Mun’s Asks: RP Edition || @heaimed || accepting
11. What made you start wanting to roleplay?
TBH, writing used to be the last thing I was interested in, despite having a strong gravitation for it when I was still living in South Korea; I was in the charge of making the news section of the bulletin board when I was sixth grade in elementary school (elementary school goes up to sixth grade in Korea, instead of five), and even had my writings posted in local newspapers. As I immigrated to the States when I was fifteen, just trying to learn English, while catching up with my schoolwork was such a heavy burden and stress that I lost my interest in writing, and just language skills in general. Until high school years when I used to have a crush on my English teacher and wanted to try my hardest to get good grades. I still struggled with being a bilingual, feeling like I didn’t speak fluent enough Korean nor English at the time, at least not up to par where I should be confident and comfortable.
And when I came back to South Korea in my mid twenties, I really began to miss the life in the States. I didn’t have any friends, and I was living alone in a relatively foreign city at the time (I was born in a small city in South Korea, and at that time, I was living in the second biggest metropolitan city). Being on Tumblr and owning a personal blog at the time was my solace and respite from two-job I was working, and I attempted to pick up writing back in 2015. At first, it was solely because of my curiosity, because most mutuals of mine back then owned both a personal and a RP blog. Maybe I could get into writing and develop as my own art form, because I always have been a visual person who gravitated towards any kind of art media.
Now my English skill has significantly increased from only writing one-liners with very simple prose to being capable of writing multi-paras and even novellas when my writing mojo strikes. And most importantly, I tend to fixate on fictional characters more than real people anyways (from unsavory experiences of the past), so writing as Hanzo and Kuai as of now couldn’t be better as I get to do that as little, or as much as I want. I probably couldn’t ever giving up roleplaying, because despite all the unpleasant and emotionally traumatic experiences of the past, roleplaying and writing has literally saved my life and have been serving as one of the most profound, cathartic creative outlet I have ever had (along with painting and journaling).