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Eastern Fantasy

@Ashifili

Yup! Most androgynous pict I could find to confuse the filthy plebs!

Eastern Fantasy

Reincarnation is an option~

Shine City II: The Next Season

Two words :

Fuck. Why?

Rant

Weatherman? Understandable. Ret-con to salvage the RP, and we've got most of the ships...still sailing pretty well. Oliver can still butt heads with a delinquent or two, maybe even a druggie. The main appeal doesn't have to be hijacked to move time forwards.

Life management? Hiatus. Salvageable. I've already done so with the Warplanes RP, but reviving is as simple as snap once all the key players are back. An RP can span for years, if necessary.

Heartbreak? In terms of what I've had with Sabine going to and fro between people, love has been a mix-n-match kind of thing. Maybe it's too early and characters lack development. Maybe your target character is lovesick for someone else...hell, play rebound and break that ___-zone, whatever it is. Things in an RP aren't always going to follow true with life tendencies, so why let the "zone" stuff stand in the way?

Aaaaand drama?

Fantasy RPs often have drama with tons of people (mooks, kings, lords, ladies) dying as a standard.

Sci-fi / space opera RPs have dramas that will poke at the limits of what it means to be human and or serving humanity...or whatever the heck you are.

Heck, we brought a freaking yandere into the fray. That in itself is supposed to incite drama; some characters may act immaturely to immaturity. And others may do so otherwise. Given the age range of the characters, it would be more surprising if we didn't have any vocal characters that somehow were all magically wise enough to not give two hoots.

I was fine for the most part with everything (even the fact that a side character literally got a hole in her neck because of the 30 year-old fat quickscoper on the loose, which I found morbidly funny), besides pacing (honestly felt that we should've kept Christmas around to explore that 'spiritual' facet in our characters, but NYE worked just as well), but HOOOOOMYGOOOOOOOD can we raise objections next time, as opposed to the "oh, I can't really ask the GMs to settle this concern I have with player X because I suspect this won't end well with what I had in mind for this RP" Route.

As opposed to a fantasy RP that would usually play out in generic plot XYZ, whatnot with usually immature players building characters to min-max the RP (unsuprisingly, the GM would toss in a world to streamline this method of RPing by throwing the characters in some grand mook-slaying conflict with stat bars focusing on skills "how much I can focus on hitting hard", "how much I can brag about my bulletproof pectoral muscles", and "how much I can...um, yeah, my character's a prodigy, so don't worry about how I never studied to know this stuff") this is romance. And Heavens know that that plays out a billion different ways IRL. Your average love story can go a number different, unexpected ways if you're not comfortable with your current choices between settings, characters, etc., but quitting without experimenting or developing the character into something completely unexpected isn't the way to letting a character evolve. Drama's going to be inevitable if your character has a serious flaw.

Unless we're playing the "love me for who I am while we score easy dopey points" game, and not the "falling in / out of love" game, I really don't know what's up.

Rant over.

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@Delta44

Oh...wait...WHY IS SHE KNOWN AS A DJ FIRST?!

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Assuming lil' Mochizukki wasn't nearly decapitated by the bullet...

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Wait...AW DELTA WHY DID YOU REMOVE HER PROFILE?

I can't remember her face. :(

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@Daxam

"After seeing you dance at the club, I didn't expect to see you waltzing, Sabine."

"Now where have I heard that voice before?"

Sabine was, honestly, a little anxious. She had let her feelings come out too quickly. It wouldn't have taken a 10 year-old to know how desperate she must've sounded at the time, but...

...well, he did say yes. Perhaps a plus; perhaps not. She considered leaving early to recollect herself and avoid getting left off in the middle of the dance floor, but it appeared a certain magician had whisked her away from the fresh night air.

"Dancing's fun, really. It's like the one thing besides drugs that you can really do stuff with other people that doesn't involve purposely..er, 'beating' people. No competition, no goal but to see if you and your partner are happy. Waltz just...isn't in style.

She took the taller man by the wrist and dragged him off to the side as the next song came rolling in. They were clammy now; she had a weird feeling in her gut ever since her last dance partner waltzed his way off to his intended mistress.

It was like she wanted to pound her head until she had dropped a good 30 IQ points. Maybe she'd go fishing for shrimp with an amputee and marry a blondie, some real goldilocks like Nori...

...okay Sabine, stop fantasizing about her. Bad girl.

"But I'd guess you'd want a spin with me here, huh? I would...if my legs weren't jello. So...how about some hor d'oeuvres?"

Right...food...Zac was nice enough to let her calm down, right? She could feel the blood in her body pulse as alcohol seeped into her veins.

She had forgotten to eat, hadn't she?

The brunette slide on a barstool, and ordered a glass of water as she scanned the rest of the room to search for a few waiters and servers. But...dammit, why did they have to wear masks too, of all times?!

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@Takashi

Sabine wasn't one to be so easily turned down. She knew Yutaro had a lady friend, but Sabine was closer to needing more than a few friends in Shining City. For one fact, Sabine wasn't sure if the Tiny Snowflake café was going to hold up against that Kettle place, and she was goong to need a lot of convincing to get past her past troubles.

She couldn't possibly lay her predicament on any one pers, be it Zac, Kyle, Vern, Yutaro, that one waitress...and most definitely not Nori, but suppose she got a little help from everyone...

Romance wasn't as much her objective as much as her sanity without drugs. Back over there, she had no family, no real friends to rely upon. All there was were drinks, unsafe sex, and stacks of cash to pay off for the next kilo.

Einstein said expecting anything different from the same routine was insane, so...wouldn't this be insane?

Would it be sane for a girl to pursue a man already taken?

"Yutaro-san, before we go..."

Inadvertently, she had gripped his shirt, and was quick to squeeze tightly so as to avoid letting him escape.

"...I...if you want to talk more, I'll be working at Mochavine. Don't be a stranger because of tonight, okay?"

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@Takashi

Waltz Music

This was certainly more fun than the last waltz she did. Though the song was a bit on the slow side and was meant more for those that needed the sound of footsteps (as opposed to the music) to guide them. Hence, only the lead soloists were playing, so as to slowly build up into what would be another song, one plenty more grand.

But there was something about the simplicity, the focus that was demanded by the quieter music and the long rests, that kept her focus on her partner. As opposed to the playfulness of a cousin, there was an absurdly heavy air between the masked partners. A misstep anywhere during the song could kill someone with the poison of embarassment.

But to die in Yutaro's arms would be an ultimate fantasy, one just missed as the song came to a close. She could feel his arm slide back up from her lower back to her shoulder blade, where it had unconsciously slid down to during the dance.

"You're an excellent dancer...I'm almost embarrassed! My steps are nowhere near as clean as yours. Where did you learn?"

The waltz? When she was young, her uncle used to have this charming young son...a ladies' man groomed to be a lady killer in the future.

"My cousin, and...my first crush, too. He taught me the general stuff, but...oh my god..."

Memories came flooding back. Sabine had to stifle a giggle as she pulled herself closer to him to giggle on his chest.

"...I spent that summer practicing to match him. My dad, he'd put up with me every night after he closed the gym. The yoga room had to be cleaned and polished again and again because my heels were so sharp..."

She looked up, her jade irises piercing past Yutaro's mask, searching for answers beyond even the mask of his face. She told him about her life...and him to her...not yet. Her interlocked fingers held her securely close to him.

"You're not bad at all. How'd you learn how to charm girls like that, Yutaro-san, or am I your first?"

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For the record...

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@lovely complex

Make that a cuckquean then.