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philosophy & values ask meme

(also asked by @escapedartgeek @norikwrites @laverginedegliangeli)

Ohmygod so many people asked this question, so I am going to answer this once. I just… Do you really see Iv as some kind of ruler or leader?

I have never seen her ruler. Despite the fact that some of her views could be called progressive, she doesn’t fit the role of someone who will manage a large number of people. Ivakir’s motto is to live on the easy and without problems. She doesn’t want to take extra responsibility and, most importantly, permanent responsibility for people. It doesn’t scare her, but deep down she is not that harsh to spit on the destiny and life of many people and not to think about her actions. This is the main reason why I never make Ivakir in any game or somewhere else the main character, a sort of savior of the world. Because she is not interested in defeating evil, to forget about herself and her views to make others comfortable. If she had become something like that, she could have used power for the good of herself, but she would never take away too much.

“Well hello there~” Yun almost cooed as she sat beside the man, small smile on her face. “I don’t think I’ve seen you before, or have I just missed you? Would have thought I’d have remembered a handsome face like your’s.” 

“Can I get you a drink?”

full disclosure:  i’ve only been rping on tumblr steadily for about a year (though i’ve been here off and on since 2015).  the biggest thing in that long gap i’ve seen is the shift to icons (which is nice and appreciated because it’s more what i’m actually used to) from giant gifs, and the formatting.  good god, the formatting.  like yeah, i use double small text and bold the first letter of dialogue.  idk why i do this other than it looks a bit neater to me than default tumblr text but some of the formatting i’ve seen...listen.  i’m old school.  i’m a historian.  usage of both grammar and emphasis has strict rules in my world and it’s hard to not let those two words bleed into each other.  so when people use bolds and italics for aesthetics instead of emphasis my brain reads it as an emphasis.  which let me tell you, makes for some very interesting reading because it totally throws me off the context versus the writing.  my brain can’t make sense of why you’d emphasize that.  that’s the biggest thing and sometimes it just drives me crazy.  this goes hand in hand with dropping important first words from sentences (using “the” makes you a good writer guys, not a bad one) and refusing to use possessive pronouns.  honestly it makes the whole thing sound wonky.  i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, writing for clarity and content over what’s popular is what makes me want to thread with people.  idgaf about aesthetics.

Valen and Skye

Amiee had been walking all day, having just been at Bunker Hill the last few days, assisting some of the traders that passed through and the more permanent residents with medical needs as well as helping out with their defenses. Once she deemed she wouldn’t be needed again for a while, she headed out, checking her Pipboy to decide where to go.

She decided on heading out of the main city, towards some of the more farming settlements that were a bit more of a trek to get to, especially for the ones to the north. Since they’d probably be needing some medical attention, considering a doctor wasn’t just right down the road or anything. She made sure she had enough supplies before leaving the city, a slight skip in her walk. Some reason, she was in a rather good mood today.

As she walked along the broken road, she spotted a lone figure walking along it too. Huh...didn’t see too many lone wanderers. She called out, giving a friendly wave. Hopefully, if she was lucky, bullets wouldn’t be flying at her right away.

August gave the younger man a weary look. 

It wasn’t the first time someone had said that. It definitely wouldn’t be the last, either. There seemed to be an expectation, whenever one of the Third Rail’s patrons plied the ghoul with enough liquor for him to reveal his old ID, that he should’ve been erroneously handsome before the war. Such was true for most pre-War folk. If they looked fucking horrendous now, surely there was a time when they were the complete opposite, right? 

You couldn’t exactly ignore how their brow furrowed when they gazed at that laminated face. It appeared more suited to selling insurance than making peoples’ pants plummet to the floor. 

Character Appearance Meme

What (if any) tattoos does your character have?(also asked by @edencursed)

Sometimes I forget that Ivakir has a tattoo. These are just ordinary bright stripes, either on the right or on the left hand, I forgot. This tattoo doesn’t carry any Hidden Deep Meaning, and I am 100% sure that she made it when she was drunk. I think that if Ivakir was not so afraid of pain, she would have many tattoos. She likes this kind of art, but not on herself.

What (if any) birthmarks does your character have?

the salty af munday meme

I created this blog three years ago, so it’s hard for me to say if there are any changes or not. I see now more negative things (in my opinion) than positive ones, and I hope that they will some day cease to be popular or important. Aesthetics, the hunt for face claims, which looks more like idolatry, no roleplaying at all - I, as a person who wants to write only, see these things as something useless, not interesting and negatively affecting the writing. I hope that in the future there will be more about the writing, and not about it all.