vilnius | don't you leave me brokenhearted tonight.

don't you leave me brokenhearted tonight.

1: What does their bedroom look like?
2: Do they have any daily rituals?
3: Do they exercise, and if so, what do they do? How often?
4: What would they do if they needed to make dinner but the kitchen was busy?
5: Cleanliness habits (personal, workspace, etc.)
6: Eating habits and sample daily menu
7: Favorite way to waste time and feelings surrounding wasting time
8: Favorite indulgence and feelings surrounding indulging
9: Makeup?
10: Neuroses? Do they recognize them as such?
11: Intellectual pursuits?
12: Favorite book genre?
13: Sexual Orientation? And, regardless of own orientation, thoughts on sexual orientation in general?
14: Physical abnormalities? (Both visible and not, including injuries/disabilities, long-term illnesses, food-intolerances, etc.)
15: Biggest and smallest short term goal?
16: Biggest and smallest long term goal?
17: Preferred mode of dress and rituals surrounding dress
18: Favorite beverage?
19: What do they think about before falling asleep at night?
20: Childhood illnesses? Any interesting stories behind them?
21: Turn-ons? Turn-offs?
22: Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?
23: How organized are they? How does this organization/disorganization manifest in their everyday life?
24: Is there one subject of study that they excel at? Or do they even care about intellectual pursuits at all?
25: How do they see themselves 5 years from today?
26: Do they have any plans for the future? Any contingency plans if things don’t workout?
27: What is their biggest regret?
28: Who do they see as their best friend? Their worst enemy?
29: Reaction to sudden extrapersonal disaster (eg The house is on fire! What do they do?)
30: Reaction to sudden intrapersonal disaster (eg close family member suddenly dies)
31: Most prized possession?
32: Thoughts on material possessions in general?
33: Concept of home and family?
34: Thoughts on privacy? (Are they a private person, or are they prone to ‘TMI’?)
35: What activities do they enjoy, but consider to be a waste of time?
36: What makes them feel guilty?
37: Are they more analytical or more emotional in their decision-making?
38: What recharges them when they’re feeling drained?
39: Would you say that they have a superiority-complex? Inferiority-complex? Neither?
40: How misanthropic are they?
41: Hobbies?
42: How far did they get in formal education? What are their views on formal education vs self-education?
43: Religion?
44: Superstitions or views on the occult?
45: Do they express their thoughts through words or deeds?
46: If they were to fall in love, who (or what) is their ideal?
47: How do they express love?
48: If this person were to get into a fist fight, what is their fighting style like?
49: Is this person afraid of dying? Why or why not?

Characters past and present, obviously.

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KATNISS: hHAHAHAHA 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 28, 38, 46 BASICALLY EVERYTHING HELP

HARUHI: 1, 10, 17, 24, 44

i'll come back with old ones later when a heating guy isn't in my ceiling

Okay so Katniss' hygiene isn't necessarily the best. When she's been home for extended periods she tends to shower around every other day but if she's on a long forest bender she goes however long she needs to. Generally she avoids being overtly smelly but she doesn't really mind being dirty. When Peeta was in New Moore she actually put something of an effort in. Since he left it's pretty much anything goes.

Cleanliness of her living space is sort of another story; she tends to keep everything in the same place and she doesn't have that many possessions so dirt emanating off of her body pigpen-style aside her living space is actually pretty neat and put together!

Edited (i'm gonna make this easier to navigate for myself sorry) 2013-02-03 19:50 (UTC)

Years of eating whatever she could get at have sort of made table manners something of an afterthought for Katniss! She does know them and she definitely can be polite, but even now there's always something a little bit too... almost desperate? About the way she eats. Like she thinks someone's going to take it from her at any moment. If it's food she's caught herself she dives right in but if it's something someone else made or brought her she tends to approach it really gingerly at first.

Sample daily menu: bread for breakfast, roast rabbit or bread for lunch, either leftover rabbit or bread for dinner. Water throughout. Someone please take this girl to a Taco Bell.

Edited 2013-02-03 19:50 (UTC)

Katniss used to be against time-wasting as a general rule, primarily because she didn't really have any to waste! Keeping family alive and whatnot. I guess she was just the kind of person who got super impatient with people wasting her time because she was so active and always wanted to be able to take the necessary next steps, like NOW DAMN IT

Now though her life is like 900% time wasting. Right now she isn't really.... doing a lot haha. I guess after she lost Prim and everything she sort of lost all of that drive she had to move forward. It's really sad in a lot of ways because before she wasn't really able to brook any time-wasting, which was unhealthy in its own right, but what with Prim she sort of went way too far in the other direction. I'm trying to figure now how to work on her moving back toward the center but of course it's a long process - it was long in the books, and Peeta isn't here anymore which doesn't help.

PREFACING THIS BY SAYING KATNISS DOESN'T REALLY HAVE "GOALS" ANYMORE so I guess I'm stretching this a little bit, maybe these are more goals I have for her. She's too broken to care much anymore.

SHORT TERM: definitely my biggest goal short-term is for her to interact with more people outside of her cast, which I guess could be framed in terms of returning to some semblance of herself. I try in playing her to balance between what she's like after Prim's death and what she was like throughout the books, which I worry makes her come off as OOC; she's pretty active in the books, but I play her much more passive, with occasional glimpses of her unsociability or her humor or whatever. HM smallest short-term goal is probably to get her therapist to stop telling her to volunteer with children (honestly exposure therapy probably does help, but she doesn't want to deal with her stuff sooo).

LONG TERM: Obviously her big long-term goal is NO MORE DEATHS although she tells herself right now that she's over all that. She'd lose it all over again if something were to happen to Finnick or Johanna, or even Dave/Roxy/Rose/Terezi if she comes back/the kids she worked with at camp/etc. Small long-term goal is more showering.

Finnick and Johanna are definitely her best friends. She couldn't rank them if she tried, though, because she takes different things out of their friendships. They're the two people who she really thinks know her best, though, and so they're the only two she sort of reverts to her old self around (okay, Dave too some. SHE IS WEAK TO BLONDE KIDS LEAVE HER ALONE). I think I feel obligated to bring up Peeta and Gale but everything about her relationship with Gale is completely broken - not just with Prim, but because he couldn't kill her. Her relationship with Peeta is pretty complicated and I wish we had one I could work it through with (although I wouldn't wish myself on a Peeta).

Her worst enemies are pretty much all dead at this point, which terrifies her. At least before she knew who to watch for! So I guess in that way I guess she's her own worst enemy right now; is that a cop-out answer?

Honestly, human contact (handholding, hugs, being held). Which she purposefully doesn't get much of, so sh's drained a lot of the time. In spite of her personality, Katniss draws a lot of her strength and energy from other people's support, which she has purposefully been denying herself since coming to New Moore. Her substitutes are hunting and occasionally showering/swimming.

Katniss doesn't feel like she deserves (or needs) love at this point, which is of course untrue. She used to think her ideal would be Gale, obviously, or at least someone like him. What she really needs, though, is a partner - someone who is fundamentally different than her but who allows her to see possibilities outside of her own narrow field of vision. Peeta's an obvious choice. I honestly think both Johanna and Finnick (secret ship shhh) would also work. In the first book I was team Gale but he'd be nothing but terrible for her.

I AM A HUGE HACK I always picture Haruhi's room as Kosaka Kirino's from OreImo:

Kirino of course has porno games in the closet but Haruhi's much more likely to have things like a telescope or a koala onesie or an electric guitar in there. She has collages of newspaper articles about unusual occurrences in town on one wall, and on the inside of the door (so no one can see it unless they're in there with the door closed - good luck with that) she has photos up of the SOS Brigade hanging out together, at Christmas Parties or at Lydia's parties or just hanging out. ALSO SHE HAS THOSE GLOWY STARS ON THE CEILING in what's a pretty eerily correct recreation of the stars over Japan in winter.

Essentially, it's a pretty normal bedroom for a somewhat fashionable Japanese teen girl until you look closely and you realize it's completely fucking ridiculous.

I don't know if any of Haruhi's problems count as "neuroses" per se - I don't want to armchair diagnose her or anything but a lot of her behavior is rooted in extreme highs and lows rather than in anxiety or insecurity. She does swing from highs to lows really rapidly, often without really understanding the reasons for her moods. She doesn't fear much and really doesn't care about social graces or anything like that.

I guess the one thing that could count is that she's desperately afraid of living a boring, unremarkable life, or disappearing into the crowd, or any of those things. At the same time, though, she has this terribly sensible streak that knows that none of the things she wants to exist possibly can. And this little knowledge in the back of her head only drives her to act out more and more, taking what might be a normal fear to its extreme conclusions.

I sort of hesitate to call Haruhi's style "fashionable without trying" but in her case it's a pretty fair summary. She puts almost no real thought into clothing, but because she's sort of naturally good at everything she tries she puts together things that look nice without trying. She used to have rituals regarding hairstyle (different number of ponytails for different days of the week, color coded ribbons, etc.) but then Kyon commented on it and she cut her hair and chose one hairstyle out of... whatever the friendly version of spite is, haha.

She pretty much excels in school without trying (Kyon hates her for it, a little bit), but she doesn't find most of her subjects interesting kind of on principle. She's the type who gets bored with things that come easily to her, which unfortunately is pretty much everything haha. She lives for club meetings after school, and is much more into experiencing things than she is into learning them. She feels differently when she finds something challenging, but that's very rare.

SUPER COMPLICATED

Haruhi is willing to/desperately wants to believe in everything. The more insane a theory sounds, the more Haruhi wants it to be true. BUT she has this insanely practical streak that knows on a logical level the things she wants to believe in aren't real. She's confused, essentially.

KATNISS: 15, 16, 35, 38, 49

DAMNIT CBRAN ALREADY ASKED SOME

27, 29, 30

Temple Run (Ruins Jog?). Tell no one.

RUINS JOG

RUINS JOG

i am in love

KATNISS LET US JOIN YOU

THATS A NICE SWEATBAND

FINNICK ARE YOU WEARING A PIKACHU PEDOMETER?

Katniss thinks she'd be fine with dying, that she has nothing else worth fighting for, but of course after her initial attempts just to pass away quietly in the Capitol she keeps going anyway. She justifies it to herself that she's been surviving for so long she doesn't know how not to, but the truth I think is she wants to live. She wants and needs a reason for it, and I think the whole time she's been in New Moore she's been seeking them out.

On the other hand, she's been surviving so long that I don't think there's any fear of death associated with it anymore - her body just moves automatically. I don't think she's scared to die, but I do think there's a small part of her that thinks it'd just be waste on top of waste.

Prim. Easy question. If she could go back in time and switch their places, even knowing that would mean Coin and Snow would both comparatively win, she'd do it in a heartbeat.

KATNISS KIND OF MOVES AUTOMATICALLY IN THIS KIND OF SITUATION AT THIS POINT HAHA I mean she's no hero, she's not leaping into the fray to save the occupants of the house or anything, but if she's in there she's the one who instantly finds the fire hydrant and takes care of the problem.

FURTHER EMOTIONAL SHUTDOWN I said this to cbran up there but even though Katniss thinks she's lost everything there are all these tiny chinks in her armor she doesn't even know about. Peeta disappearing has messed her up more than I think she admits, and losing Johanna or Finnick or even Dave or heck, Aisling (who she has never even had a real conversation with) would pretty much be five steps backwards in whatever infinitesimally small distance she's come since arriving in New Moore.

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5 - Cleanliness habits (personal, workspace, etc.)

6 - Eating habits and sample daily menu

7 - Favorite way to waste time and feelings surrounding wasting time

15 - Biggest and smallest short term goal? & 16 - Biggest and smallest long term goal?

28 - Who do they see as their best friend? Their worst enemy?

38 - What recharges them when they’re feeling drained?

46 - If they were to fall in love, who (or what) is their ideal?

1 - What does their bedroom look like?

10 - Neuroses? Do they recognize them as such?

17 - Preferred mode of dress and rituals surrounding dress

24 - Is there one subject of study that they excel at? Or do they even care about intellectual pursu

44 - Superstitions or views on the occult?

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35 - What activities do they enjoy, but consider to be a waste of time?

no subject

no subject

49 - Is this person afraid of dying? Why or why not?

27 - What is their biggest regret?

29 - Reaction to sudden extrapersonal disaster (eg The house is on fire! What do they do?)

30 - Reaction to sudden intrapersonal disaster (eg close family member suddenly dies)