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11 years ago
RP Guidelines
If you did not know, I am not a very tolerant person with a number of things. And certain things I see occur over and over again and again in RPs irks me enough to draft up a list of guidelines for those who want to roleplay with me, because even if I call it out, it falls upon deaf ears and I am back to the drawing board over this. So, these are things that I have noticed from a variety of people and simply things I want to keep excluded completely. Do not take it to heart if I have explicitly called out something that you have done in an RP. This is not to condemn actions but to help you understand how to roleplay with me better and thus build stronger connections with me.
1. If you are going to be the caretaker or have authority over me, LEAVE OUT your own babyfur side. Throwing yours into the mix defeats the purpose of caretaking because I usually have to end up being the grown up and doing that stuff. I absolutely REFUSE to do so because I absolutely HATE having to lose out on my own cubtime. And if you wonder why the RP goes quiet, that usually is why.
2. NO CUSSING. Unless it is an adult-to-adult RP, I may okay the behaviour, but please watch your mouth around little me. As a mature character, I do not find it to be all too taboo. Mostly because some of these words are in my own vocabulary and it would be hypocritical if I impose those words out. The f-word I try to restrict mostly to out-of-character settings. Avoid ALL derogatory words that shame other’s race, religion, beliefs, sex, etc.
3. If I am RPing as a child, I am going to behave like a child. So telling me that I have to help you out with any adult work, you have got to be nuts. All the younger sides of my character are usually much shorter, weaker, and with a younger mental capacity than the average child of that age so while a normal kid would be able to do it, my character will not be able to.
4. I absolutely hate it when people “cheat” in RPs. What is cheating, you may ask? Simple. Magic. It completely defeats the purpose of having to deal with the complications of caring for a child and ruins cub-caretaker bonding time in other ways such as bathtime or during a diaper change. Whenever someone uses it, it switches my RP mindset off and you can bet that the RP will most likely end in the next minute or so.
5. If I am RPing as a child, usually I am looking to you for guidance so if you are constantly asking questions, I will most likely give you a blank look and try to answer that question in the sense of a child unsure of what you have asked of them. I am typically fine with any RP layout as long as it is within reason so most of the time, the answer will be “yes” anyways. If not, I will go into communicating in parenthesis to explain why I will not do so. Or how about you not ask questions and experiment for yourself to see how I will respond. You will usually get your answer that way too.
6. Be reasonable. If you are with a child in real life, chances are he/she is not going to eat that apple and muffin for breakfast, or that salad for lunch. Exactly the same way I will be RPing like as a child. Do not expect a child to be acting with the mannerism of an adult. They are two completely bipolar concepts. And again, it would be defeating the purpose of my character even being little.
7. Do NOT treat my baby or child character as a real life dog. My character is to be treated simply as you would treat a human child. (If you would pick one up by the scruff of the neck, there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with you). Making dog noises, tail wagging, panting, and licking is about as close to acting like a normal dog I will ever get in an RP.
8. Do NOT be creepy! Seriously people. Do not be all obsessed over my character’s diaper status and be all feeling it just to give yourself pleasure… because that is just freaking creepy! Do not make any reference to my character’s private parts or anything in a sexual manner. Anyone who behaves like this will not even receive a warning to not do so. They will be promptly blocked effective immediately. Unless I give permission to do so beforehand, I may allow it. But usually this is a Red Flag Zone. As Kah Mun Rah in Night of the Museum 2 says “DO NOT CROSS THIS LINE!”
9. Do NOT centre the RP only on diaper changes. I think that itself is self-explanatory. It is both annoying and rude.
10. Do NOT give yourself the ability to do anything to my character without previous consent. Now this does mean taking to bed, dressing up in something… no. What I mean by this is giving your character the ability to alter my character in any way, and this includes saying “you start to poo in your pants” and whatever else that alters my character’s behaviour or structure. I make my own decision on that, thank you very much. FOY products are something I will allow, however, everything else is intolerable.
11. As a caretaker, I usually make it my mandate to be as caring, loving, and protective as possible while maintaining firm principles and distributing discipline when necessary. However, I am only a caretaker until the cub so chooses to change what position I am to them; I do not enjoy portraying myself as anything besides a caretaker without consent first and foremost. Should you choose to refer to me as “Daddy”, I will accept it as that and go forth from there as only in the RP.
12. If I am “Daddy” to you in a RP, do not expect that relationship to immediately be in said effect as a fur father. I prefer taking the time to get to know my cubs. Currently I have three pups of whom I do consider my own. Will that number increase? It is difficult to say but I do wish to keep it at five. Usually this is where I will step in to seek permission to be the fur father or not. Fur father does not mean real life caretaker. I choose not to pass myself forth as one.
13. The following RPs I will not do: bondage, vore, anything explicitly sexual, magic, or transformation. I will actively participate in nearly anything else but I do have a tolerance limit. Feel free to enquire if I will RP a certain way at any time.
14. Use the correct words if you are the caretaker. Do not give your character baby speech unless they are the baby. I really do not like it when caretakers say “hai” rather than “hi” because my first thought is they are cubby and I have to move on to find a caretaker who is willing to care for me.
15. I try to leave emoticons out of those descriptive RPs that are structured in the format of a story mostly because it looks much neater. If you can follow the same trend too, that would be fantastic.
16. Skype is the main RPing method and with continue to be that way. Notes in FA are good for beginning RPs but if you can switch over to Skype, that would be greatly appreciated. If possible, we can work out other means for RPing.
17. When RPing, do not make it difficult to understand. I have only one exception for someone dear to me who has a writing impediment. And no “me going to do” …just no referring yourself as “me”! This is a huge pet-peeve of mine as I cannot stand people who do that. “I” is best. Even if you are a cub, try to think of one child who refers to themselves as “me”. I have not heard one do that and I have been around little children for a long while.
RP Suggestions
1. If you can, try to write with paragraphs if possible. Avoiding the use of the “ * ” and trying to structure it out in sentences looks a lot better and makes it easier to read for me. The longer it is and the more detail included, the better I like it.
That is everything for now. I may update this frequently to enable you to be able to have great RPs with me. Hope everyone will be able to understand how this works. I’m probably the only person who has drafted out RP Guidelines but that is because I am much more intolerant than the average person.
Jazz~
If you did not know, I am not a very tolerant person with a number of things. And certain things I see occur over and over again and again in RPs irks me enough to draft up a list of guidelines for those who want to roleplay with me, because even if I call it out, it falls upon deaf ears and I am back to the drawing board over this. So, these are things that I have noticed from a variety of people and simply things I want to keep excluded completely. Do not take it to heart if I have explicitly called out something that you have done in an RP. This is not to condemn actions but to help you understand how to roleplay with me better and thus build stronger connections with me.
1. If you are going to be the caretaker or have authority over me, LEAVE OUT your own babyfur side. Throwing yours into the mix defeats the purpose of caretaking because I usually have to end up being the grown up and doing that stuff. I absolutely REFUSE to do so because I absolutely HATE having to lose out on my own cubtime. And if you wonder why the RP goes quiet, that usually is why.
2. NO CUSSING. Unless it is an adult-to-adult RP, I may okay the behaviour, but please watch your mouth around little me. As a mature character, I do not find it to be all too taboo. Mostly because some of these words are in my own vocabulary and it would be hypocritical if I impose those words out. The f-word I try to restrict mostly to out-of-character settings. Avoid ALL derogatory words that shame other’s race, religion, beliefs, sex, etc.
3. If I am RPing as a child, I am going to behave like a child. So telling me that I have to help you out with any adult work, you have got to be nuts. All the younger sides of my character are usually much shorter, weaker, and with a younger mental capacity than the average child of that age so while a normal kid would be able to do it, my character will not be able to.
4. I absolutely hate it when people “cheat” in RPs. What is cheating, you may ask? Simple. Magic. It completely defeats the purpose of having to deal with the complications of caring for a child and ruins cub-caretaker bonding time in other ways such as bathtime or during a diaper change. Whenever someone uses it, it switches my RP mindset off and you can bet that the RP will most likely end in the next minute or so.
5. If I am RPing as a child, usually I am looking to you for guidance so if you are constantly asking questions, I will most likely give you a blank look and try to answer that question in the sense of a child unsure of what you have asked of them. I am typically fine with any RP layout as long as it is within reason so most of the time, the answer will be “yes” anyways. If not, I will go into communicating in parenthesis to explain why I will not do so. Or how about you not ask questions and experiment for yourself to see how I will respond. You will usually get your answer that way too.
6. Be reasonable. If you are with a child in real life, chances are he/she is not going to eat that apple and muffin for breakfast, or that salad for lunch. Exactly the same way I will be RPing like as a child. Do not expect a child to be acting with the mannerism of an adult. They are two completely bipolar concepts. And again, it would be defeating the purpose of my character even being little.
7. Do NOT treat my baby or child character as a real life dog. My character is to be treated simply as you would treat a human child. (If you would pick one up by the scruff of the neck, there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with you). Making dog noises, tail wagging, panting, and licking is about as close to acting like a normal dog I will ever get in an RP.
8. Do NOT be creepy! Seriously people. Do not be all obsessed over my character’s diaper status and be all feeling it just to give yourself pleasure… because that is just freaking creepy! Do not make any reference to my character’s private parts or anything in a sexual manner. Anyone who behaves like this will not even receive a warning to not do so. They will be promptly blocked effective immediately. Unless I give permission to do so beforehand, I may allow it. But usually this is a Red Flag Zone. As Kah Mun Rah in Night of the Museum 2 says “DO NOT CROSS THIS LINE!”
9. Do NOT centre the RP only on diaper changes. I think that itself is self-explanatory. It is both annoying and rude.
10. Do NOT give yourself the ability to do anything to my character without previous consent. Now this does mean taking to bed, dressing up in something… no. What I mean by this is giving your character the ability to alter my character in any way, and this includes saying “you start to poo in your pants” and whatever else that alters my character’s behaviour or structure. I make my own decision on that, thank you very much. FOY products are something I will allow, however, everything else is intolerable.
11. As a caretaker, I usually make it my mandate to be as caring, loving, and protective as possible while maintaining firm principles and distributing discipline when necessary. However, I am only a caretaker until the cub so chooses to change what position I am to them; I do not enjoy portraying myself as anything besides a caretaker without consent first and foremost. Should you choose to refer to me as “Daddy”, I will accept it as that and go forth from there as only in the RP.
12. If I am “Daddy” to you in a RP, do not expect that relationship to immediately be in said effect as a fur father. I prefer taking the time to get to know my cubs. Currently I have three pups of whom I do consider my own. Will that number increase? It is difficult to say but I do wish to keep it at five. Usually this is where I will step in to seek permission to be the fur father or not. Fur father does not mean real life caretaker. I choose not to pass myself forth as one.
13. The following RPs I will not do: bondage, vore, anything explicitly sexual, magic, or transformation. I will actively participate in nearly anything else but I do have a tolerance limit. Feel free to enquire if I will RP a certain way at any time.
14. Use the correct words if you are the caretaker. Do not give your character baby speech unless they are the baby. I really do not like it when caretakers say “hai” rather than “hi” because my first thought is they are cubby and I have to move on to find a caretaker who is willing to care for me.
15. I try to leave emoticons out of those descriptive RPs that are structured in the format of a story mostly because it looks much neater. If you can follow the same trend too, that would be fantastic.
16. Skype is the main RPing method and with continue to be that way. Notes in FA are good for beginning RPs but if you can switch over to Skype, that would be greatly appreciated. If possible, we can work out other means for RPing.
17. When RPing, do not make it difficult to understand. I have only one exception for someone dear to me who has a writing impediment. And no “me going to do” …just no referring yourself as “me”! This is a huge pet-peeve of mine as I cannot stand people who do that. “I” is best. Even if you are a cub, try to think of one child who refers to themselves as “me”. I have not heard one do that and I have been around little children for a long while.
RP Suggestions
1. If you can, try to write with paragraphs if possible. Avoiding the use of the “ * ” and trying to structure it out in sentences looks a lot better and makes it easier to read for me. The longer it is and the more detail included, the better I like it.
That is everything for now. I may update this frequently to enable you to be able to have great RPs with me. Hope everyone will be able to understand how this works. I’m probably the only person who has drafted out RP Guidelines but that is because I am much more intolerant than the average person.
Jazz~
My sona is a cub, yet is a caretaker to some friends younger than him, and fully capable of taking care of them in this state. (he also can change his age at will. this isn't on-the-fly magic, he's had this ability since he was made like 5 years ago)
As for #18 and your rule structure in general, I'd advise meeting a "Jet Prower" as he seems to have you criteria down himself.