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I know jack about your Luffy as of yet, but I saw you reserved him on Taedium Vitae~ As your concerned (and decidedly more charming) older brother, I am TOTALLY EXCITED. I added you on AIM (I'm Aceonist) and will be looking forward to your completed application.

It's surprising there wasn't one there already. People tell me my Luffy is pretty good but I suppose you can look back over some of my entries to see!

Yeah, I'm going to try and complete it Monday. I'm writing this HUUUUUGEE history that I plan to use for future apps because it's no way I'm gonna keep rewriting the history for 500+ chapters of One Piece XD. Even if I just have to add stuff to it, it'll still be easier.

That so? Well now I'm really excited. Hurry up on your app, bro. XD

Haha, I don't blame ya one bit for that! I have apped Ace in a few places and just keep making necessary changes as I go along. I tend to write monster apps to begin with, even if a character has hardly any history.

Does this mean you are apping... CURRENT LUFFY?

XD Yeah I do the same with my characters. I usually write like uber long apps even if the character doesn't have much history or personality about 'em. I'll try to get the app done by tomorrow. It's really just the history that I should finish. Luffy's personality and sample post should be easy!

And I'm trying to yeah. If the One Piece characters there aren't from the current arc, I could take him back a bit.

I.. I love you, bro. XD

We have Zoro and Sanji right now, and they're all in the 500-something chapters with their history.

Hmm. A few other OP characters might be popping up soon, too, I noticed today. Yours was the main one I was concerned with enough to inquire for further information. XD

Ah, sweet! I'll probably grab Luffy from last week's chapter! Luffy's gonna be like "ACE, I'M COMING TO SAVE YO-- *see's Ace* WTF!"

Really? Awesome, I hope we get Luffy's crew and Boa Hancock! That'd be awesome XD. Hopefully I can portray Luffy good enough not to disappoint!

Haha, yeah. By this point, Ace is feeling pretty good again thanks to a doc at the Taedium House. He's just had some stitches freshly removed from his torso and everything.~

Perhaps some day we'll be able to attract a big group of OP players and get the whole crew. It would certainly be a blast. :3

Hi there. I saw you in the OPDR, noticed you mentioned that your Lu is supposed to have wings for Luceti, and realized that you do not have an icon with Luffy having wings! Since there IS official art of this, I whipped one up for you.

You know the drill, please don't hotlink, and if you wanna use it, please give me credit. I hope you like it! ^_^

AW MAN I LOVE IT!

Thanks so much, I'm gonna use it right now!

You're welcome. I aim to please. ^_^

I usually try to wait for game-wide HMDs and then be all "MAN I LOVED ALL THIS AND MEANT TO TELL YOU" but I always forget the things by the time it rolls around.

SO instead: have a love-list of random observations to keep up the amazingness!

A) Your Luffy is super accidentally observant and blunt about getting to the heart of the matter. WHICH IS AMAZING. It's incredibly IC (Deciding in Alabasta to just fight Crocodile and telling Vivi that people were going to die and she couldn't stop that, knowing what people's weak spots are and just pointing it out to them: Buggy's nose, Crocodile's fear of water, Alvida's lack of beauty) and it's insanely difficult to pull off. And you do it really really well which is a rare thing. So omg all the love for this. -- There are better examples of you doing it in threads that aren't me, but I did really notice in the running around with Zenigata, and also a few threads with Marco which prompted me to tell you before I forget XD

B) Related to the above; the fine line between Luffy's seeming accidental wisdom with his general "idiocy." This is something I think you were always really good at, but you've actually somehow got even better over the last year+ so yes, just don't underestimate how amazing that is, but it's a skill and a really important trait to Luffy and you should be proud Sir!

C) Your threads are always incredibly fun. Posts too. I know you get burnt out sometimes, so I just wanted to say, they are always always worth the wait and just so much fun it's always a pleasure to get in the inbox. He's also just delightful to read threads of, so I love seeing him around. Like don't exhaust yourself or anything, but yeah if you ever wondered; they're always worth it.

Okay there were probably more but I've forgotten them already, (I'm so awesome at this /sobs) BUT YES THOSE THINGS! Thanks for being Awesome Essem, all the love!

Fffffff. Well I have to say this REALLY made my day! After looking over a few tags some days ago I WAS wondering if I was still doing it right, and I'm REALLY glad I am. Man, thanks a lot for this!

But yesh, to be honest I guess at this point I don't even NOTICE I'm doing all of those things. It was a very very long and tedious journey of doing research on Luffy and trying to figure out his mannerisms to why he does this and that. But one thing that remained consistent about me is that I'm always trying to IMPROVE his muse so maybe that is why it seems like I'm getting a little better at some things? Even if I don't canon-review all that much, reading the new manga chapters every week really helps keeps his voice fresh in my head enough so that it doesn't fade easily. And thus I'm able to make observations about what I can improve on it and say "Okay, i need a little more of this and not so much that." How I play him even say six months ago is probably just a liiittle different than how I play him now. It takes constant improvement to consciously put his reasoning and thoughts into your head and write them out like second nature. Starting out with a Luffy muse in Luceti I feel definitely improved my RPing ability for not only the Strawhat but every single other character I get my hands on as well.

As far as the being burned out thing though. Yes. This was definitely a problem with me. After I finally got my Luffy muse in order my RPing with him was fine, but. I got burned out like every two or three months. And I needed to hiatus for at least a month or so to get my energy back. So there would be this burst of tags and activity and then bam done. This was hindering me because I wanted Luffy to get new interesting CR, I WANTED to keep up with the cast, but I couldn't do it for an extended period of time without stressing and finally burning myself out in the end.

It was only recently that after nearly just dropping from Luceti as a whole that I finally realized what was going on and why that was happening; I was spending too much time on my tags. There's nothing wrong with that mind you. Some tags require a little extra time to word properly and etc. But after so many tags small minutes start to build up. Let's say you have twenty tags. If you spend two minutes on each of them that's forty minutes right? Not so bad. Now let's say you spend five minutes on each one. That's one-hundred minutes. That's an hour difference. And if you want to tag everyone a second time? It's doubled. So that's eighty minutes vs. two-hundred minutes.

The reason I spent so much time on them was because I was playing Luffy you know. The main protag of a pretty beefy OP cast. I wanted to make sure my tags were fun to reply to and most if not all my threads were interesting. I wanted to keep him as IC as possible, and I didn't want to start to slip or mess up because I wasn't paying attention. I know the cast would always compliment and say they enjoy RPing with my Luffy so I wanted to make sure I wasn't letting anyone down. The problem was that spending that five or ten extra minutes on response sometimes just burned me out in the long run. The technique probably worked for the most part but it was a double-edged sword. I couldn't tag this entry because I was busy with these tags, or I couldn't do this because I was still busy with that. It also led to a lot of dropped threads on my part.

So when I came back for the billionth time I kind of changed the way I played Luffy as well as my other characters a bit. But especially Luffy because I realized recently that sometimes people just want... more Luffy. They want to be able to tag him for more than a couple comments without me dropping the thread. They want to have him reply to their entries more, so it isn't a one way street. So recently I've focus a little more on speed. How do I keep the same quality of tags but speed things up a little more so I'm more able to keep up with things for a longer stretch of time. I still don't have the stamina to tag in gigantic bursts. Usually it's a tag or two each day per thread but the main thing is I'm trying to keep them going. I'm hoping to get much better at doing this sort of new tagging technique in the future and improve myself as an RPer in the coming weeks/months!

BUT YEAH TL;DR IS TL;DR. Anyway thank you so much for the positive feedback! And for your patience as well! Seeing this earlier really did put a big smile on my face. XD

Edit: Oh wow. This was MASSIVE. Uh. Whoopsie. >.> THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T REPLY TO ME WITH MORE THAN ONE OR TWO PARAGRAPHS. I'M TOO LONG WINDED.

Edited 2012-05-12 02:08 (UTC)

/pinches cheeks YOU ARE TOO CUTE I CAN'T TAKE IT

AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, I don't think your quality has dropped at all; I think it's actually increased, so spending a little less time has definitely not been a detriment, it's been awesome. Like I definitely get wanting to think tags over and sometimes I do both (underthink or overthink) but with Luffy I think you're reaching a point where you can just go with your gut instinct and it'll be awesome. So don't worry! I've noticed, but it's been *GOOD* \o/

And the seastone grill thread has me, Erin, and Roxy constantly giggling. JSYK

I'm about to awkwardly confess my utter love for you and Luffy like the awkward human being that I am. ♥

Because I do, so so much! I got to Luceti hearing about how you play such an awesome Luffy, so you can only imagine how hard I was flailing when I finally got to play with you. A-actually, you remain one of the people I'm really nervous playing with. But I mean that in the BEST possible way!

It's because playing this kid would put me in constant contact with your Luffy, and you are just so incredible with him that reading your tags (all of them because I stalk like that ;]) I'm like 'holy crap is this the real Luffy talking?!'. I also love how you show his maturity here in Luceti and how it influences his thoughts. He's still the same lovable idiot rubber captain but so much more now. Ugh, I can't explain it very well, but let's just say that I feel what my Sabo-muse must've felt when he met Luffy as a grown up: that I know and love this Luffy right here, but at the same time, I'm learning new things about him and keep being amazed by him.

Okay, I'm getting rambly. Now, I know Sabo's interaction with Luffy here has been really patchy because I've been failing so much at life, but... there's nothing more I want right now than to have more CR with your Luffy, and develop his and Sabo's broship more. And besides that, I also hope to get to know you better OOCly, since you seem like a really cool person!

S-so... I hope you don't mind me dropping by your AIM sometime soon to plot and stuff? :'D; ((because plurk is throwing some epic hissy fits at me idk why ;;))

Hah, ya know I actually didn't expect this whatsoever, wow! Thanks a lot for this seriously. Fffff that was a pretty big surge of confidence you just gave me! I read it yesterday and it really made my day! And reading it again now kind of just... made my day again XD.

Anyway I really appreciate it. I was TERRIBLE with Luffy at first but I've come an insanely long way since then. I'm also glad that those little bits of development I've thrown in shines through well. Sometimes I think it's unnoticeable unless you're a Luffy player. XD

Hah and yeah go for it, I don't mind at all!

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