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It turns out Zeus is actually a pretty good extreme late game god, because the Myrmidons are actually really strong! Six or eight Myrmis can back up a couple of siege weapons and take out half a base.

I shall try to add the Zeus report to my blog in the not too distant future.

hS

Why hello there Kura, as I see you have decided to call yourself, from looking at the rest of this thread. I'm Twistey, a lightly-used-bie with too many writing ideas. I write both fanfic and original stuff, and I tend to study deeply into what makes a story good. I'm in way too many fandoms (even some obscure ones).

Anyway, enough about me, how about you? It seems you were recruited (I think?) and have a fursona (fine by me!), but what other stuff are you interested in? What type of fandoms are you into? Got any original worlds? What do you plan to focus on while you're here (both in terms of sporking vs MST and in terms of what types of badfic you want to cover)? And do you have any agent ideas that I could evaluate? I'd love to know more! :D

Finally, for your newbie gift, here's something I haven't given anyone yet, from one of the less serious fandoms I have. It's a toolkit with a set of knives and other tools designed to look like every existing blade in Fruit Ninja, one for each. Some of them even glow and/or make sounds when you swing them around, thanks to the glory of electronics and motion sensors. Use them wisely, for your virtual self or your agents!

Anyway, it's nice to meet you! Hope you have a great time here and welcome to the PPC!

-Twistey

And the reason I wanted to go with Twilight is partly to challenge myself, and partly to give the vampires a bit of pre-packaging, y'know? I don't have to work as hard to develop them and their culture.

A mini, huh? Awesome! Can I keep it?

1. Ah yes, Rose Potter. The nudist, Neopagan, jackrabbit Ideology Sue. (No problem with the Neopagan part, though - I have a couple friends who are.) All that stuff you mentioned is typical for an Ideology Suefic.
   
   0.5. Ah! Nice! I too have had an idea to write a de-Sued version of a fanfic (my inspiration was Starkit's Prophecy), so perhaps I can help. Overall this seems nice where you're going. (Also, Gryffindor doesn't have an e in it. You just made a mini.)
   
   And now for advice...
   
   1 and 3. Er...I'm really not sure how to do the complexity thing (I mean, I can do it, but I don't know any exact steps.) Springhole.net, however, has a page about morally ambiguous characters (link below my signature). Maybe that will help?
   
   2. The effects of muggle conflicts (World Wars, etc) on the wizarding world. That might be a good one.
   
   4. Wait, if you were bored by Twilight so much, why are you even making this a crossover? Why not just make the vampires a thing that happens in the story without including Twilight, since vampires exist in Harry Potter? Is it because of the Sueness of both, or what?
   
   I hope this helps and I'd love to beta read if needed!
   
   -Twistey
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   http://www.springhole.net/writing/writing-sympathetic-morally-ambiguous-characters.htm

You're right to stay away from Cursed Child, but you knew that already. :P

It's been quite a while since I read The Once and Future King for high school, but I do remember Merlin explained his knowledge of the future by telling Arthur that he experienced time backwards—his memories start at his death. Moving that into the Wizarding World's universe, it sounds like it could be the bizarre results of an untested curse or potion that used Merlin as a test subject—or perhaps even a failed early model of what would go on to become the time turner? Regardless of the actual process or event, it's very clearly magic that involves time in some way. Perhaps another side effect of the living-backwards is a dramatically extended life span, even by wizard standards? Then he can still serve King Arthur in the fifth century, closer to his actual birth—the end of his life, from his perspective—but also would have needed to be trained in magic much later in history, closer to his actual death. By the time Hogwarts opened, he was already an established powerful wizard from everyone else's perspectives, and the founders surely wouldn't have turned him away from enrolling, strange as the request must have seemed.

(Merlin's experience of life must have been difficult. Was he "born" on his death bed unable to talk? Did he have to be taught how to walk and eat? And think of Hogwarts's year structure: the seventh year classes must have been insanely difficult for him, not yet having experienced the basic foundations in the classes of any earlier years.)

—doctorlit, acknowledging that there's ultimately no evidence to this theory on the Potter end.

(Yeah, I've been playing Fruit Ninja for a long time. I got really good at it. But anyway.)

-Twistey

Hey there newbie! Have some triple chocolate cupcakes and enjoy your stay!

Also, it looks like you have a nice variety of fandoms, dunno about anyone else but I'd be more than happy to converse about some of them...

So, it's been a little while since I posted on here again, because of the approaching end to my semester, and because lately I've been focusing my efforts into the stuff I want to put into The Pit. As the title of this post indicates, I would like to ask for some advice, after I give a setup to what I have planned. (I will try to avoid spoilers for my own stuff, though.)

Everyone remember the Legendary Badfic series "The Girl Who Lived"? Well, I remember reading it back in (I think) late 2013- early 2014, and being distinctly disappointed. Obviously, as it's classified as a Legendary Badfic, it was not very good. The titular Rose Potter was at times an over-the-top and irrationally stupid and angry Mary Sue. The other characters didn't react to Rose Potter in a way that made any sense, and sometimes, like in the case of Hermione, were portrayed as being ignorant and backwards for disagreeing with the Druid lifestyle, and with Rose being an aggressive numbskull.

But what really rubbed me the wrong way was the way in which the author did not use the story elements that they introduced in a satisfactory way. For example, the series introduces the idea that Dementors are actually the remains of Necromancers who had used some kind of ritual to try and achieve immortality, or something. This part of the story was retold during the court scene in Order of the Phoenix, and then was never even mentioned again. The Druids, meanwhile, were deliberately hidden from the rest of the world, but being exposed to the outside world through their interactions with Rose Potter didn't cause any narrative conflict.

This caused me to want to write my own version of The Girl Who Lived, but I obviously had a lot of changes that I wanted to make. For instance, I decided to use the original Rose Potter's bad temper as a character flaw, that had consequences and that she has to work to overcome. I also decided to use the ability that the source material calls Void as a plot device.

The Druids will have a lot of changes made to them, though. Unlike in the source material, the Druids' existence is not a secret to the rest of the world. They do, however, have a complicated history with the rest of the Wizarding World, mostly because of a Druid faction I called the Puritan Movement. The Puritan Movement worships the earth as manifested by the goddess Gaia, like the rest of the Druids, but they're different in one important way. They believe that humanity is causing harm to the planet, by way of existing. There are further factions in the Puritan Movement, but the one that is the most troublesome is the one that secretly wants to "purge Gaia of the scourge of humanity". Sounds cartoonish, I know, but I will work hard to try and make their viewpoint at least seem logical and (maybe) sympathetic. When Rose Potter joins their ranks, the Druids are not exactly welcoming to her at first, because of the complicated history that they have with the outside world.

The Necromancers, meanwhile, are thought to have been almost completely wiped out. However, there is secretly a Necromancer among the cast of OC's I have created for the series. His goal is to continue his cycle of immortality. Simple on paper, but more complicated on closer inspection because of the nature of the ritual that he needs to use. He has a personal history with the Druids, but is simultaneously exploiting the events of the Harry/Rose Potter wizard side of the story.

Apart from the main cast of the Rose Potter original source material, I have created a cast of original characters (as I have said in the previous paragraph; isn't redundancy fun?). The Russo siblings- a brother and sister (whose names I have yet to come up with)- will be working in the background of the Harry/Rose Potter storyline toward their own goals, having to do with the Druids and the Necromancer, with whom they unknowingly have a personal history. The sister is Sorted into Gryffindore, while the brother is Sorted into Slytherin. This will obviously cause a little bit of tension, but I wanted to do it this way because it has the potential to open up a wide array of different perspectives and characters.

Apart from the main seven stories, I am also planning to write stories on aspects of life in the Wizarding World of Harry/Rose Potter that I don't think have been explored yet. For example, I have a horror story in the works that focuses on the troubled members of a heavy metal band who have hit a patch of abysmal reviews for their previous work. I chose to do this because it focuses on an area of wizarding subculture that has only been touched upon in the original work. (Harry Potter has a band called The Weird Sisters, which I've been unable to find much about, but it seems that they're in the same rock genre as Alice Cooper, minus the corpse paint.)

Also in further, more original stories based in my prospective Rose Potter Universe, I focus on some aspects of wizarding society that I personally would be interested in knowing about. For example, from Philosopher's Stone to Deathly Hallows and beyond, I will begin focusing on more partisan politics in the Ministry of Magic, with a set of political parties called the Conservative Party (or Tories), the Progressive Party (which will eventually include Hermione Granger in their ranks), and the Centrist Party (which is more of an umbrella term that refers to Ministry members that simply don't fit into the two-party system). Meanwhile, the International Confederation of Wizards is negotiating the implementation of an internationally accepted currency, and they're trying to maintain relations with both the Druids and the Volturi Coven of vampires in Italy.

That's right, the Rose Potter Universe is eventually going to cross over into the Twilight-verse, which will also be changed up a bit. The biggest, most significant change that I should mention that doesn't spoil anything is that the Volturi, originally the undisputed international authority in the Twilight source material, is fighting for control with the Alucard Coven. The Alucard Coven claims to be a group of direct descendants from the original Vlad Dracula, and they're quickly gaining support among the vampire community. The big issue in the Rose Potter Universe of my own creation in regard to the vampires is who the wizards should back for supremacy.

However, there are some things I may need some help with (hence the title of this post).

1. Something that I found interesting when I looked into fanon tropes was the Dumbledore-is-a-manipulative-old-man trope. Obviously, upon closer inspection, Dumbledore inhabits a sort of moral gray area, since he knew about the Horcrux being inside Harry Potter (since the original Rose Potter never got that far) and he didn't tell him about it. But my big question is, what are the other details of the trope? How can I use this trope to make Dumbledore a more complicated character without making him an outright antagonist?

2. As I have explained above, I intend to take the Rose Potter Universe beyond the seven stories from the original Harry Potter source material, and explore some untouched areas of wizarding world society. Can anybody think of some areas that haven't been explored yet? What *controversial* area of wizarding life would you be interested in?

3. A certain member of my series' original characters list (no spoilers, so I'm not saying who it is) is destined to take the title of "Most Dangerous Dark Wizard of all time". However, I'm going down a much less conventional route to accomplish this. For example, the character is genuinely interested in improving life for the wizarding world (even if it's at the expense of other communities, especially the vampires). And they never seek out the title, but the title is bestowed upon them by The Daily Prophet during a time of hyper-partisanship in the post-Deathly Hallows Ministry. On top of that, a lot of "ordinary witches and wizards" (meaning the citizenry) are going to support their efforts, and the biggest problem with the character is the company they keep. But what I wanted to ask in this area is how I can make this character even more complex, and possibly morally ambiguous. Any ideas, anyone?

4. I will admit, I have actually tried to read Twilight before, and I found it incredibly painful and boring to read. The main reason, I think, was the way in which it was written to sound like Bella didn't care too much about what was going on. But on top of that, I have heard that the Bella/Edward relationship has garnered a lot of criticism for its ostensibly abusive nature. This is a lot to work with, but can anyone help me find other major problems with the Twilight Saga (since I didn't read much past the halfway point in Chapter 2)?

Now I know that I have given myself a lot of work to do with this series, but I'm actually getting pretty close to the actual writing for some of the stories. That being said, I have some more planning that needs to be done, and I want to get it as close to right as I can. Any help that you can give me on the conceptual level is appreciated.

I'll be sure to let everyone know when I have them ready, and once I do, I'll obviously want some constructive criticism. That's looking into the future a bit, but it'll be fun! (It does mean, however, that I won't be able to post on here as much as I would like. Oh well.)

- WastedMoth

1/ I know Helga is Welsh, but her name is literally Helga - she's of Scandinavian extraction, no doubt about it. ^^ My assumption is that her parents were raiders who settled; they would have been a bit 'out of the way', so to speak, since Wales wasn't really in the Viking invasion path, but wizards tend to live apart as it is. If there was some sort of disagreement with Viking Muggles - or even with Viking wizardom - they could easily run away to Wales.

2/ Well, far be it from me to argue with a source of any description (with one exception, see below ^~). New idea: what if the castle was built around Castle Ravenclaw? Or, more precisely - around Ravenclaw Tower? I don't see anything in that description to say that the Astronomy Tower can't be older than the rest of the building.

3/ Hmm... unfortunately Alohomora doesn't come to England until the 1600s, so that can't be one of Salazar's. Though apparently Open Sesame was a previous version, and comes from Arabian Nights. I can see him introducing that.

5/ Ah, the Danelaw. Of course you have to remember that the Anglo-Saxons weren't terribly fond of Rome either, so Saxon-Danish peaceful contact doesn't help with the spread of Latin. (It's probably worth pointing out that most inhabitants would barely have noticed whether the rulers were Saxon, Danish, or Norman - they were too busy being poor and hungry and using whatever words came their way.) But on the flip side, maybe wizards aren't as parochial. Maybe it was a fashion thing, spread by apparition in the BC years, and by the time Ollivander Prime (^_~) showed up, all the European wizards were using Latin wherever they were from.

hS

Question 1

I am inclined to believe they did. Maybe not from the very childhood (like Slytherin; I doubt he carved his wand at the very old age of eleven... Also, he might've just travelled for a plant with particular symbolism), but there is a passage from the Wiki's page on Godric Gryffindor, which I believe was taken from Rowling's official site before it redesigned:

"He also had a versatile mindset as he chose to wield a sword as well as a wand (...)"

The only mention of Rowena Ravenclaw's wand is from the Philosopher's Stone video game, but that's a dubious source.

Also, Helga Hufflepuff came from Welsh valleys, not Scandinavia.

Question 2

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (which, again, might be a dubious source, but I believe it had Rowling's supervision?) kinda answers this one - the castle was designed and built by Rowena and an unnamed wizard architect



So, while I like the idea of the ancestral Ravenclaw House being used, I doubt it.

Question 3

- the Scouring Charm, Scourgify, comes from English.
- Alohomora apparently comes from West African Sidiki dialect
- Pack, used by Tonks

And the Sorting Hat once again comes to the rescue, placing Slytherin's birthplace as "fen".

Question 4

I... I have nothing here. The entire "Merlin and Hogwarts" thing is paradoxical enough.

Question 5

This is another one of the 'maybes', but I'm gonna use my linguistic knowledge to explain this one:

There are two most common reasons for adopting words and phrases (and spells I guess?) from another language:
a) Necessity - when there is no word or phrase in your native language that would describe the phenomenon/object/etc.
b) Fashion - when something from the other country is viewed as prestigious, fancy, luxurious, the adoption of the foreign term and replacement of the native term might occur.

And now I'm gonna go with a hypothesis pulled straight outta nowhere:

"Danelaw: a part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons." Danelaw appeared as early as the 9th century. And the two parts did held non-hostile relationship, as evident by many Old Norse words entering the English language.

On the Wizarding side, one factor was, as you mentioned, the appearance of Ollivander Prime, who established his famous shop and gained popularity due to his Roman wandmaking technique. In real life Scandinavian Magic, wands weren't used; instead, sorcerers would mostly use a distaff, a tool used for spinning flax and wool. But just encountering wands wouldn't be enough as, fun fact, the word 'wand' comes from Old Norse "vǫndr", and might be related to "wind".

But the spells produced by wands are a different thing. Perhaps the Scandinavians didn't know half as many convenient spells as the Britons did and the effects couldn't be achieved with the use of a distaff, so they were forced to switch to wands and use words associated with wands.

Let me offer you a bag of black-hole chocolates, and my congrats as a fellow Persona fan. I hope you'll enjoy your stay here.

I never had problems using them against myth creatures, and to be honest Hersirs does have a swarm aspect too in my opinion. Though I'll admit it could be influenced by the fact I mainly play Oranos, letting me with either healing from Okeanos, or the cheaper/regenerating combo of Prometheus and Hyperion. And even heroic Citizens can have a potential use. Beside Oranos, I prefer play with Hades, Ra, Odin and Fu Xi (guess having a brother snatch the disks I found on garage sales did have a plus side...).

Chinese look interesting to play for me, with the monks for constant healing, the cavalry... I also like the fifth mission of the campaign. Just a battle of your units against enemy regiments, but I like it.

(I've now read the sword one too; my poor heart, it did break.)

Let's take as a hypothetical example the Marvel Cinematic Universe (movies only). It's a great canon, very fleshed out and mostly consistent - but is there space for an OC not connected in some way to the main characters? I think it would be hard to find somewhere for them to go, because most of what makes things interesting is the characters.

To show what I mean, here's a few hypothetical stories you could tell... and why you probably shouldn't:

-Your hero lives in a city on the US West Coast, and fights supercriminals. Great - but why is it fanfic? Superpowers are so generic that you may as well make it original fiction. (Exception: if they're using something connected to one of the main characters - salvaged Iron Man tech, say - then they become an exploration of that connection, and not independent at all.)

-Your OC lives in Vanaheim, and you write a lovely story about her life there. Um... see previous point! 'Idyllic world being attacked' isn't specific enough that you need to make a fanfic, unless you have characters you want to draw in.

-Your OC is a previous Sorcerer Supreme. Yeah, you could write that. But then you're defining them as 'predecessor to Strange and the Ancient One', which is a very firm connection.

And so on. The thing that makes the MCU interesting is the existence of the Avengers and their ilk, not the wider setting. The planets and politics only exist to be a backdrop to their adventures, so writing without tethering the narrative to them isn't usually worthwhile. Contrast Middle-earth or Warhammer 40K, where the setting came first, and was used to build the narrative - Lord of the Rings was literally Tolkien coming up with a story to set in his previous world!

hS

And I hate him. If the Greeks are the generic nation, then Zeus is their generickest god.

I was struggling all through the first three ages, mostly because the Norse decided yet again to march across the entire map and harass me. At times, I've actually had Egyptian, Norse, and Atlantean troops all in the same place, fighting each other while trying to knock down my walls.

The Mythic Age has been a little better. I had to use Underworld Passage to launch an attack on the Norse after they started building both a Wonder and a Titan Gate, but the combination of Mymidons (Zeus's special infantry) and Gold Colossi managed to bring them both down. I even got to sneak a couple of villagers through to build a fortress and harass them, putting them out of the running until I get a proper army up there.

But Egypt is still harassing me. I've managed to bottleneck them into one location (which holds two gold deposits - I have killed so many labourers), but can't drive them back. I'm stuck on two town centres, so I don't have the space to build a proper army. I'm actually considering attacking Atlantis next - they keep running away from me, so clearly I scare them. Or perhaps I'll throw down a temple in the Norse base and start churning out Colossi to smash them... anyway, it's been a frustrating game.

As to the Chinese: I'm still running on my old game CDs! Until I get tired with what's there, I see no reason to shell out for a second copy of a game that still works, and Tale of the Dragon only works with the Steam edition. I quite like the theory behind the Monks, though in AoE and Galactic Battlegrounds I never got much use out of conversion. More interesting is the fact that China can deploy two amphibious units - and followers of Shennong can deploy both. That seems like it could majorly shift the balance of islands maps away from the Norse.

hS

We need five?

I see the trend continues. At least for these they'll probably have to make up a bunch of plot instead of stretching what there is? I guess?

~Z has not seen the first one (or read Cursed Child, actually)

I've just read through your prompts and bios; I'm on mobile right now, but I'm hoping to type up my thoughts sometime later today, when I'm home and have an actual keyboard. So...stay tuned.

~Z

This all goes back to the Salazar costume drama I suggested last year. You didn't think I'd just forgotten the concept, did you...?

-Question 1: Did the Hogwarts founders use wands?

I know that wands were present in Britain from the BC years (when an Ollivander came over from Rome), but so far as I can tell, there's no evidence of a Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, or Ravenclaw wand. There is a Slytherin wand, but the Harry Potter Wiki says he made it himself - and from snakewood, which doesn't seem to be a concept native to the UK (it's used for Australian acacias and a few New World trees).

So is it possible that wands were in a fallow period at the time of the Founders? Or perhaps Mr Ollivander lived in the British community in Wales, where Saxon Godric, Viking Helga, and Scottish Rowena wouldn't go (they being enemies and all). I may be way off-base, but is there even a possibility that their artefacts - the sword, cup, and diadem - served them in the same way that wands do nowadays? I can certainly imagine Godric channeling curses and spells through a sword.

-Question 2: When was Hogwarts Castle built?

Obviously Hogwarts was founded in AD 990 or so - but was the castle purpose-built for it? More specifically, I'm wondering if it could be built around the ancestral Ravenclaw home. It's in Scotland, and it would make more sense to use an existing building if one was available. We know that many modifications would have been made (Ravenclaw's magic staircases, Slytherin's cave of evil), but could they all be founded on Rowena's castle?

-Question 3: Which spells do not use a Latin incantation?

Yes, yes - 'Avada Kedavra'. That's where this question came from. Going by the Al-Salazar theory (that Slytherin was a Spanish Muslim of North African descent), I'm wondering if he was the one who introduced the Killing Curse to Britain. It certainly seems his style, and the one non-British Founder bringing the non-Latin curse is pretty tidy. So what else could he have contributed?

-Question 4: What's up with Merlin?

I had this idea that Merlin was the formulator of much of the pseudo-Latin magic - that he fit into the mold of the 'Last Roman', a Roman Empire wizard who settled in Britain during the collapse and gave us the pseudo-Latin structure of magic. Except... according to the wiki, Merlin went to Hogwarts, and therefore lived sometime around the Norman Conquest.

Which doesn't make a lot of sense! Merlin is supposed to have been part of King Arthur's court, but the kings in Britain in the 11th century onwards are very well documented, and there's no Arthur in there. Also: why do people keep invoking his name if he's a student of the Founders? Why don't they curse by Griffindor's beard and Ravenclaw's ears instead?

Two possibilities occur (other than 'Rowling mucked up the timeline', obvs):

--King Arthur was king of British Wizardry, setting his own government apart from the Norman kings of England. Shades here of the Raven King from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and the idea of a separate, magical kingdom that the Normans by turns respected and ignored. If we assume the Arthurian legends are similar in wizarding and Muggle tellings, Arthur's court would have fallen apart in civil war over the question of cooperation with the Muggles (rather than Saxons as the Muggles would have it). When Arthur and Mordred killed each other at Camlann, the wizarding world became subject to the Muggle monarchy. Merlin would be famous as the only Court Wizard in history - a sort of token of a Golden Age that never really existed.

--There are two Merlins. One was a gifted student in early Hogwarts, feted as the reincarnation/return of the other: the 5th-century wizard companion of the Muggle King Arthur. His story would be basically as we know it: standing against the Saxon invasion, and ultimately overwhelmed.

Would Merlin then be my post-Roman wizard, who set the magic of the British Isles into Latin so firmly that the Saxons, Vikings, and Normans all ended up adopting it? Or would he be the last stand of British magic, a Druidic (sorry, Ix!) practitioner of a form of the art which would soon be lost in face of the Continental Latin style?

Wait, that invokes another question:

-Question 5: Whence Latin?

We know that Rome was a source of magical knowledge: the first Ollivander was Roman, plus there's all that Latin. Assuming Latin!Merlin isn't a thing, can we guess that the claim Ollie 1 came over with the Romans in the 300s BC means he came over with Roman magic? Ie, that the first appearance of Latin spells in Britain was in 382 BC. That at least solves the issue of a 400-year-early Roman invasion.

But... why would the Saxons and Vikings use the same spells? They drove the British out! Shouldn't they have kept using the spells of Saxony and Scandinavia? And given that the Saxons in particular defined themselves in opposition to Rome, I don't feel like that would have been Latin-based.

I know Latin is the language of scholarship, but the reason for that is the Catholic Church. In which case... is there a possibility that the Church used magic? And that when they came over to convert the Saxons, they also converted them to the 'better' Latin magic? Combined with the introduction of wands (not as good as Ollivander's, obviously, but who'd buy from a Briton), they could probably make a pretty good case.

I don't know, maybe I'm completely off-track here. But it definitely feels like the prevalence of Latin among people who have no reason to adopt it needs an explanation.

hS

To put some worries aside, I doubt anyone will look at your past. But, I gotta say, purple and gold go great together, and IIRC, we need more people with some fashion sense. If you want a webcomic recommendation, there's this cute little comic called Spacetrawler 4. https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/2010/01/01/spacetrawler-4/ (Fair warning, this contains NSFW language, and some implied content.)

A guy named Larfen originally linked it to me, and I found I really liked it. It's about space. And a slave uprising! And technology. It's cool and I'm a huge fan of it.

I'm defaulting to my furry name for now, and just hoping for the best in terms of my past.

Purple is my favorite color, and usually paired with some form of yellow as a compliment. I favor cats over dogs, and have an odd love of webcomics, but little to no fandom for print ones.

Gelato is always a welcome gift. :3

I guess using my fursona's name here is harmless. And easier to tell apart from other nameless lurkers, so Kura should do as a name for now.

My fandoms, such as they are, fit the stereotypical nerdy hobbies. Mainly a lose collection of anime and video games I've particualy enjoyed (A decently sized list, but the Persona franchise remains high on it.), tabletop games I gather sourcebooks for (Exalted being the most frequently mentioned, though CMWGE has been getting up there.), but seldom ever play, and a few odds and ends. (RWBY, for instance.) To top this off, The Lion King is a guilty pleasure fandom of mine. I would also describe myself as a former fan of Homestuck, and of the Replay Value universe.

Probably should have started introductions like that, in hindsight. |3

Hope you'll have fun here. We're all very friendly, and there's a large RP hub on the discord server. As for the name, don't worry too much about it, and if you feel inclined to just dissociate yourself with your past, then create an entirely new one! Whatever you do, I think you'll be fine. What's your favorite color? Cats or dogs? Do you like comics?

Have some rainbow flavored gelato!