> You hardly have him interact with his own cast. Despite Isaac not being his favorite person, I'd hardly think he'd shy away from everyone including the only people he knows from home.
Up until lately, the only cast that's been in the game and active enough to interact with has been Allison (who I currently have a thread going with). Lydia's player had dropped and came back last month, then took a semi-hiatus during that, so interacting with her hasn't been possible until recently (and I have a thread with her atm), and Isaac's player has also been on a hiatus (I've also had a thread with them recently). Yes, he keeps an eye on Allison, but he also knows there's a thing going with Isaac and her and due to player time constraints, I've just felt it's easier to handwave that they sort of keep an eye on each other instead of being attached at the hip.
>My suggestions are to reincorporate him into his own cast, talking to other people besides Rachel...
As mentioned before, the cast hasn't been entirely accessible, but I am hoping to have him do more when the players of the characters are available. The comment about Rachel is a bit confusing since the character only just returned back to the game and, frankly, she's never been the only character that he's interacted with. He talks to Caroline (who lives with him now) quite a bit, along with Velma. I'm a little unsure as to why Rachel's character is being pointed out other than maybe because the player and I are friends and happen to ship them in another game, which is something we took into consideration regarding other games and no, they will not be an exclusive thing here in the slightest.
Aside from that, he is starting to get out more, which was the whole purpose of me having him get the dog as a boon, to get him to snap out of his funk and have to take care of something other than himself.
As for the rest of it, I will completely agree that I haven't had Stiles be as active or as nosy as he might usually be. From my perspective, and I know that this isn't the way everyone else would look at it, Stiles is in a depressive cycle right now. He's just come back from the end of 3b and while, like you said, he went on with his day and moved forward and helped Malia, that isn't the same situation as he has here. He had a support system back home to get him through the things he did. He had people he could rely on and other people he needed to step up and take care of. On Ophi, his best friend got taken away, Derek's gone, and Isaac, who left in 3b, is canoodling his best friend's ex, who he still feels he had a hand in killing. Season 4 shows us his being able to move on after months because he had his support and family around him. He doesn't have that here, in addition to him not having access to his medication, and while he has people here he likes, he doesn't have anyone he feels he can talk to about what he went through. He's gone into the 'ignore the problem until it goes away' mode, only that's a lot harder for him since this isn't like him failing a test or screwing up on the lacrosse field.
It hasn't been the same sort of recovery time for him and he hasn't dealt with it at all, in addition to him feeling alone here. As I said, this is why I asked for the dog, because Stiles does need to feel like he's doing something for someone and right now, being stuck on a planet far from home and feeling entirely too alone, exploring and doing any sort of expedition isn't on the list of things he's concerned about right now. He doesn't want to explore. But I'm hoping that having to take care of the dog (and yes, eventually care for it), will get him out of that spiral and make him realize that he's here, he can't do anything about being here, so he needs to get more involved in things.
I really do apologize if you feel like I haven't been true to the character and I totally understand that my way of playing him is headcanon based right now and that it won't agree with everyone's views, but I also hope that this explains my thought process behind it and that I do have a reason for doing it and I'm not just having him be a mopey emo teen jerk. I do plan on having him be more active, with both his cast and crosscanon cr, and I also plan on having him partake of an expedition. I just plan on doing it a little bit further down the road.
I'm happy to discuss any more points with you and if you have suggestions on how to get him to acclimate more quickly, I'd welcome them. I appreciate you taking the time to leave this as I really do want to make sure that I'm portraying Stiles accurately and not making anyone feel excluded.
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> You hardly have him interact with his own cast. Despite Isaac not being his favorite person, I'd hardly think he'd shy away from everyone including the only people he knows from home.
Up until lately, the only cast that's been in the game and active enough to interact with has been Allison (who I currently have a thread going with). Lydia's player had dropped and came back last month, then took a semi-hiatus during that, so interacting with her hasn't been possible until recently (and I have a thread with her atm), and Isaac's player has also been on a hiatus (I've also had a thread with them recently). Yes, he keeps an eye on Allison, but he also knows there's a thing going with Isaac and her and due to player time constraints, I've just felt it's easier to handwave that they sort of keep an eye on each other instead of being attached at the hip.
>My suggestions are to reincorporate him into his own cast, talking to other people besides Rachel...
As mentioned before, the cast hasn't been entirely accessible, but I am hoping to have him do more when the players of the characters are available. The comment about Rachel is a bit confusing since the character only just returned back to the game and, frankly, she's never been the only character that he's interacted with. He talks to Caroline (who lives with him now) quite a bit, along with Velma. I'm a little unsure as to why Rachel's character is being pointed out other than maybe because the player and I are friends and happen to ship them in another game, which is something we took into consideration regarding other games and no, they will not be an exclusive thing here in the slightest.
Aside from that, he is starting to get out more, which was the whole purpose of me having him get the dog as a boon, to get him to snap out of his funk and have to take care of something other than himself.
As for the rest of it, I will completely agree that I haven't had Stiles be as active or as nosy as he might usually be. From my perspective, and I know that this isn't the way everyone else would look at it, Stiles is in a depressive cycle right now. He's just come back from the end of 3b and while, like you said, he went on with his day and moved forward and helped Malia, that isn't the same situation as he has here. He had a support system back home to get him through the things he did. He had people he could rely on and other people he needed to step up and take care of. On Ophi, his best friend got taken away, Derek's gone, and Isaac, who left in 3b, is canoodling his best friend's ex, who he still feels he had a hand in killing. Season 4 shows us his being able to move on after months because he had his support and family around him. He doesn't have that here, in addition to him not having access to his medication, and while he has people here he likes, he doesn't have anyone he feels he can talk to about what he went through. He's gone into the 'ignore the problem until it goes away' mode, only that's a lot harder for him since this isn't like him failing a test or screwing up on the lacrosse field.
It hasn't been the same sort of recovery time for him and he hasn't dealt with it at all, in addition to him feeling alone here. As I said, this is why I asked for the dog, because Stiles does need to feel like he's doing something for someone and right now, being stuck on a planet far from home and feeling entirely too alone, exploring and doing any sort of expedition isn't on the list of things he's concerned about right now. He doesn't want to explore. But I'm hoping that having to take care of the dog (and yes, eventually care for it), will get him out of that spiral and make him realize that he's here, he can't do anything about being here, so he needs to get more involved in things.
I really do apologize if you feel like I haven't been true to the character and I totally understand that my way of playing him is headcanon based right now and that it won't agree with everyone's views, but I also hope that this explains my thought process behind it and that I do have a reason for doing it and I'm not just having him be a mopey emo teen jerk. I do plan on having him be more active, with both his cast and crosscanon cr, and I also plan on having him partake of an expedition. I just plan on doing it a little bit further down the road.
I'm happy to discuss any more points with you and if you have suggestions on how to get him to acclimate more quickly, I'd welcome them. I appreciate you taking the time to leave this as I really do want to make sure that I'm portraying Stiles accurately and not making anyone feel excluded.