Any More Comprehensive Request: Horror-lover, Fantasy-Enjoyer

[VictorClerval]

I have been here for a while, so I thought I would write a comprehensive post including links to past threads.

First off, my favorite genre to role-play is horror, especially Lovecraftian and Gothic horror. I do tend to stick with specific tropes among my characters mainly because-- when it comes to role play-- I want to enjoy the immersion in a personal way. It isn't that I am incapable of diversity, but that these specific archetypes are enjoyable to me for role play because I connect with them the most.

I enjoy role playing characters with aspects of mad scientists or corrupt wizards with a lust for knowledge and quirky, sometimes unnerving behavior. Often they are loners, reclusive, emotionally cold- yet vulnerable and easily maddened-, and disliked in their town/city/community. If I am not playing a Tim Burton-esque reanimator, I enjoy beastly, masculine characters such as my pirate, Gale, a woman disguised as a male bard whilst her pirate crew hunts her down for betrayal and bounty hunters seek her.

I want dark role plays, which I think is common enough. I tend to style the plot along the themes of: Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Poe, and novels like Dracula, Frankenstein, Hellraiser, Interview with the Vampire, The Phantom of the Opera, etc. These authors and stories tend to be my main inspiration for role play because they created/contain the worlds I love to imagine myself in.

Here are a few of my plot idea threads:

• https://writerssanctum.com/threads/...-the-pirate-you-are-the-assassin-hunter.6582/ (ignore that my title is ridiculous)

• https://writerssanctum.com/threads/...eres-something-going-on-in-the-basement.8020/ (This is the one I am most eager to do, but each person I have started with disappeared from this site)

(I will be updating this)

Here are brief plot ideas:

• Fantasy: A wizard/sage(me) seeks out a mercenary(you. You don't have to specifically be a mercenary though) to help him find an artifact. Though the nature of this artifact is ambiguous, the wizard promises it will solve an issue that is part of your backstory. This wizard is young and perhaps a little disturbed, but the two of you connect and find motivation together.
• Horror: You and a killer become close friends or lovers-- perhaps he can help you or you share something in common. Maybe you are both killers or wrong-doers and must heed the world, law enforcement, or an organization together.
• Fantasy: A plague is sweeping over a medieval setting and many are desperate to seek a cure or simply escape. Our characters discover a certain cult/organization/ villain is to blame and seek out a solution for our own motives. Our characters are huge contrasts and often fight or disagree. I plan on playing an alchemist, wizard, sage, or generally intellect-based character who's cowardly or sort of autistic(lmao).
• Supernatural: Undeath. Vampire cults collide-- I am a part-vampire underling who was recently released from a curse in which I was bound to a vampire master. This master has a heinous plan which threatens your character, your character's community/nation/people, etc(You could be another supernatural creature or a normal human), and I am a link to this solution, binding us together in a journey. Initial conflict is imminent between each character because my character's brainwashed loyalty needs dissolved.
• Modern Gothic Horror: A setting much like The Crow- A timeless slum ruled by a hierarchy of crime lords and murderers. Our characters share a common enemy and unlikely abilities. Dual anti-heroes pursuing the death of a Villain.
• Horror: (1890s-1920s) Your knew college roommate is obsessed with a creation-- some pieces of it dead, some made from scratch, some... unearthly. You discover the thing when you follow him one night into the backwoods shed he spends too much time in. You've known this roommate for a month, and he has always been eccentric, cynical, and reclusive, but you never expected him to be piecing together some sort of semi-biological creature. The horror worsens when you find his notes; you are one of his targets for some kind of sinister research; you possess a trait or ability he finds desirable-- but why and what? You had no clue until now that you possessed this ability. He seems a little obsessed with you, and he apparently chose you as a roommate for a reason other than sharing similar majors. When he finds you rummaging through his... things... in this makeshift laboratory, he produces a syringe filled with a sedative and plunges towards you.

What I try to do as a role player/ Good qualities:

• I help drive the plot and don't deviate much from it
• Though I love Gothic Horror tropes, I would not say I am cliche or a poor writer.
• I make sure to even out the focus on your character and my own; I will ask about backstory, include backstory, pay attention.
• Descriptive, but I will not over-describe so the role play moves more quickly and smoother.

What to expect of my style:

• I covered most of it, but I am inspired by the stories and authors above
• I enjoy toying with insanity, but not in the modern way of, per se, bullshit like The Joker and Harlequin. I like classic, Gothic, Dr. Frankenstein, Dracula's Renfield, Lovecraftian researchers and mad scientists type of insanity. This is an aspect of many of my characters.
• I love unhealthy obsessions. Ie: A scientist going mad over how to clone her dead friend, A young researcher obsessed with the occult, a Jack the Ripper or Norman Bates with sick needs. Obsession is my favorite character flaw and often drives the plot. [Ie: Your friend is obsessed with mixing the occult and science, which he dragged you into (perhaps fascinating your curiosity or intriguing a need of yours), thus accidentally bringing forth some preternatural issue you both must solve.]
• Gore, torture, agony, death. I Love graphic torture scenes with personal attacks towards the characters-- sick dynamics that are personal and horrible for each character.
• I play multiple characters and I wouldn't mind if you did as well. (please)
• Long introductions! Be patient, we need a few replies to get into the role play. (Though I am willing to try something that begins with action.)
• Death is a motif often, sometimes just a stylistic joke for goofy Tim Burton type humor, but sometimes it's serious and gives it a gloomy atmosphere.
• Mystery and slow unravel
• Political dynamics in medieval rps

Fantasy:
I do like fantasy, but I usually still have horror aspects, so keep that in mind. My favorite Medieval Fantasy RP i had done, which lasted an entire year, was inspired by Vlad the Impaler. My character was the son of a tyrannical leader who was becoming immersed in vampirism and magic in order to conquer, so my character sought out a woman with special abilities who could hopefully save his people from tragedy. I actually love medieval role plays that include sick villains that start of as an ominous, distant issue, and then are introduced after our heroes seek them out. Maybe give me a break and play the villain yourself for once.

What I like of a partner:

• Someone who plays contrasting characters to mine. Opposites make great comrades and I love those dynamics quite a lot. It can be funny, serious, immersive. Overall memorable.
• Descriptive and detailed as needed-- You do not need to describe the twitch of your character's lips every time they talk, but I also appreciate knowing what your home looks like.
• If I play a female character (which is rare) i prefer you(the partner) to be female. If I play a male, it does not matter.
• Communicates preferences
• Does not make it impossible for characters to connect. Yes, we can have conflict and not like each other at first, but if yours keeps running away from mine or telling mine to fuck off, there has to be a plot oriented reason as to why my character persists. If someone irl tells me to fuck off or avoids me, Ill probably fuck off.

What I love of a role play partner, but do not expect:

• Plays multiple characters
• Equally runs the plot/gives me a break
• I wouldn't mind someone else running the plot entirely once

 

[Kilravok]

I am intrigued by your fancies and would like to engage in a play with you, if I may propose a premise for a roleplay.
This said, however, I have no noteworthy experience with forum based roleplay. My background is in tabletop rpg (D&D, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, etc...) and have some minor experience as game master, so I should be able to play two or maybe even three characters in one rp.
I like to begin a roleplay on a nearly blank slate, with only the setting, genre and opening premise/inciting incident predetermined outside of game.
Also, I dislike the concept of predetermining the character of other players. From your own writing, I can infer what your character would most likely be, probably a Dr Frankenstein-esque or Dr Jeckle-esque scientist, but I will not assume it would be the case in all instances, or this one.
I would not ask for nor give much about character backstory upfront, since I prefer a gradual reveil. I will trust that you have your character well developed and will try to pick up on queues from context. Explicit reveils can come if and when the situation demands.

Bit about my rp:
My personal preferences for fiction genres are
-fantasy (low fantasy, sword&sorcery, hard magic system);
-horror (suspense, cosmic/existential horror, psychological terror, eery wrongness....body horror and physical torment can be great, but I am not into gratuitous splatter-gore);
erotic (from light sensuality to explicit porn, just not gratuitously banal; most kinks are acceptable, with only few certain hard limits)
, ideally a in combination of them all. Any modern or sci-fi setting would need to have some element of the former to be of interest for me. I love playing with themes that are "way out there" and explore the deepest recesses of human darkness.

I tend to play characters that fit the Reluctant Hero or Everyday Man archetype, but am not limited to those, it's just my preference.
I can play any gender and I believe, I can play both submissive or dominant (prefering submissive).
I rp for most part in full paragraphs, if I got enough to work with, but sometimes feel that one or two lines fit better with the pace of a scene.
I can't really deal with walls of text on a monitor (gives me headache...on paper, I have no problem with it) but dislike one-liners for general or slower paced scenes.
I would appreciate about three paragraphs with three to five lines each, not a deal breaker, but that is the frame I try to keep to.

PM me if yu like to negotiate a game.

 

[Feralstryker]

I would be more than happy to take part in your Frankenstein-based roleplay, should it still be open or you still have an interest in acting on it. :)