Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

Oooh, look, I finally remembered to log into my not-RP account to post the DE! (...it's me, Jane, Feuilly-Gredya-Hal-etc.-mun. I don't even recognize myself in this icon even though it's straight from my tumblr account.)

Since we're all so OOC right this moment, here's a player-focused DE: What RP styles and tropes do you just love? Are you someone who can’t get enough hurt/comfort? Do you live for fight sequences? Slow-building romances? Arch-nemeses? Do you always have a sex scene going on somewhere? Ridiculous crack, big parties, world-building...?

Comments

[needsmoreresearch]

To get started:

I loooooove world-building, and I love chances for my pups to visit other pups' worlds or to show off where my pups come from. I wish I could turn this into epic high adventure, but every time I get too ambitious I realize I'm kind of crap at actual plot, so I do better with, like, playdates. Unless someone else can bring plotting skills!

I'm really burned out on hurt/comfort--which is kind of weird since I am so into afterlife/post-death character exploration, and it's hard to keep that from being a huge ball of angst.

This is more a fic thing than an RP thing, usually, but I love looking at pre-canon characters, how they get to know their canon-mates, doofy foreshadowing, all of that.

.....and i love me some amnesia plots dammit

[student_of_impossibility]

Doofy foreshadowing for the win. I love the pre-canon stuff. *waves down at own answer*

[ceitfianna]

Yes to all of this. One of my favorite parts of Milliways is the other world visiting and the weird culture clashes and unexpected adventures.

I actually have an amnesia fic that I keep worrying about it being too complicated.

Milliways had a great amnesia plot back when I first started, it was amazing. Oh yes, pre-canon is fun, I do that a lot in the sandboxes.

[bjornwilde]

I love world building and crossing the streams with such. One of the things that is great about Milliways is we can explain why the shy boy from season one is suddenly a bad ass fighter in season two when the show doesn't bother to explain it.

I love doing pre-canon glimpses of characters as well! Or a look into the motivations for certain actions that is never really explained in canon. (I'm looking at you Rollo)

I'm also a sucker for redemption plots.

[i_am_your_host]

Being emotionally repressed and almost ruining perfectly good relationships.

What?

Also there's always sex going on somewhere.

[runningred]

I do very much miss you and Emcee's emotional repression! Hope you're doing well, love.

[i_am_your_host]

Thanks, I'm hanging in there! Not having good days lately, blegh. They'll pass. In the meantime you can still play it as if Emcee hasn't been in the bar.

[runningred]

Jay and Eric are due for another round of mutual worry and vampire denial.

Hang in there and know you are loved and missed, even on the worst days.

[i_am_your_host]

You can have him ask around too, if you want, for conversation's sake. They have quite a few mutual friends and acquaintances.

<3

[student_of_impossibility]

In games which actually have plots, oh my gosh I love the "let's investigate this mystery" or "let's plan this political coup and I'm possibly playing a character who consciously or not thinks he should be in charge after." ('He' because only a subset of my males do this.) I also seem to wind up with "An independent-of-corruption information source/public services must exist!" plots in those kinds of games. I haven't had much chance to do fight scenes, but especially with my High Combat characters, fight scenes can be wonderfully exhilarating.

In general, despite loving Milliways' hop back and force Door mechanic, I do miss plots sometimes.

I kind of loathe hurt/comfort, for whatever reason. I suppose I like tragedy and sometimes dealing with mental illness or stress, but not so much angst as such. I also tend to loathe complete crack plots; my brain is not wired for it. I sometimes like Big Parties for mingling/connections but I get burned out easily. While I have not had cause for sex scenes, I love romance in general, especially slow-build or exploring pre-existing stable relationship (usually canonical ones).

I do not often like playing post-death characters myself. Pre-canon? I love taking characters from early on through their plot and life. LOVE IT. When it comes to fics, I am currently hung up on world-bulding pre-canon people, plot, and connections that create the canon setting. I love reading them, too.

Post-canon or between-major-canon-events I love for finding a path or seeing what grows, and with Milliways see how the Bar influences that. I'd love to do more world-building and world-visiting here, but somehow it has just never been the right time. I also love when I have canonmates and can do plots outside the Bar with them, especially filling in scenes not in canon. I love the "off-screen" moments.

And, of course, plot-hole patching.

[varadia]

What I love are character relationships, and what I mean by that is throwing two characters together, seeing how they spark or don't, and then seeing where these two personalities interacting in this place and time decide to proceed -- or, you know, how I and my thread-partner think they would proceed as each tag goes. It's fun, and I've found it's a good way to surprise myself!

I also like fight scenes a lot, and I am sure somehow very few people are surprised by this. I like plots, but I like character-driven plots more than I do 'and then this event happens and everyone reacts to it' plots. I'm more in the camp of 'and then everyone reacts to everyone else's reaction to the thing' plots. And I maintain momentum better with those.

I am not un-fond of most tropes when they come in the process of bringing characters along to a new status quo, and actually function to do that. I am also much more prone to post-canon or post-large-swathe-of-canon play than adding missing scenes into canon, though I have fun with missing scenes, too. I also love seeing how being in Milliways changes how characters react to canon, and I am more likely to let that change what happens overall than to keep canon rolling right along and finding a reason why their changed response didn't change the overall plot.

Mostly people being people is my RP jam, with some fight scenes and cataclysmic shenanigans in the mix. Yep.

[bjornwilde]

I love how those character relationships/interactions can give you surprises and insights into your pup.

[ceitfianna]

I love that phrase people being people, because yes, that's how to put it.

[sunbaked_baker]

I love it when a pup's narration is an extension of their character, that the style of their actions and thoughts reflect who they are. It's one of the things I loved about Sunshine's canon, that her narration is very natural and flowing and nearly stream-of-consciousness. The style of it informs the reader of the person's character even more than what they actually say.

Trope-wise, I love love love it when two people who absolutely hate each other and are polar opposites of each other have to get over themselves and work together effectively for a common goal. Their irritation gives me life. I do also love the organic growth of close friendship between characters, the slow integration of the other into their lives until they can't imagine being without the other person.

I'm not much for romance plots because it takes a lot of effort and attention from me, and I'm not always up to the task. (There are exceptions of course, because like organic friendships, sometimes organic romances just happen. They tend to be tangled, complicated things when they do.) I despise threading sex scenes and fights because I don't think I'm very good at them. Crack is fun in small doses, big parties are great.

[ceitfianna]

Like Lynne said, I love people being people but with complications.

I tend to play characters that aren't the main ones which means I can poke at canon from different angles. That gives me a chance for world building, missing scenes and unexpected interactions. I adore poking all around canon, pre, post and maybes and what happens when you add in someone else.

In Milliways, I enjoy the plots that come from two characters that spark and then all the ripples that go out. I love too the plots that seem cracky but then get complicated like amnesia or Cubefall. So many of my favorite Milliways' moments and connections came from a tag and then a conversation that went someplace else. In terms of characters, Milliways is this small and strange community and you never know which interaction will create a chain reaction. Also I enjoy finding the limits of my characters, who can't Moist charm, who's scared of what Quentin and Charles are and who knows who Will is so much it throws it all off.

I do enjoy plotty stuff, but I'm not good at organizing it though I love playing in it. I have fun with fights and sex threads, there's something about writing how characters move that clicks for me.