Dark and Lights?

[thalbe]

Ok guys plese vote, this poll will end in four days!

[Sashe]

i voted

[Fiction]

Nooo... I think darks and lights would make this more unrealistic. I think that currently, characters can be whatever they want to be without being "labeled." You can have a bloodthirsty horse without having them labeled as a dark and restricted to certain areas and horses. Just think, if you're a light stallion and there are mostly active dark mares, its going to be difficult to claim, especially now in the beginning. I hate the idea of the whole dark vs. light with those neutrals in between, because I think that each character should be its own personality and demeanor, not kept within the bounds of dark, light, or neutral. I think it makes it more realistic and easier to move within the different bounds of emotions without being restricted to angry, heavenly, or inbetween personalities.

Just my thoughts.

[Lacoon]

No way! It not fun because then you have to play at extremes. Supper nice, Super evil. i hate it. it's annoying and just... idk. No fun because you can't act like a realistic horse or animal. i used tolike it, but find it isn't fun anymore because darks hate everything, want to kill, that isnt exactly what happens. And no horse is all goody goody. I hate playing either side, cause no animal is like that! lol. There are too many RPs out there with them, all the good ones dont have that and it works well. I just hate it now. and Ficition is right. Lights are inactive and make it hard for them to stay active,. being restircted to one idea is just very un-fun. I hate playing the "I hate the world" gothic type horses. there arent "gothic" horses. Maybe they are just a tad moody, i ride a mare like that. She is a B**ch but she's Hannah. lol. I ride another one that is always happy but can be a real ass too. I dislike being restircted, always wanting "war" and such. none of this happens. WHat does happen is stallions fight and take the other stallion's mares. There's an idea. Let stallions fight and take their herd, allow killings in fights (it happens) realistic stuff, not Angry and hatred vs. Happyness and Saints.

[Sequin]

alright i see where you two are coming from. So what you are saying is you could just have your horse acting like that without styating it? Well the neutral horses are the most realistic. this poll will be the final say. but remember dont vote more gthan once, i can seee :\

[Fiction]

Yeah, exactly. Without restrictions for darks or lights, you can have your horse be whatever you want it to be. You can still have a dark, bloodthirsty personality if that's what you really want, but you don't have to keep the horse under the label of a dark. More freedom that way.
Just because there aren't currently "labels" of dark, light, and neutral doesn't mean you can't have your character act like any one of those, but if you did have those labels, it would force everyone to have a certain personality according to their alliance.
And yes, neutrals are the most normal, but what if you have a neutral stallion and there's only one neutral mare because everyone else is joining as lights and darks?
I agree completely with Bay. I think it would be horrible to have those sort of limitations and many of the best horse rpgs (from what I know of anyway) generally do not have the unrealistic dark/light/neutral alliances.

[Lacoon]

ya, common. WHy do we have to be like the RP's from awhile back? Alot of the beginner RP's have Lights and Darks and thats fine i guess, but RP is to roleplay horses. I, myself, like to do it in a realistic manner. I hate making them always "Im gonna kill you if you even look at me" I like to have them have a chance to change, become nicer, but not "Im a saint, i love everyone! Onward with world peace!" type of thing. Its too much of an extreme to bring realisim. Some of you like it, but i just dislike the extreme it takes place in. Always mean, always nice, it somewhat leaves a constant personality. And with darks, if you so much as show one feeling in your posts you become "Unworthy" Which is stupid, its like making them gothic, Lights saints/nuns, and neautrals are the real people. Idk, i just dont like it, and as fiction said, some join as a favored alliance (dark) and the others fall behind. If you DO go forward with this, make it so they may claim other alliances, this works well on other RPs, like Darkness falls (<3) so if it happens, maybe we could allow any claiming. Since mares do have a say. Its too restricted, and too much of one extreme to the next.

[kyr]

ok, I'm giving my whole views and opinions on this topic, based on how I play the charries

Lights: OK, you guys are saying lights are like saints and such, I don't play them that way. For anyone who has a charrie on Winds, if you see Romera, who I play, she is what I would consider a light, and how I would play one. She's sweet, but can become distressed or annoyed, even though it rarely happens. She's just happy-go-lucky. That's what my lights are like.

Darks: OK, now you guys are saying darks are bloodthirsty and all that. I completely disagree with that. I think that would not be classified as dark, but mutant-evil-thinger(lol). my darks are not bloodthirsty whatsoever. They eat grass and drink water, and do not try to kill. They follow the same actions and routines as other horses. The only difference is their personality. My darks are rude, cold, distant, and obnoxious brats. Sure, if they get mad, they might bite the other horse, maybe threaten to kick, but that's the extent of it. They don't dream of blood or anything, I just play them as brats more than anything, not monsters.

Neutrals: I agree with you guys on this category, as just the inbetween normal horses. they can have a temper, but are generally nice.

So, now that I've written like an essay, I just want to say that I don't really care what happens

[//:Wesson]

Meh, I don't much care. I normally play on sites with darks and lights thuogh. And I do have to admit, raging wars against each other isn't always tha funest thing. I mean really. What happens when one side wins? We all have to be come light? Or we all have to become dark? Well, I guess trying something new wouldn't be bad. So I no sides is the way for me...

[Fiction]

Yes, I agree with you Kyr. I do know that darks are not always mad rampaging beasts who want to kill everything in sight. Not all lights are angelic, godly things either. (I will admit I was exaggerating slightly for affect.)
BUT, there are those people who are likely to join at some point who will think that dark means the horse must have an evil "death to all" personality and lights, the opposite. I'm not saying all, but I believe there will be some. I think it would just be better to leave it as it is so that we don't run the risk of that happening. Who is it hurting to leave it this way? How much of a change would it be to create alliances? Okay, maybe not much, but honestly, why bother?
And my biggest concern would be claiming mares. I am worried that there will be more mares in one alliance than in another and this will make it very difficult for the minority alliance stallions to claim mares.

[Lacoon]

I agree too kyr, but im saying, people play them so unrealistically. They say they kill and want death, and it isnt true, or they are always nice and happy and saints. Neautrals are best based. But the way some play these charrecters is scary. lol. I just hate seeing the extreme unrealism. Like they kill for fun or love all. Nothing like that happens! lol. idk, im one that likes to realisim now that i've found my ground and can post well now. lol. I used to love it, now i dislike it, but for reasons that they basically over kill the subjects. If they played in a fair manner, not blood thirsty killers, or saints, im fine. They can be slightly mean and not the best horse, or the go lucky, positive ones. And the neautrals are in the middle and can tilt their heads to either side. But no killing for fun, drinking blood, loving everything, never angry, if we are all reaslistic, its fine by me. But none of the over kill guys. Sorta too much.

[Amour Lazy]

I agree with everything that’s being said. My site has Lights, Darks and Neutrals and the war between them, and before I read this I believed it the best way to role-play with wild equines. Like, when you have alliances, there are so many limitations. Darks rule Dark lands, claim Dark mares, and fall for other Darks. When there’s no mixing at all, I see how it can become routine and boring. Plus most RPGs are separated with alliances, so in its originality this site could attract more members . Playing all ‘neutral’ horses is probably the most realistic way, but have alliances can be sorta realistic as well. Like, think of people. There are bubbly, totally-sweet people, average, kind of nonchalant people, and then there are killers and prisoners. So if you were comparing this to equines, it would pretty much fall into being realistic. And like Kyr, I don’t play my Lights and Darks like total black and white. I consider Amour{my charrie, not me, xD} to be lights, but she’s certainly not a saint either. She has a broken heart and a lifetime of depression, but is looking to kindness from Lights to guide her through it or something like that{tehe}. Okay, so maybe one of my Dark charries kills, that’s only in their into and such, he’s just rude and arrogant. OK but yea, I’m either way with this but voted for no alliances anyway for a change and I see where you guys are coming from. -Finally shuts up and runs off to type-

[Lacoon]

I agree again. I love playing with a mix of it all. And letting them flow freely in emotions. With the titles, they cant go too far toward the land that devides them, ya know? And its fun to play with everyone in a herd, it makes it intereasting and can make an intereasting plot twist for a herd and so on. idk, i hate the extremes. but idk. i like mixing, not matching. lol.

[George]

Mift, I'm too lazy to read what all of you have said already, so I'm just going to say what I think really fast.

No alliances. There I said it. XD I just find them very stereo typical, and a whole bunch of different reasons which you all have probably posted already make me really hate alliances. So just no. Please.

[Lacoon]

<sub><sup>It has been 5 days. The poll is as it stands. The verdict is...

No Alliances Lemorsea shall stay as it stands</sup></sub>