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First, select your ten fictional characters (from any medium) by whichever method you like best. Then answer the questions below.

I chose characters from Baccano.

1. Firo
2. Luck
3. Maisa
4. Ennis
5. Miria
6. Issac
7. Claire
8. Chane
9. Nice
10. Jacuzzi

1.) Divide the list up by even and odd. Which group of five would make a better Five Man Band?
Who would you slot in each position: Leader, Lancer (second-in-command), Big Guy, Smart Guy, The Chick?
If you think the team would be improved by swapping one character between the even and odd groups, which ones would you switch?

Group 1(even): Luck, Ennis, Issac, Chane, Jacuzzi
Leader: Luck. He’s calm and mature and would be able to keep all the others focused.
Lancer: uhhhh Ennis I think. She’s the only other one who can really handle the pressure and is mature enough.
Big Guy: Issac? Well he can be the big guy cos of lack of anyone else.
Smart Guy: Jacuzzi. Should really be Luck but he’s already the leader.
The Chick: .....Chane? I’m going to die for that, I can tell.

Group 2 (odd): Firo, Maisa, Miria, Claire, Nice
Leader: Maisa. He’s calm and wise (hello, 300 years old!)
Lancer: Firo I think. He would work well with Maisa.
Big Guy: Claire. He isn’t big physically but he does like killing people, does that count?
Smart Guy: Nice. She’s pretty smart and she is definitely not the chick.
The chick: Miria. Oh definitely her.
Which team would be better? I think their pretty even in the end.
If you swapped either Issac or Miria for any of the others that team would be awesome...but then the other team would have a serious disadvantage.
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2.) Gender-swap characters 2, 8 & 10.
Which character would have the most change in their story arc?
Which the least?
Would any of these characters have to have a complete personality change to be believable as the opposite sex?
Luck (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA), Chane, Jacuzzi.
The most changed story arc? Umm probably all of them?
Having a hard time just imagining Luck as a girl. It’s just wrong and not happening!
Chane as a boy, well she already is a sort of tomboy so her personality wouldn’t change, but then she wouldn’t fall in love with Claire so her story would be very different.
Jacuzzi as a girl isn’t that hard to picture seeing as he’s a wimp and doesn’t really act tough most of the time. But if he was a girl he would fall in love with Nice.

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4.) Compare the matchups of 1 & 8 and 5 & 9. (Ignore canon sexual preferences for the moment.) Which couple would be more compatible? Which couple would be more plausible to people from either principal's home culture?
Firo – Chance and Miria – Nice
Firo and Chane:...........uhhhhhhhh nope, no, not happening. Just can’t picture this, Chane is very serious and calm and Firo is very excitable so I don’t think they’d go very well together.
Miria and Nice – well ignoring the fact that they’re both girls...having a hard time imagining this as well. They get along well but I just can’t see it.
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5.) Your team is 3, 4 & 9. The mission consists of a social challenge, a mental challenge and a physical challenge. Which team member do you assign to each challenge?
Maisa, Ennis, Nice
Social challenge: Nice. She’s friendly and nice and gets along really well with people.
Mental challenge: Maisa. He’s really smart so it’s a given.
Physical challenge: Ennis. She can just kick your but so easily!
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6.) 7 becomes 1's boss for a week in some plausible fashion. How's their working relationship?
Claire becomes Firo’s boss.
They’d get along fine seeing as they’ve known each other for years. I think Firo may find it a bit weird taking orders from Claire but they would be fine.
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7). 2 finds him/her/itself inserted into 6's continuity. As far as anyone other than 2 or 6 is concerned, they've always been there. What role would 2 be presumed to have had in 6's story, and could they fit in without going wonky?
Luck and Issac
They already do cross paths and Issac ends up hanging around with Luck’s crowd anyway.


8.) 3 and 5 get three wishes. The catch is that they have to agree on all three wishes before they get the benefits of any of them. What three wishes would they make?
Maisa and Miria
I think Miria would just agree with whatever Maisa wanted so he could just have free reign over the wished.
1st wish: Maisa would wish that his brother was still alive I think. Miria would agree after being told the story and would be crying for Maisa
2nd wish: That the immortals could all get along. He seems quite depressed that the other were eating each other. Again Miria would agree cos she likes being friends with people.
3rd wish: uhhhhh, can’t really think of anything so they will just have to miss out.
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9.) 1 and 2 are brainwashed by a one-time artifact that works even on people immune to mind control to attack and kill 4. They keep their normal personality, skills and competence level, except any Code vs. Killing has been turned off. Can 4 survive? How?
Firo and Luck trying to kill Ennis.
This would never end. 2 immortal people trying to kill another immortal person, seriously it would never end. Ennis can defend herself really well so it would be hard for either Firo or Luck to get the upper hand to devour her.
And Firo wouldn’t really want to kill Ennis cos he loves her! crying
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10.) 6, 7, 9 & 10 must help an orphanage full of small and depressed children have a merry Christmas. Who does what, knowing that at the very least the kids will be expecting a visit from Santa?
Issac, Claire, Nice and Jacuzzi.
Issac would be Santa!! He’s already got the Santa suit.
Claire, Nice and Jacuzzi would all be elves. But Nice has to be kept away from anything explosive and Claire from anything sharp or dangerous.
But I think it would be quite fun.
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11.) 3 and 8 are challenged to circumnavigate the Earth in eighty days or less, using only forms of transportation invented before 1900. Can they do it, or will they be fatally distracted by sidequests or their own personality conflicts?
Maisa and Chane
Hahaha this would be bizarre! Maisa would be fine, after all he lived through the period so he would manage fine. Chane...well she...would probably get distracted by missing her father or something. They might manage it, but I think Maisa would be the one doing most of the work.