Advancement and Requests

The stories we tell are most interesting because they bump into the other characters and plots going on in the site. Between the personal character stories about growing and regressing, the faction wide stories of nobilities and families and the stories of shifting power dynamics between people the point of a shonen roleplay is the conflicts, both violent and non, and the way they shape the people and places involved in them.

All of this goes a long way to set the stage for what a request is and why we make them. No matter what the request is it follows an arc, and an arc is a collection of threads that when combined show a narrative of progression. In an arc, your character began at A and by the end of it they have now reached B. There must be a change even if that change is a reinforcement of tested ideals. Each request will have specifics for what works best but they all share that basic reality. Your character through these threads must change in some way that someone reading the threads can understand within the context of the request.

When you feel you have written enough threads to qualify an arc, it is time to make a request! In truth, you should try to think of requests ahead of threading, making threads without a clear sense of direction is fine, but the best threads, and thusly the best arcs come from the writer having a sense of the direction their character is progressing. Each request has its own way of being weighed and measured, some with result in a simple yes no, others have rewards relevant to the quality of the request.

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