The Thread. It's really late over here, so my characters will be a bit later, but we still need to discuss stuff about them, so I doubt it's much of a problem : D

I don't think that is unforgiving at all, to be honest. I don't think anyone really enjoys writing with someone they cannot really understand. The person can be nice, but the immersion is lost. I'm currently helping another Dutch girl improve her writing in English through RP, but it's just that, improving English. It's really hard to actually get invested in the plot because the only reason I understand it, is because she clearly uses Dutch sentence structures.

Hmm, well, I think we should be able to come up with some nice new magic then. I mean, that is a lot of mythology to draw inspiration from. Especially when it come to making things harder for the characters. Kekekeke.

Thank God :') I might have times where I can be crazy slow, but I'm pretty sure that I should have time every few evenings at worst to reply. And if I can't reply for a time longer than that, I'll let you know.

I agree. They would know quite a lot about eachother, so I think a lot of the things in the character sheets will be known to the other character already, like favorite things, some secrets perhaps, past relationships, though not in detail probably, the things they're good or bad at..
I think that them having lost contact after school due to something like a busy schedule maybe is a good idea. Gives them some stuff to talk about as well, I'd say.
As for the style; I'd say go right ahead ^^ I'm probably sticking to what I usually do, but it doesn't bother me or anything.

As for the houses, different ones sounds good to me, but I don't really mind what combination that'd be. I always felt like Slytherins were really sold short, because I don't really believe that an entire house is made up out of dirtbags who refuse to make friends with anyone outside their house, so I can see a Gryffindor/Slytherin duo work as well, but any other combo is fine too.

Oh, and the thread is up;
roleplayerguild.com/topics/85593-wizar..

Thanks for the link - got this thread added to my subscription list. :)

Can't agree with you more on the immersion part. It's hard to get back into the feeling when the momentum keeps getting broken up by awkward language mistakes. Maybe the first few posts I can try to be patient, but it can't go on like this forever, you know? ^^;

No probs - though pardon me if I have to resort using Google Translate for any ancient-sounding spells in Greek/Latin or even Hebrew, etc. :P

Same to you. Will give you heads up if I need more time to be away, battling with the horrors of reality...
I'm not fond of speed-posting, and I do like to spend time thinking through what I want to write in response, be it IC or OOC. I can be long-winded and I love random chats beyond RP - roleplaying is supposed to be fun, not another business talk. It helps to create a good mood between me and my partner, and also I can be aware of what my partner may like or dislike in the RP. Just let me know if you don't like me sidetracking too much, because there are some rpers here who don't like OOC chats.

I believe that even if two people have been hanging out with each other for a long time and maintain a close relationship, there are still some parts of the person that s/he wouldn't want to let the other know, wouldn't show it to the other party. It's also natural for humans to put on different masks catered to different people they meet/deal with. People are complex creatures, both in a good and bad way.
To add on to the point as mentioned above, time is also one of the main factors that can change a person from how s/he is like before, apart from environment. The core personality may not change as much, but one can sense the growth in maturity, or some influence from external forces on top of the base. Sorry if I sound like I'm ranting about psychology here - and no, I didn't take up any courses in psychology, just some things I gathered from observation.
Hmm I was thinking of using diary entries as a more interesting way to reveal the backstory of my character, and also give more insight to how my characters may be feeling, diving deeper into the character's inner thought.

I'm a proud Slytherin here. :P For the part about them not willing to make friends outside of their own house, if we see this on the flip side, it's a sign of loyalty, a virtue that the Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors both value in. Personally I feel like Gryffindor and Slytherin both sides of the same coin, just that they each take a different approach to act on their beliefs. Since my character is a muggleborn and will unlikely be in Slytherin (I don't like people who force muggleborn characters into Slytherin because it really doesn't work that way), I may be going with either Gryffindor to maintain this dynamic, or take up Hufflepuff as it's the most underdeveloped house in the canon.

Yeah, exactly that. Though usually, as long as people do their best I'm quite lenient with it. It's those times where I kinda feel like the rp is not being taken seriously at all that I get impatient.

Oh, I don't mind at all. I'd probably do the same.

Good to hear ^^
It seems there is yet another thing that we very much agree on! I prefer to really take my time for an rp, especially once you get into scenes where you really have to think about the next step, or what a logical yet interesting twist would be.
I also love staying in touch OOC. Not only to discuss things, but just the fact that RP can be a way to meet new people is something I love about it. (My current best friend is someone I met over rp. As she's from the same country as I am, we've already met up numerous times).
So don't worry about chatting OOC, I greatly approve of it.

Totally agree with that. I think it would work best if we really work out what things they do and do not know about eachother. I think it's also fun if they both have done and seen a lot in the time they were apart (not necessarily in a bad way) so they have a lot to chat up on about, for during those times where action isn't present. (I can't help it, I also love those brief moments where characters are just having conversation).

As for the diary entries; all fine with me ^^

I always get Gryffindor in tests. I kind of always assumed I'd be more of a Hufflepuff, but my current study has really brought up a more confident side of me, that kind of makes me see how I'd fit in Gryffindor as well. Gryffindor and Slytherin are indeed more alike than most seem to think.
I'm not sure what house I want my character to be in. I'm also not entirely sure about the type of person they'll be in general.
It is true that Hufflepuff gets way too little credit. And when they do, they're often a bit caricaturized.

Was on med these couple of days - feeling kinda groggy and disorientated, so replies will be much slower than usual.

For one, this is a forum and the 150,000 character limit is more than enough to think through what I want to write in the IC/how I should respond in the OOC. This isn't an IM and we all have a life to live, and we can't possibly be sitting in front of a computer waiting for a reply 24/7. There are times I do find speed-posters somewhat intimidating...

For my case I had a pretty balanced mix of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin whenever I did any of those tests - I was never in Hufflepuff, not even once. ^^; In the end Pottermore decided that I should be in the house of snakes, and since then I'm a Slytherin through and through.
I totally agree with the part about Hufflepuff - personally I don't think the Huffies are a bunch of 'weaklings' when compared to the other houses. Sure, this house seems to be the one who would take in the leftovers the other three houses didn't want, but I feel that Helga saw something deeper in each of her students that the other founders were blind to, and having empathy for others.

We pretty much got the rough plotlines down, so now we shall focus more on the characters. Since we're going with them knowing each other right from the start aka doing a timeskip instead of developing our characters together from bottom up, there will be loads of things we need to agree on in order to establish the common info in their background. For example, which part of UK were they born and grew up in? How did they met each other? Other less important stuffs like events that happened during their Hogwarts days can be discussed later as the IC progresses.

Maybe I can just give you a rough idea of the muggleborn character I have in mind:
= His family consists of himself and his two parents. No siblings.
= Prior to Hogwarts he's studying in a muggle school.
= Favorite subjects are pretty much practical wand works such as Charms, DADA and Transfiguration. Hates History of Magic.
= Not sure if I want him to participate in house Quidditch.
= After graduation I think he chooses to go back to his muggle life instead of working in the magical community.
*I use 'he' as a placeholder - I haven't decide on the gender I really want for my character, which is a downside for being able to play both sexes equally...

Heads up that I won't be online for 2 days due to Election and local comic con.

How was your comic con?

I feel ya. If someone replies extremely fast, that does kinda increase the pressure. I admit having been guilty of it a few times, but sometimes the RP mood strikes for days, you know :')

Yeah, Hufflepuff it way too underappreciated. I always liked them a lot, as they valued modesty and loyalty so much.

Hmm.. Maybe they can come from the Lake District? Somewhere around there, basically. I don't really have much logic behind it, just that it's one of the most beautiful parts of England I've ever been to :') They could be from the same village, having met that way a few years before Hogwarts.

And looks good. For the pureblood I think it would be fun to kind of have the opposite of some of those things. I'm thinking someone who comes from a large family, played Quidditch and is generally quite athletic. Favorite subjects could include potions, DADA (since art class that abbreviation has never been the same), herbiology and astronomy.
Still not sure what house I'd like him/her to be in most, to be honest. As for a job.. teaching, maybe. Or something at that magical hospital of which I momentarily forgot the name.

It's more of a toy than comic con - well, the toys are mostly DC and Marvel characters, so fair enough I guess.
The best part was actually the acoustic concert at the end - the piano-violin duet of animanga songs was simply epic!

I'm not saying that I hate people who speed-posts - OOC is perfectly fine, but I don't like it when people spam me with reminder PMs and clog up my notification tab forcing me to give priority to their specific RPs; worse, I'm expected to post every day when I've already made it very clear my schedule is a weekly basis. Unlike most RPers on this site, my timezone is on the other side of the planet - so while they are online I'm in bed and vice-versa.

I do think that the Huffies are a bunch of peeps as cool as the other three houses in their own unique ways - probably more so than others, because the virtues they value are what most people actually look for most in today's society.

That's cool, I've never been there or any parts of Europe mostly due to the expensive airfare and also the negative news about a sharp rise in the number of pickpockets caused by social unrest from Greece's bankruptcy issue. (The furthest country I've been to is Japan and that's about it.) After skimming through the wiki to get a brief idea on the area, I think it's a nice place to work with. :)

Hmm, I was thinking:
I may be going with playing male for this - I feel that using a female for the traits I'm planning for this character may not work out too well and can be in danger of stretching things too far. She can turn out to be quite an interesting tomboy, but the characterization may fall flat during the long run...
Since your character is in Quidditch, for mine he could be more into wand-dueling instead.
Your character sounds like an althetic hardworker - and mine would probably be a lazy smartass (lol), I mean some happy-go-lucky spoiled brat.
Job wise, my initial rough draft had him taking over his family business - or at least just helping out his parents but rotting himself away in the comfort of his home.
The magical hospital is St. Mungo's - it's a name I can't forget easily (subtle Teen Titans TV series reference).

I'm already working on a starter post - it's actually more like a title post with the opening pictures, summary/synopsis and even brief description of the setting/timeline, maybe a list of lores we're including into this RP, and also any additional notes. I think we can also reserve the first post in the CS tab for character listings in case our number of NPCs grow as the IC progresses.

@Piddle

Just checking if you're still interested in this RP? :)

Definitely am. Sorry for not replying earlier.

I think I'm going for a female character for a change. And a job at St. Mungo's. Living on her own currently, still in a bit of a 'student' house, as she is careful not to spend too much.
I'm gonna work on her appearance this weekend (been doing loads of portrait studies, so this should be easy) probably.

And that's a good idea. I'm extremely chaotic in my head, so I tend to forget certain details sometimes, so having it all together in an intropost would be very lovely.

Welcome back. :P But here's a heads-up that I won't be able to be online as much as I want to. The haze is going to be around until November, which means shorter cyber-time for me (I don't have internet at home so only when I'm in public places using free wifi, which means I need to go outside and breathe in the smog DX).
In case you're wondering what is haze, just go google 'forest burning in Indonesia' and there you go.

Just asking because I was clearing some inactive/dead RP threads from my sub list, yep.

(Side stuff: I didn't like portrait drawing much - prefer gesture drawing - but I'm more into storyboarding than character designing, so yea.
But it's cool you're drawing your character yourself - makes me feel a little ashamed at how lazy I am haha.)

So you usually play male characters? That's the same for me - because I don't really like playing archetypal female characters that most RPers like to partner up with. M'girls are mostly the headstrong and no-nonsense type on the outside but they do have their soft moments, just that you need to click the right button for them to show it.
I'll get working on the CS too. Was going to ask if there's any common/shared traits you want our characters to have especially for their backstory but maybe we can get to that after we have seen each other's CS.

Alright - I shall reserve the first CS post for listing purpose. As for the OOC header/lore/summary I'll just upload the codes and everything in my next reply so you can copy-paste it into your first OOC post. :)

Oh dear :c That sounds pretty hazardous. As much as I like RP and look forward to this one; please don't go out of your way to post if that means breathing in nasty stuff like smog :c

Ahh I see. I do that every now and then as well, especially if I have a lot going and it becomes hard to overlook.

(I kinda like all of those, but I think portraits are my favorite. And I don't see not drawing your char as laziness; I don't always do it either, but I do like it when I have time for it, because I'm awfully nitpicky when choosing what my character should look like)

Yeah, though recently things do start evening out a little, which is nice. My female characters tend to vary a lot. Some are more towards stereotypical feminine things, others not so much, but I do notice I find the more tomboyish and/or down-to-earth types easier to write.
I like the idea of getting to that once the CS's are done; might give us a little more to work with.

Still working on her, but this is what I have so far;
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The hair is still rough since I'm in the phase of trying out all kinds of different hairstyles to see what fits best :')

Thanks! I really hope the haze goes away asap - otherwise my RP backlogs just keeps growing and never goes away...
Besides that, these few weeks RL has been eating up a lot of my personal time more than usual, so apologies for the super-late response!

Wow, your character portrait is looking good! :o
I can understand about the hairstyle part, because that's also my greatest worry when it comes to character design. XD

I can be picky about my character's appearance too but that's usually reserved for my original novel projects. Not so in roleplaying because other than this just being a hobby, it's a way for me to do writing experiments. ^^;

For digital art, there was a period of time I was obsessed with making my own original magic circles; then another time when I was hot on designing book covers.