Silas Myles Pearson wrote:*pokes Zanja's spikes*
Wohahaha.
Anything about Zanja surprise you.
What would silas of had to do to get slapped really hard?
Zanja talks tuff but actual violence is very much a last resort for her. That's one thing that surprised me a bit, actually--it emerged as one of the odder overlaps between her tiny street kid past and her Jedi present. If Silas pushed past a clear 'no' and kept getting in her personal space in some unwelcome way, then maybe, but that seems unlikely? Or if one or the other of them was in a moment to crisis/high emotion. She probably would hit someone in a "snap out of it" context, too. Hmm.
Zanja was intended to be a "problem child" Jedi, because I was coming off of Tethys, who pretty much had her feet under her. The Artful Dodgerness:Angstiness ratio came out slightly differently than I expected, though. She had more fun at the concert on Coruscant than I would have anticipated, for example!
Zizzy Roosh wrote:I really liked our early threads with the Red Hawkbats etc
. I think Zanja being so wonderfully blunt and snarky may have made me go for a sassier Zizzy than I originally imagined.
What did you think of Shien? Any standout moments for you, for Zanja and any other characters?
Red Hawkbats for lyfe!
I didn't get far in Shien at all--as far as the main stat-swap talent, and that was it. I went into it because I didn't want Zanja to suck at lightsaber combat but high Brawn didn't really fit the character and the other things I wanted her to be good at; pretty much all the rest of the XP went into Force powers and so on. So the tree looks fun, and in a hypothetical future I'd pick up a bit more of it, but likely branch quickly into Investigator or Sentry and go deeper there. Utility rogue, basically.
There were a lot of moments I really enjoyed, some plotty and some not--babysitting and the subsequent rescue mission, unexpectedly spatting with Mir in pregame, climbing with Ares, the concert with Silas, the tattoo stuff, the visions... I could go on! I feel like I was far from the most active player, but thinking back, there were almost no scenes that felt like filler; something was always happening or I was always learning something new about the character. I do regret missing beach day and the Sith soiree, though.
With respect to other characters, I could probably name something for almost everyone, but Zizzy playing a seductive barfly on Coruscant and Eir/Taime's sibling dynamic stand out off the top of my head. Oh, and Mir's increasingly elaborate kitten pantheon!
