I'll admit! I'm....not particularly interested this time around

and I'm kind of at the crossroads like "am I not interested at the level of dropping?"

I'd like to not drop! I put a ton of energy into Penance over the years. I like this game a lot

I just kind of feel like I'm lacking an ic foothold

I was going to swap out characters a couple of months ago to combat this,but that didn't pan out for a variety of reasons

and I'm looking at Fitz like. "buddy? are you done doing things?"

I'm currently on a "feeling things out" hiatus until mid-november, figuring that I'd either get excited for something during that period or I wouldn't get excited

idk, maybe his cr is up to interesting things? I'm always down for having him play reactionary straight guy to someone else's nonsense

in theory, there's still another canon update I can do with him to freshen things up

but that leads me to like. OK so I shift the canon point to post-death but then what changes?

he's a little more surly and makes jokes about being dead more often

that's not a character direction :/

it doesn't lead to something interactable

so I sit in the space between, fussing and not doing anything about it

I wished I could help in any way but I am still out of commission atm bc of covid ;;

/holds both you and Fitz tight

where would you like to take Fitz?

I wish I had an answer to that

I feel that

the natural progression is villain arc -> proves himself worthy arc, but I'm always really self-conscious about asking people to let my character do something important

but moreover, what is there to do of importance?

that is a good question

I'm at a loss of how to answer that but your character should be allowed to at least try to do something important

Fitz didn't do anything wrong.

lol

it's easier for me to work out ways to complicate heroics within the format, but it's weird to be like "can my guy save your character from a collapsing building and die tragically" like. everyone wants to play the person having the tragic death

idk I don't want to spoil anyone's fun or excitement!

I am hiatusing currently (I should put in the request and make that official) but you know I'll help however I can.

thanks friends ;-;

it did occur to me that I had some longterm things I wanted to do with the fitz/barbas situation

that just seems a little more fraught these days and I don't really want to touch it right now

I too offer my when I'm back from hiatus support, I know I dropped the ball with sliding Elena his way before but I'm always here to support a character arc as needed

I wished I had answers but ... I have none for me either so ...

I'm thinking about dropping in January bc I feel like I'm stagnating and I haven't been massively into the events

but also I'm happy to let anyone have the tragic death so poke me if you're ever feeling the Let's Kill Fitz urge lmao

Omg Jessie, can you please not kill Fitz ever by heroic sacrifice like that? That ... I still have PTSD from canon

he got better lmao

Well. noooot quite. not that him, anyway.

Ditto what Saro said.

iluvroadrunner6: you're always so supportive! if Fitz and Elena never took off, it's almost definitely me dropping threads

I need to do a better job figuring out their vibe

Yzaksama: I feel bad because your daisy is so good!

and I think there are some good stories to come from daisy wandering in late with Starbucks and seeing an obvious mess that nobody is identifying as a mess

that outsider "how do you not see how fucked this is??" perspective

it helped a lot with motivation over the last few months before we both fell off the planet

speaksincolor: I'm never not feeling the urge for that

VERY surprised to see that he got out of the betrayal thing with barely a scratch on him

but it also felt weird to be like "let's talk some more about how your characters are going to handle this thing my character did to them"

cotume27: um excuse you I think you had a very legitimate reason to be away!!!

sincerest: Omg thank you for liking my Daisy ;;
and yeah I feel the exact same way. I loved her coming in and seeing the big ol mess for the disaster it is but.
why did we both disappear from the face of the Earth

we can chat about it when I'm back, they may just take a but more communication

sincerest: make Rey bond with someone newish to her when they randomly die for her, it's valid

XDD I meant more that I am also on hiatus but will also help how I can.