Hello everyone! I KNOW, these rules are long, but they'll save you from having to unfollow me later! I've been roleplaying Emma for 10+ years, I know basic etiquette and never had a problem with anyone but I also know what I want. I also have a hard time saying no, so I ask you to read the rules at least once because they speak for me.
I bolded the important things so you can skip ahead.
My name is Ele, (35+, aro-ace, she/her), Italian, I am chronically ill and have PTSD, which is why I want this hobby to be drama-free and fun. I can disappear for weeks at a time when I'm not well, and then come back for a year straight. Memory problems: hard block, don't soft block!
If you never initiate ic or ooc interactions, eventually I'll stop writing with you. It feels like you changed your mind about writing with me after trying and I don't want to push.
I don't like writing super short replies. You have complete freedom about having multiple threads (which I love) or not, continuing or dropping things (I do too), prioritizing other rpers, being slow etc. Icons aren't needed.
Emma is not invincible but I ask you to respect that she's an excellent and experienced fighter: I won't write her losing against well-trained men just because they are men. The outcome should depend on how much real experience they have and what their skills are.
Emma is straight and has (lots of) casual sex but I'll fade to black unless I'll tell you otherwise, because my repulsion goes up and down. She compliments everyone, and respect if your character says stop. IF it happens, smut is tagged nsft and under read-more.
Flirting on main and upping her "best friend" energy are ways she uses to keep the relationships with single men not-romantic and free of commitment. She's hard to develop a ship with, even if shipping is my FAVORITE thing.
I NEVER forceship nor expect anything, also writers have to be 21+ for it.
I DON'T ship her with: characters who are consistently cold or even mean to her (outside joking around), or who try to 'tone her down'/show her who's the boss; with immortal characters because I don't like the tragedy of it, nor those who look a few years younger than her because she wouldn't be attracted.
If we faded to black or we want to assume they hooked up, here are some offscreen important things to know, you can ignore this part if it doesn't apply to us. I'm adding this section so that nobody has to feel awkward asking about it, or wants to write a 'the morning after' thread!
She cannot be submissive (she'll panic - I'm open to write threads about that too), she instinctively tends to take the lead because it's fun for her, but it's not as if someone has to be in charge, she's just fine being spontaneous/having fun. No to humiliation/hurting each other. Very kiss-y, likes to test stamina, afterwards she'll check if she can stay or if he wants her to leave.
I’m mutuals only and selective, if you like starter calls or send memes I'll block you because you are proving to me you'd be unable to respect my rules and therefore my boundaries.
I need your muses to have an about page if I don't know them, so that I can get an idea of whether I'll be comfortable roleplaying with them or not.
If you write a Doctor Who muse, take your pick of verse!!! The Doctor can be anywhere anytime, so modern Emma? Sure! Fantasy (since she had her past rewritten and it will make her go evil princess at some point)? Go for it!
You write OUAT characters in the Enchanted Forest? (Storybrooke is no go): I wrote in this fandom for so many years that at this point I'm just not interested in developing certain relationship anymore, by now I only want to write with Killian, her parents and Ingrid/Snow Queen, plus a few rare characters that I'll bring up if you write them. I'll NEVER write with Regina again, and I won't write with oc family members that will change her backstory. Very not into shipping Emma and Neal.
To avoid forcing her backstory on you, if you write someone who's in it, like her father, we can have a thread in which my Emma meets your canon muse. Better, we could talk and come up with something, but I won't force that option on you!
If I interact with a character from this list it doesn't mean I'm now open to duplicates.
I underlined the targets like this, so skip the rest if it doesn't apply to your muse, read it if it does because there are exceptions and/or ways to get around it.
1) I don't write Emma with 'bad guys with no morals whatsoever/'villains who hunt children for fun', only with the ones open to redemption because otherwise she would attack them. Exceptions can be made especially in apocalyptic fandoms because this rule depends on HER PERSONALITY, not on my tastes. Like TWD Negan, who had his own canon redemption? Hell yes, she'd flirt her ass off. Ascended Astarion who will never have morals again? No. Your OC who is a serial killer? No.
(it can depend on how you interpret the character or for other reasons, but I want to write relationships, not one-shot threads with Emma getting tortured/killed or being ooc).
2) UNLESS WE PLOT WHY she should stay, If your character is hostile and/or wants her to go away, she will go away. She's not going to beg for their attention. I hate the trope where the hero has to accept being treated like crap because maybe the villain can be persuaded to be nice. Being 'good' doesn't mean having no self-respect.
3) No to horror (zombies don't count), Game of Thrones/ASOIAF, Harry Potter, and real life figures unless they are characters in a tvshow: as in yes if you rp as 'Queen Charlotte from Bridgerton' who is a fictional character inspired by the real woman but not meant to represent her accurately, no to a Queen Charlotte rper meant to represent the real person. No vampires and werewolves outside of the Buffyverse and maybe Baldur's Gate 3, and basically anyone who has the power to attract mine.
4) No to deities/myths/religious figures in general, and to immortals/non-aging creatures (besides the Doctor/Jack Harkness and a few more exceptions). Some of these are triggering to me and others are non-interesting.
5) no child or "bratty teen" characters who will put Emma in the position of dealing with tantrums. Adults who put her into the role of their therapist and that's all our threads are.
6) anything to do with the concept of "mafia", as an italian it makes my skin crawl as a very real 'real life' concept.
Please tag your sexual posts, especially daddy kink references, and IMAGES with gore/horror (zombies don't count). I don’t write rape and toxic/abusive relationships between our muses. Things that make me extra uncomfortable are usually discussed first or prompted by memes (example, your muse under the influence of drugs/alcohol), so I'll tell you as needed if it comes up.
Also NO to bad endings (character deaths, permanent fights etc), they genuinely upset me. I'm not the 'listening to sad songs' while sad type, I'm the 'watching sitcoms until I laugh' one.
HOW I'LL TAG TRIGGERS
Written violence, bleeding etc will only be tagged when the description gets very graphic. I can tag detailed discussions about pregnancy/birth etc BUT in the 'the 100' verse she's pregnant so you should just blacklist 'v. the 100'.
Please read this entire paragraph at least once because there are plenty triggering elements in her backstory (evil ex), unless you are confident that you can't be upset or triggered by anything I write. If it's triggering let me know.
-I will only tag her abuse when she describes it, not when she mentions it. I'll be abuse tw.
-her first relationship in historical and fantasy verses had plenty emotional abuse (he was "taming her" to win a bet because she dared to be tomboyish); she initiated the sexual part under the false belief that he loved her, and she still feels lied to and used, I may at times tag her venting as 'noncon tw' just to be safe, because her words can sound similar to ones of a survivor.
-In all other verses it's more complex because her ex was actually a criminal who targeted her (23 to her 16 when they met), and while he didn't pressure her for sex specifically, he didn't care about her feelings and made her feel extremely uncomfortable about her lack of experience so that she'd try to prove herself more, so 'll use 'noncon tw' on top of 'abuse tw' if our muses ever discuss it; she was love-bombed then broken with criticism and mockery, I won't go in great details about this either, but keep in mind that, except in the 100, he's a conman who went on to trick other women and Emma is after him.
If you want me to avoid this entirely, it's fine but know that we can't ship. It's not Emma& romance if she doesn't have to heal from her trauma, although it doesn't need to be discussed in depth. It's just that I can't skip the fact that romance makes her panic.
I say yes to Mains but no to exclusivity, save very rare exceptions for my own comfort that I don't ask to be mutual (you all have different takes and every version is special, I'll interact with ten different people writing the same muse and love them ALL).
When I say mains, I mean people I have interacted with ic, who have read and liked this post and I accepted as such, since it's meant to be MUTUAL (mutual priority, mutually feeling free to invade each other's askbox etc. etc. obviously respecting the other person's inspiration).
Here's a list of my current mains:
fablewoven (blog-wide), serpcntes (blog-wide), multibcrn (Winn!), @annastrxng / unyieldingvalxr