#Thanks for letting me steal it!

[xmimiteh]

Things I like RP partners to know

I like to be called: Mimi, if you want to use my character's name. But I know it might get weird to differentiate between the player and the character. And I am definitely neither my character nor a tsundere. ;) So you can call me by my other nickname as well I am mostly known for at other places - Jama or Jamapi. Yes, that's from "Wedding Peach". Don't judge me, my guilty pleasure is the magical girl genre and "Wedding Peach" was simply hilarious! Pronouns: they/them.

One thing you should know about me (or several): 

The following is at the same time a condensed and expanded version of my carrd's ooc sections. If you want to know more, you can look at my >carrd<.

I am 21+ and I belong to the older demographic here, as I started roleplaying with D&D back in the days in the 80s and have been doing a lot of roleplaying since then - tabletop, collaborative storytelling, play-by-mail, LARP. You name it, I did it. Mimi has been a grumpy little menace on Balmung in FF14 since ARR. I have a fulltime and very stressful job as a professional writer in my native language. Thus, playing the game is my feel-good place to recharge my energy batteries, while relaxing with a nice cup of coffee. So I like my and your time there being as stressfree and most fun as possible. I am happily married and outside of RP I am not looking for anything more than friendship. My characters have their own agenda, of course. But I am just here to have fun playing the game, write some cool stuff together with you and laugh and watch our goofballs on the screen act the way they do. Our own little tv show of ensuing hilarity.

I like to describe my preferred RP with tv shows: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dawson’s Creek, Babylon 5, Fringe. Also, I have a soft spot for horror themes, especially when spiced up with cosmic horror. So if you are doing that? Count me in! But let me be clear: To me it is not about the tentacles, but the philosophical/intellectual stuff. World views being shattered, nihilism hitting characters hard, existentialism with moral dilemmas. That is the good stuff to me! Nothing wrong with cosmic/void entitites, of course, but please no anime weirdness here. I probably do not have to spell it out, what I mean by that, right? That is not, what I enjoy cosmic horror for. So even though I love cosmic horror, do not assume I am here for that. Because that is a big no-go for me.

Aside from that, let's talk about talking: I am not shy, I am an introvert (>example<). I do not enjoy small talk and this has nothing to do with you. If I play with you I like you! And there will be even other times, when I will not stop talking to you. My walls of texts are infamous - you see them regularly here on tumblr. But please try to avoid an OOC conversation starter with: “How are you doing?” I never know how to answer that and struggle with that. Honestly, I often sit 5-10 minutes on an answer to that question and my brain simply shows a big "cannot compute" message. If there is something you want to discuss, sure thing, shoot. I can talk for hours and hours about specific topics, meaningful stuff and so on. Once I get lose on something we both are interested in there is no stopping for me. But just talking on a superficial level simply to connect with people? I would love to be able to do that, but I fail at that so hard and am just a big goofball of awkwardness in those cases. So I appreciate getting straight to the point. By the way: IC small talk is a completely different thing for me. Yes, I am weird like that.

One (or several) thing(s) you should know about my characters:

Mimi is not an easy character to get along with. I know that. Many people seem to prefer "feel good" rp - and Mimi is probably the opposite of that. And even though I won't say there will never be any "good vibes" rp with Mimi, it will take time and is very situational. The good times do not come easily with this woman. Personally, I prefer conflict and well paced character drama. As much as I adore slice-of-life rp I am not here to "play house" and find that utterly boring. I am here for interesting, gripping character dynamics, for tense situations, for unexpected twists and turns, for character development. I am here for the heart break, angst and the slow burn. Give me edges on other characters, let me to throw my characters against those edges and see what happens.

Even if at some point the "deredere" part of Mimi appears, don't expect this to be everytime. I need the conflict. I need IC problems in roleplay. That's the reason why I love to play tsundere. They make things complicated. They create conflicts by their very nature. As much as I love ooc harmony outside of rp, within any rp situation I crave for well-written conflicts. That does not always have to be a fight. This can also just be a discussion. Or simply different opinions or backgrounds. Sure, sometimes there is not a good angle to create a conflict or disagreement. Well, then it is as it is and this can happen - and that is fine! But I struggle with those situations and will probably try to spice up the situation and make it unpredictable. I want to be surprised. Conflicts are the best way to get there. At least in my experience. To some people this might seem forced and they get annoyed by that. I understand that. But that is just the way I am. I do not want to annoy you by that. I want us both to have fun and something to play with in rp. That is, why I incite problems and conflict. Because if there is nothing to say, then there is no dynamic to the scene.

I know this is not everybody's cup of tea and I don't judge the rp of others. But harmony based rp simply is not my thing and I avoid it, when rp is only "lovey-dovey", rainbows and sunshine. I won't keep people from doing that, but I don't have any interest in it and will stay away from it - for the sake of your fun and mine as well. I do not want to spoil anybody's fun. If you have fun with that? You do you! And please don't get me wrong: It is no problem if there are "nice moments". On the contrary, I love those moments as well! But they have more impact to me if they do not appear regularly, because I am looking for: meaningful moments. Something that will stick to my mind as funny or interesting or tragic or sad or tense. Something that intrigues me like a thrilling tv episode and a gripping cliffhanger in a book or movie. So I like to be really clear about, why I play a quarrelsome character like Mimi: She is not someone to be "solved" or "rescued". She is the way she is, because I need conflict rp to get my creativity going. That is my rp fuel.

To sum it up: My characters are going to do stupid things. They are going to be douchebags. And they are more often wrong than not. I am not my character so if they insult or provoke your character that is part of the RP - not me being mean to you as a player. If I do not feel comfortable with a player on an OOC level I rather avoid playing with them altogether. If my character picks a fight with your character, it means I trust you as a player, and I like you and your character. After all I am offering you my favorite RP, as I adore IC banter and conflict If character play leads to a plot, no problem with that. But do not expect me to play according to any script. My preferred RP develops out of character dynamics. For me plot is a stage for character interactions. Not vice versa.

First language: German. As you might have noticed, I am a non native speaker. So, sorry for any language weirdness or if my answers take longer. I try my best and I think my English is not too bad, but I struggle from time to time. Roleplaying in something different to your first language is a different kind of beast and many things I am proud of in my use of German I fail at in English. And this paragraph is probably one of the best examples of that!

HIGHLIGHT:

Alt blogs: none

xmimiteh.carrd.co is Mimiteh's carrd.

Age range: under 13  |  14–17 | 18–22 | 23–25 | 26–29 | 30+ |  70+

Am I okay with NSFW?: yes | no | some nsfw (when it feels organic)

My favorite/most common thing to rp is: angst | fluff | smut | crack | action | plots | AUs are fine | Violence | Darker themes

OC Canon character friendly?: yes | no | depends

RP blog: does contain ooc posts | doesn’t contain ooc posts | occasionally contains ooc | Aesthetic | Screenshots

I was not tagged, but I stole it from @miqojak! I hope that was okay.

Tagging: I do not even know when this went around, so I'll simply tag the usual crowd. If you did it already, just ignore me! @fair-fae​ @avwalya​ @punchelf @lady-lissette @ysandrethedreamer, @kich-rp @candlelethe​ @ink-dreams-ffxiv @limitsbroke @captainkurosolaire​ @zhauric @arasnealashandr @antlers-and-omens @vulpes-ferus @starforger @miqoquest @gatheredfates @arbiterofthedead @reconditerune @airis-ray @ahlis-xiv @uldahstreetrat @blackbirdffxiv @riftdancing @little-birdseeker @azure-seadragon @thorstyr @angelinecarax @miqomonkly @shavri-ffxiv and everyone who wants to do it! Steal it from me and please tag me, so I will see it. Dashboard can become a bit crowded from time to time and sometimes I tend to miss some things if they do not show up in the activity tab.

[barksbog]

panther chameleon plushies!!!

based on the Amilobe locality of Furcifer pardalis

magnetic little hands for to grab things

soft

funny eyes

doesn´t need high humidty or complex care!

teddy joints for to move their little legs

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adopt one from my bog

barks-bog.com

[ash-and-starlight]

hades atla bisexual simulator

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Snap: *draws a Megaman-inspired Magneto*

Me: ...Perfect modernization.

wait now that its not 3AM i can do you one Slightly better

bonus:

[daily-memory-of-touch]

The fandom: NO!!!!!! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE UNPROBLEMATIC SMOL BEAN T4T YAOI!!!!!

The six bad touches:

Day 19: thus concludes the color wheel bit no more of that

[falloutgirlboy]

another maybe sticker design yippee

[dailyfalsesymmetry]

day 56 (@hermithorrorweek day 4: taken over)

Honorary Vex.

[jeeaark]

Final Showdown pt 1

Final Showdown pt 2.

So the key to becoming a lil more chill with the patch 0 Orpheus ending is realizing what I can get away with off camera. Brain fell down and nobody saw how we landed? No Emps in sight? Who knows long it took to regroup? One reasonable patch 0 ending where everyone lives coming up.

and I would've been content with this ending too if it weren't for those meddling patches.

Felt validated about the artifact solution though when the epilogue came out. As if Greygold wouldn't keep that lil doo-hickey after all this, practically a bag of holding for people.

Had to jump some logic hoops for Orph though. Don't think Greygold would be willing to risk any potential confrontation with Orpheus about Emps after this. Try and pull their first Squid Trick on him. But uh. Turns out! Orph Buddy's got mad wisdom. Dude has probably seen every Squid Trick in the book. Although. Not so silly as Greygold's attempts.

[antaresarisen]

it’s important to not confuse a maid’s subordinate nature for submission. they aren’t mutually exclusive but there is a distinction

[the-chains-cafe]

I watched Wonderland the musical yesterday and had to draw my favorite boy as my favorite character. Mad hatter!Ravio ladies and gentlemen!

@kikker-oma got inspired by your dramatic lighting drawing so I drew the boy

Some extra stuff under the cut

Different colored lighting :]

Midna and Ravio would love playing crazy characters. I think they love going 100% on the crazy part because there aren’t really limits. They can go all out on the musical numbers too, dance around as if they’re wearing magic dancing shoes, cuz again there aren’t really limits. Unlike with Damian and Janis, or Joe and enid/vivian i think. Ye :)

Also HELP HE LOOKS LIKE THE ONCELER OH NOOOO

[xmimiteh]

This was just too nice, so took it from @mimble-sparklepudding and wanted to spread it to those people below. I hope that was okay!

Here is the inspiration for Mimi - though I do not see her as WoL. The MSQ happens to me completely out of touch with her as a character. So it is more an "OC inspiration" than an "WoL inspiration".

And I probably have to explain some of that. We will go from top left to down left, then we will go from top right to down right:

Top Left: Taiga Aisaka (Toradora!) - Let's face the elephant in the room right away: Taiga is probably one of the most famous tsundere and I might be a little bit (just teeny-tiny bit!) influenced by that, because "Toradora!" is my favorite anime. In my defense, when I saw the anime for the first time it was after I created Mimi. Also there are several things that are completely different between Taiga and Mimi. Mimi is not cute, nor a rich daughter and not a high school student, of course. So they are different characters. But the grumpy "I have to glare my way through life" attitude and also the fighting style matches, as well as the grumpy outside and soft even caring inside. The parallels are there and it would be an absolute lie if I said Taiga would not inspire some of Mimi's traits. Because Taiga is exactly how I like my characters to be: complex and layered.

Middle Left: Agent Sameen Shaw (Person of Interest) - And we continue with another angry and tough woman! Agent Shaw might be a spy, a skilled assassin and a sociopath - three things Mimi is not. But she is blunt and direct, has a "no shit" attitude and does not back down from a fight. She cares more than it seems to be, she is simply hiding it. Also she has some really strong glare available as her weapons. Posture, stature and even her face - that's really close to how I imagine Mimi to be. By the way, "Person of Interest" is an amazing and totally underrated show.

Down Left: Astrid Hofferson (How to Train Your Dragon) - Continuing with angry women! I mean, you probably already noticed it. My tumblr blog is called "How to Tame Your Chocobo". It is not that big of a leap, right? Astrid is competitive, angry, but also has a soft and caring side. Also the dragon riding stuff inspires me again and again for the chocobo racing.

Top Right: Ardeth Bay (The Mummy) - Maybe less his character in way of inspiration, but his clothing and aesthetics. Especially when I created Mimi's armor glamor I tried to go into the Medjai direction and Ardeth helped a lot with that. Also the horse riding combat from "Mummy Returns" is exactly how I imagine Mimi would fight on her chocobo - or back in the Sagolii. It might not be the most authentic aesthetic, but Thanalan aesthetics is fictional anyway, so I simply take this now and again for aesthetic inspiration.

Middle Right: Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) - Mimi is definitely not a scholar or a tomb raider. But she is a survivor. And that is what I loved so much about the Tomb Raider remakes. Lara Croft stumbles and falls, but always gets up. She is tough. She is a fighter. She does not give up. That's Mimi. Right there! Even with a bow as a former Sagolii huntress. Mimi is like a nasty and annoying weed you want to pull out of the ground, but you cannot. Because as soon as you pull it out, it will simply grow back. And that's because Mimi is a rebellious and defiant little survivor, never really giving up.

Down Right: G'kar (Babylon 5) - Some of you probably will ask: Who the f*** is that? And I will answer: One of the best written characters in any tv show. Babylon 5 is still to this day one of my favorite tv shows and G'kar has such an amazing character development through all the seasons. It is simply an amazing journey leading up to such amazing moments. This character is inspiring in different ways: First, I love well-written character developments. Not retcons, but really a chain of events affecting the character and making them grow or fall. G'kar is in my opinion the best example for such a thing. Second, G'kar has some deep anger, is highly emotional and empathetic. I highly doubt Mimi will ever get to the point of G'kar, where she has conquered her anger and will be at ease with herself - finding peace. But, who knows? I am a sucker for character's developing over time. Mimi from several years ago is certainly different to Mimi nowadays.

So, that's it!

Template is: >HERE<

I have seen some of those templates with inspiration references for theme and motifs and quotes. Sadly, they are not as easy to use as this other templates and I am really bad at graphics. So I cannot really expand on that template. If you have a good template for that, let me know and I might explore those inspirations later on as well. But so far these character inspirations should be enough.

Tagged by: I selftagged myself from @mimble-sparklepudding and stole it from there. Thank you so much for the link!

Tagging: @mischiefandmystics @fair-fae​ @avwalya​ @mirkemenagerie​ @punchelf @lady-lissette @ysandrethedreamer, @kich-rp @candlelethe​ @ink-dreams-ffxiv @limitsbroke @captainkurosolaire​ @zhauric @miqojak @antlers-and-omens @vulpes-ferus @starforger @miqoquest @gatheredfates @arbiterofthedead @archaiclumina @airis-ray @ahlis-xiv @luck-and-larceny @uldahstreetrat @blackbirdffxiv @riftdancing @arasnealashandr @little-birdseeker @azure-seadragon @thorstyr and - as always - everyone who wants to do it, but has not been tagged. Show me your inspirations! I'm a big movie and tv show fan, so I want to see your references! Show them to me!

[zukkaoru]

gentle beast

Ranpo strolls over to Nathaniel and Fyodor, looking down on them both. “What’s the cake for?” Nathaniel blinks. Fyodor answers: “Your birthday, of course. Did you forget?”

or: ranpo dies again on their twenty-seventh birthday

🪽 2.3k words || ranpo-centric 🩸 inspired by taixu (by @justadino-ig)

[dejasenti99]

boyz night OUT!!!! @acuar-io <3

[augustheart]

now that green arrow has become fascist it's time for hal to do the funniest thing possible

[haahka]

Kinnporsche x textposts pt. 17: The two types of VegasPete [more]

[new-austin]

@x-letsbreaksomerules-x said that this meme was modern au fenris and he was literally so correct