A few more questions:

• You said the site's setting will be like modern day Earth and I'm curious what that might entail or if you have an idea of it. Is this the kind of place where we could expect the general weirdness of Dragon Ball with random monster and animal people in an average crowd? How commonplace are characters with extraordinary abilities?
• When you say "illustrated", are there any stylistic restrictions (i.e. must be "animanga")? Let's say, hypothetically, I wanted to use Tamiyo from Magic: the Gathering or Despero from DC Comics as an FC.
• Will certain notable species have pre-written lore for them to keep everyone on the same page?
• How will the site treat obligatory anime transformations?
• A lot of stock Dragon Ball races are aliens and I'm curious how you intend to weave those into the setting given that it takes place on a single planet. Will they all just be native to that planet in this setting, or will some characters come from space?

I am extremely apprehensive about joining a Dragon Ball/battle shounen site that uses stats just because, in my experience, it tends to attract the worst kind of role players when it does, and honestly, Dragon Ball just seems to attract a lot of communities I don't vibe with. But unfortunately my brain is already ticking with character concepts, so like...

Is this going to be a stat-based site, or freeform?

I'd be happy to post here!

Character A: A character from a bad future timeline where Pokémon are thought to be (but may not actually be) extinct because Ultra Beasts have ecologically out-competed them. Some contingent of people tame Ultra Beasts in lieu of Pokémon, but they are treated as dangerous monsters, so with no better frame of reference, they assume the same of Pokemon. Their partner is intended to be Xurkitree because of how freakin' weird it is, but that's what I'm the most concerned about (I swear I don't want to be a special snowflake, this is recycled from a romhack idea I've had since SuMo). Poipole could also work if that would be more acceptable, or I could have them be someone who accidentally rediscovered Pokemon in their timeline and be partnered to one (but they do not actually know what a Pokemon is).

Character B: Recycling an old OC from an defunct dystopian site where Pokemon were fully sapient, could talk, and were subservient to humans. She's the head of the government's mad science division who's partnered to either one of her own experiments (a Metagross) or a personal hitman she controls through unpleasant means (a Zoroark). I figured I'd never get another opportunity to use her, so I am potentially looking forward to this.

Character C: A character from a retro-paleo universe where humans and ancient Pokemon live side-by-side. She has absolutely no clue about modern social customs. Her partner Pokemon is some extinct species, but I haven't decided on which! Probably the most likely of these that wouldn't make it to completion if allowed because sometimes I have these super high concept ideas that ends up being less interesting to RP than it sounds on paper.

I'm interested in this site and have some "out there" ideas for characters based on the "anything goes AU" thing. I was wondering if it would be too early to run them by you.

I'm curious about a few things:

1. How will sci-fi canons who are nonhuman things be handled on the site?
2. Will canons from live-action series be allowed?
3. How will the open species thing be handled? Does the first person to play a particular species get to define everything about it, or is there going to be a workaround, like different types of the same species?

You already know I'm excited for this, but I'm excited for this!

Also, I have a question about the size of the setting. Obviously, Gundam is usually set in near space and deep space is uh, big, and I've seen that end up an issue on other space opera sites before. I'm wondering how big the actual scope of the site is going to be, considering that characters getting stationed on the other side of the same planet could be an issue for plotting.

I've seriously considered doing a mecha site, but I don't think it's something I'm cut out to run. Despite having the idea, I don't like actually managing sites and I'm pretty busy with both sites I'm on and life in general. I think one of my major hangups in fleshing out the concept was how to communicate the vibe I want for it, because a lot of the inspirations are either outside of the genre or pull from series very few people have watched (though thinking on it now with the benefit of hindsight, I think "Pacific Rim on an alien planet" is probably the right mix of conciseness + mainstream familiarity to get my idea across).

I'm optimistic that with the current Gundam series doing well, we might see a Gundam site or two pop up, or maybe just a Gundam-inspired site, but ironically, I don't think I would even play a pilot on a Gundam site.

Hi~ illidan main

I have, actually, been in your community briefly. What happened was that I just didn't quite jive with the site community. It felt like there was a lot of information that I needed to absorb to really understand the place because of my unfamiliarity with Pern sites, and a lot of the casual conversations were about subjects that I just didn't have interest in, so I felt a bit out of sorts there, in addition to just... getting busy, which I think was the crux of the problem. I might return to the site at some point, but I would also like to explore other options.

I want to clarify something for anyone else offering a site as well. When I say I don't wariness over foreign/non-Hollywood FCs, I'm less concerned with what's actually in play on the site and whether or not I'm allowed to use foreign actors or will be side-eyed by staff if I do so. I've seen sites before that have required you to use Hollywood actors (not sure this would apply to a panfandom site, but I'm covering myself) and I know K-pop faceclaims have a history of being stigmatized, and I haven't been on enough sites with actor FCs to really know whether or not people also have an issue with J-pop and J-rock musicians, or musicians in a broader sense, even if they've done TV/film roles. A few of the actors who've portrayed Zero's hosts/alter-egos have been musicians in addition to actors, so I want to make sure there are no issues with this for any reason.