I originally conceived of her as a way to keep writing Cafe, during a moment of weakness where I was lamenting how some things had gone. But encouragement from friends, particularly Kako, saw Fubuki come to be - and I’ve enjoyed much of her. A kitsune, a samurai kitsune, an Oda samurai kitsune, a shrine maiden samurai kitsune, it’s indulging in a lot of stuff I like but hadn’t wanted to write before her, due to some embarrassment over the subjects. She’s just a good bisexual girl who’s massively confused by her friends, a lesbian who commonly crossdresses as a man, and a boy who lives as a girl.įubuki has been a story of indulging myself in a guilty pleasure, and genuinely enjoying writing her own stories. I always have a goofy smile on my face when I think of her, and her travels with Maria and Kazuko. Though that origin no longer exists, her current form is quite lovely. Wells’ War of the Worlds, which is a semi-annual obsession of mine. I think she was one of the characters I absolutely loved writing, even back then. She is the only character from the KanColle blog, who survived the transition to other areas of writing. Victoria Collet deserves a spot here, but she should really be above with KanColle. Those tears were not of frustration, and though they were shed in reaction to parts of her storyline that sadden me, they aren’t tears shed because I don’t like it. Always with the satisfaction and cheer of writing a character I really, really enjoy. Through thick and thin, she’s brought me to tears, she’s brought me to hugging my pillow and giggling to myself. She’s the muse I’ve stuck with the most, the one who’s seen the most, who’s had the longest storyline. I’m genuinely proud of how she’s developed over time. Three years later, Helen Clapham the bomber pilot no longer exists.Īgent Helen does, and she’s been a bundle of happy memories. An AU where she never became a bomber pilot, and fell into another world. The Agency version of her started off as an AU, of Helen Clapham, the ex-witch bomber pilot. Strike Witches is where Helen Clapham got her start (originally with UMP40 as her FC). My attempt at Girls Frontline was stillborn. They had some fun times, but not enough to really bring up. Still fighting the war, even after she was ordered to go home, helped by Keiko. She showed up before, she helped Kako’s character, she helped another person’s character who affected Kako’s character - and though her story ended before I really wanted it to, in a way she also got a happy ending. She had a more sophisticated story than the rest, and on top of that, she had a storyline. It helped, however, that I wrote her with Kako. Rebecca Moore was a favourite of mine in that time. I stuck with it longer than the rest I still had my SW characters kicking about by the time I shut down the old blog, and elected not to bring them to this one. I convinced three others to write it, among them Kako, and we did a brief thing together. Strike Witches being Strike Witches, there was no active RPC for the setting, and I don’t blame anyone for that. Adeline Kain, Rebecca Moore, Tui Gray, and Helen Clapham. I did a lot of faffing about with Strike Witches. Her personality wasn’t quite so complex, but I thought enough of her, I converted her into a different format and wrote a CYOA novella, rewriting an RP arc that didn’t go the way I wanted it. It didn’t work amazingly, there was a lot that got derailed, but I enjoyed her.Īotearoa is a happy story of missed chances.
I think she was one of my first ‘complex’ personalities, with a storyline that I really tried to plan a bit. I really enjoyed writing HMS New Zealand. But satisfaction in how their characters developed? Only in Cafe, Emma Williams, and Aotearoa.Ĭafe and Manila were the only characters who got endings. And I must admit, out of the above 24 characters? Cafe, Spirit of Fire, Manila, Kirkwall, Emma Williams, New Zealand, and Aotearoa got a lot of development. But by the end of my time writing KanColle, I had a lot of shipgirl OCs, and I mean a lot - Trench Cafe, Spirit of Fire, Ohio, Atlantic Conveyor, Pilar, Houston, Langley, Gangut, Manila, New Zealand, Georgios Averof, Neptune, Leander, Achilles, Kiwi, Tui, Moa, Lanikai, Kirkwall, Jewel of Windsor, Emma Williams, Aotearoa, Helle.Ī lot of the best early memories come from Cafe and her storyline. People were excited to RP with me, glad I had decided to finally get involved.Īt first I intended only for Cafe, and I put in a ton of work to get her set up. I think some of the early happiness was the reception I got when I first started, about four years and ten months ago. So this will be entirely unedited, and way too long. I’ll put this under a read more, since I’m in a self reflective and stream of consciousness mood. What some of your best memories in the RPC?