Whhhhhyyyy? Why would you do this to me? Do you know how much I talk?!?! And then first I have to do math to figure this out, and then do you know how many questions that is?
6. What’s something about your character that you wouldn’t like if you had to spend time with them?
I think that, Luise and I are enough alike that if we spent a lot of time together, we would just run each other crazy in general. I think her pickiness about how to do things, or how to get things done would get on my nerves simply because I also have my ways I like to do things and to get them done. And the thing is, I’m sure that neither way would be bad, and both would have logic to them, but we both would think that our way was a little better and that would be the way that we would want to do it.
I think that would drive me–and her–up the wall!
Well, to start out, it was because I was curious. I had just made an askblog, and I saw all those really neat starters going around and I wanted to do them too, but I couldn’t figure out how I would do that with a gif. So I looked closer and found out that people were writing with each other when they got them. So after some consideration, I decided to try it as well.
It was like an instant click, the thing I had been missing and looking for. See, not long before this I had been writing with three other friends. We actually wrote a novel together, and were working on the second one when we had a bit of a falling out, writing wise. We’re all still friends, thank goodness, but writing together just wasn’t going to work anymore.
But I had gotten used to writing 1000+ words every few days, and talking out ideas, and plots and all sorts of stuff with them and when I started rping again, I realized that that was what I had been missing, that’s what felt like it was lost, the writing. And so rping filled that space of that desire to write again. And I absolutely love it.
18. What’s your favorite thing about rping an original character?
Well, I’ve never actually rped an original character. But I did create one for that novel my friends and I wrote, and we wrote it round robin style. I enjoyed being able to create her just like I wanted. To take my character and throw in interests and ideas, and thought processes, to be able to create this whole new person and move her from shallowness to a lot of depth. I loved that. It was great.
(omg, I’m nostalgic for that now. Wanna go find it and look through the ideas and cry that they’ll never get done omg. Such plans…such plans…)
24. What’s your favorite AU?
I gotta admit, I love pregnancy AUs. The build up, the preparation, the expectation…I love them. I love seeing how the characters react, how they treat my pregnant muse, how they adapt…I just love that kind of thing!
30. What do you like about roleplaying fluff?
The cute and the sweet. I’ll be the first to admit, I love my angst. I do. I love tearing characters to bits! But too much of that isn’t a good thing–it kinda brings you and your thoughts down after a while. So I love the fluff too. I love the sweet moments between characters, the cute moments that just show how they care. I love the healing fluff moments can bring after angst. I love how positive fluff can be. That’s needed, you know? The positive is needed.
36. Do you ever read rp threads you aren’t involved in? What type of thread does it usually have to be to interest you?
To be honest, no, I don’t. I used to try to, but two things happened. Most of them would turn into smut at some point. And I am not comfortable with smut. It makes me feel gross, icky, wrong on the inside. The idea of sex doesn’t, but reading it, seeing it, or watching it, it does. And so the threads would devolve into smut and I’d either feel like that because I wanted to see what happened and ended up reading part of the smut, or I’d have to drop the thread all together because the smut would come up again and again.
And then, because that happened with so many of them, I gave up on reading other threads. It was hard to find one that didn’t turn into smut, and in the process of trying to find one, I’d accidentally end up reading some of the smut on my dash because I was trying to find a thread to read. It honestly ended up not being worth it.
As far as what type of thread would interest me, it would have to be smut-free, I’m not big on romance in general, tbh, and it would have to have good characterization. Plots I’m pretty open to, but…the rest is the kicker, really.
42. Do you like to answer open starters?
Sometimes. They have to catch my interest, though, and be with someone I want to rp with. But I know that if more than one person replies it can be hard for the other rper to keep up with, so it’s a lot easier to loose the thread. I gotta really be intrigued to answer an open one.
48. Do you prefer gifs or icons when roleplaying? Or no FC at all?
I’m honestly not that big on them. Yeah, icons can be fun, but sometimes I feel they take away from the writing, and the writing is what I love the best. I don’t mind doing them sometimes, and if the writing and the icons enhance each other, then I’m good with it, but on the whole I can do just as well without them.
Besides, I have mixed feelings on FCs. If the FC is animated or some sort of art, then I’m cool with it. It’s hard to control what people do with characters anyway. But FCs that are real people is just not something I, personally, would be comfortable doing because, even if they’re famous, it’s still their face. It’s their face on this piece of writing and, well, is that something that they would be comfortable with? It’s not a caricature of them as a role, it’s not them agreeing to play that role that way. It’s someone using their actual face for writing, and some of that writing can be pretty, ah, intense...
I know that if I were famous, I would not be comfortable with that. So I’ll stay away from FC that are actual people, whether I’m rping a character they played or not.
54. What’s a trope or plot you love but you’ve never gotten to roleplay or never gotten to roleplay in completion?
I hardly ever get to play pregnancy or hurt/comfort ones to completion! Like, they always peter off and I’m sitting here going “Oh...okay...I wanted to see how they supported each other and healed from that/how they went through the pregnancy and greeted the new baby and adjusted but...okay. Guess we’re dropping that one...” and omg, I just wanna play them all the way through! I get left hanging and then I sit there with ideas swirling around my head, wanting to write on it. Sometimes I do, just to get it out of my system, tbh.
60. Who’s a roleplayer (or writer) you think you have learned a lot from?
Oh, gosh, I have no idea. I mean, I pick up bits and pieces from everyone. I learn a little something from this rper, and a little something from that one, and then I see this idea from one over here, and the one over there does that interestingly, and--I don’t really have one particular one. If I’ve written with you, then I’ve learned something from you. That’s just how it goes. I learn from everywhere, and I just can’t narrow down who I’ve learned things from the most.
There! I did it! It took me a while, but I did it!*cough*thankyou*cough*
