The Mountain Hermit

   Hi, I’m Genki. I’ve been here for over ten years. I’m pretty lax about rules, but here they are. I am over the age of 18, and thus will not interact with minors.

Formatting

   I don’t do heavy formatting. If you do, that’s fine. I like legibility in my threads. My right eye is bad, and it makes it hard to read a lot of current atheistic trends. If your response is unreadable due to formatting, I will ask you to fix it nicely. If I have to keep asking you, I will drop you. This includes giant images that are larger than your reply, or take up more than half an inch of my screen.

I am not my muse

   Simple as that. Meredith, and any other OCs I have on here, sometimes share similar beliefs, but not always. Meredith is an idiot. She grew up alone and will state her unbridled opinion. ABSOLUTELY feel free to yell, slap, or whatever your muse would do if she did something to offend them. If the content of her speech does legitimately offend/hurt the mun, don’t be afraid to tell me. We’re here for fun.

Anon is a privilege

   I will revoke it at any time for any reason of my choosing. Anon hate will not be tolerated on here. I’m fine with pretty much anything on anon though. You want to send my character hints through anon? Go for it. Make bad puns at her? Absolutely. I live for silly anons.

Shipping

   I’m open to shipping with others. The character is Demisexual, thus will require chemistry to even consider that. Platonic shipping, however, is the best and I am totally down for BFFs all the time. She is, however, still very closed off to strangers in most situations.

Who I will RP with

   ...This is an OC blog, of course I’m open to OCs. Just please make sure you have an about page that is legible. Doesn’t need to be lengthy, just make sure people can read it. I sometimes tend to be a little semi-selective, usually because our muses didn’t click, or I can’t find a plausible reason for them to meet.

Things I will not tolerate are:

Metagaming/God-modding

Smut hunting

Anon hate (as mentioned before)

Disrespecting the mun

Minors for legal reasons

This blog follows the schedule of the year

   Meaning, if it’s Winter in real life, it’s winter on here. Her products will also often change with what is in season at the time. During winter months, it’s hard for her to leave the mountain. During springtime she tends to get shorter with people as her life suddenly becomes hectic.

NSFW material

   There will be gore, hard themes, violence, and other stuff that might be triggering to some. You have been warned. As stated previously, if something upsets you, feel free to message me about it, I swear I will not bite.

   That being said, I also refuse to RP with minors.This is for legal reasons.

SMUT

   Absolutely never again. If anything like that happens, it will be fade to black. No exceptions.

Plotting

   9/10 times I’m down for whatever idea you have. You want a silly B movie plot then go for it.

Speed

   I am slow. I have a lot of serious health issues, I don’t mean to drop your thread, or be short with you. There are weeks when I simply cannot function, and just go to sleep for 20 hours a day until I feel better.

   Adding to this, sometimes I goof up and make mistakes. I’ll forget a rule, or be in a fugue state and generally sound like I’m drunk. I swear, I’m fine, this just happens from time to time, doctors are working on figuring out why. I am sorry in advance. It’s rare, but it happens.

I am not a prompt source

I know, I know, reblog karma is dumb, and it puts pressure on people to blah blah, I don’t care. If it’s so difficult for you to just send a little thing in from the prompt list you reblogged from me, then just go to the actual source. That’s not hard. It’s two extra clicks, if even that.

Length

I do not care if you do not match my length. I know the metaphor is overused, but it’s not the size that matters, it's how you use it. Sometimes my replies are two sentences, sometimes they are twenty paragraphs. But every single one generally follows a formula.

React -> Dialogue -> Move

Muse reacts to what was just said/done. Second, they either think about it, respond verbally, or the narrative takes over to help convey what the muse is thinking/feeling, even if they are doing/saying something else. Finally, and the most important part, is to move the story along.

Do not just have your muse react to what mine is doing/saying, then stand there like a cardboard cutout. Even with an unconscious muse, the narrative, extra characters, one time npcs, lots of things can be implemented to move the plot along.

If you want help with learning how to do this, I am more than willing to help. Communication is key!!

If you have read this, and understand it, send an ask saying “I’d like the Fables Special”.

//Like I said in the going away post, a large part of the issue was feeling like a novelty to several people. Being ghosted, or knowing some of them were talking behind my back/knowing others who are and actively keeping silent about it.

//Something a buddy of mine said in the time I've been away has changed how I view things, and it's something I feel like a lot of people in the rpc need to understand.

//He said "Everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager.". It's a concept I had been putting into practice for over a decade on here. Sending asks, memes, actively trying to interact with people, 'yes anding' replies or otherwise trying to progress threads.

//But, for that same amount of time, I've had countless partners give me silence or minimal response in return. It's exhausting, and made me think worse, and worse of myself until I began to outright hate the hobby.

//I think part of the reason I'm so wildly hesitant to reach out to people is how genuinely fucking awful people become towards female OCs. Quite a few of the new TFRPC folks weren't there for how bad it got back in and around 2014 until I don't know when, and my god it was heinous.

//Probably reached out to maybe 20-30+ different muns and got full on ghosted nearly every time except six or eight times. Most of the good ones were chased off by people, and one politely responded with pretty much saying "You're cool, I don't think our muses would work though." and we sometimes talk still. I got another that was just rudely telling me to not bother them, which is at least something. Rude as hell and could have been worded with a single atom of grace, but they at least had some decency.

//I won't go any further, but I found out through people who were on the "in" crowd (and promptly left) that it got way worse on the inside.

//Then there was the handful of folks that just kind of dumped me after a while without saying a word, which that was great for making me want to keep enjoying this hobby. I love sitting there for weeks on end, wondering if I did something wrong, or maybe I was just the fun toy of the month.

Send '🤝' for a pro and a con to befriending my muse! [Accepting]

Ironic, how one weighed down by their own past can be the greatest shoulder to cry on. If you need help, she will d o all she can without question.

Send '🤝' for a pro and a con to befriending my muse! [Accepting]

Food.

So. Much. Food.

If she feels comfortable enough around you, she will use you as a test dummy for her new ideas. Not all are great, but the bad ones are apologized for with some actually good cooking.

Send '🤝' for a pro and a con to befriending my muse! [Accepting]

A less obvious pro to being her friend is the privacy benefits her trust affords. Need to escape the world for a while? She's got a spare bed where no one will find you. Who would even think to look at some backwater orchard in the mountains? Why would anyone live up here?

Send “Corpse disposal” for my muse to go to yours for help in hiding a body. [Not accepting]

She looks more upset as each moment of silence passes, the body of another 'truth seeker' between the two of them. Meredith is not quite the type to ask for help. Or, in this case, admit she can't keep hiding all these bodies.

Send “Corpse disposal” for my muse to go to yours for help in hiding a body. [Not accepting]

[Accepting] Send 🍐 and I will badly describe our muses relationship