#not rp

[gogosaiyangang]

Not gonna lie, ya’ll, I feel like I’ve been punched in the gut.

Just found out that Akira Toriyama died. Passed away on March 1st, but they’re only coming out about it now, apparently.

This isn’t the way I thought I’d be ending the night. Like… fuck.

RIP man. You made something truly amazing and made so many people’s lives a little more happier.

[bxxth1ll]

Boothill Impressions so far:

(Based off of the one scene between him and Black Swan.)

- He seems to be on the talkative side, though, he doesn't seem to do much small talk of any sort. - When he is wronged in any way, he is determined on searching for some sort of revenge. (Which usually includes his gun.) - He seems to like to duel with people. - He isn't too aggressive to those he even has negative assumptions of. As long as they don't give him a bad impression so far or treat him unkindly, he won't show any sort of anger or hostility to them. - When he finds a person with a common goal, or an ally, his spirits are quick to be lifted. He'll be much more joyful with the person, and be more willing to be a bit more open with them.

[dr-vrat1o]

no text ver + base/inspo under cut

[sunfyredefender77]

YALL STOP WHEN I SAID I NEED MORE HOTD FRIENDS I DIDN'T MEAN IT IN HOTD RP FRIENDS WAY I CAN'T RP I CAN'T WRITE. ALREADY LIKE 10 PEOPLE ASKED ME TO RP I WANT FRIENDS THAT I CAN TALK ABOUT ASOIAF/HOTD OR OUR OPINIONS OR OUR FAV CHARACTERS JUST PLZ DONT ASK ME TO RP I SUCK AT THIS SO BAD

[s1lvermane-capt]

quick thing before i continue answering asks

what the fuck is it with the landaus. why are they all gay.

pela n lynx, gepard and sampo, and then serval and cocolia. like the landaus? more like the lgbts

ALSO im so confused. theres a chat where pela says shes so drunk but lynx's story quest says she was born 16 years ago??? is the legal drinking age 16 in belobog?? also is pela working in the silvermane guards when she's 16????

[bunhype]

Reblog to have your followers send you anonymous compliments of what they like about you!

If you aren't sure how to give compliments, that's okay. Even telling someone you like them or their blog is a wonderful compliment.

[ask-gale]

How would Gale react to a tav going through something super traumatic during their journey that causes them to go nonverbal?

-🌲

He'd definitely be worried about them, knowing that it can't be easy to go through something so traumatic. Especially not when you're already under a lot of pressure because of the whole Absolute fiasco and the tadpoles. Especially because that probably means they don't have as much time to recover as they'd probably need because time is ticking for them.

But he'd make sure to check in with them and take as many burdens off their shoulders as he possibly can. He'll be extra protective and try to support them in any way he possibly can, even if it means taking on a lot of the burden himself.

He'd also make sure not to pressure them to talk again unless they're ready. If he talks to them, he'll do so in a calming voice, looking out for any nonverbal cues and using those to figure out the best way to help them. He'll make sure the others do the same, so Tav doesn't feel pressured even more.

He'll also try to be comforting and reassuring in general and do whatever he can to make them comfortable during such a difficult time.

[everythingisnormalhere]

HAPPY BDAY TO OUR BEAUTIFUL IMMORTAL BOY<33

[fractalcloning]

As I scream into the void seeking a Narek RPer to play against, I have finally caved and must explain why I want this Romulan loungelizard to be more popular. (It won't happen, but I can dream.)

Reasons I like Narek as a character that nobody but me gives a shit about:

Let me preface this with a fact about me: I know Romulans.

I've RPed as Nero for almost two straight years in a large game. I've basically learned Rihannsu back to front for the endeavor. The person who played my Ayel and I both dumped countless hours into developing grammar and extrapolating cultural rules. We were dedicated to making them as believeable and accurate to canon as possible.

I have the whole timeline of the destruction of Hobus/Romulus down to memory. I know about all the neat little tidbits and trivia from comics and adjacent materials etc, etc.

This is to say: I have read and written quite a lot about Romulans in my time. I am very familiar with how they work and what data is available to draw from when writing them.

We do meet a few rank and file military Romulans from time to time, however. So we know how the general military operates in direct contrast to the Tal'Shiar. Caution and secrecy is sort of baked into their culture, which makes a lot of sense given that they're constantly at war with basically everyone, but they aren't (generally) unreasonable people.

In canon Trek, Romulans are often a little over the top with the sneaky-backstabbing-untrustworthy-nonsense. They're almost comical with how much scheming they do, but most of the Romulans we meet in canon are Tal'Shiar. The Tal'Shiar are known, pretty explicitly for the depth and breadth of their sneaky-backstabbing-untrustworthy-nonsense. It's kind of their whole deal, apart from mnhei'sahe (literally the ruling passion honor).

Narek, however, was a child when Hobus went supernova. He is from the very last generation that had any living memory of Romulus. (Elnor is also from this generation and they are great foils for each other, but that's another essay.) Narek is from a (presumably) respected family of--if not Tal'Shiar then Military--operatives. His aunt held high rank, his sister did as well, and both were inducted into the Zhat Vash, an organization that worked so quietly and efficiently that even the famously paranoid Tal'Shiar thought they were a myth. They orchestrated catastrophes and manipulated Galactic law to their ends, one of their members was the head of Starfleet Security and Narissa was on a personal basis with her.

Their underlying culture is present, but it isn't explored very deeply in any one canon source. Taken collectively, however, it is just as substantial as Klingon Battle-lust or Ferengi Capitalism.

Nero was a break from the norm, not because he was vengeful, but because he was the first non-military Romulan we'd ever really seen. His designs, the tattoos, the crew of his ship with their very un-Romulan loyalty, the way he talked and sought equivalent exchange of lives (mnhei'sahe), was a wealth of Romulan culture that we hadn't ever seen. He was a regular Joe, had a regular non-Military job, trusted and worked with aliens to try and save lives. His failure (not his fault) was something he absorbed and sought to rectify in the Romulan way.

Nero was super interesting both for how much detail he cast on Romulan culture, and in how he slotted into the Prime Timeline. Nero was a guy desperately clinging to hope, to the last vestiges of his civilian life, but he was cut free by the destruction of Romulus and set adrift. The only anchor he had in the AOS timeline was his honor and the driving need to balance the scales and restore it.

Narek, however privledge his family was, was a washout. He was a failure. We know he wasn't Zhat Vash, and whether he was even Tal'Shiar is up for some serious speculation. He doesn't act like military officers, and only seems to be play-acting as a Tal'Shiar, miming his sister when it suits him.

Narek may have had authority on the Artifact, but it was probably by dint of Oh granting it. We never get any clarification whatsoever about his rank or dayjob, just that he is fully devoted to helping the Zhat Vash. He is analytical, prepared, but he is not good at thinking on his feet and clearly does his planning off screen. He's meticulous but not especially skilled at hiding or regulating his emotional state. He is far less aggressive and stalwart than just about every other Romulan we've seen...except for Nero.

He was literally a placeholder sent to keep tabs on Soji. He didn't even arrive until Narissa had failed to capture Dahj. That Narek managed to get close to Soji, that he discovered her dreams and correctly surmised what they are, was more luck than skill. Before his assessments the Zhat Vash knew that Dahj (and Soji) could be activated out of their cover, but they assumed that they could capture them. They probably assumed they could torture the data out of them, if not dissect them and rip out a harddrive.

Narek found an easy way to get right to the information they needed. His attachment to Romulan culture is his puzzlebox--Before Nero we had never met a Romulan civilian and before Narek we have never met a cultural Romulan who plays with a toy, we had never seen a child's toy like that. Of course, the puzzlebox (Tan Zhekran) was a mechanism to illustrate his thought process, to make the differences between Narissa and him very apparent, but it was also something from his childhood (presumably). It's a weirdly personal affect for a Romulan and he fidgets with it almost constantly. It's a tell, something he shouldn't have, and it makes him accessible on an emotional level.

Narek is a civilian.

He's a civilian in a family of spies and operatives, raised alongside his sister on the same stories, with the same care. There's no way a Zhat Vash didn't have a family home on Romulus. While Elnor is a nice example of the new generation of Romulans, Narek is one of the last examples of what is used to mean to be a Romulan. He saw Romulus and escaped with all his surviving family when it as it was destroyed. Narek was raised on Romulan tradition (private names for family), Romulan stories about the end of the world, and he is haunted by them because he knows they're true, they're real. His sister and aunt have seen it, seen the message that drives people mad, about Ganmadan. His living relatives have dedicated their lives to preventing it and, even if he isn't actually Zhat Vash, he does the same.

Narek is a failure, by his culture's standards, by his family's standards, but he is also the only one of them who lives in the end.

He's a civilian who is trying, desperately, to avert another Romulan apocalypse. He has already lived through one and somehow this next one is even worse. Like Nero he sees the writing on the wall--but instead of doubling down on the traditional sneaky spy shit, he tries something new--unlike Nero, it works! He makes headway where nobody else could.

Unfortunately, it's kinda fucked up, but he then gives up everything in the pursuit of this goal. (Which to him, seems like a noble one.) Narek gives up who he is (by playing at being Tal Shiar), his safety (he has no idea what Soji is capable of or what might set her off, they only have records of Dahj killing a dozen agents before being blown up), and eventually resigns himself to killing the woman he's fallen in love with (the baseline requirement for giving out his real name). He does it all for the greater good, to save people and he doesn't seem to make much of a distinction between Romulan and other organic lives. He has his little plans, tracking La Sirena in a single cloaked ship, hiding his presence to tail them, firing on them despite being wholly outmatched, allying with Sutra however temporarily, trying to sway Soji again, turning to Rios, Raffi, and Elnor for help--he's willing to do anything because he's terrified that everything is about to end and it will be him who failed to prevent it.

The very last shot we see of him, after his plan to detonate the transmitter fails completely, is him on the ground being dragged away by the Coppelius androids. He doesn't posture or threaten, doesn't say ominous shit like the other Romulans we're used to--He begs. He claws at the ground, trying to stay, and he begs. He pleads with Soji, calls her his love, tries that last ditch hail mary because it's all he can do. He fails his task and she's the last person he can reach out to and, in the end, despite the very real threat to her life, Planet, and Picard, Soji smashes the transmitter. The apocalypse is averted.

Narek failed but he also succeeded. His aunt is dead, Oh has been outed as a traitor, and his sister is killed by Seven of Nine. In a cut scene, apparently, Narek was supposed to be arrested by Starfleet. So he's facing (at the very least) retribution from the androids and the ExBorg. Starfleet is very likely to arrest and interrogate him, if not imprison him indefinitely since he has ties to the Zhat Vash and, subsequently, will be on the hook to explain the Utopia Planetia disaster. Soji hates him, for good reason, and his homeworld is long gone. Narek has nothing...but the world was saved.

Narek is singular because he's all about needing and interacting with other people, he has no real authority, nobody he commands. He's a civilian (insofar as any Romulan can be) and is a soft, emotional boy who hangs on to his childhood toys. He's driven in equal parts by fear and a deep sense of failure, like everyone else in the show, and he takes the steps that seem right and necessary to him (also like everyone else on the show).

Narek was a great contrast against Elnor in every possible way--from his evasiveness to his fear of death--and he was a great foil for Soji. On Coppelius, Soji's terror clouds her judgment and she very nearly does terrible things to protect herself. Her actions, her opinions, her hesitation were all driven by fear. The ends seemed to justify the means. She reflects Narek's state for the whole show. Season 1 is about finding safety and meaning.

Narek is afraid for the whole duration of the show and his choices all reflect that same desperate need to find permanent safety, to live. Soji exists on the peripheral of that with the Ex-Borg, and as a synthetic, and then she falls headlong into it after his betrayal. Narek regrets trying to kill her and the symbolism of his losing that box, of him trying to kill her in a room that is so very culturally Romulan, right after telling her his name, makes it very clear that killing her is killing some piece of himself. But the ends justify the means. He can and will give up everything to save the world.

And his last line in the show is desperately pleading with the woman he loves as he's dragged away.

Then we never see him again or get anything resembling closure for Soji or Narek.

Which I will be big mad about forever, because they didn't even get the bare minimum acknowledgement and closure of "moving on and living life is paramount because it is finite and beautiful ". Nope. Nothing. I'm furious forever.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I hope if Star Trek Legacy happens we get Narek as a sort of...side character creeper informant ala Garak. I also hope we get Soji on Seven's Enterprise because I love her.

[tabbycat-of-hatchetfield]

If I were to write Tabby’s backstory and stuff into a little book thingy would anyone like that?

[mymistakewriting]

so this is just a little thought that I've been discussing with some friends on discord that I just feel the need to put to actual words instead of my incomprehensible screaming that my brain's been doing.

Said thought pertains to the exchange during the interrupted first date. You know, the little "guess you can never have too much closet space" "ain't that the truth. Right, Evan?" after Buck panicked and sent himself careening right back into the closet and absolutely dragged Tommy along with him.

Let me make this clear, as I apparently have to do on all of my 911 posts: do not take this as me bashing on a character. I adore all of the characters mentioned in this post.

First: no, Tommy shouldn't have said that. If Eddie was even slightly less oblivious? That comment would've been enough to out Buck. That wasn't fair. Was it a good, snippy, dry-wit comeback to something that made him uncomfortable? Yes. But it wasn't fair. None of that situation was.

Second: Buck shouldn't have spoken for himself AND Tommy. I understand he was panicking. That first date was a damn good representation of a first date after you've started discovering you're probably not as straight as you always thought. But to go out with someone who is so clearly comfortable in his skin now and then immediately shut that closet door right back on them? Yeah, that was kind of a low blow, too. You could see Tommy shut right back down as he picked up his beer before he made his comment. You just know that Buck's panic-response of "hot chicks!" just reminded him of Sal DeLuca and how he always felt when he was trying to figure himself out only for his best friend and work partner to be one of the ones making the shitty ass gay jokes in a very negative light.

Neither of them were in the wrong for how they reacted to a stressful situation that scared them or made them uncomfortable. But neither of them were right either.

And I appreciate that Tommy drew the line in the sand that he did and waited until Buck reached out. I appreciate that there was actual communication there once they both weren't feeling raw and stupid about it all - because Buck has never had a relationship with open communication. So the fact that all of that awkwardness gave way to someone trying to meet him halfway, to being willing to explain his side of it and accept that Buck had panicked and was sorry for that behavior turning out the way it did? It's so important.

[dr-vrat1o]

ducktor ratio

[amy-rose-foster]

Alright yall i finished stellarlune Amy can rp all she wants

[s1lvermane-capt]

the way i screamed when this man popped up

[bunhype]

@taraka-at-naranjauva hey buddy can u like fucking stop harassing minors in dms because you dont like their rp choices? that is fucking creepy and weird. You are actively being weird towards minors and I do NOT like it to the point I'm doing this publicly.

[toccata-i-voir]

Ladies, gentlemen and other distinguished folks

This post marks the end of the #a scandal in tumblr discussion on this blog. I do not control anyone but myself and that is it.

This doesn't mean the end of the support of the victims of this mess of a situation - however, myself and others would like to move on with our lives both offline and online.

Should you need a shoulder to vent to, DMs and asks alike are options for you. I will not be closing the anons. Should hate or otherwise redundant messages come my way, I will simply ignore/delete as I see fit.

For anyone who wants to see everything for themselves and form an opinion, the tag mentioned above is populated by a variety of posts and asks surrounding the matter.

Anyways, I hope this matter hadn't been too big of a bother to everyone who came to this blog for the roleplay and puzzles. Expect Victoriya's story to resume shortly.

Toccata the Mod