State of the RP
Dec. 1st, 2014 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raajborrowing parts of this from Laena's self-evaluation but not in its entirety
I'm not so much with the numbers, for one thing. My tagging rate is aimed to be OPTIMALLY a round each day and keeping up boomerang responses where I can. I'm trying to get myself in the habit of responding more quickly and not overthinking myself (which is pretty much my biggest weak point in rp), and I'm trying to do this by getting myself to write a response within 5 minutes of opening the notif. Does this always work? Nah, my average time is more like 15-20 minutes. But I'm working on it. For that reason I am trying to get in the habit of not opening the notif UNTIL I am in the mood to rp, though I also try to just make sure I get everyone answered at least once by a decent hour.
I've slipped up... a number of times on that, but considering this last time was Black Friday and feeling under the weather I'm trying to cut myself some slack for that and just work on improving.
I think I've done pretty well at not actually dropping threads, though. I did drop threads from Tiz's intro, and that was pretty bad of me, but I had underestimated how much introductions can bore me. Sometimes they're interesting!!! Other times. Not so much. My next time I'd really like to go with "the character already knows the basics", though I'm not sure how well that works in Emp since the natives are a bit distant to newbies. Since Ringabel tagged Tiz and the player dropped afterward I honestly just handwaved that Ringabel had filled Tiz in on the basics, since...party members and friends. It just makes sense.
Concerns. Gosh. I'm concerned that my tagging speed annoys people, but I'm also concerned that I'll make boring responses and that's part of why I'm slow. I'm a little concerned about roleplaying Tiz just because BD was kind of odd in parts of its writing: I found his ending the most interesting place to take him from, but at the same time, his ending isn't very well foreshadowed or explained. Some of his emotional state is speculative because Tiz is shown as a person who would bottle things up, so while he reacts calmly in the end to the fact that he has to die, we really don't know what he's actually thinking because we didn't get much in build-up. A lot of people get the initial impression that he's committing suicide. I don't think that's the case, given the Celestial was eventually going to have to leave him, but Bravely Second is going to feature him and could easily joss me on that so sometimes I'm a little leery of playing with the emotions he's trying to control.
I do want to play with them, though. That was the entire point of apping him into Emp. So yeah, just a lot of wavering between that.
I do feel I need to work on his CR more, but at the same time I feel like it makes IC sense that he hasn't gotten TOO connected with anyone yet.
Name: Tiz Arriorthiswarrior
Canon: Bravely Default
Game:![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
empatheias
Time Played: I did both a stray d_m post and some tumblr shenanigans with him at a point, but Empatheias and early October is when I really started playing him in earnest, so 2 months?
Muse Strength: ■ ■ ■ ■ □
Sometimes I worry that he's being boring because he is...pretty much a straightforward nice guy, but that's also why I like him so much. The biggest two issues with his voice are pretty much figuring how often his emotions should shake something up (are they showing strongly enough for being in an emotion-based game? possibly not) and also just. sometimes PHRASING. BD can be sort of weird, where the characters will sound almost casual and then just as easily switch over to more formal phrasing or words.
Plotting Potential: ■ ■ ■ □ □
Tiz is a meddler and proud of it. While he's not very intellectual and thus doesn't work in all plots, he's a strong fighter with a lot of practical knowledge and caring for others. He can get involved in a plot easily and should be able to start some based on wanting to improve things, like how I was thinking of having him enlist help for creating potions.
Shipping Potential: □ □ □ □ □
Might he be shipped someday??? I can't completely write it off. However, he's not only very much in love with Agnès, he also never confessed it for reasons that would... pretty much apply to any other person he might fall in love with. Basically: he's not going to look for love because he's already in love with Agnès. If he falls in love, he's not going to try acting on his feelings because as far as he knows, he's 'dead' and romance is not in his cards anyway. And even if both those obstacles get cleared... hopefully the other person's willing to be direct, because he's a little shy when it comes to that in particular: with Agnès, he was pretty much content to just be by her side and protect her. All in all, any ship for him would be a ways off.
Likelihood to Drop: ■ □ □ □ □
I've got some uncertainties with him, but I also just really like characters like Tiz who are devoted to trying to do the right thing--occasionally screwing up and hopelessly lost on some personal issues, but they really want to help people. I might drop him if he stagnates too much, but Tiz is such a caring person that I'm pretty sure in spite of not wanting to involve people in his problems...he's going to befriend some while getting himself in theirs.
I'm not so much with the numbers, for one thing. My tagging rate is aimed to be OPTIMALLY a round each day and keeping up boomerang responses where I can. I'm trying to get myself in the habit of responding more quickly and not overthinking myself (which is pretty much my biggest weak point in rp), and I'm trying to do this by getting myself to write a response within 5 minutes of opening the notif. Does this always work? Nah, my average time is more like 15-20 minutes. But I'm working on it. For that reason I am trying to get in the habit of not opening the notif UNTIL I am in the mood to rp, though I also try to just make sure I get everyone answered at least once by a decent hour.
I've slipped up... a number of times on that, but considering this last time was Black Friday and feeling under the weather I'm trying to cut myself some slack for that and just work on improving.
I think I've done pretty well at not actually dropping threads, though. I did drop threads from Tiz's intro, and that was pretty bad of me, but I had underestimated how much introductions can bore me. Sometimes they're interesting!!! Other times. Not so much. My next time I'd really like to go with "the character already knows the basics", though I'm not sure how well that works in Emp since the natives are a bit distant to newbies. Since Ringabel tagged Tiz and the player dropped afterward I honestly just handwaved that Ringabel had filled Tiz in on the basics, since...party members and friends. It just makes sense.
Concerns. Gosh. I'm concerned that my tagging speed annoys people, but I'm also concerned that I'll make boring responses and that's part of why I'm slow. I'm a little concerned about roleplaying Tiz just because BD was kind of odd in parts of its writing: I found his ending the most interesting place to take him from, but at the same time, his ending isn't very well foreshadowed or explained. Some of his emotional state is speculative because Tiz is shown as a person who would bottle things up, so while he reacts calmly in the end to the fact that he has to die, we really don't know what he's actually thinking because we didn't get much in build-up. A lot of people get the initial impression that he's committing suicide. I don't think that's the case, given the Celestial was eventually going to have to leave him, but Bravely Second is going to feature him and could easily joss me on that so sometimes I'm a little leery of playing with the emotions he's trying to control.
I do want to play with them, though. That was the entire point of apping him into Emp. So yeah, just a lot of wavering between that.
I do feel I need to work on his CR more, but at the same time I feel like it makes IC sense that he hasn't gotten TOO connected with anyone yet.
Name: Tiz Arrior
thiswarriorCanon: Bravely Default
Game:
empatheiasTime Played: I did both a stray d_m post and some tumblr shenanigans with him at a point, but Empatheias and early October is when I really started playing him in earnest, so 2 months?
Muse Strength: ■ ■ ■ ■ □
Sometimes I worry that he's being boring because he is...pretty much a straightforward nice guy, but that's also why I like him so much. The biggest two issues with his voice are pretty much figuring how often his emotions should shake something up (are they showing strongly enough for being in an emotion-based game? possibly not) and also just. sometimes PHRASING. BD can be sort of weird, where the characters will sound almost casual and then just as easily switch over to more formal phrasing or words.
Plotting Potential: ■ ■ ■ □ □
Tiz is a meddler and proud of it. While he's not very intellectual and thus doesn't work in all plots, he's a strong fighter with a lot of practical knowledge and caring for others. He can get involved in a plot easily and should be able to start some based on wanting to improve things, like how I was thinking of having him enlist help for creating potions.
Shipping Potential: □ □ □ □ □
Might he be shipped someday??? I can't completely write it off. However, he's not only very much in love with Agnès, he also never confessed it for reasons that would... pretty much apply to any other person he might fall in love with. Basically: he's not going to look for love because he's already in love with Agnès. If he falls in love, he's not going to try acting on his feelings because as far as he knows, he's 'dead' and romance is not in his cards anyway. And even if both those obstacles get cleared... hopefully the other person's willing to be direct, because he's a little shy when it comes to that in particular: with Agnès, he was pretty much content to just be by her side and protect her. All in all, any ship for him would be a ways off.
Likelihood to Drop: ■ □ □ □ □
I've got some uncertainties with him, but I also just really like characters like Tiz who are devoted to trying to do the right thing--occasionally screwing up and hopelessly lost on some personal issues, but they really want to help people. I might drop him if he stagnates too much, but Tiz is such a caring person that I'm pretty sure in spite of not wanting to involve people in his problems...he's going to befriend some while getting himself in theirs.