#i wasn't expecting to see this on my rp dashes

[theladysherlock]

talk shop tuesday! incredible coincidence - i wanted to ask you more about your dnd OCs, and you posted a new art piece with one of them! continuing the theme: could you tell more about your dnd OCs and how they came to be?

Ohhhh you have opened Pandora's Box my friend!! I could talk about this topic all day.

Basically there's two parts to this: my approach to DnD in general, and in-depth explanations of the characters. I'm going to put this under a Read More to save everyone's Dash.

Part One: Dungeons and Dragons

So the thing I love most about DnD (and other TTRPGs) is that it's a collaborative game. I'm not responsible for the entirety of the story, I bring my character to the table and everyone else brings their characters and between us, the DM, and the dice, we figure out where the story is going. I enjoy it so much more than trying to come up with everything on my own. And I love that people can surprise me!! @mothmansbigfatass and @ahawkmet (my irl friends and in most of the campaigns I play) can attest, apparently I'm a lot of fun to watch during revelations because I always have a big reaction.

So when making a dnd character, it's important for me to know 1. What the world we'll be playing in is like, and 2. What everyone else is doing. Again, it's a collaborative game, so I want to make sure that I'm playing nice with the DM's world. AND often the setting itself will give me an idea (see Ethan: the game is set at a community college. What's a college stereotype that would be fun to play?). Ideally, the character I make would have a really hard time being plopped into a different campaign and have it still make sense. Secondly, it's more fun for me to play a class that will fill out the party. For example, if we already have a cleric, I don't also need to play a religious character. Those story beats are covered by someone else, I don't want to be competing with another person for cool moments.

Once those two things are settled, character creation is determined by what seems fun to play and what would be interesting aesthetically. I like to keep the backstory light to see what happens as we start playing, and then I can fill it in bit by bit later. Sometimes that bites me in the ass, though (see Ethan: I didn't give him birth parents and then they were incredibly important to the plot). I tend to have a general idea about who they are and what they're like, and then I always get surprised by what they actually end up acting like once we start playing. It's fun for me to figure them out along the way!

The last thing I wanna say about DnD (for now) is that I love everyone else's characters just as much. I just draw mine more because, well, they're mine. I feel weird putting their guys in situations and guessing how they'd react because they aren't my little guys. I much prefer working collaboratively with the other players (like an RP thread) to just writing a story on my own.

Part Two: Ethan

Where to even start with my boy. A bunch of my work friends got together to start a DnD game, and I hadn't played with most of them before so I wasn't sure what to expect. I also did not think the game would last very long, since most campaigns tend to fizzle out after a few sessions. So I made kind of a joke character with extremely little backstory: He's a half-orc, since I hadn't played that race before, he's a bard who is the captain of the local community college's Improv Team, he's "the kind of guy to play wonderwall at a party but you're not mad about it", and I said he's adopted by two men, neither of whom were his biological parents, and he wasn't particularly interested in tracking down his bio parents. This last point is for two reasons: one, I was trying to avoid just duplicating a Dimension 20's Gorgug, a half-orc who was adopted by gnomes and spent the whole first season trying to find his dad; and two, I was pushing an "Adopted parents are not less than biological parents" agenda.

My DM took this personally (affectionate). First session, I was given a clue about his birth parents' identities. From then on, Ethan was dragged kicking and screaming into being the unofficial main character of the campaign. His mom was one of our favorite NPCs, a kickass pirate with a truly tragic backstory who would always jump to help us out of a scrape. His biological dad was the human embodiment of Pride who had took on the form of Fantasy Harrison Ford and was an extremely famous actor in-world. Our BBEG was his uncle, the embodiment of Greed. Every plot point became very personal and it was a lot of fun. I also loved putting him through the wringer, so between me and the DM the poor guy couldn't catch a break.

Part of the dice telling the story, I rolled so bad all the time when I played Ethan. It didn't matter which dice I used, I just rolled really bad, which was not something that normally happened with me. So that was fun to incorporate into his character as we played-- he was insecure about his own abilities compared to the extremely powerful characters he was surrounded by (we had a 20 ft Earth Titan who was an extremely powerful Druid, Emeshka you will always be famous). So he became a more three-dimensional and actualized character the more we played.

He's extremely easy to put in situations and his character design is pretty solid, so I end up drawing him the most. My perfect little guy.

(Anything about him I've tagged either "Ethan" or "Big Yarr Energy" if you want to find more)

Part Three: Mina

After the campaign with Ethan wrapped up, we started a new one in a Cthulhu-inspired setting. My goal with making Mina was to do as close to a 180 as I could from Ethan. While Ethan was a friendly and charming but bad at most things, Mina is a competent and intelligent Druid who's blunt and overworked and doesn't quite know how to meaningfully engage with her party members (but she tries, bless her). Druid was one of the classes I hadn't played yet and I've been making my way through the list of available classes. The One-With-Nature stuff isn't super interesting to me as a player, but I found a homebrew subclass that was based more in Big Cities and as an Architecture Nerd that was much more my speed. Also, I hadn't played an Aasimar before, so that seemed like fun. From all that, I pulled together her whole deal: She was from a bloodline of guardian angels who were sent to protect different villages and towns, and she's gone from her mother's small town to being the guardian of a city of several million people and it's overwhelming. She's lonely and she's jaded and she's got severe Gifted Kid Syndrome and she's got her head on a swivel to make sure her party members are okay even if they don't like her very much and I love her.

I didn't give her a lot of tragic backstory because there are a lot of us playing and I wanted to have a character who could push the plot forward with her actions, instead of having a "now let's stop and talk about my life!!" moment every session that seemed to happen with Ethan. Give everyone else some time to have cool moments, you know? And by GOD are there some cool moments. My fellow players are so good at making compelling characters. Ask @mothmansbigfatass about Nelly if you get a chance.

We're still playing this campaign, although we're nearing the end of it. There's still space for some big moments for Mina in the game, though I'm hoping our DM lets me save hers for last. She's the kind of character to make sure everyone else is okay before taking care of herself, so it feels appropriate. I'm excited to see where Mina ends up. She's definitely a character I'll go back and write/draw a lot afterwards, though. Part of being in a group this size means there's a lot of stuff that just won't get covered. I'll have a lot of material to play with for my own work once we get to the next campaign.

(Anything about Mina I've tagged either "Mina" or "Cthulhu Crimes" if you want to find more)

Part Four: Jess

Jess is a character that isn't from DnD but is a TTRPG character of mine, and I like her so I'm going to talk about her too. Jess is a cautionary tale in Knowing Your Audience.

Jess is from a different group of players than Ethan and Mina. Our DM for that game is notorious for wanting to give us Big, Shonen-Style fight scenes and an insane level of power creep. Character interactions are fine, but his true passion is making us look like Goku.

Jess was... not built to look like Goku. In this world you could identify different types of magic users by their focus, and I wanted her whole schtick to be about deception. She looked like a wizard when she was actually a monk, she looked like a dumb blonde girl when she was extremely smart and good at stealing things, she's a dancer but her primary fighting style was based on capoeira, etc. Also part of why Jess sticks with me as a favorite character is the way I had her powers work was so fun and visually interesting that I haven't been able to shake it. Basically her superpower was that she could snatch bits of other people's powers and use them herself, and you could tell which ones she had because they would fill out spectral stained glass wings with specific colors.

Jess was (and still is, frankly) too complicated for the game our DM wanted to run. Immediately any hope of her being a chronic liar was dashed as her powers did not manifest in a way that could possibly pass off as being a wizard. So instead of being sneaky, Jess became very angry. She was quick to point out injustices in the world we were in. She beat up creeps, she yelled at bigots, she stole powers from macho superheroes trying to one-up her. She had to get a lot less complicated for the story we were in, but the complicated version of her still lives in my head and I like to see what she's up to from time to time.

(I don't think I have anything tagged for Jess, unfortunately)

TL; DR:

TTRPG characters are fun because they let me do my favorite thing creatively, which is bounce ideas off of other people. I typically design them based on the setting, party needs, character tropes that I think are interesting, and just general vibes. Most importantly, though, I don't have a fleshed out character without the input of the other players.

[angelicgentleman]

>:3c you already know what to do >:3c

Send me your URL and I'll tell you

smh coming in late like that

My Opinion on;

Character in general: I used to love Tweek and Craig to bits, canon or fanon, just the concept of them. I grew out of this phase a few years ago and for a while, I was absolutely fed up with both of them, due to fanon portrayal and overall community behind the two. Canonically, I didn't mind them. I likely wouldn't pay too much attention to them if it wasn't for the creek episode, although imp Tweek and priest Craig from sppd just slams my favourite dynamic, so maybe? I also love barbarian Tweek, for no real reason. Nowadays, I'm mostly indifferent about canon as I tend to focus on different characters and I don't interact with fanon spaces at all, rpc included (mostly). How they play them: Likely one of the best Tweek and Craig portrayals in rpc, but I can't pick a favourite between the two. I like how they aren't reduced to being gay and in love with each other. They actually have personality that expands what we can see in canon, in a good way. I was surprised with the first interactions because I honestly grew so used to fanon-bent portrayal that this was completely unexpected. It's also refreshing to not see them bound together like it's their endgame. Both Tweek and Craig are well built, not softened up like I tend to see. Craig is a dick and Tweek is a cunt and we love that here (respectfully!). I enjoy interacting with both of them, they are very fun to write with. The Mun: Adam Smasher simp and someone I didn't initially expect to get along with (cause yk, I'm a coward). Overall genuinely fun person to talk with, someone who stands their ground and is especially honest about it, which is appreciated. Not afraid to speak their mind but also not rude about it. Impressive passion for both characters (and more!). Definitely someone I can recommend writing with!! Threads with just perfect amount of writing, as I'm fond of longer replies. Also, the last person standing on my dash.

Do I:

RP with them: yes! Want to RP with them: absolutely, I won't stop until Pip punches Craig in the face <3

What is my;

Overall Opinion: Definitely a person worth writing with, even if I was slightly reluctant at first. Refreshing take on both characters and is a fun person to joke around with.

**Note: Mun’s answer are all to be completely honest. Don’t send url if you don’t want brutal honesty

[teenagedkraken]

✒️🎉🌓👀🎲🥂

✒️ the muse's canon

//I love this movie a lot. Does it have issues? Of course. But that goes for any film out there. I know I'm in the minority when I say I whole-heartedly love the canon of the film. Most people either want the Nerissa twist retconned or the film just deleted entirely for the sake of their Chelby shipping. Meanwhile I would like to see canon be used as a jumping off point for greater stories. I would rather focus on the world of RGTK than a single ship that wasn't ever going to happen in canon anyway.

🎉 the fan favorite character of my muse's canon

//Lord, I don't want this just be a whole rant thing because I do love Chelsea. But I'm so sick and tired of people literally turning her into the thing the movie mocked and made fun of. She is a villain. That's what she was made to be as. In every iteration of RGTK, from the darker mature story to the OG pitch Chelsea is the antagonist. That's her role. Like, I don't mind her becoming the fanon version of herself. That's called character development. But outright erasing her antagonist-ism just so you can supplant your need for shipping is just UGH. And it really sucks man because she's such a fun character on screen. She is. I love her!

🌓 crossovers

Crossovers? Love them. Adore them!! Tumblr is the perfect place for the most bizarre rp crossovers. I remember a long time ago when I played Dr. Doofenshmirtz and he ended up meeting Rick Sanchez. It was hilarious because Rick was flabbergasted over how Doof was simultaneously smarter and dumber than him at the same time. Or back in my Ratchet and Clank days where we had this crossover thread with Sonic characters where Emperor Tachyon faced off against a lombax OC and Knuckles from Sonic. Ahh, memories. But yeah, crossovers are always welcomed here!

👀 dash commentary

//It's a fun little thing! Admittedly I don't do it as much as I used too. But I feel like that mostly stems from how different tumblr acts now compared to how it used to be in the better days.

🎲 ask memes and sentence starters

//Outside of just making greeters, they're the best way to show someone you're interested. Or you're just curious to learn more about someone's muse and how they work! Good stuff, yeah!

🥂 my favorite part of the canon

//Giant monsters! Listen, I am a sucker for kaiju. It's kind of what pulled me into RGTK in the first place. And you're telling me I get four giant kaiju's in this film??? And one of them is a mermaid? Something we usually don't see?? Sign me the heck up!

And we see so many other monster statues down in the kraken kingdom and other monsters are name dropped in the art book! There's so much potential for other kaiju's in RGTK's world!!

And you know what? The Nerissa twist. But I should give some context for it. I went into this film pretty blind. I didn't watch any of the trailers. I knew it was coming out and had a vague idea of what it might be. So, I go and see it. I'm enjoying it so far. We get to the half way point where Chelsea's like, 'My mother died trying to get it.' and in my head I'm like, 'AHA. I've got this film figured out. She's gonna use the trident to get revenge for her mother. Finish what her mom started in a sort of way.'

But then we get to the final act and 'Lol, actually I am Nerissa.' which genuinely took me by surprise. I didn't expect that. Ya got me good movie. I didn't see that part coming, props to you. And then when I watched it again knowing she's Nerissa, it just makes her retroactively more evil and I love it.

[aura-acolyte]

I know we haven't interacted much, all things considered, but I respect Mare's character so much, especially with the way you write her. I look up to your RP style a lot, and I hope to continue seeing you on my dash for a while.

-FBI

Oh shit its the Feds!

Kidding, kidding. Thanks a ton. That means a lot to me. Really wasn't expecting people to like her as much as they do. But I think I said that before.

[cryoexorcist]

NEW YEARS

It is 3:30 pm on new years eve, but I feel like if I waited until closer to midnight, no one would see it.

This past year has been quite a fucking ride, really. When I first made this account, it started off as a sideblog to an rp blog from another fandom, and when I wasn't getting much traction there, I remade and made Chongyun his own blog.

I honestly never expected to get to where I am now. I've had my ups and downs here in the rpc, but I've also had some of the craziest, funniest, and most wholesome moments too! I've made some pretty amazing friends, and I'm still making more, almost a whole year later!

I won't sugar coat it and say this is the nicest fandom, cause every fandom has its bad eggs, but this has definitely been one of the most welcoming. People are so quick to embrace others, and it's just been such a freaking joy.

I am so excited to go into the new year with even more friends, more threads, more dash crack and shenanigans, and overall just a fun, laid back atmosphere. I hope everyone else has that same vibe as well, cause honestly, we all freaking deserve it.

I hope your new years day is relaxing and fun, and you get breaks. I hope the rest of the year is just as chill and that things go the way you want them to. And if they don't go so right? Then hey, you can always come here and meet up with the other dorks on tumblr and just.

Genpact it up.

I love you guys and this fandom so freaking much, it's unreal. I love the friends I've made, I love everyone's headcanons and development, and how much everyone's so quick to befriend others. It's beautiful. Stay beautiful, my friends, and happy new year!

[opscurus]

(( BIG RP STRENGTHS -- @electricea said: [ I definitely always enjoy reading your threads and headcanons with Ichigo, it very much feels like you've made him your own as a muse and I think the decision to make him headcanon based was a really creative and cool one! Always a pleasure to see you and your Ichigo on the dash! ]

// Be still my heart. I wasn't expecting anything so FAST, I never really expect anything here.. screaming, wailing, biting my knuckles!!!

The berry has been hc based and how he is since 2014 (as of looking at my first blog I had.) Thank you, I love my AU and the ideas and thought its composed of, and am always finding out something new about him.

[camkill]

1. how do you feel about reblog karma?

hmm, tbh i've never really been a fan of it but i understand why some people have a preference for it it. this is less of an issue now that the whole 'reblog directly from the source' etiquette has grown as that wasn't so much a thing in my former tumblr rp era. but in the past i always tended to avoid reblogging ask memes from people who practiced reblog karma because i always felt like i was then forced - by expectation - to send them something even if i had no idea what to send them that'd work for both our characters.

as i said, i understand why people practice it because i've seen the point being made that sometimes it feels like people are following just so they can conveniently reblog stuff without any intention of ever interacting; but the way i've always viewed it myself is that the dash is a shared space between myself and my mutuals, and that if an ask meme list or prompt list comes across the dash, it's fair game to reblog.

of course nowadays i always reblog from the source to avoid any kind of expectations that might be placed upon me, but sometimes i still get a little paranoid that people might see me reblogging a post that they themselves had previously reblogged and get annoyed at me / find me to be rude for not sending them something, even if i did reblog it directly from the source and not from them. it also makes me wonder if the rules about reblog karma are the same as they were 5-6 years ago which was when i was last on tumblr?

this turned into a much longer reply than i was intending for it to be but overall, i'll send someone an inbox from an ask meme or prompt if and when i feel like it'd be a good fit for our characters to base an interaction from. though a lot of times i'm extremely shy so i hold back a lot! there's a lot of times i see a post on the dash and think to myself "i can't envision my character saying or doing any of these things to that person's character, but people that follow me might envision their character saying or doing these things to mine" and so i'll reblog it from the source. but is that okay or not okay? is that poor etiquette? i never know for sure anymore!

[ebullienced-a]

there  have  been  some  amazing  ppl  following  me  over  the  last  few  days  and  im  so  honoured  you  would  even  entertain  the  thought  of  writing  with  me !!  i  can’t  wait !!

that  being  said ,  i  never  expected  to  interact  with  anyone  i  didn’t  already  know  not-on-tumblr  (or  from  previous  blogs)  on  here - this wasn't part of the plan but i'm so happy it happened !!  and as my blog grows , i  have  to  reiterate  that  if  there’s  a  WHIFF  of  drama  on  the  dash,  i  will  be  soft  blocking  whoever  posts  it  /  contributes  to  it .  rp  is  a  relaxing  hobby  for  me  and  i  am  not  scared  of  turning  away  from  tumb.lr  again  for  another  4  years  if  i  see  anything  that  stresses  me  out .  this includes any type of argument or drama that i see , no matter the subject . even severe psa's, posts detailing incidents in great detail / guilt tripping etc . ( i have severe anxiety and CONFLICT ISSUES OK SANDRA )

i don't mean to be all "psa" , i just wanted to make everyone aware that this is my most important rule !!

[acoldsovereign]

Hi, Guillotina! I know you're still in the midst of setting up your blog and all, including new rules for followers (as you've said already), but I hope it's okay for us anons to still send you random IC & OOC asks! If not, you can delete-- I'll understand. ;w; I won't comment on recent dash stuff but I just wanted to check in and see if you/the people involved were okay???? I know you care about Saiyans a lot. Like, a lot, a LOT-- maybe more than anyone I know or seen so far. (In case I sound like a creep, I swear I'm not!) I was here when you first had Google Docs and had a really cute section about relationships/shipping stuff with Bardock. (Was also here when you first set up your Sites page and had an even *cooler* section about the diversity of the Saiyans' gene pool, explaining why Maiz looked so different! Not to mention your cultural & biological headcanons as well but that's neither here or there). So, I just wanted to check in on you. 🥺 I also say this because of your recent Toriyama post (didn't know he said that about female Saiyans omg! Everything makes so much sense now, haha. I was confused for years man 😭 ). Point is, I see how much Saiyans mean to you overall and I think it's rad to see as a fellow female fan of the series! Can you explain more of your muse choice to me? Like, what went into making her? I know you said she came from a fanfiction but I remember on your old blog, you also said she predates it?? Sorry If I'm misremembering! I just think you and your blog are cool! Keep on trucking!

{{ Heyo! Yes, that rule is still in place, anon! I will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS enjoy receiving random asks (IC or OOC) from mutuals and anons. Though I'm private nowadays, I will extend this courtesy to non-mutuals as well! (How else am I supposed to know we're a potential match as writing partners if I don't extend that olive branch, y'know?). With that said-- awwww, you were here for all for that?! 🥺 My pre-Sites days too and during them?! That means you've kept an eye on me ever since I stepped onto the RP scene here.... You're an OG, you know that right?! I didn't expect this sweet and heartfelt message, so thank you so much for taking the time to write this out. I'm smiling so much like a goofy goober. This means the world to me. But yes, I'm okay. I got two new good friends out of said dash stuff (though we were mutuals already, anyway/had already been interacting). Anyway, yeah, I'm good! They're good, too! Thanks for checking in with us!! I'll tell them you sent good wishes, granted if they don't see this beforehand. :3

About Saiyans meaning a lot to me-- yeah. I wish I could remember the interview it was revealed in, but he was asked about it at some point to where he said something to the effect of "I didn't know how to design them/couldn't figure out their appearance", something like that. It stuck with me because like I've mentioned in my Toriyama post, many toxic (as in sexist/misogynistic fanboys and overall creepy ass people) tried to make DB a thing I wasn't allowed to participate in, all because I was born a girl which was and is-- bullshit. Women aren't a different fuckin' species, man. We like the same shit as men sometimes and that's alright. Trying to put me into a girly girl box is what made me into a rebellious ass tomboy (much like Videl who I somewhat related to, growing up). Only in my late teens/early adult years did I embrace my femininity (yes, I was vain and shallow like Bulma at times. I was also a bit too loose with money when I had some, so I understand her casual attitude regarding her wealth, but that's neither here or there). Point is there was and always have been room for female fans of the series, so when I heard that from the horse's mouth himself? Yeah, it was a wrap. That was it. Nobody could tell me SHIT. That's one thing about me: If I learn something is true and it makes my life easier, I will not listen to anything else. I'll do my own thing. I'm a bit stubborn like that but trust me, it's a good stubborn. Otherwise, I'm very open-minded about many things and I'm a good listener.

As I stated on more than one occasion, I started RPing in a chatroom of an anime-pirating website, while I watched DBZ Kai. After I finished the anime (and lost my original RP group of friends), I coped by scouring the Internet for more RP forums and platforms, of which eventually led me to Facebook. I ran into some mishaps here and there in the DBZ RP space but that aside, the highs were worth it and I stayed for a long while. I mostly specialized in Android/Cyborg OCs and Saiyan OCs. So yes, you are right by saying Maiz (as in RPC!Maiz's template) comes from my 2018 fanfiction but also predates it by SEVERAL YEARS because every female Saiyan I had from the age of 12 and up was essentially a prototype of who Maiz would become. Long story short, Maiz grew with me, even when her names before were: Rayearth (my og username on the chatroom/anime website), Beats, Serori, Celeri, and later Jinjā. Rayearth was able to go Super Saiyan and she was the angry-punchy type. She was closer to Vegeta in temperament and haughty as all hell. Beats was a bit more humble with a hint of cockiness. This was around the time I started playing around with morality and all that, so she was less of a Vegeta type but still rough around the edges. I think I implied she could go Super Saiyan but can't remember if it happened in any threads. Serori was much more humble and quiet-- introspective. However, she could be hostile if approached too quickly or suddenly. She was the first low-class Saiyan I ever made. Celeri was a jump off of that because someone had the same name as my OC so I changed her around*. She was extroverted, but not too much. I guess you could call her a quasi-Goku type, if Goku was Mid-Class and a woman. I changed the rank because I wanted to explore the classism aspect of the Saiyans and my OC's relationship between her and her inherent power. She was morally gray, if I remember correctly.

*A bit petty of me, I'm sure-- but I was immature and a moody teenager who only had her creativity to express herself with. Anything too similar to me back then felt like an attack on my personhood and individuality. Thankfully, I'm a mature adult who's grown past that trauma response from childhood.

Jinjā came in 2015. I was 16 going on 17, about to enter college. Stopped RPing some time before this, because well, I had to focus on school and life stuff. This is what she originally looked like:

She has no story, because she wasn't made with one in mind. I just missed having a female Saiyan to think/write about. She was truly random, a burst of inspiration that heavily looms over Maiz's current design. Jinjā has red, short, choppy hair because Seripa/Fasha was her base design. I wanted something different to make her stand out, or else she'd just look like a clone or twin. That's all. Fasha being the base is also where the earrings comes from, since she had them. (This was just before I started embracing cosmetics and accessories). While she didn't really have anything to her, the basic idea was to go back to my roots: a rough-and-tumble Saiyaness who can pack a mean punch and rock your shit even if it kills her-- even if she fails. Hence my attempt at blood and making her look badass/intimidating. Muscles and female anatomy was hard for me, still is slightly-- but I'm getting the hang of it. Anyhoo, I believe my intentions-- if I fleshed her out more-- would've been for her to be a Bardock-type. Fun fact: Battle of Gods came out a month before this redesign did, so I got some confused looks when asked if this was SSG (Red) and I said no. I wasn't a huge fan of the movie so I didn't really see it until later. Only clips and such on YouTube. I warmed up to it eventually.

While going back to college for the second time (2018-2019), I got into Super properly with the introduction of Broly in DB Super: Broly. I enjoyed the Future Trunks/Goku Black Saga but the narrative nightmare within the anime's climax (and the manga's middle part) was a tough pill for me to swallow. The movie though-- despite the minor grievances I have with it-- hit all the right spots: Saiyan lore! Saiyan culture! POLITICS!!! Space-Opera! Sci-fi!!!!!! Around this time, I was finally inspired to do something else for this fandom I've had a tumultuous relationship with-- write a fan fiction. Jinjā's redesign was imminent:

She got renamed in reference to her mom, who was now Seripa/Fasha's older sister as a nod to the latter being a design base. Karne comes the Japanese spelling of karnels (kaneru, if I have that correct) because she's frustratingly slow to anger like popcorn-- the pun she's based off of. (Fasha in other media, such as the games has always been described as the opposite: short tempered, fierce and feisty. She's staunchly loyal to her crew too, as implied in the movie and in those same games if you pay attention to her dialogue). With this, it only made sense to have the updated version of Jinjā follow the pun as:

To summarize: Maiz became Maiz in 2019, in the wake of DB Super: Broly. (It came out that year in the U.S). In the fanfic she originates from, she is the last female Saiyan, and that weighs on her all the time. Incidentally, Story!Maiz is much more sympathetic while remaining a frosty a--hole. Her trauma is much more apparent and while she's not exactly the nicest person in the Galaxy, it's much more clear to see why: she has attachment issues, which makes getting to know her difficult, she has trust issues, anger issues from surviving a bloody and rather violent/sudden genocide of her people at a young and tender age, she can't remember the last time she slept well, has frequent nightmares of being abandoned by her mother (she was the one who shoved her into an escape pod). She thinks there's no value to her life because she's been traveling through outer space with Turles for six years consecutively and there were several planets/galactic sectors who didn't even know what a Saiyan was. They were lucky to find remains. (Cut tails, boots, bones, dust/ashes, name tags, etc etc. The sights were very, very grisly. And she kept seeing the same things for six. Years. Straight). All of this turned her into a very bitter, negative person who became a straw nihilist. She kind of just wanted to pass away quietly in some corner somewhere, not because she felt remorse for being a Saiyan/the effects of her kin but because she had her entire life upended on a sadistic whim. There was nothing to live for in her eyes. She thought Turles was stupid for having hope after a while and became jaded. While she was stronger than Turles in terms of raw power, she had a issue with not wanting to preserve her ki for important situations. He constantly had to watch over her like a big brother and she absolutely resented him for it (misguided anger, anyone?). It didn't help that he remembered more of Saiyan life than she could. All in all, she was tragic and a bit too edgy probably, but she would grow out of her frosty shell with the introduction of Broly. She reluctantly bonded with him over time on their ship as Saiyan Squad (what I called them out of text) made their way to Earth to settle the score with Vegeta. Paragus didn't do anything for her but make her angry at first-- all this time she's convinced herself there were no more Saiyans and then she sees this old man still kicking somehow? Of course she'd be livid. (Paragus, over his short presence in her life until his death at Vegeta's hands proved to be effective; he became a makeshift father figure and imparted some words of wisdom of which she'd take to heart, post Broly fight. Turles was pretty devastated too and they would finally be the brother-sister duo he's always known they could have been. It's bittersweet and sad, tbh).

Anyway, that's the evolution process. As for why she looks like this in universe-- I'm gonna be honest and say I got it from Father of Goku. There were different looking Saiyans in there, two women have blue hair. Super Saiyan has green eyes and blonde hair. Who's to say there aren't natural green eyed Saiyans who existed? Or blondes? Dark hair can mean black and/or brown, so why not both? Same with dark eyes! Make them brown, hazel, chestnut, almost black or straight up black. Etc etc. (As a reminder, Fasha has purple eyes! PURPLE). If you look at official artworks/some colored manga covers and whatnot, Goku's actually tan. Hell, Future Trunks is basically apricot or a peachy skin tone. If you want a triple whammy??? Read the manga. No, seriously. There are OFFICIAL scans that has Trunks with red hair instead of the Super Saiyan blonde. And those are mistakes from Toriyama himself. Look at Z Broly and all his in between stages-- blue hair, greenish-yellow hair, etc. It's really not that hard to create a unique looking Saiyan, or justify it-- so I feel like the whole dark hair and dark eyes should be overlooked/not a big deal. I also just don't like how restrictive it is from a narrative/in universe standpoint. It's not fun to play with.

Anyway, thank you so much. I know this was long. 😭 My bad. I enjoy talking about Maiz very much and her concepts.

[captivemuses]

22, 24, 26?

Meme for roleplay muns

22. Are there any red roleplay flags for you that make you back off immediately?

I wouldn't really call it a red flag persay since everyone's allowed to have their preferences for how ships are written, but I've had a time or two where I've come across a new to me blog and seen in the rules that ship exclusivity is a requirement to write a ship with this person. Me who barely ever does exclusives for ships (like I won't even remotely consider it unless I'm super mega close to the other mun and my muse is so firmly set in their ways with my rp partners muse being the only one they want to interact with/be shipped with and also being pretty damn sure that I won't ever come across another duplicate of that other muse to possibly write opposite anyway) because restricting yourself to one and only one persons portrayal of a muse for a ship is also so...... limiting in a way because of the permanence of the exclusivity?? I hope I worded that well enough. But yeah just having that expectation placed on someone right from the get go and being so restrictive on your rp partners and refusing to write with them if they don't agree to it just isn't something I vibe with. I'll sooner just wait for a different person to come along that's open to writing things more freely.

24. Have you ever left a fandom because of negativity?

Fun story, yes I almost did actually. Waaay back in late 2013/early 2014 I was in the Free! fandom and I RP'd Rin and Gou Matsuoka. I had a then friend who also RP'd Rin that I looked up to greatly because she'd been established at least a month or two before I was (and I got my blogs made while the series was technically still airing, just in the final few episodes of s1) and I thought her portrayal was really really good and she was just a nice person to talk to. Well my own Rin blog took off as time went on, I started forming my own portrayal of him and my blog was gaining in popularity and stuff. Well this then friend took that as me trying to steal spotlight from her and me trying to usurp her as the most popular Rin blog (we both even had comparable follower counts, between 900 and 1000 followers at our peak iirc) and I don't know why I have such a distinct memory of this but I remember that I was driving out to an overnight dogsitting job and my Skype was blowing up and I was able to see enough on my phone screen that I was basically getting bitched and chewed out by this other Rin and a mutual friend (who ironically I'm still on good terms with to this day and we talk every now and then) who this other Rin had basically gotten to hate me (even tho this mutual friend and I were RP friends turned IRL friends bc we lived close enough to hang out in person) simply because this other Rin complained so much about me the mutual friend got angry at me for it because she was the one stuck with listening to all this complaining about me (instead of just telling the other Rin to maybe stfu but y'know). So after that whole thing where I was getting yelled at and basically lowkey getting harassed to the point where it became clear she was trying to get me to leave, the other Rin and I just agreed mutually that it was best that we cut all contact both on Skype and on Tumblr and cease being friends. And after the dust settled on that I very nearly did leave my Rin and Gou blogs because I just didn't want to risk seeing this other Rin on my dash, but then I realized that she'd win if she actually ran me off my blog so I stayed partially out of pure spite, but also because I wasn't ready to leave my swimming muses just yet.

The other Rin after literally stalking me for a year and a half into another fandom and trying to shit talk me to a different mutual friend after we mutually cut contact and hadn’t spoken for almost a year is another story for another day though.

26. There isn't technically a 26 for this meme so I'm taking this opportunity to give you a high five for Bakugou and Ryuji muse twinnies!

[battlestar-royco]

idk if Rpat and kstew's relationship was a stunt for the /movie/, per se, but there were hints that when you look back now imply that he was aware that she was a lesbian while they were 'dating' and it wasn't real - my personal favourite being when they won an award and were expected to kiss, and you can just see k being like ':/ here we go' before he announced he wasn't going to kiss her and kissed tlau instead, which is nice. but afaik rpat repeatedly called out the bad stuff in

(pt 2) in twiglite both during and after the shooting (the main ones being the creepy plot and the 'perfection' thing, but he also made quite a few comments on how they treated weight - especially during the scene were bella is meant to be looking down at her bulging-and-pregnant stomach and its just. pretty much flat). but either way he is a fantastic actor (who struggles with body image because of the twiglite stuff, so props to him for taking such a physically demanding role) and most of

(pt 3 sORRY) of the complaints have been purely because he played edward, and nothing else. which. he was unknown before the first movie and then got paid literally millions to do the others because he and kstewart initially refused, so i get why he did them? but yeah its basically just 'this guy was in a thing targeted towards teenage girls so he sucks :/' thing (no one noting this cares about any of the actual issues in twiflite, ofc) and i, for one, think hes perfect.

Okay thanks for the extra information, no need to apologize. (KS is bi, btw!) I think he held his own in High Life, and a friend and I are amping up to see that Lighthouse movie eventually. For the most part I don’t keep track of actors as much as I do writers and directors, so I only have whatever coincidentally comes up on my dash to know what’s going on. I’ve mostly seen humorous things about RP, or posts calling out the toxicity of Twiglite for the actors, but I’ve taken it all with a grain of salt because you know how Tumblr likes to romanticize and demonize and decontextualize stuff all the time. I understand why people would be upset with the casting, but I do also genuinely wish the Batman project and its viewers all the best because it sucks when a highly anticipated movie is ruined by bad/wrong casting and I hope that doesn’t happen in this case!

[daggersandsparks]

☂ What’s your best RP experience?

the hella sweet munday meme [accepting]

@wolf-at-worlds-end

{ you know. there was this thread. oh, it was years ago, i wasn't entirely sure what i wanted to do with mairwen, you see. and i was just trying to interact with people, not really going for ships at the time, since mairwen was and remains terrified of commitment, but. we had this ridiculous idea of a crossover where mairwen was just going to give the other muse shit. that was our only real idea.

{ and then he tore one of the templars chasing her in half. and she fell in love instantly and i had not been expecting that in the slightest. and like, life eventually had the thread slow down, but it was like 150 replies and it was sweet and dramatic and smutty and angsty and an adventure and i still have where i was supposed to reply saved in my drafts because i just love the entire thread so much that i go back and re-read it when i can.

{ and i'm totally not just feeding your ego, but that single thread and just mairwen and ras' interactions across every verse they share, and becoming friends with you and seeing you and ras on my dash even when i disappear and being dragged into the fallout fandom with you and just.

{ roleplaying with you? like in the specific and then in the abstract since it was the first thread that i did, especially on mairwen, that went so far beyond what i expected from it, i probably wouldn't really have come back after my first hiatus if it weren't for me just wanting to see where things would lead next, to be honest. you and ras and the chaos of our muses is part of what made me fall in love with my own character. lol

[azure7539arts]

it was very interesting to read your tags on 00qad! would love to hear how you warmed up to it if you wanna share your story? you're def not alone. it took many of us a while to come around. i will honestly say for me it started as a crack ship. i wasn't taking it seriously. then one day i found myself discussing headcanons far too deeply.... it hit me that i was really invested, and the few fics available at the time cemented my love for 00qad!

@a-forger-and-a-point-man Thank you for your ask! Haha, I did not expect that someone would read the rambles I left in the tags.

Okay *rubs hands together* story time! It’s going to be a seriously long story, so… bear with me. I ramble a lot.

***SKIP THE BLOCKQUOTE IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO READ ABOUT WHY I AVOIDED LONDON SPY***

I followed London Spy the moment it was broadcasted. The first episode, before that final scene where Danny went looking for Alex, was great, if only slightly slow (compared to the pace of everything else I was watching at the time, but I appreciated this aspect nonetheless, since it gave their relationship space to span out.) But everything after that? It was such a wild ride from start to finish that it left me more or less bewildered.

What stuck with me the most was this: when they intentionally affected Danny with HIV. Somehow, out of all the violence and the hush-hush conspiracy against Danny, this turned out to be one of those things that just frustrated me so much that I just… I couldn’t watch the show again. I couldn’t, can’t, handle the injustice. I kept asking if there shouldn’t be a power-check system in place to prevent this sort of occurrences from happening. But then I always remembered that this was MI6, amongst other secret services around the world, and they could very well do whatever they wanted because Danny was just one person. The collateral damage—one gay, HIV-infected, innocent man—was just so small and inconsequential to them that they didn’t even bother to protect his rights as a human being.

So I never touched the show, or anything related to it, again.

That was a couple of years ago already. And not too long ago, I saw the posts of Protect Danny Holt 2k17, which I agree to wholeheartedly, appearing on my dash, along with London Spy’s wonderful one-shots by @iamanonniemouse (recommended by @a-forger-and-a-point-man). Because of these two elements, which made me feel much more comfortable (and I’m immensely grateful for this!), and because I was growing restless with life for a few personal reasons, I decided to pursue 00QAD to see why people enjoy this ship/verse.

I read up metas, ficlets, one-shots, and while I think Alex’s characterization in many haven’t quite matched up to what I see in my head, I still enjoy them immensely. And because Danny is so cute! 

I warmed up to the idea of 00QAD a lot thanks to its fandom, but never attempted to write it until just… this week? My rp partner introduced it into the fic we’ve been writing together out of the blue, and somehow, I found myself really drawn to the idea to the point where I grew, admittedly, rather excited over what could happen. Our fic is set in a timeline twenty years after the events of Skyfall and London Spy, so it’s really interesting to see how we will develop it later on, and how Danny and Alex will be after two decades of living separated and in the stigma of what happened to them.

So… I think that’s the story of how I warmed up to 00QAD—pretty bland, in all honesty lol.

But yes, I have the amazing 00QAD fandom to be thankful for in helping me get comfortable with London Spy again!

Thank you for the ask