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✉: Someone you're afraid to approach/unsure of approaching
hroooom I suppose in the similar way I'm unsure about crossovers, I'm usually fairly nervous about interacting with Third Age Middle-earth characters. Partly because it generally involves breaking canon to make it work, in ways that can verge on godmod (which isn't fun for another person to work off of!), but also because I don't want to be the intimidating one. I'm really chill about people who haven't read Silmarillion, or even if they haven't read LotR or The Hobbit--good writers can come from film-canon only. I just don't want to turn up and make anyone nervous because they haven't heard of my muse. D:
☣: A pet peeve about roleplaying
I suppose, since I mentioned godmoding--sometimes you're forced to make really awkward pauses for the sake of not taking over your partners' actions. Dialogue doesn't quite work realistically, and sometimes there'll be that thing where there are two distinct lines of conversation happening, seemingly back and forth, but it'd really make more sense for it to be two different discussions, one before the other.
It's good writing practice, but only to an extent. Switching back to fanfic or other longer works is sometimes a bit jarring because the format is surprisingly different.
✖: A plot you would never do/can't do with your character
A torture thread for torture's sake. I'm not really interested in that kind of "angst"--I think there's much subtler ways of making characters hurt, and "xe cut xer and xey screamed" just doesn't... eh. Not for me, thank you. Doesn't mean that I won't do darker threads or I won't ever let my characters be hurt, but I want there to be a good reason for it and I want it to be reasonable within a canon frame, not just have Fingon lose all capability as a warrior so Sauron can stab him and call him names.
