I just love the old, nostalgic randomness that my mind brings up occasionally.
Everyone, meet Dack Nesrash. That’s an RP journal for him, but nearly all of his actual RPing was done via MSN. He was pretty much a middle-of-the-line Imperial officer, shoved into a desk job because of a busted knee and a tendency to overdo the alcohol. He was a lot of fun to play, because he was so different from the rest of my characters, but his time has passed. Katie Toran, his partner in crime, got caught up in RL issues. If Katie’s ever around, though, she’s always welcome to throw me an email or IM. It makes me smile that her (long outdated, surely) profile at EZBoard/Yuku still includes a shoutout to Dack.
I miss all of my Star Wars characters, at one point I had 4 running around, but all of them are retired now. In fact, I haven’t played an active character in an RP for about 2 years now. Not that it’s not tempting to jump back in. Not that there aren’t more stories to tell for Monzz, Movan, Dack or Valo. Not to mention Lorna or Julie, or Liam. It’s just that those communities have moved on. The writers have had to move on, life has happened, for me as well as everyone else. When I started online RPing, I was 13. Now I’m 18. A lot happens in 5 years.
I’m always tempted, still, to continue writing in an active RP. The longer I think, though, I remember why I stayed at those sites. The people behind those characters. The writers who had dynamic, fresh ideas. The friends who stuck together through board crashes and rewrites. It was the Golden Age of RPing, for me. The little kid was given an opportunity to improve her writing, to develop her characters and spend time with people so dramatically different from those around her in the real world.
Atonai (and Don), Alexander Alethia (and Winston and Phantaris), Eden Kisori (and her, that dark mistress who lingers in the shadows still… enough said), Kiel Tremor, Jarom Amroth, Kenshin Katarn , Deythia/Tyrael (and his brother), Link Hurali, Jeren Skywalker, Sir Wallace (and Twoface), Kamon (who’s last name started with a V but cursed if I’ll ever remember the correct spelling), Teuila Nightdreamer (and Gabriella and Moriah), Arklite Stormrage, Haike Ryuune, Dorean, Malice, Soldoran, Vince Kieff, Katie Toran, Silyara, Merrick Hellbreacher and all of the others: I salute you. Thank you for creating an awesome world for us all to play in.
(PS: Totally going on memory here, so please forgive me any spelling errors or forgetfulness.)
So, it seems that the librarian Jedi has done her task after all- recording long fallen heroes ages after they have passed.
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