#2: Are there any plot tropes you are sick of/refuse to RP? If so, what are they and why?
I am extremely cautious when it comes to MirrorVerse in Star Trek rp. If you go over to AO3, you can see that a LOT of the AOS MirrorVerse is fetishized abusive BDSM. I’m not into that. BDSM gets a bad enough rap in the world (thank you, 50 Shades)…
MirrorVerse can be extremely interesting. The dynamics of a fear-rules system, where you always have to watch your back? SuPER INTERESTING. And I used to have an awesome crew. But in fic it’s so much “rape and violence for the sake of rape and violence,” ignoring that all the people in that verse have grown up in this oppresive, abusive environment, and they have very different survival tactics…
Ages ago a group of RPers were doing a mirrorthread where they boarded a ship and just murdered everyone. Why? They didn’t fight back. The Empire needs bodies, slaves, workers, whatever. Why wouldn’t they keep them and chain them? If you murder everyone on a ship and you choose to keep the ship, you have to sacrifice crew to drive it now? There’s far more than rape and murder going on.
….Actually I really miss mirror so I guess I’m doing the opposite of answering this question, but yes.