The Public vs. Joseph Label

[Donald Duck]

Greetings, programs!

Okay, here it is! Here is my "How am I Role-Playing?" thread.

Keep in mind, I am not fishing for compliments or intend to inflate my ego. I'm seriously asking the question, how am I doing? Now, I have way too many characters to expect you to look up and answer, so I'll make it easier. lol.

I'm particularly worried about how I'm doing with my 'mains,' and they are Donald, Alice, Merlin, Aurora/Briar Rose, and Maleficent. Of course, you can critique any of my characters, or just how I'm doing in general. Am I doing swell, or are there areas I could improve? Please let me know, and be honest!

--Joe

[Frenchie and K. Sera]

This isn’t as detailed as your critique was, but here goes: I think you do a good job playing your guys. Maybe this is just me, but I think it takes a lot of guts to take up major characters like you do. And you do it so well.

I haven’t seen Alice In Wonderland in ages, but based on the snippets I’ve seen of it here and there, you are Alice. The lovely and innocent Briar Rose/Aurora is spot-on. True, she was asleep for about half of the movie, but you take what the audience was shown and build on it believably. Your Donald is really awesome: sometimes I think his character can be a little one-dimensional in Disney canon, but you show other facets to him aside from the hot-tempered duck who’s jealous of Mickey: we also see the caring uncle, and the hero who’s willing to charge into danger for the sake of his friends. I particularly like his friendship with Cinderella. Your take on Merlin is also commendable. I enjoy reading threads where he's teaching his young pupils, and ones featuring him and Archimedes. Their banter is like something straight from the film! As for the Mistress of Darkness herself, you give her that terrific mixture of elegance combined with a quiet but tangible menace and cunning that makes her such an effective villain.

I’d be eager to see what you do with your other characters, like the Beast. I need to go read your Ratigan posts…

[Donald Duck]

Aw, thanks a lot, Nicole. I'm happy you like my take on Alice and Aurora, and I'm really happy you're receptive of how I handle Donald. You see, I actually play Donald as a combination of how he appeared on the animated shorts, and how he is in the comics. He does have differences in both, and I find that playing him as a mixture is the easiest way for me to play him. I was fearful that it wasn't a success, but if you like it then I'm more at ease! ^^;

But for my role-playing in general, it just wouldn't be possible for the awesome people I role-play with. So thank you, everybody, for helping me along the way, and even today!

As for Beast, eh, you're not missing anything. lol. I just made him not long ago, and I still have to re-watch Beauty and the Beast. So he's kinda dormant until then, but I'll try and get it down! And for Ratigan, well, let's just say Amanda and Moony cooked up a really awesome story arc for him, and I'll get around to starting it soon. >=)