KAIA PLEASE TELL ME ABT YOUR AOT DR BC OMG ???? I JUST SAW THAT YOURS IN AN ACTORS AU & I'M SO CURIOUS ABT HOW THAT WOULD BE LIKE !!! ໒꒰ྀི >ヮ<꒱ྀི১
I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO ASK, it's one of my favorite DRs yet <3
-> So in this DR, Attack on Titan is a live action TV series that is extremely famous worldwide. We are talking historic. To give you an idea, it has won all of the awards it has been nominated for, giving it the title of one of the few TV series in the world to possess a "perfect all-kill".
-> You most likely are wondering which character I am in the show, so using the picture below, take a guess as to who I play. Do they look familiar? :)
-> The cast is much more diverse in race/ethnicity in this DR: actors for Eren, Connie, Ymir, and Levi are all people of color. And I think it goes without saying that we know Mikasa, Onyankopon, and I are people of color too. As a result, I've made some changes in the AOT storyline to... accommodate our existence. (You can't make me work in a white-dominated workspace LOL)
-> Additionally, the age difference between certain actors aren't that pronounced as they are in the show. Take me, for example: my character is considerably older than most members of the 104th Training Corps in canon. However, in real life, their actors are anywhere from my age to three years younger. I intended that because I wanted to hang around with the cast without having to take on a "mentor" role.
-> It is common for actors, in this DR, to use their real name as a stand-in for their character name if the writer did not have particular names in mind or are open to using stand-ins. However, there is a policy that you can only use a stand-in once in your acting career (mainly to avoid confusion and copyright claims). Actors typically reserve their names for a project they know will sell well, so that way they are able to get their name out into the open.
-> Funnily enough though, very few of the AOT actors use their real name:
-> That being said, we often call each other by our character names for simplicity!
-> Much like my character (and my CR self for that matter), I'm very science-oriented in my DR! And since I've studied human physiology and anatomy in that DR, I get to help Isayama "accurately" flesh out titan biology and the general worldbuilding behind how they came to be.
-> ODM gear is dangerous and very precise measures are taken to make sure that our stuntsmen don't experience extreme whiplash when operating it. We don't want workplace accidents, after all! That being said, there are some of us on set who are comfortable performing our own stunts; namely Levi, Jean, Connie, Mikasa, and I.
-> There's going to be a spin-off series that goes deeper into the backstories of Levi, Hange, and Erwin! I can't wait to film that because my brother gets to act with me. He's actually on the CGI/animation team for the original AOT series, but he does voice acting on the side, so Isayama was like "sure why not?" and casted him as one of my character's two brothers.
-> Personality wise, all actors have what I would call the best aspects of their characters. For example, Eren's actor does have quite the willpower when it comes to grinding out his scenes, Armin's actor is well articulated during interviews, and Mikasa has a set record for being the actor with the most scenes shot in one take out of all of us.
I could go on and on about this DR, but this post is getting long... I hope what I've written is sufficient! But thank you so much for sending this ask, it was so fun to talk about this DR <333