I meant I would pull some ideas from my request thread as for your idea idk what exactly you mean XP
I got that you said we could double and think of ideas, but I didn't get the rest. I have an idea that can be incorporated within a plot, more like a cultural thing or perhaps guidelines to a war. There is a Native American practice of counting coup where you touch enemies on the field to avoid actual harm but still establish superiority as a warrior. It's like scaring people by breaking through their security without actually doing damage.
we could do doubling and give me and I'll go and give you some ideas
All right, we can try. Out of those options I gave (doubling/inversion/switch/pre-plan/and the last one), which would you prefer and what else would you prefer for an rp between us? Any ideas or wants for a storyline?
well romance doesn't have to play a key role in the rp, I mean I'm fine with adoration of one chara that isn't met with any real feelings if that make sense
I am not against relationships or romance genres, but they are not my primary motivation or the feelings that they create; I don't want plot taking a lesser role. I've tried several ways to avoid getting stuck with the aggressor position at all times, in storyline and in sex since everybody wants to play the female, such as doubling (I get to pursue as the male and show as the female that I can lead the actual role-play plot as an example of what I expect), aggressor-inversion (whoever plays the female has to provide the main, IN-YOUR-FACE plot), switch-plotting (where one person leads a storyline until its conclusion, then the next person does the same, then the next and so on), pre-planning (forming the story before starting the roleplay), and neither expecting nor advancing any romance. The first always bombed, the second has never succeeded, the third failed, the fourth doesn't work unless both role-players communicate well and have similar thoughts for what should happen (IF both want to plan at all and sometimes it can take away the joyful surprise an RP partner can give), and the last has been the only one to make me happy consistently because I am not disappointed by getting my hopes up. I didn't mean for this to be so long, but it is frustrating to not get the best of both worlds. I don't mind a relationship, but I don't want to aim toward romance if it becomes a crutch in storyline or replacement for plot. (Would you believe I made this shorter?)
well... what I mean is that I prefer a... hate/fear relationship at first. Though I do like to have some 'adult' scenes in an rp you can go a long way without any of that XP maybe there isn't even 'love' per say but a fondness, really it all depends on the plot and what we have planned. I mean when I say I like and have to have some romance in my rp's I just mean that I prefer to have to option of a relationship, even if it's just one person being loyal to another that's a complete ass XD does that help? and the type of relationship would also depend on what we have planned it doesn't even have to be fear/hate or love/hate or whatever.
Right, I hadn't yet, but our plot is at a standstill and I know that romance is expected, which together are not good signs to me. I am trying to avoid assumptions, so I'll ask questions and write my definition too. What do you mean by romance? How much do you care about romance and what do you expect concerning it? Needed for a story or not? What do you mean by "not at first anyway"? How far later? I don't mean to ask so many questions but, unless two people are on the same page, there are disappointing misunderstandings. For me, romance can be so little as sexual hints in the writing itself to describe what the character looks like or does, UNLESS I know for certain that they are not looking for any sort of romantic relationship to the slightest degree.
but you hadn't gotten to a romance in that rp? I don't really care too much on romance... not at first anyway, I mean a little bit later maybe
I am not really into the primary romance scene. I thought that I could deal with that genre with Light of the Nephilim (which I assume is the one you are talking about) and I'm not feeling it, but thank you for the offer.
