- Invitation Status
- Looking for partners
- Posting Speed
- 1-3 posts per day
- 1-3 posts per week
- One post per week
- Slow As Molasses
- Writing Levels
- Give-No-Fucks
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Female
I'm going to preface this by saying that you should not name and shame anyone, just talk about your own experiences. I'd recommend leaving out any information that could identify them. Change names or just use generic stand-in words.
Now for mine. My best was probably a Pokemon mystery dungeon roleplay that lasted over five years on a different site before we came to the juicy conclusion. All the characters grew so much. My partner even had a long term betrayal from one of the main cast that didn't come off as forced or cheesy, and the character had become like family to the rest of the cast even though they'd been an agent of the main antagonist the entire time. My partner was also very accommodating when it came to allowing me to have odd characters and playing off them well. Was a cast of a:
1. Comedic stupid and heroic guy who was also a huge mama's boy (mine)
2. Super adaptive multiple personality (which was played well, kudos to my partner)
3. Tiny and chaotic but too adorable to hold accountable for their misdeeds (mine)
4. Analytical stoic genius who was usually keeping the rest of the team out of trouble by injecting logic (partners)
5. Weirdo who never sleeps and was basically a living toon, claimed to be a ninja but made up the rules of ninjahood as he went along. These rules retroactively became common knowledge among all ninjas. He has extensive knowledge of the works of HP Lovecraft and Cthulhu lives in his bulb, which is much bigger on the inside like a Tardis. He's aware of the fourth wall. He can digivolve too because his grandpa was a digimon. Basically the "My guy can do that too but better" kid on the playground. You know... that kid. He's a Bulbasaur, this is an important detail for later. He's also very inconsistent and surprisingly easy to beat sometimes, so he didn't derail the whole thing. (Mine, and big props to my partner for allowing him)
6. And the secret infiltrator mentioned above (partners)
Basically it went on for a long time until we ran out of ideas for side missions and all the characters' stories had been thoroughly explored, their goals met, and we had to have the big confrontation that led to saving the world. They're still some of my all time favorite characters.
And on the other end of the spectrum was also Pokemon.
I was using a lucky idiot close to the beginning of their pokemon trainer journey. They have hopes and dreams, flaws, fears, happy and sad memories that could be mentioned in the right circumstances, a fleshed out backstory with family connections, custom artwork, haven't won a single badge. They are very uneducated in pokemon, but think they are an expert, so much so that they threw their pokedex away for "lying" to them. They have two pokemon they caught themselves because the professor didn't have any more starters. They wanted a Bulbasaur, but nobody was supposed to know that. It was a little detail hidden in the character sheet.
Dude threw me a blank slate that is the literary equivalent of an unseasoned microwave potato. Super uncommon name taken straight from a Square Enix game, design yoinked off of deviantart, "mysterious" past, and also they're the pokemon league champion on two regions, got more badges than a dozen eagle scouts. Their team is all final form starters and legendaries.
Sure. I'm adaptable. You can go ahead and be this guy. It's not canon, I'm not pretending it is... they'd have to vacate that title if they're not defending it though, but I'll let that go.
They casually mention that no matter what kind of character development or training happens, their character won't lose a battle to mine (or any NPCs) ever. Well, get a load of Hulk "that doesn't work for me, brother" Hogan over here.
I say that's really lame and removes all illusion of tension and danger. Instead of adjusting this unstoppable god of pokemon, they offer to just not have our characters ever battle once mine gets good. Fine, battles aren't the main focus here, it's the journey.
The character immediately starts trying to correct my character misidentifying their pokemon, and not politely either. The same correction that landed a pokedex in a lake. Naturally, this doesn't go well and my character isn't impressed with their pokemon knowledge. It's almost like stupid people don't like to be told they're stupid. They follow my character and try to coach them through their first gym battle. My character loses, because I don't want them to just waltz in off the street in their first week of training and beat a certified professional. Gym leaders are only easy in games, in canon they're experts who mastered a type. Their character tries to let them borrow one of their champion pokemon. My character refuses because they feel they can win on their own. They're confused as to why my character isn't warming up to them, because their character is so cool and mine is so not.
Their character gives mine a Bulbasaur. I say OOC that that's abuse of meta knowledge, and that them wanting a pokemon they can't have was their beginning of making it work with what they have.
They insist that their character would figure it out, because they're good at reading people and my character seems like the type to have picked Bulbasaur. Well, okay.
The Bulbasaur speaks fluent English, claims to be a ninja, is aware of the fourth wall, and has extensive knowledge of the works of HP Lovecraft (Sound familiar?)
Partner loses their shit OOC and calls me stupid, says I know nothing about Pokemon, and mentions how dumb it is that my character didn't even fall in love with theirs.
Like dude, with all the bs you just pulled on me you should let it go. If I want to bring in an actual digimon, a couple power rangers, Vegeta, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and have the whole story turn out to be a film directed by Michael Bay, that's still less bogus than the steaming river of crap I just waded through.
Now for mine. My best was probably a Pokemon mystery dungeon roleplay that lasted over five years on a different site before we came to the juicy conclusion. All the characters grew so much. My partner even had a long term betrayal from one of the main cast that didn't come off as forced or cheesy, and the character had become like family to the rest of the cast even though they'd been an agent of the main antagonist the entire time. My partner was also very accommodating when it came to allowing me to have odd characters and playing off them well. Was a cast of a:
1. Comedic stupid and heroic guy who was also a huge mama's boy (mine)
2. Super adaptive multiple personality (which was played well, kudos to my partner)
3. Tiny and chaotic but too adorable to hold accountable for their misdeeds (mine)
4. Analytical stoic genius who was usually keeping the rest of the team out of trouble by injecting logic (partners)
5. Weirdo who never sleeps and was basically a living toon, claimed to be a ninja but made up the rules of ninjahood as he went along. These rules retroactively became common knowledge among all ninjas. He has extensive knowledge of the works of HP Lovecraft and Cthulhu lives in his bulb, which is much bigger on the inside like a Tardis. He's aware of the fourth wall. He can digivolve too because his grandpa was a digimon. Basically the "My guy can do that too but better" kid on the playground. You know... that kid. He's a Bulbasaur, this is an important detail for later. He's also very inconsistent and surprisingly easy to beat sometimes, so he didn't derail the whole thing. (Mine, and big props to my partner for allowing him)
6. And the secret infiltrator mentioned above (partners)
Basically it went on for a long time until we ran out of ideas for side missions and all the characters' stories had been thoroughly explored, their goals met, and we had to have the big confrontation that led to saving the world. They're still some of my all time favorite characters.
And on the other end of the spectrum was also Pokemon.
I was using a lucky idiot close to the beginning of their pokemon trainer journey. They have hopes and dreams, flaws, fears, happy and sad memories that could be mentioned in the right circumstances, a fleshed out backstory with family connections, custom artwork, haven't won a single badge. They are very uneducated in pokemon, but think they are an expert, so much so that they threw their pokedex away for "lying" to them. They have two pokemon they caught themselves because the professor didn't have any more starters. They wanted a Bulbasaur, but nobody was supposed to know that. It was a little detail hidden in the character sheet.
Dude threw me a blank slate that is the literary equivalent of an unseasoned microwave potato. Super uncommon name taken straight from a Square Enix game, design yoinked off of deviantart, "mysterious" past, and also they're the pokemon league champion on two regions, got more badges than a dozen eagle scouts. Their team is all final form starters and legendaries.
Sure. I'm adaptable. You can go ahead and be this guy. It's not canon, I'm not pretending it is... they'd have to vacate that title if they're not defending it though, but I'll let that go.
They casually mention that no matter what kind of character development or training happens, their character won't lose a battle to mine (or any NPCs) ever. Well, get a load of Hulk "that doesn't work for me, brother" Hogan over here.
I say that's really lame and removes all illusion of tension and danger. Instead of adjusting this unstoppable god of pokemon, they offer to just not have our characters ever battle once mine gets good. Fine, battles aren't the main focus here, it's the journey.
The character immediately starts trying to correct my character misidentifying their pokemon, and not politely either. The same correction that landed a pokedex in a lake. Naturally, this doesn't go well and my character isn't impressed with their pokemon knowledge. It's almost like stupid people don't like to be told they're stupid. They follow my character and try to coach them through their first gym battle. My character loses, because I don't want them to just waltz in off the street in their first week of training and beat a certified professional. Gym leaders are only easy in games, in canon they're experts who mastered a type. Their character tries to let them borrow one of their champion pokemon. My character refuses because they feel they can win on their own. They're confused as to why my character isn't warming up to them, because their character is so cool and mine is so not.
Their character gives mine a Bulbasaur. I say OOC that that's abuse of meta knowledge, and that them wanting a pokemon they can't have was their beginning of making it work with what they have.
They insist that their character would figure it out, because they're good at reading people and my character seems like the type to have picked Bulbasaur. Well, okay.
The Bulbasaur speaks fluent English, claims to be a ninja, is aware of the fourth wall, and has extensive knowledge of the works of HP Lovecraft (Sound familiar?)
Partner loses their shit OOC and calls me stupid, says I know nothing about Pokemon, and mentions how dumb it is that my character didn't even fall in love with theirs.
Like dude, with all the bs you just pulled on me you should let it go. If I want to bring in an actual digimon, a couple power rangers, Vegeta, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and have the whole story turn out to be a film directed by Michael Bay, that's still less bogus than the steaming river of crap I just waded through.
