I am generally a sucker for Meaningful Names, so I will usually look up a baby name site (like beyondthename dot com) and scroll through lists looking for names that match the character's cultural background, etymological roots that match the character's vibes, and stuff like that. Sometimes I'll go with a name because I tried out the sound of the syllables in my head and out of all the options it was the one that I liked the best, even if it isn't the one that most closely matches the character's background. And yes, sometimes a name will just be a pun or a pop-culture reference of some sort.

I try not to reuse names for my own characters, but I'm less worried about other people and their rosters. Sometimes you hit on a similar name completely by accident and as long as there aren't "one Steve limit" rules on the site in question, it doesn't bother me.

individual content notices will not appear on the drabbles in this thread, firstly because this is a pg-13 site and secondly because I don't expect anyone to read this anyway, but just in case, this is your blanket warning that jenesis's writing may contain themes of: child abuse, deprivation, war, violence, death, toxic relationships, drug use, and suicidal ideation.

B//
20. Going Nowhere
09. To the Moon
21. Emptiness
27. Free Fall
02. Clean Slate
I//
14. 1924
11. Magnetic
06. How Have You Been?
29. Coming Home
05. So They Say
N//
26. Judgement Day
07. Dollhouse
FREE SPACE
04. Storm Warning
03. Beloved
G//
17. White Sand
28. Hero
24. Heartbeat
10. Risk
23. Once More, With Feeling
O//
19. Symmetry
18. Burn it Down
30. At World's End, I was there and so were you
12. Forbidden
01. Conqueror
BONUS ROUND//
08. Call & Response
13. Palace
15. From Afar
16. Smoke & Mirrors
22. Gold
25. Creation

one episode into fallout and if you know anything about my writing you'll know who my instant favorite character is

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promising leap fifteen [redacted] worth if they set up bingo--

(for legal purposes, this is a joke. BUT ONLY BECAUSE bingo is a joke)

but I kind of want this unironically now

Crying in I only owe like 3 things but its been over a week when will I finally get to them

Genuine question: if you're treating a "get to know you thread" as equivalent to starting a conversation with a random stranger at a bus stop, how can you be sure that you'll enjoy writing the thread with the other character? (Or rper, for that matter, assuming they're not a preexisting rp friend?)

(of course, it's entirely possible that we lie at opposite ends of the "willing to talk to a random stranger" scale!)

I guess I'm struggling to understand where would you put it, if not just a section at the beginning of the profile? (And who threads with other people without reading their ocs' profiles anyway?)

+1 to language like "content notice" instead of "trigger warning". I don't have triggers, I'm desensitized to fictional content in general, but there are still some things I don't want to rp (or that I'm ok rping with some characters but not others).

I generally try to post as I get replies, but if a bunch of them stack up, I'll try to set aside time to take care of the entire stack at once. I feel bad leaving some people on owed but not others.

characters with wildly diverging opinions of each other is such a trip (and I'm not talking about unrequited romance)

People take it literally when they describe characters as wanting or doing things against the author's direction?

I've always just meant it jokingly as "whoops I wrote myself into a corner when trying to make X personality interact with Y plot and now I have to figure out a way to reconcile the two." And I'm a fairly extensive plotter (to the point that my rp confession is whoops, I have a habit of outlining entire plots that never end up getting threaded, maybe I should rein myself in on that).

A lot of yelling, cajoling, and bribery tbh

And sometimes I rewrite the plot to let them do what they want but end up at the same destination anyway