[daikokunyo]

i really want to RP again!

will do 1x1s
i don't like restrictions on posting length (min or max)
i like ooc discussion
(so, my only expectation is that we each give the other enough to work with. some RP moments require less words and others more so posting doesn't have to be in the same consistent range of word counts. and for RP moments that are slow and better skipped, i like ooc discussion so that i and my partner can discuss how to make the RP move forward when simply building upon the previous post won't cut it.)

won't do:
group rps
sci-fi
historical
gore
smut
animal characters

will do pretty much anything else (ask!) but i especially like dark/twisted fairytale rps. also rp with supernatural elements, slice-of-life, etc. i'll usually only decline if an rp will require me to research and is therefore out of my comfort zone, OR i'm just not interested in the idea. do ask!

[Merskelly Metalien]

:] Hmm.
*thinks for a bit, looking through my many OCs on file*
Dark and twisted fairy tales...hmmm,
:T supernatural elemennnts...may I ask,
Would fairy/dragon/demon/nymph OCs be acceptable?

[daikokunyo]

fairy/demon/nymph would be totally acceptable, and dragons too if they're shapeshifting/humanoid somehow! i don't mind animal characters as side characters, but for POV characters i'm more comfortable if they're human-like ^_^

[Merskelly Metalien]

:D I see.
So would a dragon as a adopted pet/companion count?

I'll admit, I'm kinda interested in RPing. ^-^

[daikokunyo]

yes, it would! side characters as animals are totally cool!

oooh definitely try RP out then, it's pretty fun

[Merskelly Metalien]

Oop, sorry, I should have added, "again". <x']
I'm interested in RPing again. :]
Been doin' it for years and years,

but my RP partner happened to be a poor excuse for a human being, >:/ and manipulative, and legit emotionally abusive, :/
So, even if I wrote up a whole page and a half worth of RP efforts, I got back unwanted, berating OOC critiques, or just a couple sentences. T-T And she never played by my rules, so I was forced to play by hers, with things always ALWAYS turning sexual. B[
I've missed RPing since then, but haven't had a decent RP partner since 2008. 8/

I have some experience under my hat. :D And luckily, have some fantasy characters of mine that could totally work. Don't require too much research, most of them pretty down to earth, have diverse personalities and dark pasts, some funny and some serious. :3 If you'd like, I could introduce them in profile format, and maybe draw up some quick appearances.
What were you thinking about setting up for an RP, storywise? :o

[daikokunyo]

i'm so angry on your behalf. RP partners are supposed to respect your boundaries and the communication about how the RP is going and how you want it to go is supposed to be mutual, not one-sidedly forcing it on you; RP rules say as much even if they don't say it exactly like this. was that the only person you've ever RPed with? i've had a couple of bad RP experiences but i had a host of good ones too, so the experience of RPing wasn't ruined for me.

i usually make my characters according to the story, but i've also RPed with people who used pre-made OCs. in that case we picked a plot their OC would fit well into. we could take a fairytale and twist it, or we could also make our own plot.
you can introduce your OCs if you have their profiles already made, and let's see what we can come up with! as for existing premises that i have, here are a few:

Rented Heart: [supernatural//mxm//preferred role: keeper//1x1]Based off the manga one-shot of the same name. One character becomes assistant to the proprietor of a shop that rents out hearts (of any person in the world) to anyone willing to pay the price. The keeper doesn't question his ethics and is ready to let someone's heart starve or shatter if they can't pay the price or renew the rent on the heart they crave. The customers that visit are sad, desperate, lonely or lovesick, with their own stories to tell. How this works:

If you want someone to love you romantically, but they don't, you can rent their heart and make them. The keeper casts a sort of spell. They won't really truly love you but they sure as hell will think they do, they'll be obsessed with you. However you have to keep renewing the rent, once you're unable to pay the rent the spell will break and cannot be evoked in that particular person again. So, you can't miss a single payment. (The payment plan is according to when the spell is cast, so if the spell was put on the person on the 17th of April, payment must happen 17th of every month- this is as decided by the proprietor. The manner of payment is also decided by him, it's not always money especially as he likes collecting magical artifacts and more sinister things and sometimes wants to have something done for him.)

The Angel Cupid is supposed to have the power of evoking true love- doesn't have choice, but must follow what's decided by Fate. The Devil on the other hand can rent hearts for infatuated obsession and can gift this power to others too.

Dreamscape: [fantasy//anyxany//preferred role: either//1x1]Two characters at opposite corners of the world visit each other in their dreams and can communicate that way. One night they find themselves in a neverending dream, and they don't know which of them is dreaming it. They must fight to get out, back to reality... or not, as the case may be. This would be fun because anything is possible in dreams so they can have all manner of adventures: parties, epic battles, the stuff of nightmares, etc.

Wonder vs. Order [twisted fiarytale: alice in wonderland//preferred role: alice//possible doubling/playing multiple characters even if we each take one main POV character]
Wonderland had always been weird and wonderful, for its inhabitants a place perfect for crazy capering, and magic always abounded. The magic was what kept everybody's wonder at the world intact, because not even the most well-versed sorceresses and warlocks could understand or control the mysterious power underlying everything. Even if the people faced unhappiness they never felt like the world was dreary, that life was pointless.
But now, frightening legends were spreading like wildfire, too fast to be completely curbed by the efforts of the Queen of Hearts. Everywhere, it was being said that the Age of Order is approaching. When nothing would happen that couldn't be explained by fundamental laws. Everything would follow rules. Everything would be 'ordinary'. Life as the inhabitants of Wonderland knew it, would be transformed- and not in a good way.
Some people said that the Queen of Hearts, who was currently ruling, would establish the Age of Order by the end of her rule. These people were swiftly executed by lopping off their heads. In these days when the citizens should have been treasuring the last days of the Age of Wonder, they were instead despairing. Their only hope was that the legends that sprung up in answer to those about the approaching Age of Order were true: Someone called Alice would traverse a dark portal to reach them. She would lead them in a revolution to overthrow the Queen of Hearts before she could muster enough power to curse the land with Order. The Age of Wonder would be saved.
I'm thinking the Red and White Queen join in the chaos with their armies. The White Queen wants to fight for Wonder so attacks the Queen of Hearts' kingdom while the Red Queen fights alongside the Queen of Hearts to defend from the White Queen

needless to say, we can come up with all sorts of ideas beyond these ones and i think it'll be better to decide what kind of RP we want to do after you share your OC profiles, unless you particularly like one of the plots in the spoiler. and if it's twisted fairytales that interest you, i'm down for reworking just about any fairytale. it's only a plot from scratch that'll take a bit of planning.

one more thing: should i make us an OOC thread for us to discuss this further?

[Merskelly Metalien]

<:/ yehh, unfortunately she was the longest RP partner I've had, and she also happened to be that one person in my life to really f*ck me up emotionally, mentally and physically. But she wasn't the only RP partner I've ever RPed with thankfully. :] I've had a couple off/on RP partners I knew irl that are old friends of mine, but we were all so busy with school all the time, that we could never really have a decently made RP for very long. <u<; And we never got further than 5 pages..but out OOC stuff was all over the place. <x'D

Ah. :D I kinda like the last two. I don't have a pre-made OC for the Dreamscape, but for the Wonder Vs Order, I have a couple characters that would def fit the world, despite me originally creating them to be video game characters that cross over to a shared world. ^-^

Although, my fantasy characters I was thinking of introducing don't seem to really fit any of the premises and might need a totally different approach. :d

Ahah, yeah, an OOC thread sounds good! <x} I was about to suggest that actually too, hehe. I could introduce my fantasy OCs there. :D

[daikokunyo]

i'm glad you've had decent RP partners! and i can relate to RPs dying off cause of school i had some RPs that died when i made the transition from high school to college, especially. although RPs do die and sometimes that can't be helped, what really makes me sad is if i became good friends with my partner while RPing with them but we don't continue talking to each other after the RP dies. in one case, the website i used to RP at underwent an overhaul and i lost touch with my partner because we weren't in touch on any other platform :(((

i'm excited to meet your OCs here is the OOC thread! talk to you there!

[Espy]

...oh, darn, that’s two of my usual genres on your won’t do list.

[daikokunyo]

Originally Posted by Espy

...oh, darn, that’s two of my usual genres on your won’t do list.

i just find them kind of esoteric and difficult to get my teeth into, like no matter how i try to familiarise myself with them i feel out of my depth. i don't mind reading them but writing them is out of my comfort zone... i have other genres that might be on your will-do that aren't on my won't-do though

[Espy]

True. Never done a 1x1 before, though. Kind of scared to try.

[Gallagher]

1x1 is less intimidating if you give yourself the freedom to integrate other characters into your main's life and story beats, especially if they're other characters you love to play. it only gets scary when you've narrowed the field down to literally 2 characters and if they're not together then nothing is happening.

also, good to see a search get so active! hope you get some good games!

[Espy]

So like two main characters, and then sub characters for like... building?

[daikokunyo]

exactly, main +sub characters, or even more than two main characters! when i used to RP a 1x1 with multiple characters, the sub characters could be written about through the main characters point of view. if they were even less important they could be controlled by both me and my partner, like NPCs. but if they were also main characters, i'd just put their different POVs (in third person, but not omniscient, you know) in different posts. or even in the same post, under headings, like:

POV of main character 1
[post]

POV of main character 2
[post]

reiterating again that it was usually third person, but limited to what these main characters knew.

if it was sub-characters it'd be like:

[post, main interacting with sub-character] or else, if the sub-characters are acting where the mains can't see them, a sort of omniscient third-person voice until a main character comes into the scene

if it was NPCs it'd be the same as the writing of sub-characters, just that we don't distribute them amongst each other in terms of who controls who.

ALSO, who controls who isn't set in stone; like if we need to agree on something in OOC to move the RP forward, we can write it into IC even if our additions weren't already implicated by what has been set up so far in the RP, and even if we have to write each other's characters as saying/doing something- controlling each other's characters through the POVs of our own characters, if you will. basically, if we both have agreed to something i don't see a problem, even if it's not conventional. the one RP rule of etiquette that, for me, would override any others, is that we can do whatever the hell we like, if both of us like it.

@Galla thank you! i hope so too!

[Espy]

Huh. That... does sound less daunting.