Some brief talk about my 2023 in RP and my outlook for my 2024 in RP, I'm thinkin'.

The most noteworthy thing I did in 2023 was probably right at the start, running a Palace Game for Nessa in Reverie.

I went right from planning for NaNoWriMo to writing NaNoWriMo to planning the Palace Game to running it, so that was more or less from.....September to February? That close to 100% of my creative energy was spent entirely in Nessa's world.

And the Palace Game was kinda the climax of that. I spent so much time working on her world and her story and that cast of characters that the Palace Game was my opportunity to really show it to the people that had gotten invested in Nessa's story by playing with her in Reverie.

And it was a hell of a lot of fun. The people in the Palace Game really took to the world and the characters and we got to do a big boss fight action scene and I got to end Nessa's arc in Reverie pretty much exactly how I wanted to.

I didn't play Yu Junghyeok nearly as much at the end of Reverie, because he was the last man standing of the ORV cast at that point and most of my energy was going towards /gestures at all of that other stuff, but I did at least manage to do a little bit of an arc for him at the end.

This arc........mostly played out on Han Suyeong's journal so pepper is probably the only one who saw it? lul

But I prefer it that way. Yu Junghyeok's arc in reverie was mostly about his relationship to Han Suyeong and I do like how things ended up with them.

I never discussed this with pep, but my headcanon was always that Yu Junghyeok's wish at the end of Reverie was "both Han Suyeong's can exist separately from each other, if that's what they want."

Playing Yu Junghyeok was fun, but it was also very tough. He's not an easy voice to get and he's not one that goes into my wheelhouse, either. I feel like I just played him with my dry, sarcastic voice a little too often but I think there's a bit more nuance to his voice than that that I never really felt like I nailed.

Plus he's not a character that's well-suited to DWRP jarjam settings. He's very powerful and very driven and very goal-oriented. He would just be trying to, y'know, "win the game" constantly, but that's not how DWRPs work. So he'd just be banging his head against the setting constantly, which isn't fun to play.

If I ever get The Need to play an ORV again, it would more likely be 41st Shin Yuseung.

(I said this would be brief. Jesus.)

Reverie ended in March and I apped to Seasons with Gabi in May. Seasons wound up getting a huge Attack on Titan cast, which has been a ton of fun but somewhere along the line I really lost the wheel and have just not been able to get my hands back on it.

Things have gone........marginally better, but only marginally, in Sweet Suite, which I apped Nessa to when it opened in July.

It's this really frustrating thing where I really like my CR in both games and I like playing both characters but when it's time to actually sit down and write the tags....it just ain't there. I think one of the culprits is football. The Lions are really good this year, so I'm focusing a lot on them.

But yeah. 2023 ended in a way that was pretty frustrating, relative to how it started, and after taking that hiatus and all of that, I don't feel like I'm any closer to knowing what I'm doing.

I'm standing here at the beginning of 2024 and it feels like there's a lot of different ways I could go. There's games that interest me and characters that interest me. I still have an idea for a game from 2 years ago that a small part of me thinks I should at least attempt.

I also think there's a decent that 2024 could be my last year in DWRP. And I've started thinking about what that would look like and what terms I would like to end it on before I just go and try to be a writer on my own.

And part of me kind of likes the idea of ending it on my own terms. Telling some story I can really be proud of for the people that I enjoy writing with and who have helped me grow as a writer and then letting that be the last word of my time here.

So. I'm gonna try and figure some stuff out in the next little bit of time here. We'll see what happens. It'll all work itself out, I'm sure.