#calledzone

**It’s been a short nine days since this blog started and you all have already graced me with the amazing honor of having 100 lovely people following this train wreck. So it’s time to give you all some much deserved love and appreciation! Below the cut will be a list of all the people who brighten up my day and who I consider to be friends and inspirations to me. If your name doesn’t appear; I’m sorry, but listing all 100 of you would be a bit much. Rest assured that I love you regardless of who’s name is under this cut!

Send me a symbol and I will tell you…

🌴 = a favorite canon character in my fandom

Honestly, there’s a lot ofgreat characters in the franchise, interesting villains and awesome heroesalike.

I think… when it comesdown to it, it may very well be Sonic himself. Funnily enough, I do rememberhis personality rubbing me the wrong way for a few years when I was a kid andwe actually had games where we played as other characters. But beside that…

Sonic’s fucking awesome.The Sonic I fell in love with was what I saw from Sonic X and around theHeroes/ShTH/06 games. He was a bit of a smart ass sometimes, a little pushy andrubbed off the wrong way, but even then, he was a hell of a great guy thatcared about people and fought for good.

Sonic makes me happy.

Also worth mentioning Ithink is Shadow; he’s pretty awesome, but I think that’s more because of his characterdevelopment, and what that comes down to is that he’s almost the only characterthat has had any meaningful development to his character, and he’s had a lot ofit, a lot more than any other characters, even put together. He went fromvillain to a very dark anti-hero to a straight up hero. His characterization in06 is another thing that makes me really happy.

🌵 = a disliked canon character in my fandom

Most characters I eitherat least like, or I’m neutral to, so… perhaps Amy? Or Tails? In canon, atleast.

Amy and Tails both sufferfrom being very one dimensional in a lot of games. Amy’s shtick is that she’sSonic’s crazy fan girl and self-proclaimed girlfriend, while Tails’ is that he’sa kid genius and very humble. Both are extremely boring character types.

My real issue, however, is that both of these characters got some workand character development at one point, most notably the Adventure games. Amyand Tails can both take care of themselves in their own dangerous situationsaround that time period, yet later on they can’t do shit. Seriously, what thehell!? On paper, these characters are awful and they were making progress tomake them awesome and then reverted that. Ugh.

RP POSITIVITY MEME!

♦ What’s your favorite thing about RP, generally?

If I had to say, I thinkwhat I really enjoy is seeing different people’s interpretations of charactersand where they go with them. Every time this comes up, my two longest buddiesanymore are a great example of that since they both primarily play what is thesame character.

@perfectdownpour isprobably what I would describe as a mostly canon Chaos while @amorouschaos isbasically ‘what if he was sassy and gay and flirted with people’. That twodifferent people took the same character, took what lore and understanding wehave of them in canon and took that in a different direction, both of which aresuper fucking fantastic. Like, what the fuck THAT’S AMAZING.

And to sort of built offof this, what I also really like is seeing their writing develop and grow. Themore you do something, the better it’s bound to get, yeah? So that’s alsoawesome.

Basically just seeing everythinggrow and get better over time. That is awesome.

✮ Do you think you’ve improved as a writer through roleplaying?

FUCK YES.

So that’s actually why Istarted RPing here. Way back in fucking 2012 I was RPing… somewhere, I can’tremember where, and I expanded to a Sonic fansite’s forum. Before I did this,my RPs were basically directionless and consisted of replies that were one tothree lines; at best, maybe two paragraphs and that was very rare. I startedlooking for RPs elsewhere because I was becoming very unsatisfied with thatafter so long.

So, the fansite was… fuck,it was a bust to be honest. The guy I ended up writing with wasn’t bad, not atall, and his AU idea was fucking neat, even if for him it did center aroundsome… meh OCs. After… two years maybe, he decided to really flesh out thebeginning of this AU that started off with Sonic dying and setting off amassive chain of events. Honestly, it was very interesting; I got quiteinvested in helping him figure out a timeline of events, figuring out whatcanon characters would be involved, where they would be, what role they wouldhave in the story, their characterization… I got invested.

It’s been a few yearssince then and he is still off on another site RPing smut and only smut. It’spretty sad, sad because he has great ideas and writes well, sad because he justsort of asked for people to help him with this idea and he left them high anddry.

Now, that idea fleshingout I did was actually after I started RPing on Tumblr, but it’s something Inever would’ve done without having started RPing here. It was so quick that Iwent from small paragraph replies to easily being able to do five paragraphs, sometimeslarger, and it got easier to be able to do that regularly… god, I had onethread where one of my replies was a massive nineteen paragraphs. It’s aproduct of its time so I don’t really like to actually look back at it, but Iam still proud of it. I started RPing here on Tumblr in the end of May 2012 andI managed that reply in August of the same year; only about three months’ time,a bit less, actually, because that was in the first half of August.

Goddamn. For as shitty asit has been at times, deciding to RP on Tumblr was one of the best choices I’vemade for RPing/writing. I got two great buddies out of it and fuck am I a lot better with everythingregarding the hobby.