Dara's Wants and Limits

[Darastrix]

DO WANT

• For the most part, feel free to throw whatever you like at my characters. Any specific thing that I don't want for them will be in their profile.  Just give me a heads-up if you're about to do a HORRIBLE THING.
• Ploooots. Hit me with ALL OF THE IDEAS, I love them.
• Developing relationships of all kinds with other characters is AWESOME. Want to be friends with one of mine? Think your character might meet mine and end up hating them with the burning fury of a thousand suns? Want to attempt a ship?  Great! Let's do it!  I'm really fond of the slow buildup, and some of my characters will take time to warm up to someone, but I do have others who are pretty quick to attach themselves.  Just be aware that things aren't guaranteed to go a certain way.
  
• Conflict is SUPER awesome. Don't worry about upsetting me if your character picks a fight or bites my character's head off. Drama and ICC (in-character consequences) is delightful.
• Speaking of ICC, YES PLZ. If my characters fuck up or do something stupid, I fully expect that they face the music, and I will enjoy the fallout as much as they likely won't.
• I love romance, be it reciprocal, one-sided, awkward, rivalmance, with any gender or orientation, mono- or poly- etc. BUT! I like that sort of thing to develop through RP. That said, when it comes to those of my characters who may indulge in one-night stands and the like, I'm usually cool with it if you'd like to say they'd had an encounter in the past. Just let me know first, on the off-chance that your character has some quality that would make mine disinterested.
• Minor godmoding is okay. Stuff like pulling my character along by the wrist, ninja hugs, sudden devastating tickle attacks; it's all good as long as I can have my character react.
  

DO NOT WANT

• Suddenly, un-foreshadowed doom that there is no way out of.  While I do like Bad Things Happening to my characters, I don't like it to be with no warning. Now, if Bad Thing is a result of their IC behaviour, I don't need much of a heads-up there. ICA = ICC and all that. But if it's something plotty/big that may affect my characters permanently (dismemberment, death, etc), I just don't want the big reveal to be after the IC point of no return.
• Insta-ships.  I love shipping, but I'm not a fan of forcing a ship.  If my character's just not that into someone when we start playing stuff out, it's not likely to work out long-term.  That doesn't mean the two can't be played off of each other, and 'this isn't working' can be the basis of some OOC fun and IC awkward interaction, it just means they aren't a good match.
• My characters as your Greek chorus. I want to roleplay and be involved.  I don't want to end up in the background with my characters looking around and going 'well, that happened' while your own characters interact with each other to exclusion of everyone else.  Note: I have no problem with one person's characters knowing each other or talking to each other in a thread.  I have characters I do that with myself.  What I don't like is when it's taken to the point where everyone else's characters are ignored or otherwise treated as a passive audience who should let people know what happened later.
  
• Assuming I know what you want/mean if you don't actually tell me in words.  Though I've been called psychic before, I'm not actually a mind reader.  If you're not feeling a plot we've started, or if you're worried about something in the thread, or you really want it to go in a certain direction, tell me.  If you keep posting/participating, there's no way I'm going to be able to figure out that you'd rather be doing something else.  Sometimes things sound better in planning than they actually go in RP.  That's cool.  Just tell me 'Yo, this isn't working so well for me,' and we can work out a different direction or just bring things to a quick end.  No sense sacrificing pretendy fun times for a plot that's not being fun.
• Image-heavy post templates in my threads.  I'm on dialup.  (Yes, it still exists.)  I'm not gonna police what people want in their own threads, since, yanno, those are their threads.  But in threads that I've started myself, please don't use templates that include images, large images in general, .gifsets, or YouTube videos.  They take time to load, and it futzes with the layout on Proboards mobile, sometimes to the point where you can't actually read the whole post, so I'd rather not have to deal with them.

[Darastrix]

Death/Harm Limits
Lovingly stolen "borrowed" from Lady

Legend:
Perm Death - They're dead, Jim.
Perm Phys Harm - You may attempt to cause permanent physical damage, such as amputation, broken horns, loss of a sense, and scarring anywhere.
Perm Ment Harm - You can do things that my character's mind will never fully recover from. This may take the form of permanent mental scarring, disassociation, aversions, obsessions, etc.  Just be aware that the mind may deal with things in unforeseen ways, and the result of your character's actions might not be what you intended.
Temp Death - You can kill them, but I'm gonna arrange to bring them back somehow, so please don't impede that process.
Temp Phys Harm - Things that my character can heal from; broken bones and wounds. Scarring is fine as long as it's not on the face.
Temp Ment Harm - You can do things to my character that are mentally and/or emotionally traumatic, but nothing they can't bounce back from. (PM me for going over individuals on what that might entail. Every character has their own hard limit of what they can take.)
No Serious Harm - Nothing more serious than cuts and bruises.  They are a precious cinnamon roll and I don't want to hurt them (yet).

	No Serious Harm	Temp Ment Harm	Temp Phys Harm	Temp Death	Perm Ment Harm	Perm Phys Harm	Perm Death
Raven	XXX
Zira		XXX	XXX	XXX
Tristan		XXX	XXX
Angelus		XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX

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Heal Limits
Because sometimes, help isn't wanted.

Some people like playing healer characters, and that's great! In a setting where people may run into conflicts that can leave them injured on multiple levels, we need our healers. However, just because what you want to do is generally beneficial doesn't mean you can just do it without player consent. Some of us allow our characters to be hurt so that they can grow from it, and insta-fixes don't allow that to happen. Here is what I allow with regards to healing my characters:

+ Characters can always ICly offer healing of whatever kinds to mine. It doesn't mean they'll accept, but offering is fine.
+ If I allow a character to lose consciousness or otherwise be rendered totally helpless in a situation, yes, healing or medical attention is fine there. BUT. Only heal whatever injury or situation caused the loss of consciousness.
+ If my character has something wrong with them that they are shown as being in denial about or are making an effort to conceal, no. If I wanted them healed sooner than later, they wouldn't be reacting that way; they'd have gotten it taken care of already.
+ If my character has a condition that they have learned to live with or that is just their normal, no. Just because other people think it should be 'fixed' doesn't mean they do or that it even needs to be. See: Terezi
+ If my character has experienced some form of mental trauma or has an anxiety, phobia, or condition not caused by mental/psychic power, no. No insta-healing PTSD or depression or anything of that sort. If you do attempt that, it will be a very temporary fix, and the fact that it was instantly alleviated for a while instead of allowing them to work through it will lessen their ability to cope with said things in the future.
+ If my character has sustained mental/psychic damage by way of some mental power, ability, or mind-affecting item, they may be healed, but I'd rather it be a gradual thing rather than a 'snap fingers and done' deal.

Anything else, please ask me first via PM.