Names are interesting, I'll say again hehe. But fantasy is literally the definition of "reality can be whatever I want" so that's cool too.

Oh I see, I remember you mentioned the name now.

By the way could you please tell me what AU Dion you were referring to in our currently active thread? Because at first when you said "revive" I went like "did Galaxian do an AU where Dion's dead" and then I realized you probably meant like a thread or an idea...but then I couldn't think of what AU you meant, so if you could enlighten me I'd be very thankful.

Yeah, wasn't that Zhongli Mo you mentioned once in some post? Or am I remembering things terribly wrong

I know you do a lot of AUs and also you sometimes write stuff to yourself when roleplaying, so...that possibility wasn't out of my mind. Grown-up Dion would be pretty cool imo. I'd draw him except I'm not really good at drawing adults peoples lol.
I could draw Hot Dion. Like, Summer Dion (but not in the Summer Servant type sense, I mean like Dion during summer) under the sun and trying to cool off licking a popsicle. I kinda want to draw that now.
Imagine an AU but it's a cooking show and Dion wins the grand prize.

I'm not sure what that comment about the Alternate means/is related too but thanks for the info. I can agree it's sad.

You mean the planning post about F/DA? I've tried to reply several times but I get to a standstill because I can't process all my thoughts at the same time and structure them into something readable. For the future shorter posts would be appreciated or like splitting a long post into several short ones yep

I'm not sure. It'd help if you elaborated on that memory, but tbh this is just me not remembering every post I make (which I don't think can be faulted lol).
Are you talking about an art piece? I did draw him once. Extremely inaccurately. I need to redesign the dude.

Yeah, the possibility is there, though bold of you to assume that I'd reveal anything to others lol. 
In more seriousness, I usually just work with my characters when it comes to AUs, and if it involves other people's characters (nowadays, basically just yours lol), I ask them if I can. For instance, I'm not gonna kill off Sollux for Sunny in some AU to develop differently or make a GGaD AU where Dion and Rai's relationship is different than what it is in GGaD for my own convenience. Paymon is an exception, because he and Xenia are always dead. 
But I do think it'd be interesting if I worked more with others on this front. For instance, I'm very interested in Laurie. And I think I had more characters to list but just forgot all of them, whoopsie. 
Anyways... 
(*awkwardly laughs*)
(*tosses Wiley in a garbage chute*)

Dion deserves that grand prize. Though right now I'm imagining him winning one of those pie competitions lol. I think he'd like a blue ribbon but I might be wrong

Haha

Okay, we both know I'm not gonna do that, but thanks.

-Galaxian-

Echo calls everyone hot so I wouldn't be surprised

They simp for all of those definitions though xD

Well, of course, they're not the Ultimate Simp for no reason.

Well then, maybe it was something about Zhenyi. That'd make sense, sort of.
He sad

Wait what are "off character" relationships? I guess you might've meant to type "our" instead of "off" but am asking just to be sure
Oh no, Specter's melding with the hypothetical cursed fandom. Call the hypothetical fandom police
Y'know, the funny thing is that today I'd just remembered that CC!Rai was shipped with CC!Rune for a little while. I'm so glad they never met in GGaD because that'd just be awkward for me lol (and for context Anima didn't exist yet as a character lol). But anyways, awkward things galore I guess.
Rai and Dion can't be in that sort of relationship, they're both straight
And as I proceed to talk more about this to make you more uncomfortable, I don't think even the crackship part of my mind has ever shipped the two of them (and I say this because both Wiley and Raez have submitted forms that say they're straight lol), which is a good thing, I'm pretty sure. They have a pretty nice dynamic in my view, though it probably needs more development (my bad for sticking in Raez and Wiley, but the Not-Quad Squad's also comedic, so no regrets). But in any case, their relationship in GGaD is nice. I think my favorite part of it is how it's pretty calm on the surface but has its sweet and funny moments underneath, and considering how they canonically spend a considerable amount of time together, it's nice to think about. I do have to say the worst part is probably how they've been put together by circumstance and how, as a result, Rai thinks of the arrangement as being very temporary, but y'know, that's how most relationships work in real life, so I can't really be so stubborn on that end. (Doesn't stop me from being irrational though lol, you might have recognized how much I like long-term relationships.) 

For you, do you think that Sunny and Sollux would be in that universe? I was about to say otherwise but then decided that, for me, there are really just two scenarios. One is that they're single, and the second is that Sollux and Sunny are already grown up for some reason. Don't ask lol but I guess I just think that it's sweet for them to essentially be alone with each other. Kids are nice but they are so rambunctious (at least these two are lol)

-Galaxian-

By the way, I didn't proofread the above post at all, so sorry for any mistakes there.
But last but not least, do whatever works for you. I will caution you ahead of time that if I happen to reply, I prefer to reply as soon as possible (unless I can't think of a response, of course), so keeping track of those posts will be left to you. But I'll try to hold back a little in consideration of your time.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Well, you know, theoretically speaking, the Alternate's past shouldn't be as pertinent as the present, but we both know that if plot comes around there is almost no way that will hold true, at least for some of them
I guess for Laurie I keep being curious about her world lol. I've been developing the other Alternate's worlds a lot and it's intriguing. And yeah there's that bit of me that thinks a character who's related to her (not family, I mean, just having connections with her somehow) could be cool (and I do have a lot of Alternate ideas), but idk lol it's always there in my head somewhere and I can't quite make sense of it.
What I mean to say is that I think I wasn't talking about trivia (and didn't make it clear at all), but trivia is always nice. On a related vein, I've been thinking about making a continuation for the wiki museum thread for a while now, but I still haven't been able to decide on how to substitute for Helen, and you weren't responding to threads at all (essentially) during that time. But if I don't make one, I think we can always just make other threads if we want, so me wanting to see her more shouldn't be that much of an issue (given that you and her are willing for something like that to happen). 

(*dusts hands off by clapping them together while not helping*)

Tbh that superiority complex(?) is something (within other things) that I would definitely like Rai to help him with (as in "there's nothing wrong with being competitive but there is something wrong with wanting to be above others, not only in terms of the inevitability that someone will be better than you and in terms of why that sort of mindset is present in the first place"), but Rai's kinda immensely unhelpful when it comes to that sort of thing. I think that he thinks Dion will figure it out by himself or something, jfdiofjsdofids. 
I guess Raez could? But he's also literally a pirate and tries not to preach about morality to others because of obvious reasons
So now I guess the question is "would Dion share that pie he made or"
Rai has a neutral opinion on all sorts of pie except those with absurd amounts of chocolate, but sharing is caring, I think.
And a random thought to end this section: Rai would make a closet thing for Dion to store his medals/awards for cooking and banking. I think that's kind of a nice thought. Imagine they live normally, and maybe they aren't as close anymore, but that sort of thing would still be present and would be, as I said, kind of nice.

-Galaxian-

 
I'm still not entirely sure of how the Alternate's worlds' thing works and stuff, but I mean, I have my headcanons too lol. Laurie is a reboot character though and that means I had material to work with. If plot comes up or you have an idea related to that, juist hmu and I'll havppily share what I have. For now though I want Laurel to just enjoy herself in this life and find a hobby hehe.
I know you weren't talking about trivia but I offered trivia xD. Like how Laurie really likes spicy food? In the sense of spicy hot, not really salted with the other spices. She likes chili and chili peppers.
Dude, I'd be glad to have another thread to roleplay in. This year's past months I've been inactive because of a combination of health issues and being busy with school (plus taking a loremaster position in a server), but now that I'm on vacations I'm trying to roleplay as much as I can, as you probably can see. At least until I start uni cause I still don't have my schedule lol. My replies mostly slow down when I feel my mind get overwhelmed by something in the thread or related to it.

I've always found it curious how I could list more negative traits than positive ones in Dion's character and yet I still love him so much. He is definitely the kind of character who needs help from others instead of being the helpful kind. There are many things in how I created Dion that I really enjoy, cause I think he's a complex OC and that may be the reason I like him? I do get annoyed by his selfishness sometimes. I think that aspect of him is pretty obvious. There are many things wrong with him, but is anyone in the Not-Quad Squad really normal in the first place?
Btw can we abbreviate the n ame to NQS? I'm lazy and don't wanna type the whole thing out.
I guess he probably would, but probably in a tsundere kind of way (I hate myself for associating Dion with the tsundere stereotype but he just fits it really well in some scenarios) or trying hard to mask his excitement for having the guys taste what he made. I wonder if chocolate pie exists. I want to make one now.
Dude I'm a sucker for the headcanon of the NQS remaining friends till the future. I like to imagine that Dion gets his own home but he's still friends with Rai.

Yeah, though I wish you wouldn't remember it :') I'd rather you remember the one where I was strangely adept at coloring

To be honest, it surprised me too. That sort of notion likely is also why I don't remember it very well (also it was super brief lol)
A funny thing about orientations is that sometimes I forget people will change up characters' orientations, since I just make those orientations the same everywhere (at least for the most part? I can't remember any exceptions at the moment, except maybe my first batch of characters, and they don't count because I didn't define their orientations back then. I didn't know what orientations were). 
I can see that happening lol.
Yeah, those crazy fandoms kinda just go "THEY INTERACTED" and then ship characters based off of that "logic." Not that I can criticize much, since I kinda do that with friendships lol this is a halfhearted plea for help. But anyways, Rai and Dion as a crackship (and I'm not writing "x" in between intentionally) is at least not as cursed as Dion and Wiley as a crackship, if that's of any consolation to you. Tbh it probably isn't, huh
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I wonder if one time Dion will join in suddenly and surprise the others. He usually is just staring uncomfortably or something but that one time he makes a joke that fits way too much and resumes his deadpan expression. Slightly scary because it indicates that he got corrupted by the others' influence
jk...maybe?

Thanks for bringing that up. I've tried to keep that in consideration, but Dion does seem to do a thing where he kinda isolates himself (either physically or through his attitude, and let me just say that is 100% justified because Wiley is hecking scary). I've also been trying to avoid something I see where characters are randomly left out when a group is interacting, but it seems I accidentally went to the other extreme due to having control over most of the characters in that group.
I do have to logically blame Wiley for this first, because as you probably have noticed, he hogs the attention really naturally. So I have to orient my characters to incorporate whatever the heck he's doing/saying while trying to include Dion as well, and I think that has resulted in Dion being left out too much while I try to include Rai/Raez more "naturally." And along with other factors, like Dion not being particularly assertive/talkative and (again) most of the characters in the group belonging to me, he's more isolated. But that's no excuse, and I do apologize for the trend.
Essentially, I understand why it's happening, but I'm not too sure how to right it as of the moment. Do you have any suggestions on this note? Personally, I'd love to convey to Dion somehow that this "pre-existing friend group" is actually rather recent as well, and Raez and Rai (at least) are very willing to get to know him better if he wants. But as implied before, they don't seem to be as willing to address his attitude directly, which makes my job a little more difficult on this front. For Rai, it might be a matter of him feeling like relationship development isn't really important due to their relationship being temporary in the first place (as he perceives it, and not irrationally so), and Raez is kinda just...Raez. He has his reasons, I suppose. But that does mean that Dion might need to take more initiative on this, and he can't, then we'll need to figure something out. Trapping them in a thread/room and forcing them to interact lolol hehehe
Them working together in an Escape Room except 1) ordinary escape rooms are too easy for Rai and ones with the threat of death would traumatize Dion, 2) I feel like at one point Dion would get so fed up with Wiley that he just walks back further into the Escape Room just to escape Wiley

Relating to this topic, I wonder how Dion's and Wiley's relationship will evolve. I remember they were actually okay when it came to their first meeting (probably because Wiley didn't really want to get involved, no offense to Dion or Rai lol), and then at their second meeting Wiley realized there was someone new he could annoy, so...oops. He really needs to learn boundaries but I can't beat that knowledge into him :') as you can see from him tormenting my existence on a frequent basis :') 
What does uo'w mean, by the way

-Galaxian-

Don't worry, it's not really of any relevance at the moment. On my part, I've mostly had to come up with original stuff (I could recycle stuff for Manai, but I'd rather not because 2015 me's planning sucked to absolutely no end), so I hope that doesn't come across as too cringe in case there are any references to that xD.
"No u" lol. But yeah, speaking more seriously, I'd rather you have more control when it comes to what you want to involve Laurie in. I think that Galaxian made it pretty clear back when he revived them, but certain members of the group are definitely more involved than in the world than others (for now, that mostly means Nagesh; dude somehow got pulled into the CD plot on at least three ends right away lmiao), so that means everyone makes their own decisions in terms of what they want to do and that Galaxian constructed the group trying to make sure everyone would retain that autonomy in the first place (he's kinda nice when he can figure things out lol). More formally, that means that the entire group shouldn't go up in an inferno when important events happen to one/a few of them (the base is fortified and they shouldn't be that deeply connected with each other's issues), but more informally, that just means that I'd rather you be able to retain some control over what Laurie involves herself in so that there aren't nasty traumatic moments that you don't want her to experience. That is, both Galaxian and I wanted to prevent all of them getting dragged into the water without being prepared in case something does happen to one of them. So, if you want Laurie's past world to have relevance somehow, lemme know and maybe we can come up with a character or something. And if you don't, that's your choice, and I respect it entirely. I think the system's pretty cool.
As part of me not wanting the Alternate to completely dominate Laurie as a character in GGaD, I do think that her exploration of the world will probably come from other characters for the major part. (Manai and her have fun outside, but I somehow feel like neither of them are making moral discoveries in the process. xD no character development, just fluff.) But the Alternate will always be that home she can return to, even if she distances from them in the future on her journey. I know I sound kinda conceited and extremely biased when I say this, but I feel like the Alternate is one of the best groups out there [in the multiverse] to belong to, so why not keep the choice of returning, right?

I'm imagining Laurie chomping down on a ghost pepper with zero [0] expression change and Manai is literally looking on like "Wow :O" btw I feel like the Alternate is the group that seems very rational, but in truth Laurie did that because everyone bet a dollar on it xD

Not gonna lie, man, I was very jealous when you became loremaster and kinda went completely inactive here (: but I am glad you're back, lol. Though I do feel like I should be making less posts so you can talk to the others more. Eh. (*proceeds to continue spam*)
By the way, my mom congratulates you on getting into college! I couldn't find a good place to mention it lol it would feel weird if I posted on your homethread without something leading it, so yeah.
I hope you're not feeling overwhelmed here; let me know if you are. And also, on that note, sorry if I'm being really boring or have been really boring in roleplaying threads. I feel like I exchanged the senseless spontaneity of my 2018-19 roleplaying style for something equally as bad (a stiff and overly complicated style), and it's something I should definitely work on. I hope that when this happens you'll tell me more so that I can work on correcting it, so please let me know when you're stuck and the fault lies on my end.

-Galaxian-

By the way, just read this and respond to what you like (though give a little more prompt since it's harder to tell in clumps). I'm pretty sure me spamming all of this is going against many social etiquette rules, but the other day I just realized I'm pretty close to homeschooled now, so I have an excuse for preexisting social inadequacy (:
Anyways, it's okay, I'm used to waiting lol. I also keep others waiting a lot so that helps
I'm not very active in early mornings, period. Unless you count very early mornings at your time, in which case my brain cell doesn't function then since it's also very early morning here. I think I really should work on changing my sleep schedule but anxiety and stupidity don't make for a good combination
Good luck tomorrow! I have one more post and then will stop spamming. Temporarily.

-Galaxian-

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

A funny thing about orientations is that sometimes I forget people will change up characters' orientations, since I just make those orientations the same everywhere (at least for the most part? I can't remember any exceptions at the moment, except maybe my first batch of characters, and they don't count because I didn't define their orientations back then. I didn't know what orientations were).

I think I also keep the orientations the same pretty much everywhere. When I posted that I was thinking about the multiverse and the IQ that says “eXCEPT IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE IT ISN’T” and yeah. Way to go @me, basing my posts and thoughts off an incorrect quote.
I’d feel really weird if Dion didn’t have a straight orientation. I have some other characters with which I can go “oh well yeah I can imagine something different here” but for Dion in my mind it just…doesn’t fit.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Yeah, those crazy fandoms kinda just go "THEY INTERACTED" and then ship characters based off of that "logic." Not that I can criticize much, since I kinda do that with friendships lol this is a halfhearted plea for help. But anyways, Rai and Dion as a crackship (and I'm not writing "x" in between intentionally) is at least not as cursed as Dion and Wiley as a crackship, if that's of any consolation to you. Tbh it probably isn't, huh

There’s a differentsce between friendships and the other kind of (relation)ship. There’s fandoms where people will even ship characters who haven’t interacted. It’s wild, really.
Kill me for this but I think Dion and Wiley (almost typed Rai and Wiley???) is less cursed than Rai and Dion. As a crackshigp I mean. But a crackship’s a crackship and since Wiley flirting for fun is canon, I suppose ehhhh it’s really not that relevant in my mind. I certainly wouldn’t get annoyed over it anyways.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

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GalaxianExplosion wrote:

I wonder if one time Dion will join in suddenly and surprise the others. He usually is just staring uncomfortably or something but that one time he makes a joke that fits way too much and resumes his deadpan expression. Slightly scary because it indicates that he got corrupted by the others' influence
jk...maybe?

I can see this happening eventually once/if Dion gets more used to having the others around. I think that if he stops making himself feel uncomfortable (which is mostly his own fault for overthinking things but then he also has reasons to not be friends with anyone he meets, plus his personality) he’d be a pretty cool guy. Also have you ever heard of a group in which the members don’t influence each other at all? I haven’t, so I think he definitely will get influenced in time :’)

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Thanks for bringing that up. I've tried to keep that in consideration, but Dion does seem to do a thing where he kinda isolates himself…

Asjkfgalhdflg I have to say that a lot of the problem here originates from Dion’s personalityand the way he acts on purpose. Like if he were someone more outgoing, he’d probably press harder to get into the group’s dynamic and it might give you more of a chance to incorporate everyone into conversarion more easily.
Buuut one thing relating to personality I want to mention. If you can get Dion to open up to someone (Rai is the first choice in my mind but then again I can’t think of how he would react to this) at least just a little, he’ll want to talk. That could lead to an information exchange, I think, and if such a thing were to happen. I think it’d be easier for us to set up future interactions. The problem is how this could come about in the first place lol. If you can come up with a good reason for them to get trapped and have to talk their way out of the situation, I’m game. Dion’s character development is a dream of mine.
Btw if you want to traumatize Dion I can give you permission I think but maybe like a one-time or two-time thing only.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Relating to this topic, I wonder how Dion's and Wiley's relationship will evolve. I remember they were actually okay when it came to their first meeting (probably because Wiley didn't really want to get involved, no offense to Dion or Rai lol), and then at their second meeting Wiley realized there was someone new he could annoy, so...oops. He really needs to learn boundaries but I can't beat that knowledge into him :') as you can see from him tormenting my existence on a frequent basis :')

The’first time Dion was like “oh a random person I will not pay much attention to” and the second time he was like “NO” and didn’t take it well at all. He’s kinda exaggerated in that part too so don’t take it very much to heart xD. The first step for now is to get Dion’t to tolerate Wiley and I think I can work from there with whatever happens. It’ll be progress from having Dion be eternally irritated just from the thought of having Wiley around.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

What does uo'w mean, by the way

Typo for “y’know” haha sorry about that.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

"No u" lol. But yeah, speaking more seriously, I'd rather you have more control when it comes to what you want to involve Laurie in. I think that Galaxian made it pretty clear back when he revived them, but certain members of the group are definitely more involved than in the world than others (for now, that mostly means Nagesh; dude somehow got pulled into the CD plot on at least three ends right away lmiao), so that means everyone makes their own decisions in terms of what they want to do and that Galaxian constructed the group trying to make sure everyone would retain that autonomy in the first place (he's kinda nice when he can figure things out lol). More formally, that means that the entire group shouldn't go up in an inferno when important events happen to one/a few of them (the base is fortified and they shouldn't be that deeply connected with each other's issues), but more informally, that just means that I'd rather you be able to retain some control over what Laurie involves herself in so that there aren't nasty traumatic moments that you don't want her to experience. That is, both Galaxian and I wanted to prevent all of them getting dragged into the water without being prepared in case something does happen to one of them. So, if you want Laurie's past world to have relevance somehow, lemme know and maybe we can come up with a character or something. And if you don't, that's your choice, and I respect it entirely. I think the system's pretty cool.

For now I just have a set of “goals” I want Laurie to achieve. It’d be pretty cool to get her into plot but I want that to be once she’s more connected to the world of Forengard and can stand up adequately to problems. I mean plot related to her, because I don’t see much problem about her getting into a plot that’s not related directly to herself. While she’s already a mature person, there are other ways in which I want her to grow and mature as well.
I’d be all up to making a new character related to Laurie. Only once the opportunity I want comes though, sorry. Also, I need to develop her og world even more. It’s obviously not exactly the same as the original but there’s a base.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

As part of me not wanting the Alternate to completely dominate Laurie as a character in GGaD, I do think that her exploration of the world will probably come from other characters for the major part. (Manai and her have fun outside, but I somehow feel like neither of them are making moral discoveries in the process. xD no character development, just fluff.) But the Alternate will always be that home she can return to, even if she distances from them in the future on her journey. I know I sound kinda conceited and extremely biased when I say this, but I feel like the Alternate is one of the best groups out there [in the multiverse] to belong to, so why not keep the choice of returning, right?

I agree with your first thought, but also I think the Alternate is a good starting point. I mean, what’s better than positive relationships? Sure, one can mature through hardship, but there needs to be a good base.
Then there’s also the fact that I’m awkward and don’t know how to make Laurie interact with others XD I absolutely suck at public threads as you have sseen.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

I'm imagining Laurie chomping down on a ghost pepper with zero [0] expression change and Manai is literally looking on like "Wow :O" btw I feel like the Alternate is the group that seems very rational, but in truth Laurie did that because everyone bet a dollar on it xD

Oh she’d definitely do that. Just probably very calmly drinking a glass of water afterwards. A regular hot pepper, however, she could eat like eating an apple (and no kidding there’s someone in my extended family who could do this). And Laurie would take a dare with money anytime xD. It’s important to keep in mind that Laurie isn’t as serious as

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

You talking about Dion's character design is interesting 'cause I'm a sucker for analyzing character dynamics that way (lol just a sucker in general). I guess it's because through interactions, there's a chance that in circumstances like those in the Not-Quad Squad, they end up learning from each other and reflecting aspects of one another that way.

Agreed! I can relate to that haha and if you wanted to talk about your character designs in personality and all I’d be more than glad to participate in that convo.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

But since your post talked about flaws, I guess I'll try to focus on that instead of jumping everywhere, lol. I feel like every character has a certain relationship with flaws, and how that relationship is established/conveyed is a crucial component of what "makes/breaks" a character, either for most people or for specific people. Personally, I find what you said about him interesting, since I feel like one of my worst aspects is an unwillingness to tolerate high degrees of imperfection--both in general and when it comes to things like personalities. I don't feel like I've ever really understood the meaning of the saying "Flaws are beautiful and what make up a person," and so in general I tend to try to reason for others'/my own flaws rather than accepting them and working on them more subtly. I think that out of my characters, Sunny's probably the one who's more morally neutral (as in not really morally screwed up) while having flaws to what I consider to be an excessive amount, and I think you know how much I don't tolerate him. He's rude, lacking in empathy, not even funny, and more, and I feel like there's some component of that that I should be accepting rather than forever reasoning away, but I don't seem to be able to get it.

Of course there can be no perfect character as there can be no perfect person, and that’s what makes them realistic and fun to interact with. Or the opposite.
But h,mm, this is curious. Do you find yourself being annoyed by Dion and his attitude? Because, come on, he is very far from the stereptype of a “good person” while still definitely not being a bad one. I could also say he’s rude, not very funny, and he might lack empathy if he doesn’t care. But that’s not all there is to him and that’s what I think makes him interesting.
What do you think Dion’s redeeming quality is? I’m curious to know your opinion. Dion is my favorite OC (along with Germaine and Specter) so it’s only natural I want to know what others think about him.
Sunny is a whole other case lol but he’s an interesting character imo. I think it’d take an analysis to pinpoint specific stuff about it but I don’t feel up to that right now, plus I don’t know him as well as you do.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

But tying back into Dion's relationship with the rest of the Not-Quad Squad (by the way, nowadays that group name is kind of tragic for me, I dunno if you've felt something similar), I find it interesting how Dion is the one with the clear flaws in the group when, after considering it more, he's really not on some extreme end of a spectrum when compared to the other guys. And unfortunately for him, he does have clearer parallels to Wiley in this aspect compared to Rai and Raez (who have more connections there), since I feel like Wiley seems like someone with apparent flaws that he not only doesn't hide but also clearly presents with his attitude. But between the two of them, there are also differences (due to their backgrounds and how they present themselves, which is also a difference throughout the group). I feel like with more elaboration on all of them and where they're coming from, this sort of difference (with themes like presentation, flaws, selfishness/selflessness, etc.) will be made even more interesting and profound than it already is, and I think you can tell how excited I am about this lol. But overall, I highly anticipate Dion's development and seeing more of his past (which plays into the complexity you mentioned), and you know, the Not-Quad continuing to be weird (lol).

The group in general is fun for me. There’s so many things to be excited about in the way they interact with each other but I think I haven’t expressed that feeling before. I guess it’s anticipation maybe.
Something I am genuinely curious about: how would you characterize Dion if you owned the character and had to roleplay him? I mean, from what you can see from the info I’ve given and the way I roleplay him. How would you tie Dion in with RRW if you had to write their interactions? IQs aside, obviously (although some of them are so accurate it’s scary).

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Overall, I feel like I gotta say that I enjoyed what you said about Dion immensely. Loser nerd am I

Thank you :D. I enjoyed mentioning it because I think it’s something I don’t express much, so I’m glad it sparked a topic of conversartion.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

I did imply Dion's background for a personal reason, and that reason is that I finally figured out what to do with the character idea I had a while ago. Let me know if you want to discuss that. I don't think it'll impact anything immediately (and I haven't submitted a form in...at least a year lol), but it's pretty cool, I think. Yay. (:

Oh coolio! Of course I want to discuss that. You know how much I love hearing about ideas. And thank you for reminding me to work on the forms I haven’t touched in idk how long.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

You can say NQS if you want (do what you want lol, heck rename 'em if you wish to do so), but it somehow feels less personalized/more generic for some reason to me? It's mostly the irony I feel, though. It might wear off. I guess it does help with the tragedy sense I mentioned before. I'm not sure, but I think I'll keep typing it out in full (unless we do rename it).

I think I wanna ignore this part and just keep calling them NQS because thinking too much about the names gives me memories, and,,, :’)
Unless you really want to rename them, which isn’t something I’m opposed to I guess.

GalaxianExplosion wrote:

(It'd also be funny if "He customized a room for Rai" means the entire room is literally blank because that's what he thought fits. I mean, it wouldn't be inaccurate. xD)

He just has a room made entirely out of chocolate lol.

It's been real fun to reply to this all though it did eat up a good chunk of my time so I will not be replying to F/DA planning today.
I'm just about what you mentioned about social inadequacy. I've been homeschooled, what are you implying