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We sure are!

Of course! We have two trans characters at the moment and we could always use more!

Hey there! I’m sorry you feel that way and you could always come to me privately if you wanna talk about it, but I think it really just comes down to making an active effort to interact with others and not take it personally if a starter or reply doesn’t get an immediate response. Some characters just won’t naturally mesh with others and that could be a reason why you perceive lack of interest in your posts, which isn’t a fault of yours. Just keep trying! If you see a natural opening for your character in someone else’s starter, try to see where that goes!

As for tips regarding interactions, I have some suggestions:

Make sure your starters/replies are active and not passive. This is a very common mistake I see in starters across the board (not here specifically) which leads to frustration. By active, I mean your character has to be the one “doing” something and leading the plot, not waiting around for someone to jump in and trigger an interaction. (This is the quickest explainer on the subject I could find.) 

Failing that, you should at least give the hypothetical other person a logical opening for theirs to enter the scene, or else you’re forcing them to do the heavy lifting for you, which isn’t fun. You have to make it easy for a potential replier, or else they won’t see the incentive to jump in.

My rule of thumb with replies to put it in simpler terms is this: make sure your replies invoke some sort of “question” (literal or figurative) for the other to answer. It could be them literally asking the other something (”What do you think about ___?”), or introducing a new plot element into the thread that the other person can’t ignore (i.e. an alarm goes off around them).

As for plotting beforehand, make sure you actually approach the other person with ideas instead of putting out a vague “do you want to plot?” feeler, because it puts them in the awkward position of having to think of something for you. This is why replying to other people’s starters is preferable, because you get to see if there’s some sort of chemistry between your characters before plotting something more detailed and concrete. 

Like I alluded to, some characters don’t have a logical connection between them to build on, and that’s fine! It doesn’t mean the other person doesn’t wanna plot with you, it just means the characters, specifically, might not jive together. Please don’t take it personally if this happens.

keep sweet-talking me and we gonna be like this

That’s actually something I’m working on at the moment! We have certain “clusters” of characters that would logically work well together (stealthy covert ops, electronic/digital, environmental based, etc.) and I’m gonna organize canon teams for them to join, so ~stay tuned on that.

Depends on what a mission calls for! Responding to supervillain attacks is the most common sort of crisis they’ll respond to, but they also have specific teams for reconnaissance and intel gathering, peacekeeping, diplomacy, etc. Basically the sort of problems you would expect the Avengers or Justice League to answer.