For my birthday one year in middle school I was given a Nook to read various e-books on. However, I didn't use it as much for this as I did browsing the reviews for the Warriors books. At the time I was fairly into them, but my goal wasn't to learn others' opinions of them, it was to become a part of the roleplay that was going on in the internet-connected part of the system. All sorts of people were forming clans in the Warriors reviews, using the header as the name of their character, who could be a member of Ivyclan, Revengeclan, or Nightclan. My character, Sparkfoot, became the medicine cat of Ivyclan. I made friends, fought legendary battles, and translated prophecies from Starclan as Sparkfoot until the roleplay bug spread across the Nook network, inspiring a larger variety of plots and settings. Soon enough I was practicing swordplay at Camp Half-Blood, running alongside werewolves by a lake, and, eventually, playing the part of Zane in a Ninjago fan roleplay. This one in particular would effect me in unprecedented ways.

As I fought various enemies, hung out with Cale Fox, an OC and my character's best friend, and unexpectedly began dating Nya, Zane took on a life of his own, straying far from the original ice ninja's path to become a musician, inventor, shapeshifter, and [i]human[/i]. Cale invited me to the roleplay being held in the comments of the hundreds of versions of [u]Scarlet Letter[/u], a sandbox-like area where anything was possible. During my first hour there, Zane broke someone's arm, had his guitar confiscated, and made several friends.

I started spending a lot more of my time there, developing Zane more, deepening relationships, until Scarlet Letter was my roleplay home. There's a long story that explains why I stopped using my Nook to roleplay, but to sum it up, it became too much. The people there were extremely dramatic, taking every little thing seriously, especially the massive amount of noobs showing up every day just to ruin our experiences. I started roleplaying online, still using Zane when I could, and varying between websites that either were too active for me to be able to keep up or almost completely dead. This is my current try, but I don't know how long I'll stay.

Throughout my participation in many different styles of roleplaying, I learned how to describe my characters and their actions, vary with my word usage, and, as I like to put it, "step into my characters' shoes". To this day Zane is my favorite character and I'm trying to turn his sort-of story into a graphic novel. Sparkfoot is also an important character of mine, despite the fact that I don't do Warriors roleplays anymore.