Gowi's Interest Log

[Gowi]

Iɴᴛʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ

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I’ve sort of been doing this “writing with people on the internet” thing for way too long to be proud of. That’s not a jab at this shared hobby of ours, but just a weird sort of way I look at how I’ve sunk a lot of time into practically the best hobby ever. Anyway, I defer you to my profile, this thread, and my re-introduction thread to get to know me. I like to write anything from slow-paced to mid-paced in a multitude of genres with a variety of ideas. I’m generally partial to small-to-large groups but I’m no alien to 1x1’s.

I’m not impartial toward any sort of genre as I take the approach of going into a setting with an open mind. I love character creation, world-building, character development, narrative strength, proving the trope can be written well, and having a taste of every cake on the dinner table. Most importantly before you proceed you should know my central roleplaying credence:

Roleplaying should focus on developing interesting and complex characters that become part of plot-lines which catch the imagination and inspire the writer behind them to exercise creativity. It is mature, humorous, imaginative, tragic, terrifying, passionate, and rife with descriptive language and characters with real personality and relatable cares. Quality posting is far better than needless novels, yet one should never neglect detail when one feels the need. However, while word and paragraph requirements ought to be unnecessary, single paragraphs cannot contain enough detail to suffice.

Sᴛᴀɴᴅᴀʀᴅs

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My writing level is somewhere between the framing of intermediate and advanced. I can write solid paragraphs and dialogue depending what is needed or how my creativity is flaring. Depending what the scene is and what I’m given you can get something short or something long. I can write characters of either gender /sexuality, it really doesn’t matter to me. After a while writing female characters, adolescents, elders, and stuff in-between I like to think I’m a fairly decent writer all-around when it comes to identity.

I’m also indifferent towards taboos, I’ve written a lot of those and deconstructed a lot of things regarded as the “norm”. Basically, dark or controversial themes do not really bother me.

With that in mind, I’m not on often so do not presume I will be able to post hour-by-hour; there is a difference from reminding me that it’s been a week or so without a post and its another to presume myself being online requires me to give you my attention exclusively. It is good to remember I have other friends, RP priorities, and hobbies. With that in mind, I will do my best to be cordial and respectful towards you as my partner so give me the same rope. Ultimately, here are some key notes:

• I prefer to RP through threads

• I don’t do smut yet am not afraid of mature themes

• I expect to get what I give on an average rate

• I am pretty flexible.

• If you prefer to drive the plot, want to have equal leadership, or myself to drive it please let me know so neither of us come in with fickle presumptions.

Vɪʙᴇs

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The problem with me is I’m generally “down” for all flavors of genre, theme, and narrative. I like plots that are imaginative, heartfelt, adventurous, suspenseful, clever, gripping, and fun. I am not looking for a RP that has all of the above, so keep in mind to catch my attention somehow. As long as it’s not tasteless erotica-tier smut.

I’m equally as invested in original concepts, intriguing interpretations of official works, or by the cusp “pretty much fanfiction”. I prefer original characters, but I am always down for interpreting a classic canon as long as I’m familiar with them — if I’m not I might make it a bit wildly different. But then again I might make it wildly different if I know the source material just the same, haha. You can hook me with anime, video games, literature, cinema, and all sorts of fun shit. Surprise me.

Sᴛʏʟᴇs

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A comprehensive list of fandoms and genres I like will be quite large, but I can try to summarize it to the best of my ability. Consider this part of the thread a massive "WIP".

Spoiler: Settings 

Adventure
Anime
Dark Fantasy
Drama (AKA Slice of Life)
Gothic Horror
Magical Girl
Magitek
Mecha
Medieval Fantasy
Modern Fantasy
Post-Apocalyptic
Psychological Horror
Sci-Fi Pulp Adventure
Space Operas
Space Westerns
Supernatural
Survival Horror
Suspense
Urban Fantasy
Westerns

[커비]

Can I hear about the space opera idea?

[Zulera301]

You like Avatar and DragonAge?
Suddenly I am interested. very interested.

[Gowi]

You like Avatar and DragonAge?
Suddenly I am interested. very interested.

I’ll start with this one first, yep I like both of those things! So I’ll get on with which one is a little more developed (but admittedly not as much as I’d personally like).

With Avatar, I’ve got a sort of loose alternate universe/what if story sort of set up in the airbender universe. It revolves around right after Sozin’s Comet which is where the “what if” comes in—what if Aang had been killed during the conquest of the Eastern Air Temple? This sets in motion of the cycle which a waterbender avatar is born (my character) in the northern water tribe. Throughout the next sixteen years—more airbenders are purged due to Sozin’s paranoia, the avatar is told that she is one (big controversy for her being female and northern water tribe you can imagine), and then there’s the fire-water war that is sparked due to Sozin focusing his eyes on them after the avatar is killed.

The idea is to focus on the adventure/race against time kind of thing.

As for Dragon Age—I sort of also had an AU setup that followed a “what if all of the warden origins existed” obviously during the first game. Of course more people would die at Ostagar and watnot, but I have two characters possibly ready to go (Dalish Elf and Human Magi) and would obviously brainstorm with whoever would want to do stuff in such a thing.

[Vestige Warrior]

I would be interested in a Superhero fiction for sure! Do you have anything in mind there?

[Zulera301]

I’ll start with this one first, yep I like both of those things! So I’ll get on with which one is a little more developed (but admittedly not as much as I’d personally like).

With Avatar, I’ve got a sort of loose alternate universe/what if story sort of set up in the airbender universe. It revolves around right after Sozin’s Comet which is where the “what if” comes in—what if Aang had been killed during the conquest of the Eastern Air Temple? This sets in motion of the cycle which a waterbender avatar is born (my character) in the northern water tribe. Throughout the next sixteen years—more airbenders are purged due to Sozin’s paranoia, the avatar is told that she is one (big controversy for her being female and northern water tribe you can imagine), and then there’s the fire-water war that is sparked due to Sozin focusing his eyes on them after the avatar is killed.

The idea is to focus on the adventure/race against time kind of thing.

As for Dragon Age—I sort of also had an AU setup that followed a “what if all of the warden origins existed” obviously during the first game. Of course more people would die at Ostagar and watnot, but I have two characters possibly ready to go (Dalish Elf and Human Magi) and would obviously brainstorm with whoever would want to do stuff in such a thing.

so... just a few questions and such.
What would be the current status of the airbenders? I take it that some would obviously have to survive (My theory is that some did, considering that they were Air Nomads, which meant they wouldn't all be cooped up in the temples when the FN attacked).
Similarly, what sort of character are you looking for? My ATLA RP experience is very vast (it was the first world I ever RP'd in), and I've played young, old, male, female, and every nation from peasants to soldiers to merchants to rulers and everything else in between. Ergo, I can basically make any kind of character. Similarly, I can obviously make multiple characrters if need be.

as for DragonAge, I've played with that idea before, and I'm cool with the notion. I assume you're talking about "what if all the potential wardens had survived their fates?" because all of the Warden origins happened in the game; just that whichever one you chose determined where Duncan was to save their hide. I'm totally down for this, and my two favorite origins (Dwarf Commoner and City Elf) are different than yours, making it easier.

thoughts?

[Thelonewanderer]

I see fallout on this list. You have my curiosity peaked.

[Lord Tully]

If you're still looking I have a number of ideas we could work on and would LOVE to hear your own ideas, and if you want list I have:

A Space opera ready to go (Or maybe a Space Western, I'm not entirely sure which one this is, but I've put a lot of thought into it)

An Elder Scrolls RP mostly ready.

something post-apocalyptic that we could work into Fallout or not

The setup for something Dragon Age

and a rough outline for something DC, specifically based on the Teen Titans cartoon, if you weren't a fan I won't even bring this one up cause I know nothing else about the team outside that.

And if you have your own ideas for anything or ideas for Avatar, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Star Wars, or Zelda I am ridiculously game to hear any of them it's not often I feel so spoiled for choice..

[Gowi]

Can I hear about the space opera idea?

I have a “in development” general science fiction world (covers aspects of space opera, space fantasy, etc.) with a degree of development including five major powers in the galaxy: The Orion Empire, The Terran Empire, The Democratic League of Planets, The Confederacy of Man, and The Union of Ticix. Each have quite different political/military values. For the most part it’s not as developed as I’d like it to be—and I don’t have a specific plot ready to go.

so... just a few questions and such.
What would be the current status of the airbenders? I take it that some would obviously have to survive (My theory is that some did, considering that they were Air Nomads, which meant they wouldn't all be cooped up in the temples when the FN attacked).
Similarly, what sort of character are you looking for? My ATLA RP experience is very vast (it was the first world I ever RP'd in), and I've played young, old, male, female, and every nation from peasants to soldiers to merchants to rulers and everything else in between. Ergo, I can basically make any kind of character. Similarly, I can obviously make multiple characrters if need be.

as for DragonAge, I've played with that idea before, and I'm cool with the notion. I assume you're talking about "what if all the potential wardens had survived their fates?" because all of the Warden origins happened in the game; just that whichever one you chose determined where Duncan was to save their hide. I'm totally down for this, and my two favorite origins (Dwarf Commoner and City Elf) are different than yours, making it easier.

thoughts?

I always speculated that they scattered and some did survive even with Sozin’s “airbender propaganda” that lured airbenders into traps set up by the nation for the first twenty years After Sozin’s Comet. Since my character would really need somebody to teach them in the ways of airbending, we’d need somebody alive for that (or I could hax and have her learn from her past lives? But I don’t want to do that.) With what characters I’m looking for? I guess in the sense of narrative would be us piecing together her travels and her meeting her (earthbending?) teacher or companions in general. Since of course eventually the Avatar is going to have to go head-to-head with Azulon (since Sozin dies estimative around the near future of the RP). Also I imagine multiple character things is what we’ll end up doing, but I’m not sure how to even start the journey and meeting of companions.

All I really have for it is the avatar character and the above.

Spoiler: The Avatar 

Pana was born to two waterbenders named Igaluk and Puja in the Northern Water Tribe, immediately following the death of Avatar Aang during Fire Lord Sozin’s attempted genocide of the Air Nomads. As the daughter of the chieftain of the Northern Water Tribe much was expected of Pana but understanding what role she was destined to play wouldn’t come until she was thirteen when she began having vibrant visions from her past lives that she was told were just imaginative night terrors by her father who unbeknownst to her was having difficulty coming to the terms that his daughter was the avatar for a myriad of reasons. This was about the time that Pana’s beliefs in spirituality began to grow and she spent many nights meditating among the Spirit Oasis and she even took trips to the nearby Spirit Forest to continuously calm herself. However it wasn’t long from there until her father announced to her that the likelihood of her being the next Avatar. In a way, Pana knew this somewhere and it made sense; but what didn’t make sense to her was the weight of responsibility and the contradictory training she was to receive. Before… she could only be taught waterbending to heal due to her gender and now she was being told “she was the exception” and in a fit of anxiety she voiced that she wasn’t ready to accept any of it.

Her first meditation as the realized avatar led her to understand and partially deal with the weight that was put on her and she chose to accept it until she was nearly sixteen years of age and found herself traveling to the Southern Water Tribe. She found herself looking at the eye of a vicious raid; particularly the southern one. The deep sadness and quiet rage brought a trigger in Pana as she sought out a Southern-style waterbending mentor. She held this sadness and rage inside as she situated herself in the tribe for some time – during her travels in the south as she turned sixteen she came into a friendship with a girl by the name of Aluki, a southern style waterbender of comparable age to Pana. Aluki’s personality was different than Pana’s in every way and it only fit that she was like this because had lost her sister in one of the very first of the raids by the Fire Nation. Aluki then became Avatar Pana’s first traveling companion.

Pana and Aluki left the Southern Water Tribe and began looking to the east – toward the Earth Kingdom and the ruins of the Air Nomad Temples.

Pana’s animal companion is named Ulva and is an arctic fox.

As for Dragon Age, like I said I have two characters designed based off this little tidbit:

Spoiler: Excerpt 

Ostagar Anxiety

...they were here, he wasn't even a warden yet and he just knew it. The echoes of every footstep he took in the old tevinter ruin, the looks every soldier gave off in an instant, the whispers of death itself in every brush of the cold wind against his face; it was too apparent that the incoming darkspawn horde was here-- growing ever patiently, evidently pushing the allied forces into a corner, in this tevinter ruin. Tidus Amell had only been in Ostagar for nearly three days and the ambience of everything, it scared him. It scared him like a small rat staring in the eyes of a mabari hound. To strive on such arrogance in the tower, only to be diverged into fear.... now that was a scary thing, especially for Tidus. When he had the option to fight the darkspawn, he was so quick to jump on it. Especially, considering the position he was in. All of this, harbored upon a week ago, maybe. His nerves made him clench onto the now and forget the then.

A light breath left his mouth as he rose a hand to his forehead-- from his position, sitting on the old tevinter walls that oversaw the massive wild before him. "Andraste... be damned." his words left his lips, quietly and strongly. "The camp feels it more by each descending day, our impending doom is clear-- to all except to the King himself, Cailan he believed his name was. He didn't think much of him when he met him three days ago. But the morale he seemed to imply... it was gone, if it was even here to begin with. Cailan was so caught up in his imagination, his glory.

"Riding with the Grey Wardens to fell the darkspawn hordes.... does this man not see what is before us?" more words left Tidus lips as he mused to himself. He moved his hand from his face to the landmasses ahead, blue ambience siphoned through his hands before an arcane bolt shot into one of the many trees before him. Who was the king fooling? He couldn't of been so blind to see that with their small forces-- even with the small warden and mage support he had acquired-- they could not challenge a horde of demons. The reinforcements from Orlais... they weren't heard from-- it wasn't even clear if the empress herself had sent anyone to help. It certainly wouldn't surprise anyone.

"...surely, I am better off here in this suicide mission than being at Gregoir's mercy."

Tidus wasn't sure, but there had to be some way of survival here. He was no tactician, but there had to be some reasonable way to look at this incoming and undeniable battle. His thoughts went back to Duncan-- the warden commander who saved him from certain death. The templars surely would of ended him, right there at the Circle of Magi. Tidus took another heavy breath as he sighed, "I hope he brings an entire regiment back from Highever." he chuckled, a little-- probably out of desperation.

"Maybe somebody here has something to drink..." he stood up from his position and started moving towards the bulk of the camp in the ruin, although his footing would be stopped short by a comment from a female nearby. "Tell me, are all human's so easy to scare as you, mage?"

Tidus stopped, half-chuckling as he glanced towards the source of the voice-- seeing an female elf perched on the stone wall to his back. "Well, are all elves such as you so foolish to see the odds against us?"

The elf-- a blonde dalish, smirked a bit. "Oh, so you have some life in you then... and is it so foolish to strive to live-- in the now, rather than the theoretical over analyzation of the future?" she looked to him, her blue eyes narrowed. "I'd rather not be so empty of life to be the effect of a coward."

"I suppose you may have some truth to your words, elf." Tidus spat in retort. "I wasn't aware the dalish sent such a brilliant scout to help us weak human's in our upcoming death. Is there a party? Because I don't hear the dalish celebration you so embody."

"If you must know, human-- I was recruited by the grey warden's. Otherwise I wouldn't be here, bothering on your cynical moping."

Tidus groaned, she kept going-- damn elves. "You, too? Oh, I'm going to love fighting alongside you."

"The feeling is surely mutual, human." the dalish female retorted.

"Well, at least I won't die completely unfulfilled-- surely she will die before I do in the coming battle." Tidus thought as he shook his head. "Andraste's Blood, am I needing of that drink even more now." the elf giggled-- or chuckled, Tidus couldn't tell at his remark. "Oh, so you can wallow in your foolishness without being able to walk straight?"

"Maybe. Maybe I'd like to wallow in my foolishness. Maybe, I'd like you to be apathetic and stop bothering me. Surely you have better things to do." Tidus replied, instantly and bluntly, the elf stirring him so much more. He was beginning to miss the Circle elves, at least they knew how to keep their mouth shut.

"It's good to see we are all getting along!" a cheery, male voice soon entered earshot-- and Tidus glanced over. One of the warden's who didn't accompany Duncan or stay to chat with the king, didn't he have something better to do? Of course not, no one in the bloody camp did. "I'd be getting along with the elf if she kept her bloody mouth shut."

"Well, see if I give you some insight in the future!" the dalish elf replied as the blonde templar looked to them both and shook his head while sporting a smirk. "You two seem to have worse chemistry than the templar and the mages, and I should know-- I was one of them."

Tidus couldn't help but laugh, a little. "...I hear you there. But you see I can't exactly quit being a pathetic human."

"Do not forget foolish and cowardly." the elf added, Tidus happily nodded and spoke once again, "Right! How could I forget-- a foolish, cowardly and pathetic human." he couldn't help but to chuckle afterwards. It seemed to be the mania getting to him, or maybe he was actually lightening up to the whole situation. Tidus looked to Alistair. "Alistair, could you tell me-- when exactly is Duncan due back-- I'd like to get my joining done and get on with whatever-- death, survival, bloody whatever."

The elf nodded. "For once I think I agree."

Alistair shrugged in response to the two of them. "It could really be any day now." This equated a sigh from Tidus as he spoke again. "I really hope it's today then. The sooner I have to fight-- the better." the elf smirked and added her two cents with a sound "Indeed." in quick response. Alistair just shrugged, "Well then, let's hope."

"Hope is something this one needs." the elf remarked with another smirk.

Between the entire anxiety he felt due to the darkspawn and the elven female's insults, Tidus spoke again; not exactly specifically responding to either of the people in the conversation before him, "Whatever, I think I'm going to ignore the ale selection and just go right to sleep. Maybe I'll find out that this was one bad nightmare-- and before you comically say something, Alistair... please.... don't." Tidus sighed and made off to his tent, whether the elf said another word or Alistair did-- he didn't care. The elf was right at one moment, though-- and he knew it. He couldn't focus on the what if foolishness and he had to live in the moment. He had no problem with doing that before Ostagar so why should a few... hundred thousand darkspawn change his life views.

Well, maybe they should-- but he was going to try to make it so anymore. Worry more about making them explode, the end.

As Tidus went to his tent, the elf looked to Alistair. "A bit overdramatic, that one."

Alistair chuckled, "You can't exactly blame him, the darkspawn are driving everyone a bit crazy." the dalish nodded a bit, "Perhaps, but they did not drive me such when I encountered them."

"So, you've dealt with them before?"

"Twas a single occasion, but a quick one." she replied., before taking a light breath. "It was for Tamlen, as well." Alistair nodded, his smirk gone. "I'm--" he began before the female elf spoke, cutting him off. "It doesn't matter, don't feel sympathy for me or him, human." her tone was clear as she jumped down from the ledge she had been perched upon for the entire conversation. Alistair only was caught baffled in his sentence. "I...uh...er.. okay."

"...I'm going to head out, anyway. I'm sure staring at the wilderness should be a more enticing experience then this conversation." she added. Alistair had no choice to nod before the elf was off-- to scout or more accurately, collect her thoughts alone. "Duncan.... he better return soon-- the human's anxiety seems to be a contagious condition." she thought as she moved forward, her hands moving to her hair and strengthening the ponytail she had. "I don't know how much more of human conversation I can take.... I would prefer to get to the darkspawn killing of this warden status."

She sighed as he blue eyes set to the night sky above, a non-arrogant and generally honest smile coming to her lips for a brief moment. The unsettled atmosphere, it was like much the calm before the storm and she-- Lyna Mahariel was anxious for it. The darkspawn horde... it would be ready soon, she wasn't sure if she knew it or it was a baseless assumption-- but it felt.... correct.

It was soon.

It was going to be a long, long night.

I’d assume we’d start at Ostagar and we’d figure out how we’d do it from there. Lot's of brainstorming.

I would be interested in a Superhero fiction for sure! Do you have anything in mind there?

I have a setting I’m working on for it called ‘Evolution: World of Heroes’ but it’s mostly unfinished—there’s bits of lore and timeline events. If that’s okay I can go into more detail if you would want to sniff around the ideas I have.

I see fallout on this list. You have my curiosity peaked.

A lot of the Fallout ideas I had circulated around a month after the events of Fallout: New Vegas as the courier declared New Vegas and surrounding territories independent of NCR and began trying to usher in unity. It’s an uphill concept with lots of disorder and such—but I never really got to write anything far beyond that.

If you're still looking I have a number of ideas we could work on and would LOVE to hear your own ideas, and if you want list I have:

A Space opera ready to go (Or maybe a Space Western, I'm not entirely sure which one this is, but I've put a lot of thought into it)

An Elder Scrolls RP mostly ready.

something post-apocalyptic that we could work into Fallout or not

The setup for something Dragon Age

and a rough outline for something DC, specifically based on the Teen Titans cartoon, if you weren't a fan I won't even bring this one up cause I know nothing else about the team outside that.

And if you have your own ideas for anything or ideas for Avatar, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Star Wars, or Zelda I am ridiculously game to hear any of them it's not often I feel so spoiled for choice..

Tell me about the one about Tamriel and the DC Titans concept.

[Death101]

I'm gearing up for an anime styled gang war it's a 1x1 about to old friends that reconnect and start thinking about reforming their old gang.

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Pm me if your interested Growl.