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Feb. 13th, 2024 04:53 pmI'm having the cranky sort of bored when you have all the things but whichever things you start on turn out to be Not The Thing.
Not even Doctor Who.
Or not that Doctor Who.
I'd like to listen to Torchwood but I'm waiting on the next new Torchwood.
Also I know I will get more Ianto (yaay) but I think I want the Ianto that has been in my head since playing Wrath of the Righteous, and the only one who knows that Ianto is me.
Which is why writers do the thing, but, nobody wants a write up of a playthrough of a video game where you just so happened to name the player character after a blorbo, and, nobody who wants to hear about Ianto is going to find his exploits after the worldwound particularly comprehensible anyway, because too much context is from the game.
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Canon Ianto has one set of problems that got cut off short. The End. Those are the only problems he ever has.
Legend!Ianto in my head has to deal with being one of the most skilled and knowledgeable humans to have ever lived, just about being able to back up 'I know everything', but because of that knowing how much worse things can get.
... and, also, having just as much of a mess of a love life as anyone else. Possibly more, because he has the old layers of feeling he's not important enough and the new layers of everyone else thinking he's so super important that's the only thing they see about him, plus a general feeling that with his Persuasion skills he could do all the deciding and *does not want* to.
That's just a different guy even if I played all the in between steps.
A lot of my characters get like this. Too many steps from canon to be in character but not enough to be original. It's from hanging out with them in my head for like decades. Like when you hug the toys too much.
Ah well.
I should go find something to read or some such.
Not even Doctor Who.
Or not that Doctor Who.
I'd like to listen to Torchwood but I'm waiting on the next new Torchwood.
Also I know I will get more Ianto (yaay) but I think I want the Ianto that has been in my head since playing Wrath of the Righteous, and the only one who knows that Ianto is me.
Which is why writers do the thing, but, nobody wants a write up of a playthrough of a video game where you just so happened to name the player character after a blorbo, and, nobody who wants to hear about Ianto is going to find his exploits after the worldwound particularly comprehensible anyway, because too much context is from the game.
( Read more... )
Canon Ianto has one set of problems that got cut off short. The End. Those are the only problems he ever has.
Legend!Ianto in my head has to deal with being one of the most skilled and knowledgeable humans to have ever lived, just about being able to back up 'I know everything', but because of that knowing how much worse things can get.
... and, also, having just as much of a mess of a love life as anyone else. Possibly more, because he has the old layers of feeling he's not important enough and the new layers of everyone else thinking he's so super important that's the only thing they see about him, plus a general feeling that with his Persuasion skills he could do all the deciding and *does not want* to.
That's just a different guy even if I played all the in between steps.
A lot of my characters get like this. Too many steps from canon to be in character but not enough to be original. It's from hanging out with them in my head for like decades. Like when you hug the toys too much.
Ah well.
I should go find something to read or some such.