Post by Weylin on Mar 26, 2015 8:40:12 GMT -5
L.Z. Weylin
^pictured above: my plot
Hello there, dear friends.
I have come to you with a problem. The recent exodus has left me stranded with both of my characters and now I am somewhat at a loss as to where to take it from here. I hope that together/with your help I am able to work out some sort of purpose or plan and enjoy my time here on BG a little more once again.
Nagisa
Perhaps this, for many, is already an odd start as she is my second character. However, let’s take it from the top regardless as she is the easier of the two. Nagi has recently been affected by an Inner Hollow and I think for the thread that ultimately decides her fate (Arrancar, Prestige, Vaizard) I can ask Paks to give me a hand, despite her departure.
What I am lacking though is a decent build up.
I have had many threads with aspiring Hollows, but all except for Sobek (though I haven’t seen him around either) have told me in one way or another that they would no longer be participating. A pity of course as it makes all the interesting elements we set up null and void. Between the time Nagisa got approved and today I rolled out numerous threads but only a very small number of those ever finished, and while that is the plight of many players, it leaves me feeling gutted.
I have the Hollow, I have the goal, but as to the ‘how to get there’ I am oddly clueless. I tried really hard to sow Pre-Bankai so that I may reap the fruits, but global warming and the melting of the mechanics-caps has ruined my harvest. As stupid as it sounds, I am sitting here and have no clue besides ‘maybe if I throw her at stronger opponents she will eventually have to ask the Hollow for help?’ That’s not necessarily a bad way, but I have the feeling I could do more (better). Oh, I also have that thread going on to become Vice-Cap of the Fifth, and to be fair today one hell of a player joined and seemed to invigorate the field. Shout out to ma man Fujimura, you came, you posted, you won me over. And the thread with Kyou I am enjoying too.
Here is the link to Nagisa’s metagame thread where people said they would be up for a thread, but I don’t quite know how to string things together.
Weylin
What’s it like to be the King of Nothing? Well, child, sit down and I’ll tell ya…
Jokes aside, there you have the answer to the obligatory question why I don’t hurry up already and score that title. It’s not like I am not working on it though, I just choose poorly. Real life gets to all of us, and I picked the people who get a big dose of it at times (I know, I know, Tova Rule of Plot #1: pick with whom you play carefull). Besides that though: I suppose by now it is quite well known that I have a fable for masteries and my recent threads (that I started for myself, not joined for others, as mean as that sounds) have all revolved Blut+ RPerception and how to change the world with it in order to qualify for the GM slots.
>Inb4 Paks, I love you and please don’t take this as me picking on you!
I have started a thread a long time ago and it shows no signs of every moving on for a variety of reasons. Pity that said thread was supposed to be the final note to that overture.
SPOILER ALERT
I reiterate: I am not sure that thread will ever happen/finish, but I still want those GM and last time Tova said I need to make Blut and Reiatsu Perception the focus of my story, not a byproduct. So, if anyone has a suggestion besides ‘do a solo’ that would be stellar. Also, if you read the spoiler and saw what I had planned and want to give me feedback/input, please PM me, or hit me up on Skype.
Arty is in a thread with me right now, and eventually that will draw to a close - I have faith - and set about the events leading up to the deal with the crown – but what then? Let’s just pretend for a moment I pull a Shushana and write a +10k solo thread in which I crown myself king, cause really, who is going to stop Weylin, what then?
My ooc ass would sit comfortable on that throne for a little while, because I struggled for years of my career on BG to obtain it (just fyi: I am not really counting 2011 as I was still getting the hang of this whole ‘English’ thing. Moreover, I took a 6-8 month break once, so despite my four year anniversary coming up, if I am honest, it’s more like two to two and a half). Yes, I did a lot of other, hopefully cool, stuff in-between, but the amount of time that crown has been looming over my head like the sword of Damocles is ridiculous. Perhaps that’s a bad analogy. Maybe it’s more like it has been taunting me.
Perhaps this is the point where a spiel turns into a rant, and if so I shall go back and delete it later on, yet if I press the thought a little more: Wey would sit on a throne with barely an active soul around. I tried tons of times to give the Quincy plot and purpose and I made it a point to thread with everybody, no matter who they are, because I know what it’s like to be new/suck/look for people. Weylin is a powerful character now and I use him wherever I can to enable people. Problem is that there are few people to enable these days – curse you, Exodus!
Focusing it back on him though: Weylin never wanted the crown, he just accepted that he is best suited for the job. He always wanted a family but all he did was win the *Worst Father of the Year* award consecutively – as chat box is prone to remind me *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* (CLARIFICATION: I don’t mind that at all, quite the opposite, I am, in a sense, happy to have made it to enough popularity for reoccurring jokes). Originally I had, after a Prestige that revolved around anger turning into a hardliner, planned for Weylin to regain the Zen he had been known for. He would eventually come to terms with Erasmus and make his peace with Liora/Xiaobei.
The latter is now a fragment of the former and since I am already making peace with the former in order to save the entire ‘race’ (seriously though, how many individuals do you need to qualify as race?), I think that ship set sail. Oh, I did have an alternative lined up. It was called Kingdom Come, but there’s no need to talk about it.
So at the end of the day I have to admit that I feel a bit out. I dance from thread to thread like the lightblue fairy that I am, but where I was previously walking the tightrope of plot I am now just descending into the murky depths of ‘what the hell am I doing’, all the while clinging to my little umbrella of ‘I can’t give up before I give Weylin a decent ending’, hoping it may slow the fall.
My dear BG friends, I would love to reveal more of my plans to make helping me easier, but there really are none. Please, help me find some meaning and direction for these characters. For Nagisa the goal is prestige, for Weylin Post-Prestige or a fitting ending, whichever sounds better. I don’t want the latter to go out the way it’s going right now. I have come too far and worked too hard – because, believe it or not, I work hard to make posts and stories happen. I am not as gifted as some of our writers here on BG. In fact, it seldom comes as easy to me as some of our amazing people make it seem, and albeit my command over the English language has improved significantly since I joined, I am well aware that there is still vast room for improvement.
Damn it. It has turned into a rant after all, hasn’t it? Well, let’s just pretend it’s a desperate call for help because this ship’s sinking, yo. Hindenburg-style.
