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Are these fanfiction ideas, or things you want to have happen in upcoming books, or an attempt to reach Brandon himself?

What does "bribes" mean here? Does it mean your character bribes people? Or that they're easily susceptible to bribes? The second could count as a flaw, the first would not. I'd also recommend having some other flaw than just "they don't trust people", as I've recommended to others; it's a bit bare-bones. +1 to this, with the addition that it's not just your own interest level I'm worried about, I also want to make sure there will be enough for other characters to bounce off of and interact with. More than one dimension, yeah? Just as a general note to everyone (and also why we don't want RP to be like, a single line in every post).

Era was probably 5 or 6 then, last couple years have been really slow.

Spoiler policy for Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, The Sunlit Man, and Defiant Feel free to include things from these books in your RP as long as you don't spoil plot points. Magic and worldbuilding things should mostly be fine, but if anything directly relates to the plot or you have any questions, ask a mod.

I am going to ask you to actually finish the character sheet before you RP, so we (and you!) can get a good feel for the character. The process exists for a reason

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Welcome! I hope you enjoy Defiant, and no worries if you need to ask people what the word for something is, Brandon makes up a lot of fantasy terms

Hello and welcome to the Shard! Yessss, yes, very good, first you fall down the rabbit hole of owning multiple copies, then you start collecting more and more...*hides five copies of TWOK behind back and kicks TWOK Prime under the bed*

Good luck!! I'm stuck on P3 at 110%. Got one or two more things I want to clear out too, like NKG. You're welcome tell me what you think!

Hi! Couple of notes. (oops, and then i wall-of-texted) Firstly, you may want to give a couple more details on the appearance. This isn't a requirement, just so people know how to describe you. Personality and motivation - these are perfectly fine to have, but you're going to want to think about how that plays into him actually getting involved in the plot. Do his Survivorist beliefs mean he wants everyone to survive and he'll try his best to make that happen? Maybe he doesn't care about people he considers "beneath him" other than to be suspicious of them, but will he work with others if he needs to? What would make him do that? Merits - we're going to switch the major and minor there, bronze Compounding is not a minor merit in this case fast talker is fine for that though, and having a good eye for noticing things is a fine normal merit. You have room to add a couple other minor merits if you want to, though I'd recommend making sure they actually fit with the character you're building, and aren't just random powers or skills. Why is Sonyr (fun name btw) good at what he's good at? Being suspicious of being is a start on the flaws front! Definitely can impact his interactions with others negatively. However, we generally like people to have multiple or more complicated flaws - maybe add something external or outside of his control in addition to this internal suspicion? If you plan to have him grow out of the suspicion, what else will stop him from achieving all his goals immediately? Is there anything he is bad at doing? Where are his struggles? This part of a character can be just as much fun (sometimes even more!) to write as their strengths. Relationships section - good start! Who does he know in these criminal organizations? How many are there? Does he have enemies among them? You say he's a librarian, expand more on that. Who are his coworkers and how does he get along with them? Do his neighbors not like him because of how standoffish and suspicious he is? Residence is a pretty simple thing, you could just say he's living in an apartment somewhere, this doesn't have to be complicated. Backstory is extremely short. It doesn't have to be a novel, but more details would be helpful - what criminal organization and where? Why'd he leave? Why do they haunt him? Is this related to him being suspicious? What do you mean when you say he spends time with books? How did he get this job, has he always been interested in libraries and books or is this just a job to get away from the criminals? Why do they haunt him? How is this loose end relevant to his life? What do you plan to do about it? Honestly, some of these would be fine. You don't have to put exacting detail into your relationships section, plenty of people have their characters just not know anyone very well. Residence is also a small thing. It's looking at it all together that shows there either isn't a lot of thought put into this character, or there is, but you aren't sharing it. We can't read your mind on who your character is; you have to tell us through this and show us through RP. Sleepy no-nonsense librarian is a good start! You've got an okay base, but you're going to need a cohesive draft to add info and make it all work together.

Could absolutely do that! Cool, I'll hop on over to look at that, sorry for the delay

I think we did limit it to 6 or 7 at one point, but that hasn't been an issue in ages lol. I wouldn't say this was everyone's reason, but definitely it was some. Hard agree on everything else you're saying; the Alleyverse is a free-form roleplay, but it's closer to collaborative fanfiction than it is something like TLT. Hey same! Except for the 'semi' part. And maybe the power-hungry part. I'll toss the question to the other AV mods, but I imagine we can be cool with Yumi stuff (honestly probably will approve all recent works). Thanks for your efforts in spurring things along, Koloss, you're great I'm going to be RPing Deteca and Marie if I can manage it, so we've got the head of TUBA and a recovering Inquisitor at our disposal. I bet Marie could have some very interesting conflict over your villain. Deteca, on the other hand, has a very strong reason to want to stop disasters in the Alleyverse, namely that she lives and works here and has a responsibility to a lot of people.

I know, you did everything just right

My guess would be yes.

They're gendery. Or something.

I have been going bonkers over this game for at least the last year. Gonna throw out this as one of my favorite playthroughs of it: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLenI3Kbdx0D3FYcz39AUOeR3lQe9lCsgr Edit: warning for cursing and occasional dirty jokes ^^

I'm not sure anyone remembers at this point XD Storming

Also happy birthday!

I don't think we need to report stuff from the prose, that'll go through a whole editing process before it actually comes out.

Honestly I dunno, I'm gonna also guess it was the parentheses.