Post by Captain Jerk on Nov 8, 2019 19:45:48 GMT -7
Ok, not an RP, but it fits the topic, and it's a neat story.
Ok, so, through a series of messy events in the Spongebob fandom(that would take a while to explain and happened over the course of a couple years) I had to flee the Spongebob fandom, and ended up in the Daria Fandom in late 2018.
I had no connections to the show, but I happened to like some of the fanfiction, both the comedic(Simleyfax) and the angsty and serious( Roentgen, Brother Grimace, TheAngstGuy)
Due to me not fully fitting in with the fandom(partially due to most of them being in their 40s and partially because I had barely(at one point never) seen the show) I tried to find other ways to fit in.
After a few...eh....fanfic 'attempts', I created a thread called "If you ran a country"
It started mostly as hypothetical one paragraph ideas, but eventually a back and forth started, which evolved into an RP.
I was "Emperor Gilbert" Commander of "Gilbertia". A ruthless dictator with a love for chemical weapons and a absinthe habit, who would ALWAYS have a backup plan.
My opponent was ......SOMETHING WildDog, I don't recall the title. I think his nation was naned Canuss.
We went back and forth for a while, with alot of that classic "I hit you, no you didn't you missed, no I blew you up, it was just a decoy" of constantly countering eachother, but it was good.
Eventually, Grimace(the guy who liked Sci-FI, so I didn't read most of his fics) kinda butted in and brought in a bunch of fancy Star Wars style tech, which pissed me off since I was sticking to modern war. Also Wilddog lost his computer so my urge to continue left completely after that.
That incident(along with two other events) lead to me taking the plunge and leaving the Daria Fandom, which lead to me building this fandom a week later(after a short stay in the KSP fandom)
So, in a way, that RP was one of the events that lead to this fandom
Oh, and one other thing.
Emperor Gilbert served as the base inspiration for one Azinder Kursk. In the early drafts of Dan Vs Everything he was essentially a direct copy of the character, however, the newer versions of Azinder are SIGNIFICANTLY more morally complex.
Still, the base traits of "Absinthe, Chemical Weapons, and always having a backup plan" stuck around
Ok, so, through a series of messy events in the Spongebob fandom(that would take a while to explain and happened over the course of a couple years) I had to flee the Spongebob fandom, and ended up in the Daria Fandom in late 2018.
I had no connections to the show, but I happened to like some of the fanfiction, both the comedic(Simleyfax) and the angsty and serious( Roentgen, Brother Grimace, TheAngstGuy)
Due to me not fully fitting in with the fandom(partially due to most of them being in their 40s and partially because I had barely(at one point never) seen the show) I tried to find other ways to fit in.
After a few...eh....fanfic 'attempts', I created a thread called "If you ran a country"
It started mostly as hypothetical one paragraph ideas, but eventually a back and forth started, which evolved into an RP.
I was "Emperor Gilbert" Commander of "Gilbertia". A ruthless dictator with a love for chemical weapons and a absinthe habit, who would ALWAYS have a backup plan.
My opponent was ......SOMETHING WildDog, I don't recall the title. I think his nation was naned Canuss.
We went back and forth for a while, with alot of that classic "I hit you, no you didn't you missed, no I blew you up, it was just a decoy" of constantly countering eachother, but it was good.
Eventually, Grimace(the guy who liked Sci-FI, so I didn't read most of his fics) kinda butted in and brought in a bunch of fancy Star Wars style tech, which pissed me off since I was sticking to modern war. Also Wilddog lost his computer so my urge to continue left completely after that.
That incident(along with two other events) lead to me taking the plunge and leaving the Daria Fandom, which lead to me building this fandom a week later(after a short stay in the KSP fandom)
So, in a way, that RP was one of the events that lead to this fandom
Oh, and one other thing.
Emperor Gilbert served as the base inspiration for one Azinder Kursk. In the early drafts of Dan Vs Everything he was essentially a direct copy of the character, however, the newer versions of Azinder are SIGNIFICANTLY more morally complex.
Still, the base traits of "Absinthe, Chemical Weapons, and always having a backup plan" stuck around