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Digimon: Genesis [On Temporary Hiatus]

Will attempt to work on post now, I was in an all night gaming session...so I sort of lost track of time. :P If I can't post something in a couple hours, will be early tm.

Digimon: Genesis [On Temporary Hiatus]

@Shiny Keldeo Posted the characters like I said I would. Will likely reply to RP tomorrow. Thank you for going through them in the PM's with me. Appreciate it.

Digimon: Genesis [On Temporary Hiatus]

Cyrus Tucker

Cyrus Tucker

Appearance:

Gender: Male

Age: 14

Country of Origin: United States Of America

Personality: He is incredibly smart and usually keeps to himself, often spending time writing and listening to classical and jazz music. Though still enjoying spending time outdoors and admiring nature. Not being anti-social but usually only interested in communicating with people that interest him personally. Not very trusting of stranger and often will assume someone is lying to him. He doesn't trust adults and the only adult he treats with any kindness is his mother. He is very protective and has a soft spot for younger kids, from caring for his many younger siblings. Though he is good at acting standoffish and confident toward others, he is quite insecure. He is complete coward, being borderline phobic of most larger animals. He knows how to paint and sometimes makes elaborate graffiti, despite it not being legal. He doesn't mind doing bad actions to do what he considers the right thing for himself and his family.

Backstory: He grew up incredibly poor, surrounded in a ghetto neighborhood with other dangerous people and living out of his mother's convertible. Which was the only thing the father had ever given the mother. They were high school sweethearts that suddenly learned what it really meant to be a couple and the father couldn't handle it and left town without a trace. The mother had raised him alone ever since, not having any real family to help her. His mother still taught him to be a good kid, while going to school and doing any job she could find. He was immediately bonded with people around his neighborhood, who said they were in the same crappy situation, so they should stick together. He had basically joined somebody's gang, though he was never forced to do anything beside stealing from stores.

Despite being a good student at least in terms of the grades he received, he skipped school fairly frequently but never actually fell behind, instead hanging with his friends doing things he shouldn't. Though he started acting differently once his mother met another more wealthy man who treated her better, though he didn't personally see him as anyone but a stranger. The house they eventually moved in was quite luxurious compared to his humble beginning but it never felt like home. He did grow attached to what would become his several younger siblings and spent his more recent years being a good big brother. On his 13th birthday had a negative experience with zoo animals escaping from their cages and several attempting to attack him, including a near death experience with a lion. Making him quite paranoid around animals in general and he never went to the zoo again.

Skills:

• Street/Nature Smart: Has a general knowledge and experience of living in rough environments and knows how to survive and interact with others.
• Intelligent: Able to learn new things quickly and understand new concepts without difficultly.
• Stealing: Not something he does anymore, but is pretty good at acquiring things without others knowing about it.
• Climber: Becoming recently proficient from climbing so many large trees at the park his new house is nearby.

Other:

• He cannot swim, and is too embarrassed to admit it or ask to be taught how.
• He often has a lot of gum with him at all times, because he usually chews it nearly every day.

Firamon

Primary Form: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Firamon

Baby/In-Training: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Sunmon

Child/Rookie: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Coronamon

Adult/Champion: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Firamon

Perfect/Ultimate: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Flaremon

Ultimate/Mega: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Apollomon

Other Form: (N/A)

Gender: Male

Personality: He has the mentality of a paladin, wanting the good of both digimon and humans to get along. Extremely protective of the weak and helpless, willing to fight against unfavorable odds. Very tenacious with his principles, and is extremely stubborn in his pride. Having a very big heart and not easily angered, very thoughtful in most of his actions. He speaks with plenty of booming confidence with strong desire to become a good warrior. Not wanting to repeat the childish behavior he had done in his past. Having slight biases and distrust of those who are virus type and ones who cause trouble. Not having a very good sense of humor, jokes often fly over his head. He takes many things said to him literally. Having a habit of tilting his head when he didn't understand something. He doesn't like getting wet and can get a little grumpy if woken up from sleep or for being too hungry.
Theme:
youtube.com/watch?v=jTEkfsGnRTA

Nicole Brooks

Nicole Brooks

Appearance:

Gender: Female

Age: 10

Country of Origin: Canada

Personality: She is a social, though she often accidentally interrupts others without being aware. Despite this she is incredibly patient and respectful of those kind to her and often attempts to get along with those she may find obnoxious or rude. Very kind and sympathetic toward others. She has a curious nature and often asks questions to what she doesn't know. She doesn't have a problem pointing out something she doesn't like about another's behavior. She doesn't like getting too dirty and she highly prefers warmer weather. She also doesn't enjoy violence in movies or in real life, much preferring the romance genre. She often stays up very late at night and seems to be able to function on little sleep. Having an unnatural fearlessness from danger and scary situations due to past experiences.

Backstory: She had been born and raised for most of her youth in the city of Toronto. Her father was a garbage man and her mother was archaeologist. Living a fairly normal and mundane life, making friends and joining a music club. Only moving because their father's new higher paying factory job had them very suddenly moving the United States. She had to basically start her life over again, despite having her phone and occasionally talking to her friends. She had a little trouble making friends as easily in her new school, but wasn't bullied and still had a fairly average life. Expect for a horrible experience that happened to her when she was a toddler, but she had almost completely repressed the memory, to the point she couldn't exactly go into detail of exactly what happened. Her last year had been a little harder on her from being unable to spend as much time with her father or mother, both of them becoming very busy with their jobs. Often she'd just spend time and even sleep at her many next door neighbors houses, instead of staying home alone.

Skills:

• Natural Swimmer: Knows how to swim in multiple ways and can even float on her back.
• Sharp Senses: Would have better than average eyesight if not for her event and has a keen sense of smell.
• Singing: She has a pleasant singing voice.

Other:

• She sometimes sings quietly to herself when she is bored, often having songs pop into her head.
• She often carries snacks with her, because she often isn't at her parents house.
• She has sensitive skin and it becomes irritated easily.

Commandramon

Primary Form: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Commandramon

Baby/In-Training: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Missimon

Child/Rookie: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Commandramon

Adult/Champion: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Sealsdramon

Perfect/Ultimate: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Tankdramon

Ultimate/Mega: digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Darkdramon

Other Form: (N/A)


Gender: Male

Personality: He is only interested in feeding himself and protecting what is his. He doesn't have manners and doesn't pretend otherwise. Very honest and blunt in his dislike for others. Not fearful to fight and often believes that's the only way to get anything done. He is extremely antagonistic toward most things he interacts with, and if he isn't being sarcastic, he probably isn't talking. But hasn't ever really tried making friends, and having only word of mouth for his dislike for humans. Most of it comes from being childish and having doubt about his purpose in life. But becomes completely mystified once becoming somebody's partner. He actually warms up to others with time and eases up on a lot of his more hostile traits. He has a huge appetite and despite not liking to be touched, actually is very ticklish and secretly enjoys it, despite protesting otherwise.
Theme:
youtube.com/watch?v=5raCE5o3m1M

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

@Buddha Perhaps then you should make a request of the mods since they are here and active to move this topic to the Suggestions forum and pin it. As well as linking the posts where people are spatting with each other to be deleted from the thread. People need to report more, so let us start here with getting the bickering posts out the topic and this moved to a place and pinned where it will be more likely seen and less likely forgotten in the long run.

@Lady Amalthea

From what I've heard, Mods can't delete posts...I wouldn't care if things "seen as bickering" on my end would be cleared for the overall benefit of users. (though I again argue that I was explaining the rules.)

But the fact single posts can't be deleted, is another problem that makes it a lot harder for moderators to do their "clean up" that is there only job...Which once again, goes back to why and who could give them the power to do that? And that itself being crucial for progress...

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

Tough, I guess. I've seen the Moderators say, "There's no delay in Moderator response to reported issues that we've seen." And then I've seen nothing significant to argue to the opposite of that. Some people say things aren't getting reported? Not sure how that weight falls on staff. It's not as if they do anything to actively discourage reporting.

@Ruby

You're asking for proof? I mean...I have it... If you really want a PM sent your way? <.<

If nobody wants to take the blame for anything wrong going on...(and granted, it's not anyONE person's fault.) But admit that there's problems...and a lot of the discussion is about how Mahz essentially NEEDS to come back for anything to be solved. I don't know how "and he isn't responsible for literally anything either." I don't know how both statements can be true at the same time...

Not being responded to...and being told "we don't even have enough evidence to warn the person to stop or you will get banned." with harassment...I'm sorry, but that's pretty clear discouragement. Especially when you see who actually gets the ban hammer and it is strangely similar to what you reported.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

Why?

@Hank

...As in why should you participate in the community at large? I don't think I should have to explain why that would at least be preferred...since people already brought it up. But for starters it would solve your "why does no one PM me?" problem.

I think I just have a clear divide of people explaining "mods that want to do there job" = bad. So therefore the opposite is better thing, completely do not understand why that's a thing...

No all moderators don't have to babysit...but I think a lot of this stuff is being taken personally. And hopefully no one is trying to be personal.

But hell here's a legit suggestion that could solve nearly 99% of problems...

Create a sub-forum for literally ONE of the forum's. Off topic/spam. It's where 99% percent of problems take place and hell seemingly where the spam-bots most often go to. If you don't want any of the responsibility to look through things, then give someone else whose active that specific job to do so...

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

@SleepingSilence Didn't I request like, yesterday, not to do this stuff in here? Think it was a pretty straight forward request.

@Buddha

Don't shoot the messenger. I was attempting to tell someone else to stop. But I'm sorry for getting involved. Though the "shooting the messenger" thing is exactly what happens every single damn time I tell users to not harass other users and I'm basically one of the few members I've seen do it...that doesn't help stop the people breaking rules either...Exactly why moderators need to insert more authority in situations.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

I'm not suggesting that other people take up the mantle of detective in our stead and go trawl through the forums looking for issues to report. My stance is that the people directly involved with any given incident shoulder the responsibility of bringing it to our attention.

There have been people in this thread who have shared the sentiment that things don't get looked at when they report them to us. That's regrettable, but it raises the question of when these things took place and to who they were reported, because -- and this is the second time I'm saying this -- I barely receive any reports. There has been one incident that was PM'd to me in the last three months, and my colleagues picked that up and dealt with it within 24 hours. So either these sentiments are outdated, possibly stemming from a different moderator crew than the one we have now, or people haven't really been trying to bring things to our attention.

@Hank

We trust the userbase to self-police most of the time. We're janitors, not police officers. That said, what can't be solved by reprimanding each other and reminding offenders of what the rules are.

@Hank

Forgive me, but that statement really sounds like it. If you aren't the police and just the clean up crew. You are sort of pushing the community to police their own forum, which nobody does...(actually maybe this is off topic. But I've literally been banned from a (different) forum for sending a private message to someone breaking the rules and telling them to please knock it off.) Because apparently THAT was harassment.

But as it comes from personal requests and receiving low amounts, well the only answer I have is at the time...the only mod I saw actively participating in the chatbox was the one I went to...because the others were nowhere to be found. Another reason I mentioned, it isn't good to appear inactive vs proactive. But I can also tell you, it is still a problem with the current line up. It's not even been that long ago, where supposed mod warnings have been outright ignored, and the repeated harassment offenders did not receive any punishment. It feels bizarre to explain that there is nuisance and say people aren't banned for simple actions. (you didn't do that mind.) When like I said, the bans that have occurred seem to be the exact guildlines to how those people were banned on the spot. What's the difference that got those people banned and not the others? Beside the direct connection with moderators themselves? That's a legit question I hope I can get an answer too...