Dreamcodes

i took down my fantasia lore post, as i have a lot of rewriting to do. i'm kind of anxious, because i tend to struggle with memory gaps and will often forget things and add inconsistencies to my own worldbuilding lore. it's embarrassing, to be honest.

so currently, my partner and i are roleplaying identity v with my oc, misha, and norton. we only just started last night, and i'm really excited and anxious. (in a good way!) i want to make sure i'm not inconsistent, and that i have my lore together. i've given my partner a crash course on fantasia, which originally was my dungeons & dragons world that i have never had the chance to play in. the first time i tried to DM will be the last, because my idiot ex-boyfriend wouldn't take it semi-seriously.

anyway, here's a sample from our roleplay:

it feels... different, having somebody take a roleplay seriously. of course my partner does, he has wanted to RP for the longest time, and i'll admit i did procrastinate for a little while due to anxiety. i've had really... unspeakable experiences roleplaying in the past, but i'm feeling both confident and a little anxious.

once i rewrite my lore doc, i think i'll be all set. i have a lot of things to change, namely mike's place in the story, separating my joseph/aesop story idea from the primary fantasia lore. (i imagine that the joscarl story is a standalone one, it's just based in fantasia with its landscapes, elves, cultures, etc.)

i will have to make a couple of separate entries regarding fantasia, though. i added joker into my lore, and he's from aegaeon, a kingdom that was flooded when montfroid's snows melted in one of the timelines. in the current timeline, where norton is alive and ada is queen and not governess, aegaeon burned down. joker has no memories of the smoke and flame, but all he knows is aegaeon is gone, no matter what natural disaster took place. neither of them are his home, now.

i also added a few more characters, such as eli, richard, edgar, and victor. i have their role ideas in mind, one of which is edgar simply leaving montfroid and entering joseph's domain during the events of the splitting (a point in time where joseph experimented with chronomancy).

this is what i have for the splitting:

right now we're only in the beginning part of the roleplay, which i'm super excited to do. as of writing this entry, my oc (misha popov, the cannibal) is introducing himself to norton, who my partner is portraying. we tend to do a lot of oc x canon RP, and it's really fun. we're also thinking about including orpheus/luchino on the side for this RP, since they both play vital roles for norton.

it's not every day that you find someone to RP with. i'm really happy that we're writing together again too. i also talked to a mutual on discord briefly about RP, and i'm definitely curious to see where that will go.

i love writing fic based on RPs, too. it's really fun to take what you collaborated on and write it into a piece for others to glimpse at. i used to do it all the time in my ex-friend group, but now i feel like i can do it again, but without the pressure of ex-friends.

in any case, maybe one of these days i'll open up an identity v roleplay community. i hate "character claims", and i hate when my favorites are hoarded. i've been in RP groups where one person was a bit of a whale, claiming every popular character and never really using them.

i kind of... don't know what the character system will look like if i did make a community. maybe people will have to rotate characters, or if someone is inactive for more than three months, the character is freed up. i'll work on this some time in the future, but for now, i would actually not be opposed against an RP with aesop and two joseph's. 😹