I came to the Omniverse back when I was a teenager. I played a silly little goober named "Jams Bolero", back then. I remember having silly fun, being active in the chatbox, and getting yelled at by Daniel for not checking if Tsunade was okay to use before bringing her into my own thread. I fell out of writing, due to a long quest thread that I got tired of, so eventually I just kinda disappeared. But I kept in touch with a couple people, thanks to Jade's old OSBURB event, and we kept RPing on Discord for a good time after leaving.
When I was in college, Sallad (Sans) told me the Omniverse was gone, and then told me about Multerra, so I hopped on and started playing Paige Turner here, as a PC! We had a thread set in Arcadia High, along with Touko Fukawa (played by Mima), and we were gonna have someone else in the thread too. Then I, er... fell out of writing, due to a long thread that I got tired of. Whoops!
I went back to the ReOmniverse with my friends, as one of them thought the more straight-forward worlds (namely the Pale Moors) were conducive to our characters, and continued Paige there. We played there for a couple years, and I'm extremely proud of the story we got to tell there. But it just wasn't active enough to stick around, as it closed down right when our personal storyline was getting good. So I came back here with Shulk, and decided to bring Paige back so I can give the story I had in mind with her another shot.
I met two of my best friends in the world, through these forums. We've had so much fun plotting out our character's stories, RPing in Discord chats and turning those into posts, and surprising one another with the best of our posts time and time again. It's given me an outlet to hone my storytelling skills, and to really push the boundaries of what I can do. I've had a tumultuous past few years, and these forums have helped keep me going through the hard times in ways even I don't always recognize. I've grown as a person thanks to the people I've met on this forum, and that is something worth cherishing for the rest of my life.
So happy holidays! Thank you all for everything you do. Thank you for contributing to the site how you can and keeping it active. I look forward to bringing my own contributions to this weird, wonderful world we call the Crossroads.
- Vivi