know better, the more likely things can change, etc.

Not that he thinks Wolfwood doesn't see Plants as people, bc yooo they're best friends, but the way Wolfwood talks about Plants in general makes it sound like he still thinks of them in terms of "non-sentient lightbulb thing". Which is understandable!! ... But let's fix that.

With dead little girls, I guess.

Wow that became a ramble UHHHHHhhhh... what would Wolfwood's reaction be if Vash remembered his death before him, and chose to tell him about it?
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[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-18 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
C...ry.............

OK NO he would hold it together in front of Wolfwood, because Wolfwood's dealing with - you know - learning about his own friggin death, and the last thing Vash wants Wolfwood doing is worrying about HIM for God's sake. But he would take it very, very, VERY poorly and probably break down in private and then put it in the little bottle where Vash the Stampede puts all the other awful things he just can't deal with. And suddenly the prospect of going home will seem just a little bleaker, ha ha... ha...

He'd probably immediately confront Queen about the possibility of restoring people when their mirrors are completed, because why make them put themselves back together if they're just going to die again... that's just cruel... what the fuck etc. etc. And knowing Queen he'd probably get a vague cryptic answer that would amount to "well, maybe" and he would then latch onto that hope like his life depends on it and focus on the positives!! Potentials!! Etc!! WE'RE GUNNA SAVE U WOLFWOOD


If we're being grossly self-indulgent, how do you imagine Wolfwood's "wait shit he's hot" crisis evolving.
featherduster: vibing, neutral (this probably explodes)

[personal profile] featherduster 2014-10-18 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
u fuckin loser...

IT'S HARD TO SAY, honestly he just really doesn't think about people in those terms at all?? Like I see his attraction being 90% emotional and intellectual (and frankly it's basically already THERE) and it's only after that's firmly established does he step back like "ok yes I can get behind this. nice. good."

So it would take being shoved into that closet and really squinting at him to go "YEAH OK A+ THIS IS A GOOD PACKAGE DEAL", at which point he will not suffer from the denial and idiocy that Wolfwood does about it, he'd just accept it and roll with it and pls calm down Wolfwood goddamn IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

tl;dr, yes, just kiss already


I THINK I RAN OUT OF SELF-INDULGENT QUESTIONS.....

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