You may call me Illidan or Il'denari, or a respectable nickname.
I am an adult, taken, and enjoy playing World of Warcraft on occassion.
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I am fictionkin and a part of an OSDD-1B system. I also grapple with borderline personality disorder and bipolar depression.
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Tolerance is subjective — respect those around you or simply do not speak. Failure to do so will end in a block.
Hi my name is Illidan Stormrage and I have long ebony black hair with purple streaks and green tips that reaches my mid-back and green eyes like fel fire and a lot of people tell me I look like Kil’jaeden (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Sargeras but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a hunter but i don’t use a bow or gun. I have dark purple skin. I’m also a demon, and I go to a demon school called The Black Temple in the Outland where I’m in the seventh year (I’m ten thousand years old). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly pants. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing no shirt with sexy rippling pecs and edgy torn pants, fel green glaives and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside The Black Temple. It was dark and raining hellfire so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of broken stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
TRP Aesthetics & formating has always been a well-guarded secret within the World of Warcraft RP community. This guide serves to break down that gatekeeping and give everyone access to the tools to make their TRP in whatever cool way they want!
It's been a long time since I realized my first guide, so this one serves as not only an updated version for all the new tricks I learned, but also a connection to further resources which have come out since then.
This guide will also be actively updated with Further Resources when new guides and tricks come out by other creators.
As always, LET'S GET THIS SPARKLE AND CROSS-INFESTED BREAD! (っ◔◡◔)っ ❤
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SYMBOLS
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Symbols! Dare I say the face of Aesthetic TRPS! There are two kinds of symbols: the symbols you can simply copy/paste easy-peasy & then the ones that require a special symbol to activate!
When using ANY, make sure to include this ㅡ symbol somewhere in the line or it will appear as a box.
Formatting is a bitch. THANKFULLY, we got some tips & tricks here to make it easier for all of you! This section will be going over gradient text, empty 'race' slots, headers, spacing, additional information and all that funky stuff that just makes it look nicer. Who thought moving text over or changing it's size would make such a difference!?
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Colour Gradients:
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Once again, thank you to @ladytruebane for showing me how to do this all the way back when I made the first guide. Give her love. Or else.
Okay, so you want to do something like this?
You're going to want to go to this website: https://www.stuffbydavid.com/textcolorizer
Put whatever text you wish within the box and the colours you would like. Copy paste the BBCode selection into your TRP. Every 'color' must be turned into 'col', every set of these brackets [ ] must be turned into these ones { }, the # & = must be erased and = must be replaced with : . It is a long process, but it won't show up unless you do this.
Below is a small video of me verbally explaining it as well (and showing how long it takes. (¬_¬") )
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Empty 'Race' Slot
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So you want to make race/class all one colour! It's actually HELLA easy.
Go to your Race Slot and delete everything in it, once you do that, press spacebar and BOOM. Empty! Just make sure whatever you want coloured is in the Class Slot, and it will appear the colour of your choice.
Small demo below!
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Headers
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How to make your text bigger! There are three sizes of header:
You can colour your headers whatever kind you want - the gradient even works with headers as well! Headers can be used for all sorts of things: Titles, About Sections, Quotes, Borders, Symbols, whatever you want! Icons are also effected by headers so you can orientate an icon wherever you'd like within your TRP!
Just make sure everything is within the {h1:c} & {/h1} or else it will appear as it's default size.
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Additional Information
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Additional Information can be a canvas to put whatever you want! Here's an example of what I do with mine!
The sky is your limit! You can really do anything with it. Here's a small video explaining spacing with Additional Information and some tricks I've learned.
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LINKS
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Links are where you put your. . .Links! Artwork, tumblrs, carrds, social links, etc etc. Here, I'll be showing you the different ways you can format links; orienting them on your page as well as turning them into icon images! The former was hard af to figure out but when you see how simple this is, you will laugh at me-
So formatting links; it's basically the same as formatting normal text as shown above. You can even colour them too! Here's a quick little show of how to make a coloured and formatted standard link.
The order of code for coloured links is as follows: Header (If wanted) > Colour Code > Link
To make a link appear as an Icon, you MUST place the Icon Code within the text section (as seen in the video). If you do not, it will not appear and ruin the string of code.
Borders can be used wherever within your TRP! They're good for sectioning information and just making it look nice and formatted. There are three different kinds of borders: Symbols, Images & Icons. I will explain how to make your own, as well as share some for free use!
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Symbols
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Symbol-based borders are by far the easiest to make. You just type them out and play around with the symbols of your choice! You can really put them anywhere within your TRP - Additional Info, About, OOC info, literally ANYWHERE.
I encourage you all to try and make your own! I bet they'll be super cool. For now though, here's some examples ya'll can use.
∙ㅡㅡㅡ◐∙◑ㅡㅡㅡ∙
∙ ♩ㅡㅡ♪ ♬ ♪ ㅡㅡ♩ ∙
.°☆ ㅡㅡ°.♡.°ㅡㅡ ☆°.
∙. ㅡ~†~ㅡ .∙
° ㅡㅡ ° ◇ ◈ ◇ ° ㅡㅡ °
- . : .ㅡΩㅡ. : . -
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Images
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Image borders can come in two forms: full images or flattened images. The first is very explanatory, whatever image you pick can divide text. This can be scenery, crowns, gems, Blizzard-licensed character art & so much more! There's a butt load to pick from, so take the time to browse and find the perfect one.
Here's an example I did using a Revendreth image!
Flattened images can also be used as borders! To flatten an image, you must alter the last numbers within the string of code. As you can see here, this is the normal image and default code.
I go in and edit the number 128 to 5 and get this flattened image as a result!
Again, feel free to play around with this and find the images and sizes you love best! I've even seen some people super impose them for backgrounds??? Badass???
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Icons
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Icon borders are like the weird lovechild of Image & Symbol borders. With a mixture of Icons & Symbols, you can really make some cool shit. Icons can be formatted and moved around your profile with Headers. Like so!
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TRP ICON GLOSSARY
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Here is a collection of aesthetic TRP Icons I've found and categorized for your usage! They are divided by UI-formatting, colour (random picks), Racial, Faction & then any other cute random ones I find.
Sadly, the black, white & brown Icon sections has to be cut due to the sheer GIRTH of this post.
However, you can really find any sort of Icons within the searchbar! Keywords like colours (black, pink, green), races (Nightelf, Human, etc) and so much more can be found easily! Want your icon to be a class ability? Use the class as your keyword.
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Transparent Backgrounds
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These icons appear as their shape, rather than having a black box or background behind it. You can use these little guys for all sorts of things! I've seen people use them as borders, bullet-points, decor, like literally anything.
(Left 2 Right)
Red Paw: {icon:pet_type_beast:25}
Rat: {icon:pet_type_critter:25}
Dragon: {icon:pet_type_dragon:25}
Fire: {icon:pet_type_elemental:25}
Wing: {icon:pet_type_flying:25}
Helmet: {icon:pet_type_humanoid:25}
Sparkle: {icon:pet_type_magical:25}
Cog: {icon:pet_type_mechanical:25}
Skull: {icon:pet_type_undead:25}
Wave: {icon:pet_type_water:25}
Green Paw: {icon:tracking_wildpet:25}
(Left 2 Right)
Murloc: {icon:newplayerhelp_newcomer:25}
Green Dot: {icon:7fx_alphamask_glow_teal_blend:25}
Simply a collection of little tricks and nuggets of info I've learned about TRP over the years. They don't quite count as formatting so uh. I dunno. This is my guide, I'll do what I want-
The larger your TRP is, the longer it will take to load. Don't feel put off if someone whispers you about it thinking they were accidently blocked!
A TRP doesn't have to be long to be good. Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it as they say.
Don't feel pressured to make your TRP a certain way. It's your TRP. Have fun with it and go crazy!
Don't feel afraid to reach out & ask other players how they did something in their TRP if you like it! Though some may still gatekeep techniques, there's been a shift in the TRP culture. You may make a new friend too!
If you get a TRP formatting error, you're most likely just missing a / or { } somewhere within the code. I do it all the time and a comb through the code normally shows me where one went missing.
BACK UP YOUR TRP! The worst feeling in the world is writing a super swag TRP only for it to get shitted on by a WoW update. Below, I'll show you a quick and easy way to do it.
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FURTHER RESOURCES
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Alternatives to AI Art, another post I’ve made awhile ago. The community has this weird culture about NEEDING character art, so here’s some alternatives to AI!
So, the AI Art discussion has been a huge hot topic for not only the WoW RP community, but the entire internet as we know it. Because we are
Super cute TRP templates done by this lovely tumblr account. Stumbled across them by chance, but I'm kinda adoring the themes & aesthetic they've got going???
@trp3-templates
WoW Trp3 Templates
A really amazing post on r/WoWRoleplay where the community has shared some more tips & tricks I haven't covered within this guide. It warms my heart to see us helping out each other!
The original TRP Aesthetic Guide I made years ago. All the information has been imported and improved here, but I'm a bit of a sentimental sucker, so I'll be linking it here too for legacy purposes.
They’re called by many names: ‘aesthetic’, ‘myspace’, or simply. . .Fancy! Dolled up TRPs with strange symbols, colourful text, or even miss
GUYS, it's been over a wholeass YEAR since I released the OG TRP Guide. That's crazy, yo. A lot happens in a year & I'm so glad to have heard how many people got my guide and appreciated it. You guys have gotten hella creative and I can't count how many swag & aesthetic TRPs I've seen since it's release. Not only that, but people have also been more open with sharing techniques & tips. Just makes me fuzzy inside or someshit.
Point is, since I released it there's a LOT of stuff I didn't know and even more things being found out. That, and there's a lot of stuff I thought was common knowledge that isn't; thus not adding it to the original one. I asSuMeD- So, I began asking some of you just how you were doing it & compiling EVERYTHING, just incase! Like the first, this project is a bunch of roleplayers coming together to make another fun resource for the community.
ENOUGH MUSHINESS. GO MAKE A CUTE / SWAG TRP!
i don't think there's been a hardest dialogue in wow history than xe'ra and illidan's... i forget how incredible legion was as an expansion. i didn't even realize this foreshadowing that we're seeing unfold in midnight now
tossing these sketches i shared with discord forever ago into the wild since i'm still not in a place to draw much ~__~ was really in a mop little guys-mood for a while.........
Everyone knows dragons are on my mind 24/7 (its kinda my thing)
But The Legend of Spyro trilogy (not the OG or Reignited) was my first fandom and I looooved these dragons.
I just think that Illidan would have a really cool design - and he has like. The spread of young - juvenile - adult PLUS fel corruption v1 and then fully demon / fel p2 (aka he got hooves and wings)
I really wish I could design him but I just do not have the energy to but I would love to see him and Cynder hanging in their corrupt forms
"In league with an evil master?"
"Amongst their ranks, yes."
"Rad. Wanna break free?"
"More than anything."
