PLAYER WANTS
What are your favorite kinds of plots and relationships to play?: I love classic plots of revenge, adventure, or what-have-you, but I'll give anything a try!
What are your least favorite kinds of plots and relationships to play?: Grimdark. It's often not enjoyable to read without memeing, which sort of undermines the whole thing.
What are your favorite character types to play?: I like to play a wide mix of characters. Noble heroes, vile villains, complex anti-heroes, complex heroes, all sorts.
Are you a planner or a pantser? Do you prefer to pre-plan and stick to a script when posting, or do you prefer to surprise and be surprised?: I like to have endgoals and plans for personal writing, but in RP I prefer to have an end-goal or starting point and organically build to or from those.
How do you feel about group threads?: They're slower, but I don't mind much, as long as everyone's on the same page.
How often can you reply to any given thread? How long should a partner wait before nudging you for a post?: My availability varies. Sometimes I am able to post over and over again during a six-hour period, other times I can only respond to a few posts at the end of my day.
What is the longest you're willing to wait for a reply to a thread?: A week without nudging someone. But I can wait far longer if people are going through it or IRL takes precedence.
How do you feel about instant messenger RP?: I can do that, but I like to have logs and I often take a bit longer than a lot of IM RPers like.
Ho do you feel about post volleying/rapidfire RP?:(Where you and another player post rapidly back and forth in a thread with each other.) This is a hard state for me to reach, I only rarely "get into the zone" and put out lots and lots of posts quick. Don't expect me to be able to do this a lot.
What's your preferred posting style? Long posts? Short posts? Anything and everything?: I try to post at a size that's called for, rather than inflating word-count OR getting lazy. Introductory posts for threads often require a lot more description for scene setting and actions and thoughts, before it can give way to snappy dialogue and short posts with a handful of sentences.
Any RP styles/habits that you love?: I like to post music on some posts for setting a vibe, forums let me make writing a multi-sensory experience sometimes.
Any RP styles/habits that you avoid?: I try not to make characters that are 1-for-1 my personality or self-inserts. It gets... weird.
PLAYER LIMITS
What are you limits regarding powerplay/godmoding?:(For instance, do you mind if someone grabs your character? Picks them up? Punches them?) Depending on the circumstances, I don't mind if someone "bunnies" my character. A lucky sucker punch will probably hit a guy that isn't expecting it. If a shorter person is getting in the business of a big, beefy guy, then that big beefy guy can probably pick the shortie up. My limits usually extend to someone making my characters act OUT of character, speak or think differently then I picture or write them speaking or thinking or acting. Ask me first if you're unsure, if not I will let you know if I'm uncomfortable with something.
What are your limits in regards to romantic situations?:(What are you comfortable with and not comfortable with? Do you prefer to pre-plot relationships or let them happen organically? Are you open to IC-rejection or love-triangles? Age differences? Etc.) I prefer that everyone be on the same page for an IC romantic relationship. Some characters of mine would have no interest in dating, others might fall in love easily, and yet others might find their heart kindled with love or desire for one other person only. If you'd like to ship it, let me know. If I'd like to ship it, I'll let you know. IC rejection is fine for me OOC, can't guarantee all of my characters will react well. Love-triangles are a sometimes thing, and I feel uncomfortable playing big age differences. What I mean by "big" differences depends on the ages of both characters. Five years of age gap is a long time if you're both kids, but it's not a lot of time at all for adults over 21.
What are your limits with regards to graphic content such as sex, violence, drug use, sexual assault, etc? What is your comfort level?: I've never really been on the receiving end of a lot of this kind of stuff, but most of my characters and stories don't really get too dark. So, sex is perfectly fine if both players/writers are adults and underage people aren't going to see what we make. Drug use can make for interesting stories about addiction, loss, society, etcetera, but that has to be tasteful. I also don't mind people using drugs IRL, especially if it's done safely and they don't have any sort of addictive disorders, so a character using them just because is fine if it's not being used for misery porn. I... do not like playing as someone committing sexual assault, and probably won't change my mind on that.
What are your limits in regards to pregnancy within plots?:(Are you okay with pregnancy in plots? Miscarriages? Loss?) It's a natural consequence of sharing a bed, and can lead to interesting ideas. But I need to make sure both players OOCly agree on that being a possible consequence beforehand and agreeing that it happened.
What about healing?:(For example, a blind character magically being able to see, a scarred up character having their scars repaired, etc.) It depends. Someone whose eyes or legs were injured might want to regain what they lost, but having a guy who was born blind suddenly be able to see or a guy who was born with non-functional legs suddenly walk can very easily come off as ableist and I don't wanna go down that road.
What about characters being transformed against their will?: (Think vampires, werewolves, and magical spells.) My characters can be transformed against their will with my OOC consent.
Anything else?:(Anything else you want to add that other players should know!) PLEASE let me know if I am making you uncomfortable or if a story element or something that I say OOC hits you the wrong way. If I don't know that I caused discomfort, I'm not going to learn unless someone points it out to me. Also, please be patient with me if I don't understand an aspect of your experience IRL or your character's experience. I understand that it is not your job/calling/responsibility to explain, educate, or to "fix my ignorance" and I should always try to work on educating myself when I can. However, I am a cis, formerly Catholic, white guy from a suburban American town IRL, so there's a lot of stuff I just wasn't taught or didn't get to figure out when I was younger. On a lighter note, I love to read, even if I don't always have time for pleasure reading, so do let me know if you have any books or stories that inspire you or that you enjoy. I'm trying to expand my reading horizons!
