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[otakon_geek]

How am I playing Otacon? Am I doing a good job or am I totally screwing up?

Anonymous posting is allowed, IPs are off, and comments are screened. Please don't flame/bash. The more you explain things to me, the better I'll understand - and any help/advice is greatly appreciated.

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[whitescalesbigmouth]

Yeah, agreeing with Hebby on ALOT of things that she's said. I know I covered a bunch of stuff in our private plurk together but there;s some other stuff too that just kinda seems off with Otacon from what I know of the games compared to playing against yours.

* Otacon is super clingy with Saft and to me it comes off as rather creepy, especially considering Saft's background involves the fact that her father used to abuse the shit out of her whether it being mentally (and those months where he had her locked up and beat her half to death) she's rather selective of who she trusts to be that close towards her. Saft looks up to Snake because he's a hero and he's gotten her out of a few scrapes. Saft likes Otacon and stuff but not to the point where she'd ever allow him to come and hug her like he does. At the end of the day, she's still a teenager so older man/young girl shenanigans just comes off as kind of creepy.

*Otacon's characterization sometimes seems kind of off like Hebby mentioned. I've recently been watching the cutscenes from MGS4 and he doesn't seem quite as overactive as you play him if that makes sense?

* One thing I've noticed when we play together is that you make Hal ask questions about EVERYTHING. Or he over explains stuff...It's awkward and sometimes makes things very hard to reply to because in my opinion he just wouldn't. There's been a few times where he's gone off in a long spiel about how he thinks Saft is a "very intelligent beautiful, smart young woman" or something equal to that and I'm like "Uh...okay Otacon, You're trying to make friends with her not woo her off her feet." or anything like that because it just sounds so weird when you read that stuff in a thread.

*I also nessecarily don't want to play smutty/shippy stuff and sometimes other players don't either. It's always a good idea to probably ask the mun where they want to go with a thread otherwise it leads to some awkward interactions and the other player will start to feel uncomfortable. I'd also warn people if there's sudden smut in the middle of no where with a header with smut or a trigger warning for sexual abuse if you happen to do any smutty stuff with Volgin for example. Just so if anyone comes by our threads they'll know that they should probably stop reading from a certain point if that kind of stuff upsets them.

...I hope this makes some sort of sense hun.

[otakon_geek]

Yeah, it does make sense. Thanks for the crit and I welcome any help from either you or Hebby in playing any of my peeps. Once again, I apologise for any offence caused by my actions.

I'll aim to improve Hal and not come across as clingy/creepy in the future. I know that Hal is quite a shy guy underneath and hugging women is something he'd probably shy away from anyway. He's never really had a real girlfriend, so his relationships with women is rather awkward anyhow. I'll aim to improve and make my Hal a more realistic character for our threads. Also, the thing about the smut threads? I apologise and will now warn people if anything ever happens in that nature.

Thanks, guys.