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Friends, Enemies, Ex-Lovers, Others?
Topic Started: Dec 4 2011, 09:51 PM (183 Views)
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roly-poly wher attack!
Now that, against my expectations (I was hoping, at best, for second place and a gold flit or third place and 10 marks toward my saving up toward buying the right to make M'taine) I have won the bronze/copperrider contest with M'taine, Agalloth, and Eyetooth, it behooves me to flesh out his social life at Vaioa a lot. After all he Impressed here, albeit decades ago, and he's been here ever since. He's never been a Wingleader or even a Wingsecond, but he still tries to set a good example in public at least for other dragonpairs in whatever wing he's currently assigned to, and while even his best friends would, as his profile notes, describe him as a 'jerk with a heart of gold', he does actually have friends. But I never defined exactly who those are except for one ex-friend to whom he is no longer speaking and who may no longer even be at the Weyr. (He's a copperrider too so anyone who wanted to adopt him as an NPC would have to pay the marks to do it... but if someone really wants to, they're welcome to! PM me if so and I'll tell you what little I've defined about M'taine's ex-friend. It'd be interesting to RP out either a process that leads to permanent reconciliation, or else an ongoing process of attempts at forgiveness on M'taine's part followed by disaster and repeated long silences where neither speaks to the other.)

Other than the NPC copper pair noted above, M'taine has played out the cycle described with other people, both friends and weyrmates. And of course he has several ex-lovers, several of whom are female green or gray riders, but not all of them.

He was also moderately-severely involved in drug use for a long time, poppy milk being his drug of choice but fellis being his backup when the former wasn't available. I say moderately-severe because it never got to the point where he was showing up to the wing either too high or too far in withdrawal to function all the time. He kept his little issue very private and while he was physically dependent on poppy milk for several Turns, he was very careful not to allow his problem to impact his functioning as a dragonrider as much as he could. He wasn't the type of addict that falls apart all over the place, but the type that is very secretive and sneaky, seeming fine and all together on the surface but doing very self-destructive things in private.

These days he does still use occasionally, but he was helped to taper off his dependency Turns ago and no longer keeps a private stash in his weyr. He can't quite keep away, but he's too terrified to use too often because he tried to quit a -lot- before he finally found a way that worked and he is afraid that if he gets a habit again he'll never ever be able to escape and he'll spend the rest of his life addicted. Yet he still keeps going back at times. He's started drinking more as a substitute and to quiet the urges to use, but that's not really an improvement.

So he has current and ex-drug buddies, suppliers of poppy milk and fellis, and people who have suspected him but never been able to prove it about the Weyr as well.

Finally, since he -is- a jerk, there are definitely people who dislike him out there. Basically M'taine is one of those people you either love, hate, or don't feel much about at all. There are any number of reasons one might dislike him -- he may have gotten into a fight with that person in the past, they may have known him from when he was younger and an even bigger jerk, they may be one of the people who suspect his drug use... there's all kinds of possibilities.

Basically I want to flesh out his social connections, positive, neutral, and negative. Anyone interested in having an existing character have some sort of connection to him, or who wants to make a new character to have one of these connections to him I guess, please reply here or PM me so we can plooot! :D Thank you!
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Even if he'd Impressed decades ago, I'on would have watched over him as he stumbled his way through Weyrlinghood. I'on could or could not be sort of a mentor to him, especially if he's the type to go to someone he really trusts with his life's problems... whether on drugs or not. I'on's also the kind of guy who doesn't give a flying hoot whether or not he's a jerk. I'on's seen 'em all, unfortunately, as there are very many different types of Weyrlings out there.

C'amryn would, unfortunately, dislike the man because what he does certainly sets off warning bells in the kinder man's eyes. Cam never liked druggies, and he certainly can't take jerks. So something with them might be fun. 8D

Andy... is strange with this one (or so she's telling me). She might look up to him because she sees he's an awesome leader. Or she might frown upon him because of the drugs. She hasn't really asserted herself yet in the leadership way, but she will, soon... and she'll be looking at the bronze and copper-rider's personalities when that time comes.

Leah. No. Just... no. She won't like him at all.

Baer will flirt with him. She flirts with everyone~ She is my romantic flirter... with a baby. So... if you want that, take her! ((She is, however, stricken with love for X'hic))
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Actually I like the idea of M'taine having an older man as a sort of on-and-off mentor. Certainly he wouldn't consult I'on a whole lot as an adult in his early fifties, but he'll always have time for the older man who was once his Weyrlingmaster/AWM (I'm assuming?) And if he's feeling particularly lost, confused, or unsure of what to do he'd definitely go to I'on for advice. I like the idea of their having this kind of established dynamic if you want to go with that. ^^

How C'amryn and M'taine would get along is very difficult to predict I think. On the one hand, yes, he is often very blunt, rude, and tactless, and he -is- still an occasional drug user, with a history of outright addiction in the past. But on the other hand, M'taine was very much the ultra-secretive, keep-it-together-in-public-then-go-get-high-in-private type of junkie, not the falling-apart-all-over-the-place type, and even though he's very bad at expressing it and he has a lot of weird attitudes and sometimes old-fashioned opinions (albeit not nearly as much as some) his heart is -usually- in the right place. (Not always, LOL, but usually.) So it depends on how much C'amryn sees through M'taine's two masks: the one he puts up to hide his drug use (albeit this one isn't so relevant these days but C'amryn will remember it from the past if he did indeed see through it to any degree) and the one of jerkiness which disguises M'taine's (usually) good intentions.

It's totally up to you how much if at all C'amryn is fooled by these two masks. The first one is consciously put up by M'taine, the second one is unconscious. He could well be one of the people who strongly suspected he was using drugs in the past but could never prove it and now since M'taine isn't really using anymore he might be beginning to question his own suspicions and so not be quite sure how to act around M'taine; on the one hand he dislikes his frequent jerky behavior and suspects him, but on the other the lack of proof over the Turns and his current reduction in suspicious behavior, plus the things he sometimes does which prove he isn't completely a jerk may make C'amryn less sure than he may have been in the past.

I dunno, just throwing out ideas. It's up to you in the end where to go with it. :P

Just out of curiosity why would Leah dislike him so much? XD The tactlessness or the past and to a lesser degree present drug use? (Don't forget that it isn't exactly common knowledge tho' and especially these days it's very hard to tell since it's so infrequent.)

It'd be interesting to see him and Andy interact. And ooh, the thing about Baer is intriguing. Now that he's a PC and T'vor and Indith are gone, M'taine -does- need another ill-fated romance to get entangled in... XD If you want to volunteer her for the purpose, that'd probably work, though I'd rather let them interact and see what happens than plan it out per se. If it does develop from them interacting naturally though it could be very interesting to see where that goes. Again, though, up to you! ^^
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Just the way M'taine comes off to me makes Leah shriek no in my head. It can't be helped; I'm sure if they were to meet, she'd be satiated, but because they're in two entirely different stratospheres--Leah is a wherhandler and M'taine a bronzerider--they would probably only just pass by, not really ever meet at all.

Yes, my thoughts exactly on I'on and M'taine. 8D

Cam and M'taine would be interesting, I agree. Because Cam and M'taine have known each other (fleetingly?), Cam would know about M'taine's past. The man would judge that way, but it would be Vera, in the end, to declare that M'taine should not be judged on his past. >D That might be interesting to rp out, especially rping out Cam realizing that M'taine ISN'T so different, but that he has two faces.

Baer would definitely flirt with him, but she'd be pretty much set on staying with X'hic because it's a constant for Chryssenth. However, she could also be putting on a front so that it would make M'taine think she liked him (she's good at that)....

But yes, rp would be wonderful. 8D
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I'd love for him and T'ech to interact at some point!

T'ech is very insecure about his status as a bronzerider and a Wingleader and some interaction with an older, more experienced bronzerider that's either negative or positive could be very interesting. An unpleasant encounter could add to his insecurities (and you know it's fun to torture characters) and a positive one could develop into a strange sort of friendship/acquaintanceship that would be very good for his self-esteem and maybe make him feel less awkward around other bronzeriders.

Either is fine with me!

Perhaps they could chat at the feeding grounds while their dragons snack, over Klah in the morning (T'ech is not a morning person at all, lol), or maybe they could even have Mine Guard or Watchdragon Duty together!
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