Team Nova Discussion/Sign-ups: Third Year!

even if they want to be

One of the biggest turning points I can remember in my life was back when I was 14. It involved a girl and the game Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. My entire worldview changed. But anyways the details aren't important here. What is important is that two years ago, I was kind of lost and needed another turning point. Sure, I was in a university program, but even then complete uncertainty had set in, not only on my life direction but just my personality in general. I had quit my co-op internship program because I just didn't feel like getting hired by some power plant. I was losing high school friends due to lack of time and common interests, and I wasn't making new ones. I was generally lonely, and that was probably why I started forum RPing. Because I knew I liked writing. I used to write poems, songs, stories, and other things like that for my friends, but with a lack of those I just decided to write for myself in a splurgey fantasy sort of way.

So when I started writing for Nova, StarBurst was a supr-of-the-moment thing (and wasn't even supposed to be the final name), and Celeste was a marty-stu self-insert expy of Doctor Who. But then at some point I started getting new ideas. Like...a space temple. Or time travel. And you guys let me do it. I don't know if you liked it, but you let me do it. And then things grew from there. I started inventing mythology and more and more complicated stories. I injected my own philosophies into this and actually let it get personal on top of being a chance to make cool things happen.

And then there was Palkia. I knew ever since I put Palkia statues in the Sea Temple that Celeste would be playing with time and space and meeting the gods. But I knew that it needed to be a big moment. And it needed to be memorable. And so it became what you got. Once I decided what Palkia was going to be like, Dialga followed. And then the meta-fictional symbolism hit and I talk about that constantly so you should get the picture. But would I have tried to do that at the start of the RP? Hell no. I had realized by then that you guys respect or even enjoy my writing and ideas enough to just go along with it. And personally, I had found that what makes my writing my own is the simultaneous attempt at depth and humour. I go for symbolism, theme, metaphor, and literary things because that's what I find fun to write and interesting to think about. But I also like making things entertaining. I never want you to be bored reading something I write. In LMGG, I try to style every single line such that it reads in a more interesting way. And that's the personality I feel like I've shaped for myself at this point in my life. Writing has helped determine my philosophies and values, and generally I feel like I've cemented aspects of my personality this way.

So what I was saying earlier about turning points? Team Nova RP is one of them to me, no matter how it ends up, or if it ever finishes. In another decade I will think about the way think and see life, and I will be able to trace threads back here. Since I started this RP, I've gotten a steady job and have identified a career path I want to take. I've made more friends on and offline, and I feel like I've grown as a person a LOT. And while I can't be certain that Nova's helped in that regard, it's grown along side all the same, and I'll always remember it for that.