Roleplay / Genessia

Genessia is a Journal Roleplay game hosted on Dreamwidth. A Jamjar game with a very heavy emphasis on player-run plots instead of moderator-run plots, players are given an insane amount of freedom in which to shape the world in almost any way they see fit, including in-character elections of guardians of the various cities, and where villains are actively encouraged to cause chaos for the other characters to respond in kind.

As of January 2015, the game is under new management, with a promised Continuity Reboot of the in-game metaplot.

This game provides examples of:

• Aborted Arc: Due to the departure of one of the moderators, many of the games on-going moderator-run plots were put on hold, and eventually abandoned altogether once new moderators took over.
• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Fayren and Everglade have these.
• Academy of Evil: Satsuki and Dr. Wily tried to open one of these at one point.
• Adorably Precocious Child: The Paper Boy. His Distaff Counterpart, the Paper Girl, on the other hand, was often depicted as a stereotypical Valley Girl.
  • Luke Triton is another example, and is almost universally beloved by the rest of the game's characters.
• Alien Geometries: There's a massive barrier that surrounds all five cities, and the subarchways lead to 'copies' of the characters' worlds, not the actual worlds. Given what has been seen to lie on the other side of the barrier, however...
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Spirit Albarn to Maka.
  • Inverted with Silver and Gray, who had no idea about the whole stripping thing.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Genessia City was attacked by a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere early on in the meta-plot.
• Cast Herd: RWBY has this in spades. The Fairy Tail cast has since risen to power, but eventually fell into fourth place behind Touhou Project and Attack on Titan.
• Crossover Ship: It happens all the time In-Universe. It's a Journal Roleplay, what did you expect?
• Cute Monster Girl: They're everywhere here. No shortage of Cute Monster Boys, either.
• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Averted. Provided no characters with healing powers show up to save you, you will be forced to sacrifice something important to you - such as a power, a memory, or a physical possession - before being revived.
  • As of January 2017, mysterious NPCs now show up to carry dead bodies back to the Bay, and into a hidden chamber that characters cannot enter due to a magical barrier. What happens in there, nobody knows.
• Democracy Is Flawed: The position of a lot of characters on the Guardian Elections, especially if they lose. Dracula and Gilgamesh are particularly extreme examples of what happens when someone doesn't like how how an election turns out.
• Eldritch Location: Not Genessia itself (though Everglade borders on this), but what lies beyond it. Occasionally, monsters get through, such as the aforementioned Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever, and when the barrier breached. Nobody knows what's really out there, and you'd be hard pressed to find someone who wants to find out.
• Emotion Eater: The ghosts from beyond the barrier were this. Some characters are still traumatized due to this event.
• Enemy Mine: Zeref managed to keep Tartaros from continuing their war against Fairy Tail by convincing them that whoever - or whatever - managed to bring them to Genessia is more of a threat than they are. How he managed to keep it up for so long was anyone's guess, especially since Silver was Put on a Bus. After Mard Geer dropped, Tartaros as a whole was reduced to Sayla, who had since dedicated herself only to serving Zeref until she, too, was dropped.
  • Zeref and Fairy Tail formed another truce once the Hands of Decay showed up and declared their intent to kill all mages.
• Evil Is Hammy: In a game that used to have Dr. Wily, Laharl, and Skeletor, the moment another character like this shows up on the network, everyone knows exactly what to expect from them.
• Good Is Not Nice: A lot of the Guardians can come across as this. Ted in particular was a straight-up Knight Templar, with Satori endorsing Mewtwo's plot to simply twist the Hands of Decays' minds into submission.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: Yes, Pokémon appeared in Genessia, along with the means to catch them; and no we're not just talking about characters from the series being applied to the game. Those that scored the highest during the event even got to keep them.
• Hated by All:
  • Nobody likes Kefka. Nobody.
  • John 'Everyman' Smith, a.k.a. 'the Jerks,' has an extremely offensive and off-putting personality. While this is entirely intentional by his player, it shows just how little the character is liked In-Universe, when he tried to run for Attleton's Guardian, and lost. Badly.
• Hate Sink: John Everyman may be an intentional, In-Universe example of this, given how amazingly offensive he is to everybody he speaks to.
• Incoming Ham: Skeletor's arrival in spades. To this day, it is still legendary, both In-Universe and without.
• The Legions of Hell: Lucifer spent almost two months summoning these.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: How many of the more stoic characters responded to the Bachelor Auction.
• MacGuffin: The Charms. Collect them all, and you get a wish granted.
• Mood Whiplash: It's not uncommon for lighthearted events like a Talent Show or a Bachelor Auction to follow a monster invasion, or an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. Or vice-versa.
• Neural Implanting: Canon-updates are done like this. Characters enter a device, where they 'dream' of what has happened in their world since their arrival in Genessia.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Nobody knows why the characters have been brought to Genessia, or who - or what - brought them there. This has served as the major plot point of the game, with boundless speculation on the matter leading from horrifying experiments to the absurd and hilarious.
• Portal Crossroad World: The leading theory In-Universe as to type of place Genessia is, given the subarchways... and what happens when the barrier above them breaks.
• Portal Network: The archways and subarchways allow characters to access the worlds of characters in the game. They were changed with the new mod team, however, and now close if all characters from that specific world drop from the game.
• Research, Inc.: The Schnee Company has become a benevolent example of this. They're dedicated to finding just where the hell they are and how they got there, and have also taken on the role of helping newcomers successfully integrate into society in Genessia.
• Sex God: Weiss Schnee became this, much to her own chagrin, thanks in no small part to her hologram being the first thing most characters see upon awakening, and this being parodied in the newspaper. The title "Holo-Babe" has even become an In-Series Nickname for her, though calling her that to her face is something of a Berserk Button.
• Shipper on Deck: Minako Aino started an entire dating service because of it. This also applies to pretty much the entire Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun cast.
• Show Within a Show: Nozaki drew and sold manga in Genessia City. Minako Aino in particular was a huge fan.
• Small Name, Big Ego: How Laharl is received by many of the other characters in the game. He calls himself the 'Overlord of Genessia,' but nobody takes his claim to power seriously. Except for Flonne, of course.
• Spinning Paper: Every time a newspaper is delivered, expect someone's window to be broken, and a lot of angry Network posts about being hit in the head with one.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: The "Hands of Decay" are an extreme example of this, resulting in a radical Antimagical Faction who seek to kill all mages out of fear. Because they've come off mostly as terrorists rather than genuine freedom fighters and take an absolutist view on what constitutes magic, they have a 0% Approval Rating even among their fellow muggles.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Whenever a particularly large threat shows up, it's not uncommon for heroes and villains to put aside their differences if the threat proves to be mutual.
• That Man Is Dead: During the Shared Flashback event, Mavis witnessed Zeref killing Hades. Zeref said that he wasn't sorry, and that Precht deserved it. Even though Mavis was upset, she still embraced him, and said she forgave him, because the man he killed wasn't the man she knew and trusted anymore.
  Mavis: "You didn't kill Precht, Zeref. Hades did."
• What the Hell, Hero?: A common reaction to a castmate if they sacrifice an important memory of their friends to open a subarchway.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Despite a rough patch when she first arrived, Azula was been promoted to this, especially after she was elected to be the Guardian of Fayren. She has since been Put on a Bus.