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terajkSo on the one hand Blair is really fun to write, because KITTY! and also, she's like a satellite of fun. (If it's not fun, Blair doesn't do it. Or maybe it's more like she can have fun doing ANYTHING.) On the other hand, she's also really HARD for me to write because there's not a whole lot of information about her and fanservice is a huge chunk of her job.
Of course, because I am a genius (and also because my "animal play" square is in my "characters with disabilities" line, but that's really just an excuse), I'm like: "Let's put her with Kid and see what happens, even though they've been in the same place exactly two and a half times and I don't think they've ever spoken!"
And, TBH, many fun, interesting things happen when I put Blair and Kid together! But it all goes to hell when they try to talk. In, you know, human speech.
In my defense, I'm not sure how good a conversationalist Blair actually is. Like, she keeps bringing up Spirit's ex-wife for no real reason. And while she gets away with it more than anyone else would, her co-workers were like: "Blair, don't depress the customers!" Also, she's very helpful, but her brand of help is...awkward. Like the time when Spirit gave her some money to buy a book for his daughter (who's already angry with him for being a womanizing jerk) and she bought herself some sexy underwear instead. And then Blair was like: "Oh, no! I messed up! HEY WAIT I CAN FIX IT!" and used her magic to shrink the sexy underwear so it would fit Maka. While still making it look like it was a gift from her gross, womanizing father. (It's not that Blair is stupid; she's just a cat. Cf. asking Maka "Are exams fun?" as cats don't go to school.)
Maybe part of the problem is that I've overestimated how awesome Blair's (humanish) social skills are, especially when the distracting-you-with-my-sexydoesn't really work isn't that fun. Local Blair is less awkward all around when she is allowed to be a cat, rather than a cat-who-has-to-act-human. For instance, while she is an awkward-at-best barroom therapist (where she tries to think like humans think and use human words), she's a pretty good service cat (where she senses a physiological change and responds without needing all the layers of not-cat-thinking).
You know what? I think wanting to let Blair be a cat (with opposable thumbs now and then) is a big part of my problem. Because I'm like: "But Blair is a sexy catgirl! Letting her be a cat BREAKS HER FOREVER!" and I worry about playing up her cat-ness too much in general. Perhaps I should get over this.
Then I realized I'm dealing with a basically benevolent bakeneko and a basically benevolent eldritch abomination, and then I was all: "What if I pipe *that* through?" because I think really slowly about tiny, pointless things sometimes. Having them refer to it directly is out, not least of all because Blair tried to make a joke about eating some dude in the literal sense and Kid broke it. Just so you know the problem is not all Blair's fault. Although TBH I'm not sure I'd respond to: "Hey! See that guy? He came into ChupaCabras and offered me, like, a hundred bucks to go home with him" with "Well, did you?" either. (Rethink your setup there, Blair).
Of course, because I am a genius (and also because my "animal play" square is in my "characters with disabilities" line, but that's really just an excuse), I'm like: "Let's put her with Kid and see what happens, even though they've been in the same place exactly two and a half times and I don't think they've ever spoken!"
And, TBH, many fun, interesting things happen when I put Blair and Kid together! But it all goes to hell when they try to talk. In, you know, human speech.
In my defense, I'm not sure how good a conversationalist Blair actually is. Like, she keeps bringing up Spirit's ex-wife for no real reason. And while she gets away with it more than anyone else would, her co-workers were like: "Blair, don't depress the customers!" Also, she's very helpful, but her brand of help is...awkward. Like the time when Spirit gave her some money to buy a book for his daughter (who's already angry with him for being a womanizing jerk) and she bought herself some sexy underwear instead. And then Blair was like: "Oh, no! I messed up! HEY WAIT I CAN FIX IT!" and used her magic to shrink the sexy underwear so it would fit Maka. While still making it look like it was a gift from her gross, womanizing father. (It's not that Blair is stupid; she's just a cat. Cf. asking Maka "Are exams fun?" as cats don't go to school.)
Maybe part of the problem is that I've overestimated how awesome Blair's (humanish) social skills are, especially when the distracting-you-with-my-sexy
You know what? I think wanting to let Blair be a cat (with opposable thumbs now and then) is a big part of my problem. Because I'm like: "But Blair is a sexy catgirl! Letting her be a cat BREAKS HER FOREVER!" and I worry about playing up her cat-ness too much in general. Perhaps I should get over this.
Then I realized I'm dealing with a basically benevolent bakeneko and a basically benevolent eldritch abomination, and then I was all: "What if I pipe *that* through?" because I think really slowly about tiny, pointless things sometimes. Having them refer to it directly is out, not least of all because Blair tried to make a joke about eating some dude in the literal sense and Kid broke it. Just so you know the problem is not all Blair's fault. Although TBH I'm not sure I'd respond to: "Hey! See that guy? He came into ChupaCabras and offered me, like, a hundred bucks to go home with him" with "Well, did you?" either. (Rethink your setup there, Blair).
