a-sporking-rat

I only have two werecat characters, Cleo Wilson the werelion and Klaus Weber the weretiger. You've met Klaus in SvS as one of the visitors from New York, and Cleo, while she's not appeared yet in person, has been mentioned in passing in it as well, and I plan for her to show up later to help save the St.Louis werelions and take them back to her Pride, though I'll need to work to make a situation where she thinks that risk is worth taking (since doing so would draw the attention of Anita & Co to her Pride, which she quite understandably doesn't want!)

They're both very majestic, powerful people, both in personality and in terms of physical strength/supernatural power, and thus they're not the main characters in my novel but instead are people who the protagonists (all teenage humans) encounter as they learn more about the supernatural communities. Cleo is an ally, but one that they have to earn, since while she's a hero to her people who will do anything for them, she's not going to go out of her way to aid anyone else when it could mean anything bad might come back to her Pride's doorstep as a result. If she can help a bunch of clueless kids out and not have it interfere with Pride business, she'll do it though, but it probably won't end up as simple as that when I write it. Klaus will end up as a reluctant guide/mentor regarding the therian communities due to accidentally ending up responsible for them, possibly because he infects one or something like that. They're both good people, they just also need reason to get involved with strangers, especially when they might have to risk their life or the lives of the people they're already responsible for, because, shocking as this may seem, they have lives and motivations and stories of their own and don't know they are characters in a story and thus are not immediately aware they're supposed to drop everything for Our Heroes. Crazy, right? The fourth wall is actually there!

....sorry, I'm just fed up with that aspect of Anita, among many many MANY others. Anyway, Klaus Cleo, everybody!

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This is not a story about bad roleplay, it's just, well, a story, and, like all the others, took place the AB RP board where I developed many of my characters and met some of my best buddies. Unlike the other stories, I didn't write it down immediately back when it happened, so this is pieced together from memory. To those reading it who were there, my apologies if I got anything wrong, just tell me and I will fix it!
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One night I was playing around with this dollmaker
http://www.dolldivine.com/vampire-maker.php
And I came out with a dark-skinned fellow who had yellow eyes and white dreadlocks. I really liked this look, so I decided to draw him. In drawing him, I couldn't help thinking up a thing or two about him. That led to me giving him a name, Cornelius, and drawing him again, which led to more thinking about him. Eventually, he started fleshing out more, and I made plans to make him a character in roleplay and writing. Since most of the vampires in roleplay (and the vampires in my own writing) start as humans and don't undergo pigment change (beyond, uh, turning white in Twilight and VC 0_o) he got normal human-type pigmentation of black hair and brown eyes, and then I started on a background for him, and, well, here he is!

Cornelius "Adze" Locke, everyone!

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After Ruthven, Delilah, and Gaspard, these are the biggest players in the Ruthven/Swans/Delilah plotline. And they are at a mostly reasonable length instead of the books I posted for the aforementioned previous three, haha!

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Ok, so, back at the one and only AB RP board, the same that gave us That Guy and Finite Deus but also brought me together with the awesome people who formed the Flock and built swanmanes as we interpret them and who I still hang with online to this day. The player I'm about to talk about, who I shall call Derpia, is sadly in the former category. Derpia wasn't an asshole like That Guy, but she was pretty annoying. The type to complain about how bored she was in chat and to do things like "*licks*" at the other members...I know it's just chat but that makes loads of folks uncomfy, myself included. She seemed to have an undue need for attention, as evident by things like a tendency to suddenly spam photos of herself on flimsiest of excuses, fishing for compliments, etc. It was pretty awkward for everyone. We were a nice lot and everything, but the frequent unspoken demand to pander at random to someone's vanity is enough to wear on anyone's nerves. None of us were really sure what to do. I mean, she wasn't being mean to anyone or breaking any rules, she was just kinda needy and obnoxious.

I came up with a solution. I started responding by posting pics of myself whenever she did...or rather, pictures of rats and saying they were pics of me and how sexy I am and what a babe I am, etc. everyone else would chime in about what a hottie and a cutie I was. Clearly they enjoyed the rat pic technique. I mean, they got rat pics, how could they not? It never actually made her stop, but it meant that if we had to get spammed by her, we at least got spammed by cute rat pictures too. She actually even once wanted to use HERSELF as the PB (play-by, a celebrity or model who you choose to portray your character...which can make things hard for those of us who don't necessarily want to play people who look like models) for a character, but I talked her out of it. See, I had a very shallow character there, and if he had run into her, he would have made fun of her looks. I had no wish to RP out that cruelty when a real person would be hurt by it, regardless of if it would just be the character and not me. He also was not the only character like that at the board, so it wouldn't have been solved if I had just decided to never put them together; there'd still be a chance that the scenario would happen, and I did not want that shitstorm come to pass without at least trying to steer her away from it. And, knowing Derpia's pretty fragile temperament and tendency towards pouting and passive-aggression if things didn't go her way on something, I expect she'd throw a fit if another character so much as turned down the advances of the character who looked like her because WHAT DOESN'T HE THINK I'M PRETTY HUH and put the other player in a pretty awkward spot. Luckily she took my advice.

I tried to RP with her a few times, per her request, but she never responded to almost any threads that I started for us, despite always bugging other people for replies (and she'd bug me for instant replies even though hers took forever and I never said a word), and the one thread she did reply to was basically her copy-pasting my posts back to me of everything my char had just done and said and only actually typing a few lines or less of her char's response, which seldom gave me much to work with. Not an enjoyable time. Her main character was an alpha weresnake who was a bundle of fail and annoying in her own way, but honestly was the least bad of what she churned out and not really worth talking about unless you were there, in which case it's pretty funny to recall. This swan she submitted, on the other hand? Yeah, he's something else.

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Here's another one from the same board as That Guy. I still wonder to this day if this wasn't a very elaborate troll of some type, but I feel like a troll would be more blatantly over-the-top, and not this long. This is from someone who put very loving detail into it and actually does seem to have tried to make SOME attempt to justify their assault on canon, which trolls don't try but real Sues sometimes do. Anyway, he never really played much after apping, namely because, well, no one wanted to go near this, for which I kind of feel pity for him, but, well...see for yourself.
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