#native rp help

[neechees]

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Another Free Native-themed icon border, this one inspired by pow wow dancers. On the right is the example featuring Khadija Redthunder in fancy shawl regalia, and on the right is the transparent free base. The art featuring the brooch was drawn by mel

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[bunnysrph]

Hi, can I please get some male FC suggestions that fit the Native American or Hawaiian nationality? Thank you so much for your time.

below are some HAWAIIAN && NATIVE AMERICAN face claims that you can use. they are listed in alphabetical order with ethnicities and their birth years. those in bold are my personal recommendations. please LIKE / REBLOG if you find this useful.

— 𝐇𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐈𝐀𝐍

david strathairn (1949, kānaka maoli, chinese, azorean portuguese, scottish, irish && english)

dennis chun (1952, kānaka maoli, chinese, madeiran portuguese && possibly other asian)

jason momoa (1979, kānaka maoli, german, english && possibly other)

jason scott lee (1966, hawaiian && chinese)

kalama epstein (2000, kānaka maoli, ashkenazi jewish, english, welsh && norweigan)

keahu kahuanui (1986, hawaiian, japanese && possibly scottish && french)

keanu reeves (1964, kānaka maoli, portugese, english, scottish && chinese)

— 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍

bronson pelletier (1986, plains cree && french)

chaske spencer (1975, yankton, assiniboine, sisseton, nez perce, cherokee, creek, french && dutch)

cody christian (1995, penobscot, passamaquody && english)

david archuleta (1990, iroquois, honduran, basque, danish, irish && german)

forrest goodluck (1998, navajo, hidatsa, mandan, tsimshian, japanese && norweigan)

gabriel luna (1982, lipan apache && mexican)

gil birmingham (1953, comanche)

jaime "taboo" gomez (1975, shoshone && mexican)

james francis kelly iii (1989, native american, african-american && irish)

jeremiah bitsui (1980, navajo && omaha)

kiowa gordon (1990, hualapai, english, scottish, danish && manx)

martin sensmeier (1985, tlingit, eyak, koyukon-athabascan, native alaskan, german && irish)

matthew atkinson (1988, native american && irish)

raoul trujillo (1955, apache, mexican, french-canadian && other)

rudy youngblood (1982, comanche && yaqui)

sarunas j jackson (1990, native american, african-american, african-panamanian, jamaican && german)

wes studi (1947, cherokee)

zahn mcclarnon (1966, hunkpapa, sihasapa lakota, german, french, polish, irish && english)

[claimsource]

sàmi female faceclaim ideas ;

elle-màija tailfeathers — unknown date, 1985  kainai blackfoot, sàmi

maxida marak — september 17, 1988  sàmi

hildá länsman — unknown date, 1993⠀sàmi

emelie nilsen — march 29, 1993  sàmi

agnete saba — july 4, 1994  sàmi

sunna maret utsi — unknown date, 1995  sàmi

inger karoline gaup — unknown date, 1995  sàmi

marja mortensson — march 5, 1995  sàmi

ida ovmar — july 17, 1995  sàmi

susanne guttorm — october 20, 1996  sàmi

lene cecilia sparrok — october 6, 1997  sàmi

ella marie haetta isaksen — april 25, 1998  sàmi

[mariocki]

Patrick O'Connell does his best to get rid of Simon Templar, as villainous henchman Rogers in The Saint: The Persistent Patriots (5.15, ITC, 1967)

[hexiva]

Roleplay Is Not Dead Nor Doth It Sleep

There's a post going around about how text-based, freeform roleplay is dead, and I was typing up a huge response to this, with an accompanying guide on how to find roleplayer in 2024, when I realized it might have a bigger reach if I made it its own post. So here's that guide.

I hesitate to say that there isn't a problem with the new format of social media making roleplay more difficult to find, but in the desire to make that point, the OP of the original post has left people with the idea that there's no way for them to get into freeform text roleplay in 2024. Which just isn't true! Here, look at all the ways.

Forums

The link to RPG-Directory to find roleplaying forums is a good start. Once you've found a forum RPG, even if you don't join, there's usually an 'advertising' section on that forum where other forum RPGs post their ads - this may help you to find forums that don't advertise on RPG-D.

Another really good forum to find roleplay on is Barbermonger. Barbermonger is focused on connecting people for one-on-one roleplays.

This last one's going to be weird, but it turns out that there are still people seeking roleplay on the Gaia Online forums after all these years. I think this is delightfully retro and then crowd there seems a little older than average. No pre-existing knowledge of Gaia required.

Tumblr

You can also find forum roleplay groups (as well as tumblr and Discord groups) right here on Tumblr. Usually, the thing to do is to use the search function - search for "[genre] rp" or "[fandom] rp" and sort by "latest." (If you sort by Top, you are likely to find dead RPs.) For example, here's fantasy rp, historical rp, and marvel rp. You can also try jcink rp, as most roleplay forums are hosted on Jcink these days, or discord rp, depending on your favored platform.

There are also tumblr blogs specifically dedicated to advertising roleplays. I'm not super familiar with these nowadays, but just in the process of searching those tags above, I found these:

Jcink Tinder

RPG Adverts

RPings

There are more, I just don't know them off the top of my head.

Reddit

Listen, don't run away, I swear it's good now - I swear Reddit is good now -

Reddit is a good place to find Discord roleplays. It's a little heavier on smut-only roleplays than other platforms mentioned here, but it's not impossible to find sexless, plot-based roleplay here either. Most ads are for one on one RP, but you can find groups mixed in here too. The big subreddits for text-based freeform RP seem to be:

r/DiscordRP

r/RoleplayPartnerSearch

r/roleplaying

r/Roleplay

Some of these have weird rules about what you can put in your ad, and I don't remember which ones, so read carefully and don't get discouraged if your ad is initially removed.

Discord

In 2024, Discord is by far the biggest and most popular platform for roleplay, and it has its own native roleplay advertising hubs. Here are a bunch:

roleplay partner hub

Rockin Roleplay

The Roleplay Garden

roleplay help

the roleplay connection

RP Central

Roleplay Central

Roleplay Hub

Barbermonger also has a Discord server

Roleplay Meets: Reborn

RP Hub

The Scribes Guild

DM Rp Village

cherry blossom! roleplay hub

DM-RP

Roleplay Round Table (21+)

The Historical Syndicate (specifically for historical roleplay)

The Roleplayer's Directory

If you can't find the Discord roleplay you want on here, you can also try Discord hub websites, like Disboard. These work similar to tumblr tags - search for [genre] rp or [fandom] rp.

Other

The original post specifically mentions that 'all the old "omegle but for role play" type websites died out ages ago'. This is mostly true, but not quite! There's still Rolechat. It's a little janky, but what it needs more than anything is a bigger user base. Their Discord server is also a good place to find one on one discord roleplay. It is, of course, free, but if you want to support its development, they have a patreon.

Please reblog this post, and add your own tips on how to find roleplay!

[consult-sherlockholmes]

Before one of you starts again 'Sherlock stop bullying someone whose first language is not English' (which I never did anyway) I am merely trying to help her learn the intricacies of the language to help her improve, not to put her down or make fun of her. I would never do that. Furthermore, most native speakers who are not familiar with needlework also don't realise the difference between crocheting and knitting and use it interchangeably, so it's not a grave mistake. So see this as an explanation for everyone. Crocheting and knitting are not the same, although both involve yarn. Knitting uses two long needles and the results are interlocking loops, which makes it more stretchable. Crocheting involves only one hook, and the stitches resemble knots more, making it more solid.

Beware of the crochet-dad. I’m learning how to crochet and I’m proud of it.

Blogging this to show I mean it.

[sweet-chimera]

TW: Call out post, drama

// Damn we were going to keep it quiet and respectful until this point. because like always. Spork, aka Shiloh can't take accountability and Never does anything wrong despite the fact that this is the what? 6th group of people enmass to cut contact with them? Spork we were being quiet about it for YOUR sake. Cause you're a bad person and we wanted to be done with you. But fine. We'll do it your way. We blocked you because you're a toxic person who threatens to harm yourself when we don't comply to you. Not because of a fake wedding rp event. Content and stories under the cut. Long post trigger warning

And because he named dropped us, potentially to potentially insight violence on us. We'll return the favor. We were willing to just soft block and call it a day but then you do this? We knew you were a karen but come on spork. This is low even for you. For those of you that don't know, Spork aka:

patchiesdoodles, decipheringmadness, cxpescxwlsandcrxmes, ifyouwouldloveme, thegreeksknewthescore, fxllen-cne, thxpatriarch, unforgivendivine, AND the-blackened-dove.

Likes to block evade, exhibit controlling tendencies towards their rp partners, leverage marginalization's to groups that he doesn't belong to to white knight and get his way, tone police, sexually harass people mainly on voice call, guilt trip, bully those that speak out against him, use his partners to harass people who block him, vague posts, gives ultimatums, and threaten self harm when he doesn't get his way.

Lets get this out of the way, My experience with spork

I met spork in the muntain june 2023. And it was one of the most grating experience of my life. At every chance they got they spoke over people, talked openly about their sexual trauma when no one has consented to hearing it. And tone policed me, a cambodian/afro indigenous person from baltimore, for using language that was "Offensive to black people." Only to then lay off after yelling at me for a few minutes. When he found out I was black. (Screen shot of me talking to the mod of the muntain afterwards)

I was off put, and upset. That someone who is this complexion

is tone policing me, AN AFRO INDIGENOUS PERSON WHEN I MAKE NO ATTEMPTS TO HIDE IT. IM BLACK.

But seeing as we're a vastly neuro divergent community. I forgave and forgot because it wasn't worth the fight. it didn't stop them from constantly bringing up sexual or traumatic topics. But at the very least. They were upset at me for using AAVE and saying the N word. A SLUR I CAN USE.

But then later down the line. I talked to the muntain mod about introducing my partners to the rp community and to help the transition go smoothly.

I EVEN WENT INTO VOICE CALL AND BEGGED THEM, SPORK SPECIFICALLY. TO BE ON THEIR BEST BEHAVIOUR.

My girlfriend joined on the 30th and my boyfriend joined on the first.

During the first call on the 30th. Spork dominated the conversation and flirted with my girlfriend infront of me upon finding out we were polyamourus. But for the most part was respectful.

On the voice call on the second. They were racist and immflamatory to my boyfriend. Tao. A native mexican man. Spork claims to be indigenous themself but I have no proof of this. But as we all know, Abrahamic religions have decimated the indigenous populations and caused Alot of harm.

On voice call. Spork brings up their LITERAL JESUS CHRIST muse. And talks about their religious trauma. Tao, also talks about his in the form of a joke. "Oh Jesus sure liked to wash feet huh?" A TRUE FACT. NOT THAT BAD. WE ALL HAVE MADE FUN OF IT.

Here comes white knight Spork, yelling at my partner to not make fun of jewish traditions. Its insensitive and blastephemous. Only to then dominate the conversation to talk about their trans jesus muse who openly talks about being abused by god

(Recap of the voice call i had with the mod)

So spork, a white passing person AT BEST, told my darker complexion NATIVE MEXICAN BOYFRIEND. That he shouldn't make jokes about judaism? When spork is a white satanist? And all abrahamic religions not just Catholicism has caused damage to our populations? You didn't even let him say more then that one joke, you didn't even give him 10 seconds to say is name before dominating the conversation again

Sweetie. 1.) Anyone can criticize and make fun of the bible, the torah, or the Quran. 2.) SAYING JESUS WASHED FEET. WHICH IS TRUE. IS NOT AS INFLAMMATORY. As making a gay trans jesus blog AS A ROLEPLAY CHARACTER. To talk about how god abused him.

And these are just my personal experiences with spork.

WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THEIR FRIEND POLITELY ASKED TO STOP SHIPPING BUT STILL BE FRIENDS?

HMMM. THATS WEIRD. THATS A PRETTY POLITE WAY TO GO ABOUT HAVING A CONVERSATION. BECAUSE CONSENT TAKES TWO PARTIES. WHAT WAS YOUR RESPONSE TO ONE PARTY NOT CONSENTING SO YOU DONT GET YOUR WAY?

OH YEAH.

YOU VAGUE POST ON THE DASH, GUILT TRIP PEOPLE FOR STILL ASSOCIATED WITH VOID (gin-n-chthonic) and get upset when you saw them on your dash because you keep block evading them to see if they were talking about you. YOURE MENTAL HEALTH WAS MESSED UP BECAUSE YOUR FRIEND HAD A POLITE CONVERSATION WITH YOU? ABOUT NOT REAL CHARACTERS? AND YOUR RESPONSE WAS A PUBLIC CALL OUT POST. And then you go around to people like slurk.

Who've you've been codependently abusing for a long time. And try to guilt trip them into blocking void.

Because thats a sound response. AS WELL AS BITCH AND MOAN ABOUT IT IN CALL FOR DAYS. THIS ISN'T EVEN INCLUDING THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE A HABIT OF GETTING YOUR FRIENDS AND PARTNERS TO ATTACK AND OSTRICIZE PEOPLE FOR YOU. Remember when jessica was sick with covid. But you wanted an answer so bad. That you sent your boyfriend after her? CAUSE WE DO.

And how you admitted in voice call that you would type from Boogies account to send people things, speak for him. OR ADMITTED THAT ROLEPLAYING IS A SPIRITUAL THING FOR YOU. How these characters are extension of yourself and if they feel pain or rejected you do? So every time someones muse doesn't want to interact with them. YOU A REAL HUMAN BEING FEEL THE PAIN?

cause we do.

SO LETS RECAP. TLDR;

you give ultimatums

guilt trip

block evade

were openly racist to a mexican indigenous man

hit on my girlfriend infront of me

can't read a room socially

send mobs after people

talk about traumatic shit without peoples consent

overly sexual even when we say we're uncomfortable

fly off the handle and go on public tirades when we try to talk to you, then get surprised when no one wants to talk to you and just quietly exits your life

use your loved ones accounts to talk to people who go nc with you

only white knight and virtue signal when its convenient to you

want to control everyones character and insert your muse into everything but when they don't comply you guilt trip, bitch, give ultimatums, or post publicly about not being loved

you weaponize your marginalization as a trans man but are clearly white passing and command alot of social power from your social media presence

sexually harass people around you

and you tone police the people of color around you when we speak up

WE DIDN'T BLOCK YOU OVER A FAKE RP EVENT. WITH FAKE PEOPLE THAT YOU INSIST ARE REAL. WE REFUSE TO BE AROUND YOU BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO GET HELP FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. WE BEGGED YOU TO. AND YOU GUILT TRIP PEOPLE WITH THREATS OF OSTRICHCIZATION AND SELF HARM.

YOU'RE A BAD PERSON SPORK.

[just-hyde]

AI is theft.

Character.Ai still uses **stolen** data. Support real artists and writers. RP with real people.

IAMREALpleasegimmeahotchocotugmeinandgimmeasinglegoodreasontoliiiveeeeaaaaAAAAAAA

*Breakdown joins the chat*

An anon? How courageous of you. /lh

Actually right now you did what many chatbot users do— hide behind Persona just in case people don't accept your writing/rp style. But it's easier to play safe, I give you that. Your mental health should be your first priority no matter what people say

I do my art, write snippets of text, develop OCs and RP with people, but still make chatbots on different platforms

Why?

For shits and giggles

But no, friends, seriously

We already live with that and apparently are gonna continue to, unless the authorities decide to step in

For me cai was a tool to improve my vocabulary since 1) not so many native speakers were willing/had time to help, 2) even if they did, we had jobs and damn timezones which made our coordination harder, 3) I found out that ppl were simply too shy to play

Recently I've learned the term "Cringe culture" which is cringe itself and hella annoying at that— some writers are fucking scared to post, to be met with toxicity instead of actually useful critique

Anywho, the topic is controversial af.

On one hand, it did writers dirty. Well, fuck. On the other hand, your T9 was also trained on something and I deem LLM no much smarter than a huge T9 [a predictive text technology which almost every keyboard for phones and tablets has]

The problem I see is that the ai developers didn't ask for any data

How much easier everything would go if they had manners and/or paid for some materials? I usually don't mind lending a pen if someone asks, but can bite one's hand off if they grab it

As you might've noticed, I wanna use this ask to bring up some other interesting topics

My man, I've heard enough of "Why trying if ai renders better than me/uses better words"

Anxiety.

That's what makes me sad

If we ever manage to change that, to make people realise that human-made art is a freaking precious treasure with hours of effort spent on it, maybe earth heals and unicorns return

You buy funny one-nickel-worth stuff from Aliexpress, no? That's AI. As well as a half-gnawled pencil one finds in their old school backpack to write down an anecdote they've just heard

It's easy to focus on the bad side

If fish is ill in a dirty tank, are you gonna add more sand? Pfftt. I assume you gonna change filters, scrub that bastard clean and add more lil fishies to make others feel less lonely, instead of rumbling that you shouldn't have gotten any new weeds for the the bowl in the first place, because, who would've guessed, fish eat that. And poop. —a process natural as breathing

My suggestion is that we try to create a safe space which would encourage writing outside of roleplay, make young artists feel safe regardless of their level of skill

Or maybe I'm too far from the Internet in general and don't understand why writing example messages for a silly toy is suddenly a bad thing when it encourages kids to try themselves in text RPGs without any risk of being judged for that

An interesting topic you gave me, really, I've spent some time contemplating about it

Feel free to suggest things that we, as a community, can do right here and right now, because, gods know, I'm personally unable to atta-ta a corporation for "using language we all speak", especially when chatbots have some features which would be a damn shame not to use in language learning since it's so engaging and teaches kids new words in a forgiving game-like way

Though I hope there will be some law regulating ai and the use of ai-made products soon. Let's give it some time

[willowsallen]

if you don't mind answering a quick question for me? and hopefully i word this well enough to understand.

what's the general opinion on casting indigenous fcs for siblings / family / etc. but don't have the same tribes? like anna lembe & devery jacobs, for example. both are north american indigenous (correct me if im wrong here too!) but come from different tribes: inuit & mohawk. is it acceptable to cast them as sisters? or is that generally frowned upon?

follow up - please im so sorry i have a million questions - is casting someone, take anna again, for a character of a different tribe also unacceptable? like if i wanted to use her as leah clearwater from twilight, who is quileute.

thank you for taking the time to answer if you do! and thank you for reading if you don't, i understand it's not your place to educate but i appreciate any help you can provide me.

hi! sorry this is so late, i was at work</3 but let me answer both of those questions! before i say anything, i want to say that this is my singular opinion. other indig people might have something else to say and that's also valid! ( if you're native and want to add your own thoughts, agreeing or disagreeing, please do so! )

first question about my opinion on casting indig fcs of different tribes as family members. i really don't care! like obviously keeping them from the same area ( i don't want to see froy gutierrez who's caxcan from mexico and cody christian who's penobscot and passamaquoddy from the northeast of america as family ) but anna and devery who are both from indig nations in north america? i personally see no issue with that. and my reason being there's not many indig fcs on the big screen in general, and even less in the rpc! would it be nice to have a 100% match for a tribe to cast as siblings to rp? absolutely! but that's just not plausible right now at all. even if we do have a match of fcs, some might not have resources or be comfortable being rp'd! like anna lambe is inuk and willow allen is also inuk, but willow doesn't really have a lot of roleplayable resources so somebody might not want to cast her as anna's sister! again, this is entirely my own opinion, but i think being mindful of areas ( like you said with keeping the territories similar ) is all that i would ask for! otherwise, i don't expect anybody to have a match in nations for indig family casting.

second question about casting fcs to canon native roles! again, i don't really have a problem with this because of the lack of native resources / actors around! like would it be cool to find a quileute indig actor with lots of resources to fit in a canon quileute character? duh. but that's just not realistic. and it might not be realistic for other characters, either. to just reiterate the point, i think finding as close of a match as you can in terms of territory and looks wise ( like if a native character is said to have dark brown skin and they're from the northeast of america, we might not want to use cody christian who has lighter skin even though he's from that area! ) then i have no problem with that. it'd only be a problem if you have like a canon nation in like south america and are trying to use a native fc from alaska because that culture is just vastly different. and i know each nation has their own culture and traditions, but this is rp! and i think finding the most realistic choice, while respecting native fcs and doing the best you can, is all we can ask for!

and i think we should be more into having native rep in the rpc in the most respectful way ( which is basically what i just explained above! ) over 100% nation match or nothing. because what does that solve? now an anna lambe fc doesn't have a devery jacobs sister? so there's just 1 native fc being used instead of 2? just take this with a grain of salt because the last thing i want to do is speak for all native people ( we've already lived through that reign ) but i hope this sheds some light on where i and other indigs might be coming from! if you have any other questions, please let me know<3

[aggravatetheaxe]

dethklok plays WoW

Nathan - main tank. Horde of course. Probably orc. His only toon. Absolutely a blood death knight both for aesthetic and because you know he's pulling top dps in addition to holding agg on everything in the room. Guild leader, does not take his title seriously but will still kick your ass if you bail on raid night. likes pvp but prefers pve

Pickles - plays mostly trolls, has 2 or 3 toons, probably also has an ugly forsaken and an ugly goblin (although goblin is a later race so depends on the year). Cat druid, often forced to spec into healing because mythic dungeons are only 5 man. But prefers to be cat or combat rogue. Incredible dps when he's allowed to do dps. not nurturing at all as a healer, WILL let you die if you piss him off (unless you're Nathan, but Nathan never dies). loves both pvp and pve but gets super steamed during pvp

Skwisgaar - paladin paladin paladin. Belf, of course. has secret female alts as well as secret ally alts. constantly adding his girlfriends to the guild and taking shit from the bank without asking. But he doesn't get in trouble because his dps is second to none - topping the charts even over Nathan. Ret pally, could technically heal with holy but his dps is just so insane that they can't afford to have him healing. pvp is beneath him

Toki - altaholic. Lots of female toons, lots of ally toons, gets bullied for both. Really wants to main a hunter so he can have a bunch of cute animal companions (and because it would be easier dps) but the others say that's gay so his main is a frost DK. the others make him spec into unholy because his crowd control brings clusters together so that Skwis and Nathan can wipe them out. So, so fucking angry that he never gets to do any actual dps because his plagues never get the chance to stack - and despite knowing it's a DOT issue the others clown on him for being the absolute bottom of the dps chart. pvp is too hard for him, no one protects him and everyone picks on him

Murderface - orc arms warrior and tauren fury warrior, dps but mostly off tank. makes cringe jokes (abt both native americans and milking) if tauren. One secret ally toon (human no less), also a warrior, that he uses to /walk around stormwind and RP badly. constantly brags about his dps but he's actually garbage, only above toki. makes a big deal out of his rank in the guild but he actually has no bank privileges. loves self harm through pvp

Charles - undead disc priest. a few alts, equal numbers male and female but almost all undead. probably a GM. heals when pickles is on dps and there's room or in a raid setting. guild treasurer, full bank permissions, has to constantly police the boys and spends thankless hours filling the bank back up with pots, food, etc. Also in charge of recruiting, so he should just be guild lead at this point but he dutifully never complains :) plays an affliction warlock and a couple rogues (combat and assassination) on a different server, when the boys give him one free fucking moment to do his own thing

Magnus - used to be a super powerful destro warlock that matched skwisgaar in dps. was super involved in the guild, help build it into what it was, contributed lots of materials, consumables, and money to the bank. Recruited some of their best players. after a horrific falling out (he was the asshole in the situation; controlling, etc) he was kicked from the guild and replaced. has since (due to wotlk) abandoned his warlock for a death knight. now he has a forever grudge and badmouths dethklok any chance he gets, but the majority of the server knows he's the drama so he has trouble finding others to play with. because of this he's been forced to switch over to alliance side. hence he falls in with...

MMA & the revengencers: MMA is yet another DK, probably blood, guild lead of the revengencers - rival guild to dethklok, constantly butting heads with them in pvp, ganking their low level members/alts, just generally being a nuisance. MMA wants revenge for Nathan (with the help of GM charles) getting his OG account banned

Edgar - human arcane mage main ("actually, the rotation is quite simple"). has lots of female alts. treasurer of the revengencers, takes everything way way way too seriously. Definitely works for blizzard or is a GM. very tense, sometimes outright hostile, relationship with Charles despite being essentially coworkers. "umm you sir have won the internet" "updoot" guy in chat. full collection of mounts, even the rare and/or limited edition ones

[serenas-dawnsinger]

Character Profile: Serenas

Name: Serenas Dawnsinger Nicknames/Monikers: Serra, Lady Dawnsinger, Anah'diel (Thalassian: "Last Light") Age: Young Adult Birthday: Early August Race: Sin'dorei Gender: Female Relationship Status: Promised (Arranged in Marriage to Ine'thar Emberfall) Unattached. Family: Youngest member of House Dawnsinger of Silvermoon. @quelios-dawnsinger (Brother) @safrona-shadowsun (Mother) Wennefer Shadowsun (Aunt) Typical Accessories: Golden Phoenix Pendant shaped into a heart. Scarab decorated hair pin. Gold pouch. Chatterstone. Hearthstone. Faceclaim/Likeness: Adelaide Kane

Physical Appearance –––

The young Sin'dorei is slender and willowy in shape, holding herself in a reserved, stately manner, though her golden eyes hold easy expressiveness and gentle bearing. Her long dark hair falls in soft waves to the middle of her back, often decorated with delicate jewelry or adornments. She is known to wear gowns and robes native to Silvermoon fashions, often favoring billowing sleeves and modest cuts.

Bio/Known History

The youngest member of the renown House Dawnsinger showing promise for the boon of Living Flame inherited through generations, Serenas was molded by the ruling council of her House for nobility since the loss of her parents. Though she was pushed throughout her life to cultivate her power like the honored Dawnsinger Priests that came before her, she was drawn more to the practice of the Chant with the Light as a Cantor, which sowed a discontent among the older generations. Dawnsinger Elders have recently pushed to arrange Serra in marriage to another powerful House to ensure her wasted boon is passed on to next generations, still regarding her as a precious commodity, if nothing else.

RP hooks –––

+ Most recent -- Some in Silvermoon may have heard that House Dawnsinger is offering a large reward for any information that leads to the location of the currently missing Lady Serenas Dawnsinger.

+ Those knowing of Silvermoon nobility would likely have known or heard of House Dawnsinger, and may have known of the youngest member of them in recent times.

+ Serra was a regular of Silvermoon libraries, and avid reader and writer, music and poetry lover - she would have loved falling into conversation with other deep fiction lovers in bookshops and libraries with Silvermoon and Eversong Wood.

+ Serra was known to practice the Cant of the Light, soothing pain with hymns or lending bardic inspiration through hummed melody. She was sometimes brought in to nursing facilities to help soothe ailing patients and some may have met her in these situations.

[skarletta-arts]

First of all I love your drawing and also odd question, do you write?

Thank you very much for the kind words!

And yes, I write, but not in English. My native language is Russian and because I use quite… Obsolete words in writing, it would be quite difficult for me to translate any full-fledged text into English.

But! I have a wonderful loved one who volunteered to help me with this if I really want to publish the texts somewhere. Most of them are written for me in a drawer or as part of the RP. :")

[gadzooksgalore]

Story Masterpost

For convenience, use this post to help with blog navigation General character tag: #oc tag

Far From Home

In a sci-fi setting where humans don't exist, smugglers Baz and Gerdie pose as intergalactic merchants and transport goods across the galaxies. One of their deliveries is suddenly halted when they discover a young girl named Toko of unknown species amidst their cargo, who claims to have lost her recent memories and doesn't know how she arrived on their ship. Despite the smugglers' suspicions, Toko asks if they'd be willing to help reunite her with her family. Baz initially refuses, but Toko's presence unintentionally launches them into a crazy adventure full of old friends and familiar foes. The comedic journey that follows highlights original alien designs and focuses on themes of forgiveness, redemption, and the comforting reality that home is never too far.

Related tags: #far from home, #baz, #gerdie, #toko Side blog: @far-from-home-archive

Stronger Than Blood

A shark mer named Ardyn offers to help a young seahorse mer named Mip return home the day after a terrible storm, once he learns she was carried far away from familiar territory during the night. This initial interaction leads to a hesitant friendship despite their blatant differences, and gradually fosters a sense of belonging. However, their new bond is soon tested when unexpected issues and old wounds push back against Ardyn's seemingly simple plan to take Mip home. The journey that follows highlights aquatic species native to the Gulf of Mexico and focuses on themes of self-worth, the importance of community, and breaking the cycles inherited from those who came before.

Related tags: #stronger than blood, #mip, #ardyn

What the Current Carries

When minnow mer Kolver stumbles upon a crabtaur named Tsek while out in the shallows with his herd of snails, he fears he's going to be eaten; however, it's his snails which catch the hungry gaze of Tsek. In the midst of his panic, Kolver notices that Tsek is missing one of her arms and realizes she's at a huge disadvantage for survival. Despite the language barrier, Kolver manages to halt her feast and offers a deal: he'll act as bait and lead food right to her if she protects him and his herd. The journey that follows highlights aquatic species native to Cape Cod and focuses on themes of grief, overcoming prejudice, and finding love where you least expect it.

Related tags: #what the current carries, #kolver, #tsek

Unexpected Results (RP)

This is a collaborative roleplay between @kbthebearcat and myself, though we consider our characters' connection to be official.

Twenty-three, or Cricket (as she later renames herself), is an escaped lab experiment and juvenile rat-human hybrid with strange origins. When she unexpectedly lands in the lap of a confused young man named Donald following her recent escape from Atlas Laboratories, the two must learn to trust each other despite their differences. To Cricket's surprise, Donald looks after her by providing safety and rest from recent trauma, all while gently encouraging her to develop a sense of personhood. At the same time, Cricket's presence instills a sense of purpose and parenthood in Donald, whose past hurts are also relatively fresh. Over time, the two realize that it's possible to find family in the most unexpected places. Unfortunately for them, Atlas has plans to retrieve their star specimen...

Related tags: #unexpected results rp, #cricket, #donald

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[loonymorron]

CIRCUS SMP I think to make it not just a server with the main location of a shopping center with a circus reminiscent, but a multinational server. My native language is Russian, but I've been living in Spain for a little over ten years. do you know what i want? To bring people closer to each other so that they have the opportunity to make friends on this project, as well as to give an unforgettable rp experience. I would like to allow people to play the egg on a server that knows English, Spanish or Russian. > I wish there were more! But as an administrator I have to moderate the server, if I take languages ​​that I don't know, it will be difficult. How will players and eggs understand each other?

There are different mods with word translation (like on Qsmp), you can find something similar! But there are also other options:

> Mods that will work as emotions. Emotecraft, for example. I'm thinking about eggs (and maybe players) having signs with basic words/gestures/symbols for understanding each other. > Distributing eggs with players so that they have at least one language in common… if there is such an opportunity. > Training languages ​​with each other! And using a classic translator if there are difficulties. > Different quests/events/team games to get closer to each other. Also an emphasis on language, understanding each other and all that. > Any player/NPC/egg can help if there is a misunderstanding in translation between someone! ;)

Very inspired by qsmp and how it blurs the lines between different fandoms, I think this server would also be a nice, but small opportunity to make new friends despite the language barrier! :] For now I'm just developing and making concepts, but I'd like to understand if this concept would interest anyone!

[lyinginbedmon]

I know full well that I've got an uphill struggle when it comes to marketing Various Types, because it's 2024 and everyone already uses Origins and thinks it's the bee's knees (and to their credit, Origins is a good mod), so you'll forgive me for harking on about VT but I do earnestly believe that it is more than viable as a competitor of the aging popular mod.

All this was true as well back when what is now Various Types was part of Various Oddities (which itself enjoyed some considerable popularity whilst Origins didn't share space in the same modloader), but I'll try and break it down a bit to drive home why I think it's worth giving a look:

First, it doesn't work like Origins. In Origins, you choose (or are randomly selected) a "origin", of varying levels of "impact" usually between 0 and 3. Depending on server config, you might get another one after dying, but that's it. This means the range of gameplay is only as diverse as the datapack in use, because each player is locked into just one component.

Various Types, in stark contrast, actually presents the player with a full-blown character creation system. You choose a species, which is similar to an origin, and are then able to choose templates that modify it. Moreover, those templates can be stacked on top of each-other, in different orders and with different results. So whilst the range of gameplay is still limited by datapack, it is roughly combinatorially massive. The default species and templates that presently ship in the alpha, by itself, theoretically offer up to 286 builds (template conditions permitting). The server has a "power" setting that helps to constrain how drastically overpowered characters can be, but the variations possible without even breaking 5 power are staggering against the dozen or so origins that Origins ships with even today.

This ultimately means that players are always able to be at least a little different to one-another. Even if they share the same species as the foundation of their character, an Insectile player is quite distinct to an Aquatic one.

Even among the less-impactful templates, a Gravekin Orkin (essentially a still-intelligent zombified piglin) has some stark distinction from a Reptilian Orkin (roughly a lizardman). Though personally, I'd rather not get on the bad side of either one of them, especially if they just heard me call them piglins...

Secondly, and by absolutely no means least, the core component of the mod (the character sheet) has intentionally been constructed such that it is incredibly easy for others to expand beyond its current and original confines.

Want to build a magic mod and need to track what spells people have and how much mana? All you need to do is register a couple things to the right registries, and it'll work just fine. Want to build a class system on top of it and player an Othall Ranger or Muckie Druid? Same thing, same ease.

In essence, and with no shred of hyperbole, Various Types has the capacity to be the foundational element of any conceivable per-player customisation mod. Just as long as people give it a chance.

Thirdly, the laborious devotion to clean visual aesthetics. I'm not gonna give Origins much sheet for this one, it's very much a product of its age from when Minecraft didn't really support anything that wasn't a texture rendered on a repeating dirt background.

But Various Types really fits in with the more recent era of Minecraft UI. The character creator screen alone really deserves a look. Each species can be given a distinct background to complement its lore or function, such as the Crioch species being from the End and therefore having an End City as their background, versus the sunny green forest background used by the Overworld-native Linn species.

Every species, template, type, or ability can even be given custom lore text. All of them. The sheer volume of options for RP alone are staggering.

Oh, and did I mention that your avatar is visible in the creator screen? As well as the character sheet display screen?

Which doesn't sound like much on its face, you can see your skin in your inventory screen all the time after all. Except that's not actually a player being rendered in either screen.

It's a custom entity. With a custom model. That can play animations.

Every time you open that screen, your avatar will wave at you to say hi. Stick around on it long enough, and you'll even see them strike a pose right out of a fighting game or casually sit down for a moment.

You can even see what your build will look like in full on the character sheet screen before you finalise it.

And that screen is itself no slouch. It prioritises clean minimalism whilst still giving access to every detail of a given build.

Which is great, but especially so because Various Types has four favourite ability keys (which you can assign activated abilities to quickly and easily from the ability menu, from which you can also just click on any ability to activate it) and absolutely no limit on how many abilities you can have. Passive OR activated.

It's really more comparable to the UI screens of Minecraft Dungeons or Legends than anything on offer by any other mod in the same niche.

Seriously, go check this mod out. It's in alpha right now, but more or less the only thing missing from it is just more abilities, and I've got a list as long as my arm of those to implement.

[baradorable]

Name: Marvelous (Hunter Jackson) Age: Mid twenties Gender: Male Species: Human (Mutant) Occupation: Mister Sinister (Former?)

Art by GeckoBara (NSFW)

Time for another one of my OCs.

Before I begin, a warning that his story deals with themes of abuse, particularly towards a young person. I want to make it clear that I'm not just taking real world tragedies and using it to spice up my OC's lore. Quite a bit of these things are drawing from my own personal experiences as a survivor. Obviously though, they're blown to extreme proportions here, since this is an X-Men OC.

Personality

Hunter is a lethargic, dour person, always looking to the negatives. He's kind of a buzzkill, since he's always predicting the worst outcome to any situation. And his negativity is driven to more extremes by his extreme paranoia; he's an ardent conspiracy theorist. But not just any conspiracies: he gravitates to the most insane, bizarre and implausible theories. He'll believe these crazy theories wholeheartedly, despite the logic being tenuous reaches that make sense only to him.

For example: He's convinced the Green Goblin will steal Iron Man's armor. This is because the Green Goblin's secret identity's name, Norman Virgil Osborn, can be re-arranged to create "Robs Nonliving Armor." He unironically thinks this line of thinking is flawless.

And for the record, his off-the-wall theories tend to be completely spot-on. He's stumbling into the right answers.

Marv is also easy to control. He's quick to accept most situations and people he's with, even if he's not there willingly. Even if people treat him poorly, he will justify their behavior and stay by their side. He's so used to putting up with abuse, that he will excuse just about anything done to him.

And he's a nightmare for customer service workers. He's the type to go to a coffee shop and order the most confusing, difficult drink. He doesn't realize how most sane people don't want to make mocha-Cola cappuccinos with 4 tablespoons of sugar and caramel syrup. For this, he is considered the number one enemy of all restaurants in Brooklyn.

Backstory

Hunter is Canadian-born. His father is half-Madripoorian (SEAsian) and half-Aqirian. (Middle Eastern/Arab) and was born in Aqiria. His mother is Costa Perditan (Central American/Possibly White.)

[This isn't really reflected in his design, since his backstory came about after a year or two into writing him in an RP I was in. He was originally envisioned as a white, New York native before I developed this whole family history for him. But in my mind, I primarily consider him SEAsian.]

Hunter (born Wind, before legally changing his name) is the second of four children between his parents. He has an older sister (River), a younger sister (Ember), and a younger brother (Rock.) The mother (Selene) picked out their highly questionable names.

From his father, he has two half brothers; I forgot their names, but I thiiink the youngest was Thien Anh.

Hunter's parents lived in separate countries, as his father worked overseas in Madripoor. The strain would lead to the parents breaking up, though never officially divorcing. They just sort of fell out and never really thought about each other that much; they only ever interacted when it came to dealing with their kids.

When Hunter's powers first activated, his father demanded that he move to Madripoor. As it turned out, his father's "worked" involved a unique form of weapon creation.

Marv's father, Sho Khan, worked with a clairvoyant underling to find powered people (usually mutants) and breed them to create children that were predicted to be very powerful. The kids were brought up to be whatever their buyers wanted; usually as weapons, bodyguards, easy labor, or even power sources.

Sho had no issues bringing his son into this world. Hunter, having grown up very intimidated by his dad, would fall in line and... You get the idea. He was regularly used to help produce mutant children, destined for greatness.

Hunter was quick to rationalize his father's behavior, saying that his father was "giving any teenage boy something they'd dreamed of." He had the best private tutors, a ton of luxuries, and lived in the gilded cage that was his father's penthouse. He knew he wasn't happy. But if other people were happy, and he was making his father proud, then it was all okay. Right?

One day, his father and the clairvoyant brought in a girl his age, from India. The clairvoyant believed that the girl would be useful to them. Wanting to spare her from his fate, Hunter was able to convince his father to let him "keep" her as his girlfriend, to keep him loyal.

Hunter and the girl, Arsha, didn't love each other romantically. But they formed a quasi-relationship in order to give each other a sense of normalcy. They could pretend that they were safe and happy. They could pretend that they loved each other. Hunter had his duties, Arsha had to pretend to be in a relationship with him, and they were trapped under the thumb of Sho. But as long as they could lie together, they could find strength with one another.

At some point, a team of X-Men were able to find Sho's Madripoor base and shut down his operations there. They helped many of the mutants there escape and get back home. Hunter was offered the chance to go with them.

He refused to disobey his father. It was a choice that he would often look back on in regret. To this day, he wonders what it would be like if he found the strength back then to accept their help.

Sho Khan's business was only partially hampered, and they were able to recover from their losses in due time. To this day, he's still running his business. His line of work gave him enough connections all around the world to grow his empire.

Around the time Hunter turned twenty, he was abruptly kicked out of the penthouse by his father. He was freed from his "obligations" and sent back to his home country, and told to never speak of his time in Madripoor to anybody. Hunter didn't know all the details surrounding his freedom, but suspected Arsha was behind it.

From there, Hunter would go to university in New York and get a degree in journalism. He would write as a freelancer for small websites, since most actual news publications refused to accept his articles about baseless conspiracy theories he seemingly made up.

Here's my idea of how he fits into the Marvel universe. You can ignore this if you don’t follow X-Men continuity.

Marv would be captured by Mister Sinister, who was interested in his mutation. Sinister, who kept him around to study his X-Gene, noted how hesitant Hunter was to leave. He quickly discovered that Hunter would make excuses to justify his time there. "I can't leave or Sinister will kill me." "I'm safer with him than with the Friends of Humanity." "I can live here for free, which makes it a better financial investment than living in New York." So when he wasn't running tests on him, Sinister would employ Hunter as a sort of live-in lab assistant. He'd gleefully antagonize the young man, but kept him alive and relatively unharmed. And in return, Marv became a grumbling, snarky, but staunch ally to Sinister. And with that, he developed an uncanny ability to ignore any wrongdoings Sinister did. During the Krakoa era, Sinister dumped him on the island; he was kept alive as a fallback, in case things didn't work out. But now that he had access to the DNA of every mutant around, Hunter simply wasn't useful anymore. Hunter spent most of his time doing his own thing. He kept out of trouble, avoided crowds and stayed away from all that event nonsense. Post-Fall of X, he moved back to New York. Sinister will probably come to collect him. Or maybe his father will come for him. Or maybe the X-Men will save him again. He's heard good things about a guy named Mr. Friend.

 

Power

Hunter has a complex power. But to sum it up: he's currently able to pull out pieces of his soul and turn them into living, sentient constructs. Usually, he creates small animals or simple weapons.

In truth, his power is actually the ability to record and store details of every superpower he comes across, making him the ultimate genetic library. Upon activation, it gives Hunter the abilities of whichever powered being is closest to him. It first unlocked an ability to control wind and gas, which lead him to believe that he was an aerokinetic. But when Sinister's experiments lead him to turning his X-Gene off and on, Hunter's abilities changed to what they are now. His current powers were copied from another one of Sinister's captives at the time.

But yeah. His power is that he can make living constructs. That's the only thing you really need to take away from this.

Hunter always keeps one construct active all times: Step, a stoat companion. Named after a deceased pet, Step is always by his side, no matter what. Being a construct, Hunter is able to reshape him into different creatures or even weapons. But he's a friend and ally before anything else.

Step can also speak. Unfortunately, he's a foul-mouthed, outspoken brat who's quick to anger. Some believe that he's voicing the thoughts Hunter can never bring himself to say. Some believe Step is just a jerk. But regardless, he's fiercely loyal and loving to his friend. And Hunter, in term, loves him dearly.

I don't have any art of Step in his normal form. But here's Hunter's Hellfire Gala outfit. Step has shapeshifted into a sentient cape.

Key People

I already went over the basics of his past. But I want to highlight some of the key characters that came up. I ended up developing them beyond Marv, and they had roles outside of him, in the RP group I was in.

Hunter's father, Sho Khan, is a distant member of the Aqirian royal family - but wouldn't realistically inherit the throne, unless about 64 other people before him died. He lives in Madripoor, where he runs a vineyard as a cover for his real operations.

He has powers, but isn't a mutant. Forty five ago, Sho was one of four children who were experimented on by one of Marvel's many secret underground organizations. Sho gained the ability to become intangible, but he's frozen in place while in this state.

He instills fear into people with his cold, domineering disposition. He's very reserved, but when he speaks, people listen. His intentions aren't fully readable, and there's always a sense of force behind even his most calm words. Between this and being so absent in his kids' lives, this is one of the biggest reasons why he has such control over them: they fear him, but they also can't understand him. They want his approval and are worried about what would happen if they didn't have it. There's also that element of honoring thy father, what have you.

Hunter hates his dad now. But should his dad confront him again, he doesn't think he would be able to fight him.

Sho has 2 kids; a son from an extramarital affair, born shortly after River; and another son from his current girlfriend; the younger son is currently two. Both are Vietnamese, but born from different women. Sho wasn't, like, actively searching out Vietnamese women. He just happened to get with two of them, over 20 years apart.

Sho has 4 kids with his wife, Selene. They met in Costa Perdita, when Sho was traveling abroad for university. Selene was a party girl and met him at a club. They quickly fell in love and had their youthful indiscretions. Their relationship ran hot and cold, featured many break-ups and make-ups, and was fraught with immaturity on both ends. They both mellowed out as they got older.

Selene used to be a minor model and DJ back in the day. She moved on once she had kids, seeing herself as "above" the club scene and music world. Around this time, she also fell into new-age spiritualism and became one of those girls who buys a lot of healing crystals.

Selene is oblivious to her estranged husband's activities. Since she's so far away and mostly benign, Sho doesn't do anything to act against her.

Arsha is a whole deal. The TL;DR is that she/he [is bigender and identifies with both pronouns; I'll use she for convenience] was able to manipulate Sho into taking her in as one of his bodyguards, in exchange for Marv's freedom. She has mild shapeshifting abilities, allowing her to grow a second set of arms, change gender or recover from small injuries. She operates under the codename of Lady Tiger.

She was kidnapped by one of Sho's henchmen, when his clairvoyant business partner foretold that she would be an asset. The clairvoyant didn't see her being useful for the main business, due to her basic power, so she was quick to sign Arsha off to Hunter.

Arsha is very rough-and-tumble. She's quick to throw down when she sees the need, and she's ready to strike first. But she's also very calculating. She's naturally intuitive to any situation, allowing her to read people better than most. This makes her the only person to successfully understand and manipulate Sho.

I really want to make a full bio for her one day. I have this whole story in mind, where she spent several months as a pirate. It's this whole thing, but it only makes sense if I go into super long detail.

The clairvoyant, Moonface, is an old woman. Her power comes from a magic ritual, which she performs to see ahead to the next three days. She refuses to share her secrets, and her ability to see the future lets her stay ahead of anyone trying to sabotage her.

Hunter's siblings aren't particularly notable, except for Ember. She's also a mutant, a pyrokinetic. She's a lot more spirited than her brother, but she's also prone to wild flights of fancy and jumping to strange conclusions. She's fluent in Spanish, having learned from her mother. She wants to become an X-Man one day.

Before Fall of X, she was visiting Costa Perdita. She managed to avoid reaching a Krakoan Gate at the time, allowing her to stay out of the White Hot Room. She hid out with her grandparents and relatives during Fall of X, then moved back to Canada once it was over.

Trivia

Marv speaks English, Tagalog and Spanish. He knows just enough of the latter to be a danger to himself and others.

Hunter's mom also pushed him into acting at a young age. She got him into kid stage plays about environmentalism and equality and stuff. His most famous role was the Koala in Mother Nature's Animal Junction: Say 'Yes!' to Recycling! Hunter hated it and dropped out as soon as he could.