[ april: state of the rp; ]

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state of the RP

Welcome to our brand new cast comm! Let's pop this bad boy's cherry the right way by starting off with some good old fashioned what is happen? Please leave a top-level comment below with a general summary of the current state of a) your muse and their development within the game, b) any current plots that may be going on involving your muse, and c) how you as the mun feel in regards to your muse and their position within the game. From there, you can go around to other people's comments to give feedback as well as plot new things for the course of this month. Everybody wins!

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See this GIF for basic summary????

Gwaine definitely had his troubles in adjustment with the first week or so after his arrival. With his canonpoint especially, as things were kind of in dire straits. Everyone from Camelot that he found in Asgard was dead, dying, crazy or completely out of his realm of well-being knowledge, which made for a bit of an adjustment to make. All those young and long ago baby faces are difficult to handle sometimes. It's a dance of knowing some of the things lying in wait for them and not wanting to put more of that weight on them than he did in pretty much EVERY FIRST CONVERSATION HE HAD... (I'M REALLY SORRY ABOUT THAT BY THE WAY.)

But at the same time he worries about what good not saying anything will do. These are frustrating matters but he doesn't want to dick things up, what can ya do. I think he's learned his lesson in keeping his mouth shut for the first few minutes of a conversation re: new arrivals from home, at least. s o . Getting the rhythm of it down.

On the whole, Gwaine is... doing pretty freaking well, though. COMBO BREAKER IN THAT REGARD?

There are a lot of things going on around Asgard that confuse, frustrate, irritate or trouble him, but he's always been very good at keeping his head up and looking for a positive side. I think it's really been helpful that Travelers get a general idea of why they're in Asgard right off the bat, and he's taking it as something of a personal mission to do as much as he can. He's been jumping into a lot of things right off the bat; it's good to have a purpose at any given moment, however frivolous that purpose might be.

Gwaine is keeping up a standard of possibly very annoying cheer, most especially around all you Camelots. It's not forced, but it is very... determined. Going about serious things like he doesn't respect the seriousness of them is supposed to be one of his areas of expertise anyway. Basically he is just sort of being Gwaine and hoping that somehow it's being more helpful to everybody than not. And feeling oddly far behind in important things for all that he's from the future.

Also attempting to subtly play guard dog when he is around the homestead oops. Well, plenty was specially devoted to Gaius while he was in the city, but that's obviously changed and he is mostly done with the sulking specifically related to that. ALL OF YOU JUST KEEP YOUR BRACELETS WHERE HE CAN SEE THEM AND ALSO DON'T GET KILLED. That is a totally reasonable demand right? right.

In other news, he learned that Merlin is a sorcerer! Still kind of figuring out all the specifics that go along with that asflkdj. Probably a vaguely underwhelming response and a lot of general magic-related question-asking. idk it's Merlin and he's Gwaine, I don't think there's much explosive betrayal to expect on this front.

long story short: he is the Let's Go To Vegas Guy from the linked GIF. Come on. Leave your cares behind everybody, he's sorry that so many things are like the rocks in Charlie Brown's trick-or-treat bag.

AS FOR PLOTS:
- Energy Lending! Probably a thing that he's trying to do all the time because a) he's leveled up anyway and b) it's useful in a capacity that is actually useful. Like you guys can basically assume he's offered and/or loaned that shit out to your characters freely as anything. Or if you would like for him to do so specifically at any point, automatic yes. I just really like the idea of him randomly giving people energy around the house or work or wherever, I don't know why.

- Legitimately attempting to collect fleas for Theta Sigma. I DON'T KNOW. IT WAS SO EASY TO AGREE TO DOING IT and by god he is doing it.

- Still holding onto things for that prank war. I'm assuming he's found a convenient hole to store the socks in or something because they'd have killed any living man by now otherwise.

- TOTALLY ARRANGING MERLIN'S SCAVENGER HUNT. It is lame but I have it all typed up anyway. Mostly on that note, if anyone thinks their character could do with a random shenanigan or barfight or friendly stroll through the park/what have you, here is an always-willing volunteer for a day-lightener, if he can at all manage it.

- One of these days, Alice, I will curse him into behaving like a hideous noblemane. Well I dunno I guess it really depends on what's meant to be happening in this month in the grander scheme of things, because this sort of stuff I can easily push off for better timing. Not like I'm going anywhere! But it's still a thing I want to do so I thought I'd throw it in anyway.

- The ladies of New Camelot are his favorites ever goodbye everybody else 8| !!


Munwise, I'm still adoring playing him here alongside all of you fantastic people! It's been really easy to tag out with him and he's probably the strongest muse I've got in a game right now. No plans to drop on this front. I try to tag everything back in a timely fashion and know that I generally fail for speed-threading. But I'm always available to be prodded or have things talked out OOC, such as that helps.

I kind of worry about getting more substantial stuff (omg it feels so rude to say substantial like all his threads aren't really fun and enjoyable and I LOVE THEM), since he talks to so many people but it doesn't tend to be more than casual chatting/barfighting/flirting/being flippant about shit, but it isn't a big worry right now. asdlfk I'm more worried about all the casual threading seeming like I don't think about character development than I do anything else on that track at present. I PROMISE THAT I DO CARE. the end. this all made perfect sense.

wrapping myself in tl;dr and rolling away now I am sorry

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Mithian finds Gwaine's cheer refreshing, okay? LET'S GO TO VEGAS GWAINE.

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I actually think that sort of casual presence of being everywhere spreading inappropriate cheer and carelessness works really well for Gwaine, and you've handled it most excellently. He doesn't present himself as the type to easily lay down roots and build strong relationships right off the bat, even as a Knight, which leaves a lot of room for his general flippancy before he finds the right people and the right time to have a bleeding heart. I like seeing him around in random posts just doing his thing and not really giving a damn, it's very much Gwaine. More of a converse-with-the-people than survey-the-city type of guy the way Arthur is, which makes sense and compliments each other well ( hello, knighthood revelations ! ).

I love all of your plots and everything you're doing, even Arthur is very lineface at Gwaine's hovering. He's happy to see someone being lighthearted, and he knew if it'd be anyone, it'd be Gwaine, so he's glad for it. Eventually they will probably have to have a bromantic moment of explaining the differing state of things between Camelot and Asgard so Arthur can explain why, exactly, Gwaine feels like he's missing something. A year in a magical alternate dimension changes people, Sir Knight. 8(

But Arthur does not want to go to Vegas. He is totally the guy that gets lost on the roof and that is just not on.