Well, here I go! *takes a deep breath* Going to address Calico, since my players haven't really conversed with Eponine.
While I do fairly enjoy the conversations that Calico has had with Jack, and we do get to see the contentious, complicated relationship they have, I am a little confused about some stuff regarding how you play her, as opposed to how you originally portrayed her. I hope you don't mind me saying, and given she's an OC, might seem strange, but I think it does need to be said: I don't think you're playing Calico ICly. At all.
Let me explain. According to what her application says (and before anyone outside of Lili asks why I even bothered to read Calico's app at all! It is because I used Cal's application as necessary reading for Jack and as a means to build his own history, as he is also a District 8 Mentor), she's generally level-headed, bubbly personality, and while she's a pistol, she knows better. She's savvy enough to know what she needs to do to keep under the radar for the most part, and able to conceal her true feelings about the Capitol relatively well, particularly after her first run in with the Peacekeepers. While she does have rebellious tendencies, she was supposed to have learned her lesson on why its a bad thing to refuse things like Sponsors.
But that's not how you've been playing her. You've been playing her almost the exact opposite, even before Eva's betrayal of Ariadne - she disparages Sponsors, tells people not to support certain Tributes in her own District, gets drunk and sloppy, and does crazy things for people she barely knew, even openly showing rebellious tendencies and breaking off long-standing relationships while letting her feelings get the better of her. Granted, I can understand Cal being angry at Eva and severing the relationship, but the way she went about it makes no sense in light of what you claim her personality to be. She may be blunt, yes, but she's also supposed to be savvy enough, even in the heat of the moment, to know that calling someone a traitor and insinuating that she told that character secrets that could get her in trouble? Is a bad thing to do.
It just feels like Calico is supposed to be one thing, but you play her the opposite a lot of the time, and I'm not sure why this is. If its for the sake of plot, that's fine, but for me, the plot that you've got Calico in right now, with her being in the custody of the Capitol, makes no sense in light of what you've said and what we're supposed to know about her, ICly and OoCly.
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While I do fairly enjoy the conversations that Calico has had with Jack, and we do get to see the contentious, complicated relationship they have, I am a little confused about some stuff regarding how you play her, as opposed to how you originally portrayed her. I hope you don't mind me saying, and given she's an OC, might seem strange, but I think it does need to be said: I don't think you're playing Calico ICly. At all.
Let me explain. According to what her application says (and before anyone outside of Lili asks why I even bothered to read Calico's app at all! It is because I used Cal's application as necessary reading for Jack and as a means to build his own history, as he is also a District 8 Mentor), she's generally level-headed, bubbly personality, and while she's a pistol, she knows better. She's savvy enough to know what she needs to do to keep under the radar for the most part, and able to conceal her true feelings about the Capitol relatively well, particularly after her first run in with the Peacekeepers. While she does have rebellious tendencies, she was supposed to have learned her lesson on why its a bad thing to refuse things like Sponsors.
But that's not how you've been playing her. You've been playing her almost the exact opposite, even before Eva's betrayal of Ariadne - she disparages Sponsors, tells people not to support certain Tributes in her own District, gets drunk and sloppy, and does crazy things for people she barely knew, even openly showing rebellious tendencies and breaking off long-standing relationships while letting her feelings get the better of her. Granted, I can understand Cal being angry at Eva and severing the relationship, but the way she went about it makes no sense in light of what you claim her personality to be. She may be blunt, yes, but she's also supposed to be savvy enough, even in the heat of the moment, to know that calling someone a traitor and insinuating that she told that character secrets that could get her in trouble? Is a bad thing to do.
It just feels like Calico is supposed to be one thing, but you play her the opposite a lot of the time, and I'm not sure why this is. If its for the sake of plot, that's fine, but for me, the plot that you've got Calico in right now, with her being in the custody of the Capitol, makes no sense in light of what you've said and what we're supposed to know about her, ICly and OoCly.