honestly by this point who wouldn't like to blast their first ocs from the face of this planet?

for me, mine was an oc named... terra. (honestly she had a last name but i've forgotten it because she ended up becoming a site meme so uh yeah; it's not important so we'll just stick with terra.) her fc was some random super obscure redhead character with yellow eyes that i got from anime characters database and had like two pictures for, if that, but i was that determined to make a convincing flareon gijinka for this pokemon site, so by that standard, hey, i managed. for context, she was also my first oc on my first "real site" (since i don't count the forum i was dragged onto by an irl friend since it was my introduction to rping and it was a rl-fc wolf shifter site, and i really wouldn't do rl fcs for another four years, so yeah, you can imagine things did not go well there). so uh. you can imagine the sort of terrible character you're about to see unfold.

no but okay, honestly, things might have been all right if it weren't for literally everything about her. i had decided to go for... i don't even know exactly what i was going for at the time. i think it was supposed to be super childish but in hindsight, it was really badly done (as in ho boy there's no way there's not developmental issues with her). on one hand, yeah, she was kind of a joke character and it didn't take me more than a couple of months to really treat her as such myself, especially when i started getting really into just spitting out random garbage and rolling with it for her canon (like the time when she was in a wild mod thread, a delibird threw a present at her eevee that exploded, and from that point onwards she was convinced santa was evil, which, again, would have been fine if it weren't for the fact that by the time the site ended up dead a year later, she had managed to graduate from "santa is evil" to "santa drives a woodchipper pulled by chainsaws and has a horde of murderous elves" so it's clear that we were going to extremes pretty fast). on the other hand, dear gods do i recognize now how painful it must have been for everyone else to rp with her, between me fully embracing the wildness by having her outright ignore any kinds of reactions she didn't like and the extreme end of "she's a flareon gijinka who thinks all of the other eeveelution gijinka are her family" thing i went for and found very quickly spiraling into sheer madness as i kept doubling down on the craziness. like i said. she became a site meme. in that mentions of her name always got "oh dear god" reactions from my friends on the site, even years after the place had closed and she was long abandoned alongside it. which in hindsight yeah i get that reaction and bless them for putting up with me playing her.

i really did love playing her partially because of all those factors. it was really fun to just. weave a super insane narrative that literally everyone other than the character themselves thinks is random and delusional. and it made it super fascinating to watch exactly how everything was going to go for threads. to this day, i really wish i could get back some of that magic since good grief i think that this character actually had some of my most entertaining moments of character development and storytelling. but i also recognize how much of a problem she was in terms of reacting to other players, so i honestly don't know if i would ever bring her back or try to incorporate too many of the outside workings of her character into another one now that i'm aware of how problematic it is for other players to try to work with.

Jun 29, 2019 2:33:25 GMT Ginger said:

I'm sorry what?  LOL  this is amazing, if it was a character on a TV show or Book.. Or Hell even in a Roleplay I could join in with.. I'd love this character. Just... Grabbing something random and running with it. Best Early OC ever.

Here mine was just a ginger cat obsessed with the smell of ginger, admittedly got banned for bad grammar...

yeah, uh. basically what happened was i was in a double mod thread and someone threw a fit over us getting rolled a lapras and a delibird, so i just shrugged loudly and took the delibird to solve the issue. the delibird used present, which has a chance to either give health to the target or explode; the mod's rng said it exploded, and since the character basically treated all of her eevees as her children to look after, it... kind of broke something inside her. she didn't get a lot of other threads outside of mod threads, for entirely understandable reasons tbeh, but honestly, her one mod thread was a ride from start to finish because i remembered that it featured a skitty that was trying to be evil (which was honestly probably one of the single best moments of pokemodding i've written with) and it had a pinsir, both of which were incorporated into the ever-involving conspiracy theory for santa being evil.

.... honestly her eevees were p fun too, one of them was determined to more or less be the trainer and another one was an absolute crybaby and one of them basically napped the whole time. it was p good.

also thanks i went through and found the old mod thread with the pinnacle of this insanity i regret like 100000 of my decisions now time to yeet myself into the sun

For the longest time recently, there was this old memory, a rp forum that I look back on and assume I must've had horrible activity on. I'm 100% convinced in both memory and self awareness that I probably like, made an app, probably posted once or twice at best, promised some threads and plots, then failed to make replies and left everyone hanging. Yanno, like how awful I am now. :'D

Then one day I actually decided to pull up the old site link and sift through it curiously, and my mind was blown. 6+ years ago me heckin... managed to keep up a whole THREAD going, large word counts and decent character interactions too. I couldn't believe it, I couldn't believe I did that, was capable of writing like that. U: Like, what the heck, me? How did you do that???? How??????

I thought my peak roleplay activity levels died midway through the very Warrior cat rps I got into rp with, but then apparently not quite. Strange how these things work. XD

consistently wrote 500w+ posts.

me: wtf

consistently wrote 500w posts in 25-30 minutes

me: WTF

only replied to people in a minimum of a month

ok maybe i've improved ...

wait holy shit i had like 1000 posts+ on this one site that i was only one for a couple of years? i had TWO sites like that? holy fuck, where hath my posting motivation gone?

i once kept up with 5+ characters long enough that they were fully plotted & thriving with more than one other rp partner. i remember those days fondly :''')