#muses I rp as - have rped as- or had desired to rp as

[townofcadence]

✨ What was your inspiration in making your muse?

Munday Meme ✨ What was your inspiration in making your muse?

I ended up getting on a roll, apologies, so I put this under a read-more ^^;;;

It depends on the character for sure! I usually end up really vibing with a concept i want to build around, like a personality archetype or a story element. Usually this is a pretty generic concept, and then I build out the rest of the OC, trying to understand their place in the world and how the life they've lived has affected who they are, and make it more personal to me so I get attached.

Caelan for example, is a fae prince who was raised as a weapon by his family during a war, due to his abilities and how intense his magic is-- he was hunting the enemy prince down, had him cornered in a fight, when the ground falls apart beneath them and they're pulled underground-- deep into webbed catacombs, where they're hunted by a monster over and over again. His whole concept was basically born from the desire to play with the idea 'character trapped in a maze being hunted by a creature'. Which--- was initially a concept i started playing with because of a song about the ghosts in pacman being trapped in the game and eaten by pacman xD

I think the main exception to this style of creation for me is Artair, which I'm sure you were asking about! So I apologize ahead of time for the tangent incoming xD

My very first character I ever rped online was Arthur from Mystery Skulls Animated, which was a collection of music videos following a plot revolving around four main characters dealing with the supernatural, set to indie artist Mystery Skulls' songs. But the thing was, MSA only gave us the vaguest details about the characters when the first video came out, which is when I started writing him. The most we knew about Arthur was that he had been possessed and forced to kill a teammate, and that he lost his arm to an animal teammate that seemed to stop the possession. Also that he was kinda like-- a fraidy cat? MSA was basically a parody of Scooby Doo with a twist, so he was a little like a yellow shaggy lol.

But yeah, it was actually really cool because every version of the same character was so wildly different, because it was so vague that there was so much room for interpretation! We weren't sure how well the group knew each other except that they were on the same team, we were only given blood types to determine personality, we didn't even know if the animal teammate spoke to the team-- even things like how they grew up or where they were or family dynamics were up in the air at the time. When his uncle was revealed soon after the video, I wrote Arthur as growing up with him after his own parents passed, but there were dozens of interpretations-- some where Arthur only came to live with him as an adult, or an older kid, with details ranging from his family was bad news, passed, or just too busy to look after him. One of the characters didn't have a last name for years. It was all kinda just--- free real estate lol.

So over the course of a decade I wrote him, i built out every detail about Arthur, including stuff like his history/backstory, his relationships, his abilities, his personality beyond the fearfulness-- even some details about the events that were canon. Over time as I was writing him, he changed personalities in a lot of major ways too, as storylines from rps and events happened while writing him. He changed, for better and worse, and the things I focused on more were less and less aligned with canon. I started experimenting with ideas and concepts i really liked too, especially ones like him being a medium, which then further deviated into eldritch/celestial/fae stuff, since I always had a deep interest in those kinds of beings. But that only continued to take him further and further from anything resembling MSA lol.

And I guess at some point a few years ago, i realized he was basically an OC, but with a canon coat of paint?

Soooo I basically took him and gave him a redesign and overhaul to make him an OC. I kept some elements i loved of Arthur that drew me to him in the first place, but I tried to get away from his original design as much as I could without making him feel too different to my brain. I kept a version of events similar to the first video, due to how formative they were, but everything else pretty much got chucked out. The rest I kept was heavily altered if it wasn't reliant on my own headcanons already.

The only other thing I kept was kind of keeping his name similar. I kept Arthur as a name he used for a while growing up due to kids being mean about 'weird' names, which he still uses as a safety precaution with people/fae, since so much of his history he was known by it. Then I gave him a scots version as his official legal name, since I had headcanoned Arthur was directly scottish anyways and would likely pick it, with the headcanon that as Artair got older he stopped caring what people thought of his name and started going by the one he chose. It was different enough to feel i was separating him from MSA, but close enough that it didn't feel wrong when I was so attached to 'Arthur' as his name for a decade (part of my initial attachment to him was connection to Arthur as a name and him being the color yellow, whoops)

But yeah! Overall for me, it's just about interesting or fun narrative concepts. And then there's Artair being the one canon guy who got hit with extreme OC-ification beams over time xD

Also, here's an old and silly spider-man meme doodle of Arthur and Artair if you made it this far xD

[ask-naraenil]

[OOC]

At some point over the last 6 or so years, I have written some spiel or other about my main RP characters on their respective blogs. They were focused on answering the questions ‘How did this character come about?’ and ‘What was the inspiration behind them?’

I never went in depth about this one aside from a more self-indulgent than usual gush about her when I finally completed the druid class hall campaign during Legion. Back then, I said that she’d never become an RP main. She hadn’t been a content main since early MoP.

Like many players who are bringing their druid characters back for the 10.2 patch, I suppose I have resumed picking her up to play the game again. But since earlier this year, I have also started to take her IC again after many years, and give her another chance at actual RP.

I have been RPing for a solid 12+years at this point. I can count on one hand the number of times I have actually taken Nara out to interact with other player characters. This was always at the request of people I knew. My mage was the first character I RPed, but my druid was The Prime. Nara’enil was my character when I started playing WoW.

There are a few reasons I never focused on her for RP. One was that I loved my blood elves and I had a lot of meaningful RP on them. Time was a luxury that I did not have to focus on a totally different character in a different community. When I decided to explore a different avenue of RP with my RP friends, we turned to troll, and Nara became a Darkspear druid.

I didn’t commit to Alliance side RP until late Legion to BfA. The years preceding that were entirely spent on Horde, whichever characters I chose to RP, and I had (and still have, even if shelved) a plethora in my roster. The troll became a tauren, and finally in Legion, she returned to being a night elf once more.

I never felt I needed an RP community or other RPers to be able to tell Nara’enil’s story. The scant few times I’ve taken her IC have always been for other people. Each time I’ve changed her concept a little, just to make her more lore correct and to fit in with the other PCs’ stories. The sad thing was that they never progressed at all.

Though I’ve taken her IC more times this year than I did over the previous 12, I didn’t feel comfortable. It was, as I look back in retrospect, due to my changing a significant part of her personal backstory yet again to suit someone else’s character. After that character’s RPer decided to change that without consulting me - something that I was upset over - I surprisingly felt better reinstating that which I removed, and she felt whole again as a concept. It was as if this was what she was supposed to be, and not a someone that could be tweaked according to other people’s whims.

I went into detail before when I mused on the truth behind the characters I mained in my RP history, but they could all be summarised in this answer to a question in the guild I am in on another character:

‘What is your self analysis on why you RP what you RP?’

My answer:

I have a variety of chars over the years and are mostly a result, consciously or subconsciously, of:

1. Lack of bloody control of my real life things like WORK and STUPID PEOPLE (thanks NHS). So my first OC that I actually rped was a belf magistrix who TAKES ZERO SHITS and will tell it like it is. Like House MD.

2. My being chronically low key or at times high key unhappy IRL so I made characters who are easy going and live/let live. For eg, my orc warrior who is exactly like that. Simple life simple goals, like slaughtering quillboar and evil asshats, and then going home and looking after her wolf.

Most of my chars are some variation of these two for balance. Can’t rp a moody char all the time so I need to balance it out with a chill one.

3. Atypical paladin archetypes, born from a goddman desire to do some damn good for people, regardless of the circumstances and how goddamn HARD it is. (Thanks NHS). Also a way to explore the ways you can have a purpose in life that’s not associated with reverence or belief in anything “divine”.

RPing these archetypes came at a time when I needed to process my own healing journey from depression and all the Emotional Baggage that came with it. I think these have been my favourite chars looking at my record. There’s always some aspect or other creeping into non paladin chars of mine.

What is interesting is that over the years, the types of characters I played also slowly progressed in this manner, from the aloof and serious, to the more laid back, to attempts to find a light in the darkness and the hope to carry on through the worst moments of my life.

I play two characters concurrently now. My gnome mage does not have an RP blog but she is my go to for IC interactions as she belongs in a guild. She is also the chill character to balance out Nara’enil, whom I have had some RP only with people I know, because I still haven’t been comfortable interacting with the rest of the community.

As I quietly processed the aftermath of the latest retcon, I slowly understood why Nara’enil took shape the way she did, and settled into the character she is: I want to explore what it is like to sit with sadness. Without the stoic heroism of trying to battle it with staunch belief or principle or inner strength, like I did with my paladin characters.

ACT is something that has done more world of good for me than anything else in my healing journey. It’s not always possible to soldier on and force yourself to carry the beacon of hope. Because if you’re always trying not to feel the sadness, then the sadness will always be there chasing you. Sometimes you just need to stop running away and sit down with it. Feel it without indulging it - instead be curious about it.

And then you let it go.

Grief is an emotion that cannot be pushed away at will. It is something that needs to be felt in all of its stages. Whether they come in the classic textbook manner, or whether they come all at once or completely out of order. No two people grieve the same, but everyone needs to feel it and go through it in order to move on.

Ultimately, grief is a form of love. If there is no love lost, then grief would not exist in the first place. The analogy of it being a ball in a box is perfectly true in describing its imperfect nature. How the pain of it is triggered by that one button in the box whenever the ball strikes it, and the pain intensity doesn’t diminish - it’s the ball that grows smaller with time, support, and love both from other people as well as from yourself. It grows smaller with healing.

Sitting and feeling awful emotions. Acknowledging them. Understanding where they come from and why. These are things that are part of an ongoing journey of healing. Sometimes you end up pushing people away and choosing to be alone. Sometimes it’s learning that not everyone grows with you. Sometimes it’s learning that you are not alone and that there are people who do love you and are there for you. Sometimes it’s the process of learning all or one or some of these hard truths. Sometimes it’s learning that you’re not the person you used to be, and you have to discover who that is after a lifetime of being someone else.

At this stage, after so many years of RP, I have come full circle in realising that sometimes the best stories don’t always have to come in collaboration with others. Sometimes the best stories are the ones that you tell on your own, because they are just as precious and significant to you, even if they are not for anyone else including those whom you collaborated with. That’s important too, no?

[box0pals]

Scarlet.

Fandom: No Delivery. Age Rating: Mature to Adult. Themes: Fight Rp RPG, Narration, Modern, Slice of Life, Cooking, Mystery, Capitalism, Dystopian Capitalism, Comedy, Gag, Horror, Fantasy, Dark Themes, Blood, Death, Intense Gore. Triggers: Murdered children and customers are a big thing to this. Portrayal: I have mapped the entire game out, along with icons, essentially this is the 'Manager' character. Largely part joke, part serious as No Delivery is more or less a horror game but also rather humorous and pokes fun at the Haunted Pizzeria Trope as well. Summary: -Is a Pizza Lich secretly that more or less is just a joke. Can wish-grant if she likes you enough/you work for her for a while. -You will be given an employee slip that I make if you desire to work at The Establishment(tm). Along with a fired board if your muse quits ic, otherwise ooc halting or otherwise is fine if you just want to drop it entirely. -You will gain multiple rpg moves instead of normal combat based either on your characters personality or their moveset within The Establishment due to the anomalous nature. So even beings that are normally world destroying here can be bodied if they're not careful, then meanwhile beings that normally don't fight will also assume their own roles. It's primarily a strategy rpg rather than levels but is fairly funny at times. As I've had a Succubus character from someone in the past have the move 'Twerk' as an offensive dps damaging ability that also drops aggro and made the enemies target someone else before that I rped with. -You will get to explore The Establishment and for the rare off chance you played or watched the game? I do have my own fanmade areas and even bosses, dialogues, along with employees that can help you. -The bios gives a full, more indepth and probably needed explanation because of how bizarre this game, the setting, and character is.

>Full Bios Link Here<

[rpbetter]

Hey there, check out this pinned post first!

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Due to recent events, I am changing this rule. It’s hard for me to receive messages unexpectedly, and I hate to imply that I’ll be able to get to these quicker because it isn’t the truth. Quicker, better responses come from the inbox. However, there have been too many incidents lately in which people needed to speak privately and had to make that a request. If you’re having a problem and need to vent, request sensitive advice, etc.? It’s alright, go ahead and drop me a PM, y’all. I’ll get back to you as soon as I am able. Please, do not be angry with me if I respond to inbox things or my queue is running! You’re important to me, I just might not have the requisite social cognition and energy you deserve at that time.

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Addition to the above: this is not a blog in which it will be tolerated that commentators or those submitting with the URLS are targeted for callouts, shaming, or other instances of bullying. No, I cannot make those people stop bothering you by blocking them, but the least I can do is address that by shutting down their access to this blog and it’s posts by blocking on the URLs I have for them. And I will. Fuck that “we can’t be responsible for” shit. It’s my blog, it’s my content I’m putting out there, I’m not going to just ignore shit like what went down over on COAR, thanks. Not. Cool.

This is definitely not a place for:

people who think giving muses labels, including top/bottom “dynamics,” is a good substitute for character traits, personality, and development

those with no reading comprehension skills

folks dependent upon aesthetics and aesthetics-based purple prose as filler for actual writing

anti-original character/just wants to fuck a FC or canon character club, get the fuck out immediately

y’all who see writing as an obstacle to getting down to action, be that smut, drama, or fight scenes...it’s literally a writing hobby

politics, any manner of phobe or ism, violent/non-inclusive feminists, purity/rpc/fandom/content police of any manner, and exactly any manner of racism, sexism, or religious intolerance - I give not a shit if it’s popular to hate the straights, for example, I neither believe in nor tolerate reactionary classifying of any group as blanket-statement evil

people who are going to tack onto my posts shit like, “it’s okay, OP, you can say x character.” Trust me, if I were talking about one character, I fucking would name drop them, don’t bring me into your fandom drama, I doubt I know or want to know who that anime guy is who looks like 12 other anime guys to me.

About Vespertine

You can call me that, Vespertine. I’d rather you didn’t go with Vesper, but as it is unfortunately so likely to happen, I won’t feed you to the dogs over it either. RPB Mun is also acceptable.

I’m alright with either she/her or he/him, they/them is also fine. Apparently, that was big enough clue-in for the poor reading comp crowd, so while I feel it is not of importance, I’m nonbinary, yes.

Late 30′s, chronically ill but still working adult with neurodivergence. I’m both busy and Busy, and always sick. This limits my brain power and ability to be here. I have an active RP blog that I won’t be sharing to keep responsible distance. That is always going to be my priority, it is my primary hobby.

Please, don’t tumblr message me totally random things if we don’t have that kind of relationship! I’m too ill and busy, and it really fucks my nerves to have a bunch of messages/have to suddenly interact socially with people. Don’t do it. Use my inbox, use the submit, comment on posts. I cannot do random messages of “hey” and so forth.

I only do written RP, don’t expect me to understand much of anything from tabletop. I’ve RPed for the last 23 years consistently, on every platform from AOL chats to forums to messengers and here. I also don’t do RP in discord, so I’m sorry, but I can’t advise you much on anything with a word count, except to stop it for serious RP. Other than that, I promise you that I’ve seen the trends, the drama, the fandoms. I can give a lot of advice and perspective on a wide range of topics, situations, and characters! When I don’t have a clue at all, I’ll try to do enough research to give you an answer.

Do I come off as a horrible, strict asshole? I do! I’m not going to say that I am just a shy bean who is more scared of you than you are me. I’m not. I’m honestly feral, but have common decency, compassion, and sense. All of which are lacking in the general RPC. So, if you can inbox/common/otherwise interact with anyone else on this site, you can totally handle me!

Honesty and openness are policies.

And in the spirit of that, I repeat; you can fucking do better, tumblr RPC!

[savedpeople]

5. Do you prefer interacting with male muses or female more? Why? 8. Name any three things about the rpc that bother you. 11. What do you know now about rp that you wish you knew when you first started? 20. Have you ever felt pressured to write something you weren’t comfortable with? 38. What advice would you give to someone new to rp?

The be honest meme | Accepting | @wexarethewalkingxdead

I have no preference. As long as it’s a cool character that I think would be fun to write with, I don’t care what gender a muse is. I’ve had more bad experiences with female muses, but it hasn’t affected my desire to write with them.

Three things about the rpc that bothers me... 1. The trend of putting lots of spaces between words in replies. I can’t read that. 2. For twd rpc, the lack of variety of characters to write with (this isn’t anyone’s fault, but I miss the days when it was more active and we had more of the characters being written.) 3. This is a personal preferences and there’s nothing wrong with them but multimuse blogs with like 50+ muses bother me. I can’t justify following a blog for just one or two muses when it means filling my dash with content from dozens of other fandoms I’m not interested in.

I wish I knew not to take RP so seriously, and that it’s not worth the stress or drama or anything else I put myself through in the first couple years I RPed.

I’ve felt somewhat pressured to write things a few times. Especially when I was newer, I felt pressure to write things I wasn’t interested in or wasn’t sure of because I didn’t know how to say no, and didn’t want to upset the other person (especially if they were a friend.) There’s also those ask memes that are like, “send a symbol for my muse to react to yours doing an action,” where I’ve been sent the reverse so my muse had to do it to theirs instead, and it’d be something I could never see my muse doing to them but I felt like I needed to answer it anyway.

Advice to someone new to RP: try not to compare yourself to others. Don’t worry about what others are doing, or what the current trends are. As long as you’re having fun and your writing partners are having fun, that’s all that matters.

[cruelgcd]

Hiya you don't know personally but I wanted to thank you for the heads up regarding Tasha through a mutual friend. I feel I majorly dodged a bullet there, lol. I unfollowed her and blocked her after she brought one of my followers to a rbp and she just keeps following on other blogs. :-/ but anyway thanks. there should be a callout post about her and her fake fan club tbqh.

Well I’m glad you saw the light on that one. Tasha IS very manipulative and hurt me and one of my best friends. I don’t believe in callout posts, I think most of them are made to draw attention to one’s self, and personally I don’t like to make a reputation out of bringing someone down.

But yeah, Tasha has so so many red flags and we were too open and friendly to see them. I think the biggest ones are:

She assumes plot points without consulting you first ( Her muses kept antagonizing mine and another friend’s God muse, even when our muses had done nothing to theirs, solely for the sake of keeping her muses on the high ground)

She doesn’t respect when other people have mains. Me and my friends had to create an entire Out Of Character plot point for her muses to fit our narrative because she thought she was our main when she had never plotted this with us (even when we specified it SEVERAL times)

She manipulates people into creating muses for her, especially muses that fit her own personal desires like: muses with a faceclaim that has a romantic involvement with her muse’s FC. She specially goes for people who know are prone to creating muses here and there to please other partners.

We made the mistake of bringing her to our RP server and she kept bringing people we didn’t even know without consulting with any of the mods or even checking if we were mutuals with these people???

Sidenote to that one: since me and the mods put up a warning about doing that, she created a server that was IDENTICAL from ours and kept stealing the skelleton of our RP.

Sidenote 2 on that: If you rped in her server, you’d have to follow her rules and she’d have to approve on your headcanons, otherwise she would get SUPER UPSET and bully the person into dropping that headcanon so fear of her never rping with you lmao

There are many other things, specific situations that were like “yikes” like how one of her partners is keen on bringing up heavy subjects like violence, miscarriage, abuse, death, etc. (and this one person was also a piece of work, kept trying to force people into being their friend and force them to rp with them and guilt trip you if you didn’t, saying they’d kill themselves and throwing tantrums) and she went along with it “for the sake of the plot” without thinking how it would affect the people that were obligued to see that situation in her server or how would they feel about it.

like, it’s no surprive we all left her server after that, me and my mains we’re better off on our own without her bullshit, and I hope people are seeing her for what it is without having to endure all the shit we had to.

[linchxpin]

MUNDAY: MEET THE MUN

Quote: “It’s easier to leave harsh words unspoken than to mend a heart those words have broken.” is a favorite >>

NAME/ALIAS: masha

AGE: 31

LOCATION: TornadoLand

JOB: atm, none, but i’m looking

PETS: two min-pins named frankie and ringo (or frankie doodle and ringo bee, as i’m more apt to call them fjfjdka;)

MOST PRIZED POSSESSION: i mean. the dogs, probably. also my collection of flash drives ffjeia;gh

ROLEPLAYING HISTORY: i first roleplayed 5000 years ago on gaiaonline when i was like. 13, 14 or so. those were all OC roleplays that usually required me to create an OC almost on the spot lmao. fast forward like ten years later, and i impulsively began talking to a fellow kfp fan from tumblr about a story they had in mind, and we RPed a little on skype, and uh. well, that basically led to me creating my first RP blog here on tumblr :o the idea had crossed my mind before when i was still in a different fandom, because ask blogs were Very popular in that fandom and i fell headfirst into following All of them lmao but i ended up getting into RPing more so than ask blogs shrugs

FAVOURITE GENRES: stORY THREADS...... i’m so gd soft for characters telling stories to each other and i so rarely get to write them lies down. i also love comedy bc i’ve always gravitated toward the lighthearted, dumb stuff lmao i enjoy making people laugh that said, i’m also a sucker for those good, good argument/debate threads, which i haven’t gotten the opportunity to write in a little while. shen is usually the go-to muse for that bc he’s. Himself. but roh is also sometimes hit with them, aha i also love threads that take place in very surreal or dreamlike settings, but i haven’t done one of those in an extremely long time

POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES: i mean. idk, i’m smart. i value that ._. very patient, very willing to always give the benefit of a doubt. i’m an optimist by nature, and i honestly think most people have the innate desire to Do Good, so while i’m quite. closed-off, perhaps rip, it’s not at all out of suspicion thinking emoji

NEGATIVE ATTRIBUTES: i know i’m insecure and always lowkey feel like no one is interested orz i’m also a giant flake rip. i overthink things, and i have tiny, tiny reserves of creative energy orz

SUMMING UP THE BLOG(S): every one of my muses can probably be summed up by this tumblr post

[huds-hub]

THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE; MUN & MUSE - MEME

FILL OUT & REPOST ♥ This meme definitely favors canons more, but I hope OC’s still can make it somehow work with their own lore, and lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multi-Muses pick the muse you are the most invested in atm.

Stolen from @mrfunnybone. Since this meme has a bias for canon muses, I’m tagging two of my favorite canon writers that I know didn’t fill this out yet: @soulcoerced and @spearslinger (I wonder if a fellow Undyne RPer has a different take on some of these questions? ^^;;). For everyone else, feel free to steal it and tag me if you do! I’m curious to see how OC muns answer some of these questions...

MY MUSE IS:   CANON / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless / complicated [[ The adult version of my muse is canon, but her teenage equivalent is not present anywhere in Undertale / Deltarune. So, uh… canon but kind of complicated I guess??? I like describing my muse as canon-wise. My Deltarune fishies are undoubtedly AUs at most, canon-divergent at least. ]]

[[ Mun’s note: I’m going to cheat on this. For the next 8 questions, I’ll answer for both Undyne as my teen muse AND regular adult canon Undertale Undyne. My thoughts on her counts as something, right? My muse is based on canon! ]]

Is your character popular in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK [[ Undyne’s character to the rest of the fandom is unpopular (compared to Sans, Chara, Gaster, etc…). It’s a shame, because her dialogue portraits alone would make great meme fodder. HOWEVER, among Undyne fans, I notice there’s an interest in depicting her early years because she’s one of the few cast members who’s had their childhood explicitly mentioned. ]]

Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom?  YES / NO / IDK [[ She’d better not be, because my muse is a  C H I L D. As far as I’ve seen, canon adult Undyne is depicted more often as a ‘badass’ than a ‘sexy fish.’ ]]

Is your character considered strong in the fandom?  YES / NO / IDK [[ Younger Undyne is definitely interpreted to be a determined, tough kid. Of course it’s the same for adult canon Undyne. It’s basically her most distinct character trait. ]]

Are they underrated?  YES / NO / IDK [[ Lordy, Undyne as a whole is entirely underrated by the fandom... ]]

Were they relevant for the main story?  YES / NO [[ OMG... you’re gonna get me started. I’m marking ‘no’ on this question because this is supposed to be about my aged-down muse. But Undyne... sweet violent Undyne’s very important to Undertale’s story! *fangirling START* Besides being the mid-point antagonist in the game, Undyne adds a layer of the theme of DETERMINATION to the game and how it can manifest in monsters if their bodies are strong enough to handle it. In an allegorical sense, she represents extremism in reaction to oppression and how that passion can take on the form of extreme love or extreme hatred depending on circumstance. So HELL YEAH she’s important to the main story of the game! AAAHILoveThisFish!! *fangirling END* ]]

Were they relevant for the main character? YES / NO / THEY’RE THE PROTAG. [[ Same as the previous answer for my teen Undyne: begrudgingly marking this with a ‘no’... It’s a YES for canon Undyne. In all routes, original game’s Undyne is the first character who is purposefully trying to kill the Player. Players can’t get the best ending without helping her hook up with Alphys and not incurring her wrath by killing any monster. In the worst ending, she’s one of the two antagonists that put up enough of a fight to make any player abort the Genocide Route. ]]

Are they widely known in their world? YES / NO [[ My muse WANTS to be significant to her world. In the original game, Undyne’s only mentioned by others in Snowdin and Waterfall (not counting Alphys in Hotland). She’s described as a “local hero” by Gerson. I get a sense she’s not exactly famous to the people in the entire Underground compared to, say, Mettaton. ]]

How’s their reputation?  GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL [[ Oof. Pretty sure my teen fish annoys the residence of Waterfall for being a loud-mouthed little scamp. The only reason she’s not considered ‘bad’ is because it’s pent-up energy and misguidedness, not flat-out cruelty. In canon, it seems like the people who talk about Undyne do it in either a positive or neutral light. You have Monster Kid, Papyrus, and Onionsan singing her praises. The Royal Guard members respect her. Asgore thought of her well enough to have her lead his military. Uhh, for a neutral instance, I remember an NPC in Snowdin saying she’s “loud, rude, and beats up anybody who gets in her way” (I don’t remember the exact quote). To weigh this more on the side of my muse, I’ll mark this answer as ‘neutral.’ ]]

HOW STRICTLY DO YOU FOLLOW CANON?  [[ Since I have an aged-down character, canon is literally my END GOAL! I gave her a “starting point” on her journey to the determined, dedicated, and excitable warrior fish we all know and love from the game. I filled in the gaps from there, using parts of her past mentioned in the game to glue the headcanons together. Deciding what she was like when she was younger – What’s her family background? What aspects about her changed as she matures? What internal and external conflicts would she deal with as a teen? – THAT’S the non-canon part. My Deltarune AUs are… different. Canon is my end goal too, but the timelines are all wonky to fit the needs of wanting to interact with the Fun Gang. LOL ]]

SELL YOUR MUSE! AKA TRY TO LIST EVERYTHING, WHICH MAKES YOUR MUSE INTERESTING IN YOUR OPINION TO MAKE THEM SPICY FOR YOUR MUTUALS.   [[ This kid is spunky, loyal, compassionate of the plight of her people, and will see through anything she sets her mind to, despite life’s barriers. She’s got a lot of pent-up energy and is searching for what she can do with it to help her achieve her goal of setting Monsterkind free! ]]

NOW THE OPPOSITE, LIST EVERYTHING WHY YOUR MUSE COULD NOT BE SO INTERESTING (EVEN IF YOU MAY NOT AGREE, WHAT DOES THE FANDOM PERHAPS THINK?).  [[ The teen fishy has a streak of selfishness and short-sightedness. Being honest, Undyne would be a racial supremacist if she existed in real life. Big yikes. Also, she’s willingly being trained as a child soldier. Another big yikes right there. ]]

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO RP YOUR MUSE?   [[ Ages ago, I RPed the adult version of Undyne, which resulted in a bunch of headcanons for her past. I had no desire to RP any of them after it ended. A year later, I commissioned an artist for a Gerson vs. teen Undyne piece. That single-handedly made me want to get back into RPing again. ]]

WHAT KEEPS YOUR INSPIRATION GOING?   [[ My fellow RPers wanting to interact with this silly fishy! When I first started, I expected my interest to peter out over the months. I didn’t expect many RPers wanting to interact with an aged-down character. But here I am, wanting to expand my headcanons further and making AUs so I’m not limited to canon. ^^ It’s all thanks to you guys!! ]]

SOME MORE PERSONAL QUESTIONS FOR THE MUN.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

Do you think you give your character justice?  YES / NO / I SINCERELY HOPE I DO?

Do you frequently write headcanons?  YES / NO / SORT OF?     [[ I should do it more often TBH. But I find showing them via story-telling more fulfilling than just explicitly explaining them in posts. Plus, it gives me more leeway if I’m still playing around with an idea. ;) ]]

Do you sometimes write drabbles?  YES / NO  [[ I’m not counting the three pending drabbles until I finish them. ^^;; ]]

Do you think a lot about your Muse during the day? YES / NO [[ She finds a way to bother me! Usually in the form of sudden inspiration for how to respond to RPs. ]]

Are you confident in your portrayal? YES / NO / SORT OF? [[ Sometimes I wonder if I forgot some aspect about Undyne that’s in canon, or unintentionally exaggerating other less-important aspects of her other characteristics… ]]

Are you confident in your writing?  YES / NO / SORT OF? [[ Generally, yes. But I do have my days when I suffer from low self-confidence. ]]

Are you a sensitive person?  YES / NO. / SORT OF? [[ It depends on what’s meant by that. I’m sensitive to other people’s feelings, so I don’t intend to sound rude OOC, even if I’m expressing something negative about something I think the other did. If this is referring to being sensitive about events in RPs… my sensitivity is equivalent to that of being invested in any work of fiction. I know it’s not reality. I can pull away from the fictional world and it won’t bring down my real life. ]]

DO YOU ACCEPT CRITICISM WELL ABOUT YOUR PORTRAYAL?   [[ If it’s given in good faith and is constructive, sure. ]]

DO YOU LIKE QUESTIONS, WHICH HELP YOU EXPLORE YOUR CHARACTER?   [[ Hell yeah, give them to me! ]]

IF SOMEONE DISAGREES TO A HEADCANON OF YOURS, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY?  [[ It depends if they want to tell me. I don’t mind either way. Personally, I like hearing other people’s interpretations! ]]

IF SOMEONE DISAGREES WITH YOUR PORTRAYAL, HOW WOULD YOU TAKE IT?   [[ *shrug* It doesn’t matter as long as they don’t harass me. ]]

IF SOMEONE REALLY HATES YOUR CHARACTER, HOW DO YOU TAKE IT?   [[ I’d just ignore it. They don’t need to interact or follow me. If my muse really is a bother to them, they can block my account. ]]

ARE YOU OKAY WITH PEOPLE POINTING OUT YOUR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS?   [[ I hope my grammar’s good enough, or else my English degree studies went to waste! But yeah, sure. Fun fact: explaining grammar rules so people can avoid major errors in the future is more helpful than nit-picking insignificant errors without explanations. ]]

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE EASY GOING AS A MUN?   [[ As long as fellow RPers aren’t being rude OOC, don’t break any serious rules, or do something that I mention are personal triggers to me, I am easy-going! RPing is fun and it should stay that way for everybody involved! ]]

[annastrxng]

Name 10 different characters from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 people

I was tagged by the beautiful and fantastic @obsessingoverdownton (Thanks a bunch darling)

Anna Strong -Turn Washington’s Spies,

Bonnie Barstow- Knight Rider, Officer Stacy Sheridan - T.J. Hooker, Dartagnan- BBC Musketeers,

Lady Marian of Knighton- BBC Robin Hood, Alexis Harper Castle-Castle, Gael- Narnia Voyage of the Dawn Treader,

 Agent 99 of Control- Get Smart, Officer Dominic Luca- S.W.A.T 1975, Aurora Luft X- Company

Tagging: @virginiandelicate, @badsurfer, @untothisstorm, @twatisms @dartagnan-the-champion @riffrcffed @riffraffstreetratidontbuythat @queen-yggdrasil @kimchihoe @elizahamiltonholly  @temperedfinest @fiightiing @thepolyesterprince @innocentmanwithabounty @matta-of-fact and anyone else who should like to do this

[crossed--fates]

5, 11, 12

Questions for mun

5. What is the most difficult thing about writing your current muse?

[I don’t know exactly... Since I enjoy writing characters like Yomiel, with sad, tragic backstories and psycological issues, I think I already have some experience writing this kind of character. What I think is a bit challenging is writing Shard because I haven’t written him much on this blog and haven’t had many threads with him. What I think is challenging about him is his constant anger and desire for revenge and to hurt others because I always feel bad about the poor soul he is messing with! But I think this just means I’m doing a good job with him? Idk!]

11. When did you start roleplaying?

[I think it was in 2012, if my memory is clear enough lol. I started rping a character from a Dragon Ball webcomic called Dragon Ball Multiverse, an alternate version of Bra (Bulla) and I joined a big Dragon Ball RP group at the time. ]

12. Have you roleplayed anywhere other than tumblr?

[Yes! In a site called Ask.fm. We only RPed there with other brazilians so all my RPing there was in portuguese. I was a part of a big Dragon Ball group at the time but soon other characters from other fandoms joined in too and we even had a Game Master who was conducting our adventures, creating bosses for us to defeat and Character Arcs. It was a very good time and I had lots of fun and I made some good friends too! I miss it dearly.]

[tenrkarchive]

happy #rkfifth ! PT. 1

so, i’ve finally found some time to get around to this! rkfifth is a big thing for me, so i definitely wanted to write something for it!

i first joined rookies back at the very end of 2015 with rkjaehyung. he was a pet shop worker who managed to hit it off with a lot of people really quickly, but sadly he didn’t last long, and was soon replaced by a muse i still hold very close to my heart despite him not surviving long either. that muse was rkhansol/solrk. he was my first dancer muse who, in all honesty, wasn’t very nice to begin with. it took a special friend (rkbyxngjoo) to loosen him up and make him a lot less cold towards people he didn’t know. sadly, having been hit really hard by his first failure after trying to get signed, and rkbjoo’s departure, i let him go, and subsequently took a break from rp for a few months.

when i returned, i came back with rkhyukkie. he was another muse i cherished a lot (which was clear from how many times i brought him back over the years). to this day i still somewhat miss him, and have to stop myself from throwing everything away to bring him back. he started out as a playful, witty, and genuinely surprising (for me) at how he changed from me thinking him up, to him actually interacting with people. he fell in love, but he ended up being dropped too, then brought back a few months later, and once again didn’t last long. i realised there was something off with him, that kept me from finding a comfy way of writing him, to keep him a stable muse, so i left him alone for a while. 

after him, i had multiple muses, i also brought back rkhansol, who was now solrk. he was nicer, having been living life peacefully pursuing dance in the months i hadn’t rped him. he was still in love, and still living in a dingy little apartment though, but this time he managed to snag the boy, and eventually decided he’d rather not be an idol, but simply stick to dancing in other ways, so that he could have a more peaceful life with his boyfriend. 

after this point my memory gets hazy and i know i had rkshiah (who may have been before solrk but im super unsure on this one) for a while somewhere, but she didn’t have as much impact on me as minhyuk and hansol had. 

then comes december 7th of 2016, and this is where something frankly miraculous happened. tenrk was born. i’d been a very casual fan on nct since they debuted in april of that year, but hadn’t gotten truly deep into stanning them. on a whim i thought ‘hey this guys cute, i’ll rp him and see how it goes!’. i had no idea at that time that tenrk would become something so special to me. he started out very different. he was sarcastic, and liked to tease people. he liked sports, and was more creative than charismatic, but after i started stanning irl ten, tenrk became heavily influenced by him (without me even trying). he softened up a lot, and his attention moved away from creativity, and he became less of a cheeky, annoying teen boy, and more of a tender, sweet young man who loved nothing more than dancing and his friends. 

throughout 2017 i had multiple muses, all of whom i cannot remember (i’m so sorry to all of them). none lived long, because beside tenrk, none of them could really stand up to how important he was to me and how much i enjoyed writing him. towards the end of 2017 i had dahyunrk and rkdaniel, but later dropped dahyun and swapped daniel out for rkhyuk.

now, to this day i still adore rkhyuk, who was a more mature, calm version of rkhyukkie. in a way, he was rkhyukkie, but with a few changes in his past. he lasted quite a while, which was rather surprising to me after how rkhyukkie didn’t hold up well, but rkhyuk, sadly, went through multiple heartbreaks in his time here. people he cared about leaving took a toll on him and eventually he became lonely, and being an idol just wasn’t what he wanted anymore. he tried his hand in the mgas, but it only solidified for him how he didn’t care much for performing anymore. whether it was due to the sadness he was battling with, or him just having grown out of his desire to be an idol, i’m still not sure, but i do know i still miss him, and i still want to rework him as a muse and if possible bring him back one day to try and get him that happily ever after he always dreamed of. 

during the time i had rkhyuk lucas debuted, and as adamant as i was about not falling for someone so loud and seemingly heterosexual (lol im sorry down with the hets bois), his soft side quickly showed, and i fell for the tall goofball. yukheirk was born on march 7th 2018. he was one of those muses who seemed to hit it off well with people to begin with (though that died down a lot later on sadly). he was that typical hetero ‘no homo bro’ type guy, which was really just him hiding a deep fear for his suspected bisexuality. 

yukheirk went through a lot in only his first few months here. he dated two girls, kissed na jaemin (sorry donghyuck), had a sexual awakening and feel in love, all before his horrible accident that ended his skating career. he became rkxuxi after adopting the nickname sicheng called him as his official name, since the name he chose for his skating career, lucas, now brought only bad memories. he’s still recovering now, many months after the accident, but now he’s got the boy of his dreams, and is working towards full recovery, and a happier outlook on life. he has some exciting things planned, and a bit of a change of direction in a way, but you’ll just have to wait to see all that!

now, for my newest baby, who honestly, i’ve been neglecting a little (especially since i started working recently it’s taken up a lot of my time). on september 26th 2018, rkguanheng arrived in rookies, who i talked about a lot before actually bringing him in. for a while he was just for fun dm rping, but he seemed so different to my current muses that i felt it would be beneficial to me to bring him in. he’s not as easily pacified as ten and xuxi, and speaks up when someone does something that bothers him. he’s not afraid of ruining budding relationships by speaking up when someone’s done something that upsets him, and that’s what i like about him. ten and xuxi are more likely to grin and bare things in silence, guanheng, however, knows when something isn’t fair.

guanheng is the most focused muse i have - he’s a creative writer. currently not a great dancer (and i don’t think he ever really will be) which is so unlike my muses (i’m such a sucker for dancers). i really like him so far, and am excited to write for him more when i find the time to plot more and get him really going. 

but for now i think that’s the entirety of my history here at rookies. i didn’t really go much into depth on tenrk, but all i really can say is he’s been through so much over the years, and having just passed his two year mark (which i studpidly missed as usual), he’s my longest ever tumblr rp muse. writing for him is almost like writing a journal sometimes, because out of all my muses, he’s the most like me. i put so much of myself into him that i suppose that’s why he’s lasted so long. to lose him would be like losing 2 years of my life. he’s had heartbreaks, emotional rollercoasters, and became one of the first boys in rookies to debut. when i first came to rookies, all those years back in 2015, i never thought i’d be here today, with a muse lasting longer than 2 years, who’s debuted, and had such a long romantic storyline, but, here’s the proof.

this is only part one of my rkfifth post, and since this has gotten so long, i want to stop here and make another post to thank each and every person who has made my time here so amazing. 

[gruntadminloch-moved]

Romance Meme Thing

tagged: @shadowlyheroine

tagging:  Everyone interested in doing so!

Repost, don’t Reblog

Nᴀᴍᴇ: Ua “Lochlann” Kahu Nɪᴄᴋɴᴀᴍᴇꜱ: Loch, Lelehuna(unused at present), Lochy(Des, Scary,) Puppy(Plumeria,) probably others? Gᴇɴᴅᴇʀ: transmale with a question mark at the end that he stares at for a moment before erasing, but the imprint is still on the page. Oʀɪᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ: Kinda verse dependent?  Gray-pan* covers it pretty well across the board Pʀᴇғᴇʀʀᴇᴅ Pᴇᴛ Nᴀᴍᴇꜱ: He doesn’t have any problems with the ones he’s recieved so far Rᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱʜɪᴘ Sᴛᴀᴛᴜꜱ: Verse dependent; usually single

Fᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ Cᴀɴᴏɴ Sʜɪᴘꜱ: All the RP ships are canon since he’s an OC ufufu  Fᴀᴠᴏʀɪᴛᴇ Nᴏɴ﹣Cᴀɴᴏɴ Sʜɪᴘꜱ: At the same time, they’re all non-canon! Because he’s an OC lol. 

A ϙᴜɪᴄᴋ ɴᴏᴛᴇ ᴏɴ ꜱʜɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ: Slow burns are A++.  Chemistry is a requirement, even if that chemistry is just us discussing their chemistry and history, but I love playing things out and just seeing where they go and greatly prefer that to ‘we should ship!’ and expecting things to just. Happen as a result.  At the very least, a few platonic interactions before seeing if something can actually be attempted is preferred, lol I and my muse prefer to feel things out.  Furthermore, I’m totally down for onesided feelings, crushes, bangmates, hateshipping, etc.  I’m also down for 'we don’t really talk about it oocly but they kinda figured it out themselves icly’ lol so if you’re worried over talking to me for some reason, just kinda come at loch! he gets attached fairly easily. You’ll have the easiest time with him if you’re a member of Team Skull, especially if you outrank or are on equal or similar ranking to him.  But I’m down for anyone and anything, really.

Furthermore, relationships with Loch will likely not be the healthiest.  Loch has somewhat stalkerish tendencies when he's interested in somebody(romantically or not, but especially romantically,) and his submissive and anxious nature will shine through if he’s very fond of someone, doing anything even if he doesn’t want to for the sake of their happiness.  Getting to a point of equivalence with him will likely take some time. Alternativly, it could stay unhealthy forever, which is also fine by me!!

Polyshipping/polyamory/same-verse-multishipping is very, very welcome here, so long as discussions have occurred between all involved muns.

OH AND MOST IMPORTANTLY romance is not my main thing for rping anymore. For a long time, in the past shippy stuff was like. All I ever rped. But I love characters and character exploration and I'm trying to learn development and advancement, so I’d love, love, LOVE to be able to have threads of them just…being them. Not necessarily on dates or doing romantic things, but.  Doing their own thing(s), but together. Working with the power of their relationship. Slice of life. Drama. Other genres, featuring this couple, not necessarily focused on them being a couple but being two people who are together, you know? One’s whole existence isn’t about their partner once they find one–there’s much, much more to life and to one’s individuality, and I don’t want to lose that.

Oᴘɪɴɪᴏɴ ᴏɴ Tʀᴜᴇ Lᴏᴠᴇ: He hasn’t really thought much about it.  He has other things on his mind. If love comes his way, then that’s pretty cool, but he’s not one to seek things out. However, he’s well aware of how feelings can come and go.  Assuming true love implies permanence or being fated or whathaveyou, he’s probably not one to believe in it, especially not in regards to himself. . .but he's sure others could enjoy such concepts more. He tends to consider himself more of a hold-over or an accessory to a relationship or partner than an actual partner. Hᴏᴡ ‘Rᴏᴍᴀɴᴛɪᴄ’ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ?: Not too romantic…? He’s pretty inexperienced in the ways of…emotions, period, let alone love.  He’ll try and imitate romantic behaviors as read about in books/seen on tv or movie or others’ relationships/expressed or recommended towards him/etc, but by nature he’s not too romantic if anything, he’s a little sporadic and, again, submissive/excessively selfless and will go out of his way for the sake of his partner’s will/interests.

Iᴅᴇᴀʟ Pʜʏꜱɪᴄᴀʟ Tʀᴀɪᴛꜱ: He’s not too picky. He tends to like people that are bigger than him, and he finds sharp teeth, strong smells, and inhuman features(not necessarily like. ears and tails although that too, but like. Again, sharp teeth, things like that.) Iᴅᴇᴀʟ Pᴇʀꜱᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ Tʀᴀɪᴛꜱ: Again, he's not picky at all.  Feelings just kinda happen for him…but he likes people who are kind to him, who respect Team Skull and his Master especially, people who are very individual-seeming and adventurous and. Interesting? People who seem like they have or are a story in and of themselves.  Authoritativeness is a plus, or maybe that’s his dependency showing…? Uɴᴀᴛᴛʀᴀᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ Pʜʏꜱɪᴄᴀʟ Tʀᴀɪᴛꜱ: None tha he’s aware of yet… . Uɴᴀᴛᴛʀᴀᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ Pᴇʀꜱᴏɴᴀʟɪᴛʏ Tʀᴀɪᴛꜱ: Enemies.  <:3   Uh.  Disrespect of his team. Disrespect of his superiors. Being a threat to him and those he cares for. Lying a lot/significantly/about important things without making up for it/improving in some way, traditionalness…???  He’s not considered it too much because he’s.  Easily attached.  When he likes someone he doesn’t think much of their negative sides lol…he admires them instead.  Complication and humanity/personhood appeal to him.<br>Iᴅᴇᴀʟ Dᴀᴛᴇ: He’s never thought about it! His response would, of course, be “whatever you’d like!,” but he’d most certainly enjoy trying out activities and engaging in hobbies together. Discovering what they do and don’t enjoy, eating at new places and new foods…discovering themselves,sharing their hobbies and stuff.  Being able to just. Indulge in each other.  Dᴏ ᴛʜᴇʏ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ ᴛʏᴘᴇ?: Gross men lol.  People with strong personalities and animalistic attributes to them, people who care about him as an individual and especially help him find himself or influence his personality to some extent, sometimes someone authoritative or overbearing is kind of nice…?  But he’s fallen for all sorts.

Aᴠᴇʀᴀɢᴇ Rᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱʜɪᴘ Lᴇɴɢᴛʜ: So far none of his relationships have really ended, kinda??  Hes never really had one before present. . .kinda.

Pʀᴇғᴇʀʀᴇᴅ Nᴏɴꜱᴇxᴜᴀʟ Iɴᴛɪᴍᴀᴄʏ: Close proximity. Holding each other. Sharing space. Caring for each other. Doing things for them. Doing things they do. Cᴏᴍᴍɪᴛᴍᴇɴᴛ Lᴇᴠᴇʟ: LOCH IS.  Loyal. And committed. But also easily influenced and it is possible to cause him to cheat by making him think that he’s strongly needed or desired by another party.  .furthermore, loch doesn’t consider most of his relationships committed relationships unless, like, plainly stated. Again, he sees himself as more of an accessory–a friend with benefits or a sidebitch kinda deal. So he may mess around, cluelessly, not realizing his partner thinks it’s just supposed to be them.  It kinda depends on the person. He’s not bothered much by cheating, himself–again, he doesn’t really see himself as a proper partner anyway so his partner being with someone else is very rarely an issue for him…but if someone makes him out to be important and valued then seems to disregard him, he’ll get upset and panicky and lonely.  Oᴘɪɴɪᴏɴ ᴏғ Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Aғғᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ: Loch is an easily flustered bean.  He enjoys public affection, but he’ll likely be embarrassed or shy about it depending on what it is/where they are/how he’s feeling.comfort levels/etc.  Pᴀꜱᴛ Rᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱʜɪᴘꜱ: He and @deliveryboi had something…it’s kind of ambiguous as to what, though.  (´・ω・`)  If you mean other ships…a few Guzmas, two other skull grunts, and two skull admins, kinda.  I feel like there were others, but I’ve had a long hiatus lol

[dapperfvck-arc]

What drew you to start roleplaying? Is there anything you would do differently if you here to start over?

I was on tumblr hmmm...roughly six months or so before I started RPing. It was a personal/fandom/fanfic type of deal. Anyway, so of course I made some friends via fandom stuff like ya do and one of them got into RPing. So I was seeing this stuff and thought it looked neat and she was telling me about the experience and so I made a blog for one of the main characters of the fandom I was all over at the time. Also was experiencing a bit of writer's block with fanfic, so I thought that maybe it would help shake that rut. Hmm...I think we all made mistakes in the beginning. I wish I hadn't gotten a writer friend on here involved in RPing, promising her a ship only to abruptly lose interest in it when I suddenly started getting so into a ship with another mun's muse that I went single ship with them. Which...was kind of awkward since we predominately RPed on Skype. So here I was, writing an extremely popular and desirable character and single ship with an invisible partner. They had a blog on tumblr, mind, but they were rarely on it. Anyway, kinda shitty of me. I was also not so great with plotting in the beginning. Like...I wouldn't say that I expected people to come to me with ideas, but I was very inflexible. Granted my muse's situation in canon made him difficult to crossover with other fandoms a lot, but I could have made verses or something. Been more open-minded Idek. There was a lot of back scene, interpersonal drama that I let people drag me into. Probably because I was depressed and had too much time on my hands being unemployed and stressed out by a failing and frankly abusive relationship. I was using RP as escapism in a lot of ways, but not in a healthy way. When I started writing John, it was a bit like starting over. My previous fandom was dying and I was losing my muse as John got louder and I just fell hard with him. Most of my partners were either severely inactive or long since gone, so when I started up in the DC/Marvel end no one really knew me from the other aside from a couple. I've tried to learn from my previous experience to be a better partner and writer. Well. I do have one other thing I wish I could change, but yeah. Just um, wish I'd had more time with someone before they were gone. That's all.

[jamesonandhotbrass]

Odds

1. What are your thoughts on call out posts?

ngl i think they’re pretty dumb, if they’re serious? Especially with how fucking toxic this website can be. The call out posts that are like “Call out for @dream-bringer for being an A+ dad” or like really dumb ones like “Call out for @Stiles bc she makes me excited about too many aus” are my favorite. But yeah. Serious ones are fuckin’ lame. 3. If you’ve been rping on Tumblr since 2012 or the years before that, is it different than what it once was?

UUUUh well, given the that none of the people i RPed with back then are still on (Spare one) it’s pretty different. And the weirdly formatted posts? What’s up with that???5. Which one of your muses was short-lived?

Lmao i think I had a Dean Winchester blog for legit two weeks once7. Which fandom do you want to rp in or crossover to with your muse?

ALL OF THEM? uh, but i mean, I don’t know that I have any that I have a burning desire for because I usually just go make them cause I’m lame and have no self control. Overwatch might be fun, but I have no idea how do?9. Have you ever done something you regret?A whole lotta things. In RP terms, I’ve abandoned a lotta blogs and promptly forgot passwords. I’ve RPed with a lot of people I probably shouldn’t have because negative influences are a hell of a thing. 11. How long can you see yourself rping on Tumblr or on any other websites?

Hell, I dunno. Because I love doing it, but Tumblr isn’t super great for it. I’m always down for doing silly, simple things on Skype/Doscord and whatever. So Probably for the foreseeable future?

13. Be honest. What’s your opinion on the role play community on Tumblr?

I only have this little corner I’ve carved out for myself so I can’t speak to much. Buuuut i’ve met some really great people in the last few years and have witnessed some really shitty people do really shitty things. So i mean, there’s good and bad. I don’t LOVE it, but I don’t hate it either.

[minstrelmaglor]

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What drew you to rping this character?

((...This is gonna sound weird, but honestly?  Logic.  Maglor was the logical extension of my desire to have a character with the potential to play across ALL areas of the Tolkien timeline--WITHOUT needing to create any AU’s.  That’s my thing with RP blogs, usually.  I don’t dislike AU’s, but it’s just easier for me if I RP 90% of my blog’s content in the same verse, on the same timeline.  (It makes AU’s that much easier to keep track of, honestly.)  And when I got into Russingon fanfiction--which was my gateway back into the Tolkien fandom after a decade, I’m not ashamed to admit it--I thought long and hard about which muse to play--and for once it wasn’t about who I had the muse for, but what I wanted out of my roleplaying experience.  I have never done that before; I always am the type to roll with whatever my creative inclinations are yammering at the moment.  

Maglor ended up being a perfect choice for me.  He can be played across the entire timeline AND the whole of human history without changing verses...AND he scratches my itch for mental illness, chronic illness, FAMILY FEELS, and ANGST.  Plus he isn’t just a music nerd, he is THE music nerd, and if you’ve ever RPed with any of my other muses, you’ll know that 99% of them are music nerds. XD; ))

What’s a similarly you have with your character?

((Nerdiness over music for sure, although I’m OBVIOUSLY not anywhere close to Maglor’s level of skill or expertise. XD;  

Another thing is my devotion to my family, my siblings in particular.  I know a lot of people say that they would die for some friends or certain family members, but I’ve thought long and hard about my relationship to my family on both an emotional and cerebral level.  It’s because my dad remarried when I was 14 and I got two sisters out of the deal, and I felt like if I was going to make our relationship as siblings work, I needed to stay on top of my emotional self-awareness and actively be the best sibling I can be.  Contentiously being there for my siblings, and asking nothing in return, is something Maglor have very much in common.  So yeah, I would absolutely die for my brother and sisters.  And swear a damning oath for my father.  Spoilers: my dad raised me, not my mom.  The shit my family has been through as made us tight.))

What’s a difference you have with your character?

((His social anxiety.  I headcanon my Maglor has struggled with social anxiety his entire life, even in Valinor; it just manifested in much more obvious ways after he lost his brothers and his mind (what with the whole thing of him actively avoiding civilization and living as a forest hobo).  In Valinor, even though Maglor loved performing in front of an audience, 9 times out of 10 he could not go on stage without a drink or two first.  He used alcohol to try to medicate his social anxiety, a very dangerous behavior, one that I’ve seen in someone I’m close with, but do not share.

THESE ARE REALLY GREAT QUESTIONS, THANK YOU FOR THEM, SOMEONE PLEASE SEND ME MORE I AM HAVING FUN WITH THIS. XD))

[mischiefmakingmuses]

Post About Ekoro #204839576

I’m not going to make any more promises that I’ll bring Ekoro back because my muse is so dead that he’s deader than a Yokai.

Every now and then I want to come back and RP as him, and the desire to do so immediately fades away.

I don’t want to say “oh he’s gone forever” or force myself to play a character I don’t feel like playing.

Stuff happened with the Puyo fandom and my muse was at an all-time low. I absolutely never recovered from that. What made me even less enthusiastic was that I had at least one person who came to me wanting to RP because I had brought back Ekoro...despite my Yokai FCs being available for the entire time Ekoro was gone.

Even a new Ringo didn’t motivate me well enough to want to bring the muse back.

I have like one consistent RP partner and they’re OK with RPing with my Yokai and don’t beg for Ekoro.

The last time I RPed Ekoro, I felt like I was put on the back burner for so long that I no longer wanted to continue the two threads I had with him.

In the end, the person who ended RPing with Ekoro the most deactivated and treated me like a villain for some reason that I can only imagine is incredibly fucking stupid and childish. After knowing them for three years, I have a pretty good idea of what this reason is, and believe me, it’s not a good reason.

I’ve been meaning to delete the posts involving this person for a long time. I’m finally doing it, and all I feel is something bittersweet. Seeing their characters get along with Ekoro but then it seems like they lied to me for three years.

Something made me want to try to bring Ekoro back, but there’s a very high chance that the (already dying) desire won’t survive past my mass deletion of these posts.

I don’t know what it’ll take. There’s still a part of me that wants him around. But nothing I do works. The urge to play as him just doesn’t last long enough for me to either act on it or have a thread long enough to try and add more sticks to the fire.

So this isn’t an announcement saying I’m bringing Ekoro back. There’s a good chance that I won’t act on it. Maybe instead I just want to ask for help.

Give me a reason. If you want to play with Ekoro or have someone you know who wants to, give me a reason.

Send me an ask. Leave a message. Whatever. I’m gonna be here for a while, so I will see what you send me.

I’m not good at giving up. Just please...help me out here.