I know I haven't posted in a while. School started and I've been pretty busy ever since. I've been trying to find something to post about, and today is a special occasion. On this day, Anthony James Rousseaux (the namesake of this blog) turns twenty-three. He was born on September 9th, 1992. (Hence my username.) He is by far the best and most developed character I've ever created, and I just...I mean...he's cool. He's pretty cool.
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In honor of his birthday, I thought this would be a good opportunity to tell you all more about the roleplay.
Some of this will be recap. Here I'm not rereading and adding on to my old posts about it, but instead, starting fresh.
The roleplay (sometimes known as "Divided") is a project my friends and I started in late fall, 2012. It was meant to be a silly writing project, just for fun. We each created our own characters, initially just one for each writer, but since then, things have grown. This may not be perfect, seeing how at the moment people keep changing their ideas, but as far as I know, the author-character chart looks like this.
Author Siri Reilly:
- Lizzie Tyler
- Hank Jacobs
- Meg Richards
Author Sara Williams:
- Shade Grey
- Darel Jones
- Nate Jones
Author Bailey Giauque:
- Bea Holmes
- Jade Young
- Lea Vindico
- Oliver Vindico?
Author Alix Kintner:
- Shizuka Maki
- Demon?
Author Madison DeCamp:
- Tyler Noel
- Cassie Reed
- Skyler Mills
- Scarlett Mills-Noel
Author Allie Hedderly-Smith (me):
- Anthony Rousseaux
- Raven Black
(We occasionally write one-shots including other characters, but overall, the rights to each belong to their respective authors.)
I typically have trouble staying interested in more than two characters. If we ever start writing again, I may try my hand in the supporting cast. (We don't have a lot of that.)
But anyways, we started it in 2012 (eighth grade) just for fun. One person would write a paragraph or so from their character's point of view (a post), and another would write a response paragraph from their character's point of view (another post). The responses were, for the most part, quick and interesting, and our story soon progressed into a gallop. At times, it got in the way of our school and homework habits; cranking out posts like we were born for it. As is the case with all great amounts of output, the new and sudden experience caused our writing styles to change dramatically. (Zen Pencils, anyone?) And I'm not kidding when I say "great amounts;" we ended up with three different Google docs because each doc only allows a around three-hundred and fifty pages. That's about one-thousand pages of writing. Sure, most of it was fluff that didn't progress the story, but still.
We all tried a few other roleplays (zombie apocalypse-themed, dystopian society-themed), but none of them lasted long. I think the reason this one was so successful was the appeal of the fantasy and freedom of our characters, but also mostly just that it was the first one, the one we all really got to know each other through. If the roleplay hadn't started, I likely wouldn't have the friends I have now.
But so, after three docs, summer vacation finally came and we got distracted. We've tried to start it again a couple of times, but haven't quite succeeded. And we've been toying with the idea of turning it into a book for a while - like a year. I think my co-authors would rather nobody posts any direct excerpts right now, but if we make any real progress, I'll let you know.
But so anyways, school has started, and September 9th has come. Happy birthday, Anthony! Someday I'll start writing about you seriously again, and you'll be back where you came from.
Talk to you all later.
- Allie H-S
P.S: Salt Lake Comic Con was exhausting; I didn't realize the Salt Palace was so big. (The vendor's room from last year was used this year for just the entrance.) I got ten cool little pins from some place called Akumu Ink, a fancy fascinator hat, and a black parasol umbrella. Now I'm completely broke. And that's really all there is to say on the matter.
P.P.S: I always feel like I need to leave a second signature to conclude my post-scripts. But I don't. So that's a little frustrating.
