User blog:Neoexlucky/Take a little trip with me...

Well with so many things going, from Skull's resignation, to other things going on both in my personal life and on the site itself, I've been thinking a lot about my online antics on the site. I've been on the Sonic Fanon wiki since june 1st 2013, the day I offically released Neo Tranquil's page for the very first time, and that doesn't count the days beforehand when I contemplated joining or not. Now? I'm glad I did join. This hasn't been the first website I've roleplayed on, there were quite a few, and I'd like to take a moment to go back and tell you guys about my time roleplaying.

I don't exactly remember the day, but I think it was sometime in febuary 2013 that I joined a site known as Canterlot. It was the very first place I had ever roleplayed before (sorta) and it was so weird to be there. I created my first character, I learned how to roleplay properly, I grew to love roleplay, things were good!

They were so good that once my summer vacation started that year I went out and looked for another site to find, which I did, and that was the Sonic Fanon Wiki (This one right here!). When I started out roleplaying here, I remember that I didn't really know how to get started, so I posted a question on the forums and it got answered almost immediatley! I got started roleplaying in the ice cap zone, although the only character I can remember that was in that roleplay with me was Nudge the Lopunny. I remember that the very first thing I saw that made me want to get really good was the Smash and company roleplay series. Reading through it, I realized that it all sounded less like a roleplay collection and more like an episode list of a Television Program. The fact that there was fan content like that made me want to get better so I could have something like that, and I think that was around the time I created Tales of the Echo. Getting back on track here, I found things on this site that I could never find on sites like Canterlot and I think that is the reason I stayed. I found people who were really passionite about this site and their characters.

The more I roleplayed here, the more I realized that Canterlot wasn't really for me, and after some time there, I left, but roleplaying on just one site felt really weird, so during a slow period here, I found myself going to a new site, from the Legend of Zelda Fanon, Realms of Hyrule. Now Realms was really weird when compared to Canterlot or the Sonic Fanon Wiki. Realms of Hyrule had it's own lore that it was hardcore dedicated to, it had items for characters to buy, a dice rolling site for it's battle system, the place was crazy! I found myself working really hard over there, and after nine months, I was offered a position as a Trainer, someone who taught people how to roleplay and how to use our battle system. It was the first time I got an important job on a site, and it felt good to have earned that position by helping others. In fact, my job included being friendly and welcoming to newcomers, because I was one of the first members they would meet. However I had one problem on the site, and that was the community. Realms of Hyrule had a giant storyline going on, and as much as I tried, It was impossible to get in. It honestly felt like the mods and admins were leaving everyone else out, because nobody got to jump into the story. I felt invisible in the main scheme of things, because no matter what I did, from solving a murder case, to helping someone get elected as the leader of a country, it never affected the world around me. That being said, there were cliques on the site, and that made roleplaying for everybody else really unfun. Eventually logging in felt more like a chore than anything else, and I left the site.

After that I began to take a look at other sites, looking around for things I might like, things I would be interested in, but I never really joined them. After Realms of Hyrule there really wasn't any site I stated on, except this one. No matter what I went through, no matter what I joined or what I left, I always stayed on the sonic fanon wiki. Which brings me to the real reason I'm writing this.

Something that Skull said in the resignation really hit me. I've done a lot on this site, but none of it has ever really been for the site. I owe all of you guys a lot, because no matter how I look at it, I've never wanted to get better this much except here. Everyone from Zapor, to Mantis, to even Smash, everything posted, everything done, they all make me strive to do better, because I want to do better. I actually care about my characters here, I care about other characters, I care about other abilities and other items. I'm interested in what Piano has planned for the next Malaria Anime, I want to see how Mantis plans on shipping Edge and Blitz and I want to see what goes on for everyone else.

Skull said that there was potential in this wiki, and I think I know what that potential is. That potential is Passion. Everyone here is so passionite about what they do, and what they make, that it's amazing. Whether they stay alone, in small groups, or are the center of the community, we're all passionite about the work we do here. I think that if we become that community that the older members talk about, we could do better, and I think we should all work towards that goal. So, even though I have no idea how to do it, I'm going to try and help interact with the community more. Because I don't want this to be another Canterlot or to be another Realms of Hyrule, I want the Sonic Fanon Wiki to be a place where everyone knows everyone, where we can all count on one another, and where we can all revel in our characters, and roleplays, and whatnot together. Because I know that anything we make already, could be much better with a little help from our friends.

I think I need some coffee after that...