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Case Files Tenth Anniversary!
by Regiwi Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:07 am
HAPPY TENTH ANNIVERSARY!
So, I believe it was around February the 15th the Lawbreakers RP started that eventually led to this place and here we are ten years later. I was thinking of making this a sort of casual RP thing, but the more I thought about it the less I saw it working, instead I figured I'd just do a discussion thread. So yeah, ten years have passed since this whole thing started, feels wild now. Feel free to discuss memories of the RPs and Case Files in general here. I know things have quietened down lately but the memories of the site and community will always be important to me.
So, I believe it was around February the 15th the Lawbreakers RP started that eventually led to this place and here we are ten years later. I was thinking of making this a sort of casual RP thing, but the more I thought about it the less I saw it working, instead I figured I'd just do a discussion thread. So yeah, ten years have passed since this whole thing started, feels wild now. Feel free to discuss memories of the RPs and Case Files in general here. I know things have quietened down lately but the memories of the site and community will always be important to me.
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Age : 33
Location : Internet. (It's scary)
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Re: Case Files Tenth Anniversary!
by DimitriBarronmore Sun Feb 28, 2021 11:17 pm
Man, ten years huh? And I suppose with me joining around the start of the GRP, I've been around for just over half of them? Man, how time flies. Weird to think I must have been only 16 when Xeno dragged me into this place headfirst, and now here we are. We had some good times here.
Honestly, I feel bad that I kind of slipped off and became inactive here. I've never been the best at taking initiative and confidently moving forward in an RP. I have this bad habit I've developed over the years of sitting back and allowing things to happen to me rather than making them happen, too nervous to start a plotline, or ask someone to plan with me, or invent chunks of world. Eventually I tend to burn out, timidly sitting in the background without volunteering new plots and scenes for my characters, or starting to neglect the ones that are already running. I'm not about to be so egotistical as to imagine that the GRP slowly stalling out is entirely on my shoulders, but I'm sure some of the lost momentum was on me for spending such long periods of time pretending I wasn't avoiding the task of writing a reply.
Still, I love this place. I look back on the scenes I helped write here as some of the fondest memories of roleplaying I have, and if I ever have any doubts about my worth as a contributor or my secret hidden desire to start it all back up again I just have to look at that pixelated lil' Frisk in the banner and it brings back all these warm fuzzy emotions. This place gave me a heartfelt appreciation for these fourm-based roleplays, with the long paragraphs of text being replied to in blocks, the fun reaction images to go with character dialogue, and a slightly looser sense of time where writing your reply in thirty seconds and three days can be equally valid, and sometimes you NEED that much time to write.
I don't have many good ideas for fourm games or roleplays I could volunteer to try and bring this place back to its former glory, but I'll keep my mind sharp. If any of you guys want to kick things off again just like old times, I'm right here and willing to give it a shot.
Honestly, I feel bad that I kind of slipped off and became inactive here. I've never been the best at taking initiative and confidently moving forward in an RP. I have this bad habit I've developed over the years of sitting back and allowing things to happen to me rather than making them happen, too nervous to start a plotline, or ask someone to plan with me, or invent chunks of world. Eventually I tend to burn out, timidly sitting in the background without volunteering new plots and scenes for my characters, or starting to neglect the ones that are already running. I'm not about to be so egotistical as to imagine that the GRP slowly stalling out is entirely on my shoulders, but I'm sure some of the lost momentum was on me for spending such long periods of time pretending I wasn't avoiding the task of writing a reply.
Still, I love this place. I look back on the scenes I helped write here as some of the fondest memories of roleplaying I have, and if I ever have any doubts about my worth as a contributor or my secret hidden desire to start it all back up again I just have to look at that pixelated lil' Frisk in the banner and it brings back all these warm fuzzy emotions. This place gave me a heartfelt appreciation for these fourm-based roleplays, with the long paragraphs of text being replied to in blocks, the fun reaction images to go with character dialogue, and a slightly looser sense of time where writing your reply in thirty seconds and three days can be equally valid, and sometimes you NEED that much time to write.
I don't have many good ideas for fourm games or roleplays I could volunteer to try and bring this place back to its former glory, but I'll keep my mind sharp. If any of you guys want to kick things off again just like old times, I'm right here and willing to give it a shot.
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Re: Case Files Tenth Anniversary!
by Aliucon Mon Mar 01, 2021 1:18 am
I believe the memories from here will always be important to me as well.
Though I wasn't involved with the original Anythings VS Lawbreakers for long at all, its presence was the most welcome off of any RP I ever joined. I remember when I did, since it was very shortly before we had to make a move to Case Files from the backup forums. I remember being immediately struck by how big it was, and opening it at random pages. Sometimes the interactions on it just made me laugh, sometimes they were really weird (I believe I saw Hazama's sprite for the first time in the thread rather than in the game he's from), but it all fed into a wish to learn more about it. At the time, I had finished AAI as my most recent Ace Attorney game, and the characters on it were somewhat new. I saw an opportunity to play Shi-Long Lang, but I remember thinking of two main difficulties that brought. One was that Lang is a character I wouldn't be able to easily do, he's quite different from characters I usually went for; and the other was the sheer amount of content that I didn't know happened previously within the RP.
I solved the first by just building up the courage by degrees, which is I guess, normal. I solved the second by trying to read absolutely everything that had come before in the RP, which is decidedly abnormal. But it definitely worked to build up my investment in everything. It acquainted me with the process of plot becoming an increasingly more prominent power to the point its role became almost satirically massive. It showed me a lot of character development which I found impossible to retain everything from, but respected all the players so much for going all the way with it. It made me know the memes (Trucy Wright has a crush on Kristoph Gavin, pass it on). And it also gave me a surface appreciation for the roleplayers involved too. So when I joined, even though I was nervous, I think my first posts were the only barrier I ever had to feel like I belonged in this community. It definitely helped that everyone was really cool and pretty accepting.
This is definitely the community with which I've been involved and been active the longest, and it'll always hold a special place in my heart. Out of the many things in my life I couldn't feel passion towards (beyond individual people), this really stood out. The amount of things I learned to use in order to do better here is almost embarrassing. I didn't know any proper image editting when coming here, or image cropping, but I had to learn it in order to have better sprites or images available for certain RPs (especially Paradox and GRP eventually). I brewed a stronger habit of taking notes of events, something I always did but not to the degree I felt necessary with something as event-filled as the old RPs could be. I always had wikis and a dictionary on my tabs while writing, and in the case of Paradox, I did a lot of wiki diving into series I had no idea about just to make sure I wasn't getting things horribly wrong in a response. ... Even with all of that, I got a lot wrong in the process. But it was a lot of fun that I wouldn't change for anything in the world.
Most of the great memories I have of LBvsAA are mostly of what other people did and planned (especially once I picked Gant and knew a few schemes behind the scenes, it got really interesting). And seeing the discussions and reactions to posts in the Skype Chat was amazing fun too. But other than that... I think I look with eyes full of nostalgia at the first Paradox, especially my first character. I picked someone who was going to be non-commital, and I could drop without much issue. Toshi, or Ganryou as was her warname, was a minor character from a visual novel that I imagined no one really knew (though Kazuma, ever the surprising presence, proved me wrong). So I took her because she had a mild personality and I thought wouldn't be missed if I had to leave. In the process of the game, she got an incredible armor set that haunted her whenever she was using it, made amazing friends with Eggman of all people, interacted with dozens of characters on relatively good terms and lived to see the last climatic fight of Arc 1. It was to the point I felt satisfied with modifying her original story setting, where her kingdom is doomed to lose due to the incompetence of its leader, into one where her kingdom is one of the power players of its time, thanks to the strength and knowledge the Paradox gave her. It was an amazing experience, and I had other characters involved too (Remilia Scarlet and Reimu Hakurei were especially fun), but this will always stick in my mind as a moment where I "succeeded" in doing what I wanted with a character, to give development that would expand a bit beyond the scope of the RP. It, in fact, remained within the RP, of course, but the arcs did feel like their own stuff, which was really nice. To this day, I kind of wish I could go back to that character in some way.
And I can't not mention GRP. After the years of dedication to the other ones, I had hit a convenient pace to myself, if a bit slow. The General Roleplay came along and wasn't supposed to be burdened by an overarching plot for its participants, which is totally fine. But plot finds a way, which might as well be the overarching lesson for our community. I don't know what I was thinking when I joined with Viridi shortly before the legendary Battle of the Taxless, but I'm certainly glad I did. Much like Lang, Viridi is definitely not the character with a personality I'm used to playing, so it was a challenge, but through all the trials and tribulations that were thrown her way (to the point that, for a good while, Viridi's realm and temple were one of the main settings of the GRP), I got to make her go through an incredible range of emotions, sometimes for a joke (like the interactions with Gaston and Romnort), but sometimes for producing drama I loved to have (with Lapis Lazuli and The Doctor, as well as the entire battle with Frisk, which I thank Dimitri for, and everyone else involved, including my sister who so kindly provided art of it). It motivated me to play a lot and make a whole thread about people's current locations and stuff to try and avoid confusion. In retrospect, I probably ADDED to the confusion whenever I didn't update it, heheh. But it was still a strong showing of an RP, and one I'm glad to have had.
... Ironically, despite the lack of activity here, I still find myself RPing these days. Not just with a D&D group which I've been having on Mondays, but in some Discord groups dedicated to things like that. But even those that require literacy, which is most of them, don't demand as much effort and planning as I've seen here from others, or applied here. Perhaps this is why I keep them up, being less effort but still a way to keep me tied to something you all are partially guilty for making me absolutely love. But it's not like I'm mad about that. I wouldn't really exchange this for anything else.
Thanks to everyone that's been part of this community so far. There's really nothing like this out there- well, there might be, but not for me. 10 years is a long time to keep a connection to a place. And I feel like, even if in the future this connection wanes, the memories never will.
Like Dimitri, I'm still willing to span the dust and kick something up, whatever it may be. I may not have all the energy I used to have now, but- I've known myself to be kicked into high gear by RPs before without expecting to! So that's something!
Though I wasn't involved with the original Anythings VS Lawbreakers for long at all, its presence was the most welcome off of any RP I ever joined. I remember when I did, since it was very shortly before we had to make a move to Case Files from the backup forums. I remember being immediately struck by how big it was, and opening it at random pages. Sometimes the interactions on it just made me laugh, sometimes they were really weird (I believe I saw Hazama's sprite for the first time in the thread rather than in the game he's from), but it all fed into a wish to learn more about it. At the time, I had finished AAI as my most recent Ace Attorney game, and the characters on it were somewhat new. I saw an opportunity to play Shi-Long Lang, but I remember thinking of two main difficulties that brought. One was that Lang is a character I wouldn't be able to easily do, he's quite different from characters I usually went for; and the other was the sheer amount of content that I didn't know happened previously within the RP.
I solved the first by just building up the courage by degrees, which is I guess, normal. I solved the second by trying to read absolutely everything that had come before in the RP, which is decidedly abnormal. But it definitely worked to build up my investment in everything. It acquainted me with the process of plot becoming an increasingly more prominent power to the point its role became almost satirically massive. It showed me a lot of character development which I found impossible to retain everything from, but respected all the players so much for going all the way with it. It made me know the memes (Trucy Wright has a crush on Kristoph Gavin, pass it on). And it also gave me a surface appreciation for the roleplayers involved too. So when I joined, even though I was nervous, I think my first posts were the only barrier I ever had to feel like I belonged in this community. It definitely helped that everyone was really cool and pretty accepting.
This is definitely the community with which I've been involved and been active the longest, and it'll always hold a special place in my heart. Out of the many things in my life I couldn't feel passion towards (beyond individual people), this really stood out. The amount of things I learned to use in order to do better here is almost embarrassing. I didn't know any proper image editting when coming here, or image cropping, but I had to learn it in order to have better sprites or images available for certain RPs (especially Paradox and GRP eventually). I brewed a stronger habit of taking notes of events, something I always did but not to the degree I felt necessary with something as event-filled as the old RPs could be. I always had wikis and a dictionary on my tabs while writing, and in the case of Paradox, I did a lot of wiki diving into series I had no idea about just to make sure I wasn't getting things horribly wrong in a response. ... Even with all of that, I got a lot wrong in the process. But it was a lot of fun that I wouldn't change for anything in the world.
Most of the great memories I have of LBvsAA are mostly of what other people did and planned (especially once I picked Gant and knew a few schemes behind the scenes, it got really interesting). And seeing the discussions and reactions to posts in the Skype Chat was amazing fun too. But other than that... I think I look with eyes full of nostalgia at the first Paradox, especially my first character. I picked someone who was going to be non-commital, and I could drop without much issue. Toshi, or Ganryou as was her warname, was a minor character from a visual novel that I imagined no one really knew (though Kazuma, ever the surprising presence, proved me wrong). So I took her because she had a mild personality and I thought wouldn't be missed if I had to leave. In the process of the game, she got an incredible armor set that haunted her whenever she was using it, made amazing friends with Eggman of all people, interacted with dozens of characters on relatively good terms and lived to see the last climatic fight of Arc 1. It was to the point I felt satisfied with modifying her original story setting, where her kingdom is doomed to lose due to the incompetence of its leader, into one where her kingdom is one of the power players of its time, thanks to the strength and knowledge the Paradox gave her. It was an amazing experience, and I had other characters involved too (Remilia Scarlet and Reimu Hakurei were especially fun), but this will always stick in my mind as a moment where I "succeeded" in doing what I wanted with a character, to give development that would expand a bit beyond the scope of the RP. It, in fact, remained within the RP, of course, but the arcs did feel like their own stuff, which was really nice. To this day, I kind of wish I could go back to that character in some way.
And I can't not mention GRP. After the years of dedication to the other ones, I had hit a convenient pace to myself, if a bit slow. The General Roleplay came along and wasn't supposed to be burdened by an overarching plot for its participants, which is totally fine. But plot finds a way, which might as well be the overarching lesson for our community. I don't know what I was thinking when I joined with Viridi shortly before the legendary Battle of the Taxless, but I'm certainly glad I did. Much like Lang, Viridi is definitely not the character with a personality I'm used to playing, so it was a challenge, but through all the trials and tribulations that were thrown her way (to the point that, for a good while, Viridi's realm and temple were one of the main settings of the GRP), I got to make her go through an incredible range of emotions, sometimes for a joke (like the interactions with Gaston and Romnort), but sometimes for producing drama I loved to have (with Lapis Lazuli and The Doctor, as well as the entire battle with Frisk, which I thank Dimitri for, and everyone else involved, including my sister who so kindly provided art of it). It motivated me to play a lot and make a whole thread about people's current locations and stuff to try and avoid confusion. In retrospect, I probably ADDED to the confusion whenever I didn't update it, heheh. But it was still a strong showing of an RP, and one I'm glad to have had.
... Ironically, despite the lack of activity here, I still find myself RPing these days. Not just with a D&D group which I've been having on Mondays, but in some Discord groups dedicated to things like that. But even those that require literacy, which is most of them, don't demand as much effort and planning as I've seen here from others, or applied here. Perhaps this is why I keep them up, being less effort but still a way to keep me tied to something you all are partially guilty for making me absolutely love. But it's not like I'm mad about that. I wouldn't really exchange this for anything else.
Thanks to everyone that's been part of this community so far. There's really nothing like this out there- well, there might be, but not for me. 10 years is a long time to keep a connection to a place. And I feel like, even if in the future this connection wanes, the memories never will.
Like Dimitri, I'm still willing to span the dust and kick something up, whatever it may be. I may not have all the energy I used to have now, but- I've known myself to be kicked into high gear by RPs before without expecting to! So that's something!
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Location : At home, probably
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Re: Case Files Tenth Anniversary!
by Jessica Ilha Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:26 am
Nobody really asked, but I want to do some reminiscing myself... and write things down, before I forget them once and for all.
(With spoiler tags because HUGE WALL OF TEXT! You've been warned
)
Okay, okay, I'm stoping now. Promise.
Just one more thing.
I LOVE YOU GUYS
(With spoiler tags because HUGE WALL OF TEXT! You've been warned
)- The Beginning & LBvsAA:
Before the RP came to be a thing, I, of course, had to become engaged in the AA series...
But the thing is, I first played the two first games in January 2011.
I first knew about the games through a Deviantart artist called Pacthesis. She made a parody game called "Sora Wright" (yes, a Kingdom Hearts and Ace Attorney crossover. I remember telling Neni this and she rushed out to play! "It's a KH and AA parody AND it brought Jess to us! I MUST play it!") Maybe it was 2009 or 2010, can't remember.
But around December 2010, I made a big decision in my life. The next year I'd have to take University entrance exams, and so I had to pick a course. And (as most people already know?) I picked Law. To be a defense attorney? Nah, I always wanted to be a prosecutor. In the criminal law area.
So during my summer vacation, more precisely on January 2011, I was searching things to do... and remembered that parody game. And thought, "well, I liked the parody so much, why don't I give the real game a chance?".
And that's how I came to like Ace Attorney.
I've never had a DS, so I played the first two games on an emulator, and could not find the third one anywhere at the time, so I just read the Ace Attorney wikia about any and everything I could.
I wanted more, but I couldn't have. I couldn't play the games (and it never really crossed my mind to watch a gameplay on YouTube, either, but...).
On February 15th, 2011, I found the Lawbreakers Society RP. I read everything and loved it. I had never ever in my life joined a RP before; I didn't even know what that was to be honest. But I knew I wanted to join it.
But I was afraid.
First, because I had never done it and didn't want to mess things. Second, because I'm not a native English speaker and I wasn't confident of my English skills. Third, I had only played two of the available games at the time, and Regi made a huge disclaimer that it was FULL SPOILER MODE. I didn't mind being spoilered, specially on games I couldn't play anyway; no, I was afraid that people would require from me knowledge I didn't have.
So I pondered. And pondered.
I didn't join the RP that day.
I kept lurking for one or two days more. Then I decided to throw everything up and join. I mean, people were already being the crazy, loveable people I've came to know and love!
The villains were trying to make a plan, but they had no information whatsoever on the good guys (aka the future Anything Society). Playing only two games, the number of characters I could pull off was very limited... so I went with April May, specifically because I wanted to play the informant part. She's perfect for the job, right?
Right from the start, I was already really attached to the RP. I remember Regi's Karma attacking April, calling her information useless, and I got soo personally attacked at that! No grudges held against Regi of course, but I can't say the same about Karma!
Then the RP started getting bigger and bigger. And the Anything Society came around.
My favourite character was always Mia Fey, but I was so sure I wouldn't be able to pull her off. I hadn't played her cases in T&T! Besides, she was supposed to be dead anyway (poor Mia ended up being the only dead character to stay dead after our plot convention hijinks...). So I went with Pearl. I knew she was important to T&T too, which I hadn't played, but she's a cute, innocent child; surely I could pretend she didn't remember or understand some things, right?
I don't remember when I had Pearly channel Mia for the first time. I remember having her try but not succeed; I didn't want to actually do it because I was afraid of dealing with Mia (besides, Mia wasn't my character anyway). But SuperAJ (who was our first Maya) had her successfully channel Mia, and then I felt more comfortable to do it too. It's not like people would suddenly make me blurt things from T&T that I didn't know, right?
I "remember" (actually, it comes from "Pearl's diaries", which I hand-wrote when doing such character diaries became a fad among us) channeling Mia twice: once, Giggles' Godot saw her and tried to hug her. I was so startled, Godot was basically that one character that would make me mess soo bad for not knowing about T&T! So I made Mia's spirit leave Pearl's body, claiming she lost her control (aka peace of mind) and couldn't stay (plus Pearl didn't know how to deal with a man touching her that way anyway).
The second time was Giggles' (again!) Yogi, when he tried to invade the Agency. This time I could deal with him, but I made the sensible choice of having Mia leave Pearl's body again. Why? Because Yogi wanted to kill Mia, and would kill little Pearls instead...!
After that, I have no more Pearl's diaries, and my memories are foggy (it's been 10 years, guys!).
I remember April tried to invade and wiretap the Agency, but she got caught. She tried to pretend she was a seller or something, nobody bought it, then she basically asked to be put on jail. Because, dun dun DUN! Karma was there and she was bringing him some fresh info!
I do remember people being confused as to why the hell I wanted April to be arrested, and Karma wasn't thankful either (was he at least once anyway?).
I also remember Brutus' Edgeworth's invasion to the Karma castle, which was suddenly full of riddles. And then I had Pearly answer one riddle nobody else knew... which was a mistake, yeah, Pearly wasn't supposed to know that. And that was the beginning of a little gag I had, "Pearly is knowledgeable because she watches so much TV". If only I knew that, years later, I'd be watching Detective Conan pulling off the same excuse!
I remember that Kazu's Apollo was sent to jail and people wanted to get him out of there, but nobody could think of anyway. Then yours truly, who was planning on studying Law anyway, just knew the answer... and Pearl couldn't possibly know it! I'm soo sorry guys, "Abby corpse" was the best thing I could come up to Pearl's mispronunciation of habeas corpus!
That was before we had our own Skype group chat, so I couldn't tell people what I was thinking... And I could see everyone trying so desperately to understand the heck Abby corpse was...!
I remember we all went to Austria because, according to Neni, in Austria you don't need to be a lawyer to defend people in court, so we could have no-badge Phoenix defending Apollo. The trial was rigged but yeah, at least we tried!
Speaking about trials, I was so lucky! I got to be Phoenix's (and later Apollo's) defense bench co-counsel, Godot's accusation bench co-counsel (long story), then Godot stepped out and Mia suddenly became main prosecutor (loong story)... just to realize she (and Godot too) had been tricked and then turn to the defense bench once again (and I think I did take the main defending position for a while?). And April was a juror! Now let me be the Judge!!
Ah, there are so many memories... I'll just write them anyway. You're reading because you want to, right?
One day we started messing with plot. Plot-moved vehicles, to be more specific... that made people revert to their past selves! And then for some reason, it suddenly became a real plot point! And then I had Pearl diagnosing it as a real soul dilemma?! I called it "Splitted Soul" AND NOT EVEN A SINGLE SOUL TOLD ME THAT SPLITTED IS NOT A WORD! SHAME ON YOU GUYS!
Joking.
I remember that Mia got caught in it, and changed places with Maya. At the time, AJ was the one RPing as both of them, I had nothing to do with it. But since I had channeled Mia sometimes before, and Mia was becoming too much plot important to be away from the story... I'm so sorry for what I did, but people asked me to share Mia with AJ while Neni shared Maya with him. And I ended up taking Mia up completely.
Mia got a "Splitted" Soul herself; I made a gif of it, which I intended to be "normal-normal-normal-aglimpseofyounger-normal-normal"... but I failed so hard someone asked over the Skype, "why is Mia suddenly evolving?".
Oh, dear, I'm not mentioning that one time that Regi asked for a sprite of Nick drinking grape juice from the bottle and I drew such a TERRIBLE arm... Gosh that was terrible, sorry Regi. Thanks God someone else (was it Alexis?) did you something better.
I remember Nick's and Maya's adventure through the age of games- I mean, someone's mind? (Either Nick's or Maya's) I want to see Neni's 8-bit, 16-bit etc etc sprites again, they were so cute...!
I don't remember the darned context, but I do remember that Randy's Lang was in a helicopter with Mia and for whatever reason we were making a huge, joint post, in which Lang and Mia would interact, and I asked Randy to write Lang's sentences because I was afraid that I'd make him "speak like a little girl". And Randy replied, "now I want to hear him speaking like a little girl!".
Oh, then there's... The Giggles Line. He implied that Godot did... things with an acolyte in the wardrobe/closet. Then he got Godot drunk, and me, his "RP girlfriend", was left with the task of sobering him up before the trial I mentioned! I knew nothing of how to sober people, so I made the mistake of trying to give him a shower... when The Giggles Line kicked in, I googled and, coffee! Perfect!
Then it came the time - the time when we had to move from CR back up forums, and onto our own forum. The time for our last boss battle with Slee Z. Moneybags!
I asked for the last battle to be in Brazil. After all, a lot of movies have their characters fleeing to the Amazon forest, so... and yay to Brazil we went!
But I had a 10-days trip due exactly during our last battle, and I was probably not gonna make it!
So I wrote my characters off the battle.
April was the easiest. I made her go on a shopping spree and, when she returned, Karma castle had already took off (yep, don't ask) to Brazil. She couldn't believe her eyes, the castle was gone...! Then she said "what is the next thing that's happening? A wallet full of money falling from the sky?". Then General or Shuda made just that: a wallet falling into April's head!
"If another one falls, I swear I'll believe in fairies!", she said. And then General or Shuda (it was once for each one) did make A LOTTA MONEY fall from the sky! April happilly went on another shopping spree and nobody saw her until the battle was done.
(Actually, I intended to make a new set of sprites for her, reflecting this new "I believe in fairies" persona, but in the end I figured it wasn't really worth it.)
Pearl was complicated. We had Nick and Mia leave her behind in Kurain to search for a cure for "Splitted" Soul so she could save Maya (who was trapped in the other side, while Mia was trapped in Maya's body). Pearl did do a lot of research... and in the end Trucy's plot- I mean magical wish reverted everything and Pearl's research was all for naught!
But then there was Mia. Mia could not just miss the battle, but I couldn't be there... So I had Mia slowly lose energy due to, well, not being in her own body. Then Neni's Dahlia came around. Dahlia was dead once again, after a dark plot I don't really remember. She offered to take over Mia's body, for revenge against... Moneybags too, I guess? And provide her with the power she was losing. Now, the real Mia probably wouldn't give Maya's body to Dahlia (and General did say it was too easy!), but me had no choice, me had to leave Mia with someone. Me sorry.
Turns out I did come back before the end of the fight! But things were pretty hectic, and Mia, Maya and Dahlia fought Shuda's Blue (?) in the other side! I remember trying to RP a fight and failing so bad at it! For a while, I even took over Dahlia (per Neni's request) to make the fight smoothier... didn't go that well though!
Oh, and the finale.
Dahlia made a heroical sacrifice (Neni's Dahlia, not my poor Dahlia), and only Maya and Mia were left. So Mia did the only thing she could do: use all her remaining strength to try to bring Maya to her own body. But Maya deflected Mia's attempt! "I'm not a small girl anymore, Sis," she said. But alas, Neni had no idea I intended to have Mia DIE after that!
In spirit form, Mia travelled to where Godot was being imprisoned (looooong story. Giggles always had this plot and he never really told anyone!), told him goodbye once again, people cried... and Neni said she had to re-word Trucy's wish to save the Mia I was trying to kill off. Sorry, Neni!
Everything was fine in the end, and, when the Neutral Society became a thing, I was (maybe) the only person that could not claim a character, for I already had three - Mia was oficially mine.
After we moved... actually, I don't really remember much. Maybe because we made so much before moving and so little after...
But I do remember some things, and I'm writing them even though you could just read them! Bear with me! (Or stop reading now, I'll never know)
First, there was Pearl's "growing up" plot. Everyone knows that Pearly, at that time, had only her child version sprites, right? In the beginning we just rolled with it, because we were rolling with everything (we had Judge's Plot Gavel, summoning daleks. We rolled with MANY things!). But after we solved all the "Splitted" Soul hijinks, I thought it was time to change Pearl into (fan-made) older sprites. So I created this plot where the reason Pearly didn't want to grow up was because she still wanted to be her mother's little girl; she wasn't ready to leave her past and grow up. I had Nick trying to break her Psyche Locks on the matter (and I remember being so nitpicky about Lock 1, that Regi ended up breaking Lock 2 before he was done with Lock 1!). By that time, Chips was our Maya, but I don't remember her involvement in this plot.
I remember having an emotional talk with AvK's Morgan, trying to bring Pearly to the LB's new hideout. And I also remember a very specific scene: after Maya commented on how there were no strawberry cakes, Morgan just pulled one from a very, veery hidden spot inside the refrigerator!
Then, there was... the elevator scene. Oh my, the elevator!
So Alexis' Edgey was shot during (or before?) the last battle, and was moving around the hospital with wheelchairs. At this time, I was briefly RPing as Maya again, and Mia and her went to the hospital to bring Edgey home (you see, we were ALL in the Edgeworth Mansion making him a Welcome Home Party! And we were living there too, yeah). How do you walk between floors when you're on a wheelchair? Yes, elevator!
Maya gave him no time to think and pushed him into the elevator as therapy. Mia didn't tried to stop because what would they do? Throw him from the window?
But... guess who was inside the elevator when it arrived! Yep, him, Yogi!
I remember cracking so much seeing Edgey, Mia, Maya and Yogi inside an elevator all at once! But I'm sorry for Edgey, and Mia was on the verge of dying there, too, because of Giggles' plot...
Which brings me to plot number three: Giggles' secret plot.
So he had Godot being arrested for the murder of someone, and after he overcame his bitterness for Mia "lying" to him saying she was dying (well, she thought she was!), he let Mia be his lawyer.
Now, mind you that everyone kept pestering Giggles to make him propose to Mia. That's what all shippers want, right? But Giggles was always against it... until this plot.
We made a quick, private RP over Skype and formulated a flashback stating that Diego was going to propose to Mia on the day he got poisoned by Dahlia. Then, when Mia and him were moving to the courtroom, he proposed! I don't remember the exact words, but I remember it wasn't direct, it was like "do you want to stay with me until death do us part?".
"'Until death do us part'?", answered Mia. "I'm a Fey, death will NEVER do us part! Now, if you don't mind staying with me for all eternity... I don't mind it, too."
Nobody was actually paying attention at the scene, so I went to Skype and said, "Mia post of answering to Godot's proposal". And everyone was like "WAIT WHAT????". Ame asked if she could be the bridesmaid, Neni was jumping around... but Giggles had other plans.
While I was there smiling and nodding to everyone's excitement, Giggles was writing his... final post as Godot.
Polly (yep, Polly the parrot) wanted Mia dead, and so Yogi was going to snipe her. But Godot noticed it and... took the bullet for her. He went on another coma, but Giggles' Godot never woke up.
People were calling us monsters on Skype! What had we done?!
And yeah, maybe I tried to be overly dramatic and ruined the mood, but I think it was very emotional, and very nice to RP. I don't regret being part of it, but I wish Giggles would reveal what the heck he had in mind at that time!
The rest of my memories are really episodical. Polly calling Mia "Miss Watermelons" once or twice (yep, I- she's still not over it!), someone running over someone with an ambulance, Mia saying "bad news, you died. Good news, you're alive again!" to Terry Fawles when he came to the RP...
Now that I think about it, what was going to happen with Melissa, the girl who was actually Dahlia? Edgey was being brainwashed too, right? And then there was Trucy, who was so shocked she lost all her emotions...
So many plots, no answers! Aw man, now I want to see it ending...
A few years later, we tried to reboot the RP, but it wasn't the same. It was well-thought from the beginning, losing all the randomness we had... and people soon lost interest on it. I remember very few things about it.
Pearl hardly ever appeared; I was waiting for people to go to Kurain (because this time we were being logic, and people would go there anyway), but people never went. I made one or two posts, but without replies to her, she didn't go anywhere.
April I think never appeared; since she wasn't in the same prison she'd have to be recruited, and I had the whole post already written... but Karma never called her. We never got there.
Mia, however, did lots of things, but I only remember she appearing, and meeting Godot.
Giggles wasn't coming back, actually. I wished he would come, but he said he wasn't, so I respected it. Nobody else took Godot, and I was happy. I had grown so attached to Giggles' Godot, it would be very strange to me to have a different one...
I kept wishing for him to come back. And he did! If you're reading this, Giggles, know that you made me very happy with this decision. I mean it. If you're reading this, Scarlet, please don't kill me...
I think this is it for "RP reminiscing". Am I over? Nah. Next section!
- The wonderful people I met:
More than RP mates, you guys were truly my friends. When I first met you, I was, unfortunately, already used to have little to no friends. But you were always there for me.
I remember running to tell you guys I was approved into Law University. Then Ame sent me the link for that song that plays when Phoenix win a case, orchestra version! It felt so great, and 5 years later, I chose this song to play on my graduation! Nobody understood why I chose such a "plain" song, but it meant so much for me!
I also remember running to you guys when I broke up with my then boyfriend. Sad as it is, I had no real friends left at that time, and I just knew you guys would hear me. Indeed you did.
I remember our little "take over"'s of dead Skype chats, our magical "chat revival sequence"... Sun+Water+Flower+Love=chat revived? Oh dear, I don't actually remember it anymore...?
But I also remember getting so busy at uni that I couldn't chat with you guys anymore. Then I left the chats for the first time.
My biggest mistake.
After I left, I felt I wasn't allowed to come back (not because of what you would think, but because of myself preventing me to come back), and it took too much effort to come back. People were actually happy, shouting "Jess is back!" and all.
But then I left again.
And this time, when I finally managed to come back, nobody greeted me.
I felt horrible.
Because I was gone for so long, people barely knew who I was anymore.
The chats weren't the same anymore by then, so I could never really return to them. It wasn't quite the same anymore for me.
But I still hold you guys so dear!
I remember the first time I had to be away from the RP for a few days (long before the final battle episode), and I remember returning and saying (well, it was true) that I couldn't stop thinking about you guys, because everywhere I saw a word, it'd remember me of the RP. I don't remember what kind of things I saw, aside for two: "Athena" written on a Law Office's door, and, I quote myself, "the worst: Triple on my toothpaste!".
"So I'm the worst, eh?", replied Triple. I'm still sorry, Triple, that wasn't what I meant! The fact that an English word was randomly on my toothpaste making me remember of you guys was the worst "see-and-remember-a-RP-I-can't-join-now" moment!
I also remember (and I bet nobody else does) creating our very first CF Family Tree. People were mentioning it'd be cool, dumb me decided to do one on my own. I didn't want to marry people, so I just paired Neni and Regi (since they were the "OP"'s of our RP's), put AvK and Triple (who were a huge ship at the time) as a couple of uncle/aunt, and then made everyone either a child (child of Neni and Regi) or a cousin (child of AvK and Triple). I made myself a cousin, because I didn't want people to think I was thinking high of myself... nobody really cared about the tree I made, anyway. Except one person, I think Miles, who asked "why am I a cousin?". Random sorting, sorry...
When our last (and biggest) family tree was being made, I remember being really sad. I didn't really want to be a mother, so I said that I was up for adoption. I didn't want to push myself into anyone... and nobody was adopting me.
But!
One day, Elda suddenly asked me to be his mom. Sure, he already had a father and being his mom would mean I was suddenly going to "marry" Densoro, but... I was so touched when he asked that! I never thought anyone would ask me anything anymore, and until then I had barely spoken to him! Yet there he was, saying that, if I wanted to be his mother but didn't want to marry Densoro, he'd give up on his father...
I adopted him, Densoro had no problem with suddenly marrying too, and I was finally part of the family!
Then I threw everything on the fan and adopted Randy, too. Just 'cause. Actually, doing that made "Brazilian blood" be something that ran in the family, as Abbie was his... grandchild, I guess? Or was it great-grandchild...?
I remember, though, that Veri was very (no pun intended) angry at me for that. According to him, I created an incest problem: Randy was married to Neni, sister to Velle, who was married to Elda. If Randy was Elda's brother, it'd be incest!
(Sorry, Veri, I still don't see it as incest... it's just two brothers marrying two girls from the same family, but there's no same-lineage marriage involved...)
I also remember that ToonBlade was Randy's son, because after I adopted Randy, Toon started calling me "Grammy" (yep, that's not a typo on my end).
Oh, my, typos! Does anybody still remember "jill", born when someone mistyped "kill"? Once I mistook "daily" with "dairy" and said "dairy hugs", and people started hugging milk bottles on the chat! And there's the time I thought that vegan was just how you said "vegetarian" in English and called an animal "vegan"... Cue someone saying, as that animal, "I don't wear leather, that's bad!".
Not to mention when I said I had a blackout and people thought I had fainted... when I just wanted to say that I had an electric shortage.
There was that one time where I needed the word for chandelier in Portuguese, but couldn't remember it in any language, so I showed a picture and asked you guys how it was called in English so I could find out how it was in Portuguese!
Oh my God, such useless memories, I'm sorry to make you read these things.
The RP also made me specially attached to some people, but you lot were just... awesome.
Special shout out to Giggles, who said he wanted to invite me to his wedding even if he knew I couldn't make it to the US. Sorry, Giggs, I was actually planning to go and finally meet some of you guys! But 2020 was such a bitch to everyone!
Still talking of Giggles, I remember he once got "in trouble" in the chats and shouted to me, "help me RP girlfriend!". Another time, when I said "well, we Americans [...]" he asked, "I thought you were Brazilian?". "I thought Brazil was in America? South America, yeah, but I'm still kind of American right?". And then he asked me if it was true that women in Rio de Janeiro were always wearing bikinis...
My then boyfriend was actually jealous of Giggles! Every morning at school I'd narrate to my then boyfriend everything that happened the day before in the RP. But since I didn't say like "Mia did this or that", but "I did this or that"... he was jealous of all the RPing between Mia and Diego, Giggles and me!
He was also jealous of Shuda (calling him "Shumba", no meaning besides mocking) when Shuda started being the villain (thus gaining lots of mentions on the daily reviews) and then started his gameplay channel...
Anyway, guys, I do miss our Skype chats. I always dreamt of meeting you personally... and the closest I got was watching Abbie on TV, when she was representing our state on a TV program... and missing UF when we were both at the same Snow Festival at the same time and didn't know?! WTH?!
I'm just afraid of talking with you guys, the only time I managed to get a mic to join a voice chat nobody could understand my accent and I could never speak, totally afraid of messing up...
Before I end this part, I want to make a little confession: Neni was my role model for life.
Neni was always bright (both cheerful and smart!), bringing people together, making good drawings, writing good fiction (in a language that wasn't hers!), living her life dedicated to everything she loved, but still studying and being part of society. She was a geek cosplayer and wasn't ashamed of it. And she's just two years older than me?? I wish I could be like her when I grow up!
Well, maybe I ended up copying her unconsciously, trying to do what she did? Don't know. I just want to share this, it may put a smile on her face (if it doesn't, I'm so sorry, I'm leaving right now!!).
Neni once wanted to buy Lexi a gift, and asked us if we could help. Now some of you might know that, for a Brazilian, buying things in euros is EXTREMELY expensive... but I was touched by Neni's gesture. And I too wished I could give something to thank Lexi for all the awesome drawings. And that was the first time I sent money overseas.
Neni was also my motivation to learn German, and I'd use her name on exercises where we had to write sentences. I was like, "what? That's a real name from someone in Austria, isn't it perfect? Better than João or other clearly not German name!".
Neni, if you're reading this, just know that I still admire you. You're the best.
- The Finale aka so many different things to find a proper title:
Now, for our last section.
I was never good at drawing or making sprites, but I always wished I was. And then I saw Neni and Lexi and Velle and other people I can't remember now doing awesome drawings, awesome sprites... I tried to do some, but man did I suck at it!
The only drawing I'm really proud of is the "Miego flashback". I just love it. Then it can come "Diego takes the bullet", but the others are just... big nopes. Nope nope nope.
I'm also proud of some sprites, like Older Pearl, but others were... horrid. Giggles was lucky, though; Prison!Godot and Dustin Prince were actually good!
There was this time that writing stories was a fad. It all peaked with Randy's story, of course; everyone wsa so tuned! I remember that Randy's depiction of me was soo good! (But I only had, like, three or four scenes...). He also picked me my second favourite power of all, but I do reckon other person should've gotten my first favourite, so I loved it! Earth powers, by the way. With water (in form of ice) going to AvK. I was part of the Elementals!
Then there's Fadey's mysterious story about Boo and Cee. Come on, Fadey, I still want to know if my theory of Boo = BU = Back-Up forums and Cee = CF = Case Files forums was right!
The truth is, I tried to write something too, but never managed to end it. It was going to be a HUGE things with many stories connected, based on our family tree... in MIDDLE AGE! I remember people laughing at my poor choices for fake surnames, and someone commenting "gosh we're so old!". But I never showed anyone the story itself, because it was barely written. I planned to do a lot of referencing, though, like the CD-i Link scene, someone asking for a lawyer (whatever that is) with spiky hair, referencing things said in the Skype chat... Lots of ideas, nothing really written.
I did write a reminiscence for Mia when I was killing her off... and stopped when Neni revived her, of course. I also participated on the aforementioned character diaries fad, writing Pearl's dairy with my own two hands! Not really, though, I'm a lefty so I used only my left hand... anyway. I remember trying to shake my handwriting to show her emotions, spraying water for her tears... and then failing to make a childish drawing of the Blue Badger...!
I've got so much more memories with you guys.
The Spider Thread RP. Man, I had a file where I was trying to guess everyone's character, after I discovered my target due to my motherly sense! (No, really. Fadey sent me the name "Remilia" and my brain went all like "RANDY!". I had no idea at that time that Remilia was Remilia Scarlet from Touhou...)
Neni's Hotel RP (Descent I guess?). It was so fun investigating, and thinking logically along Velle and Shuda inside Edgey's mind!
Our AA vs PL RP that never was really a thing. I was first afraid of being Flora due to not being confident enough, but then I settled on her (and not Puzzlette...), but we never really went anywhere.
Oh, there was this RP from Shuda maybe, which was with characters that couldn't remember who they were and such? And I was Dangan Ronpa's Kirigiri Kyouko, but calling herself "Charlotte Fogg"? I wanted to see what would become of it!
I never really joined Paradox, and when I did, it wasn't for long... When I finally got myself two idols to RP, the RP just stopped...
Regi also wanted to create "AA alternative reality RPs", so I was in charge of "Grossberg Law Office RP"... that never went anywhere too.
I also joined the GRP, first as LBvsAA's Mia, then as Haruhi (to Kazu's Yuki!), and also as Nanami... which I don't think I ever told anyone that all the mysterious things she was doing was "erasing people's memories"? Now I want to RP again...
Okay, okay, I'm stoping now. Promise.
Just one more thing.
I LOVE YOU GUYS
Jessica Ilha- Posts : 91
Join date : 2018-02-02
Age : 29
Location : Brazil
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