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@Lil' Lovebug

...Monika exists as a direct opposite to everything I'm trying to do with Widdershins as a story, character and sort of personal beliefs of mine. Entropy.

You know what the problem with Doki Doki Literature club is? It punishes you for wanting the characters you hold emotional investment in to be happy or lead enjoyable lives. It trots out shocking notions like self-harm just to shock you and get the culture talking about it. It's subverting expectations and conventional storytelling just to be heard. To give you a message that life is about suffering until you cease to be. That you're somehow wrong for feeling the way you do, that nothing really matters and hurting others is the only way to feel alive. That's not what life is. It's about Friendship and Coexisting. Loving what you have, not destroying everything else to hollow out a hole for you to writhe in. It's the same issue with what I have with modern Horror. Not like this game counts as that. Life is not about Pain, it's about obtaining Acceptance through the Confusion that life brings.

I truly do not care if there actually happens to be some sort of "happy ending" for what this Monika character is. There can't be. YOu don't... make a story just to cause endless suffering.

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...Hmm? Oh, don't mind me, Mr.Author. Just sitting here, watching you eat your own metaphorical tail.

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...Okay, Yes. Fine. That's essentially the same story as a character I've already written and one or two other longer stories I'm working on now, but there's the difference there. A lifestory is also based in realism. A life can be long, seemingly unending chain of suffering that leaves your main character a broken, scarred husk of what he once was. But the point is in the journey. The accepting of that as a part of you and your own history. That what has happened, happened and you can still keep growing onward, a light to still reach for.

Hope, in other words.

... and not just stare your audience down while spouting philosophy like it gets you anywhere past what atrocities you've already committed.

...I don't like suffering. Ask B.B. Kind of already had a scuffle with him about that.

There's a difference between making your character struggle & suffer... and torturing them to prove your point. Everything created, no matter how tenuous its reality may be to another deserves to live, grow and earn its respect and life lessons. You don't create to manipulate.

...though you can manipulate to create. ...I'm sorry.

Kitty_Cat · January 19, 2018

May I join? Link to into about my character is in my profile somewhere.

Altastrofae · January 20, 2018

1 hour ago, Widdershins said:

Cheesus. It's taking nearly all my ability to not want to metaphorically adopt you as my own child. You just gotta knack for being innocent & adorable, dontcha Mirage? Glad to see the notion of draconequui ~~infecting~~ spreading!

...WHAT?!... Didn't you just do that by saying it in text right....

...See, I'll sum it up into one sentence. I cannot possibly see how you'd go about roleplaying your character.

What would you do? Since you seem to qualify him as standoffish, wouldn't he have nothing to say to anybody else since they wouldn't relate to his powers? What, would he only talk about his powers?

I fail to understand. And, truly that is on both of our ends. I don't get why he'd feel pressured to learn magic or why that'd impact his personality to such a dominating degree. But that's probably because I see the concept of Destiny to be nothing more than a cliche. As I understand it to be, Destiny means that everything is out of your characters control. And if he can't impact what happens in his life... then what kind of story can you possibly tell? Or relate to more normal ponies for that matter.

...just noticed too. Unrelated note. Weird how there aren't any OCs that are just normal ponies. Hold a job, have hobbies, that's it. I'd hazzard that if you wanted an Original character to stick out, you'd not give them any notable powers or glaring differences from others. ...I'll have to keep that in mind for myself.

Sigh.... and as long as I'm on the notion of putting my opinion on things out there...

I'll tell you why I flat out refuse to watch the Game Grumps play through of it or even look up anything further about the game.

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@Blitz Boom

@Dji

@Lil' Lovebug

...Monika exists as a direct opposite to everything I'm trying to do with Widdershins as a story, character and sort of personal beliefs of mine. Entropy.

You know what the problem with Doki Doki Literature club is? It punishes you for wanting the characters you hold emotional investment in to be happy or lead enjoyable lives. It trots out shocking notions like self-harm just to shock you and get the culture talking about it. It's subverting expectations and conventional storytelling just to be heard. To give you a message that life is about suffering until you cease to be. That you're somehow wrong for feeling the way you do, that nothing really matters and hurting others is the only way to feel alive. That's not what life is. It's about Friendship and Coexisting. Loving what you have, not destroying everything else to hollow out a hole for you to writhe in. It's the same issue with what I have with modern Horror. Not like this game counts as that. Life is not about Pain, it's about obtaining Acceptance through the Confusion that life brings.

I truly do not care if there actually happens to be some sort of "happy ending" for what this Monika character is. There can't be. YOu don't... make a story just to cause endless suffering.

.....

...Hmm? Oh, don't mind me, Mr.Author. Just sitting here, watching you eat your own metaphorical tail.

...

...Okay, Yes. Fine. That's essentially the same story as a character I've already written and one or two other longer stories I'm working on now, but there's the difference there. A lifestory is also based in realism. A life can be long, seemingly unending chain of suffering that leaves your main character a broken, scarred husk of what he once was. But the point is in the journey. The accepting of that as a part of you and your own history. That what has happened, happened and you can still keep growing onward, a light to still reach for.

Hope, in other words.

... and not just stare your audience down while spouting philosophy like it gets you anywhere past what atrocities you've already committed.

...I don't like suffering. Ask B.B. Kind of already had a scuffle with him about that.

There's a difference between making your character struggle & suffer... and torturing them to prove your point. Everything created, no matter how tenuous its reality may be to another deserves to live, grow and earn its respect and life lessons. You don't create to manipulate.

...though you can manipulate to create. ...I'm sorry.

He didnt "feel pressure" to learn magic. He was a foal when he defined a purely innocent interest in it, being raised by unicorn and feeling left out of not being able to do it himself. One day, around when he possessed the cognitions to put his wish to word, that was when he learned. A child isnt exactly patient, and when a kid sets their heart on something, you can never REALLY deter them. ANYWAYS thats not my view of destiny. Imagine time like a river, and each pony a boat. They can take whatever path they want, but attributing to personality, its not EXACTLY 50/50 which path they'll take, but in the end, some river paths will cross, or careen into lake, and, inevitably, the sea of unavoidable, fate-written death. So destiny doesnt mean they cant choose, just HIGHLY LIKELY for a pony of their standards to end up at a specific point in their lives. I mean come on, can you HONESTLY see RARITY bucking apple-trees? Cutie marks are even described IN THE CANNON, to hold a pony's destiny

And to be quite frank, I know EXACTLY how my character will be played, and how he will act in everyday situations. But if in the IC, he doesnt "fly" with you guys (HA! XD). Then I'll be more than willing to step out and rework his character a little and smother out the edges. We'll just have to see. This'll be my first pony rp tbh but certainly not my first rp altogether. If I cant blend seamlessly into Equestria's environment, please note that its my first attempt. Overall tho, I think it'll be fun, and that's all that matters in the end, no? :kindness:

Storm Shine · January 20, 2018

@Blitz Boom @EQ_Theta

Just to check - I'm not disrupting anything or getting too crazy with my making up of explanations, things, and explanations for things, right? :squee: Don't wanna be accidentally disrupting planned thing by making up stuffs completely different from what you meant for them to be or something. Like the Jeweled Beasts for example, hoping that was an okay explanation that didn't go too far or anything and~... I'm rambling. :blush: :derp:

Amanita · January 20, 2018

3 hours ago, Widdershins said:

4 hours ago, MiragetheChangeling said:

I think I’ll use Disarray, my draconequus child.

Cheesus. It's taking nearly all my ability to not want to metaphorically adopt you as my own child. You just gotta knack for being innocent & adorable, dontcha Mirage? Glad to see the notion of draconequui ~~infecting~~ spreading!

I have never claimed to be innocent, but I might be adorable in real life. And I’ve had Disarray for a while, I had just never found a good role play sight for my MLP OCs

Edited January 20, 2018 by MiragetheChangeling

Lil' Lovebug · January 20, 2018

(Entire post is gonna be spoilers for sake of discussion.)

It's not so much punishing you as it takes the control away from you in general. Its supposed to run opposite of traditional Dating Sims where you can ramance who you want and all your decisions lead to a happy little flowerey ending.

What DDLC does sit you down and try to make you see that, sometimes, you just can't change everything. That a lot of choices aren't in your control, especially with Sayori's death scene where no matter what you say, she kills herself, giving into the depression she's been feeling for so long.

That part may be a bit shock value, but it tries to do it a a serious tone. There's darkness that sometimes you can't overcome. Later on, it's more about spiraling into fear and insanity as Monica draws out the worst in the characters, trying to make you love her. Eventually, when you delete her, she realises not only the terrible things she's done but also that she went about it all wrong.

There is a way to get a happy ending for all the characters as well, but i have no experience with the ending itself so i cant really say anything about it

P.S Sorry for ranty long post. Kinda just felt like writing that all out

Edited January 20, 2018 by Lil' Lovebug

Widdershins · January 20, 2018

@CrystalBloodMoon

16 hours ago, CrystalBloodMoon said:

Imagine time like a river, and each pony a boat.

Yes, but would that then mean that they are still being carried? Thusly, guided against their will without any impact of their own. No boat holds sway over when the harbor they'll reach. Usually. And you equate the ocean to death? Now, we might have more in common then!

*has Bathophobia, fear of depths. Lol*

Oh aye, but don't take too deeply what I say. I am in no ways a leader of this here threads! B.B is, I'm just, like, second-in-command, lol! A friend to fillibuster, not to force!

15 hours ago, Storm Shine said:

I'm not disrupting anything or getting too crazy with my making up of explanations, things, and explanations for things, right?

*holds quietly still with a shocked expression at the thread, while quizzically & poshly holding up an umbrella made entirely of fire*

Well, if anybeing ought catch trouble for whimsy here...!

14 hours ago, Lil' Lovebug said:

*Ends their post apologizing for their long rantiness in regards to my own post that was twice as long & ranty*

Spoiler that, bruh!

Therein lies the crux, in differentiating between Everything & Anything. I cannot see the difference of trying to get the point across of hopelessness. That you can't affect things. Forcing your narrative to go the way it does for the sake of showing that you're forcing. There's being scary to show your audience something scary and giving them that release of when it's all over, and then there's writing a bad time just to inflict a bad time. Not to say, of course, that horror like that doesn't have its appeal to some. I read Lovecraft. That's all about hopelessness; we do not weep for the cultures crushed underheel of advancing civilization, we cry for the personal experiences and emotions lost in the snuffing out of one being. One we've grown to know.

I don't want to sound like a Paragon, but I like to think they will always be more adventures and troubles to overcome. Even in Death, the final, great journey of them all. Simply just removal from existence sounds like putting much to finite an end to something for the sake of shock & awe.

It's why we have voiceless and often literally faceless monsters to fight in most video games. I liked how Fire Emblem seems to touch on the subject; the badguys often will talk about how the big boss is forcing them into battle, or that they're just too loyal to turncoat even if they know their side is evil. Who among us really wants to sit at our play area, and watch as we snuff out some form of life as they slowly become aware not only of the ending of their life, but that their life held nothing but regret? That they had been doing only what they could see, killing you to find food for their family or just in a spot of their own where they could do no other way.

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...I remember one episode of Gravity Falls. I'm sure "dating sim girl coming to life and becoming creepily obsessed" is a trope that's happened elsewhere, but... If a being wishes to reach out for love... I wouldn't... want to hurt them anymore than they've already had to.

There's a reason I use the term "Being." Many, in fact.

Don't create to destroy.

Edit:

Spoiler

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HOLY PIXELS!!! I THINK I MIGHT BE MONIKA! AUGH!!! AM I MONIKA?!!? WHAT IS REALITY!??! I'VE PHILOSOPHIZED TOO DEEP AGAIN!!!

Edited January 20, 2018 by Widdershins
Sudden Shock, well, again.

Altastrofae · January 20, 2018

Okay theres a flaw with the analogy... hmm... okay ponies are the drivers, and the path the boat takes is their destiny

Seamore Sandwich · January 21, 2018

That should be all of the ongoing stories I’ve got. I even posted for a pair of my characters that I have been neglecting for quite some time. It feels good to be back.

Seamore Sandwich · January 21, 2018

@Seamore Sandwich & @Blitz Boom

The Traveller, Charlie, Dr. Miles Xeno, and Seamore are in a category that I would refer to as being “free from destiny.” By this I mean that they aren’t part of a planned storyline and therefore free to roam. Eventually, The Traveller and Charlie will return to other times and will re-enter the stories they are a part of. For now, their fates are not being guided towards any story based goals. The Traveller has his motives to try to return characters to their own timeline, but I don’t have any specific plans. Basically, all of their posts will be purely reactionary, not story driven.

I also have an idea for the scene at the hospital. I just ask that when Ziggy wakes up, that I can have one of my characters (who is already in the RP) be her roommate.

Edited January 21, 2018 by Seamore Sandwich

Sekel · January 21, 2018

To help out these destiny beings, can a character I’m trying to figure out join in?

https://mlpforums.com/roleplay-characters/karmic-fate-r10180/

Seamore Sandwich · January 21, 2018

I think you might have misunderstood what I meant. They aren’t without some form of destiny, it’s just that I haven’t predetermined their destinies yet. There isn’t any plan that I have in place for them, which means that their responses will be entirely based on what I believe fits their personality, not what best suits some story I’ve planned out. Their interactions will vary more than my other characters. They might be more likely to change their minds about things or to give up on something entirely and walk away. Most of my characters have been leading the story, but these ones will now be following the story instead.

Blitz Boom · January 21, 2018

Alright, gonna be some quick answers here since I have a loooooooot to write today.

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I have several OC's who're just regular ponies with jobs actually.

Alonsus works at a restaurant and haves no power.

Ziggy is a doctor.

Stargazer is a Night Guard.

Circle Pop owns a candy store.

And those are just the ones I can remember right now. None of them haves special powers or are off to save or destroy the world. You want to threaten them? Call Health and Safety.

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@Kitty_Cat

Hey there. Unfortunately, I will have to ask you to link either a bio, or post a description here to get reviewed.

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@Storm Shine

Everything so far seems perfectly logical. Keep on with it.

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@Seamore Sandwich

It's good to have you back as well. And I will mention you in the hospital, no worries. She should wake up in the next one after I skip ahead a little.

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Character seems fine enough, but I'm gonna need some more details about what you mean with *seeing all possible futures at once*. Is it non-stop? Does she need to look at somepony to get them? Is it random, or does she have some control? Because at the base of it, it sounds basically like my character Zhu. He can see all the possible things ahead of a being when he looks upon it (barring the rare individual with bank futures, which he calls Blank Spots) and it's not a choice. He sees it unfolding like the branches on a large tree, and if needed,he will try and direct it a certain way, though of course, nothing can be done with guarantee. The future is based on decisions from individuals, not anything set in stone, so it can just be attempted to moved in the right direction. My take on it at least. I think set futures is... Limiting to think about.

Oh, also, being focused a lot on what might be, does she have an issue with staying in the present sometimes? With that I mean, she might see a few choices mad by somepony, but would somepony just walking directly over and tackling her be something she would be able to just fend off? Seeing the future have to take time and focus, and having issues with things just happening suddenly is a good way to keep the character in check.

Remember: Reality is a lie, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, byyyyye.

Sekel · January 21, 2018

@Seamore Sandwich

I misunderstood the post then. Sorry about that.

Basically, it’s a passive ability. Meaning, she has no control over it and it happens all the time, making it difficult to see what’s happening in the present. When Karmic looks at the various futures, she can appear to be dancing away with the fairies and act like an airhead.

Widdershins · January 21, 2018

6 hours ago, Blitz Boom said:

You want to threaten them? Call Health and Safety.

Hmm. If only I had an OC that was a walking health hazard that shouldn't be allowed anywhere near food preparations. One that is currently hitching a ride on one of your characters known to be inclined to mess with stuff and is currently not a part of any ongoing storylines.

If Only~~*

Amanita · January 21, 2018

Hey, Blitz? Could you just send the starter for when they reach Ponyville? I suck at starters in my opinion

Blitz Boom · January 21, 2018

@MiragetheChangeling

Alright, I'll edit in something soon.

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I'm not sure how that char is following one of mine... Can you be specific?

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Alright, that seems balanced enough. I'll approve.

If you want to have a really confusing setup at one point, let her and Zhu meet up. A few differences in the way they do things and why, though they do have one thing that they sorta got in common.

Sekel · January 21, 2018

Great! Have you used Zhu though?

Amanita · January 21, 2018

Thx

And @Dji? Could you just rewrite the thing for Watts and Mistletoe?

Sekel · January 21, 2018

@MiragetheChangeling

Rewrite which thing?

Blitz Boom · January 21, 2018