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There's a few reasons:

1. A lot more effort is needed. You have to write an AU history, plot connections with other players, learn the setting, etc. This is also partially why AUs based on real world settings tend to do somewhat better.
2. A lot of people actually don't care for playing with AUs and will even avoid regular games that accept them.
3. Even after you write your history and get into the game, an AU game requires more effort in plotting since you'll want to build connections with others in the game both via new CR and CR that exists in the background.
4. AUs by default tend to remove or change powers and humanize non-human characters. Immortal or long lived characters will typically be reduced to a human lifespan. A lot of those things may not have an alternate way to develop them into a similar personality and it may cause a PB to be needed.

So overall it boils down to partially too much effort and partially aversion to AUs.

You're welcome.

Also, it's a good idea to disable comments on the Bakerstreet post. Sometimes players are too quick to make top level comments without realizing the meme is actually elsewhere.

Though in your case it's easier to see that since you're advertizing two memes in the same post.

It really is that simple. Characters are products of their background and if you change that you end up with someone else entirely. Which is fun for an event for a little while but even then for me the payoff is when they get back to themself and really look at the difference. If I didn't want to play canon characters as canon characters, I wouldn't be playing on Dreamwidth.

"not into one night stands" just isn't a sexuality. And "not into one night stands" is definitely not oppressed.

...yeah, that was poor wording on my part, so apologies for that, but that's not exactly what i mean.

i've just seen too many people who have that sort of mindset in this hobby, and by gooooood does it make them annoying to deal with because they project so hard on their character, so i can't even avoid it ooc

so i'm thinking if we cut it at the source, we could get rid of a lot of stupid shit, is all. the rest of the problems don't seem as major

...because i apparently had my damn mouse on the post comment button too early--

by the mindset, for an ic example, i'm talking about people who use their characters as mouth pieces for their social justice stuff (ie, someone brought up a Mahiru Koizumi one time that basically replaced any interesting parts of her character with lesbian stereotypes because representation, I believe?)--i know there's likely some who do it without being on tumblr first and foremost, but that's the best current example i have

that, and oocly, they seem to bring their issues from there onto plurk too, from what i see.

I have a Shinjiro I sometimes bust out for memes.

when you find the perfect game for your strongest muse with amazing casts and great potential for said muse's cross canon cr... but can't app them immediately due to rl obligations... and someone else apps in that character first...

i know it's my own fault but i can't help but feeling super bummed.

the only oppression they're experiencing is from using a stupid fucking label to try to muscle into queer spaces. drop the stupid fucking label and stop trying to invade queer spaces, no hostility. imagine that.

also, hostility over your aggressive actions =/= oppression. being called out for slutshaming =/= oppression.

what it boils down to is that i'm a control freak. when i come up with au ideas for a character, they inevitably involve things like "interacted with X this way, and Y that way," so my muse will develop pretty similarly to how they did in canon. but in an au game, i have to come up with relations for X and Y. how they know my character, whether or not they like them, what X and Y are doing with their lives, etc. i'm explaining it in a shitty way, but basically, drawing parallels between all the au characters and their canon counterparts.

if i can't do that, i'm basically playing an oc, and like anons above me have said, why bother? otherwise, i'd either have to coordinate with all my castmates (a headache, especially if someone ends up dropping) or basically write out backstories for my potential future castmates if i'm a lcw (dick move).

tl;dr it's just not worth it most of the time. maybe if i'm playing a character who operates mostly on the sidelines, or whose formative years/most interesting moments didn't involve other appable characters, but otherwise... nah

pretty much the same thing just happened to me, anon. i know it's my own fault for not jumping on the reserve earlier, and i found another character to play, but i still sometimes look at that other person playing and getting amazing cr and knock myself on the head for missing out.

ahhh, that makes sense, thanks

i usually only play in game-locked memes or memes my friends post to their museboxes when i play in memes at all, so this was just a case of "i want to rp something different, bakerstreet has memes, ri- oh wow that's a lot of shipping and smut memes with a lot of characters i know nothing about" and then trying to figure out how the hell meme culture works

such a bummer

Re: last two replies, very fair point.

no, but don't you see? the romantics are way superior to those idiot sluts who'll spread their legs for anything. they have to make that distinction or everyone will think they're sluts, too. ;;

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They require a lot more player coordination to figure out OOC backstories that make sense with the setting and allow all of the characters to keep their defining traits and formative experiences. When it's well, you can get amazing crossover CR between characters who probably wouldn't even interact that much in an OU game. When it's not done well, you can get ooc players and overbearing mods who are so protective of their little sandbox that they don't let players create anything. But the biggest problem with AU games is that they tend to be small games with older, slower players, so if there's not a solid, dedicated playerbase then everything quickly grinds to a halt.

I love AUs, and most of my best RP experiences have been in AU games. I wish there were more of them! It's fun adapting characters, although not all characters can be made to work with all settings.

guess it all depends if you think the answer is possible with the female protag

yukari seems emotionally volatile enough to me to have a similar meltdown over her bff as her boyfriend

*bff instead of her boyfriend

in need of a darkish skinned mid-20s woman who looks generally unfriendly. darker skin is okay but definitely not white or east asian.

zoe saldana has some badass bitchy looks in columbiana and the losers.

so, i can't find a dermatologist within 50 miles that accepts my insurance. i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on a specialty doctor or maybe some kind of medication or something that could help me out?

i'm not super prone to breakouts but my face has been extremely red for a while. my doctor checked out if it was hormones and even suggested lupus because it's in a "butterfly" mark she said, but it's not really like that and goes up the bridge of my nose and is spread across my chin (my chin, at least, is prone to acne and those gross giant white heads so it's in a constant state of healing). i'm pretty pale, but no one else has the red/pink tones and i've never had it until the past few years. i basically always look like shit now and i can't find makeup to help (plus it's pricey). does anyone know anything i can do medically? tans don't really help and i'd look awful with darker skin, but if it could help remove the redness i'd be willing to pay for it.

i feel pretty stupid asking but i was going to take a few selfies for a dating site and pretty much i look bad in every lighting unless i use some heavy, ugly instagram filters.

help me rp-wanon kenobi....

Actually, do we have any AU games left, aside from Underground?

For mobile: Layton Brothers: Mystery Room, part of the Professor Layton series, but it's not necessary to play any of the other ones to play this one. As the name implies, it's a mystery game, solving murders and has an overarching plot, although the plot mainly kicks in on the later parts of the game.

The first two cases are free and the rest come in two paid packs which are a few dollars each. When you factor those in, it is a bit expensive for a mobile game, but there are no ads and IMO, it's worth the price.

There are a buttload of f2p mmo games these days with passable stories. I've tried Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, The Old Republic, and a couple others, got at least a bit of enjoyment out of them.

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