Interview: Satine Phoenix from “I Hit it With My Axe”
Have we become a porn site? HA! I wish. No, but we did interview Satine Phoenix from “I Hit it With My Axe,” my new favorite thing on the internet. We’ll be posting more coverage weekly, so check back for that. In the meantime, here’s the star herself:
What is your history with nerdiness in general? D&D, Comics, all of that stuff?
Fun Question! I was into comic strips as a kid and obsessed with Bloom County. I had all of the books by the time I was 11. Then my book fascination turned to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series with Death (Didi) being my favorite character. I tattooed the Ankh on myself when I was 15, have a quote tattooed in between my fingers on my left hand and turned Death: The high cost of living into a play and directed it in high school. We’d play Dungeons and Dragons any chance we could in high school and college. Leisure Suit Larry was my favorite computer games when I was too young to play it. Wolfenstein, Mech Warrior, Warcraft, Starcraft, Myst, Tomb Raider, Diablo all entertained me through junior high and high school. Still have my old Atari 2600 still (from the 80s) and my original Nintendo. I have a sick obsession with Link (from Zelda). I loved anime so much throughout my entire life that I wanted to be a living cartoon character and dressed like it… which is probably why people threw food at me in high school. I’ve been reading sci fi and fantasy books since I was little my favorite being Stranger in a Strange Land and the Thomas Covenant Series. … Went to college as a 3d/2d/stop motion animator… and now am making comic books while playing D&D & Warcraft & watching Dr. Who religiously. Kinda funny to see this brief history written down.
What’s the worst response you’ve gotten as to why someone wouldn’t play D&D with you?
My best friend said it just looked stupid. That’s ok though. It’s not for everyone.
What do you like so much about D&D?
I like the imagination and randomness of D&D. Every DM is different and some will take you through intricate puzzle dungeons and some lead you into fight after fight. When I put a video game into one of my consoles I know what kind of game I’ll be playing. In D&D I don’t really know what’s coming up. THAT is exciting for me. I have this great gnome character I rolled up with the most amazing stats and while playing her I failed EVERY SINGLE ROLL. But that’s fun for me. Its just fantasy. You use your imagination and it really feels like play time.
Tell us about your character?
The character I play on “I Hit It With My Axe” is an elf rogue named Mirror (yea yea I know… girls love to play that: so what). She’s essentially a good guy. If we played with alignments I’d say she was lawful/neutral. She doesn’t like randomly killing people because they’re rude to her and she thinks about the consequence of actions before she allows anyone else to do something she’d consider stupid. She’s really adept at tying people up and has this great whip that she always forgets to use. But she has a weakness of sparkly things like coins and gems and will step over all of the players to get it.
Would you rather spend a weekend at DragonCon or the Adult Entertainment Expo?
NOW? DragonCon…
Before now I used throw the most amazing 2 day after party at the AEE called http://theultimateafterparty.com. I was the “Orgy-nator” and pretty much anything goes there as long as its safe/sane/consensual… actually… just consensual. The party was always packed full of the sexiest people and celebrities and you really couldn’t imagine all of the happenings. One day I’ll make a comic about it. You wouldn’t believe it. Seriously. No one has written or drawn these hedonistic events yet.
BUT… I don’t live that lifestyle anymore and that was the only good part of those events. I would go to Dragon Con this year if I wasn’t already going to Wondercon and Comicon.
What’s the silliest moment you’ve had in D&D?
High School. My thief/mage Elf Named Vlahnya. I had a dog or bear or something… someone else had an eagle. There were two other people in the party and we were all being attacked by this giant 7 legged bird thing. My bear bit off the a leg or two and the eagle poked out one of the eyes so this giant bird was hobbling along trying to attack us and my companions were running down a hill or something and the bird was chasing after them so I used my whip to get up on the back of the bird and rolled a really good riding roll as this bird panickly ran down the hill pass my friends farting this paralyzing gas that took everyone else out as I made every roll to stay on the giant bird as it bucked underneath me. I don’t remember how it ended but I remember that we were laughing so hard while we were doing it that we were all in tears.
What’s the longest D&D session you’ve ever played?
Now we play 8 hr sessions for the show but in high school we would play all nighters and full weekends.
Have you finished all of the filming for the season? Will the later episodes be different than the earlier ones?
We haven’t finished filming yet. The first session/few episodes with Sasha was the trial and error session. Since then we’ve fixed the lighting and camera handling. The first episode what the character set up. Who we are. The following episodes are about our characters and game play. What people don’t get is that its a: where we actually play b: not staged or scripted. Its not easy for the editor. He’s taking an 8 hr session and editing it down into a few 5 minute episodes.
Not that any of you are camera shy, but did you find it weird playing D&D in videos?
The only thing weird about it is watching it later. When you’re immersed in your character you don’t pay attention to how you’re supposed to hold your head or demeanor in front of the camera so we make the funniest faces.
What other guest stars can we expect to see?
The only one I’m allowed to talk about now other than Sasha Grey is Justine Jolie. I had no idea what a sci fi nerd Justine was until we played D&D and I’ve known her for years.
Be honest: how is Zak as a DM?
Zak is GREAT! He is very aware of how different all of us girls are and maneuvers the story and game play & pace so everyone can have fun. He spends a lot of time creating this world. I like the term “wrangle”. We are a table of very opinionated women. If left to our own devices it would take hours to do one action (exaggeration). I took a peak at his D&D journal from across the table and it’s full of various character descriptions, drawings, maps, lore etc. It’s pretty incredible actually.
The cliché is that D&D players have problems picking up women – have any tips for geeks who can’t talk to women?
I don’t know how other people do it but I know how my boyfriend did it and he’s a Super Nerd who totally won my heart over. We met in a meet up group (http://meetup.com). I was looking for friends with the same interests as myself so I joined “freaks geeks & nerds” here in the LA area. He found my profile on it and emailed me to get together to go to dinner or see a movie. 2 very harmless things. I agreed in a not date way but the moment we began talking it turned into a date. We went to see Transformers 2 and he was such a gentleman. We held hands and I felt that he respected me as a person and not someone to have a one night stand with so we didn’t go home with one another that night but called each other about 20 mins after leaving one another to tell the other we had a really great time and how we wanted to do it again.
TIP: Take two cars. Its less pressure for the girl.
What’s the sexiest D&D pick-up line you can think of?
Pick up lines don’t actually work. Ever… At least not on the type of girl you would actually want to go home with. But out of the Cheezy pick up line arena: “Do you have any (whatever character you play ie: elf/gnome etc.)” “you don’t, would you like some” then wink
We’d like to thank Satine for the interview, and suggests everyone check out “I Hit it With My Axe.”
hammer says:
nice interview. will definitely check out the show.
March 19th, 2010 at 8:13 pm