@Zia: I don't think that being a girly girl is a bad thing, as long as there's something to balance it out, right? The thing I don't like about most girls in shounen anime is that they don't have many flaws and that the flaws they do have ends up being something like, "They're too sweet and gentle." :X

Yeah, too many flaws kinda sucks. I mean, if all a person has are things that make you dislike him, then of course you'd end up disliking him. XD

Hart- I don't mind general stereotypes, they are useful for kind of understanding a character at first, but I have a big hang up with engendered personalities. That's one of the big issues in gender theory and some types of feminism. Lily and Seafoam are very similar, but that doesn't mean Seafoam is any less important or male for being more whimsical or freespirited or artistic and Lily isn't more female than a female who's more prone to administration than hospitality. They're just different personalities.

I think I mentioned before that Idelle is a futanari/bisexed, but I usually write about "her" as female, because she purposely acts girly and dresses girly, but then she'll dress up boyish and dress up like a little punk when he wants to. She/he just takes on whatever persona works for her at the time and looks like fun. (She has a very actor-like personality.) Sometimes she dresses up and goes shopping with the girls and sometimes she dresses up and hits the town and the streets with the boys. She pees standing up, so it's kind of funny that most of the time she takes on a female personas.

There are a lot of choices as far as she's concerned, but none of them are really "both." Even though she dresses up differently and sometimes adopts the behaviorisms of one or the other for the situation her personality remains excitable, fun loving, social, stubborn about certain things and quirky as hell (she's an incubus.) She's the type who'll start dancing or singing just because she felt like it.

She's one of my favorites as far as being one of the more fun, comical characters.

Zia- I think everyone writes what they want to and that's for the best. I'm a collector of sorts and I tend to collect things I learn and apply them. I use other characters and people I know as examples for my characters who aren't like me. I've also read about behavior, personality, psychology, sociology and so on. I've read books by people who frustrate me and make no sense to me at all, but after doing so I understand something I didn't before about how such people think and I try to mimic it. Lily and Seafoam are like third characters, Shin and Lune would be more like secondary. My primary characters tend to be more like me, though lately I've been playing a mix.

I only think of Sues as being too perfect and one dimentional. I don't think being anti-Sue is a bad thing if it means characters with a lot of depth.

Holy crap. XD I just saw your post and was like, "Whoa."

In any case, I updated the topic on the front page so that it has links to the character traits now. :)

Aha, I always try to fix my old Sues --there was a time when one of them almost became male. XD; A gender change is not a solution however; she was never meant to be a boy, and so I left her as a girl and just cleaned up her history some. She's still and archer and a warrior, but no one significant (no princess, captain of the guards stuff going on with her), and thankfully her personality needn't change much. I don't need to focus on her too much right now though, but she's important for historical reasons in my world.

@Alice- Thanks ^.^ That's a lot of pages to read and I've been making long posts @_@;;

@Hart- She sounds cool like Artemis (the goddess of hunt from Greek mythology. I guess there are a lot of Artemises these days @_@; )

Somehow I've actually started a 1x1 with someone playing a bisexed character. I didn't think anyone would take me up on that, but I was wrong. >.<!!

Aha, Artemis is a popular theme; both my friend and I like her best of the Greek goddesses. Keep in mind, I was like, fifteen when I created her. XD My OC doesn't have Artemis' grace though; she's actually very tomboyish and upbeat --er, though I guess Artemis is supposed to be boyish in her own way, I keep thinking of her more like a dangerous beauty.

Ah, nice. :) I've seen all sorts on Gaia; is that where you found them?

Artemis is definitely one of my favorite Greek goddesses, probably my favorite. I think the Greeks understood a great deal about people and the nature of things, even if they mostly made it into mythology.

Actually, I'm doing it on Solia. It's a bit slower there, but that's alright. Gaia's population is so large and overwhelming to me these days. I'm pretty sure I'd be harassed for having such a bizarre character. I don't know though. I suppose people are more open minded than I first suspected, but only one person ended up playing with me... Partly because I became somewhat insistent on an age restriction. I don't usually do that, but in this case I felt it was kind of appropriate.

How slow is slow for you?

Hm, anywhere from once a day to every other day, sometimes more than that. Most of my RPs are taking every other day to 2-day breaks atm. I would say every 2-days is pretty darn slow, once a day is kind of the average I suppose.

What about you?

Once or twice a week is slow for me; with my job right now, my pace will probably be one a day or two days. I know I've posted over 20x as much in the golden years of my RPing life, but the posts then were roughly a paragraph to three paragraphs --five paragraphs at best. XD; My posts now are generally three paragraphs minimum, but probably hitting closer to at least five paragraphs to a page average.