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character: once_knighted
series: Tales of Vesperia
tagging priority: ■■■■■: His tags get cleaned up first each time, every time.
muse strength: ■■■■■: blah blah blah comfortable with how I'm doing now blah blah blah
cast strength: ■■■■□: Great castmates, but with a tendency to be very quite. I am falling into that category very swiftly, myself.
plotting capabilities: ■■■□□: He kind of trips into plots via normal threading, but otherwise, it's starting to get more difficult. This is less the fault of the character and his development and more my own.
general fun level: ■■■■■: Still lovin' his stuff.
likelihood of drop: ■■■□□: ... sigh. I don't want to. I really, really, really don't want to. But things, life-wise? They aren't looking good on the RP-prospect. At all.
character: hackedcode
series: Ar Tonelico II
tagging priority: ■■■■□: I do stall with her stuff, since I'm still in /Unsure Land with her, but I try not to leave it hanging for too long under normal circumstances.
muse strength: ■■■□□: I'd ... like to believe I'm doing well. I mean, I think I've made her overreact a few times, which is making me facepalm internally a little, but for the most part, I think I'm okay? ... I don't know.
cast strength: ■■□□□: Got a surprise Cloche who's been pretty fun to thread with so far, and waiting on Croix.
plotting capabilities: ■■■■■: She's new, and has a crapload of things she can do.
general fun level: ■■■□□: She's pretty fun when I'm not staring her tags down, wondering how she should react to some of the things the pre-joining-the-party her would've just blew people up for.
likelihood of drop: ■■■□□: ... Yes. I know. I just got her. AND I just got a cast, too. However, it's the same situation I listed with Yuri -- things are not looking up for RP in my neck of the woods.
In closing, as I said the last time I did this, I am falling out of love with RP. That love renewed itself a tad when I got Jacqli in, and she's been fun so far (when I'm not wondering if I'm playing such a beloved Ar Tonelico character wrong, anyway), but not by a lot. College starting not only didn't help matters -- it made them much worse. Best Buy also sees "part-time" as "32 hours a week or so", and since I know I've more or less gotten the job already, my free time is gone between this and all the networking projects I'll need to do in the lab at school and at home. Not to mention, these classes? Not exactly easy. It won't be made any easier or less stressful by the fact that our Unix teacher wants us to build our own goddamn cloud network for our project grades, when that? Isn't even part of the curriculum. Due to all those factors, I went on hiatus until the 24th, because the thought of having do respond to my tags when I got home literally made me feel kind of nauseous. I was honestly considering dropping completely (or dropping Jacqli and apologizing to Kyo and the newcomer) while I was on my way home, but I knew I'd regret that if I didn't at least make an attempt to hang on, so.
Until I know exactly how things are gonna roll, I'm trying to hang on. If, by the 24th, it's clear that RP is just not something I can do anymore, I'm very very sorry, but I'm going to have to drop from Luceti completely. I get distracted way too easily, I stress myself out way too much, and the last thing I want to do is screw up in class because I was over-stressed due to my own expectations of my own RPing.
Sure, I'd have time again as soon as I finish this term. But guess what? Next term is going to be even worse. The term after that isn't looking very hopeful either. Not just that, but I have a long, long list of certifications I need to take in between those terms. Certifications I need to get anywhere in the industry I'm entering. What am I supposed to do? Go on hiatus for 4-5 months every time classes start up? I'd like to think that would upset more people than make happy.
Obviously, I won't spring it on everyone if I make this decision -- I'll let everyone know at least two weeks in advance, since I can't lie to myself and say that Yuri leaving wouldn't screw with some people's characters. I'd feel the worst about Jacqli, but ... well, unfortunately, that's how it is.
I apologize in advance, especially if things end up not being as crazy as they look to be and I end up worrying anyone because of my floundering. I just felt you all had the right to know what was really going on, so if worst does come to worst, you'll at least have seen it coming.
We'll see by the 24th, I guess.