Hey guys.

[rhapsody_in_rue]

Um, I know I should probably do this on my individual character journals, but I'd basically be putting the same post up on both of them, and some of my concerns are OOC too, so I figured I'd put it up here. I know I haven't been very active. It's hard to get involved when you're pretty much alone in your fandom, or your other canonmates aren't very

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[dreamoflight]

One way to interact with a lot of people is to purposely design your posts to ping a lot of people. I don't know your characters that well so I can't say specifically what would be IC for them, but there's definitely a way to do it and still remain IC for all but the most standoffish characters. Ask open-ended questions, post about something that happened that a lot of people will react to, ask for people's opinions-- trust me, it definitely works, that's what I do with about 80% of my characters' comm posts. Activity isn't really something you can blame on lack of/busy canonmates, because there are lots of people who manage fine without them. That's the point of a multifandom RP, hmm?

Trust me, the best way to rid yourself of concerns that you're OOC is to interact as much as you can, because the more practice you get the more comfortable you're going to feel with the character. Trust me (again), it can take me as long as a month or two to really get into a new character, but the more I interact with them the quicker it happens.

[maraihi]

I do this with Klaus a lot, but he's the perfect character for it. Saying things like "Women are trustworthy" or calling DDD members nuts tends to get him a lot of people who disagree vehemently.

[smilingtransfer]

Yeah, and then if a lot of people reply your character is bound to click with a couple of them, and that makes it easier down the road because they then have a few people whose posts they can comment on, build relationships with, etc. It's more effort then just sticking to canon interactions, but it definitely works and it's a lot of fun. Honestly none of my characters have more than two active canonmates right now, but I'm doing fine in terms of activity because I put myself out there.

Also lol that was me up there I'm too lazy to switch journals.

[maraihi]

Well, Klaus doesn't really make friends so easy. He liked Rosette and that was about it so far. If he thinks someone is good at their job he could respect them.
But, then again, in canon he's never really shown having any friends either, so that's just to be expected.

Maraich hasn't had canonmates for the majority of his time at DDD, Ragsiel doesn't pop up too much from Kurt's canon, and Klaus has no canonmates. It's just a matter of figuring out how you want to get them in there.

[smilingtransfer]

Yeah, some characters are like that. But whether or not they make friends they still get other characters they're familiar with, which would probably make the player more comfortable about commenting around on other people's journals if they feel nervous about stuff like that-- it's not "I've never talked to you before and am randomly starting a conversation", it's "I've talked to you a couple times and whether I like you or not your post kind of pings me so I'll reply".

Yeah, that's pretty much my point. Everyone knows Maraich, even though for most of his time he hasn't had canonmates.

[maraihi]

Same with Silver. Silver was fairly obscure, too, but he got pretty popular.

There's been a lot of obscure characters. There's some others that have been around awhile but don't post as often, too (Philomel, Darc, etc)