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At first, I thought it was a fun way to write stories, but then bad things started happening in my life. Writing became a way to escape everything around me, a way to cope. It was a way to be someone else, a person you wanted to be more than yourself, going on adventures that you could never embark on.

Sorry for the sad thing, but that's how it is-

I'm just obsessed with creating stories and characters, situations. My brain feeds on that daily. If I'm not drawing I'm reading books and comics or playing games, and even while I do that I'm imagining new stories and only get new ideas all the time.

I've RPed since I was a kiddo! High school me used to live for it. Bad home life, bad school life - something had to give, and it was a good (and most importantly: safe) escape. It's something that I've done throughout my whole life, whether it be external (writing and RP) or internal (daydreaming). I'll always advocate for it as a coping mechanism, though admittedly real life socialising comes first, I guess, on the scale of "things humans need".

More than that, though, because I don't want everyone who I RP with thinking I'm like... still sad (I'm a very happy adult now), I do just genuinely go ham for a good RP. There's nowt like it. The collaboration, the being able to bounce ideas off of one another, joke around, chat OOC... it's just something that solo writing has never quite hit for me. What can I say? I'm a people person!