ICEBREAKER MEME! LET'S TALK WRITING.

Hey y’all. We’re just under three weeks from game start and that means it’s time to get rolling on memes. We’re starting out pretty simple with an OOC icebreaker. Whether you’re totally new to journal RP or have been playing with the same people for years, it’s never a bad idea to pause for a chat about this hobby of ours!

With this meme, we want to hear about you: what your RP style is, what sort of plots you enjoy and what tropes you love to see in play. For now, please hold off on seeking specific lines. We’ll be doing a game-wide intro post/wanted lines meme next week! This one is all about the (wo)man behind the curtain.

Copy the form from the text field below and post it as a comment to the RESPONSES section. Feel free to chatter in either the OOC CHATTER subheader or on individual responses. :) All questions are optional! Fill out what you feel like. Don’t worry about sharing your Ilvermorny house if that’s personal.

Name:
Who Are You Playing?:
Sort Yourself!: Into Peckenpaugh, Hogwarts and, if you understand that shit at all, Ilvermorny houses!
What Are Your Pets Names?: We love talking about our furry friends as much as we love talking about our fake children.
Is Cereal Soup?: We need to know where you fall. This will affect whether your characters live or die in end game. (It won’t.)
Soda or Pop?: Which one is it?
How Long Have You Been RPing?: Were you a wee child when you fell into this rabbit hole? Did you retire and come back, or have you always had your finger on the pulse of the local journal RP community?
Other Genres and Settings: Aside from Harry Potter journal RP, what other settings and styles have you played in? Which ones did you enjoy most?
RP Style: Tell us a little bit about what styles of RP you prefer. Do you like logs? IC/OOC threads? Comment RP most? Are you prone to long tags, or do you like to keep them short? How far back are you willing to backtag a thread?
Favorite Tropes/Lines: What sort of tropes and lines do you LOVE to play out in games? Got any old favorites? New ones you can’t wait to sink your teeth into?
Favorite Faces: Do you have any PBs you’re unreasonably attached to? Someone you’ve used multiple times, or someone you’ve only ever dreamed of using?
Favorite Character Archetypes: What sorts of characters do you love to play? What sorts of character archetypes do you love to see, in general?
Inspirations: How do characters usually pop into your head? Are you inspired by faces, names, dreams? How did you come up with the ideas for your current character(s)?
Anything Else?: Do you have anything you want to say?
Give Us A Cute Gif: Of a face you love, a face you’re using, or just how you’re feeling right now.

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Name: 
Who Are You Playing?:
Sort Yourself!: Into Peckenpaugh, Hogwarts and, if you understand that shit at all, Ilvermorny houses!
What Are Your Pets Names?: We love talking about our furry friends as much as we love talking about our fake children.
Is Cereal Soup?: We need to know where you fall. This will affect whether your characters live or die in end game. (It won’t.)
Soda or Pop?: Which one is it?
How Long Have You Been RPing?: Were you a wee child when you fell into this rabbit hole? Did you retire and come back, or have you always had your finger on the pulse of the local journal RP community?
Other Genres and Settings: Aside from Harry Potter journal RP, what other settings and styles have you played in? Which ones did you enjoy most?
RP Style: Tell us a little bit about what styles of RP you prefer. Do you like logs? IC/OOC threads? Comment RP most? Are you prone to long tags, or do you like to keep them short? How far back are you willing to backtag a thread?
Favorite Tropes/Lines: What sort of tropes and lines do you LOVE to play out in games? Got any old favorites? New ones you can’t wait to sink your teeth into?
Favorite Faces: Do you have any PBs you’re unreasonably attached to? Someone you’ve used multiple times, or someone you’ve only ever dreamed of using?
Favorite Character Archetypes: What sorts of characters do you love to play? What sorts of character archetypes do you love to see, in general?
Inspirations: How do characters usually pop into your head? Are you inspired by faces, names, dreams? How did you come up with the ideas for your current character(s)?
Anything Else?: Do you have anything you want to say?
Give Us A Cute Gif: Of a face you love, a face you’re using, or just how you’re feeling right now.

➡️ RESPONSES: Post your responses to the meme here!

➡️ OOC DISCUSSION: A place to chatter about the meme or in general!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Name: Ben
Who Are You Playing?: Lionel Lovelace with a hold currently on Felicity Deverill
Sort Yourself!: Gryffinclaw, probably a Wildgulch?
What Are Your Pets Names?: Colleen and I have two cats: Fox and Scully. And my dogs back home are Kaylee and Nikka.
Is Cereal Soup?: It's a breakfast soup.
Soda or Pop?: Soda.
How Long Have You Been RPing?: This is year three for me.
RP Style: I love to scene. Gimme that IC/OOC. Happy to backtag forever. Love getting to go deeper with the characters, love getting to read your writing. Just find it very rewarding and I learn a lot about my characters doing it. My favorite journal stuff is getting to play out group dynamics. Roommates, teams, etc. Really like getting to see all these voices interacting at once. Oh, and I fucking love a reaction face.
Favorite Tropes/Lines: I've played too few to state any trends, but I really loved Pansy-Monet and Gregory-[All of his prisoners]. I would say that a commonality between the two is that I like writing characters who challenge others. This might be stepping on the next question's toes, but what I like about RP'ing is how much we affect each other. I want to write characters that make you have to think and react. And I love being shocked by your choices and tags and having to think about what my characters will do next. Happy to ship when it seems like there's unique energy between characters. Thus far I've only written kind of mature, emotional relationships. Felicity probably won't be that.
Favorite Character Archetypes: Since I'm so new, I'm trying to make a point not to repeat anything. I want all my characters to be quite different. [....] That being said. I'd say all the characters I've written so far are essentially Good, and I'm usually good to them. And, they have to be funny (or, at least make me laugh -- can't guarantee universality of their humor). Relationship with family informs a lot of my characters. Hmm what else? I'm tempted to say my characters in this game will be more Bad (y'all are having a negative influence on me), but I think they're just more "complex."
Inspirations: It's usually a few details that I find funny or interesting. And then there's A LOT of discovery as I write the app. I'll write something without much thought and then decide if I agree with it or not. Then it stays or gets cut. There's also a lot of "If this thing is true, what else is true?"
Anything Else?: I love to write with everyone. You are all so talented and kind.
Give Us A Cute Gif: Not a gif, but this is very much my mood.

Ben, you are too good to us. Your characters are a joy to play with and I'm so very glad that you joined us in general, because they've brought a lot of Heart in different ways.

Thank you Manx! That means so much!

God I am so excited to see what you have in store for us this year!!!! I love EVERY idea you have always and am so looking forward to the Thorntrail senior dorms.

I've tried to save my worst ideas for you and Alex because I know you'd want me to

Atta boy 8)

Oh Hot Gritty Summer

I can't believe you've only been RPing for three years??? You're such a natural, and so fun to play against

Also I can't believe you cursed us with Gritty content

Learning from the best! Can't wait for new (mis)adventures!

Fortune favors the Gritty, Rin.

Learned from a bunch of demons!!! I'm very excited to test out different relationships with different characters!

I feel like that phrase is going to get stuck in my head and I hate it