1). The character creation. I suck sooo much at coming up with characters backgrounds/histories. But I love coming across a face claim and going all like "Yup. Making you a character." but most of the time I lack a place and setting to use said face claim and dont even have a idea to use with it.

2). The personal character side plots. If a group/setting has no real plot and lets it be member driven plots (like I have set up with my own site) Its a great way to come up with stories and rope other characters into it be it another persons or even NPC's

3). Feels and IC drama. Personally for me. I love the fact you can get so deep with the feels and in character drama and crap you can get into with characters. If i am able to message you between posts and go "Dammit the feels!" Or "Hurts so good!" or something. You know I am enjoying it

4). World building. With my partner, we're in the works of building 2 great rp worlds. One being my current forum rp and another on some other rp chat site. World building is great.... even if I struggle a lot on coming up with ideas and making it seem like one-sided. I do my best.

5). Character growth and development. When it comes to my own characters, I love putting them through all sorts of crap and learning about them as rp goes, as the plot demands. Because more than once, my characters actions have even surprised me when I realize what im typing.

...yea I know you said short. I got carried away. oops!

1) Threading with people - RPing is such an interesting concept to me? Like you're, in effect, making a story with someone else. Like a story that sometimes nobody knows where it's heading. Idk why I find it such a cool thing? Like you're working with someone else to create something beautiful you'd never be able to do on your own.

2) Living vicariously through characters - Like I as a person am not the most adventurous out there. I've never been in a relationship nor have I really done many interesting things. So to put my characters in different experiences helps me to understand the world around me, maybe not perfectly, but to an extent. It's fun to live a life I'd never be able to on my own.

3) Drama - I admit it. I'm one of those people that like putting my characters and ships through difficult situations. It helps me to understand more about my characters and make them real. I learn their faults and strengths. They eventually become more and more real to me which is really fun.

4) Creativity - RP forces me to be creative and figure out how my characters will respond in different situations as well as different environments. There are so many different genres of RP out there like superheroes or fantasy and it's like... I want to see how my characters will react in each one.

5) Plot Partners - I like learning a lot about my RP partners through RP. Like the way they write and the way they make their characters react shows a lot about them, what they value, and things of the sort. Sometimes RP is like getting a glimpse into two people's minds, that of the character and the RPer. It's interesting to see what I can find.

1) the creativity, while trends are still a thing and can stifle it (at least to me) there's still a lot of creative gems in this community that are worthy of note.
2) the people, which i don't consider quite the same as community as a whole. There are certain people here that you just know from this place or that and it's never a bad thing to see them again, they just make it worthwhile to stick around
3) the stories, as someone who finds story telling to be one of her favorite things the sheer amount of in rp and out of rp stories to be exposed to through rp and rp communities is so phenomenal.
4) The variety of characters and ideas, though again trends happen and can smother this part a little bit you still see little offshoots in the outer rim of the box that are just something special
5) the writing, the opportunity to write.