One of the biggest things for me is experimenting in taking this character who's been written and reinterpreted by dozens of different authors, return her to her base personality, and see how experience and memory regains have her character grow in a different way. Depending on who's writing her, she handles differently -- if Kevin J. Anderson is writing her, she's a tomboy engineer who's kind of pushy but everyone goes with it because she's the one stepping up to offer a course of action; if Elaine Cunningham is writing, Jaina's got identity issues trying to decide if she should be a scoundrel like her dad or a socialite like her mom but either way she's so passionate about engineering that we get urple prose about how Jaina's driven to handle each and every part in her starfighter...to other characterizations where authors drop her interest in engineering altogether and play up her drive to put herself in danger's path so others don't have to take it. And so on.
This remains a viable thing to explore. The other one was...
Twins Jaina and Jacen become genuine characters in the Young Jedi Knight series -- before they were just kids to have cute little shenanigans like get babysitting Chewbacca and Threepio lost in a worldcity trying to find their actively hiding charges -- and in YJK Jaina was a very friendly, forgiving, team-oriented person. As an adult, she hardens, isolates herself and thinks she has to stand and fight alone for the greater good. I was looking forward to the opportunity for Jaina to bond with a team and see if she'd find a balance between her team and friendship early characterization with the strength and drive of her adult characterization (and even started her out with a Team Pride memory toward that purpose).
...Whoops. XD
(When I apped, we also had Jacen and I was also interested in seeing how they would handle that eventually they become enemies and do their best to kill each other. That's kind of part of both of the above, though.)
Anything you might like our characters to do in the future? |D
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This remains a viable thing to explore. The other one was...
Twins Jaina and Jacen become genuine characters in the Young Jedi Knight series -- before they were just kids to have cute little shenanigans like get babysitting Chewbacca and Threepio lost in a worldcity trying to find their actively hiding charges -- and in YJK Jaina was a very friendly, forgiving, team-oriented person. As an adult, she hardens, isolates herself and thinks she has to stand and fight alone for the greater good. I was looking forward to the opportunity for Jaina to bond with a team and see if she'd find a balance between her team and friendship early characterization with the strength and drive of her adult characterization (and even started her out with a Team Pride memory toward that purpose).
...Whoops. XD
(When I apped, we also had Jacen and I was also interested in seeing how they would handle that eventually they become enemies and do their best to kill each other. That's kind of part of both of the above, though.)
Anything you might like our characters to do in the future? |D