I’m passing around the idea of setting up a sorta-RHGish written-media framework but I’m not sure whether it’d actually go very far, so I’m kinda just posting this to test the waters.
For those unfamiliar, RHG stands for Rock Hard Gladiator and is a form of animation competition within the stick figure animation community. Each animator has a created character with a loosely-defined set of powers, a weapon, or something else that they use in the competitions. Essentially, one animator challenges the other to an RHG match, then both animators produce an animation showing their take on the fight, with their character as the ultimate victor. The community votes and decides the winner.
I think this would translate fairly well over into a written/RP medium. Instead of animating a stick fight, you’d just write a short story detailing the fight, but everything else is essentially the same.
I’m not entirely sure whether there’d be a lot of interest in something like this, loosely-regulated, but I’m hoping there’s enough that the project would be worth pursuing, so that’s why I’m posting this. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, feel free to like, reblog or send me a note letting me know, particularly if you’re an RPer or run in those circles. If there seem to be a lot of people up for this, I’ll look into setting it up.