If your personal character headcanons directly impact my character, I'd like to discuss them very thoroughly before you throw them into RP. Whatever you decide for your character is just fine -- until it impacts my character. Please stop assuming I'm okay with you changing my character's motivations or backstory to align with yours. Especially for conflict. Please keep in mind that your headcanons are not mine and I may not agree with you. If our headcanons aren't compatible, that's fine. We'll roleplay a crossover.

agenths replied to your post: Fair warning: if you just want to use Howard as a...

I kind of get it. In a very tired, resentful way. But I don’t think they realize that this is the boilerplate go-to plot. I have literally done it so many times that I know exactly how the thread will pan out without even writing a reply. I get a sullen/angry/hostile reply to a greeter and I know where this is going already. And it’s nowhere I want to go. 

rustedqueen replied to your post: Fair warning: if you just want to use Howard as a...

It’s so tiring. And I’m not playing 616 Howard here. Stop it, people. Whatever you pulled from the comics to pad out your backstories? Very not applicable. 

bonzai-bunny replied to your post: Arthritis is acting up in a huge way. I’m here,...

It’s terrible. A friend reminded me that green, black, or oolong tea can help. If caffeine is okay for you, maybe try some? If nothing else, the cup is soothing and warm.

Arthritis is acting up in a huge way. I’m here, just slow. 

Fair warning: if you just want to use Howard as a punching bag for your character’s issues, thinking specifically of Marias and Tonys, I probably won’t want to RP with you. I’ve done those threads a million times and they are exhausting and never, ever rewarding. It’s hard to be enthused about a thread when your character can’t say or do anything right and is honestly just there to be torn down. Just. I ain’t here for that.

thexanderzone:

Howard just grinned and shrugged, tongue against his cheek, completely unrepentant. “If you want to get technical, pal, Nick used to work for me.” Catching the phone, he tucked it away into his jacket pocket and nodded -- yeah, that’s what he thought. “I’m older than I look,” he admitted, not something he usually shared, but this was gambling: you had to show a few cards. “And the skills you have, the really interesting ones, I’m in a similar boat.” Pulling out a manilla folder, Howard tossed it onto the table between them. “It’s all in there. I don’t know how good your history teachers were, so long story short: HYDRA’s our target, they’re Nazis, and I’m sick of all this cloak and dagger bullshit.”

fangedfirecracker:

“We don’t exactly have mutants where I’m from. There’s enhanced, science experiments, and inhumans -- which is a terrible name, we should fix that -- who are alien experiments.”

“Mostly it’s just a lot of genetic tinkering.”