Do's And Don'ts
So this first little bit is more about what I prefer in a partner.
I prefer my partners to be more on the side of semi-lit if I HAD to put a label on it, but all I ask is that you know how to spell and use grammar properly, I understand mistakes, but I don't want to have to try bringing in a decoder to figure out what you are trying to say. Another thing, please for the love of GOD no text talking unless you are describing a text message that was being read or sent or whatever, other than that please please please no text talking. And finally, I understand writer's block and things like that, I also understand and am a firm beleiver in writing only what is necessary to move the story along, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE A MILLION TIMES PLEASE make an EFFORT to give me more than one sentence when I give you a DECENT sized post because I put effort into that and it makes me sad, mad, and extremely dissapointed when I get a mediocre three word sentence back in reply. I mean if you have to make like a one sentence reply make it something I can try to write back to.
One More Thing ( Bonus points to the person who knows where this came from XD ), I prefer descriptions, hand drawn pictures,or anime pictures ONLY for characters. Please no pictures of real people because I just get wigged out. OK now on to my rules.
And One More Thing, I don't care if you want to use another language in the roleplay ( real or totally made up) but I speak only english and anything, I do mean ANYTHING, in another language that is real in my post has come from a translator thing I may have found on the internet so please don't assume I speak the language and leave me out of the loop. XD This has not occured in a roleplay yet, but just thought I should mention it.
DO
-Send me pm's asking to get to know me, asking to see or talk about more of me of my ideas or even sending me some of your own.
-I DO roleplay as both FEMALE AND MALE ( A strong preference to me playing female however but I will play male) characters.
-Tell me about your limits as I would not want to cross any boundaries as I will tell you mine as well.
-Contribute to the roleplay, make it interesting, guarantee I will put you higher on my reply list if I like it.
-I also DO roleplay anime BASED ( Strong emphasis on the based) roleplays,)
DON'T
-Tell me who my character is, such as their name, personality, their background, anything of those sorts. Unless we have already established this. For example, if you send me a starter that requires me to play a character who was once best friends or an ex lover of your character but things happened, as long as BOTH parties agree then I am fine, this is all usually stuff that will be worked out when we start chatting about a roleplay. ( This has happened before and I don't like it, it stifles my mind in creating a character and quite frankly I won't put effort into it.)
-DO NOT ABSOLUTELY DO NOT bombard me with messages or comments on my profile asking about our roleplay and if I have read it, or am going to reply to it, or anything of that sort. Patience is a virtue friends, give me at least two days before sending me a response. Because chances are if I am taking too long it's because I am at work, with friends or family, or busy with something outside of the world of Gaia. Or it could simply be that I need time to create a response I deem worthy of sending back to you.If you haven't heard from in two plus days chances are I forgot to get the reply sent. PESTER ME AND I WILL DELETE THE ROLEPLAY FROM MY INBOX WITH NO WARNING!!!!! (ahem Pardon me...As you can see this is one of a few major pet peeves I have, and I don't really have many). Also I will give you a couple of warnings that you are pestering me before I delete so it won't be exactly like, Oh what happened to our roleplay I haven't heard from you in a while, because my response will simply be this...You pestered me, I asked you to stop and give me time but you did not so I deleted the roleplay. Now depending on how you respond to this I may give you another chance. Just know I enforce a three strike policy...If I ask you not to do the same thing I stopped roleplaying with you about I will tell you I no longer wish to roleplay with you and don't contact me again. ( Sorry this one is long...I think I just ranted a bit.....My apologies T^T )
-( Apologies ahead of time...this one is about another pet peeve of mine...It hasn't happened often but still...)
DO NOT I reiterate DO NOT start making up bits of history about my character that opposes what I have just said in the previous post. Below is an example...
Me: "I have no family...I live alone, no one knows I am here."
Partner: Pulling into the driveway points to a man that is your uncle. " Oh is that your uncle."
-facepalms- I just put that no one knows she is there, she has no family, this is an established peice of 'history' as I like to call it and it will not be changed by you telling me I all of a sudden have an uncle standing in my driveway when I JUST SAID no one knows I am there. I will correct this by simply going like this.
Me: " No it's not my uncle I just said I have no family, they don't know I am here and I live alone."
And so help me all merciful Gaia if you FORCE THE ISSUE I WILL DROP THE RP SO FAST IT WON"T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED UNTIL IT'S BOUNCING OFF THE GROUND AND ENTERING THE ATMOSPHERE INTO THE BLAZING SUN WHERE IT WILL BURN AND DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As you can probably see ( and I do apologize) this is more of a major pet peeve than the pestering me. I don't make up stuff about your character because I think it might add into the plot. You tell me your character has no brothers or sisters or that the only sibling they had died, I won't all of a sudden go " Hey it'll be fun to make him have a sibling all of a sudden despite what has been said to be a truth. -In pops the said magical sibling for your character-" If I think it would be something interesting to add I will discuss it with you first. And my doing so it will delay my response time to the roleplay itself until both parties are satsified with the end result.
-Please don't expect me to plan out all the details of the roleplay ahead of time. The most I want to plan ahead is the pairing, the setting, the genre, things like that but the rest I want to be spontanious. I love twists and turns to a story.
-As I have said above in the DO'S I am terrible at playing Canon characters and while below you will find that most of my anime based pairings involve my partner playing one of the Canon's don't expect me play one as well unles we are doubling. Meaning your canon with my oc, my canon with your oc. and this will generally lead to making up some of our own stuff with it.
On a final note, I may have scared some of you away and I do apologize for that, but I seem to have to make some things clear or I will end up dropping roleplays. But if you are still here, I thank you for putting up with me this far and I promise I will be getting to the roleplay portions shortly. OH and I roleplay in 3rd person only and would prefer it if you did as well, don't have to but would much prefer it. Again thank you for putting up with me and I am almost to the main point of this search thread. ^^
- OKay so this is a Don't and it is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. I don't appreciate it when you come to me asking about roleplays and then ask me to start. It is one thing if we have been spending some time discussing about a starter I have previously created and ask me to resend it to you (possibly with whatever changes or additions that are needed.). But don't blatantly go, " Hey I am bad at starting and since now we know what we are going to do can you start please." No...I will not start, I think it is common decency and polite that if you are coming to me for a roleplay that you start I don't care how crappy you think it is, I try to do the same for other people as well. When I come to them I will start. So yeah...That's it for this update...XD
