Lycanious
Lurker
Hey there! My name’s Lycanious, but you can go with Lyca or Ly or whatever else is convenient really. I’ll take just about any nickname or pronoun that’s thrown at me after all. I’ve been roleplaying on and off for a good decade or so, but it’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to pour my time and energy into something long-term and have it stay afloat. I’m also very new to RP Nation and have only heard the name in passing a few times before, but otherwise have jumped around on a few different rp forums in the past.
I’m looking in particular for a new rp group that’s interested in world-building and setting things up for a long-term story, or at least an ongoing series of smaller sessions and side-stories tied to the same world, etc. I have a few premises of my own to offer and dozens upon dozens of stray OCs looking for a new story to adapt to, but I’m otherwise pretty open to ideas and welcome any alternative suggestions or invitations to something pre-existing in my DMs, if you think I might like to join.
Please feel free to post here or DM me with any questions, or even if you just want to introduce yourself. I’m new and a bit of an introvert so I welcome anyone wanting to help me out a little here with anything haha. Likewise, please let me know if there's anything else I should add here or if I've made an error in posting here and I'll be happy to fix it.
I identify as non-binary and most, if not all, of my main OCs probably have some sort of LGBTQ+ identity attached to them. While there’s no guarantee that such identities will be focused on or even pop up much in the actual roleplay, I’m only interested in writing with people that are at least comfortable with this.
I’m currently on AEST time living in Australia, but my available/waking hours tend to be odd and often unpredictable ones. Usually I can find time to sync up with other time zones if we want to chatter back and forth, but I’m also very used to slower, overnight replies and such for anyone who works at a less rapid-fire pace.
I’ve just hit my 30s, so I’m hoping to find some fellow writers closer to that age specifically.
Relatedly, I’m assuming that people are going to be busy with careers, education, family, etc from time to time. My time is pretty free right now, but that can change and I imagine it’s the same for anyone else. At a base level I’d like to find a pace where we’re posting at least once a week or two with this in mind, ideally more, but that’s a very flexible suggestion and I can likely adapt to a shorter or longer waiting period.
Honestly I think for me the most important thing when it comes to time commitments is communication and honesty. I can wait a day, a week, a month for a reply, as long as it’s a predictable delay or a consistent pattern to work with, but I find it disheartening when someone keeps moving that goal-post or promises they’ll post some time this weekend, this month, etc and yet never does. If you’re stuck, or you’ve lost interest, or otherwise have no idea when you can post again, that’s 100% alright. Please just say something about it, and we can either try to work around it or, alternatively, bring the roleplay to a close and move on.
I’d consider myself a literate writer, but a flexible one. I’ve been known to write a monstrous wall of text for a single character in some roleplays and then a short paragraph or two in others. Generally speaking I’ll try to match the length and tone of the people I’m writing with, so no worries if you tend to write shorter replies. As long as someone can give me a decent chunk of a paragraph and something I can bounce off then I’m happy.
In terms of genre and content, I like to think I’m pretty flexible. I don’t mind dabbling in darker or more mature themes (within the confines of the site rules of course), though I much prefer a well-earned happy ending after a series of hardships to a bleak one at the end of the day. As for romance, I’m fine with it, and even have a bit of a soft spot for well-written relationships whether they’re pre-established or developed over the course of the roleplay. But this of course should stay within the rules of the site, and be respectful to the comfort of any players involved. I wouldn't want it to be something that overtakes the story at all unless everyone involved is onboard for it.
I’ll fully admit, I tend to be a lot more character focused and be better at coming up with premises rather than planning out huge, sprawling plotline ideas from beginning to end. For this reason a lot of my ideas are very-much open to new suggestions and I highly encourage anyone who wants to piggyback off of them with their own ideas to feel free to pitch them.
Voyages of The Vanished
A futuristic roleplay revolving around a section of the galaxy overseen by The Cosmic Alliance, a federation trying to keep the peace amongst dozens and dozens of planets and alien societies. This one has more of a world-building/sandbox type of goal in mind as of now, where I’m hoping to find a few people that love creating new species, worlds, societies, etc and then just letting their characters loose on this world to see what kind of plot we can stumble across for them.
Would love for this to be a long-term project, and have tried but failed to get it up and running in the past so I have a lot of old ideas, OCs, and unnecessarily long wiki-style entries on some of the things one could encounter within this roleplay if people are interested. Probably the roleplay I'm most keen to try to get off the ground again as it's the world that I've poured the most time into at this stage.
The Soul Keepers
You are dead. Or, perhaps more accurately, you've been dead for quite some time. Perhaps you were never technically alive to begin with, though that would start to lead into heavy debates on the nature of souls and mortality itself and, quite frankly, that's not really your department.
A more recent idea of mine, inspired by works such as the game Death & Taxes, in which the main story focuses around the denizens of The Crossroads. The Crossroads is essentially an in-between realm resembling a small town, where souls are sent shortly after death before they are processed and ready to move on to whichever afterlife they are destined for. Within this realm are The Soul Keepers. These are souls who, for reasons yet to be fully understood, were chosen upon their demise to serve The Crossroads in some fashion instead of being permitted to properly pass on. Soul Keepers can have a wide variety of responsibilities, ranging from collecting and processing souls, to helping them with unfinished business, to simply being a form of entertainment or comfort to those still waiting to pass on. Generally speaking, The Crossroads are happy for you to take on any job that needs someone to take on it, as long as you perform it well.
The plot I have in mind currently revolves around increasing issues with the portals between The Crossroads and The Mortal Place until one day, souls stop coming through the portals all together. This however is only a premise I have so-far, and very-much open to suggestions for how to expand on this or an entirely new plot idea.
Gifted Academy
This one is just because I have an urge to write for a world where people have cool powers, so again, not much in the way of plot right now haha. But my main premise for this one is that we’d be focusing more on an older set of characters, specifically the staff members that run the academy rather than the students under their watch.
This is a world where having odd abilities is common enough for it to be normalised, but the academy specialises in what would be considered difficult cases instead. Said difficulties could be lack of proper control over an ability, poor understanding of its mechanics, finding ways to prevent or adapt detrimental effects that impact the person’s health, etc, among other reasons. So said staff are, primarily, just trying to keep things running relatively drama-free until the plot decides to get in the way of that anyway.
Other Interests
Otherwise, here’s just a list of genres I like and would be thrilled to join a pre-established plot for or workshop a new one for.
I’m looking in particular for a new rp group that’s interested in world-building and setting things up for a long-term story, or at least an ongoing series of smaller sessions and side-stories tied to the same world, etc. I have a few premises of my own to offer and dozens upon dozens of stray OCs looking for a new story to adapt to, but I’m otherwise pretty open to ideas and welcome any alternative suggestions or invitations to something pre-existing in my DMs, if you think I might like to join.
Please feel free to post here or DM me with any questions, or even if you just want to introduce yourself. I’m new and a bit of an introvert so I welcome anyone wanting to help me out a little here with anything haha. Likewise, please let me know if there's anything else I should add here or if I've made an error in posting here and I'll be happy to fix it.
A few more things about me:
I identify as non-binary and most, if not all, of my main OCs probably have some sort of LGBTQ+ identity attached to them. While there’s no guarantee that such identities will be focused on or even pop up much in the actual roleplay, I’m only interested in writing with people that are at least comfortable with this.
I’m currently on AEST time living in Australia, but my available/waking hours tend to be odd and often unpredictable ones. Usually I can find time to sync up with other time zones if we want to chatter back and forth, but I’m also very used to slower, overnight replies and such for anyone who works at a less rapid-fire pace.
I’ve just hit my 30s, so I’m hoping to find some fellow writers closer to that age specifically.
Relatedly, I’m assuming that people are going to be busy with careers, education, family, etc from time to time. My time is pretty free right now, but that can change and I imagine it’s the same for anyone else. At a base level I’d like to find a pace where we’re posting at least once a week or two with this in mind, ideally more, but that’s a very flexible suggestion and I can likely adapt to a shorter or longer waiting period.
Honestly I think for me the most important thing when it comes to time commitments is communication and honesty. I can wait a day, a week, a month for a reply, as long as it’s a predictable delay or a consistent pattern to work with, but I find it disheartening when someone keeps moving that goal-post or promises they’ll post some time this weekend, this month, etc and yet never does. If you’re stuck, or you’ve lost interest, or otherwise have no idea when you can post again, that’s 100% alright. Please just say something about it, and we can either try to work around it or, alternatively, bring the roleplay to a close and move on.
I’d consider myself a literate writer, but a flexible one. I’ve been known to write a monstrous wall of text for a single character in some roleplays and then a short paragraph or two in others. Generally speaking I’ll try to match the length and tone of the people I’m writing with, so no worries if you tend to write shorter replies. As long as someone can give me a decent chunk of a paragraph and something I can bounce off then I’m happy.
In terms of genre and content, I like to think I’m pretty flexible. I don’t mind dabbling in darker or more mature themes (within the confines of the site rules of course), though I much prefer a well-earned happy ending after a series of hardships to a bleak one at the end of the day. As for romance, I’m fine with it, and even have a bit of a soft spot for well-written relationships whether they’re pre-established or developed over the course of the roleplay. But this of course should stay within the rules of the site, and be respectful to the comfort of any players involved. I wouldn't want it to be something that overtakes the story at all unless everyone involved is onboard for it.
RP Ideas and General Interests
I’ll fully admit, I tend to be a lot more character focused and be better at coming up with premises rather than planning out huge, sprawling plotline ideas from beginning to end. For this reason a lot of my ideas are very-much open to new suggestions and I highly encourage anyone who wants to piggyback off of them with their own ideas to feel free to pitch them.
Voyages of The Vanished
A futuristic roleplay revolving around a section of the galaxy overseen by The Cosmic Alliance, a federation trying to keep the peace amongst dozens and dozens of planets and alien societies. This one has more of a world-building/sandbox type of goal in mind as of now, where I’m hoping to find a few people that love creating new species, worlds, societies, etc and then just letting their characters loose on this world to see what kind of plot we can stumble across for them.
Would love for this to be a long-term project, and have tried but failed to get it up and running in the past so I have a lot of old ideas, OCs, and unnecessarily long wiki-style entries on some of the things one could encounter within this roleplay if people are interested. Probably the roleplay I'm most keen to try to get off the ground again as it's the world that I've poured the most time into at this stage.
The Soul Keepers
You are dead. Or, perhaps more accurately, you've been dead for quite some time. Perhaps you were never technically alive to begin with, though that would start to lead into heavy debates on the nature of souls and mortality itself and, quite frankly, that's not really your department.
A more recent idea of mine, inspired by works such as the game Death & Taxes, in which the main story focuses around the denizens of The Crossroads. The Crossroads is essentially an in-between realm resembling a small town, where souls are sent shortly after death before they are processed and ready to move on to whichever afterlife they are destined for. Within this realm are The Soul Keepers. These are souls who, for reasons yet to be fully understood, were chosen upon their demise to serve The Crossroads in some fashion instead of being permitted to properly pass on. Soul Keepers can have a wide variety of responsibilities, ranging from collecting and processing souls, to helping them with unfinished business, to simply being a form of entertainment or comfort to those still waiting to pass on. Generally speaking, The Crossroads are happy for you to take on any job that needs someone to take on it, as long as you perform it well.
The plot I have in mind currently revolves around increasing issues with the portals between The Crossroads and The Mortal Place until one day, souls stop coming through the portals all together. This however is only a premise I have so-far, and very-much open to suggestions for how to expand on this or an entirely new plot idea.
Gifted Academy
This one is just because I have an urge to write for a world where people have cool powers, so again, not much in the way of plot right now haha. But my main premise for this one is that we’d be focusing more on an older set of characters, specifically the staff members that run the academy rather than the students under their watch.
This is a world where having odd abilities is common enough for it to be normalised, but the academy specialises in what would be considered difficult cases instead. Said difficulties could be lack of proper control over an ability, poor understanding of its mechanics, finding ways to prevent or adapt detrimental effects that impact the person’s health, etc, among other reasons. So said staff are, primarily, just trying to keep things running relatively drama-free until the plot decides to get in the way of that anyway.
Other Interests
Otherwise, here’s just a list of genres I like and would be thrilled to join a pre-established plot for or workshop a new one for.
- Modern fantasy (especially if it involves trying to hide the supernatural amongst the mundane)
- Futuristic/sci-fi stories involving aliens
- Eldritch/Lovecraft inspired horror stories
- Angels & Demons (especially if they’re being forced to work together for some reason)
- Werewolves & Vampires
- Anything set in the Victorian era, realistic or not
- Anything that has room for a mad scientist or two
