Roleplaying Meulin by tumblr user ampurra
Another freakishly long guide from the roleplayer who brought you Roleplaying Nepeta.
So you want to roleplay Meulin, huh? Everyone says she’s exactly like Nepeta except louder and obnoxious. I’ve been roleplaying Meulin ever since the beta version of Openbound 2 was released, and I really want to give you an in-depth look at her character.
Let’s begin with the beginning of her sentences, her prefix.
Like Nepeta, Meulin begins each of her sentences with a prefix. Except unlike her, Meulin’s emotes are way more complex and her prefix practically changes in every line!
Meulin uses a very specific set of emotes, so you can’t just use ANY emoticon you find. They’re specifically cat emotes, so they HAVE to have the whiskers (=) and/or kitty mouth (ω).
If you ever want to make your own custom emotes (I don’t recommend it because I like to stick to canon) here are all the symbols she’s used:
She can repeat her emotes for more than one line. For example, the farthest she’s gone in her normal speech was when she used the (=^・ω・^=) emote three times in a row. But when she’s possessed by Kurloz’s chucklevoodoos, she will repeatedly use the (=ﾟ･ﾟ=) emote.
Meulin can also use her emotes at the end of her sentences too. Either one to three times she does this.
For example: (The first one includes her prefix, the second doesn’t)
OMG M33NAH, THE SHIIIIIIIIIPPING! (=；ェ；=) ヾ(=ﾟ･ﾟ=)ﾉ (^・ω・^ )
*NOTE: MEULIN DOES NOT USE NEPETA’S EMOTES (or any other iteration) IN HER ORDINARY SPEECH. ONLY IN THE HASTAGS!!! #:33
So basically her prefix is arranged just like Nepeta’s, except the emotes are different.
r(f^aba^f)l_<_TEXT.
I hope that clarifies how her prefix goes? Moving on.
Because Meulin is deaf, SHE TYPES IN ALL CAPITALS BECAUSE SHE CANNOT MONITOR THE VOLUME OF HER VOICE. She has perfect grammar and syntax. So basically, she types exactly like Karkat.
Like Nepeta, she replaces EE with 33. When she exaggerates, any word with “E” or “EE” she multiplies, it will immediately become into 33! (Kind of like how Meulin says f333333333ls?)
That’s it with her quirk. To summarize she types like Karkat and she replaces EE with 33 like Nepeta does.
This section continues on with her quirk, I suppose. When dealing with the repetition of vowels and exclamation/question marks or periods, she would usually repeat it by THREE or NINE.
So yeah examples from her canon lines with threes (I’m not including the prefix, fyi):
OMG AREN’T THE JUST SO PERF???
OH AND DO YOU EVEN HAVE THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT THE SHIPPING IMPLICATPUNS ARE???
IT’S REALLY B33N OVERWHELMING, I CAN’T EVEN…
HE’S 33RILY TALENTED AT PICKING BLACKROM PAIRS! PROBABLY EVEN BETTER THAN ME…
GOMGOMGOGOMGOGMMGOMGOMGOGMOGMOGMOG. MOG!!!
Now with nine: (Nine because 3x3=9 or just to represent nine lives, btw)
M33NAH I MISSED YOU SOOOOOOO MUUUUUUUUCH!
OMG M33NAH, THE SHIIIIIIIIIPPING!
So how can Meulin emphasize her speech? She underlines her words. If you want to delve into HTML, it’s <u>EXAMPLE</u> btw.
Examples (without actual html):
THE QUADRANTS THEY PAIRED UP IN… IT WILL _BLOW_. _YOUR_. _MIND_.
YOU WANT ME TO GO FIGHT _THAT GUY_ WITH YOU???
Yes, believe it or not Meulin DOES roleplay. Except she did this very fleetingly. I don’t even know if I can consider this roleplaying because it was just so brief.
She underlines her actions (example: _DIES_) and hashtags it as #IS DEAD. So yeah, Meulin is basically the worst roleplayer in existence despite being this talented writer.
Meulin does hashtag like any other Beforus troll, except she doesn’t use punctuation (she does use ! and ? though) when she does. She did once, when she said #M33NAH. but that’s it! I just wanted to point that out.
Also, Meulin does not use the emotes on her prefix for her hash tags! Instead, she uses Nepeta’s emotes. Example: #:33
Meulin uses cat puns like Nepeta, except she doesn’t use them in every possible opportunity she gets. (Example: She didn’t say “purrf” for “perf.”
Meulin’s puns are not exactly like Nepeta’s, she also has some of her own! She also uses puns while being possessed.
My understanding of Meulin’s cat puns…
Any word that contains “liter” immediately turns into litter. Why? Because litter box. Some examples are “litterally” and “litterature.”
Words that contain -ity, such as similarity, become similarkitty. I got this when she said jocularkitty, A.K.A jocularity.
How Nepeta would say complickation from complication (because it has lic in it,) Meulin has an alternate way of saying it. Instead she would say complicatpun (because complication has “cat” in it.) I got this from when she said implicatpun for implication.
She kind of throws other puns in uncomfortable spots such as “assniffst” for “assist.”
She’d add “pounce” in words that have “pon” in them. I got this from “expouncenentially.” Another example is respouncebility WINK.
I guess with some words with “sec” become sneak? I got this from when she said sneakretive. I can’t think of any examples that don’t sound weird.
Words with “line” or “lign” get “feline” squished into them. Such as when she said felinement for alignment.
She fits in the word flea in words with fea. I got this from when she said fleasible for feasible. An example can be fleasance?
Said post-scratch as scratch-post. As in scratching post?
Words with lic, like policy, become policksy. Another example can be “polickse” or maybe even “policks” for police I don’t know.
It’s unknown if MOG is a pun, because there’s a children book called MOG the forgetful cat. I still consider it one anyways.
Referred to Caliborn as Calicorn, as in a Calico Cat.
In general, Meulin’s other puns are pretty standard. These are just the ones that roleplayers should really look into.
Some common sayings I should throw into bullet points just so I can explain myself properly:
She squeals, so she would say 333333333!!! (either three or nine explanation marks) and (usually nine or more 33’s, or at an even greater number with no specific pattern)
She mashes MOG (M, O, or G) together: GOMGOMGOGOMGOGMMGOMGOMGOGMOGMOGMOG.
Common tumblr fangirl expressions such as “F33LS,” “I CAN’T”, “I’M DONE” and many other variations.
Refers to the humans as her “PRECIOUS GAY BABIES”
Possibly learned of the concept of gay and other human terms from Aranea’s explanations.
Writes fics (admits to writing smut) about her friends, but swears to ask permission to who she is writing about before showing it to anyone.
Meulin’s very forgiving (forgave Kurloz for the loss of her hearing + still stayed as friends)
Very trustworthy and carefree due to being reassured to Kurloz that her amnesia was unimportant.
Gossips about shipping, her friend’s relationships, knows everything that’s going on in the bubble due to her commitment to matchmaking. Willing to help her friends out with their lovelives.
Considers her role as a matchmaker + Mage of Heart a responsibility; takes it very seriously.
Very positive, not much of a downer, doesn’t let herself be a negative person. Believes that the afterlife is doing perfectly fine despite Lord English’s damage.
Nothing really phases her, when getting bored of a subject (like being on the verge of dying) she immediately changes it to shipping.
Very loud and enthusiastic when meeting someone new/someone she hasn’t seen in a while (like Meenah) or when the topic of shipping is brought up.
Tends to be very forgetful about things (like forgetting Meenah tried to kill her a couple of times during their session) due to Kurloz’s chucklevoodoos.
POSSESSED/CHUCKLEVOODOOS/KURLOZ’S INFLUENCE
Head feels “foggy” afterwords
Stays private about her beliefs
When not possessed, Aranea mentioned that she tends to slip out religious things in her speech.
Uses terms such as OTM, which stands for ONE TRUE MESSIAH.
Thought I should throw this in: Meulin called Kurloz Kurzorz? it’s unknown if this is literally her nicknaming him or just because she’s dizzy from the mind control.
Meulin and Kurloz both learned to communicate through miming. Meulin uses mimes to express her feelings around people who don’t mime, like Meenah.
Meulin spams gifs and partakes in wars with Kurloz. She doesn’t use any specific ones, mostly ones that talk about #I’M DONE and #FEELINGS.
Take note that she also uses gifs from cartoons/animes like Pokemon, Adventure Time and Sailor Moon too!
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Even though we haven’t seen much of Meulin’s character, that’s all I have when it comes to roleplaying her! Thx for reading. :^)
