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Well, I would respond if I knew what that meant...I feel so out of touch now...

If you're serious, sure.

Well, I would respond if I knew what that meant...I feel so out of touch now...

It's wrestling terminology. Faces (short for 'babyfaces') are the good guys, heels are the bad guys, while Tweeners are inbetween, usually with their own agenda that they pursue whether they get boos or cheers.

As Starblaydia I tend to play the heel quite naturally - big, powerful, arrogant, strutting around (often rightfully so) as the top dog being cynical, doing nasty things and generally throwing my weight around. The USSR, Nazi Germany, Iran, Venezuela etc. are heel nations. Some nations are great faces, they're democracy-loving, friendly and helpful - the USA, UK, etc. Tweeners may combine elements of both, or completely different character aspects, but they march to their own drum for their own reasons because you can't really put your finger on them, and fans of theirs are totally justitifed in liking them. China and Russia are good examples of this.

It feels to me like the CCS is a tweener alliance, because when you get down to it neither ASMV or Falc is a flat-out heel or face.

However, when everyone is a tweener, the lines are so blurred that often you have no idea who's on what side, or really why other than alliance of convenience or circumstance.

EDIT: I also blogged about this idea previously.

This post has been edited by Starblaydia on Oct 16 2012, 02:36 AM

yeah, I'm going with Falc (ICly) as a Sting-like character (Steve Borden, that is, not the one who was in Dune) - that is, always to the extreme, and almost always liked even when he was in the heel stable (depending on how you feel about the NWO factions, of course).

As for where I stand, I've avoided jumping in here because I haven't had much time to think about it (RL puts me out of time for another month, roughly), but what I think about is conflicted. ICly, Legalese pairing up with Star feels a little like Poland and Germany being buddy-buddy - it's possible, but doesn't feel like it'll last. As said above, ideology seems to matter less in this fight at this point, especially along the major powers; hell, Starblaydia is presently the most democratic of the three (talk about a face turn there!), but all three seem to want the same thing: to be the region's most powerful nation.

What would I be going after, though? With the direction I need to start elaborating on, I'd say that history would push Legalese in the direction of security and sufficiency - a government and culture that focuses on survival first over rights, and understands the needs for a strong army to prevent Galactica Redux (i.e., the being occupied part - though considering my OOC absence at the time, I anticipate it's not a storyline that works in whatever may come in the regional future), and considering the cultural apathy toward government (my IC explanation for OOC disappearances), allows for a non-political (in the democratic sense) body to step in and run things, and do so without too much concern. In a wrestling sense, I'd be a tweener that does more house shows than TV, but is trying to become relevant by joining the more promising stable - heel or face.

Either way, as long as I don't become the equivalent of Virgil, I'm good.

This post has been edited by Legalese on Oct 16 2012, 11:11 PM

I like the model of your analogy but without starting a political debate I'm not sure you have all those nations in the right corners of the ring! To me it looks much more crowded over there with the heels, and perhaps only the Scandinavians tag-teaming for the faces.

Wight would probably consider itself the Gogmagog of Wrestling, or in the US/Russia/China/Israel/Nazi Germany model, then probably, um, Cornwall.

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