#/ooc: I felt bad for dropping our thread. (T^T)

[from-beneath-it-devours]

Drink by the pool // (closed)

@bryce-cooper liked your photo 

Léon was enjoying the pool and the view beyond the infinity pool. He had called a week ago; intending on visiting for a few days. Sadly, as Galadrielle was still without a new penthouse, he was residing at her house for the moment; kenning she would purchase a new one in the following week. It was unnecessary, but she favoured his pleasure and he would never contradict his own training.

He hard the main gate unlocking; it was neither the shewolf nor Alden. And it was most certainly not Rosalita; especially not when the dog at his side was suddenly taken over with excitement.

“Bryce, why not join me pup. Do not worry; I have not come for you.”

[unsuccesscr]

Tag muns you want to know better; repost - don’t reblog.

(I don’t have a mun fc so have a pic of my boy instead)

What inspired you to try/create that muse/s: I’ve talked about this a little bit before;essentially I created this AU first and then the blog was sort of a way to get my ideas out. I considered writing a fic but I don’t really have the time or focus and i’m not enough of an artist to draw it out. (although I still want to sit down and sketch some designs at some point)

Uh as for what inspired the AU itself? A few things. Watching BNHA, it never really made sense to me that Izuku couldn’t be a hero without a quirk. It felt very much like “telling not showing” story telling bc while the characters kept insisting it was impossible, all evidence shown says the opposite. We constantly see Izuku doing great things without using OFA and we also see some pretty irrelevant quirks. Is the guy who can stretch his fingers or the one who can pull his eyeballs from his head really better off than Izuku. I mean, really?

So I was thinking about that a lot and I kept seeing quirkless villain AUs where Izuku is really capable, like essentially the perfect enemy. But no quirkless hero AUs. I saw a couple posts mention liking the concept but no fics, no fanart, no headcanons. Basically I was hungry for that content so I made it myself lmao. No regrets.

You will pry the concept of quirkless Izuku from my cold, dead, hands.

What is inspiration for that muse/s: I mostly try to draw from canon, to the point where this is probably better described as ‘canon divergent’ than an actual AU. I try to keep all major events the same and my headcanons are all based on stuff that has happened in canon as well. Whenever I need inspiration to write, re-reading chapters of the manga or watching some of the anime usually does the trick.

Most of Izuku’s gadgets are based on video games or other anime that I like. His arsenal of arrows is based heavily on the Legend of Zelda series and his coil-rope is based on a few anime.

There is a fair amount of drawing on my own experiences as well, for the parts of his anxiety and autism. As well as a lot of research. I spend a lot of time reading up on things like psychology as well as biology and physics bc uh Izuku is one smart cookie and I am not. Sometimes it will take me hours of research for one reply, because Izuku is uh,,,,a fucking nerd.

Thread/AU that made you really happy: Hmmmmm, I have a lot? 

but uhhhhhh I tend to really really enjoy threads that are plotted out with my partner. Not necessarily beforehand but at some point. Sharing headcanons and knowing it’s going somewhere make me a lot more excited than one-off threads (which I still enjoy, don’t get me wrong!) tbh the more we interact OOC, the more i’m going to enjoy our IC interactions.

I also really like doing random dash shennanigans! those make me super happy!

Something really special on your wishlist: Uh i’ll make a proper post about this at some point but I’d really love to explore Izuku facing off against one or more of his classmates for some reason and them essentially realizing how fucked they are/that it’s a good thing he’s normally on their side.

It being some sort of class exercise is good but also uh mind control would be cool (not like Shinsou’s quirk, something more where he’s acting independently but the quirk is influencing him to attack? idk) and uh yeah basically I just live off of people realizing how capable Izuku is

Something you are looking for in short future for your muse: I’m really looking forward to developing him more on the emotional side. I think i’ve focused too much on the practical “how would this work” side of this AU but now that i’m somewhat happy with the timeline i’d like to return to his actual character arc.

Share something related to your muse!:

um i’m not sure what this exactly means but uh, have one of my favorite manga panels?

Izuku? immediately caving because a Ochako said something nice to him? it’s more likely than you think. and honestly? mood.

What do you think about character’s design/how do you came up with this:

I make fun of Izuku quite a bit but I actually love his design. It really highlights his personality. The wild hair, the big eyes, the adorable pinch-able cheeks. I love how dorky looking he is lmao and honestly I get upset when people try to make him look more suave. Stop it. (i’m looking @ you anime where are my boy’s tacky t-shirts)

His hero costume though? I hate it. So much. Especially the alpha version. But the beta and gamma aren’t much better. 

What your muse taught you: I know a lot of irrelevant shit I didn’t know before that’s for sure like how a quadratic function can be used to calculate the trajectory of projectiles and how genetics work/how genetics would affect quirks. Like I mentioned before, a lot of research goes into writing this boy.

On the sappier side? Izuku really goes to show being a kind person doesn’t make you a weak person. I faced a fair amount of bullying and abuse as a kid myself and it kind of turned me into an asshole. As a way to ‘protect’ myself. And the whole world kind of acts like being nice is a bad thing. The whole nice guys finish last nonsense.

Izuku learns to stand up for himself in a way that isn’t mean or cruel or hardened. He’s still incredibly soft and empathetic. He still cries at the drop of a hat despite being strong emotionally and physically. And god, I wish I could be more like him in that regard.

What is roleplay for you: Hnnnn does it sound bad if I say ‘a hobby’? I enjoy it, and like with all hobbies it’s a great way to meet like-minded people and make friends. But it’s not my job, and I don’t plan on becoming a professional writer or anything. It’s all for fun.

Just say something nice about other mun!: 

Honestly if I talk about all the people on here I love we’ll be here all fucking day and no one wants to listen (read?) to what I have to say (write?) for that long. so just suffice to say I love every single one of you god bless.

Tagged by: @steelhardpecs

Tagging:  @amplifyingtrace @heroicquirk @urxvity @superrncva @attractquirk

[krovscastlerpg]

Hey dears! I know you've already heard from your admin team today (twice), but we have a few important announcements and questions coming your way and really needed to make a formal post about it, but before we get started, I'd like to take a moment to remind everyone to please RESPECT eachother, treat eachother the way you want to be treated, speak to eachother the way you want to be spoken to, we're all adults and I've known toddlers who have grasped this concept the first time they heard it, I'm sure everyone here can too

Without further ado, however, let me get on with the post so everyone can go back to roleplaying!

First, regarding a few NEW RULES

It's come to our attention that bubble-roleplaying is starting to become a thing with some people, and that is NOT what we want as a group, when we say "bubble-roleplaying", we aren't talking about replying to a few people here and a few people there, we mean consistently only replying to the same two or three people and never anyone else, OR replying to starters once/making a starter and never replying again, then continuing on with the same two or three people, and guys, that is REALLY bad group etiquette, so we aim to fix it!

From now on, it's a RULE that you cannot bubble-RP

We expect you to reply to atleast FIVE different people PER MONTH- that really shouldn't be a hard goal to hit (ofcourse, reasonable allowances will be made if you've been on hiatus for several weeks)

Additionally, if you post a starter or ask people for one-on-one starters, you MUST reply MORE THAN ONCE to atleast two out of five of these threads (again, allowances will ofcourse be made for hiatuses, and if you need more time to reply to a thread, we aren't going to penalize you, this is only for dropping threads entirely, event threads may be a different story as we know not everyone likes to play them outside of events) We PERFECTLY understand a thread not going the way you wanted, losing muse, being short on time, etc, but to repeatedly post open starters or ask for personalized starters and then never reply to them or only reply once is really poor etiquette, and if you're doing this enough to even get more than five per month in the first place, then you really, really should be replying more

Failure to abide by these rules will result in a ban on open starters for one month, and we ask that you no longer ASK for personalized starters during that time either, if you run into this problem three times, it'll be treated as any other rule break

Now here's the thing.... to ask the admins to make sure everyone is always abiding by this rule on our own schedules would be MADNESS, so we're going to be going on the HONOR SYSTEM, meaning we rely on you guys to stick to these rules, AND to let us know if someone isn't (but please don't fill up the inbox every month on the dot saying that so-and-so didn't reply to a certain thread or that such-and-such only replied to four people this month after being on a long hiatus or what not, again, we're adults, please use good judgement so we can keep this rule going smoothly)

Now, here's some actual GOOD news for anyone who has trouble with open starters

We’re going to start making a weekly post in the OOC with starters that need more notes to make sure everyone sees them, if your starter isn’t showing up in the tags or you’re a new blog, please send your starter to the main so that we can put it in the OOC for you!

This won't be a scheduled thing, and if you're a new blog ofcourse we'll post your starter as soon as we can, but just a general month-ish type of a thing!

We also would like to reiterate something that was posted earlier today, to make sure everyone sees it:

As of now, we will be making it an OFFICIAL RULE that you cannot block members

We felt before that it sorta should’ve gone without saying considering one of the rules is that you must be following all group members, but at this point we’ve gotten enough complaints that we feel it’s time to make a post about it

If there’s specific content that you don’t want to see, blacklisting tags is definitely a thing- and we’d like to take this time to remind everyone to PLEASE tag all potentially triggering material, NSFW images or videos, potentially triggering kinks such as incest and beastiality, and mpreg related posts, and, if there’s a specific kink or trigger that you need tagged, PLEASE contact the main and we WILL make a post for you-

If there’s a specific member that you don’t want to see content from, you can blacklist their username and POOF- problem solved! Or, if that doesn’t work for some reason, please contact the main directly with the issue so that we can try to work things out, but blocking is just not going to work, it inhibits players from interacting with eachother and- most critically- from interacting with the OOC blog, among other things, it simply isn’t fair to the players in question to not be able to interact with the rest of the group

As of now, we ask that any members who have blocked another member PLEASE undo the blocking, or we’ll be forced to take action

Please note, however, that just because we will no longer allow blocking members, it does not mean we will EVER force players to interact with eachother, and we’d like to take this time to remind everyone that players have the right to choose to interact with whoever they want, and we will NOT tolerate harassment of any kind, if someone is harassing you, talk to them about it and how it’s making you feel. We’re all adults here so let’s use our words and deal with things amongst ourselves. If you’re not comfortable doing this, or the person has ignored your request to cease harassment, please do reach out to the main so we can help out.

Remember, roleplaying is supposed to be a fun and stress-free activity, please make sure that you’re creating that kind of environment for yourself and those around you, no one wants to be blocked- especially when it interferes with the rest of the group- and no one wants to be harassed or feel forced into threads either

And finally, we have two new polls open for you guys, and it would REALLY help us out bunches if you could answer them!

The first is regarding longterm events, someone brought a pretty cool idea to our attention earlier that it might be fun to have a longterm (quarterly, half-year, or yearly) event going that uses our monthly events as something like stepping stones, for example, a murder mystery, in Event 1 an NPC is murdered and in the following five events there are clues that are found leading to who the killer was, wich will be revealed in Event 6, or another rebellion rising up that takes a new step every event throughout the year before they make a grand effort in December, that sort of thing

Now here's the thing though, something like that would take A-L-O-T of work from the admins, and I mean ALOT, so it's something we're ONLY going to do if there is absolute commitment and enthusiasm from the group for it, as that would be alot of time and energy to waste on something that people aren't overly thrilled with, thus, you can vote right here and let us know what you think!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JVB3QR3

And one FINAL thing, one last poll- for now- are there any changes you guys would like to make to the undercroft or the slaves held there? Much older members might remember a time when the undercroft was quite different, no bird cages, but personal cells instead- for example- the idea of microchipping was brought up too, so if you guys would be kind enough to let us know if you want any changes or if you think the undercroft and those inhabiting it are A-ok, then that'd be swell!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J7M29CG

We're sorry to make such a long post, but believe us, it was necessary, thank you all SO much for reading this, now back to your threads!