My little sister @this-is-not-an-alien set this up. It’s barely up at the moment, but it’s supposed to be this character castle continued. Well, rebooted, since we were doing that anyway. If you want to – no pressure!

I saw a suggestion in the comments of the announcement about having members of the forum moderate it instead of the site team. Maybe they’d consider doing that with enough feedback from all of us??

I mean maaaaaaybe.

I honestly don’t know. We don’t know how long they’ve been debating this decision. Or what the goal is. Or how m…[Read more]

Can I cuss now? In protest? Because I am very upset! 😠 😡 😭 😢

Okay, I won’t actually cuss ’cause I’m actually getting better (small wins) but what the heck?!?!?! Why?!?!?!?

I am down for restarting this baby! Especially with so many new people!

(Especially to you @abrielle. And a frosty hello to time blindness, my old nemesis!)

Welcome to the chaos. We welcome more characters to interact with.

For the briefest rundown possible: there is a spider that the characters are running from: every time you kill it, it comes back bigger.…[Read more]

Is this just me and my siblings? Because BOOOO! I talk to them all day! I want a new victim friend to interact with?

Hello

Anyone?

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Ah-hem.

Well dear listeners,

It would seem…[Read more]

The knick-knack shelf holds var…[Read more]

“Heyyy!!!! Get back here!!” The voice yells near the window. It stops a moment, has a conversation I can’t hear over my own stupid stupid stupid heartbeat.

Then I hear, “I’ll be right back!” A suspicious sound, like someone’s gone out the window? Twice in as many minutes? “Come back hereeeeee!!!”

That.

Is.

It.

I push Oscar away and shov…[Read more]

GRIMME

She looks down to see a child.

“Where can I use the restroom?” He is still tugging on her sleeve, eyes big, cheeks rosy.

She rubs the back of her neck. The kinky-coily hair rubs roughly against her hand.

This is … too many children. One, sure, she knew what to do. Three…[Read more]

BURN

I twist my wrist free from Oscar. “Don’t touch me!”

Calm down. You’re overreacting. Just … breath.

Oscar very carefully puts his arms on my shoulders like I didn’t just tell him not to touch me. “It’s okay. You’re safe here.”

Grimme looks at my arm with brisk efficiency. I…[Read more]

LOL I’m gonna have to wait to tell until @this-is-not-an-alien gets to that episode. I already said my favorite character died! 😭😤

But for my top ten? Hughes. All of Team Mustang. The Elric brothers. Hohenheim. Ugh… The Armstrong siblings… Greed. Ling. Heheh. Help? I love almost all of them?!

How about this?…[Read more]

I will make an educated guess on who your favorite character is! 🤔 LOL

Basically same as Cathy but I will be reading fanfiction (what I gave up) where my favorite character doesn’t DIE!

(Watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood on an entirely “unrelated” note. Don’t spoiler Cathy! She’s just started!)

Maybe Poppi will come over though. That’d be nice. Nana and Papa are coming next weekend so we…[Read more]

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I watch Grimme nearly puke as Alessio lets the spider. Crawl. On. His. Hand.

What the Abyss is this kid made of?

I hold out the jar.

Except.

He.

Drops.

It.

“I’m sorry!” He backs into … ya’know what? That’s Nithel. And everybody here is getting a tiny trinket. This is rid…[Read more]

“He didn’t do anything!” the child chases after Oscar. “Uh, he, uhhh…” “

Does he think Oscar is going to hurt Burn? I mean. No but … no. Oscar would never…

“Oh! We got lost and Burn’s going to help us …until we…get back home…”

Would he?

I chew my lip and …

…

Wait.

Why are there so many children?

“It’s a pleasure to me…[Read more]

SCENE SETTING – [You arrive in Consul Oscar Woodwall’s living room.]

The room is richly furnished and professionally designed. It’s quite large – could comfortably hold a little over twenty people. The walls are emerald green and the pillars are stark white.

A fountain babbles in the cente…[Read more]

Scrolling through Pinterest and found the perfect quote to describe Burn. (And what if feels like writing him. LOL – not once have I actually known what he was about to do when I was writing him. It just happened)

(Also important for you to know that he is posing like Oscar and doing a horrible impersonation of him.)

Uh. Guess I came to the vote late. I really want to see @kimlikesart‘s world.

BURN

Okay, it’s my time to shine!

“If I have enough smoke I can see every crack and crevice in a vaulted chamber – while on that topic, I would like to mention that I still have not felt the roof of this chamber and punk that’…[Read more]

“Is there a priest among us?”

I turn to look at the stranger. He looks like a fish out of water. Poor guy.

“I don’t believe so but one could easily fall out of the sky at any minute.” Nathair said.

Sky. Hm. There’s that word again. what does it mean.

That being said, I do remember a time Padre Drake tumbled out of a fourth-stor…[Read more]

Ironically enough, Burn has never lead me wrong when it comes to his duties as a scout.

“As much as I hate to say it…” Words cannot even begin to express how much. “if Burn says we should go to the glowy pool of evil magic that absolutely will kill us, we should go…”

Burn nods vigorously out of the corner of my eye.

“Because there…[Read more]

I point to the glowing pool that I can somehow see.

“I pick that direction!” I say triumphantly.

Name of World: This Place (Kudos to whoever gets the reference. You’ve probably figured out my plot twist.)

Time period: fantasy with modern trappings (so, phones, internet, and other pieces of modern civilization that can…[Read more]

Hades adjusts his mask. “I do not know any of these people personally. Do you recognize anyone here?”

“I know Search!” Burn says happily. “And then there’s Snake-Punk. And …” His brow furrows. “Search…”

“… There were still people in those stasis chambers.”

I shiver. “Can we get them out again?”

Burn kneels over the hole – hands pr…[Read more]

“What’s your plan?”

I tip my ear in the stranger’s direction. “Didja fall through a hole in reality too? Nevermind – we already know the answer.”

Plan. Plan. Implies I’m in charge. What idiot made that decision?

Tunnels in the Abyss it was me, right? I’m the idiot. Welp. There’s more responsibility for me to pawn of on Search.

“She’s…[Read more]

“Hey! Where’d the monsters go?!”

Search facepalms. “Please stop drawing attention to yourself.

I ignore her. “Why is everyone ignoring me?!”

“Please. Shut. Up.”

No.

“Kind Punk! Notice me!” I consider a moment. “But Snake Punk can ignore me.”

“Wait. If Angry Punk is here, I can punch him.” That would be a good day. I’ve already punched…[Read more]

BURN

WHAT IS THIS SCALY THING THAT BROKE ME?!

Okay. It broke the prison too. And that’s a good thing but still.

What. Is. It?

Eventually, I stop rolling – Rolling. Through. Glass. Punk. It. Sucks. – and came to a stop.

Problems remaining: still don’t know wh…[Read more]

Okay.

So.

I can scream for help.

I can break the glass. (haha, yeah. Sure. Just magic up some super-strength like Drake. Right.)

Or … will the switch flip again?

Nope. It’s stuck. Perfect.

Anyway that alarm is off.

I’m just gonna … keep ignoring the glowing hearts on my arm. Why not?

I mean, ya’know punk. Why wouldn’t…[Read more]

[Nathair chooses to break the glass.]

[It trembles with each hit. But the water sloshes around you, slowing each blow, muting each hit.]

[This won’t do.]

[You urgently need air.]

[Play it smart.]

[Look for a weak point.]

[You try attacking where the glass meets the base.]

[In the process, you accidentally hit the s…[Read more]

[Do I have to be alone right now?]

[But I guess it’s fitting.]

Isn’t it funny though? When you think about it? My entire life – well, everything I remember about my life – has been spent worrying about number one.

Yeah.

This doesn’t change the fact that I am my own worst enemy. It’s me, myself, and I that beats me up. Me, myself, and…[Read more]

[@this-is-not-an-alien – The entire character castle is going to regret your choice.]

[You do nothing, save crossing your arms and smirking at the blinking, glowing buttons. For you are stubborn.]

[Stubborn as the foundations of this castle.]

[Stubborn as a m…[Read more]

MY books are not THAT dark! I read YOUR draft!

[You are wrong.]

[Life is not gray. It is black and white. But they mingle. A little black in the white. A little white in the black.]

[Take off your apathy-tinted glasses. See the world as it is.]

[That fox-fire you stare into dims. Winks out. And darts away.]

[The tip-tip-tip-tip of…[Read more]

Does anyone write Dark Fantasy? Tell me what yours look like.

🫥

I don’t know? I never really thought about it as DARK Fantasy. But, based off my understanding, that probably does fit?

I guess my current WIP is dark fantasy? @this-is-not-an-alien? Is Lost City of Dragons – Burn’s story – Dark Fantasy?

I know that Dungeon Punk is one of the genre…[Read more]

Why do you summon me?

@nataliecone

This link will take you to a good article by Flannery O’Conner that might help you sort through some of your conflict. It’s kinda funny I was just rereading this today. I think the Holy Spirit must have bonked me. 😄

The main point is that if you are pursuing the art that God put in…[Read more]

[The room is large – almost unfathomably so. Pillars reach to the roof, each shaped like thorny vines. They support a roof so far above you that it is shrouded in shadow, except for the occasional dim light from rose-shaped lanterns. The marble under your feet resembles a chess-board. Each white tile h…[Read more]

[As you get closer, you see a streak of light fall behind the throne – a door has cracked open just a bit. Barely anything. But in the darkness of the room, this thin sliver of light shows … things perhaps better l…[Read more]

“Details. Now.”

The world warped into gray-gold sensations.

Sticky like honey.

Chalky like ash.

Warm like both.

Round and frail.

I feel my blindfold – it’s replaced the bandages. Finally. And the infection is gone.

“Hey.” Grimme calls – her voice is close and how did I not know she was coming? “Does that feel better?”

“Yep.…[Read more]

I’ve noticed that there is little activity from other members in the castle. Part of which is my fault, due to not coordinating with other members. To the point, what do you people think should happen in this trial?

The trial is centered around Betrayal, whether it is someone a character betrayed or when they were betrayed.

@ragnarok

I’m not r…[Read more]

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“How could I have anticipated that would happen!?!” Nathair says from the ground.

I lunge at Burn, knocking us both to the ground. “Stop! Punching! People! Without! Warning!”

He’s still howling curses though. Well. At least he recognizes me. Otherwise, things would have gone from…[Read more]

I can’t write Burn in character for this. There is no way, no how he’s sitting in the air howling curses while Nathair and Sherlock hold polite conversations. I could have made it work if it weren’t for that one detail. Can I change it?

Who sprung a leak to the Endless Abyss?!

“We’re gonna die Search! We’re gonna die!”

Search just clucked my hand tighter. “Not yet we aren’t!”

“And I still haven’t figured out what a dragon is!”

“We’ll be fine!”

“I don’t want to die without knowing what a dragon is!”

“I don’t either!”

“In here!”

It’s so loud from the flood I d…[Read more]

Snake-Punk adds almost amiably. But also, with a suspicious hint of confusion.

(despite the fact that he didn’t really know what a lizard was.)

“So.” Oh boy, here it comes. “How’d you get permanent blood stains in your hair?”

Not what I thought was coming.

But I grin anyway -whi…[Read more]

Why not throw both in?

I mean, @ragnarok has a disorienting number of characters and it hasn’t really bothered anyone. And you could put one in each group!

If you just don’t feel like doing two characters, I vote the water-princess because there are already a lot of pyromanic characters here. LOL.

On the other hand, if…[Read more]

Pardon me for sounding like Burn here, but punk literally not a single word of that made sense!

Okay. Deep breaths Search. Piece together what you can.

Whitehall – a location.

Jetstream – um.

Ship – drawing a blank… oh, probably transportation? Put a pin in that.

Job and money – that can’t be too different?

Tickets – okay, for tra…[Read more]

“There was but…” Ax-Punk says.

He doesn’t finish.

Instead he sighs, wanders back inside the Ma’n’Pa store.

Hm. To spy or not to spy.

“Hey punks.” I said, politely. “We’re leaving Ax-Punk behind.”

There. Now I’m not spying. I’m waiting impatiently for him.

“Excuse me ma’am. Could you tell us where the port is?”

See, here’s the weird th…[Read more]