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aliosne · 4 months ago

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So one of the things I’ve been thinking about with my magical girls game I’m planning is romance. The genre is a subgenre of shoujo, which, for better or for worse, has romance as a core theme, and that carries through. Certainly, intimate and powerful connections are central.

I’ve had to put a blanket “no thanks” on romance in games bc i had a couple experiences that i Did Not Enjoy (it was fine, I was just like this is not how I want to play). But as I’ve continued playing, I realised it’s not that I’m opposed to roleplaying sex and romance (tho like. Im p much always playing with my sister and BIL so let’s just fade to black thanksss), it’s just that i don’t want the DM to do the equivalent of slapping some hole on the table in front of me and saying “go for it.” I want story. I want actual connection. I want you to handcraft a babe for me that leaves me weak in the metaphorical and physical knees.

It’s weird, as I’m grappling with whether aro fits into my collection of identities. It’s also been weird saying no to this in the context of someone who writes porn and has rped porn with friends before. Part of why I’ve just been saying “absolute no” to this kind of content is it feels too overwhelming to figure out where my boundaries are and communicate that. It’s just easier to draw a big red circle around the whole thing and say NO. Also like. I don’t want to take up a huge amount of space in a session zero unpacking My Journey, ya feel.

Anyway. I do think I want romance to play into this game. So in addition to everything else, I’ll have to hammer this stuff out.

Or maybe we’ll get to session zero and everyone will be like “the one thing I hate about magical girls is all the romance FUCK that shit we are coworkers”

#am I also thinking about a certain show im listening to? maybe.#to be absolutely crystal clear: there is nothing wrong with casual sex or love-free sex or anything like that.#there is nothing wrong with roleplaying that #and if I want a character who has casual sex i will make that #all my characters have been some flavour of queer and I think sometimes that makes a DM think they have to give you chances to Do a Gay #and like. me a real live queer person do not have to be actively fingerblasting anyone to be gay #buyan and junko will n e v e r have a sexual/romantic relationship #but the fact that they are both queer and have so many other parallels in their life but junko is more established #informs their relationship especially prior to the game #finding someone who’s so much like you and out and proud and you feel like you have so much in common and finally meeting her #and she gives you the ‘yeah! we should totally collab someday *fakest smile in existence*’#like on a microcosm scale many of us have had that experience #a lot of the time when I say ‘this character’s gay’ THAT’S mostly what I’m interested in #but also like I say if someone actually built a relationship with me I might find that fun

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