[CENTRE][img]https://i.giphy.com/media/kDlb6aSjMwyWmS9GwI/giphy.gif[/img][/CENTRE] Hello there! I'm Andreyich, you may recognize me from the constant shitposting on the status bar. Anyways, with current events I am once again looking for 1x1 partners to hopefully form long term RP connections. Well then, lets get into it. [CENTER][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSNPpssruFY[/youtube][/CENTER] [hider=About me] I'm Belarusian, in denial of the fact I'm now in the latter half of my twenties and am soon going to be called a boomer by teens. My timezone is of course European but sleepless night often mean I'm on when I otherwise shouldn't be. I work from home even before this quarantine business so I'm pretty much always available for a quick word. I spend most of my days on RuNet, so how I write/act/etc. might seem a bit alien but trust me, I'm friendly! I have more than enough hobbies to get me called a neckbeard basement dweller if not for the fact a good chunk of them are social or physical. I served for two years before finishing my education as is mandatory here. Well, if you have any other questions feel free to ask, I could mention every little thing about myself if asked but I don't want to ramble on like a narcissist. [/hider] [hider=What I expect from you] Let's get this right out of the way. I'm looking for someone casual+, average of at least three paragraphs, but I'm not really going to be counting. Mistakes happen, and as an ESL person myself I understand the difficulty of this god-forsaken language. That said, I'm expecting you to be pretty literate. I'm hoping for a post a month, and if you find yourself having delays and such I beg of you to communicate. OOC communication is unbelievably important. While this thread is partially being made because of quarantine boredom, do not look into this if the moment it stops you won't be able to keep up. Ideally I'm hoping this partnership will be equal with equal input and effort from both sides, even if this is more or less impossible (particularly if ends up more with one party DMing for another) but certainly decision making should be equal no matter what. It's not necessary to be 18+, but ideally you're 20+. Perhaps most importantly we gotta click. Some people do, some people don't. If I see it takes us me or you more time to write a quick OOC PM than to make an IC post somewhere else then I will announce we aren't compatible and that's that; I don't want to waste anybody's time. For now that's it! [/hider] [hider=What I bring to the table] I love music of all eras and cultures from medieval Lieds to Kuomintang chants I love it and I will incorporate it in RP. Likewise I love visual arts and will add loads of pictures and gifs if appropriate. I'm fairly experienced in RP having done it for about ten years, albeit only the last five or six being of the sort we do on RPG. You can look for samples of my work all throughout my post history, it is quite nice if I say so myself. I should be able to post more than once a week under ideal conditions but we all know how rarely those happen so I expect an effort to post once a month, much as I will do my best. I'm happy to chat random OOC stuff if you feel like it, and am always looking to improve and help you improve. I play dudes for main characters almost exclusively. I can't and am hence not eager to explain why, I just do. I do like romance RP, but it should develop naturally and all that and I only really do MxF pairings for that but that said I only really count romance as just another genre as action, horror, etc. rather than its own big thing on a pedestal and tbh I like a good platonic bromance as much as a lovey dovey romance. But to be honest, the coolest would be to synthesize the two. When looking for someone to start a family with, a comrade in arms > a damsel in distress. I love worldbuilding and have worked on many homebrew settings from just making my own nation in one for an NRP to creating whole new ones for a DnD campaign. I love it so much I'm willing to forego the rule of RP being a 50/50 relationship just to flesh something out. Maybe I'm tooting my own horn here, but I'll say my biggest downside is simply in the fact I'm not great with the coding RPG uses. I'll have pretty images and such but I'm not a wizard with changing the structure of posts and such using all the stuff of this site after a few years. But I try to learn! If I really have to expand on my weaknesses I'll also say I have trouble finding balance in... well, a lot of things but imagery of all sorts in particular, I'll either put too much or in hopes of not cluttering stuff with 10 pics and songs a post I'll give little to none. I might spend a little too long describing something unimportant like the layout of a city and leave the rest of the post wanting. That said here you're going to be finding a lot of the stuff because its cool and gives a taste for me and if you like it all then chances are I'll like you. [hider=On smut] I'm not looking for smut. That's not to say I won't do it if you want, but typically I abide by the rule that if man's horny there's a billion appropriate videos out there. I'm not particularly experienced in it, in fact I don't think I've any real scenes of it in my portfolio so to speak. If I write it I'm going to be writing as much stuff about what my character is thinking as physical stuff because honestly its going to be an exercise in character development as much as the action itself, the former being what I want. While in general I aim to fade to black, they say don't knock it until you try it. That said I'm somewhat prudish, so please don't go asking me for super creepy shit. [/hider] [hider=character sheets] I think they can be fun, but let's not spend time on them that can be spent actually writing together, eh? Especially for new characters we introduce. [/hider] [/hider] Now with all the bureacracy out of the way, let's get to the fun! [CENTER][img]https://img01.militaryblog.jp/usr/z/o/m/zombiekiller/sp-064968400s1554885931.jpg[/img][/CENTER] [u][b]Fandoms[/b][/u]: [b]WarCraft[/b]: Played games 1-3, played WoW shortly before cataclysm and towards its end stopped, I still read whatever shorts stories/books are free. [b]Mass Effect[/b]: Played games 1-3 extensively, a great setting for all kinds of RP. [b]StarCraft[/b]: Played all the games and loved them, more than happy to do something with this. [b]Warhammer Fantasy[/b]: I have many GBs of books downloaded and play TWW/Vermintide quite a bit, I love the setting through and through and I would love to do something in this [b]Warhammer 40k[/b]: Same as above, I play much of the vidya and read many of the books, eager to do something in this. [b]Heroes of Might and Magic (Ashan)[/b]: It's a rare thing to find people who like this universe in RP circles, but man I'm in love with this world and would absolutely adore an RP in this. [b]Discworld[/b]: This is largely a universe of satire and humour but imo its perfect for all sorts of action both serious and humourous. [b]STALKER[/b]: Really popular amongst folks here and I am no exception. The Survarium spin-off(ish) world is also sick [b]Metro[/b]: both the books and the vidya are an amazing setting for RP [b]Russia 2028[/b]: aka Escape From Tarkov Universe, pretty cool shit here [b]Lord of the Rings[/b]: Love the books and the movies (not the hobbit tho smfh) are good shit too [b]Splinter Cell[/b]: love the books and games, although it's hard to do something exactly in this (and really there isn't much point) something based on this would be sick. [b]Firefly[/b]: Much like above its kind of hard to do something in this exact universe, but something very similar would be badass [b]Doctor Who[/b]: you might be seeing a pattern here. its difficult to do something in this particular universe but its amazing and I had to bring it up [b]Deus Ex[/b]: I played both the old and the new games and there is a lot to work with. I don't think there is much good RP that could be done in the setting itself but the high tech dystopia theme it makes is unparalleled. [b]Bioshock[/b]: the perfect creepiness, particularly 1/2. One of the few true horror medias I have genuinely liked. [b]Fallout[/b]: played every single game except Tactics and BoS and its a great setting for RP stuff. [hr] [i][CENTER]And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? [/CENTER][/i] [hr] [u][b]Genres[/b][/u]: [b]Fantasy[/b]: I mostly like low/mid fantasy but if someone has a very good idea I can do high fantasy. [b]Historical[/b]: I absolutely love history from all eras and cultures, the past is incredibly interesting. [b]SciFi[/b]: the future has a certain je ne sais quoi on top of the classic reasons we love it of high tech and unpredictability. [b]Action[/b]: Let's be real, more than half of RP has an element of combat and violence and I'm not exception in looking for this stuff [b]Thrillers[/b]: The cooler cousin of the horror genre, I love me some mind fucks that aren't just attempts to bring fear for its own sake. [b]Politics[/b]: High stakes, scheming left and right, lies and half-truths, damn I like this. [b]Slice of Life[/b]: Important note it can't be just ordinary 9 to 5 stuff. I want to go about the day of say... a peasant in the 11th century, not Bob Johnson driving 1 hour home on the highway after he spent his day looking at a spreadsheet. [u][b]Subgenres[/b][/u]: Narrowing down from the genres above, this is more particular, curated stuff [b]Medieval[/b]: I love Knights, Monarchs, the likes [b]Western[/b]: Pew-pew with six-shooters, what more do you need? [b]World Wars[/b]: Dying in trenches or in bombing runs fuck yeah [b]Dark Fantasy[/b]: Aka fantasy that isn't noblebright. The nobility tread upon the throats of the commoner, and there is naught they can do to fight back. Wars are fought for petty squabbles, plagues and starvation are common, etc. etc. [b]Space Opera[/b]: Think Firefly and SC1/BW along with some of Star Wars / Star Trek, almost to scifi what low fantasy is to fantasy but with more cowboys and bounty hunting. [b]Post Apocalyptic[/b]: In particular I like post-post apocalypse if you catch what I mean, whatever the big bad event is the immediate aftermath be it radiation, zombies, or different global temperatures has more or less come to pass and cease to be a serious threat, but with the collapse of industry it has come to be that blade has come to be as common as rifle, horse as common as car. [b]Military/Paramilitary/Spy[/b]: combat stuff in the modern day. I very much enjoy reading all about militaria and would welcome an RP in this. [u][b]Themes[/b][/u]: [b]Romance[/b]: Yeah lovey dovey stuff, this is very popular in 1x1 searches among folks here and again I am no exception. [b]Bromance[/b]: Platonic friendships as or stronger than bond by blood. Fistbumps all around! [b]Intrigue[/b]: subterfuge, whispers in the dark, devious plots oh yeah this is perfect [b]Grand Quest/Adventure[/b]: the search for some grand holy grail or philosopher's stone or any other MacGuffin, this is such a romantic idea I absolutely adore. [b]Moral Ambiguity[/b]: doing someone in not because they deserved it but because you needed it to survive or stay free. Worlds where dictionaries don't really bother containing "good" and "evil" any more. THAT SAID, I am at the same time a big hater of "anti-heroes". Tough choices, I understand. But romanticizing vikings as noble savages? Fuck that. [b]Coming of Age[/b]: Cheesy as hell. Not necessarily what people expect by that with stuff like two kids in school and such. Can be two lads both going through the same trials to become members of some Knightly Order or two yokels going to Vietnam and so on and so forth. Not looking to play actual kids though, just stuff like 17 year old conscript boys or whatever. [b]Rags to Riches[/b]: going from the bottom to the top, or at least the attempt to do so. A beautiful dream. [u][b]Subthemes/Flavour[/b][/u]: [b]Getting over the past[/b]: For one reason or another our characters were against each other, perhaps as far as filled with murderous hatred. But for one reason or another they must overcome this and come together. [b]Coming past differences[/b]: Kind of similar to the above. Our characters have radically different backgrounds (culture, class, etc.) and must learn from each other persevering over their different outlooks on life and getting closer because of it. [b]Positions of Power[/b]: one of us is mentor to the other, or perhaps a body guard, or something of that sort. [b]Forced Proximity[/b]: similar to a few of the above and will almost always be with those subthemes/flavour, this is when our characters would in no reasonable situation be in the same place. Too bad something with a million to one chance to happen occurred. [CENTER][img]https://i.imgur.com/YBMRGMD.gif[/img][/CENTER] [b][u]Plots and Prompts[/u][/b]: Please note, I am vaguely open to a reversal of roles in all of these options, as long as the idea is interesting enough. [hider=Unto Justice] In this, I will be playing a figure of authority and law, as opposed to you being a criminal or similar that is to be apprehended. My character will do so, however on the journey to turn you in, run ins with danger and other problems force your character to be unbound to resolve it. While this is a temporary affair, it happens again, and slowly the shackles come off, we gain each other's trust, and eventually forget about what brought us against each other in the first place. The pairing can be anything across time, space, universes. A Texan Ranger and an Outlaw, a Knight and a Witch, a spy and one from a rival agency, a bounty hunter and his quarry. Generally I imagine this to be somewhat episodic, with one of us narrating one of the places we visit that gives us trouble, then vice versa ad infinitum. This can be mixed with stuff like romance RP (going out with the person you were supposed to bring to jail is hot af), though I would be perfectly happy for bromance instead. [/hider] [hider=For a Few Coins More] In this I want to play a travelling trader. You will play my bodyguard, guide, whatever, a person responsible for some aspect of the trader's journey going well. I expect this to also be episodic with one of us narrating one of the places we visit that gives us trouble, then vice versa ad infinitum. For setting I would prefer this to be post-apocalyptic (Fallout would be amazing) but medieval, scifi, even historic would possibly do. Similarly to the above, romance would be cool but bromance cool in equal measure. [/hider] [hider=Skyrim: Serana] When I played Skyrim I was really fucking pissed with the Dawnguard DLC. First I join the Dawnguard, but I can't kill this vampire bitch. Then, as I warm up to Serana, clearly a favourite of the writer, I can't smash? Nasty. Anyway, not to ramble. Its a very corny idea, but I want to pretty much go through the plot of Skyrim but with somebody to be a Serana with me. After the story is complete, who knows from where we'll go.... [/hider] If you like what you see please send me a PM. We can continue on there or move on to discord. While I'm cool with open ended PMs I'd prefer it if you mentioned what overlap of interests you have found between us + a bit about yourself just so we can get the ball rolling faster. Please don't post here, I will ask any posts here to be removed and I probably won't be eager to RP with you if you do so. [CENTER][img]https://i.imgur.com/BS0Q7cm.jpg[/img][/CENTER] [i]PLEASE NOTE, I'M MARRIED WITH A KID, IT MIGHT TAKE LONGER THAN A DAY FOR ME TO REPLY[/i]