Matt Murdock [Daredevil] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
blind_devil) wrote2017-03-28 10:19 pm
blind_devil) wrote2017-03-28 10:19 pm
Entry tags:
How is My Driving
How is My Driving
Feel free to tell me how I'm doing you know you want to.
Feel free to tell me how I'm doing you know you want to.
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And sure, size isn't everything, etc... but it's not just size. I've noticed that you usually only write a response to the very last few sentences or so of my tags. Like, Matt will reply to the last thing Luke said, but if he did something right before that, that doesn't get a response. It winds up feeling a bit empty or anticlimactic, like it's missing too much. And then I have to figure out reasons that Luke doesn't feel disappointed/confused that something he did or said went ignored.
For example, in your latest tag Luke was being all sweet and touching his face and all Matt did in response was say "yeah let's go" and start walking. If I were staying really IC Luke would throw up his hands in frustration and say "okay do you like me or not? I'm getting really mixed messages here!" Matt ends up feeling very cold and distant in those moments, when in others it's very obvious he's not.
Your writing and characterization are amazing, I think it's just that you skip the bulk of the tag's content that's the problem. The missing reactions would add so much and make a *world* of difference, really. Even just stating that Matt is still feeling shy and can only smile nervously when Luke touches him, or something like that. Any reaction is a good one, I'd just love to see it written down.
I know we only just started RPing together but know that I only bother HMDing people who I'm really excited to play with because I feel like they're worth the potential shyness/fear that comes with sending critique. Like, I don't think I've done this in well over a year or two. Especially long messages like this where I spend half of it going sdkfjhsdkfjh over the CR lol. >_> Okay I should stop gushing.
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I really want to thank you for your constructive feedback. I'm always nervous as all heck when I put up a HMD because I've been ragged on before and I'm really gun shy. It's the main reason my tags are horribly short. I second guess myself all the time and am terrified I'm just annoying people with my super long, describing tags that go into every ounce of my characters head canon and what he's thinking and feeling. Matt is one of both my oldest and newest muses.
Oldest because he's been in my head FOREVER. He's my favorite and for reasons I won't go into most important Marvel heroes. But it took the Netflix show for me to actually find a version of Matt that I felt I could play much less do so in a game. I think he and Luke are just the best kind of CR and I am more than happy to ramble on in a sensible way if you want more from me. Thank you for making the game so much fun for me. You've helped make me a much better player then I ever thought I could be.
I'm gonna stop rambling now before I start crying cause work and stuff, but thank you, thank you, thank you for your feedback and I really, really enjoy playing with you a lot.
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As for long tags, gurl. GURL. I liiiiive for the teal deer. I guess I can't speak for everyone, but you don't ever have to feel afraid to just let loose in your tags to me. I mean, just look at my
novelstags lmao. Give me all your feels and rambling! I'll just eat it up, for reals.The only ONLY time I ever feel that it's too much is when someone puts way too many "hooks" into one tag, you know? Like, the char asks a million questions without stopping to let the other one answer, or does too many actions without giving the other a chance to make a counter-action. But that's a completely different thing from reactions and inner dialog and exposition and FEELS. (And *cough* this is something that I have a problem with occasionally; I'm working on it. >_>)
I'm just so happy to just talk through stuff like this creatively. The way some people get so judgey and mean about it is nasty and unnecessary. We're here to have fun and write cool stuff together. This isn't a competition, it's a collaboration.
So always feel free to just let loose with me. I swear, I'll love it. And always feel free to let me know if something I wrote isn't working for you. All this stuff we have going on is amazing and listening and working together only makes it more amazing, which is totally the goal here.
Man, now I'm getting teary too lol. You and your char have just brightened up this game for me and lately I can't get your Matt out of my head.
Seriously though, if someone's complaint is that they just want MORE of what you do, I think you're doing it right lol. You're SO welcome!
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That said, it still feels like you’re holding back a bit. Your reactions feel so much more complete and fulfilling, though they seem to stop there. You write reactions to everything I write, but then you don’t go further to add cues for me in turn. You don’t add anything that takes initiative and advances the thread towards its goal.
For example, in our oldest thread, Luke and Matt just walked up to his house and Luke opened the door. Matt responded to him and the conversation is good, but then he doesn’t do anything further. The thread’s goal is to get them banging and exploring their new attachment, so you’d want to add something that heads in that direction. If I don’t do that in my next tag they’d just stand there on his doorstep talking forever lol.
I’d really love to see you taking initiative and adding something of your own to help carry the thread. It’s a little exhausting and disappointing doing it by myself.
Matt also doesn’t seem to ever initiate touching or kissing or anything intimate/affectionate with Luke and he still seems a bit distant because of it. If I ever want something to happen between them I always have to have Luke start it.
Is there a reason you’re still holding stuff back? Is it more of the same fear? I’d like to help any way I can, I’m just not sure what’s going on.
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So one of the things that we see in not only the show but also the comics is that Matt's Catholicism is a huge part of who he is as a character - the weight of violence is always on his mind like when he says that his soul will be damned if he kills Wilson Fisk or just the fact that he takes Catholic guilt to high levels. He brings his guilt to the Church where he has several conversations with a priest both in and out of Confession.
Now his relationship with Karen and Elektra are also bigh parts of his life. Karen is a close friend and a one time love interest and Elektra though polar opposite of Matt, well they're pretty much glued together in canon. Even though she keeps trying to pull out the darker side of him that he tries to repress, he's still drawn to her and obviously loves her and keeps trying to get her to redeem herself. In the show, her death devastated him and into the Defenders, you can see where it's changed his life almost completely to where he's throwing himself into his work and working lots of pro bono cases while he was still grieving over her. How is he handling that loss on the island? I haven't seen much of Matt even attempting to talk to Karen, and was wondering why that was since they are friends in canon.
I was wondering if these were things that you have considered and if so, where are they explored through RP? I admit that I was disappointed to see that it doesn't appear to have been addressed nor does Matt seem to have overly struggled with these issues ICLY. So I suppose I'm wondering just how exactly you've got him to deal with these issues on an island that revolves around sex and forced intimacy?