Favorite themes to write?
some of my favorite themes to write are political intrigue and just writing about life within any sort of atristocracy or upper class and the dark side of it, espesially from the perspective of someone who is an outsider to that way of life. a theme that is featured prominently in vali's story. i really like hurt/comfort and angst but not like....whump, extreme whump. i cant deal with like just torturing a character with no relief in sight or like, wobbifying a character for the sake of that. i prefer to explore the themes of reaction to trauma, overcoming trauma and pain, how we seek out comfort in people and activities and how different characters react to this, characters trauma bonding and the possible unhealthy ramifications of that, growing past the pain and learning from the past, shit like that is very cathartic to write about as someone with c-ptsd?? idk.
i also really like writing like, general adventure/exploratory rps where characters have to go off and survive in the wilderness and have to rely on eachother and everyone gets a chance to show off their skills even if a character isn't particularly survival savvy which honestly sometimes are the funniest or most dramatic ones. im a sucker for horror related stuff, though usually the horror i've written so far has been very subdued or like, very much a background element, so i would like to write more horror/suspense type rps in the future.
one of my guilty pleasures is urban fantasy plots, of a fantasy being trying to survive undetected within human society, whether it be modern equivalent or in another time period, i love that shit. another guilty pleasure is monster/human, and monster/monster, just the theme of discovery, particularly in a romantic sense, with a lover that is so different from you but also finding the similarities between two very different beings. love writing characters that can qualify as like, cryptids or monsters, and i love exploring the dynamic of the monster hunter or researcher and the monster. i love anything that explores liminal spaces and existence, cosmic horror and the vastness and power of the greater picture, the universe, etc etc. lovecraftian horror is right up my street.
action/fighting rps are super fun, but lately i've been craving action rps where characters are fighting together, not against eachother. and characters having to combine their skills and abilities to achieve something, everyone getting a chance to show off and everyone getting a chance to show weakness. i like the idea of two very different or diametrically opposed characters teaming up because of their surprisingly compatible team style. also i love and want more enemies to friends to lovers too--
in general i would like to write more roleplays with overarching plots and storylines that tie into the smaller, interpersonal storyline/plot, which sometimes can be difficult to achieve with the format of tumblr rp but ive done it before and it's fun! i'd also like to do more spontaneous roleplays where characters are interacting on the dash in a fluid conversational way, you may have seen me do some rps like that with @xaallo and i really find those types of rps really easy to get into, and it reminds me of the more fluid and i guess spontaneous format tumblr rp used to have. dont get me wrong, i love plotting, but sometimes those rps that come out of nowhere are really fun and the easiest to reply to because they are topical to whatever is interesting the muses or going with whatever the dash topic is.
