Hello to all. Â :>
I'm rather new to these forums (and this game) but not to RP, and I'm excited to meet those I might have the chance to play with in the future. Â First and foremost, I often type a lot and kinda ramble on forever, so for that, I either apologize or hope you like reading. Â
For a bit about myself, I am double majoring in Illustration/Animation and Philosophy, though nearly done~ Â (The latter of those two interests likely contributes to the 'excessively verbose' thing, alas.) Â I enjoy debates about weird stuff like metaphysical quandaries, but also character psychology, and.. just about anything with characters, really, as I aim to be either a character designer or freelance illustrator by trade.
In so far as the 'list of potential interests' goes previously stickied on this forum, I've played a number of MMORPGs, but the few I stuck with (when I played them) were various iterations of Ragnarok Online (awkward laughter), WoW, Neverwinter Nights (if you can even count that one, that was entirely roleplay), and Guild Wars 2. Â And now FFXIV~
I've been RPing for a long while, but the mediums I started in were a bit different than most. Â When I was younger, the RP I did was a lot more LARP-like in origin, with friends getting together to occasionally dress up, and act out different characters for a story that went on for longer than a year. Â Then I briefly dabbled in forum rp, but not very much, before picking RP up again in the form of something like 'online collaborative comics' on a site called Tegaki-E. Â Basically, you draw everything, so that was much more of an 'art based' RP. Â Finally, after a bit more forum dabbling, some friends from Tegaki got me into Neverwinter Nights, which was my first time seriously roleplaying in a MMO. Â On those servers, everything was in-character, from your character's level, to the gear they had, where they wandered, and so on. Â But the world itself was DM-player created, so it changed with the characters' actions, and you could get gear created for your character, (literally one of a kind) specifically through story and events. Â It was really great, but for reasons outside of its potential, I stepped back from it after a few years, and went to GW2 instead. Â I'll still occasionally RP there, but FFXIV seems much more rp friendly, and I am really enjoying the game as well. Â There is so much neat lore, and options and potential for great RP here, it's really exciting! Â Though I'm still bumbling a bit through game mechanics, and as I have spotty internet, sometimes I end up being a bit slow on the uptake of replies. Â (I missed my first chance to RP with someone in the game because I couldn't get the channel switch thing to work fast enough, it was so sad. Â But a friend showed me the hotkeys for channel switching soon after and it's wonderful. Â Next time I'll be ready. Â >8|Â )
Currently, I'm still sorting out just how I'd like to play my character, but as a quick, tentative summary for who I'm going to play on Balmung:Â
Xavarian Mystrife is a young duskwight claiming to be an adventurer-scholar and mage, often getting himself into business and dealings surrounding lost knowledge, old ruins, mysterious artifacts, and aetherical disturbances. Â Magic in general seems to greatly excite and bring the 'best' out of him (if you can count spouting out continuous theories, experiments, and attempting rash 'Let's see what will happen!' tests 'the best'...), but on other subjects, his awkward 'people skills' leave something to be desired, as others tend to generally make him nervous. Â His love for puzzles and cryptic words when verbally cornered don't do him much favors either, but regardless, he is a very curious man, always eager to learn, and even more eager, it seems, to stick his (rather large) nose into secrets some might claim are 'better off forgotten'. . .
Leaving his background, family, and why he's up running around out of it (since he's likely not about to tell you that yet~), that's a little idea about who I'm thinking of playing. Â
I hope to meet some of you soon, and by all means, if my character sounds like he might be interesting for yours to run into, please let me know!
I'm rather new to these forums (and this game) but not to RP, and I'm excited to meet those I might have the chance to play with in the future. Â First and foremost, I often type a lot and kinda ramble on forever, so for that, I either apologize or hope you like reading. Â
For a bit about myself, I am double majoring in Illustration/Animation and Philosophy, though nearly done~ Â (The latter of those two interests likely contributes to the 'excessively verbose' thing, alas.) Â I enjoy debates about weird stuff like metaphysical quandaries, but also character psychology, and.. just about anything with characters, really, as I aim to be either a character designer or freelance illustrator by trade.
In so far as the 'list of potential interests' goes previously stickied on this forum, I've played a number of MMORPGs, but the few I stuck with (when I played them) were various iterations of Ragnarok Online (awkward laughter), WoW, Neverwinter Nights (if you can even count that one, that was entirely roleplay), and Guild Wars 2. Â And now FFXIV~
I've been RPing for a long while, but the mediums I started in were a bit different than most. Â When I was younger, the RP I did was a lot more LARP-like in origin, with friends getting together to occasionally dress up, and act out different characters for a story that went on for longer than a year. Â Then I briefly dabbled in forum rp, but not very much, before picking RP up again in the form of something like 'online collaborative comics' on a site called Tegaki-E. Â Basically, you draw everything, so that was much more of an 'art based' RP. Â Finally, after a bit more forum dabbling, some friends from Tegaki got me into Neverwinter Nights, which was my first time seriously roleplaying in a MMO. Â On those servers, everything was in-character, from your character's level, to the gear they had, where they wandered, and so on. Â But the world itself was DM-player created, so it changed with the characters' actions, and you could get gear created for your character, (literally one of a kind) specifically through story and events. Â It was really great, but for reasons outside of its potential, I stepped back from it after a few years, and went to GW2 instead. Â I'll still occasionally RP there, but FFXIV seems much more rp friendly, and I am really enjoying the game as well. Â There is so much neat lore, and options and potential for great RP here, it's really exciting! Â Though I'm still bumbling a bit through game mechanics, and as I have spotty internet, sometimes I end up being a bit slow on the uptake of replies. Â (I missed my first chance to RP with someone in the game because I couldn't get the channel switch thing to work fast enough, it was so sad. Â But a friend showed me the hotkeys for channel switching soon after and it's wonderful. Â Next time I'll be ready. Â >8|Â )
Currently, I'm still sorting out just how I'd like to play my character, but as a quick, tentative summary for who I'm going to play on Balmung:Â
Xavarian Mystrife is a young duskwight claiming to be an adventurer-scholar and mage, often getting himself into business and dealings surrounding lost knowledge, old ruins, mysterious artifacts, and aetherical disturbances. Â Magic in general seems to greatly excite and bring the 'best' out of him (if you can count spouting out continuous theories, experiments, and attempting rash 'Let's see what will happen!' tests 'the best'...), but on other subjects, his awkward 'people skills' leave something to be desired, as others tend to generally make him nervous. Â His love for puzzles and cryptic words when verbally cornered don't do him much favors either, but regardless, he is a very curious man, always eager to learn, and even more eager, it seems, to stick his (rather large) nose into secrets some might claim are 'better off forgotten'. . .
Leaving his background, family, and why he's up running around out of it (since he's likely not about to tell you that yet~), that's a little idea about who I'm thinking of playing. Â
I hope to meet some of you soon, and by all means, if my character sounds like he might be interesting for yours to run into, please let me know!