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Akaryuterra Ryotega
Lin
BlackbirdThe Moonglade
I GOT PERMISSION LET'S DO THIS.
So, let's start with a confession, here. @Akaryuterra's old as balls, but I didn't really RP with him until Lin, so not until mid-2010. By then, naturally, you'd had a lot of time to fill in to your character. To make a long story short, I tried to hang out with him a little bit when Lin was still a human. He did the talking-to-himself thing and I thought "huh, that's kinda weird." And that was about it. I guess I didn't get him, and I was so stuck in my little world I didn't really care for him too much.
But then of course later, Lin and @Eleanor became pretty tight friends and so I got a lot more chances to play with him. And let me say this - wow, just wow. I have never seen someone put such a ludicrous amount of thought into their character. Akary's one of those brand of bizarre, self-generated Idreth, one who is as chilling as he is intricately detailed. I really wish I'd saved the log of when you visited @Anfini in jail but the illusion, you sent, the one about how he had no musculature or bones in his hand, instead holding the structure intact with some kind of veinlike system, had me staring dumbfounded at my screen, going "this is craaazy". We have our fair share of very loud, very strange, very murderous and very pretty characters in Aetolia, but it is my honest opinion that the boys are probably the most complex.
The writing, by the way, is nothing short of a pleasure. We all know you like to play hard and fast with emote length - it's been the subject of fond jokes - but it never feels padded. I never feel like I have to skim your actions to get the real meat of it, and for all the colossal paragraphs you tend to drop, you type them pretty reasonably quickly. It's obvious that you have a love for worldbuilding, judging by the dense descriptiveness you pack into everything, and the best part is that you never flash it in anyone's face. I wouldn't even have known how crazy cool you are as a player and how cool your character is if I hadn't dived in to look.
In short, I'll repeat what I said in the LOVE thread: If you don't like @Akaryuterra, you're wrong. End of story.
So, let's start with a confession, here. @Akaryuterra's old as balls, but I didn't really RP with him until Lin, so not until mid-2010. By then, naturally, you'd had a lot of time to fill in to your character. To make a long story short, I tried to hang out with him a little bit when Lin was still a human. He did the talking-to-himself thing and I thought "huh, that's kinda weird." And that was about it. I guess I didn't get him, and I was so stuck in my little world I didn't really care for him too much.
But then of course later, Lin and @Eleanor became pretty tight friends and so I got a lot more chances to play with him. And let me say this - wow, just wow. I have never seen someone put such a ludicrous amount of thought into their character. Akary's one of those brand of bizarre, self-generated Idreth, one who is as chilling as he is intricately detailed. I really wish I'd saved the log of when you visited @Anfini in jail but the illusion, you sent, the one about how he had no musculature or bones in his hand, instead holding the structure intact with some kind of veinlike system, had me staring dumbfounded at my screen, going "this is craaazy". We have our fair share of very loud, very strange, very murderous and very pretty characters in Aetolia, but it is my honest opinion that the boys are probably the most complex.
The writing, by the way, is nothing short of a pleasure. We all know you like to play hard and fast with emote length - it's been the subject of fond jokes - but it never feels padded. I never feel like I have to skim your actions to get the real meat of it, and for all the colossal paragraphs you tend to drop, you type them pretty reasonably quickly. It's obvious that you have a love for worldbuilding, judging by the dense descriptiveness you pack into everything, and the best part is that you never flash it in anyone's face. I wouldn't even have known how crazy cool you are as a player and how cool your character is if I hadn't dived in to look.
In short, I'll repeat what I said in the LOVE thread: If you don't like @Akaryuterra, you're wrong. End of story.
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When I first met @Akaryuterra, my interest in Aet was waning, and I was doing that thing where you log on sporadically, idle for a bit, and then log off feeling unfulfilled. It was about the last incidence of that, probably, before I quit, when I noticed there was some novice wanting an assessment. I almost just logged because wtf too lazy for old-school Cabalist novice tests... but I decided to just do this one last thing as a favour to the guild, and look after this guy.
Well.
Right from the get-go I could see there was something going on, because he was referring to himself in the third-person (or so I thought, at least) but not in a hackneyed way. Wee baby Ryotega was a real firebrand, and poor frightened Akaryuterra made up the other half of an RP experience that I'm still not sick of some six-and-a-half years later.
OBVIOUSLY I am a bit biased because I've had a long time to see everything that goes on under there, but hot damn boy, you are pretty much the best roleplayer I've ever encountered anywhere. You're dedicated to your craft, and you're always making an effort to be descriptive, to be atmospheric, to do interesting things with describing your actions. There's times when you tell me you thought an emote was a bit naff that I'm just left staring and thinking 'what kind of human am I talking to here', and there's definitely been times when a passing emote has been so amazingly well done that it's completely blindsided me and left me grinning and/or awestruck.
You're also dedicated to your character- the sheer depth and complexity involved with the boys blows my mind to this day, and every now and then I spot something, some reaction or detail that I hadn't seen before and it dawns on me all over again that there's still more I can discover about this pair. I mean, seriously. What we're looking at here is two well-crafted characters for the price of one, each with his own reactions and fears and idiosyncrasies and values and I could basically sit and bask in your details all day long.
Also, watching the boys interact with each other is kind of the best thing and I love it every time I see it even if you feel awkward generating an entire scene on your own.
Also also, you come up with some creepy stuff, especially now the brakes are off and we're on the Idreth hayride. Some of the stuff I run into roleplaying with you makes my skin crawl, and some of the stuff you tell me you're considering, ooc, is even worse. Don't stop.
So like, for people who are not @Akaryuterra:
A+++, 10/10, would RP any time.
"The smell of dusty fur, sweet smoke, waiting and patience, a thing that time cannot kill. The moth that candles won't burn."
It took a long time for me to dare RP around you, because in my mind you're one of the best out there, which makes me very self-conscious. I've enjoyed all our interactions and look forward to more of them in the future. I think my favorite was the longer painting session with the two arguing reasons for participating and how to pose.
I think things like diagrams, and the depth of the books that I've gotten to see so far are truly amazing, and I'm sure so much work has gone into that, that I would really like them to not be lost, and even want to dig further into that.
I don't know what you are up to with the latest guild 'task' you've given us, but I am genuinely excited.
I hope we can RP more!