Kaiverta

I'm aliiiive. Sorry for my silence. Had a bad flu for a month and then had family things going on (still have family things going on). The end of the year is packed with family. Somewhat unfortunately. Anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all who celebrate.

Newest commission finished a few days back. Remember to send me a message or comment in this thread if you're looking to get a character/couple/group/etc drawn. I'd be happy to help!

That's awesome. Thanks for sharing. There's also something called Grammarly? Not sure if that's just essay-related or if you can write your posts in it, too (etc).

It's great to see that this topic is still going. I had no idea it would elicit such a big response. Thanks, everyone~

I actually prefer to NOT get into romantic relationships, mostly because the other person is always unreliable >.> Characters can be together for a week (after knowing each other for months or years), or months, and then suddenly they'll 'get busy' (which is fine, ofc) and then don't message at all to at least let me know what the characters would be getting up to. Or what's going on with the relationship. Takes two minutes. >.> And it's especially suss when they're online but either don't message you, or are on another character but they are 'too busy' to give you two minutes to OOCly talk about what the couple are up to? Bah. Anyway, that's a different rant. So yes, I prefer to not get into romantic RP relationships but sometimes it's difficult. I like to let the characters write themselves, and when they've known each other for months and years and have had consistent interaction, sometimes that's just the way it develops (just like in real life, naturally). I haven't played a female character for... yeeaaars. Unless you count NPCs. I write those every so often.

Not everything has to be for "story's" sake, though, and what doesn't advance a group story or your character's personal story could still contribute to their own character's personal growth. Once again RP is for fun, not to mechanically carry out some "story." Guess I still fail to see the harm in it as long as it makes some kind of IC sense and isn't done throwing caution to the wind for some OOC whim. Nothing wrong with that either, but this person does it specifically to create OOC drama stemming from the RP. So she in particular is a red-flag case. There are plenty of people who aren't like that, too.

I mean, on some level you gotta push things along OOC and make things happen. The RP doesn't always flow in an exciting direction naturally. Everything we do in RP is for "OOC purposes," we're doing this for OOC entertainment and not to robotically carry out the lives of some pretend people. But I get what you mean it's annoying when things that make no sense IC are done for OOC shits and giggles. It's about keeping a balance between OOC enjoyment and IC believability. Yep, I've got no problem with creating storylines, but this one person is actually a gossip and drama-causing Queen, so in her case, when she says stuff like above, it usually isn't for the benefit of the story.

I don't understand the issue here unless I'm misinterpreting this. Not everyone likes soap opera style drama in their RP (I think that's more a matter of personal preference but I guess could be a "red flag" if someone has had bad experiences with that or believes it's indicative of some bigger problem) but it just sounds like... someone getting excited about the RP? Shouldn't that be a good thing? I love when scenes and role-play actually evoke some sort of reaction, or when the person I'm RPing with is excited for things we have planned, that's the whole fun of RP. I think what they mean is when someone preplans this kind of thing purely for drama's sake. Less so for progressing a story and moreso because they want to recreate Days of Our Lives: Eorzea Edition. I hope this tags you both... But yes, when people do this sort of thing purely for the OOC juiciness of there being drama ICly. For instance, I had one player who would sort of do things to try embarrass my character because that player OOCly was a gossip and loved drama, so she saturated her RP with her OOC attitude and behaviour. There was no furthering of the storyline, and it even cut the storyline short in some cases, purely because she wanted the drama. She even went against how her character had been (with mine) in the past for drama's sake, and that ended their IC friendship. Things like that. :3 Perfect example! What I was talking about JUST happened about an hour ago. This one person, who was in my example before, just said, "Who wants to do a mass murder? My character would never ask people IC but I want to do it OOC." That's a small, relatively sort of harmless thing, but it's an example of creating IC drama for OOC purposes. That is a huge red flag for me. It has always led to worse.

I don't understand the issue here unless I'm misinterpreting this. Not everyone likes soap opera style drama in their RP (I think that's more a matter of personal preference but I guess could be a "red flag" if someone has had bad experiences with that or believes it's indicative of some bigger problem) but it just sounds like... someone getting excited about the RP? Shouldn't that be a good thing? I love when scenes and role-play actually evoke some sort of reaction, or when the person I'm RPing with is excited for things we have planned, that's the whole fun of RP. I think what they mean is when someone preplans this kind of thing purely for drama's sake. Less so for progressing a story and moreso because they want to recreate Days of Our Lives: Eorzea Edition. I hope this tags you both... But yes, when people do this sort of thing purely for the OOC juiciness of there being drama ICly. For instance, I had one player who would sort of do things to try embarrass my character because that player OOCly was a gossip and loved drama, so she saturated her RP with her OOC attitude and behaviour. There was no furthering of the storyline, and it even cut the storyline short in some cases, purely because she wanted the drama. She even went against how her character had been (with mine) in the past for drama's sake, and that ended their IC friendship. Things like that. :3

I think 'maybe this scene isn't for me' is a personalized thing. Your red flags might be different from mine, so it's not a blanket statement that applies to everything. Red flags for ME, as based on previous encounters (from which I have learned, thank gawd) are things like: Fangirling. To a degree this is okay, but when it gets to the point that the person is 'jokingly' saying that they're sad you're RPing with someone else and not them, usually they're legit jealous or annoyed about it, and eventually the behaviour turns into serious 'you can't RP with them, RP with me' behaviour. Setting up IC drama. I personally almost never pre-plan RPs. I like spontaneity more than planned situations, but sometimes planning things is required. It becomes an issue when the other person says things like, "Omg it's so juicy, I love it!" Basically when it becomes gossip. Isolation. I had one person isolate me for four years (when I was a lot younger and more susceptible. It hasn't happened since). My IRL life was fine, because I was able to separate the two. Basically, this person was telling me very passive-aggressive 'bad things' about every other person that I RPed with (absolutely everyone), and I learned later that she was also badmouthing me (again, in a subtle way so it came across as logical, level-minded truth, not insane bitchfest nonsense) to everyone else, so I ended up only RPing with her, every day, all day, for two years (the next two get complicated and aren't required for this example). The community was ruined for me because I took her word for it instead of hearing both sides, and I didn't (and don't) like to gossip and ask people about it anyway, so I allowed her to isolate me. Never agaiinnnn! Those are the main red flags for me. There are other smaller ones, but I can't think of them at the moment. I've learned to spot them and change my 'behaviour' to avoid them, thankfully. Haven't had online drama for about five years.

That's a snazzy-looking/sounding character. :B

Commission for SicketySix.

Some quick sketchwork in PaintTool SAI between commissions, of my oc Krice (the long-haired male) and his new lady love. <3

Thanks very much.

Completed Au Ra for Dej. Thank you for your order.

Hey guys! Offering this sketch I did a couple months back as an 'adoptable'. This is my very first adoptable. It is worth $50 but I am selling for $45USD (it is a completely new sketch but with the same pose I have used in a commission completed a while back). You can purchase any edits required after that (price of edits depends on size/detail of edits) to customize the image as your own. This is fully customizable and limited only by your budget and imagination. https://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/a/aww.gif[/img] Feel free to ask any questions about customization pricing before you buy. Full-sized image is 2500x1310 pixels.

I like these questions. 1) Never had any. 2) Had katanas (real ones - warrior trained from an early age) 3) A married woman! (he's very honourable though so they haven't done anything ) I bounce them back at you, Roen!

Oh man, your art is soooo pretty. I love the airy, light feeling.

Welcome back.

That's a LOVELY sketch. I just have an uneventful midlander but I'd love to see you sketch him out. I've got a couple of images of him too: FFXIV Avatar, My OC, OC 2

Yaaay, looking good!

Newest finished commission - a character belonging to a loyal returning customer off-site.

Hasn't FF14 only been out for 7 years now? <.> Unless you mean you carried over the exact same character from another mmo to this one with all the same physicality of this universe o-o? In which case, what would you have him do if he did regardless ? Noooo. I only played FFXIV roughly twoish years ago? Or around the time when A Realm Reborn was released (soooo old). I've had my character in MuDs since well before FFXIV. I just created a character who looked like him to chase the storyline of the game. I didn't even know back then that RP was a thing in MMOs. What would I have him do, hmm... Something important and widescale, to do with protection of heaps of people or really important delegates.

Your art style is very unique! And your shading is lovely.

Thanks everyone. All your answers helped a lot. It DOES look like they're sorta anchored to the ear canal either singularly, or along with an anchor point on the jawline. Woohoo.