Board Thread:Hints and Tips by the Mizukage!/@comment-3030647-20150605075059

Heyo, everyone! Here's Ashy back with another thread regarding better-ing your characters! This time, it isn't just about you, tough. No no no. It's about your characters and their interactions with other characters of other users on the site! Or even your own!

So let me break something down for y'all. Relationships aren't exactly as spontaneous as they might be shown in anime and manga, if they are shown. The worst example of this is, probably, Sword Art Online. Who knows how stupid that anime and its relationship development was. Anyways, back to the point. Character interactions and building of relationships, regardless of what type of relationship they are, takes a bit more than just one meeting. It takes time, thought and effort from both roleplayers (or a single one) in order for it to actually work. A common example I've seen is two characters mating in order to breed a powerful child, although it's said that the one character loved the other. Really? I can't see that. Where have you described? Yeah, you haven't.

In addition to romantic relationships being relatively shallow, a lot of the "teams" or organizations on this fanon also seem to end up being a cluster of powerful Shinobi underneath one banner...but riding with separate flags. There's little to no understanding between the characters or the users, for that matter. After all, people are simply jumping on a bandwagon that they see. While it's all fine and dandy that you do, doesn't that make you obligated to actually try and understand the characters you are making a team with? You know, talk to the users and gain a sense for your character interactions? I mean, if you don't, you just end up with rather bland versions of what Akatsuki were. After all, Akatsuki, prior to their power, were also defined by the synergy of the partnerships that they had.

So, I'm going to keep the rest of this short. I won't lecture you any further besides this one point. Character interactions can only be properly made when you, the users/authors, actually put the effort into revealing your character's quirks and general being, whether it be through their article or through discussion. Discussion is the best way to gain an understanding of the user's intentions with their character. It is from there that you can build up proper repertoire between the characters and, appropriately, develop a proper camaraderie/romantic relationship/whatever the hell you want. The most important point, however, is that relationships are not, by any means built upon domination. If one character has a one-sided relationship of some sort with the other that isn't planned, the one imposing that one-sided thing is being nothing more than clingy and wishing to get their character noticed. That isn't a relationship, that's just stupid. If you want someone to build a relationship with your character, consider their circumstances as well as your own character's. That's the only way it'll function properly!

Anyways, that's that. Shorter than I intended, but for good reason. Ciao! 