IMPORTANT: Please do not join the Fantasia Au
Please⌠Do not join the Fantasia Au.
Frankly I donât care if I get in trouble for this but since I was planning on leaving right after this, I wanted to mention this for anyone looking to join in the future. I know this blog isnât popular but I still wanted to share it to those who are thinking of joining. I am not one to usually speak up and point out the flaws of and au but I had to mention this. Now I am not saying I am perfect or anything, just that this is not an au for anyone thinking this would be a fun au to join because it isnât especially the chats. If you havenât noticed there is a lot of blogs leaving the au not just myself. And frankly I have 40 asks rn sitting in my inbox (which is the most I have ever gotten) and I may do text answers explaining everything I would of said for Renzo in this au. But you get that despite that fact, I am quitting this au and leaving this as a warning to those in the future.
I havenât used tumblr for a long time so the aus Iâve join are actually pretty okay. You got the occasionally people that get on your nerves but you just ignore them for the most part. However I donât have to been in a million aus to know this a pretty bad one. This au is very toxic and these are the list of reasons why I suggest not to join this au. I will go into more detail below and I wonât do a read more because I feel like this needs to be read and shown entirely.
Most People in the Chat is just toxic
Popularity is everything- If you arenât popular, then you are nothing.
The New Rules that were implemented
The Disregard for Peopleâs Characters and Backstories of the Characters
Well there is no other way to put it that the people in the chat are pretty toxic and I admit that I am starting to become worse and worse because of this influence. I am an admin myself and I run my own au so I know the kind of situations that come up within the chats but I tend to solve them rather calmly. However most people take things very personally and want to cause fights rather than look for solutions. Now I am not saying everyone in the chat is like this. I havenât been it for long but some of my friends were in it and some people arenât bad, just those few people make it hard to enjoy the au sometimes. But even worse is that they are admins of the au. Look, if you are going to be an admin of an au, you canât take things personally if people criticize or point out things. Admins are supposed to help keep things in line and help to negotiate everything not add to the conflict. Even worse they are adults and it makes me ashamed to call myself an adult. They act like children :/
Hereâs an example of what Iâm talking about and it just happened recently.
So there was a discussion of how criminals would be punished in the Umbra Kingdom. To be honest, I personally didnât agree with how Umbra was going about with their punishments as I felt like this is ruining the whole point of the Umbra Kingdom. It was supposed to the dark kingdom aka the whole reason why I joined (and I will go more into that in the 4th reason). But at this point I was already getting sick of the au and was like âwhateverâ until one person pointed out someoneâs post. It was a shitpost but it pointed out still a form of punishment and âfree speech.â Personally how it was brought up probably wasnât handled in the best way but the person had a point nonetheless. Everyone was pointing out âit was a shitpost- its just a joke.â However if you have been to any ask account, shitposts make and develop a character how they are supposed to be. For example on one of my other accounts:
When I die, I want you to be my pallbearer, so you can let me down one last time.
âRenzo at probably everyone at some point
Yes this is a shitpost but did you gain something about his character? Of course you did. Now you know he is the kind of person who is quite sassy and probably an asshole- and messed up way of thinking/humor(which is actually accurate).
I gave a suggestion that if they donât want shitposts to count towards their character or anything like that, I suggested that they instead put something to indicate that its not canon to their blog or kingdom. I tried to end it peacefully and point out their point about the shitpost since nobody was going to defend them. To be honest, I wasnât even their friend (just everyone apparently assumed since I decided to be nice and defended their point since nobody would even consider it).
But nope, everyone wanted to argue about it. Frankly at that point, I went fuck it and just bitched pretty much. Its not like anyone was going to listen at that point or care. Though I have to admit it was pretty funny that one of the admins said to stop and I was just agreeing to something and I just posted along the lines of âi get also the other sideâs point but whatever imma drop it nowâ. They said to just go and I replied that I was already planning to. They said to leave already and I replied with â:3â just to fuck with them.
Now this isnât normally the type of person I am but really I can tell you that this wouldnât be how I normally react to situations and its because of this chat really fucked with me. I did something I probably shouldnât have done once but frankly it was because I was pissed and afterwards I was disgusted to see how I had changed because of this short time in this chat.
Popularity is everything- If you arenât popular, then you are nothing.
You may think I maybe exaggerating but I really am not. Maybe its because I am comparing it to other aus but my friend also agrees that this isnât right. You see, popularity dictates everything even admin roles apparently but you know whatever lmao. I didnât have to be in this chat long to see this.
You see, there is one person in the au in particular I will be referencing to this entire time but pretty much everyone kisses their ass (well except me and a few friends)- even the goddamn admin does. Its pretty funny considering that they have also gotten on the adminâs nerves yet have now become an admin of the chat. Frankly I donât care too much about them and they do good art⌠when its normal art. But again, you get your ass kissed if your art is amazing and your popular.
Well what about the other side you may ask? My own experiences is feeling very isolated from the chat because most of them arenât very friendly to be frank. I recall posting a picture and normally in the other chats Iâve been in, everyone gives a praise no matter how âgoodâ or âbadâ the art is. But it was pretty much silence.
However the more extreme case hasnât happened to me but rather someone else. Let me dub my friend⌠Y. Y frankly has really good art despite their age and I really do admire them for their artwork. They are an amazing person in general and quite friendly. So they ended up joining the Fantasia AU. It was sad to hear that my friendâs blog didnât get the attention it deserve and they did try to do a promo. Sadly due to their young age, they got in trouble for even posting it in the âpromoâ channel. And guess how they manage to get attention? They did drawings for others and suddenly everyone was reblogging their stuff. Now personally, I tend to stay away from reblogging otherâs stuff as my blogs would quickly turn into 99% others content and 1% of my own content lmao. But the point nonetheless is that they only got noticed because of free art and it was just sadâŚ
The New Rules that were Implemented
First I will be posting the actual rules here of the discord chat. I will screenshot them and I will basically give you the rundown of what the rules are basically saying if you donât want to read it. But basically to sum it up, I basically am going to use what my friend used to describe what these rules mean:
1. The au wonât accept toxic people even half of the au is toxic :/
2. If you go against the admin in any way, you get put in the âpunishmentâ role which means you donât get to talk for a week in the chats.
3. You canât defend yourself if people are upsetting or hurting you. No, you go to the admin and if they deem it a âgood reasonâ they might do something about it.
4. You canât defend others, especially if theyâre your friends. Youâre to turn a blind eye to any arguments or fights going on and pretend they arenât happening. (Aka why I got into trouble for a point earlier⌠and also for making the comments of âwas already planning toâ and â:3â though totally worth it).
5. They wonât reject or remove people from the chats if youâre uncomfortable with them. like?
6. You donât like the rules? âThe server is too much for youâ and youâll be forced out of the AU
But here is my problems with the rules and I had originally sent this to the admin of the au. I wonât share it here as its really really long but trust me when I say, I had a lot of things I had to say about whatâs wrong with these rules.
Disregard for Characters and their backstories.
So to explain this I have to explain my character, who he was supposed to be and other characters around him who play important parts of his roles. Now this one its kind of unavoidable to say out who it is but I will try to keep it as unknown as possible for privacy. There is others that I can go into but I wonât explicitly state it as I will be mainly going into mine.
First of all, Renzo Vargas is my interpretation of 2P Seborga put into this au for one reason: he helps to brainwash the majority of the âchildâ army in Umbra. Now to help keep him in line, he has a necklace around his neck which he is unable to take off. It drains his powers and stores it within the gem. Due to the amount of magic he has to use to brainwash any new comers and the amount of magic he uses in general, he is becomes physically exhausted to a point where he sleeps to replenish his magic. He probably is only awake at the very most a few hours for food before going right back to bed sleeping most of the days and nights. Its quite sad because if you really think about it, he probably has skipped a lot of birthdays and days very disoriented with the time. But basically, he is used to his very limits every single day and this implies that others may have more magic available to them at the cost of his âlife.â
Great setup to his character right? Well I think so lmao.
But hereâs the thing. The person who was supposed to do this to him had suddenly flip scripts to suddenly they are actually a nice person. Now I donât know about you but this now doesnât make sense of why Renzo is the way he is and other characters too. It flipped the script on everything including the kingdom with little to no regard to how the characters would be affected just so their character could be liked more. Did you expect an evil character to be liked right off the bat? You were kind of asking of it and you did approve of these backstories which now donât make sense.
Personally, I love a great villain and the more fucked up the better and there was so much potential for Umbra as a dark kingdom and conflicting viewpoints to go on. There was so much potential to not only Renzoâs storyline but otherâs as well! But its now wasted and frankly it was the only reason I joined. If I posted anything about Renzo now at this point, I wouldnât be able to explain why characters acted a certain way. Its just messed upâŚ
I have personal gripes about other characters but I donât care at this point.
My point is that there is almost no regard to other characters. Even one personâs who had such great potential for a messed up and angsty storyline was lost due to this.
You can have asshole characters or evil villains but they can still be âlikeable.â They have motivations no matter how twisted it maybe and it wonât excuse their actions but they have motivations! I know Renzo is a horrible character in terms how âgoodâ or âevilâ they are but people like him.
So this wraps up what I had to say about this au. I may or may not add more about it but I hope this serves as a warning to anyone looking to join this au.
Stay away from this au. I donât care who maybe popular is in this au. Stay away from it. I can tell you the few people who should definitely get praises for their artworks, attitude, and just overall being good people but they donât deserve this. I hope you guys are willing to understand this and donât take this personally. Frankly I would personally create my own au where a dark kingdom is done properly.
But for anyone else in the hetalia fandom, please donât join.
I donât like how I had spent my days bitching about the au because of the people in it. I donât like how my friends and I have been treated in this au. I donât like it. I just hope you guys can take my advice and avoid joining the au. I donât like how I changed and I would rather go back to being the person I was before I joined the au.
Thanks for reading everyone
