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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[peoplesprincess]

I know nothing about Suzaku, but I personally find your Rita Skeeter fine. As for how to "throw yourself out there"... the interview idea is great; it'd be hilarious if she talked to various members of the community, completely twisted their words around, and then published her "findings" to the main comm. XD

[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.

[tripled_mods]

Although we don't mind this and we'll let this one slide, could you put personal HMD's in one of your character journal's instead of the main ooc community? We hold comm wide HMD's ourselves so it'd get a little cluttered if everyone did both. ♥

[rhapsody_in_rue]

Well, I wasn't focusing so much on the HMD part as I was on how people manage to interact outside of canon and still remain IC. =D But I shall certainly post any more queries about my own ICness to the character journals. Thanks everyone~