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#STORIES BECOME LEGENDS (roleplay)
regnantlight · 6 days
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@mightiestbanana sent: "none of that is true, and you know it!" THE BIG MISUNDERSTANDING Meme
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The battle had been abrupt. The Seer, as the Yiga called him, had descended upon their group without mercy—but they were not without strength. They held power, Link's sword and Zelda's light, and they had numbers, and they could win—they would win.
It was why, when The Seer suddenly pulled back his creations, ceased his attacks, and smiled upon them, that Zelda knew something had gone terribly awry.
His laughter was a horrid, mocking sound, shaking his head as though he were entirely too amused. "Master Kohga—Lord Ganon is so very pleased. You make a rather competent spy."
"What?" Impa had been the first to react. Members of their party and the Yiga's began to shout over one another, hurling accusations and insults and threats, but The Seer only laughed and laughed and laughed.
"You may kill her," he finally said, his voice booming over the chaos. "Lord Ganon has offered the Princess as your reward. Go, my friend, take your revenge, enjoy it—"
You may kill her.
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Zelda felt her skin grow cold.
"Don't you come near her!" Impa spat as Link's back suddenly filled Zelda's view, "You traitor! I knew we should have left you in that forest! I knew you were lying!"
"None of that is true, and you know it!" Master Khoga hurled back, but it did not seem to be toward Impa. He was speaking to Zelda. She felt his eyes upon her even through the mask, his voice echoing in her rampant thoughts.
Conversations by a fire.
A walk down a dirt path, blood dripping beneath his mask.
He came to them, he asked to help, he told them—
"No...Impa, Link, this is a trick—"
And there was the laughter again, sickening, patronizing. "Oh, Your Highness...did you think you'd made a friend?"
Zelda turned to look at The Seer over Link's shoulder, and for a moment, it nearly looked as though he pitied her. She felt her shoulder stiffen.
"Enough!" She called, a hand to her chest as she raised her voice, "The Yiga are under my protection, you will not—"
"Don't be stupid," The Seer snapped and sneered. "This is war, little girl. And it will not stop until you and that pig father of yours are dead. It is the only desire your Yiga Clan has possessed, long before our battles began. It was all they could speak of—they will hold you down, slit your throat, break your bones one by one, and cut you down into tiny pieces—that was always the plan."
His expression pulled back, calm and composed once more. "A bit gruesome, for my taste, but to each their own."
They will hold you down,
Zelda recalled hands that pinned her to the ground.
Slit your throat,
Fingers that dug into her skin, and she couldn't breath, couldn't move, could only see flashes of paint and mask, of blood red and bone white—
Cut you down into tiny pieces—
And she was trembling, and oh, her instructors had always said never to show fear, never weakness, but she was trembling and shaking and her eyes were wide with horror—
That was always the plan.
You stupid little girl.
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"Oh, and, Master Khoga?" the Seer spoke with a smile in his voice. "Do have fun."
He was gone, as quickly as he had arrived, but Impa and Link did not move from their positions in front of Zelda, and her eyes, still wide and far away, trapped in a memory, did not leave the sight of Khoga and his red, white mask.
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engrambug · 14 days
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And she had no fear
There are many reasons why I love (Don't Fear) The Reaper, and none of them have to do with being a legend. Chasing glory will never get you far.
Friends get you far. Love does.
Most of those reasons have to do with how I roleplay my V and what makes more sense for her to choose at the end of it all. She knows that Panam would ride to hell and back with her, same as Rogue would for Johnny, but she'd rather not let anybody else die in her wake. A further reason (a bigger one) is that V doesn't want to surrender her body to Johnny for what could be her final hours. After all they've been through, however, she doesn't want to spend them without him either. They've been through hell and high water together. She had taken his hand, she had become like they are.
CDPR gave us many opportunities to bond with Johnny throughout the game, be it through casual (or not-so-casual) dialogue or by giving him closure with some of his friends and ex-lovers. None of that is enough to unlock this ending, though, and in my opinion that's one small, brilliant detail (among many) in how Johnny was written.
You see, this man had his own way with people for a long, long time. And when they realized what brand of asshole he was, they turned their back on him--which, hey, fair. Now there's this merc he screws over just as he did everybody else who cared about him, and she rightly gives him shit for it. V knows him better than anybody else at this point (Johnny is a literal witness to that knowledge), and yet, she finds it in her to give him another chance. The last one, sure. But nobody had done that before, knowing what she knows.
It's no wonder that the ending in which he trusts V enough to storm Arasaka tower with him, on their lonesome, is only possible when V shows Johnny she trusts him enough not to blow his last chance at friendship.
So yeah, there are a lot of reasons why I absolutely love this ending, and most of them are sappy. Sorry, this was meant to be a funny one. Let's get on with it: Did you know that the Arasaka guards at the HQ will get more scared the longer you fight hordes and hordes of them without going down? I've compiled most, if not all, of them.
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They're fairly confident in the lobby. A random merc just strolled in like it was a supermarket, no biggy. Shit starts to get real when the random merc manages to make her way down to netrun operations control.
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The sheer panic in their voice is conveyed even through text. Yelling about needing backup, covering fire--wondering how the fuck she's still standing against a building full of Arasaka soldiers. They're not just scared, they're bewildered.
By the time V reaches the tower's mainframe, they know they're not getting out of there alive. Some kind of demon has been unleashed in Arasaka HQ, and they're cannon fodder.
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I have to give it to CDPR: They wrote one hell of an end for V's story--both the meaningful trigger and the mission itself, full of little details that make it feel viscerally real. The relic eating away at what's left of V's body while she's still in it; Johnny's help and support, for the first time letting go of the snarky façade; tasting the fear of your enemies in their voice as you perform a feat never seen before. There's no going back if you flatline--it's an all in. You, and the tech that was designed to replace you, fighting side by side against impossible odds.
We all know there are no happy endings in Night City, and Cyberpunk 2077 is a tragedy in three acts. But I would be lying if I said that there is no happiness at all in some of the choices we make, the causes we fight for, or the ways in which we say goodbye.
All in all, I'd say this is a pretty good one.
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theoutcastrogue · 10 months
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The Ravening War: Raphaniel's Leviathan
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Raphaniel reminds me VERY much of a character I once made for the explicit purpose of roleplaying something I loathe. I said, what's a real life philosophy that would make sense in a d&d setting and that I hate? Ooh, I know, Hobbes in the context of the English Civil War. I'll play a champion of that then. But I won't make it a caricature, the point isn't to build a strawman and bash it (that's way too easy to be satisfying), I'll try my best to portray the character like a real person who genuinely believes all that. What would make someone believe that? And how would that someone behave, think, understand the world?
So I ended up playing a noble, a lawful evil Paladin of Tyranny (that was back in 3.5) wielding an executioner's greatsword named "Divine Right". And it was hard! I had to fight every instinct I had at every turn, it was a fucking struggle. (But interesting, illuminating, and rewarding, especially when she finally fucking died.)
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this is the future Raphaniel wants
So anyway, I might be biased, but I think Raphaniel is a Hobbesian figure too. In this episode he revealed some of his political vision for Calorum, in the 2-year downtime he spent scheming:
"I will share some of the most touching parables and epistles from the Book of Leaves that have to do with unity and the uniting of people. … The clans of the Meat Lands struggle and strife, and unity, my mind dwells on unity. We long for stories to share and for songs and prayers that can unite a disparate people. It is my hope that if there is any aid I could lend you that the Meat Lands might find a common song to sing."
"Sir Drunon, as of this most recent battle, has become something of a national hero. Vegetania doesn't need heroes. Heroes give people pride. Pride on the story of their homeland, where they are from, legends that make them stand tall. Pride is the opposite of humility and obeisance. […]
I wanna drive a spike into the proto-, like, into the thing that gets under Raphaniel's skin is this burgeoning Vegetanian nationalism. This idea of civic pride which Raphaniel finds loathsome. So I think that it's a spreading through church channels always ringing the bell of like, an end to war. An end to bloodshed. Basically painting the lords of this new ascendant, like, Vegetanian rebel court as like, we still have a monarch. It's still the Lady Amangeaux. This is a love of bloodshed, and this knight's just been murdered in a house of ill repute, and this was the person you called a hero of the battle? And spreading through that area as well this idea of "had you knelt your head to the laws of the church and saw fit to include the Lady Amangeaux, we would not have returned an incredibly beloved Fructeran noble to Tomaté in his hour of needing to unify Fructera". So in other words, it's not pro-Amangeaux like, what a great lady. It's like, you're bad at politics, right?"
What do you make of this? My take is: this is an EXTREMELY authoritarian radish. His first priority is to make all people subjects (obedient, humble, without agency, never thinking of independence / self-government / self-determination, or that they deserve rights of any kind) under ONE rule.
Which rule, exactly, is not immediately clear. We know he promotes the interests of the church: he chose to dispose of Sir Drunon because he was an enemy of the church. I think he's angling for a theocracy in the long-term. But for now he's supporting a secular monarch, and he doesn't even think to rally the people to give power to the church from below. Because the people aren't supposed to rally, they're supposed to do as they're told. And until he gets the church to call the shots directly, he's happy with an absolute monarch ruling by divine right, i.e. one that he/the church can control. And until that happens, he's happy supporting the "rightful" monarch, Queen Amangeaux, NOT because she's "a great lady" (if she is, it's irrelevant!) but because she's THE queen, and y'all don't get to choose your kings and queens. [Speculation: he engineered the lack of heirs via contraceptive/abortifacient in the tea, so that the church would succeed the last heirless monarch.]
What he emphatically does NOT want in power is the rabble. And in his mind, all the classes are rabble. Even a hypothetical parliament of landlords or a council / diet of nobles would be too democratic and inclusive, and even a bunch of independent but otherwise perfectly monarchical kingdoms would be (and have been!) too chaotic. Which is why he's pushing for "unity" at every turn.
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the union of temporal and spiritual power: castle + church, crown + mitre, cannon + excommunication, weapons + logic, armies + religious courts
So I think his end-goal is a sovereign with absolute authority, both secular and spiritual. In his mind, there needs to be a single State under a single "decider", a one-man (or one pope) rule, "a common power to keep them all in awe", otherwise it's "war of all against all", and everyone's doomed to the whirring teeth of death he keeps seeing in his visions: "continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
I'm telling ya, that radish is a Hobbes fanboy FOR SURE. And if the whirring teeth of death are revealed to be, as suspected, a blender or a garbage disposal, the magnificent absurdity of this setting will have given us the most batshit illustration of Hobbesian terror at the prospect of people living "without a common power to keep them all in awe":
"Darkness. Whirring, strange reflective teeth. The sound of a high-pitched whining scream, grinding lower and lower. Blood, viscera, tearing of flesh. Nothing, darkness, flesh, shadow."
And this being a prequel, we already know the levels of repressive authoritarianism such a fear can give birth to.
…Or I am making ALL of this up, because I'm biased for reasons already explained. We'll see!
[quotes in italics are Hobbes's]
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ravenrune · 1 year
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Simple idea my brain presented me with a couple of weeks ago. Actually decided to write the thing.
No warnings. Word count only about 680. Chris, Leon, and Carlos.
Gaming With The Guys Headcanons
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Chris isn't much of a gamer, but he doesn't mind playing something every once in a while. 
He'll mostly play with you, though. He doesn't enjoy doing it alone, so you'll never find him hogging your consoles or PC. 
He likes fighting games like Street Fighter, Soul Calibur, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat is probably his favourite game because he thinks the fatalities are great. 
He was extremely amused when you showed him there is such a thing as a 'babality' too, and he wouldn't stop practising the button combos until he could execute a babality every time he managed to win from you. 
Aside from the fighting games, Chris will also play First Person Shooters with you, but he doesn't enjoy them as much. He spends too much time firing guns in everyday life, so he prefers to avoid things that have to do with shooting when he's home.
He may not be much of a gamer, but he does like it when you play online with other people. He'll sometimes watch and cheer you on. It's cute, but he can occasionally turn into a backseat gamer. You can just kick him out of the room whenever he does that.
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Leon loves story-driven games. He will happily play any story-driven game with you, even if the games are very long. 
He enjoys games that are like Final Fantasy and The Witcher, but he also doesn't mind more chill games like Stardew Valley. 
He actually bought the game himself, so you can play Stardew Valley together. Sometimes all the man needs after a long day at work is to just grow crops, milk cows and redecorate your house when you're out mining for ores. 
When it comes to games like the Witcher, he enjoys watching you play it and solving the puzzles together. He does get really invested in the stories, though, so every once in a while he'll be cranky if he has to write a report when he could be spending time with you and your video games instead. 
If you write fanfiction or make fanart of the games you love, he'll want to read and see all of it. He absolutely loves it when his S/O is creative.
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Carlos just wants to play older games. He has a preference for anything put out by Sega and Nintendo and insisted you both get a couple of Pokémon games. He really likes to battle you, and he's pretty damn good at it, too. 
When Pokémon Go comes out he will practically beg you to install it so you can go on lovely walks together while simultaneously catching some Pokémon. 
He also loves playing Mario games with you. It could be Mario Kart or Mario Tennis, but he's also happy to take turns while playing the original Super Mario Bros Games. 
The same goes for Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic makes him feel nostalgic, and every time you fire up a game, he will happily yell 'Seeegaaaaaa' at the television. It's cute as heck, really. 
Carlos isn't patient enough to play games like the Legend of Zelda, but he does love the way the newer Zelda games look. He will beg you to play them so he can watch without having to make an effort himself. Weirdly, he doesn't grow impatient if you get stuck in a game; it's only when he plays them himself that his impatience becomes a problem. 
When you're not around and he's at home alone, he may play some games by himself. Mainly stuff like Donkey Kong or Double Dragon. But he prefers gaming with you, so it won't happen that often. 
When it comes to more violent games, he mainly plays a lot of GTA. He's not too violent in the games, but he does think it's fun to murder people, steal a bicycle and try to escape the police while having a 5-star wanted level. 
If you're willing, he will roleplay with you in GTA 5 as he thinks it's hilarious. He's great at coming up with funny stories, and doing some GTA RP with him is bound to make you laugh for a long time.
BONUS WESKER!
I'm kidding. Wesker is absolutely not interested in video games and will just leave you alone whenever you feel like playing them. He doesn't hate them, he just doesn't want to play or watch them himself. Sorry. I really couldn't write anything for him this time.
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seraphinesupremacy · 29 days
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🫧Hi🫧
Name: call me Dia💎
Age: I was born in 2002 and I'm too lazy to update my age every year💅
Nationality: Italian (English is not my first language so I might make some grammatical errors)
🏳️‍🌈: I'm a pansexual and demisexual girl (I use she/they pronouns)
MBTI: ENTJ (Don't stereotype me. I'm just really into doing things right and I like to have a plan for everything. I always try to find a solution to people's problems)
Something about me: I'm autistic 🪐 and I'm very extroverted, I like to socialize and meet new people. So if we have any interests in common, feel free to write to me (You can continue reading the rest in this post to learn more about me)
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(I made this edit using picsart stickers that represent my interests and something about me)
🎮Favorite video games:
•League of Legends (I play on the European server)
•Wildrift
•Valorant (I don't play it that much because I'm not very good)
•Overwatch
•Team Fortress 2
•Life is strange (this game made me realize I'm not straight)
•Detroit Become Human
•Danganronpa (I discovered this thanks to tik tok during the pandemic. It was very trendy at the time)
•The last of us
•The Sims 3/4 (I never had the chance to play the previous ones)
🍿My favorite TV series are:
•Shameless
•Love, Death & Robots
•Bojack Horseman
•Arcane
•She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
•Hazbin Hotel
•Helluva Boss (I know it's a series that can be found on YouTube but I didn't want to make a separate category)
•South Park
🎼Singers I like:
•Melanie Martinez (my queen)
•Mitski
•Ariana Grande
•Ashnikko
•Kali Uchis
•Madison Beer
•Girl in Red
•Marina and the diamonds
•KDA ("Akali that girl, 'kali go grr 'Kali don't stop, 'kali don't skrt 'Kali got a job, 'kali go to work 뜨거워 언제나 don't get burnt" 🗣🗣🗣)
•Gorillaz
•Queen
•Molchat Doma
•Arctic Monkeys
•Mother Mother
•Jack Stauber
•Cavetown
•TV girl
•Bo Burnham
I actually listen to a lot of artists but I don't remember them all c:
•Lost media
🫧Things I like:
•Liminal space
•Dreamcore
•Nostalgiacore
•History of cinema (especially animated films)
•Psychology (and all other branches of this science. I also love anthropology and sociology)
•Travel and discover new places
•Everything that has to do with creativity (Drawing, writing stories and fanfiction, creating things like accessories for your clothes and such very cute things. I really admire people who can repaint dolls)
•Having fun (going out with my friends, watching films - if they're trashy films it's even better -, sending each other memes and tik tok videos and things like that)
🪷Hobby:
•Cosplay (Especially cosplaying my comfort characters)
•Drawing (I haven't drawn seriously since 2020. I'm waiting for inspiration)
•Collecting dolls (I love Monster High, Ever After High, Rainbow High and L.O.L O.M.G. I also collect Funko pops and figures from other brands. I also have many books and comics -which I have to finish reading because there are too many-)🧸
•Roleplay (Doing roleplay with me means that I have already organized the whole plot. But I also listen to the other person's ideas)
•Find out about the topics that interest me (Most of the time they have to do with culture. I'm a very curious person and I love to inform myself)
💿What I post on Tumblr:
•Things about my fandoms (Mostly I repost cute icons and wallpapers. Sometimes I make some wallpapers. Maybe start writing some headcanons)
•Positivity (Especially mental health or pride posts about being a member of the LGBT community. Be yourself🌈Be unique)
•Random things (I don't know how to explain this category. I could write something like "I'm looking for people who like this song, does anyone remember this movie? etc" or I answer some questions. Sometimes I also reposted something related to when I feel down, but they are old things and I don't think of posting them again because I prefer to think about good things and find the positive side)
•Aesthetics (If I see some nice photo of a sunset or the sky, I immediately repost it because I feel like it. I also post a lot of things related to nostalgia because as I said before I like the "nostalgiacore" aesthetic. And I'm very nostalgic, they were beautiful times when the only worry was "which Winx character am I?")
🧜‍♀️Comfort characters:
•Jinx (League of legends/Arcane. She is my main and for certain things I see myself in her)
•Seraphine (League of Legends. didn't like her at first but I love her gameplay. And I think she has the best skins -along with Jinx, of course-)
•Evelynn (League of Legends. She's a Goddess)
•Chloe Price (Life is strange. She made me understand that I like women too. I love this punk)
•Sunset Shimmer (Equestria Girls. She is one of the few ENTJs to be a positive character. I really like how her character has evolved)
•Reagan Ridley (Inside Job. We are very similar in certain things)
•Entrapta (She ra. I love this chaotic neutral autistic scientist princess. Again, I see myself in her)
•Kotori Minami (Love Live! When I was in middle school this was my favorite anime)
•Dia Kurosawa (Love Live! Sunshine. Love Live is an anime that accompanied me as I grew up. I'm very fond of it)
‼️ This is my safe space🗣 SO DO NOT INTERACT WITH ME IF YOU ARE: racist, homophobic, transphobic and against the LGBT community, do not interact if you are a pedophile and if you harm animals. Don't interact if you are against feminism (which I remind you, means gender equality), don't interact if you are people with ideas of hatred and discrimination. No ignorant people about mental health or what is happening in the world, because we are in 2024 and we need to have a minimum of culture. If you think abortion is murder, I would say you can also go elsewhere because I support women's rights and human rights in general. In general, don't interact if you are a person with bad ideas (that kind of bad ideas. Go away)‼️
🌟Talk to me if you are a normal person (and if you're nice and send funny memes. Or if you want to talk about some fandom in common or something. We can also play some video games together or talk about philosophical things like "what's the point of life?" or things like "do aliens exist?")🌟
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songoftrillium · 11 months
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Dark Fates Collide!
The garou of Sept of the Trillium Glade stand at a crossroads, their fate already written in the stars. The temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest serve as a dark and brooding backdrop for their tragic story, one that showcases a specimen of intrigue lurking at the heart of the World of Darkness.
The first Act of Dead Mountain is high-powered chronicle written for Werewolf: the Apocalypse and is meant to be played in any edition of the game. This tragedy is written for 3 to 8 players of Rank 3 Adren, and is intended to have a long game duration of 6-9 months in length.
Set in 1975, this story revolves around the garou of four packs around Dead Mountain, set at an ancient Red Talon caern doomed to abscess to save itself. The players will need to navigate the complex web of long-standing alliances and animosities that exist among the different packs here. They must fight to protect their territory from incursions by their enemies, while also trying to uncover the secrets of their own history and make hard decisions that will have lasting impacts, preserving the things most important to each garou.
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thegreatyin · 5 months
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Hey quick question, why did you pick Heart's Desire and what do you think of the other ambitions (based entirely on what you've likely gathered through community osmosis)
honestly? from the descriptions of everything alone i was actually inclined towards nemesis! and still am, technically, but i've made an alt to (extremely slowly) progress through it now (he's caeru. caeru is going full nemesis. he's also my seeking account. he's gonna be going through the horrors.)
in terms of picking heart's desire, it was more of a roleplay choice than anything else. i decided early on that my londonite would be more of a persuasive/watchful selfish hedonistic scoundrel, with a vast string of lovers (for manipulation) and law breaking (for pleasure) left in their wake back on the surface. chasing after a high risk high reward card game felt like the natural sort of progression for that kind of guy. and also i read up on the rewards before i chose and i gotta say. becoming a master has the others beat by a comical margin, huh.
as for the others:
-nemesis is neat! this is the one i've actually played the start of, though i'm not very far in at all. as i said, it's the story that originally intrigued me and it's the one that (from what i've heard) has the most painful grind. so. oh boy for caeru, huh? i haven't read about it much because i'm planning on playing it eventually
-bag a legend is... fine? i'm kinda mid on it. it's a fine premise, it's a fine hook, it's apparently got some damn fine scenes, but from the outside looking in it feels like the most "exactly what's on the tin" ambition to me. you hunt the vake. you kill the vake. somewhere along the way you can bite mr fires a lot. it's okay, but if all the ambitions were playable on one character it'd be the one i'd play last. i need some more twists and spice on my ambition sandwich, y'know
-light fingers is actually slowly winning over? me? the more i learn about it? i wasn't interested at all at first glance but i've seen a few snippets of the horror parts and it's good. very juicy. very fucked up. if i could play multiple ambitions on one character i'd actually want to do this one after heart's desire, maybe even before. haven't experienced it at all but from everything i see it's a finger lickin banger and i kinda want to make a 3rd alt just for it
there that's my ambition takes ur welcome
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spoocys-funhouse · 3 months
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Raydad and his tiny lum daughter. This is Lumlight and she was going to be a major character down the line within my Rayman stories when I was planning on writing fan fiction. Now she's a character that may pop in depending on the timeline over on my roleplay blog.
The original story for Lumlight within my old stories went like this:
Mr. Dark was planned to return as a major villain when he finished his recovery period. This would've been long past the events of Rayman Legends. Mr. Dark knew that if he had any chance of taking Rayman on again, he'd have to strip him of his allies. When Rayman managed to rescue his friends with ease, Mr. Dark began using more underhanded methods. The primary target became Raymona. He knew that if he robbed Rayman of his girlfriend, it would be a major blow to the limbless hero. He succeeded in capturing Raymona and left her to Jano. Jano sealed Raymona away in a nightmare realm. In a last ditch effort, she used her power to weave a one of a kind lum. One made of pure light. She sent the Lum away to find Rayman before she succumbed and fell into an "eternal sleep plagued with nightmares." Mr. Dark went to great lengths to convince everyone that Raymona was dead. Rayman was in denial but eventually fell into grief and heartbreak at the thought that it might be true.
Lumlight, lost, cold, and scared appeared outside the window of Rayman's home. The limbless hero brought her inside and she told him her story. Hearing that Raymona might still be alive gave him the boost he needed. Rayman took to the lum like she was his daughter given that she was one of Raymona's creations. In his head, it was like how Betilla made him and Ly made Raymona. He was the one that named her, Lumlight. Lumlight would begin calling Rayman her dad not long after.
In his quest to rescue Raymona and defeat Mr. Dark, Lumlight becomes a member of his team. She serves as an active source of light, but her greatest power is the power to dispel or ward off darkness power or Nightmares. She is Jano's weakness. This made her an active target by all the villains within the glade. This leads to Rayman being a lil bit of an overprotective parent. She is also small and Rayman's one worry is her getting squished by something.
She goes with on Rayman's quest to defeat Mr. Dark. She helps him with defeating Jano and rescuing Raymona, and also played a part in helping Demona. Lumlight temporarily fuses with her and allows Demona to become less hostile and violent permanently. She is downgraded from an active danger to the same troublemaker status as her brother, Raymesis.
Lumlight was going to go with Rayman to the final confrontation against Mr. Dark and she was going to be the "final blow" by temporarily fusing herself to him and overloading him with light power. This final attack left Lumlight severely weakened, but she survived. Rayman and Raymona adopt Lumlight. Mr. Dark is sent back into recovery, but Rayman's not out of the woods as Lumlight's birth began a resurgence of other old foes, and a few new ones.
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Lumlight is the only lum of her type and Rayman is often approached by people that want to take time to study her. He refuses every time. The only ones allowed to are Ly and Betilla. Lumlight displays a higher grade of intelligence than typical lums. She is capable of speaking full words and not the gibberish type language most lums use. She is very young, but will grow and mature. Her powers are a mix of Ly's silver lums and the red lums Rayman used to heal with in Rayman 2 and 3, along with her own set of powers that make her unique. Lumlight can fuse herself to people and creatures. She is absorbed into their body and can provide either power ups, healing, or she can overload forces of dark and nightmare with light magic to defeat them. She needs to be careful with using the overloading because it can harm her in the process if she uses too much power.
Lumlight's voice claim is Lara Jill Miller. She's done voice acting work as Fink in OK K.O., Kari Kamiya within the Digimon Franchise, Haru in the english dub of Beastars, The voice actress for Juniper Lee, or my favorite and choice for Lumlight: Allie from the Curious George animated series
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gaslightgallows · 18 days
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New for $5+ Patrons: Solo RPG streams (upcoming)
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(crossposted from Patreon)
One of the upcoming new perks for $5+ patrons is access to a weekly stream of me playing different solo roleplaying games. This is unusual for me because I am not a gamer. The reason? Well, largely, it’s because I have control issues.
I’ve attempted things like Dungeons and Dragons but I’ve discovered that I don’t really let myself get into the swing of the game when I have to account for a DM. I like having control of the story myself. So I’ve started picking up RPGs designed for single players at my yearly PAX Unplugged trips. The writing in these things fascinates me, as do the mechanics. A lot of them are journaling games (like Lighthouse at the End of the World, which I’ve shared a bit of here before), but some involve using books, or ordinary playing cards, or just walking around your neighborhood. And I like hoarding collecting things.
At a recent party, while in a fit of slightly tipsy camaraderie, I offered to write reviews of these games for my buddy Wyatt over at Sprites and Dice. Unfortunately for me, he said yes, so now I have to play them.
And since I need outside incentive to actually play the things without outside incentive, let alone write articles about them, I will be inviting you to come watch me play, and potentially egg me on to make terrible decisions. Most of them will only take an hour or so, but others will involve multiple weeks, and I have no idea what I’m doing, so I’ll be easy to manipulate.
These are the games I have on-hand:
Lighthouse at the End of the World
By Ken Lowery
Bannerless Games
“Tend the light. Fend off the dead. In all things, persist. You play a lighthouse keeper at the furthest reaches of civilization. Your tormentors are numerous: the crushing solitude, the chaotic weather, the penal colony nearby, and a legion of unquiet dead conspire to erode your sanity until one of them claims you. You may well die. But you will not go quietly.” (https://bannerlessgames.itch.io/lighthouse)
Thousand Year-Old Vampire
By Tim Hutchings
“A solo roleplaying game of loss, memory, and vampires. In Thousand Year Old Vampire, you chronicle the many centuries of a vampire’s existence, beginning with the loss of mortality and ending with inevitable destruction. Prompt-driven play and simple resource tracking provide easy rules for exploring your character’s human failings, villainous acts, and surprising victories. Expect gut-churning decisions and irreconcilable acts.” (https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/collections/all/products/thousand-year-old-vampire)
The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game
Adam Bell Games
“A tabletop storytelling game for one or more players inspired by Golden Age murder mystery detective novels. Create a cast of characters gathered in one place. Fill their lives with tension and secrets. Join our great detective as they solve the mysterious murder of one of our characters found in a locked room. Play out the investigation until the true culprit is determined, and reveal the truth hidden among the clues and suspects in the detective’s journal.” (https://adamebell.itch.io/the-locked-room-murder-mystery-game)
Whispers in the Walls: A solo horror journaling game about the knowledge of the walls
Pandion Games
“As you draw cards, you’ll be directed to prompts to write as the P.I. trying to solve a mystery. Throughout the game, you’ll draw cards from your constructed Whispers Deck to learn what the walls, ceiling, and floors are telling or showing you, keep notes on what you think it all means and ultimately conclude the truth.” (https://pandiongames.com/products/the-whispers-in-the-walls)
Transformation: A solo RPG about the monster you are becoming
Absurdist Productions
“Transformation is a solo horror role-playing game in which you chronicle the metamorphosis of an ordinary human into something monstrous while their companion attempts to cope.” (https://www.absurdistproductions.com/product/transformation/)
Legend Has It
By Adam Bell Games
“Legend Has It is an anthology mythmaking card game for one or more players. Pull sentences from your favorite books to weave new legends. Craft the mythos of a world of your creation and give life to its new oral histories.” (https://adamebell.itch.io/legend-has-it)
Strollplaying Field Notes Zine Pack
By Seb Pines
Good Luck Press
“Stroll・play・ing game [noun]: a small roleplaying game that one can play while out on a walk.
“The Strollplaying Games Trio Pack includes three small single-player games in field notes style journals for you to carry in a pocket or keep in a bag so you can play a small game while you are out. Each 24-page journal includes the rules text to play each game along with plenty of blank pages to write and draw your game experience directly into the journal. Bring a pen or pencil on your walk with the journals and no other tools are needed to play.”  (https://goodluckpress.co/products/strollplaying-field-notes-zine-pack)
Games include:
How to Write a Ghost Story
A New Landscape
Reclaim
Which one I write up first will depend on Wyatt; as of this writing, he’s got the list and is deciding my fate. (…Pray for me.) 
Again, if you’d like to join me in exploring the ins and outs of solo indie gaming, these streams will be available to patrons at the $5 and up tiers, so if that sounds like fun, please consider subscribing! (And if you don’t want to or aren’t able, that is also fine! All the streams will be uploaded to YouTube once they’re finished.)
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Banner photo by Josh Appel on Unsplash.
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goldensirenheart · 5 months
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Hi, my lovelies. If you've been looking for a female roleplayer with a novella-like writing style, look no further—I'm here!
I would love to collaborate with a long-term writing partner who is as passionate as I am and can match my writing length. Depending on where we are in our little story, I don't necessarily require a lot of paragraphs, but three or more will do the trick.
I’m fine with portraying females and males, so please feel comfortable in doing the same. Twenty-one or older to interact.
Due to my current full-time job and fluctuating off days, I'm also searching for partners who aren't seeking a (roleplay) reply every day. Of course, I'll continuously update everyone with whom I roleplay about my availability so that no one is left in the dark or believes I've lost interest. In return, I would appreciate the same.
Lastly, I’m interested in mxf and mxm pairings.
- Historical fiction themed.
Has an undertone or is based on Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina, Atonement, Marie Antoinette, Emily, Young Victoria, Jane Eyre, or Becoming Jane.
- Supernatural elements themed (monster romance w/ vampires, werewolves, mermaids/sirens, etc).
Has an undertone or is based on Twilight, Queen Of The Damned, Interview With The Vampire, Crimson Peak, Only Lovers Left Alive, The Vampire Diaries, Meet Joe Black, or Teen Wolf.
- 2000s themed.
Has an undertone or is based on Gossip Girl, A Walk To Remember, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, The Notebook, 50 First Dates, 13 going on 30, 10 Things I Hate About You, The Wedding Date, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, 27 Dresses, A Cinderella Story, or The O.C.
- Dystopia, science fiction, and apocalyptic themed.
Has an undertone or is based on The Hunger Games, The Darkest Minds, Divergent, The Walking Dead, I Am Legend, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Her, or I’m Your Man.
- Horror (dark) themed.
Has an undertone or is based on Scream, Jennifer’s Body, Carrie, Heathers, American Horror Stories, Black Swan, The Love Witch, or The Craft.
- Honorable mentions!
Has an undertone or is based on Normal People, Perks Of Being a Wildflower, Love Rosie, Skam, Fleabag, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Skins uk, Titanic, Pretty Woman, Love & Other Drugs, Almost Famous, The Fault In Our Stars, American Honey, or Pretty In Pink.
The films and television shows I've listed serve as mere suggestions meant to be useful while we're coming up with possible plot lines.
Overall, I'm hoping for a lot of romance, character growth, and world-building.
NSFW, playlists, and Pinterest friendly.
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Toad Patrol (1999)
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Propaganda Below
Sent: "I think if this show wasn't some obscure Canadian cartoon that came out before a lot of kids had access to internet, it'd be the kind of show where kids make OCs to roleplay as online. On the surface it looks like some sort of goofy smurf wannabe, but it's actually a fun little adventure series about toadlets trying to survive in the wild.
also three episodes with the original english voice acting are still lost media, including the very last episode, so I need more people to become obsessed with this show so we can either find those last few episodes or at least get english subtitles on the versions we do have"
Google: "The story is about a group of eight young "Toadlet" siblings and their struggle for survival in The Great Forest. The Ancients are quite powerful and knowledgeable in shamanistic like magic. According to legend; they had created Toad Hollow, left many symbols of their existence behind and had eventually disappeared."
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gold-rhine · 1 year
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electro is such a polarizing element bc how different the vibes are. like boys are always furry short king hyperfixated on found family and strong sense of right and wrong, but the girlies are all wlw and either the absolute chad badasses like Kuki and Beidou or the most cringefail toxic girlbosses like raiden and yae.
i haven’t formulated the electro visions meta yet, but i believe that electro is about creating your own world that goes against the society or even the reality and fighting for it. electro are often loners like cryo, but cryo believe they are isolated by something inherent that they can’t change, electro isolate by choice IF they choose to
and i think the difference between cool and cringefail electro are in that decision, to isolate bc you believe in the superiority of your ~eternity~ and that others just won’t get it. like beidou was ostracized as an unlucky orphan by the people she grew up with and she said no thanks, i wont play this role, imma be a sexy pirate and a legend moster slayer. kuki was supposed to become a shrine maiden and she was like no thanks i don’t want to spend my life sitting under a tree and being manipulated by a pink furry, imma self-actualize as a lawyer and join a community who will love and support me no matter what i choose to become, even if this group is seen as not respectable by other ppl. like they both went with their own vision of the world even if it meant leaving all they knew behind, but they didn’t close off and they now have a lot of friends and ppl who love them
but like no one ostracized rauden, she decided to close herself in a room herself. she decided that the rest of the world has nothing to offer her but decay. sure, she was grieving, but beidou suffered much more and didn’t become a solipsist like raiden. and yae’s story quest is like “sad that so few youkai left:( the magic world is leaving:(” when yae is fucking ostracizing or directly trying to harm the lives of every yokai she meets, like sara, ittto, harassing gorou. girlboss is herself the main contributor to her isolation, there are magic beings all around inazuma, she just pushes them away
fischl is kiinda in danger of becoming cringefail girlboss, but she has friends who are both willing to roleplay with her, but also keep her in check by reminding her she’s being cringe, so i think she’ll turn out fine.
sara doesn’t count, she is actually a chad badass who was indoctrinated as a child into following cringefail girlbosses and i can fix her
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voidsentprinces · 10 months
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I like that since the dawn of imagination it has always taken hundreds of hours to get peoples characters and stories correct and even after getting it 100% correct they go back to it to staple something else on cause they heard a bard in a tavern and now imagined an EPIC FIGHT or MOMENT OF INTENSE SORROW to a ballad.
Like the Epic of Gilgamesh. He’s just the BIGGEST fucking asshole, so the Gods send down a dude to fight him and so they fucking FIGHT but oh no it looks like fighting was the way to become the BEST OF BROS! Hey bro, go sleep with my head priestess. Oh man, bro. The Gods won’t talk to you now!? LETS GO ON A BRO TRIP AND DEFEAT MONSTERS WITH OUR SWOL GAINS! OH NO! MY BRO! HE’S DOWN! BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...oh no we’re...both okay actually, lets continue this adventure elsewhere.
or the Arthurian Legend
So there was this kid who was CHOSEN by a SWORD OF GREAT POWER! So he formed a great BROLLIANCE! WITH HIS BROS! But one his bros slept with his wife so the entire BROLLIANCE was destroyed and behind his back his...aunt...mother...sister...A WITCH FROM  BEYOND THE REALM HAS MADE A BASTARD HALF SON OR...Brother or...something...AND THEY FIGHT! AND THEY KILL ONE ANOTHER! But as the chosen bro king dies, his bro takes his sword and returns it to a tart laying in a lake which became their system of governace...but though he was KILLED! He’ll be back to rule his bro kingdom someday...hopefully...to be continues...Arthur and the Swol Kingdom [WIP]
And then with D&D
Alright everyone we’re about to partake in an EPIC QUEST! FOR DUNGEONS, LOOT, AND GLORY! But first sit down and spend 17 hours on your character sheet, coming up with back story, rolling out traits and choosing what you want to be.
And then with roleplay
Yeah, I could just CREATE the coolest character and write their entire story down over the course of a week to 20 year process...but what’s life without a little...AU!?!
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neverhangd · 9 months
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𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐬, 𝐰𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬....
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THE SINKING SHIP is a brand new Our Flag Means Death-themed Golden Age of Piracy Discord RPG open to characters from history, myth, legend, original creation, and other media (Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Sails, etc.). This is a space for like-minded writers both to roleplay via the Discord system and to connect, hang out, and network with one another, and we are pleased to be officially soft-launching this week! Details including the link to join are below.
𝐈𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞'𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮?
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Story Arc 1: Kraken's Return
The Golden Age of Piracy does not seem very golden at the moment for the former co-captains of The Revenge as Blackbeard begins his bent as the Kraken and the Gentleman Pirate finds himself without a ship and half a crew. Everyone's nerves are frazzled. Stede and the marooned crew manage to get to safe-ish port at the Republic of Pirates and set their goals on one of two things: a ship for pursuit or a fuckery to draw Blackbeard back to them. Whether either will work is a shot in the dark. Meanwhile Blackbeard, Izzy, and the crew they stole away are finally doing some real pirating again. Except Blackbeard's swung all the way back round to being a danger to anyone around him, so survival becomes the major focus for those still onboard The Revenge.
The powers that be, royal, mysterious, or otherwise, have deemed fit to set a high bounty on Blackbeard's head for his desertion of privateer duties. There are some who even have it in for the Gentleman Pirate at this point, after hearing weird stories about a partnership with Blackbeard, the robbery and utter destruction of a high society social vessel under false identities, and his vaunted wealth at sea. Suffice to say, both are prominently wanted figures now, drawing a variety of personalities to the ocean waves looking for a piece of the action.
THE SINKING SHIP is currently open & seeking: - canon crew members - adapted historical figures - time & thematically appropriate original characters - time & thematically appropriate characters from other media currently accepting up to three iterations of all canon characters.
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rollforfelicity · 1 year
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It's Creator Day on Itch!
That means that 100% of what you pay on itch goes to the creators! Which means I'm going to talk about the TTRPGs you can buy on itch that I've played since the last creator day!
As soon as I read Orbital Blues by Soul Muppet Publishing for the first time, I was like “oh this game is made for me.” If you’ve ever wanted to play a game that emulates space westerns like Cowboy Bebop, this is an excellent one.
Cantrip by Hipólita uses the Belonging Outside Belonging system to tell stories about young witches finding themselves and their powers in a magical academy. Cantrip’s prompts give little peeks into a rich world just begging to be explored.
Not only is Paris Gondo by Kalum from The Rolistes Podcast incredibly easy to pick up and play, it’s also SO funny, starting with the very concept of playing as adventurers who are trying to survive their journey out of a dungeon with as much useful and meaningful stuff as they can carry. I also have to mention that the Miro board for online play is ingenious. I've linked the English version, but it's also available in French.
My friend @wildjayblue wrote a game that feels as though it was written for me specifically. Totally Normal Human Roommates is a game where you and your friends play as totally normal humans. Like the Nocturnal Human, who has a strong bite and hypnotic personality. Or the Hirsute Human, who is weak to moonlight and silver, just like lots of humans are!
Babes in the Wood by World Champ Game Co. is a game that perfectly captures the feeling of watching Over The Garden Wall for the first time, but also makes you feel SO CLEVER for having told such a good, original story by the end of it.
If you’re a sucker for cheesy holiday movies and you want to play a game that lets you compete against your friends to become the protagonist of one, look no further than Hometown Holiday by @kidnickgames. The mechanics are simple but very fun, and the playbooks perfectly emulate the genre.
Do you have a vampire OC and want to put them through a tough night? Do you want to MAKE a vampire OC in order to put them through a rough night? Bloodless by @enniogoes is the game for you! Bloodless uses the Caltrop Core system and I love that the prompts swing from funny to heartbreaking, and I had an absolute blast when I played.
I love Phoenix Wright, so when I heard about Justicar from @dinoberrypress, I HAD to play it. Justicar is one of those games where the setup portion of the game is as fun as watching the whole thing unravel in the in-character portion. The setting can be anything you want, and the collaborative and zero-prep nature of the game makes Justicar unpredictable and hilarious.
I also want to shoutout a few Mausritter adventuring locations I’ve used from Itch! First up is Temple of the Slumbering Orchid by @imsobadatnicknames2. Running this felt like leading my players through a Legend of Zelda dungeon in the best way.
Drained Temple of the Brackish Basin by brstf has such an unusual concept, and my players had a lot of fun exploring the unique creatures and chambers of this temple, including a very fun little hermit crab character.
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I am a huge @mortphilippa stan, so of COURSE I’m going to recommend Tomb of the Slumbering Queen, a creepy, bat-filled Mausritter location. Philippa is the queen of rollable tables (this one features effects from eating strange mushrooms), and her NPC art is charming. While you’re there, make sure to check out Philippa’s other stuff because it’s all good.
I'll wrap up by saying that an added bonus to playing any of these games is that there are REALLY REALLY GOOD one-shots of all of them on YouTube...because I've run them all on stream.
Wait, you're still here?? You're looking for even MORE games to get on itch??? Okay, well check out these two previous threads of game reccs! My 2022 Itch Creator Day thread
My 2021 Itch Creator Day thread
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noipsaskblog · 2 months
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Hi!!! Welcome!!!
Hello everyone!! I'm No One In Particular, but you can call me Noip if you wish!!
Although, I like having nicknames, so feel free to suggest some, hehe!!
Anyways, who am I??????
I'm just a monochrome child living in his room, and recently found this place called 'Tumblr'! I found a lot of cool people and thought I'd join them here!
I like having friends, exploring alternate universes, drawing and reading, and also sleeping!!
My Best Friend is known as Monochild!! She isn't here yet... But I might be able to convince her to join at some point!! Same with my other friends too!!
But what I do NOT like is fear, boredom, and...
Loneliness...
So... I would love to become friends with you all!! :D
Why is your name 'No One In Particular'?
That isn't my name!! I am literally 'No One In Particular'!! I don't know why, but... I don't seem to have an identity! I'm just... 'no one in particular'!
That's why everyone calls me Noip! Makes it a lot easier.
Are you sure you aren't known as anything else?
Oh, well... I guess I am known as the 'Traveler of Worlds' and 'Teller of Legends', but more commonly...
..."That Kid."
What do you look like?
Oh!!! I'll get a photo soon!!!
I look really cute, I like to thinkl!!
Argh, almost time to go!! Sorry, I bid you all adieu!!
Someone else will take over!! He's really smart, but also kinda strange...
...
Hello?
Oh, perfect. It's working.
So, uh, hey.
The rest of this part is OOC. That is, No One In Particular is no longer talking.
If you couldn't tell, this is a roleplay ask blog. Hope you like the story I set up so far.
I'm @cicada-wisp. The owner of No One In Particular's story and all the characters.
His tale takes elements from OMORI, UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE, and a little bit of Yume Nikki.
Originally the story was very different. But then it was forgotten.
It's been remade now. This is it. I hope it's good.
...
Oh, right, actually important things.
So, tag list:
#NoipAsk - Someone asked Noip something and he replied.
#Story - A part of the story was revealed.
#OOC - An out-of-character post.
#NoOneInParticular - Something relating to Noip. Also known as a character tag.
#MonoChild - Something relating to MonoChild. Also known as a character tag.
#art - Art. Do not expect many updates from this tag, sorry!
#writing - Writing! This'll probably be more common than the art tag.
General Notes:
Other character blogs and such are free to interreact as well! As Noip said, he loves having friends!
If responses are slow then sorry... I don't mean to ignore anyone!
Please, please interact with Noip. He's.
So.
Alone.
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