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That is an interesting point of view, feeling like your characters are insignificant to the plot. I have felt that in many RPs before. Whatever we do, I think we should keep this firmly in mind, and try not to make the RP feel like that.

@Crimson Raven

On this point, I've found that a good mentality for attacking the internals of the issue is this.

Roleplays are, in essence, people coming together to tell stories. No matter how much or how little you may interact with whatever ephemeral, in this case formless and not quite there main plotline, you are telling the story of your character. And they are, doubtlessly, the main character of their own story. It's similar to acting. You don't just become a cog in the machine of the play, you become the character you are cast as and are doing everything from their point of view, telling their side of the story through your words, actions, and emotions.

It's actually more liberating here, because despite interacting with others and following a general line of plot you have the freedom of tweaking the script in regards to your character. You're not locked into the role that only gets one line and is there in one scene, you are always able to really go into the meat of the character-- because you have complete creative control of what they do and who they are, so long as it meshes with this very forgiving setting.

They can fail, They can suffer, They can go through complete hell on earth, even if they aren't important to anyone else's plot. The "camera", so to speak, is always on them through your posts and narration, even if it's well away from whomever's been designated BumFuck McGee and the Chosen Three. It helps for them to forge connections and get involved in big stuff, sure, but you always need to remember that for every bit that they are a part of that story, that story is a part of their story. That's the story we're here to tell, to me. The roleplay comes about in how these individual threads weave together, how these stories interact, cross, and share with one another. That's where the magic happens, not in which way the whole rope goes but in how each thread tenses and slacks within.

Or something like that. Just write their tale, man. Don't look at me. As long as they have somebody to play off of I'm set.

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Luke and Grat have a good dynamic for this

find yourself an expy, kids, it's the only way

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>My interest in RWBY itself died during that time; volume 4 pretty much turned me off to the series.

Going off on a tangent here, brace for half-baked nonsense.

For what it's worth, I think it's fine if you don't have a passion for the show. Personally, I've only ever been lukewarm on it (heh) at the best of times, but it's worked since our canon is best described as either a sidestory or a slight AU, considering the worldbuilding liberties and such that we've taken before World of Remnant fucked it all up (LOOKING AT YOU, MISTRAL).

What we do have from the show that matters, and I mean really matters, is a fairly wide open sandbox for the characters we create to play in, with room for a whole bunch of creativity and exploration due to the existence of things like Auras and Semblances and other such excuses for "cool shit to happen". If I want to be a Chinese knockoff Nisio Isin with a budget Araragi family running around, then there's plenty of open space to do that alongside, for example, Varius "100% MOTIVATED" Gliver without missing a beat.

If we want to get artsy and pretentious and metaphorical with it: if the characters are colors, then the setting is a canvas. It's open and pretty blank and ready for you to go wild on it with whatever colors you damn well please. That's what the game thrives off of, and personally why I keep playing even though it's based off of a series I essentially have nothing but disdain for. I think that's what Monty wanted from it too. You don't have to like the show. It's the vessel. You don't have to like the vase or the soil that much if you care a lot about the plant growing in it, right? This game is the stem, the contests leaves, and the characters are our flowers. Almost every time you look at a potted plant, I can guarantee that it's to take in the flowers.

I think you might have a better time if you looked at it a bit more like that. It's a shot in the dark and doesn't solve our immediate problems, of course, but in terms of simply enjoying the game, which seems like it's one of your big issues right now, I know that it's the characters and the sections of the world that we've built around them that keeps me coming back for more.

Maybe it can do the same for you.

Again, I know it's not a solution to the current problem at hand, but it's just something I felt needed to be touched on, especially given how much it means to me.

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I will sooner continue to write my insular ass mountain japanese shiroyama hicks beating eachother up before starting it all over

Seriously though, I've seen this "fresh start" stuff play out exactly as Krayzikk described in triplicate. Giving a sluggish playerbase reason to quit without something majorly generating hype for newcomers (like the show airing, for example) just kills things dead, and while my elitism problem would doubtlessly be sated by trimming the metaphorical fat and leaving only dedicated die-hards, the game cannot be sustained on the backs of the maybe five people who'd go with you.

I love a good destruction of the status quo (read: my one-time presidential voting record), but this is not the situation where it helps anyone.

Ignite Heart! A Magical Girl RP

I'll figure something out.

We always do.

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Wonderful.

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a bright red hibiscus pattern?

I like on a kimono or yukata?

sounds like a plan...

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this game has more than enough yuri

return my like at once

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hibiscus?

Ignite Heart! A Magical Girl RP

Well, shit.