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. . . on Deviantart.com and posted for the amusement of anyone who knows what I'm talking about. Mostly just mine and Hunter's characters but I also included Ichidou . . . without permission :is shot:

First, select your ten fictional characters (from any medium) by whichever method you like best. Then answer the questions below.

1. F’ris
2. Favian
3. Vianna
4. Rita
5. R’lie
6. Cyril
7. Ar’den
8. Kirene
9. Aleda
10. Ichidou???
1. Divide the list up by even and odd. Which group of five would make a better Five Man Band (like a Power Rangers team)? Who would you slot in each position: Leader, Lancer (second-in-command), Big Guy, Smart Guy, The Chick? If you think the team would be improved by swapping one character between the even and odd groups, which ones would you switch?
Group 1: F’ris, Vianna, R’lie, Ar’den, and Aleda.
Leader: F’ris. He’s the type of person who would want to protect those close to him. He’s serious when he needs to be, honorable, and wouldn’t leave anyone behind.
Lance: Ar’den. He’s level headed and short of monotone. He’s not really caring enough to be the leader, thus why he’s here.
Big Guy: R’lie. Physically he’s a whimp but I imagine him going around busting peoples jaws if he had too. He’s more physical than the others.
Smart Guy: Vianna. She has to be the smart one. All the others are seriously lacking something in their brains, and Aleda’s too small to actually be smart.
Chick: Aleda . . . she’s a little girl . . . that’s all I have to say.

Group 2: Favian, Rita, Cyril, Kirene, Ichidou
Leader: Ichidou. In my guild she’s the leader of everyone. She’s pretty level headed (I think), and as long as she doesn’t get stressed out she can handle almost anything.
Lancer: I’m sticking Favian in here. :shameless: He’s like his dad (F’ris). The major difference is that Favian really wants to lead. He wants to be respected and show people what sort of strength and courage he has. His fault is that he’s young, inexperience, and wants too much?
Big Guy: Cyril is sort of the combination of the smart guy and the big guy, and he’s not physically huge. He just knows things and tries to use it to make confrontations with people. He likes getting into fights because he thinks it’s funny.
The Smart Guy: Rita, I suppose. She’s not that girly but she’s certainly whimpy and lets her emotions take control of her. With her brother at least she would be the voice of reason. Like, if R’lie wanted to go swimming, she would be the one reminding him it’s 40 below zero as he dives into the lake. Yup, Rita is the smart one in her family.
The Chick: Kirene. Kirene is the chick, even though she is technically a he.

Gender-swap 2, 8 & 10. Which character would have the most change in their story arc? Which the least? Would any of these characters have to have a complete personality change to be believable as the opposite sex?

Favian, Kirene, and Ichidou.

Okay, first I want to talk about Kirene. Kirene. . . oh my gosh s/he makes me laugh. Okay, so for the record; Kirene is a boy. He was born male but cross dresses and prefers being referred to as a girl. So this whole gender bending thing can go a lot of different ways.
1. Kirene actually turns into a girl – She would be so happy. She could actually have children! She would finally admit that she likes kids and would get over herself. She wouldn’t have to have a character change, she’d be the same.
2. Kirene turns into a female cross dresser - Kirene would have to have a complete personality change. She acts really girly as it is. She would just act more masculine, like punching people in the spleens and acting more violent and suchness. She’d still be depressed though, haha.
3. Kirene just acts like a boy – I actually see Kirene as being a rather gentle boy who likes hanging out in the sun and laughing. This might be easier for him if he was just gay, rather than trying to live as a heterosexual woman. It wouldn’t be nearly as stressful for him, I think.

For Favian . . . Favian would not make a good girl. Well, instead of wanting to impress a bronze dragon like his father I suppose he’d want to be a goldrider then. . . he’d be a girl so it’d be cannon. I think he’d be a tomboy, and he’d like exploring and such suchness.

And Ichidou as a boy . . . oh geeze. I think the best thing that could come of that would be that no one could be pissed because she’s Weryleader, because she’d be a man. Otherwise I’m not sure if her personality would be different. I image she’d be much the same.
4. Compare the matchups of 1 & 8 and 5 & 9. (Ignore canon sexual preferences for the moment.) Which couple would be more compatible? Which couple would be more plausible to people from either principal's home culture?
F’ris & Kirene and R’lie & Aleda
Oh sweet mother of –
Okay, well I think that actually R’lie and Aleda would be more compatible if they were similar ages. (Aleda is 7 and R’lie is like, 20 something). I feel like there would be too much drama with F’ris and Kirene. Kirene is so demanding and not like Vianna that F’ris would just get irritated at her all the time.
In short, R’lie and Aleda’s personalities are just closer to each other.

4. Your team is 3, 4 & 9. The mission consists of a social challenge, a mental challenge and a physical challenge. Which team member do you assign to each challenge?
Vianna, Rita, and Aleda.

Rita would do best with the mental challenge, as she’s such a huge whimp.
Vianna would do best with the social challenge. She’s gentle and very open and warm to people, so I feel she’d do well.
And Aleda would do physical because she’s a kid. They have limitless amounts of energy.

5. 7 becomes 1's boss for a week in some plausible fashion. How's their working relationship?
Ar’den would be F’ris’ boss for a week.
I think F’ris would be irritated with Ar’den. Ar’den is a very cool person and doesn’t actually talk much, though he sometimes will say totally random things. F’ris doesn’t really like taking orders from anyone anyway. They could be friends, but not in a working relationship.

6. 2 finds him/her/itself inserted into 6's continuity. As far as anyone other than 2 or 6 is concerned, they've always been there. What role would 2 be presumed to have had in 6's story, and could they fit in without going wonky?
Favian finds himself inserted into Cyril’s continuity . . . they are both from the same time line. If they were the same age it might be a little funny, but things don’t really change much in DRoP, so they’d probably be fine with it.

7. 3 and 5 get three wishes. The catch is that they have to agree on all three wishes before they get the benefits of any of them. What three wishes would they make?
Vianna and R’lie. They have to agree on wishes. I don’t know what they’d wish for actually. Vianna is rather pleased with her life so she would probably just agree with whatever R’lie wanted.
They both wish for prosperity on Pern probably
That none of their family members die violent, painful deaths
aaannddd I can’t think of a third thing.

8. 1 and 2 are brainwashed by a one-time artifact that works even on people immune to mind control to attack and kill 4. They keep their normal personality, skills and competence level, except any Code vs. Killing has been turned off. Can 4 survive? How?
F’ris and Favian are brainwashed into attacking and killing Rita. Can Rita survive? No, no she can’t. There is nowhere she can hide that they wouldn’t find her. She’s dead, that’s all there is to it.

9. 6, 7, 9 & 10 must help an orphanage full of small and depressed children have a merry Christmas. Who does what, knowing that at the very least the kids will be expecting a visit from Santa?
Cyril, Ar’den, Aleda, and Ichidou must help children. I think Ar’den would be the best Santa and then Cyril, Aleda, and Ichidou could be his merry band of elves. Cyril would sing happy songs, Aleda would just be happy and play with the kids (since she’s one herself) and Ichidou would be hanging out gifts since everyone else is too lazy to do anything.

10. 3 and 8 are challenged to circumnavigate the Earth in eighty days or less, using only forms of transportation invented before 1900. Can they do it, or will they be fatally distracted by sidequests or their own personality conflicts?
Vianna and Kirene would not make it around the world in 80 days. They’d just have fun going around the world and buying clothes and having girl time. They’d probably get along. Vianna gets along with practically everyone.

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