#Joel was the first oc I’ve ever brought to tumblr but he wasn’t the first one I made

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Make your muse ft. My unseelie oc Ash(ley) Gentry (most definitely not his real name 😶) putting the barest fucking effort into his glamour (giving someone a v small peek more like).

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𝚝𝚊𝚐 𝚜𝚒𝚡 𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛. 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝, 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐.

𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞  »  CAS.

𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞/𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧  »  honestly thus far joel is. with past muses i loved them a lot but joel is the first oc i’ve ever brought to the tumblr rpc. i’m an insecure thing and definitely used to struggle a lot with duplicate anxiety and riding that fine line between making my portrayal of my muses unique without turning them ooc as well as my writing in general and feeling like it was good enough as is. with joel I don’t have that problem. there is no other muse like joel because he’s completely my own. same goes with my writing. im not constantly secnd guessing how i write him or decisions i make for his canon because he’s being built as i go and as i get to know him rather than being a canon character set in stone. it’s been seriously freeing and i’m having a blast.

𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞  »  death stranding. that was literally it. i was blown away by the level of depth and relevance in the universe within the game that i knew i wanted to write in it as soon as i started playing in it. as i got more into the game and learned more of its lore and how things worked i slowly started building this oc in my mind. i knew i wanted him to feel organic to the game, like it was weird that he wasn’t canon to it without shoving into the spaces of the main characters or the main storyline because he has his own function outside that narrative and his own story to tell and so far i’m pleased and feel i have managed that.

𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞  »  i have a seriously deep love for edgy and amoral/greymoral muses but their personalities and voices and views on things were definitely work to write and never came nearly as easy to me as joel does. it’s definitely no coicidence that i started building up joel during 2020 with everything that was going on because i knew i wanted to get back to rping and writing as an escape and as a hobby but i didn’t have it in me to pick up any of my more cynical and negative muses. after how many of those i’ve written joel was like a breath of fresh air.

𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠  »  the game death stranding for sure. i mean it’s what inspired his whole creation. but also music. i honestly can’t write anything without music and when it comes to joel that means his blog playlist, his singing vc nathan wagner, and whateve gets the creativity going tbh. also my rp partners, their muses, their writing, my threads with them. im a plot and narrative driven rper and i gotta be excited to see where things go in a thread and gotta have that ooc chemistry and know im not the only one and to that end i literally have THE BEST RP PARTNERS ON THIS SITE.

𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞  »  thus far i really havent come up on any struggles when it comes to writing joel specifically so much as writing in general. i have ADD which makes the focus for writing kinda hard to find and harder to maintain unless the stars align just right. it’s a big part of the reason i take ages to reply to anything but thankfully as i said i have the best rp partners/mutuals who trust me when i tell them its not like of interest and readily give me all the time i ever need to give them a reply i feel is worth the wait, if i had to pick something rp/joel specific it would probably be his verse itself. tragically not a lot of people have played death stranding so there aren’t a lot of people familiar with the verse. i feel very blessed by the mutuals i have who are familiar with the game and bless me with canon character muses for joel to interact with, and even more so by those intrigued enough by the game and love joel enough to wanna play it for themselves and make a verse for it. honestly those are the friends that hold a very dear place in my heart in how much i appreciate them. but yeah as much as i love our small corner of the rpc being so intimate it would be nice if it was a little bigger just because it is his home/main verse and with it being set up as it is i feel without the backstory and what all joel has been through canonly that i kinda lose big portions of his personality writing in other verses even if i enjoy them a lot.

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