Hey bros and brosephines and those outside the gender bronary! I'm Taco. If you don't think food counts as a name, you can call me Alice. Now, let's get this interest check rolling!
Background, Rules, and Bears, Oh My!
☼ — I’ve been roleplaying since I was knee-high to a Stormtrooper. I started with tabletop when my brothers shoved a character sheet at me and told me to play. I found my way online shortly thereafter, roleplaying all over the damn place: AIM, MSN Groups, literally over 100 different proboards and invisionfree forums, LiveJournal, Tumblr, and (most importantly!) the official Harry Potter boards. The past 15+ years have been quite the adventure across the blogowebs for me!
☼ — Now I’m old and cranky, but still no less enthusiastic about developing worlds and characters and kick ass stories! On the whole, I write around 3-6 paragraphs a post. This isn’t a hard rule—my starters are almost always walls of text. Beyond that, I’m far more interested in quality. Can you move plot forward? Can you write interesting side characters and help flesh out our character’s world? That’s far more important than a paragraph requirement. I’m also trying to work on putting out more concise posts so I can reply more frequently.
TL;DR? Quality >> Quantity
☼ — The downside of being old is that my availability is spotty. I try to be reasonably prompt and fair with replies, but sometimes shit happens. Roleplaying is my favorite hobby, and I’ll probably be doing it for as long as I live, but the meatworld comes first. I have some health issues that might interfere.
My availability is pretty good right now. My life has finally settled down after a messy divorce.
Sometimes I am like, SO BAD about poofing for a couple of months. Shit happens and I have to adult and it’s pretty much 100% terrible for everyone involved. Sorry ): I do try to give a heads up, but I can't always do that.
☼ — Which brings me to one of my major requirements: patience! I’m hella patient with my partners—I’ve returned to games after nearly two years on hiatus without any problems. If someone found an old RP we’d worked on 5+ years ago and brought it to my attention, odds are good that I would pick it up again with fiendish glee. And if you are polite and respectful towards me, I will roleplay with you forever. I have several people that I’ve written with for over five years, and a few buddies who I've hit the ten year mark with. But if you won't get off my dick? I will continue on my merry way without you.
☼ — I ask that my partners be older than 18. I'm a little too close to 30 to be writing with the youths.
☼ — Now, to content! I prefer games with strong character development and at least a rough plot sketched out. Characters need goals and conflicts, yo. I’m all about dramedy, action, and I’m a sucker for underdogs against nearly impossible odds. I love horror, so if there’s an element of magic or super powers or whatever in our game, expect some really awful things to happen to our nerds. John Dies at the End is a huge influence on my writing.
Romance is great—I really enjoy writing it, especially slow-burns and rivalries and messy feelings galore. I’m fairly adaptable, and I’ll write to your comfort level re: fade-to-blacks. I’m not looking for PWP, but smut can be fun. Odds are, if you’re looking for a kink list, you’re going to be disappointed.
☼ — Now I’m old and cranky, but still no less enthusiastic about developing worlds and characters and kick ass stories! On the whole, I write around 3-6 paragraphs a post. This isn’t a hard rule—my starters are almost always walls of text. Beyond that, I’m far more interested in quality. Can you move plot forward? Can you write interesting side characters and help flesh out our character’s world? That’s far more important than a paragraph requirement. I’m also trying to work on putting out more concise posts so I can reply more frequently.
TL;DR? Quality >> Quantity
☼ — The downside of being old is that my availability is spotty. I try to be reasonably prompt and fair with replies, but sometimes shit happens. Roleplaying is my favorite hobby, and I’ll probably be doing it for as long as I live, but the meatworld comes first. I have some health issues that might interfere.
My availability is pretty good right now. My life has finally settled down after a messy divorce.
Sometimes I am like, SO BAD about poofing for a couple of months. Shit happens and I have to adult and it’s pretty much 100% terrible for everyone involved. Sorry ): I do try to give a heads up, but I can't always do that.
☼ — Which brings me to one of my major requirements: patience! I’m hella patient with my partners—I’ve returned to games after nearly two years on hiatus without any problems. If someone found an old RP we’d worked on 5+ years ago and brought it to my attention, odds are good that I would pick it up again with fiendish glee. And if you are polite and respectful towards me, I will roleplay with you forever. I have several people that I’ve written with for over five years, and a few buddies who I've hit the ten year mark with. But if you won't get off my dick? I will continue on my merry way without you.
☼ — I ask that my partners be older than 18. I'm a little too close to 30 to be writing with the youths.
☼ — Now, to content! I prefer games with strong character development and at least a rough plot sketched out. Characters need goals and conflicts, yo. I’m all about dramedy, action, and I’m a sucker for underdogs against nearly impossible odds. I love horror, so if there’s an element of magic or super powers or whatever in our game, expect some really awful things to happen to our nerds. John Dies at the End is a huge influence on my writing.
Romance is great—I really enjoy writing it, especially slow-burns and rivalries and messy feelings galore. I’m fairly adaptable, and I’ll write to your comfort level re: fade-to-blacks. I’m not looking for PWP, but smut can be fun. Odds are, if you’re looking for a kink list, you’re going to be disappointed.
The Good Stuff!
Now that you’ve trudged through all that—or you’ve skipped ahead (clever girl)—let’s get to what I write. Which is, as it turns out, a lot of things! Here’s the deal—I’ll list out what fandoms and original settings I love, and if I have characters or plots built already, there’ll be a cute lil’ hider beneath the name with the information. If there's an idea you have that you think I'll like, but I don't have it listed, feel free to shoot it my way!
Any character with a ► by their name already has a starter post ready to go.
Roleplay Settings and Ideas
HARRY POTTER
It’s the fandom that doesn’t quit. I'll always love Potter, despite Rowling's attempts to ruin it, so we’re going to split this into two categories—canon characters, and original characters.
I haven't read Cursed Child and I'm not watching Fantastic Beasts soooo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I haven't read Cursed Child and I'm not watching Fantastic Beasts soooo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Victoire Wealsey (FC: Freya Mavor) — Quiet in a family of Weasleys, Victoire has always felt a little out of place. Although she loves her family dearly, she and Dominique have never been particularly close, and she feels the pressure to excel. Graduating from Ravenclaw with a healthy spread of NEWTs, she followed in her father’s footsteps and ran off to be a Curse Breaker. I love Tedtoire, but I’m open to writing with original characters and children of canon characters alike.
► April "Showers" Kaufman -- Ultimate Mega Craving! (FC: Jessica Stroup) — April's mother fancied herself clever when she named her twin daughters-- April popped out on April 30th, and her sister popped out a few hours later, on May 1st. Born and raised in the Sixth Borough, April and May spent their childhoods exploring city streets both magical and mundane. April was the leader, through sheer force of personality (and almost zero impulse control). May was quiet, but clever, and her sweet nature got the pair out of trouble as readily as April dragged them into it.
They attended Blackgate Academy, where they grew in wildly different directions. May was methodical, studious, and kind; April perfected her shit-eating grin and stuck her nose where it didn't belong. Still, she earned top marks in dueling and transfiguration.
After farting around as a would-be wand-maker under her father (who asked her very politely to find a new job) and several years as a beat cop for Ab-Dens doing a lot of bitchwork, she was finally tapped for the Aurors program and pushed through training.
Despite being perpetually late, incapable of ass kissing, and something of a hot mess, she was good—especially at finding people trying not to be found. She earned the promotion (and the fancy leather jacket!) and a reputation for getting results—even if her methods are…unconventional. Now she works for Precinct 13 3/2.
SO OBVIOUSLY I draw a lot of inspiration from American Wizarding, but it's a fucking flawless fanon blog, so fuck it. I reject Rowlings American canon, it's pretty much all garbage. One school for all of America? I know she's bad at math but like, we can't even agree on the word to use for soda. There's no way in fuck American wix would agree to attend a single school. That's dumb.
Luckily, we have fanon to save the day.
I have an amusing starter all ready to go--all April needs is a buddy! BUDDY COPS BUDDY COPS BUDDY COPS!
► Rhiannon Nudd (FC: Susan Coffey) — Rhiannon had a rather unfortunate encounter with Fenrir Greyback during the Second Wizarding War. She's up in the air about whether her survival was a good thing. Rhiannon has become something of the family embarrassment. Instead of following her father into the Auror's office or her mother into potioneering, she wound up in the Department of Magical Games and Sport, as Gwenog Jones' personal secretary. Rhiannon's built an image as a dumb party girl to keep her lycanthropy a secret. She briefly flirted with respectability and behaving while engaged to an Auror, but returned to Page Six antics shortly after his death.
I really want to explore lycanthropy and magical prejudice and the aftermath of the Second Wizarding War.
►Atlas Holt -- CRAVING (FC: Alejandra Alonso) — Atlas loves the wilds. The Holt family has maintained massive groves throughout the Forrest of Dean for generations, and Atlas spent her childhood following her father into the heart of the woods, her younger brother Perseus at her heels. She lived half wild, tending the trees and herds of wild winged horses under the protection of the Holts.
Madame Holt kept her children from being feral. She hired them governess' long before they received their letters, scrubbing the dirt out from beneath their nails and teaching them how to navigate high society. There was a power vacuum in the aftermath of the Second Wizarding War, and Madame Holt sought to claim it for their family.
Sorted into Slytherin, like 6 generations of Holts before her, Atlas found herself almost incapable of staying out of trouble. She had the need to explore--and that need often found her in expressedly forbidden places. Like the woods. By her fifth year, however, she was significantly better at not being caught, and was made prefect.
Now in her seventh year, Atlas has been made Head Girl--and is facing significant pressure from her mother to marry and further the interests of the family.
I'd love to drag Atlas into a mystery of creepy things happening in the Forbidden Forrest. It's not Hogwarts without dangerous things lurking in the shadows, right? Let's play about with old magic and have our nerds get in over their heads.
►Olivia Huang -- CRAVING (FC: Song Qian) -- Olivia is vibrant, chipper, bubbly. Almost completely incapable of taking the world seriously, she can find comedy even in flobberworms. Olivia is relentlessly sunny. She figures the world is kind of a shitshow; she might as well do her part to make it less awful.
Olivia has the gift of gab and is perhaps a little too interested in the business of other people. She can’t help it, honest, she just wants to know everything. A bit of a gossip and a snoop, Olivia often finds herself in trouble--although she usually manages to talk her way out of it.
Beyond her sunny exterior, Olivia is deeply principled. Justice matters more than anything to her, and she’ll do whatever it takes to protect others. She’s faced more than one expulsion board for picking fights with bullies, and is on thin ice with Headmistress McGonagall. She has no intention of letting that stop her. Someone has to stick up for the little guy.
I built Olivia for a game that died right after the starter post and that's just outrageous. She's a tiny ball of FITE ME and sunshine and precious and needs to be written.
Zubeir Gamal (FC: Ram Singh)
Zubeir is, by his own admission, kind of an ass. His face just does this thing where he looks like he thinks everyone is an idiot (and, to be fair, that’s kind of true) and his default setting is scathing. He has a bad habit of picking exactly the worst sarcastic comment at the worst possible time. Or maybe the best comment at the worst time. It’s a toss up.
He started having visions when he was six, and he feared he was going mad. It took his great gran explaining the Sight for Zubeir to calm down. Now they’re more an annoyance than anything else--most of his visions pertain to people he’s never met, and never will. He journals them dutifully, but is not exactly thrilled to be the harbinger of doom for perfect strangers.
Zubeir tends to be the sensible one among his friends, but is often needled into going along with poorly thought out misadventures, providing the snarky commentary they so desperately need.
Homeboy hates his visions so like, let's make him and his buddiez destiny's plaything and ruin their lives.
They attended Blackgate Academy, where they grew in wildly different directions. May was methodical, studious, and kind; April perfected her shit-eating grin and stuck her nose where it didn't belong. Still, she earned top marks in dueling and transfiguration.
After farting around as a would-be wand-maker under her father (who asked her very politely to find a new job) and several years as a beat cop for Ab-Dens doing a lot of bitchwork, she was finally tapped for the Aurors program and pushed through training.
Despite being perpetually late, incapable of ass kissing, and something of a hot mess, she was good—especially at finding people trying not to be found. She earned the promotion (and the fancy leather jacket!) and a reputation for getting results—even if her methods are…unconventional. Now she works for Precinct 13 3/2.
SO OBVIOUSLY I draw a lot of inspiration from American Wizarding, but it's a fucking flawless fanon blog, so fuck it. I reject Rowlings American canon, it's pretty much all garbage. One school for all of America? I know she's bad at math but like, we can't even agree on the word to use for soda. There's no way in fuck American wix would agree to attend a single school. That's dumb.
Luckily, we have fanon to save the day.
I have an amusing starter all ready to go--all April needs is a buddy! BUDDY COPS BUDDY COPS BUDDY COPS!
► Rhiannon Nudd (FC: Susan Coffey) — Rhiannon had a rather unfortunate encounter with Fenrir Greyback during the Second Wizarding War. She's up in the air about whether her survival was a good thing. Rhiannon has become something of the family embarrassment. Instead of following her father into the Auror's office or her mother into potioneering, she wound up in the Department of Magical Games and Sport, as Gwenog Jones' personal secretary. Rhiannon's built an image as a dumb party girl to keep her lycanthropy a secret. She briefly flirted with respectability and behaving while engaged to an Auror, but returned to Page Six antics shortly after his death.
I really want to explore lycanthropy and magical prejudice and the aftermath of the Second Wizarding War.
►Atlas Holt -- CRAVING (FC: Alejandra Alonso) — Atlas loves the wilds. The Holt family has maintained massive groves throughout the Forrest of Dean for generations, and Atlas spent her childhood following her father into the heart of the woods, her younger brother Perseus at her heels. She lived half wild, tending the trees and herds of wild winged horses under the protection of the Holts.
Madame Holt kept her children from being feral. She hired them governess' long before they received their letters, scrubbing the dirt out from beneath their nails and teaching them how to navigate high society. There was a power vacuum in the aftermath of the Second Wizarding War, and Madame Holt sought to claim it for their family.
Sorted into Slytherin, like 6 generations of Holts before her, Atlas found herself almost incapable of staying out of trouble. She had the need to explore--and that need often found her in expressedly forbidden places. Like the woods. By her fifth year, however, she was significantly better at not being caught, and was made prefect.
Now in her seventh year, Atlas has been made Head Girl--and is facing significant pressure from her mother to marry and further the interests of the family.
I'd love to drag Atlas into a mystery of creepy things happening in the Forbidden Forrest. It's not Hogwarts without dangerous things lurking in the shadows, right? Let's play about with old magic and have our nerds get in over their heads.
►Olivia Huang -- CRAVING (FC: Song Qian) -- Olivia is vibrant, chipper, bubbly. Almost completely incapable of taking the world seriously, she can find comedy even in flobberworms. Olivia is relentlessly sunny. She figures the world is kind of a shitshow; she might as well do her part to make it less awful.
Olivia has the gift of gab and is perhaps a little too interested in the business of other people. She can’t help it, honest, she just wants to know everything. A bit of a gossip and a snoop, Olivia often finds herself in trouble--although she usually manages to talk her way out of it.
Beyond her sunny exterior, Olivia is deeply principled. Justice matters more than anything to her, and she’ll do whatever it takes to protect others. She’s faced more than one expulsion board for picking fights with bullies, and is on thin ice with Headmistress McGonagall. She has no intention of letting that stop her. Someone has to stick up for the little guy.
I built Olivia for a game that died right after the starter post and that's just outrageous. She's a tiny ball of FITE ME and sunshine and precious and needs to be written.
Zubeir Gamal (FC: Ram Singh)
Zubeir is, by his own admission, kind of an ass. His face just does this thing where he looks like he thinks everyone is an idiot (and, to be fair, that’s kind of true) and his default setting is scathing. He has a bad habit of picking exactly the worst sarcastic comment at the worst possible time. Or maybe the best comment at the worst time. It’s a toss up.
He started having visions when he was six, and he feared he was going mad. It took his great gran explaining the Sight for Zubeir to calm down. Now they’re more an annoyance than anything else--most of his visions pertain to people he’s never met, and never will. He journals them dutifully, but is not exactly thrilled to be the harbinger of doom for perfect strangers.
Zubeir tends to be the sensible one among his friends, but is often needled into going along with poorly thought out misadventures, providing the snarky commentary they so desperately need.
Homeboy hates his visions so like, let's make him and his buddiez destiny's plaything and ruin their lives.
STAR WARS
► Aelyn Krael (Personal Art, Outdated) — Aelyn had a happy childhood on Zeltros, growing up in comfort with loving parents in the heart of the capital. A savant with a hydrospanner, she spent most of her free time between school and boys with her hands in a droid or an engine or a gun, tinkering and fixing.
At four, her twin brother was taken for Jedi training. Her parents were proud—as pilots for the Republic, they believed strongly in the Jedi Order as protectors of the galaxy. When war came to the Republic in the masks of the Mandalorians, they answered the call. To say that the Republic was unprepared for the Mandalorians was an understatement—and Aelyn’s parents were among the countless dead.
She was packed up and sent to Coruscant to stay with her Uncle, a Senator—except her transport caught a bad case of the pirates. En route to the spice mines, these pirates were raided in turn—and Aelyn managed to get a place with their crew, instead of a trip to the spice mines. After years of scavenging a galaxy torn apart by two wars, Aelyn ended up on Nar Shaddaa. Now a mechanic for The Exchange, she’s trying to save up enough credits to get off the moon.
At four, her twin brother was taken for Jedi training. Her parents were proud—as pilots for the Republic, they believed strongly in the Jedi Order as protectors of the galaxy. When war came to the Republic in the masks of the Mandalorians, they answered the call. To say that the Republic was unprepared for the Mandalorians was an understatement—and Aelyn’s parents were among the countless dead.
She was packed up and sent to Coruscant to stay with her Uncle, a Senator—except her transport caught a bad case of the pirates. En route to the spice mines, these pirates were raided in turn—and Aelyn managed to get a place with their crew, instead of a trip to the spice mines. After years of scavenging a galaxy torn apart by two wars, Aelyn ended up on Nar Shaddaa. Now a mechanic for The Exchange, she’s trying to save up enough credits to get off the moon.
DRAGON AGE
The Fourth Blight - I'd love to get all classic Grey Warden goodness here.
Inquisition Soldiers – You have no idea how much I want to write Leliana's scouts doing all the War Table missions. I have a Rivaini mercenary, a once noble dwarf only a few years out of Orzammar, and loads of other ideas.
Inquisition Soldiers – You have no idea how much I want to write Leliana's scouts doing all the War Table missions. I have a Rivaini mercenary, a once noble dwarf only a few years out of Orzammar, and loads of other ideas.
MASS EFFECT
I am Sass Effect trash. GIMME. I'm totally down with writing after a post!ME3 Destroy ending (and I refuse to believe it killed the Geth because fuck the Catalyst, it was obvs reaper bullshit). I love the idea of poor bastards trying to pick up the pieces after the Reaper War.
I would love to explore an ex-Cerberus agent joining forces with an Alliance soldier as The Illusive Man starts indoctrinating his people, trying to get information out and facing the terrifying consequences of betraying someone with that much money. Would take place between ME2 and ME3, naturally.
I would love to explore an ex-Cerberus agent joining forces with an Alliance soldier as The Illusive Man starts indoctrinating his people, trying to get information out and facing the terrifying consequences of betraying someone with that much money. Would take place between ME2 and ME3, naturally.
FORGOTTEN REALMS
I love this setting. I've been obsessed with it since I was a wee thing playing 2nd edition and crying over the math oh god it was so bad. Baldurs Gate is still my favorite game series of all times. And guise, 5E is just so fucking fun. I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to 3.5, and that shit was my life for years. It's just that good.
We could write a specific adventure path or just use the setting and go hog wild with our own shit. I love the Harpers, but like, there's so much we could muck about with. Shoot me your thoughts and let's plot summat!
We could write a specific adventure path or just use the setting and go hog wild with our own shit. I love the Harpers, but like, there's so much we could muck about with. Shoot me your thoughts and let's plot summat!
NON-FANDOM SPECIFIC
High Fantasy World at War
Modern Slice of Life
Mutants Without Spandex
Modern with Supernatural Nightmare Fuel
Demigod Shenanigans
I've recently gotten into Urban Shadows and Monster of the Week and would love to play something with these systems.
Modern Slice of Life
Mutants Without Spandex
Modern with Supernatural Nightmare Fuel
Demigod Shenanigans
I've recently gotten into Urban Shadows and Monster of the Week and would love to play something with these systems.
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