[OOC] Beyond Expectations [AHeartlessNobody & Summer]

[Rogue Sloth]

So psyched to be getting this off the ground~

I remastered my intro post from our last RP to fit the new character. Hope it's good enough!

[AHeartlessNobody]

It was XD I spent the weekend with my brother and wasn't able to post. I'm working on a post as we speak and it will be up sometime today. I'll probably pull some stuff from Cassie's opening post as well lol.

[Rogue Sloth]

No worries! Did you have a good time with your brother?

Sweet. I'm looking forward to it ^^

[AHeartlessNobody]

Yep! XD We watched Rise of the Gaurdians, the My Little Pony Movie, and we played Yahtzee! It was a blast haha

[Rogue Sloth]

Nice! Glad you guys had fun cx

[AHeartlessNobody]

We did XD And I got to hang with his sister too (he's my brother in law lol, so me and his sister aren't technically related, but we call each other sisters anyway). Me and her used to write comics and stories together all the back when I was in middle school and she reminded me of the comic I made WAY back with my main character named Ika (eye-ka). It's actually kinda funny, because that's where I got the name for Lunairans from, because that was the name of her people lol.

[Rogue Sloth]

Nice! It's cool that you all get along so well. I get along with my husband's family alright, but they're all a little weird xD
His mom's side is all rednecks, and his dad's side is literally Amish.
Our wedding photos for his fam look like a costume festival for pilgrims and cowboys lmao
They're cool people, but I dunno if I'd hang out with them often even if they lived near us xD
My side of the family is the awesome ones B3 My husband likes them a lot, so we drive down to visit them every once in a while

[AHeartlessNobody]

XD That will be some wedding picture to show your kids haha. Honestly, I like my brother in law's family more than my own. They're great haha. I hang out with my brother in law and his sister more than I do his wife (my actual sister haha).

I have a weird question. And you can say no, since it's obviously a task lol. But, I've been wanting to rewrite that story I mentioned before with Ika, her love interest named Koji, and all that jazz. I'm going to write it individually in my own free time, but I was thinking it'd be nice to get some inspiration for it by rping out the story. Like, it doesn't follow strictly the story I'm writing, just have the basically main elements. I don't know why, but for some reason you were the first person I thought of to ask and see if you'd be interested XD

Just as a sort of extra, here are some basic drawings I made (don't laugh, they are literally from six or seven years ago lol) of Ika. The one with short hair and the two strands is when she is younger (long story short, it got cut in the back during a struggle) and the long hair one is when she is older.



Like I said, you were just the first person that came to mind XD You don't have to do it with me, especially with us just getting to starting this one. But, I wante to ask you before going off and asking someone else if they'd be interested in rping out this little project of mind with me haha

[Rogue Sloth]

We don't really want kids, but I definitely intend to share pictures with our other married friends.
Or y'know, if we end up having an unplanned kid, I guess I could show them too xD

Applicable

There are no mistakes, only happy little accidents

- Bob Ross

That's super cool. It's always great when you get new family like that. I really like my brother's wife's family, but they live in New York, so we only got to hang out at their wedding. I miss their dog so much :'c

I'm super interested in that idea, but I dunno if I've got time to pick up another RP, unfortunately ^^;
I'm already in 2/3 (one of them only gets new posts about once a month, so it only kind of counts) and I promised another person that I would start one with her once my semester ends, so she's got dibs on my 4th lol

Also, I definitely don't judge you because that's better than anything I could draw xD
I actually just bought myself a drawing tablet (it's coming in tomorrow!!) because I really want to get better at graphic art, but it's gonna take a whole lot of practice and YouTube lessons, since I haven't picked up an art pen since high school.
If I ever get good, I could totally make some art for this RP cx

Also, I'm low key impressed you managed to hold onto those drawings for seven years. I have no idea where any of my old drawings are, and it's only been less than three for me xD

Out of curiosity, what's your story about? Like what's the plot, I mean? :)

[AHeartlessNobody]

Oh goodness XD I have no idea where the actual drawings are haha. Those are two that I posted on Facebook years ago. I probably have them somewhere. I have a whole storage container in my shed FULL of old sketchbooks and binders, so its probably in there haha.

Oh goodness haha. Let me see if I can condense the plot so it's understandable, as the story has a lot of twists and turns throughout it lol. Keep in mind, that there are something things that could possibly be changed, as this story was made by my middle school mind and so some plot points may seem a little out there lol. It's an EXTREMELY fanatical/sci-fi story, so really anything goes in it XD

Let me start with the Lunairan people themselves to start with. Hopefully this won't confuse you with our rp, since they too are aliens haha (thus my inspiration for when we started our first rp). Basically, the Luanirans live on a planet called (you guessed it) Lunaira. Well, it's not really a planet ;^_^ It's a moon to larger planet, thus the name Luna in their home, though they call it their planet anyway haha. They have a Matriarchy, where the a group of women Lunairans rule the kingdom of Lunaira. The women on this planet could very well be considered a sort of subspecies of Lunairan in their own way, as they have powers. Where as the males do not. The males instead find other skills, such as weapon mastery and alchemy. Females are more commonly called 'Comets' by others, due to their brightly colored hair and eyes. There are 13 Comets within the main council of Lunairans (the strongest Comets on the planet), but the main leader of the kingdom would be the Queen. Ika's mother was the previous queen, while her father was the king and a very resourceful alchemist. There's a bit more to her parent's backstory, but they die. Both killed by a creature, the main antagonist of the whole story, called The Enemy (yes, I know. How original. I was in middle school and the name stuck haha). At such a young age, Ika was essentially forced to take her mother's place as Queen and head of the council. Of course, that is a very difficult task, not only ruling her people at a young age, but also acting as a diplomat. The Lunairans are considered "Guardian' beings, in the way that they keep peace among the planets, stopping wars and making sure the universe remains peaceful. Of course, this peace comes at a great sacrifice, as with every war or hardship they end, their own people loose their lives in the process. Because of this, the Comets are few in number and their race is slowly dying off.

Fast forward, Ika gets attacked by the Enemy and teleported to Earth, which is currently in the 16th century. From there, she has to find a way to get back home. It's there that she meets a mysterious stranger, who tells her of a lake (can not remember for the life of me what I originally called this lake). She is told this lake can tell her a way to get home and the mysterious stranger leads her there. She is told to kneel at the lake and peer into it, asking it what she wants to know. Only, when she does so, the stranger shoves her into the water. As it turns out, this lake is a lake of knowledge indeed, but it gains its knowledge by stealing the memories and knowledge of those that happen to fall into its waters.

The strangers is gone by the time Ika crawls out of the water, lost and scared, no clue who she is or where she came from. Still looking very much like teen (she's actually a good thousand or so years old by this point XD), an elderly couple finds her and takes her in to try and help her. They take her in as their 'daughter' and use her to run their shop, as they are too old to do so for themselves. Yet, the village they live in is a very high 'no evil' on the scale and sees anything that is different as evil. So, when Ika's powers, unknown to her as to what's happening, begins to act up, her 'parents' call her an evil and claim she is a witch. Witches are no-nos in this century of course and get burned at the stake, etc. Ika, in living with this couple for a bit, knows this and begs them to not tell, saying she'll be 'good' and not ever use them or show them to anyone. The elderly couple agrees, as they can hold it over her and force her to do anything they want, including running their shop for them and doing anything they ask. At the same time, this couple abuses her, calling her evil and worthless. The whole time this occurs, Ika feels they are right and that she deserves to be treated this way.

Meanwhile, back on Lunaira, the kingdom is in a panic, as their Queen and most powerful Lunairan has been attacked and taken from them. They manage to locate the planet and widespread region she was taken to, but don't know her exact whereabouts. So, they decide to send someone to bring her back. Now, in Lunaira, there are arranged marriages, especially with their race having such few numbers. Basically, the head comets are assured to have their children's betrothals planned at birth. BUT, the two do NOT meet. Are not allowed to meet actually, until the night before their wedding. This is because they wish for their people to grow into their own person and not be weighed down or change who they are based upon what their betrothed are. This way, when they are wed, they have no reason to change who they are to gain the other's approval and instead have to accept the other for who they are as their husband or wife. This is something that went well for years and had better results for happier people. Anyway, the person they decide to send to find her, is her betrothed. Her wedding to this man was meant to be in a few days after she was attacked and the date of their wedding come and gone in the search for where she was taken. Thus, they feel it agreeable to send her betrothed to go find her, as they would have been married by then anyhow. On top of that, her betrothed, having grown up from birth being told he was being groomed to one day marry the princess (now queen after her parents passed), he became very skilled in combat and weapons (his main go-to is a bow and arrow, though he's beast a sword. And very trained in any other weapons as well lol) in order to protect the queen. After all, even if he was to become king, he would still have no say in the kingdom and protecting the queen would be most important. So, the king is also a body guard of sorts for his wife, being that she is the ultimate ruler for their kingdom. So Koji, her betrothed, being not only future king, but also the most skilled warrior in their kingdom, is sent to earth to find the queen and bring her back.

Fast forward to when they meet. They do not get along. AT ALL XD She's by this time grown to HATE humans for her treatment toward her on top of hating herself. So, basically she hates everything and is very angry at the world. There are some details I still have to work out as far as them meeting and such, as I don't quite remember how I had it worked out back when I first made the story back in middle school lol. What I do remember is that there was a charm of sorts that made it so they couldn't be separated (meaning she was forced to travel with him) and he could not harm her (though pretty sure she could harm him, as I remember drawing one comic when they first met her choking him XD). I can't remember how this charm was put into place, but it's just another one of those details I need to figure out haha.

Anyway, long story short, they travel together, her being forced to stay with him as he goes to search for his Queen and bride, both unaware that she IS the queen. Obviously, over time, things happen and feelings occur, stuff with the enemy happens, conflicts with feelings and duty, etc. You get the picture.

Theres a LOT more to it later on down the road and to the backstories of these characters. But I tried to keep it simple enough to understand XD

[Rogue Sloth]

Dang, that sounds super complex. I like it cx How far did you get when you were writing/drawing for it originally?

It's interesting to me how many different directions you can go with the Lunairan people.
I definitely took it in a more dystopian direction, because I like the idea of their leaders taking total control while everyone is panicking about where they're going to go now that their home planet is uninhabitable. I imagine their original leaders meant the takeover for good, but the ones who followed slowly changed the government structure to be more corrupt. If you've ever heard the saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely," that's sort of the premise I used ^^

I've only worked on one story on my own (another dystopian xD). It's sort of a 'what if' scenario of future America if microchipping gets put in place. I did a lot of research on the science behind microchipping and the ways it could be negatively used by the government. It's a little conspiracy-theorist, but it makes for a really interesting plot cx The main characters are a girl who is fully apart of the society and a guy who is part of a small group called the Grid Ghosts (they're families that refuse to microchip their children)

Anyway, it's a lot more complex than that, but I won't bother sharing all of the details unless you want them lol

[AHeartlessNobody]

It sort of jumped around XD I would write or draw certain scenes, but never put it all together. Heck, even got to a few scenes where they had two kids (their first born being a son named Koka and later their daughter Iko (ee-ko) was born). It is a little complex, but comes together in an amazing way as the story comes along haha.

[Rogue Sloth]

That's pretty cool. Sounds like you had a lot of fun putting it together ^^

[AHeartlessNobody]

XD Yeah. Just gotta find some inspiration to figure out those plot holes.

For Beyond Expectations, do we want Eve to be at the airport still or did we want to switch it up and say shes staying in some caves that she found (similar to the ones the humans were living in during the first rp, except she put the setup together herself and has been staying there alone, the set up on a much smaller scale?

[Rogue Sloth]

I like the idea of sticking with the airport, since it's pretty unique ^^
Plus, we could expand on it more, like she uses different planes for different things or uses the building for the airport itself, etc. We barely touched on it in the last one, so I think it could be fun to try using it again

[AHeartlessNobody]

Sounds good lol. It will be interesting spend a lot more time in the airport with them two.

Also, what i was thinking might be interesting so that their romance is more slow coming, is if by the time they meet the other halflings, she and Cae aren't 'offical' yet. Like, it's clear that there's something between them and maybe even have had some romantic scenes, but neither have admitted to their feelings. Either that, or Evelyn is being difficult and, even though they may have kissed once or twice and he's shown clear interest in her, she tells him she doesn't want anything 'official' (because in this world she lives in, getting close to someone is risky and the possibility of loosing that someone is high). I can also see, if he's willing to throw everything away to protect the last 'human', it frustrating him that he's willing to be with her, but she's not even though she clearly cares about him in that way. XD If that makes sense?

[Rogue Sloth]

I like that ^^ I kind of want to see how it plays out on its own tbh. I'm curious to see how our characters will interact when they meet lol I imagine it won't go great

I just finished my last online exam, so I'll get started on a reply in a bit!

[AHeartlessNobody]

It would be real interesting, because then, if I make a halfling for there to be a love triangle with, it can actually be a REAL love triangle, rather than "I'm already with someone, so no." XD

And sounds good lol. Can't wait to read it.

[Rogue Sloth]

True xD It'll be more interesting then

Finished~ I stole one small piece from my old post.

Also, I realized I forgot to mention this, but the pronunciation of Caeyin's name is Kay-in, like a two syllable Cain.
I could see that being a nickname for him if Eve decides to give him one, since Cain is pretty much the human equivalent of his name xD

[AHeartlessNobody]

Would it be too girly sounding for her to nickname him Cae? XD