"More About Me"

[Darth Vader]

My question for anyone -- What motivates you to write? And not just 'jus cause,' it has to be deeper than that.

Never in my life have I ever met someone so hard-working as you are, Proto Alex Karl Jak Shang Tsung-man. I, as well as many others, appreciate everything you do for this site; you're like the pillars and the glue of this whole place, without you, I doubt the Omniverse as a website and role-play/writing environment would function as well as it does. Topping that off, you're a damn swell writer who deserves and earns every single bit of praise you get. You're just overall an incredible staffer and an amazing guy, and I could say more to fluff this up but I fear it would drag on for quite some time

Regarding your question: If you want me to answer this "in a deep way", I think it's important I tell y'all why I started role-playing the first place.

I began role-playing through internet venues about 5 years ago now. It was in a pretty rough spot in my life at that time; I was a thirteen year old kid going through the pains of puberty, stuck in school with few reliable friends. My Aspergers, tourettes and general soft-guy attitude made me a pretty easy target for bullying, and trust me, it was constant. Safe to say, I was at a pretty shitty point in my life, and role-play became my escape. My safe haven, my 'second chance' at life.

As I grew, I overcame all those difficult challenges and problems, but role-playing and writing is something that I've never stopped doing. It's one of those hobbies that I refuse to let go of yet simply because it works for me so well. I'm a writer simply because I feel like I have the right mindset for it; I'm a dreamer, a drifter and I'm always actively thinking of new ideas and prompts I can implement into my writing. In the time spent on this site, I feel as though I've been really able to grow as a writer, and I've got so many ideas in my head now that I'm really eager to put down to paper

Another question anyone may answer: Do you regret the path you've taken with your character, at all? Even if it's just bits of it? Is there anything you would change if you had the chance?

Edit:

My question for anyone: if you could have your character enter into a romantic plot line with any other character on the site, seriously, which character would it be?

Hrmmmmm...

Jon refuses to let himself fall in love again in fear of breaking his oaths of celibacy a second time, but if I could pair him with anyone, I'd honestly say Samus. Though the universes they hail from are both vastly different, their characteristics and personalities are both really similar in that they both believe heavily in justice and duty. Erza's another possibility since Jon has a weakness for red-heads mug: the relationship between Lightning and Jon hasn't been even explored yet, but there's something there maybeeeee?

For Alex... honestly, he's not a "lovey-dovey" kind of guy. He had a girlfriend before being infected with the Blacklight virus, but shit happened and he killed her... yeah ;3

If there was any far-off chance of a Ganondorf x Eighteen x Alex love-triangle plot line in which Ganon and Alex both compete for the girl, though, you can bet I'd jump on that