Apolline Allura

I really need to stop thinking the IRC as the premiere place for getting back into the swing of things around here. The problem is, a few years ago, the IRC was the definitive way to meet other players to me. I had gotten to know more than my share of people with it, and great times were had. Now that everything is more forum focused, I'm lost on how to get back in.

It's mad easy. Follow reason. Trust your gut, and your mind. The two have their moments. Trust your homies. Hell, trust your enemies.

But never believe them until the time is right.

Question, should a character have been responsible for the bed they made, and still manage to function as a productive member of society displaying joy and other emotion instead of losing him/herself to the negativity of the past be called as substituting tragedy and angst as character development? I can understand the need for positive character pasts and/or thought for the sake of the setting, but if lets be frank, character development is why we RP. Functionality is a thing I think can get mixed up in the message of the character. There's growth to be found in every character, regardless of the stripe, so shouldn't they be given the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the preparation before the execution of how they'll be written?

Snowflaking is a thing. It's a shame it happens, but one could attribute it more to the writing of the player in question than the character they chose to tell a story with. As much as it's important to the site to maintain a relationship with the setting and it's rules, I think we're forgetting here that some people like the idea of having a character with some degree of importance. Crafting an identity in Equestria should be a fun journey to see a characters rises and falls, and to make the kinds of ponies people want to play, not how saccharine or storybook it can be. After all, Equestria's been faced with far worse than things we even see here in the real world, not to say these things represent the norm, but lets be honest here. Equestria isn't the safest place, and neither should the stories be.

Outcasts and other types that don't seem to fit in whatever degree do have work needed, but I doubt they need the devaluing of tragedy or triumph to do so. Remember that a pony/person's past often precedes their present.

Wow... The universe decided you were ripe for the owning. Still, I think I'd be laughing after all of that ended. Misfortune, like many things, is always funnier in rear view.