name? mel
where are you located? london
do you have any non-rp hobbies? drinking tea or iced coffee and crying
tea, coffee or something else? from the above you'd assume coffee but the answer is generally tea.
what superpower would you have? something ridiculous like plant control or persuasion
describe your dream day? wake up around 8 am, have eggs for breakfast, read for an hour, get dressed, go for a walk in a wooded area and forage for berries, mushrooms and herbs. PUB LUNCH! (but a quaint pub, not a Green Giant or a Spoons) then, nap time! If it's my dream day it's raining by now and I'm listening to some music while I make pasta for dinner from scratch, followed by movie marathon night with Oatly ice cream in a blanket fort.
your favourite song at the moment? it literally changes every day but: Only Love by Hanson
recommend one thing you think everyone should see/hear/do/experience: go for a hike without any maps and just your phone for directions. All the best adventures I've ever had involve walking for 2 miles in the wrong direction while questioning everything and anything before having a philosophical breakthrough. Plus, it makes for the most hilarious stories. (like that one mile that turned into three, up a massive hill with no footpath, where i lost my bank card, cried for ten minutes and ate berries on the side of the road before i checked that they were actually edible.)
how long have you been roleplaying? Since 2003 and
that episode of Charmed that changed my life forever.
how did you get into roleplaying? lol, on
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drew fuller forum
who was your first character? hello mary sue! before i really understood the mechanics of what rping was i played a nymph called 'melanie' (legit didn't get she could be named anything). then i played wyatt in a charmed rpg. i think my first proper character was braithe harmon on ms.
what do you struggle the most with when it comes to roleplaying? second-guessing myself and distractions. also, time constraints. i find it easier to post at night which means i usually have an hour before bed and it takes me on average, thirty minutes to push through mental fatigue to find words. honestly, i can forget the word i want before i can type it.
what are your favourite scenes/storylines to roleplay? ridiculous scenes where my characters can just be dumb or sassy. but i also love hurt/comfort and sappy scenes.
what kind of characters do you like playing? flawed, complex characters who make stupid decisions. or people who are just coming into themselves and realising their potential and who they are/can be.
real life or magical/fantasy? either! i love both. i will be the first to admit that i inherently drift to magical things, j'adore a little witchy fun.
would you introduce us to your favourite character you’ve created? buckle up, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!
calandra
queen of the scourge. brought back to life by the necromancer dorazi, she languished in the wasteland of between for three millennia before he bought back to Gaia, only to keep her in a cell for decades until she could control her powers. fast-forward to king athren disappearing and calandra used her powers and dorzai's influence to cinch the throne. her first order of business? to free all the banshee's from the between and create her own brand of mercenary.
with a modicum of freedom from dorazi's control, calandra chose to be a different kind of leader. she fell in love with one of her soldiers who was rudely bought back to life and thus, became a renegade. they married in secret and lost a baby, had a whole
~drama with his sister and brother and was pregnant with twins.
and then we took a break and i was tempted onto another board with the chance to revamp her.
so she became the daughter of boudica who met a boy in the 00's while
studying at st andrews. a decade later he turns up on her doorstep looking for his sister and they argue, fall in love, get married in the kitchen and adopt a pupper from battersea cat and dog home. because i believe in symmetry they lost another baby because turning into a banshee means being unable to sustain life.
and then we took another break...
and now, she's a history professor at columbia having moved to new york with her young daughter. bastian shows up on her doorstep looking for his sister (I KNOW!) who was their live-in nanny and finds out he has a twelve-year-old and there's a whole
~~thing. anyway, they get engaged and agree not to have more kids but lol, now she's pregnant with twins and libby's throwing a proper strop.
A
lot of her story in all those and more incarnations are in my head. She’s been the High Lady of Winter, the runaway daughter of a wealthy landowner who joined the circus in the 20s, A powerful witch & the matriarch of a great coven, she exists in every universe, in every incarnation. She’s fiercely funny, sarcastic and glib, she’s maternal and into history and tea. I could write about her and to her for hours and never tire.
if you actually read all that, you're a real dude. i know, legit been playing aspects of the same story for over a decade, but they're finally happyish!