Thread:Lucy554/@comment-5138366-20170826183902/@comment-29740360-20170826231817

1) Yeah... Now that I think about it, we did move very fast. I think that there were two reasons wy I moved so fast, the first being that people were already exceited to include their own brands and I wanted to allow people to use them faster so as to avoid confusion. Second, a lot of aren't super into the RolePlay aspect in my opinion. I'm the sort of person who is okay with writing more slice-of-life stuff as well as stuff with more drama and action, but I've noticed that many people want jump straight into the action. I moved so fast because I wanted to keep it interesting to people who aren't big on writing as much.

2) I completely agree with you that I do get carried away with how I present my characters and story. I know that this is an idol fandom, and not a fantasy one, but I do have a method to my madness. You see, I could have designed a completely new character, but the problem with me and writing things in the background like this (Apart from my revision process on an old RP, writing for a current RP, trying to revive a mostly dead RP, and writing a book) is that I have a tendency to use the characters that I am already 100% confident in writing. Because I'm a (unpublished) fantasy author, my characters tend to get a bit out-of-the box with their concepts in more ordinary universes like Aikatsu's. I do have a half-done wiki for the RP I'm revising, where I have more indepth stuff about their own story, but creating a secondary one to work on specifically for Aikatsu RolePlay would help at least a little.

3) I must admit that I was pretty disappointed when people just took the oppurotunity to make their character a top idol because I didn't say you couldn't. However, the majority for people did make newbie idols, at least on the first post. I made my character specifically a top idol because I wanted to RolePlay as a mentor figure, because that's where I felt she would fit in best. As for the character of Himeyuki, I let that fly because I was hoping to set up a school rivalry plot. Character development is clearly more common among people who are not already at the top, but you can see it. You can develop a character who has already achieved their goal. However, I have to admit that Himeyuki wasn't the most interesting character to me... Personally, I made Lucia a top idol already not only because she works better as mentor figure in this situation but because of how she was created and backstory I had set in place for her. Her character development isn't in her trying to rise to the top but the turmoil she goes through not only because she is at the top and feels that she has to continue to impress but the fact that she still believes that she doesn't compare to her inspiration.

4) As for the competition portion, I didn't ask the admins because I didn't mean for it to be treated as a competition. I asked for "Entries" so that I could play out auditions in-story, not in real life. For posts without an audition that has a winner, I just felt like giving sout-outs to my favorite "Entries." It isn't intended to be a compeition, and I don't judge based on my preference, but how things would play out in-universe.