#{ask-team-clst}

[the-gray-maiden]

@ask-team-clst

Class had finally finished. Lia leaned her forehead the wood. She sighed. She had so much homework to do. She was did not want to work on it.

She lifted her head as she heard someone. She raised her eyes to see who was approaching.

[brnzsniperbabe]

@ask-team-clst​

“You feel like taking a trip to Vacuo?” Seemed a bit of a random question to ask but knowing Laura..the answer was going to be “yes” no matter what followed it. “Nat and Blair took the kids to Nat’s parents so it’ll just be you and me. I’ve got someone taking care of the pets so that’s no big deal. Realistically they tend to take care of themselves but you get the idea.”

“Long story short, I gotta head back home and visit Mom and Dad. Figured you might want a change of scenery for a little bit and it’s sort of boring making the trip by myself. Airship cost is already covered, all ya gotta do is pack a bag..”

[velveteen-faunus]

🤙

🤙 Bump into my muse

Velvet hadn't been paying much attention to where she was walking, tapping away at her scroll, so it was partially her fault when someone bumped into her. She gasps softly, turning to face the other. "Ah! Sorry, are you okay?"

[askteamshrd]

@ask-team-clst​ liked your post.

“Woah...I like your outfit!” The silver haired girl commented with her eyes gleaming with joy. “Did you made it by yourself?”

[teamlarl]

Renatus, if you were running for a seat on the council, what stances would you take on hot issues?

For the next hour my muse cannot lie and is insanely blunt to any questions they get on anon

“The Council is defunct now, but let’s humor this question as if they weren’t all brutally assassinated months ago. What stances would I take? I don’t think I’ve ever been subtle about my position.

Mistral’s withdrawal from the Vytal Accords

The establishment of an actual military

A hard-line stance against organized crime with the goal to break up the largest crime families

The revitalization and expansion of infrastructure and roads all over the continent

Education reform, both for potential huntsmen and regular citizens

Civil rights reforms on behalf of our faunus citizens

Slowly disentangling ourselves from Atlas’s military and Atlesian corporations

The return of Argus Base to the control of Mistral

...Need I go on?”

[rwbymotivation]

Can we get some love for @ask-team-clst? The mun is super friendly and easy to talk with. They have some fantastic muses with well thought out backgrounds and personalities. Highly recommend checking them out!

[rwby-prsm]

☭: Laura vs. Safyra (Gentlemen and Ladies, it's TIME TO FIGHT!)

Send ☭ for a vs. battle quote to your muse

Battle Theme: MHW: Hoarfrost Battle Theme

Battle intro: “Hey, hot-shot! Let’s get this show on the road!”

Victory: “HA! That was fun! Want to go again?!”

Defeat: “No! Ugh. ... Redo?”

Assist: “Mona, get creative!”

Taunt: “Haha, you’re aim’s off! Is that hat cutting off circulation to your brain?”

Reacting to Taunt: “Ooh, scary~! Haha, less talking, more fighting!”

Flee: “Oops- time to run. Bye~!”

Reaction to Flee: “Already? Man, and I was just getting fired up....”

Tie: “Nice. Want to go again?”

Perfect Victory: “HA! Take THAT! Mona, you saw that, right?! I was awesome!”

Semblance Activation: “The best offense is a good defense.”

Finishing Move: “Freeze!”

[teamoliv-archive]

✍

For every ✍ I get in my inbox, I will reveal a pet peeve I have about rp.

I have a bit of a history with custom militaries in RP to the point where I very very rarely will RP with them anymore. Militias, small private orders, guilds, etc. are all fine, but if you have a full-scale organized military, I’m probably not going to interact with it. For those who want the long version, check the break.

Custom organizations in RP tow a line for me. On the one hand, there’s plenty of room to add things like companies, religions, non-profits, activist groups, and all manner of entities that can add some fun fleshing out to characters and stories.

That said, they can also be just as bad, if not worse than OCs with outrageous status or capabilities that push the limits of the lore. This is particularly true with things that are added in the large scale such high ranking officials in custom nations or organizations where the player is basically trying to put their character on a level of authority equal to some of the most influential movers and shakers of a setting. I really hate this because unless your organization can have a justifiable place inside the existing setting’s world framework it really shouldn’t be there; and for some reason it’s always custom military entities. In nearly two decades of RPing I have yet to encounter a custom military organization in any fandom I liked because they always did the same irritating things and always wound up with very few consistent writing partners as a result.

I don’t know if this is just the fact that creating a custom military immediately gives players a sense of power and influence they have complete control over, or if I’ve just had utterly horrid luck with these but every single damn time I’ve ever encountered a custom military organization, no matter the fandom, seems to do the same irritating things. If it’s not a semi-autonomous “special elite” sub-organization that reaps all the benefits of a canon military while not listening to its rules and regulations, it’s an outside force either from a neighboring (commonly custom) nation. Either way, I always see characters from said organization:

Act as if they have full civil and legal authority no matter where they are though some treaty contrivance.

Utterly ignore, disrespect, order around, or otherwise bad mouth members of whatever canon army exists.

Act as if they both have the right to take full command of whatever they’re cooperating with other units with and/or treat any orders or attempts to actually foster any sense of communication be turned down in favor of more order shouting from someone who realistically should have no authority over someone else’s troops.

Any comments, questions, or criticisms being met with consistent threats that aren’t actually enforceable unless they insist on it OOC.

Now all of these are just shitty RP behaviors in general. Rampant disrespect of other people’s muses for little reason, insisting on having full authority over the situation to the point of ignoring the other player’s wishes for the scene, and 

Sometimes the player will even bad mouth or criticize the implementation of whatever canon military is in place (whether or not said player was ever actually in the military tends to be a toss up) to the point of it being kind of obnoxious.

I know this sounds really specific but for whatever reason this has been every custom military in RP I’ve ever encountered. I still wouldn’t say the problem is the concept but I’ve yet to see it done well.