State of the Pups

[bjornwilde]

Behind a cut to spare my none milliways_bar  friends.

Ben Grimm (The Thing)
Journal: ever_lovin 
Series: Fantastic Four/New Avengers/Marvel Universe
Muse Strength: 5/5 I never have any trouble finding his voice and with him on both the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, I'll have plenty of fodder for EPs.
Cast strength: 2/5 There are other Marvel Universe pups running around but none that are directly tied to Ben. There is She-Hulk but her Mun has a lot going on or something (which obviously I am totally fine with as if I had any say in the matter).
Player preferences: 3 or 4/5 I love Ben and don't think I can ever let him go but no one seems to tag into his EPs. Of course I could tag out to other's EPs to help this issue.

Valeria von Doom (Marvel Girl)
Journal: val_von_doom 
Series: Fantastic Four/Marvel Universe
Muse Strength: 2/5 She's been MIA for some time now. I have a plan as to why but I'm not sure if she's worth bringing back
Cast strength: 2/5 See Ben above
Player preferences: 2 or 3/5 I love Val but I'm worried her time/story is done.

Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman)
Journal: justdyedit 
Series: Avengers/Marvel Universe
Muse Strength: 2/5 She's had a few EPs and I love her as a character...I'm just not sure I have her as a solid head voice.
Cast strength: 2/5 There are other Marvel Universe pups running around but none that are directly tied to Jessica.
Player preferences: 3/5 I love Jessica but I think she's more of a random voice than one that wants me to tell her story.

Santo Vaccarro (Rockslide)
Journal: rocky_adonis 
Series: X-men/Marvel Universe
Muse Strength: 2/5 He's had a few EPs and I love him as a character...I'm just not sure I can stick with his rudeness. Pure and simple, he's an ass. A likable ass but still an ass and I'm not sure about how long I can manage playing someone like that.
Cast strength: 3/5 There are other X-men pups running around with two even on his team and several others on the grown up X-men teams.
Player preferences: 2/5 I love Santo but I think I was ready to let him go until I saw the previews for X-men: To Serve and Protect.

Miyamoto Usagi
Journal: lil_bunny_ronin 
Series: Usagi Yojimbo/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Muse Strength: 2/5 I worry I App'ed him only to have the chance to play a samurai.
Cast strength: 3/5 There are no other characters from Usagi Yojimbo but we have all four of the turtles.
Player preferences: 2/5 I love reading Usagi I'm just not sure if I love playing him. I worry someone else may do a much better job of it.

Thalia, daughter of Zeus
Journal: aigiochos 
Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians/The Heroes of Olympus
Muse Strength: 4 or maybe even 5/5 She is a solid head voice that wants her story told. I love finding the cracks in Rick Riordan's books to fill for her back story.
Cast strength: 2/5 While she has many canon mates, they all seem to have been eaten by real life.
Player preferences: 4/5 I love Thalia and others seem to like tagging her.

Barbie
Journal: thelifeplastic 
Series: the various Barbie movies and the world we glimpse through Mattel's toys.
Muse Strength: 2/5 Barbie is fun when I play her but the drive isn't there much. She's more of a crack character than anything serious.
Cast strength: 1/5 She's all by herself.
Player preferences: 2/5 I like her for the crack potential but as far as writing up back story? No drive.

Jenks
Journal: pixie_runner 
Series: Rachel Morgan/The Hollows
Muse Strength: 3/5 I like Jenks a lot, especially after reading the short story in which he was the main character. I do seem to be fatigued with Ben and Thalia as far as having the energy to tell his story.
Cast strength: 2/5 Both Rachel Morgan and Ivy are at Milliways but real life seems to have eaten their muns.
Player preferences: 2/5 He's fun for a laugh and has potential for more, I just never seem to get there.

And now that that is done, let look at pups I've played with in mixed_muses :
Rincewind
Journal: mis_adventurer 
Series: Discworld
Muse Strength: 3 or 4/5 He's there and very strong. I think it helps that I liked the narrator for the audiobooks.
Cast strength: 4/5 There are several Discworld pups in Milliways so he wouldn't be alone. In fact I can see him meeting Death for the first time in Milliways and yelling, "No outside business!"
Player preferences: 3/5 Rincewind has a lot of appeal in that he is pure comedy and lightheartedness. Of course I thought the same thing about Barbie and Jenks when I app'ed them.
Likelihood of application: 3/5 I suspect I'm worried about the amount of voices I already have going on and the likely hood of him just sitting (as I'm burnt out) like Jenks has been.

Tybault, King of the Cait Sidhe
Journal: shadowandsnark 
Series: October Daye
Muse Strength: 3 or 4/5 I've only played him once and he was loud and very fun. A challenge as he didn't want to give any straight answers which was a nice change compared to my other pups.
Cast strength: 1/5 There is an October Daye in Milliways but she hasn't been in for some time. It is possible the magnificent presence of Tybault would draw her out. There is also Finvarra, the King of the Daoine Sidhe of traditional myths for him to play with.
Player preferences: 3/5 I LOVE him but damn it I already have too many voices! Still he would be a lot of fun and I don't have any good snarkers in my present cast.
Likelihood of application: 3/5 See above. I also can't decide between Alan Cumming and Ian Somerhalder for his icons. I love Alan but I don't know if he could come off a viscous enough...after all Tybault did shred a friggin' Redcap.

Roy Batty
Journal: seenthings 
Series: Bladerunner
Muse Strength: 3/5 I love Roy but haven't played him in ages.
Cast strength: 1/5 I think Decker is in Milliways or was at one time. I've never seen a post though.
Player preferences: 3/5 Roy would be fun as I would put him post canon so exploring new emotions and finding a life would be the main themes.
Likelihood of application: 3/5 Too many head voices....I stop now.