LOVE MEME | THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

[hadrielmods]

Hadriel 💕 Love 💕 Meme

Please allow us to say thank you for sticking with us for so long and throughout our endgame! This meme is for us all to gush over one another with our love, our farewells, and our favorite memories throughout the game.

Instructions are simple- simply top level with your name and the characters you play/played (and if you want to include a few of your favorite memories in the game, as well as a character epilogue to say what your character will be doing after the endgame, please do so!)

Go around and tag other folks, reminisce, and tell everyone how awesome they are! Players who have left the game at any time can also participate, so please come on back and let us tell you how much we enjoyed having you here!


FROM MANDA

Hey folks!

It feels weird to be saying goodbye to this game. Hadriel has been such a big part of my life for three and a half - wow, almost four? - years now, and I have to admit I'm not sure what I'm going to do without it. It's been a huge source of inspiration and creativity, an immense and sometimes difficult undertaking. There have been ups and downs, but above all, it's been so much fun.

While I had modded games before starting Hadriel, I'd never created one of my own. Building Hadriel from the ground up with Rae is something I'm always going to remember. Coming up with events every month, creating NPCs for people to love and hate, and forming an overarching plot for people to react to was a constant rollercoaster, stressful and exciting and satisfying. I really hope you all had as much fun as we did, because that's the truly rewarding part of running a game: seeing other people enjoy it.

More than anything, I want to say thank you for spending time with us. Whether it was a few months or a few years, I really deeply appreciate everyone who invested a little part of themselves, their time and energy and interest, in our game. I can't tell you how many times Rae or I posted a plot OOC post and sent frantic Discord messages back and forth because we were so delighted about how people were reacting to it. We tried our best to make a game that people could have fun in, and one that people could feel like they were affecting. I hope we succeeded, and even if we didn't, thank you for caring about our game.

I want to especially thank a few people. Kels, who continued making beautiful graphics for us even after she left the game. Alexis, who stepped in to help us with apps and NPCs when we desperately needed it. Grimme, who was kind enough to volunteer to mod the Hadriel Discord. Without them, Rae and I would have been totally overwhelmed. Not long after the game began, we agree that we weren't interested in turning it over to new mods, that when we couldn't mod anymore we would end it even if we hadn't completed the full three arcs we intended. Thanks to the help we got, we were able to go the distance, and I really, truly appreciate it.

All of our players are awesome and this game would be nothing without you. Thank you for making this big chunk of my life so fun, and I wish you luck and even more fun wherever the RP world, or life, takes you from here on. I'm going to miss Hadriel and all of you.

-Manda

FROM RAE

I can't follow up what Manda said, guys, I'm already tearing up just from reading it!!!

But please let me say from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Hadriel was my first major modding experience, and it was born out of Manda and I conspiring with one another late one night during one of our many discussions about rp in general. We weren't truly serious about it, but it was something fun to talk and DM one another about when I was at work- what would the setting be like? Who would the NPCs be? What kind of rules would we make? Eventually, after another session of excited, frantic brainstorming, I realized: oh god, we're actually going to do this.

I was really scared! I didn't think that I had it in me to bring a game to completion. Enter Manda, who was with me every step of the way. She has been the absolute rock of Hadriel, keeping everything together and encouraging me and reassuring me, even when I was going through some rough times and wasn't around much to push the game forward. I can confidently say that without Manda, the game wouldn't have survived past its second year and I owe so much to her.

And then there's all of you! This sounds weird to say, but I've never really written a story that other people have cared about before. The enthusiasm and excitement that so many of you showed while we were dropping major plot events, or the debates that you had over our moral dilemmas, or the way that all of you just consistently volunteered, showed up, and thought outside the box to bring the plot forward in ways that Manda and I hadn't anticipated... I can't even begin to explain how much that means to me. The players of Hadriel, past and present, have done so much and the game wouldn't exist without you guys! So thank you all- thank you so much for being here, and for playing in Hadriel!

We've come a long way from nervously counting the apps as they came in on October 1st, 2015, from DMing, 'do you think we have enough players?' to one another, from not being able to think of good names for our NPCs(so we just named them the obvious- neither of us are good at naming things at all, see: the Null, see: [Name], see: the game was almost called The Spires until we flipped through some angelic-sounding names in a name generator site). Both Manda and I have learned and grown so much from this game, and I hope that some of you feel the same!

You guys are so amazing and we love all of you. We wish you luck wherever you decide to go, and thank you again for bringing Hadriel to life!

-Rae

Comments

Lauren | Caedra Nisariel

[abyssalarcana]

Hey all! Sorry I sort of vanished right at the end of the game but I just couldn't keep up between my usual multi-hiatus summer fieldwork and a fading interest in playing Caedra.

But man, did I have a fantastic time here. This was absolutely a great way to return to DWRP after many years away. You're all wonderful, supportive people and I feel absolutely honored to get to play a villain OC and yet have so much rich and wonderful CR and make some lasting friends even though she's an utter nightmare of a person. I almost don't want to pick particular moments from Hadriel to mention as favorites because honestly there are too many good ones.

Caedra here has gone back home where she remembers none of Hadriel, which is really for the best. She's got a big battle coming up, as the campaign she's from continues - the PCs are journeying through the Abyss right now with a goal of killing her and some of the other higher demons of Amamot's realm once and for all. I have no idea if she'll survive or not so the next few months will be pretty interesting!

[hot_mes]

keeps you forever

[circumitus]

As one of the folks who's been in Hadriel since the near beginning, Rey has decided to stay. She's made a home for herself, having built up the Speakeasy from scratch and not having much desire to return home anytime soon.

Of course, she'll be staying with the resident dadbot Nick Valentine, who's come to be family to her over the years and one of the few reasons Rey doesn't just tear up every robot she sees anymore. Wups. Someone will have to stick around and keep an eye on the old detective, as well as keep him in working order.

Together they'll be living with Tripod the mutant cat (who I now have a plush of, courtesy of the lovely Grimme herself).

Happy End. Because they deserve it. It's been a great ride. I've made some wonderful friends here, had some delightful threads and memories. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

[synthedick]

Rey and Nick's CR is some of the absolute best I've had in my DWRP time, and you know I could go on for hours about how much I love them. They've had so many memorable threads, and the fact that they both found something they needed -- a family and people who make them feel like they matter in the here and now, no matter who they used to be in past lives -- brings a smile to my face every time. I love that Tripod became his own character, and that they'll be getting the home they deserve.

And while they weren't nearly as close, I do love Carlisle and Rey's interactions, especially as he kind of came to look up to her in a lot of ways. Meeting two iterations of the same character was really eye-opening for him in regards to "other worlds, same people sort of," and helped him cope a lot with some of the tougher internal conflicts he faced.

So in short, thank you for everything. ♥

nico / kate & steak (& matt & dylan & serah)

[dedikated]

I'm severely emotionally compromised right now, it's fine.

So, I know I've said this a million times throughout the years but, seriously mods (and players past and present!), thank you. I have never had a game experience I could really call home despite having been in LJ/DWRP for over a decade. I would constantly flake out in the span of three or four months and before I joined this game, I thought maybe RP games just weren't for me and I didn't suit long-term playing. But then Hadriel happened, and I eyed it for a while and backed out due to life and things, and eventually joined in March 2016 — right in the middle of what would become a continental move. And with the exception of a much needed 2 month break, you've been stuck with me ever since.

Sorry about that, but y'all got me hooked. There's so many amazing memories I've made within the game — from the very first fuck up of making Silent Hill worse to stupid cute shipping and the absolute honour that was having Alexis pick up Kate's best friend and bring her to full colour fantastic life. I've fallen into countless fandoms thanks to the amazing casts here (UD crew shoutout of course, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and lately — though the cast is long gone — Borderlands) and made some of the most solid friends I could possibly imagine making through DWRP. The various characters I've played — some throughout and some for only a brief moment — have all been received incredibly well and I've never had a character in the game where I haven't had some instantaneous, amazing chemistry.

All in all, you're all fantastic, and I'll definitely be mentioning some specific moments to each of y'all when I get to going through this, but this is the overall big, big thank you for a game that's not only given me hilarious memories ICly, or the ability to stretch my writing muscles in ways I never imagined, but also let me meet such a fantastic crop of people as I did.

Stay awesome, guys, wherever you go from here!

AND MY CHARACTER EPILOGUES:
— steak / Nothing amazing here, he's going back to Tierra with Red Wine where they'll continue fighting each other and fulfilling all tasks that make human life easier on the giant floating fish planet.

— kate / So I guess she's taking a boy home with her? Whoops, that's going to be fun to explain when they wind up in her friend's house. But she's also taking back a special orb that will allow Faith to get her memories of the city back if she wants (please want to, Faith, it's going to make her existence so much easier if someone in her friend group knows she hasn't completely lost her mind). From there?

Well, she's got her own home to rebuild. Thanks for the inspiration, Hadriel. She's gonna stop running from that place.

[glacius]

KAAAAATE <3 Thanks for being the best friend/eventual sister in honor that Glacius never expected he would end up with! It's an angle for CR I have never gotten to play out for him, and the fact that he was able to find that in a human, a member of a species that he had so many problems with from his own universe... it's just all heartwarming and delightful.

Thank you for always being up for threads and for helping all this happen! From our own CR to helping to pitch in with the Siphon player plot, you've been great and I can't thank you enough. <3 I hope we get to keep in touch here and there even after our endgame threads here wind down!

Rae

[lingeringfear]

Ronan Lynch | greywaren
Rome Hart | leashed
Rhys | hybridification
Fear | lingeringfear
Delight | secondreturned
Sorrow | thirdreturned
Rage (final 6 months) | firstreturned
[Name]

Whew that's a mouthful! Ok, I've said all the sappy stuff I wanted to say in the main body of the post, and the epilogue for most of my characters is just the epilogue of the game in the ooc post but!!!! Let me say some of my favorite memories in the game!!! Oh my gosh there's so freaking many. In no particular order...

For Rome oh my gosh, there's so many. He had such a fantastic relationship with Maketh, which ultimately resulted in him betraying the Guard for her, and then after she left, his coming clean to Nick about it just killed me!!! Also, I can't talk about Rome without talking about his hilarious relationship with Kyna. Those two were the absolute best! And Kyna, you have to make good on your plan of kidnapping Rome from his homeworld and bringing him back with you ok.

And for everyone's favorite shitlord, Rhys......... well, what hasn't he done? There is my absolute favorite cast-clusterfuck of all time involving booty calls, lying about friends, and getting punched in the face... then, of course, there's Rhys releasing Pong while a zombie apocalypse is happening, and he never learns so of course he also releases another one.... Rhys had some of my favorite threads ever as well as a weird budding romance with Gren that sadly never came to fruition, sob, but to keep it short and sweet, I'll just link this hilarious Krieg one and call it a day!

Onto the rest... it's a lot to reflect over but man, I've had some fantastic NPC threads! The interactions between Sharon and Fear over the years has been absolutely unexpected and I love the two of them so much- Sorrow and Rosie (and Nick, and Rey) have always had just amazing threads and I really cherished that CR as well. My favorite thing in this game was that so many people strove to have actual CR with the NPCs- being able to build those relationships and ultimately let that effect the outcomes of some of these events has been really rewarding to me and I'm sure that the gods felt so too!

In focusing all my attention recently onto endgame, I haven't been able to close out CR as much as I'd like- but now that the heavy lifting is over, I'm absolutely willing to go back and do some backdated threads if anyone would like! :)

I've said thank you like ten million times but let me say it again- thank you all! I'm so #blessed to have had this experience and everyone who has threaded with me along the years has helped to shape this amazing thing. I can't believe it's over, but I'm excited to see what's next for everyone!

[evocation]

I'M GONNA CRY Kyna loved Rome so much!!! She's totally going kidnap him and then zap anyone who looks at him funny or tells him what to do ever again

Ami | Lance, previously Chris and Connor and maybe others I can't remember

[lifetothefullest]

HEYO EVERYONE here we are at the end of the game, and even though grad school kind of killed my participation the last several months I'm really happy to have had the chance to stick through to the end. This has been such a good game and one I'm glad I got to be a part of, especially for so long! I joined with Chris in like the second month the game was open, and aside from a few months break somewhere in the middle I've been here the whole time.

For character specific stuff, including plans and favorite threads and such:


Lance - OH MAN he's had a whole ride; I've gotten to do so much great stuff with him. It probably wasn't too well known that, for awhile, he was totally fine with flipping sides to the Null in order to get home alive, and really only decided to be firmly on the gods' 'side' when it was clear the Null were just horrible.

He got some fantastic antagonistic CR, especially with Maketh and Hux, and of course had a ton of really great positive CR; Kyna and Nate ended up his closest friends, like basically siblings, and I have a lot of feels about them. I have lots of feels about a lot of CR honestly but there's just too much to mention all of.

As far as plans go, Lance is going back to Kyna's world to continue learning magic and, eventually, hopefully be able to travel to other dimensions especially to torment Nate. He decided not to mess with the timeline in his world, knowing everyone is okay without him, and so he's instead just kind of moving onto the next adventure. His life's always been full of massive changes, and he's ready for this one.


Chris - He also got a pretty long, excellent arc and came to terms with everything that happened back in his canon by the time he left. He got along with so many people and had such good CR but I especially loved his CR with the gods; Hope and Fear in particular. He really genuinely liked Hope, and Fear morphed over time from being this horrifying all-powerful entity to kind of a dweeb who could do bad stuff but Chris was just generally chill with, which was hilarious to play out.

I love that some of his setting contributions stayed in game for so long (like the emergency program) and he's currently back at home, having survived the mountain and eventually finding out that so did everyone else but Josh.


Connor - He wasn't in game super long, partially due to my lack of time and partially because he's just a difficult player to handle, but there was so much good CR. He and Alphys were really cute and I will love them forever, and he also bonded with some of the other robros and, weirdly but awesomely enough, Pratt. That was all some majorly unexpected but such good CR.

Connor came from the best ending for his canon, so he's back at home helping with his species gaining independence and all that.


IN GENERAL once again I love everyone in this former cave and I've had a great time playing with you all. Until next time! ♥

[synthedick]

I'm super glad you stuck around, even when life got busy! I always really liked the CR both my dudes had with Lance, especially regarding Nick. He knows Lance had a lot of issues with Maketh and how the Guard was run at times, but he really respected the guy, and I like that they eventually worked past some of that, especially as Nick struggled to step up as leader of the organization.

Also, regarding Chris: this is one of my favorite threads from the game. Thank goodness for that dweeb and for you playing him so he could explain Tiger Electronics to Carlisle.

Gem and Trafalgar Law

[hot_mes]

Fun fact, I test drove at least three characters before finally apping Law, over the space of a year or so. Figures Jerky McJerkface is the one who stuck, who knew. I'm glad I was able to be here for the end, this game is one of the best-run of all those I've rode to endgame. Ridden? Whatever I'm drunk it's cool.

Thanks to everyone who gave the prickly bastard a chance, he's had some weird an varied CR and I enjoyed it all, including and especially negative /points to Newt. My personal favorite moment was the nightmare event where Michael saved him from Doflamingo only to get manipulated into almost killing him. Fun times. The first Null attack he was a part of, also fun. I just mostly love his CR with people whether positive, neutral, or negative. So it's you guys. You, I love you.

Law is probably going to run for the Door as soon as he reads Sorrow's post and get the fuck out of here, he's wanted nothing more than to get back to the New World and finding the One Piece and he doesn't want to remember a thing of this place. It's a shame he doesn't have the happy sentimental feelings I do. 'Course, if Lance, Michael, Harlan, or any bots are still around he might say goodbye forever to them first.

[aroundthecoroner]

God this CR was fun and just, yeah, really surprising? But in a good way. When I had Michael follow Law around like a lost dog that first day, I had no idea they'd end up being friends. And that Michael would end up almost killing Law, like, twice LMAO. But it all worked out in the end it's fine they're fine.

I think my personal favorite moment with them was fighting side by side in the first Null invasion, but god those dreamshare threads were fun too. Even though Law plans to forget this world, Michael would definitely appreciate the farewell, and he won't be forgetting Law anytime soon.

Thanks for the great CR, bud. It's been a great ride.

Anodyne | Glacius

[glacius]

Debated whether or not I should post here since I wasn't as active towards the end as I would have like due to various life things, but I still want to say goodbye to my remaining CR and all that so ;3; here I am!! Thanks for the people that made this place fun throughout its lifetime. It was one of the first games that I joined in relatively early on and stayed on for the rest of its life cycle, so that's saying something about the people here. <3 Stay cool y'all!

As for Glacius, he'll be having a conversation with his partner as they decide where to go next, which will result in them eventually heading through the Door to return home. After that, the stars are finally the limit, as the resident ice alien has yearned for. He'll be sad to be leaving the friends he made here, though, especially his sister-in honor, Kate! Once he gets one of his people's ships back into his possession, he'll definitely be using its fold core to come pop by for some visits without having to rely on any of the god-fuckery that could be involved with the Door. Best of both worlds!

[tongueamok]

I have A LOT OF THOUGHTS ABOUT THESE BOYS, and while you know pretty much all of them already, I just wanted to say thank you for sticking around, even when life was kicking you pretty hard. The boys mean a lot to me, and their CR has been one of my all-time favorites, and I can't wait to see what they manage to do in the future via memes and PSLs. Carlisle came a long way in Hadriel, and a lot of that was due to the patience and support Glacius gave him. I loved those rare moments where Carlisle could be the supporter too, those small instances where he was the one not panicking for a change. Having him come here from Ax, where he met Algidus, was a real treat, and I'm glad you didn't balk at the idea.

Stay awesome, friend. You're wonderful, and don't ever forget it. ♥

Grimme | Nick Valentine & Carlisle Longinmouth

[synthedick]

So I apped into this game with Nick Valentine in the early days after the game I was in closed. Admittedly, I mostly applied because friend Sydney was here with the Alcohol Demon, and I saw it as an excuse to get to play with her again. I thought the setting looked okay, the NPCs looked kind of neat, and most of the people seemed nice enough. A couple of people from the game I had been in were even apping in the same cycle.

And then this game became home for me. I loved the interaction with the gods, who weren't some all-knowing NPCs, but actual characters in their own right. I loved Nick finding some commonality with Rey: though they came from different worlds, they both had a lot to deal with regarding synthetics and the formation of their individual identities. He's made close ties with other robots, including his robro Oscar, and has had a few castmates come through the game, but none more important than the brother he couldn't remember, DiMA.

In terms of his character arc, Nick backed the formation of the Guard, supporting Maketh and Henry once it was official; he became second-in-command, then co-leader after Maketh was deposed, then finally took over after they both vanished. He has often struggled with the position and his place as a reluctant leader, but has done his best to hold it together and slowly grown into it. Personally, I have greatly appreciated the CR opportunities the organization and players within it provided. You guys are awesome. ♥

When I figured I could handle two characters, I brought in Carlisle Longingmouth as CRAU from the aforementioned closing game, ataraxion, and he's been a delight to play. He's was only in the game for the last year of it and admittedly didn't get much development over there, so I was hoping to finish out his arc here, and boy did he. He's still a nervous trainwreck of a man with a cowardly streak and a snitty attitude, but he has gone from blaming himself for everything to accepting that there are some things he cannot change, and that's okay. He's made some truly incredible friends, ones who have pushed him out of his comfort zone, forced him to reexamine his choices, convinced him to follow his own advice, and given him a real purpose beyond his world -- something he never thought he had.

And most importantly, he found something he didn't believe he ever would: a partner. He's been told time and time again that twice-cursed ought not have relationships, but when presented with the opportunity to make his feelings for Glacius known, he could not resist. Not that some people didn't already see it coming. It's ultimately because his bond with Glacius (both figurative and literal), along with help from people like Kate and Ravine, that he's survived this long and will continue to survive, as most twice-cursed have a limited lifespan. The people he has met in Hadriel have not only given him a new purpose, but also a new lease on life, one he would not have had otherwise. I'm thrilled my OC got to have a happier ending than he would have on his own.

As for his epilogues, Nick will be staying in Hadriel to make sure the rebuilding goes smoothly, as well as helping keep order where needed. Thanks to the Null being gone and the Door not randomly bringing in monsters, there won't be nearly as much for the Guard to do, but someone has to make sure the local wildlife steers clear of the streets. If nothing else, he can help organize those who want to stay so they can help with the reconstruction. The city is the home he's found for himself, complete with his family -- not the real Nick Valentine's, but his. He wouldn't trade that for the world.

Carlisle will be leaving this world of false gods with Glacius, hoping to travel the stars with him. He'll probably be living in a closet on a spaceship because space is vast and huge and terrifying, but he'll eventually learn to cope with it. If he can deal with his unfortunate and terrible demise, he can deal with anything at this point... hopefully. Final fun fact: Carlisle abstained from voting in all but one poll, and that was the one that determined whether Hadriel would go to the tundra or the jungle. Given the way Ataraxion ended with the ship being crashed in a jungle, he has a lot of feelings about jungles.

Thanks for everything, Hadriel. Thanks to the players for being engaging, to the mods for creating the world for us to play in, and to all the friends I've made here. I hope to see you out there in DWRP again someday! ♥

[unfollowing]

All I'm saying is that Carlisle and Glacius better visit Emily in her world, ok ok. Handwaves that she has her Hadriel memories. Done. She remembers her tall nerdy priest friend and would cut someone for him if it came to that. Their CR was so good... /shakes fist!!! I love them and I'm forever glad you apped Carlisle in and that the stars aligned and this CR came to be. Best of luck to you in RP and RL, and again, thank you!!!

coffee | Klaus Hargreeves

[substances]

coffee | klaus hargreeves | substances

I've only been here for two months and it feels like forever and no time at all. I...haven't felt like I fit this well somewhere in a long time and I'm so sad it's going to be over. But I'm also so happy I got to experience it. Thank you to everyone for being welcoming and letting me be part of your amazing endgame, for plotting and shitposting with my dumpster fire disaster child.

Klaus is going to be taking that offered trip home, which will be intercepted by Redshift because his story isn't over.

I hope i run into all of you again in DWRP. Thanks again and it's been a pleasure.

[lingeringhope]

I'm so happy you apped in, even if it was only for a little while! Your Klaus was so much fun, I have always been delighted to get more shitposters in this silly game. I hope you had fun here, even for the short time you were able to play, and good luck with everything!

Jenny | Kyna Midha

[evocation]

Hadriel was honestly probably the strongest home game I've had in years. Everything about it was just so chill and relaxed and everyone was always so open to ideas and new players/characters that it made the game an absolute delight. I was completely terrified to app Kyna here originally, because I'd never played an OC in a dwrp game, but everyone was so sweet and easy to tag and welcoming, and I don't know how to thank you guys enough for that.

Kyna went through a ton of massive development in this game, and I don't even know where to begin mentioning favorite moments. Her CR with Wash and Ephemera was a total surprise, and I never expected any of it to go where it did, especially when Ephemera and Kyna had an amazing enemies to friends progression and she ended up in a ride or die ship with Wash that helped her development progress in an incredible way.

Her CR with Lance was also amazing, and she definitely wouldn't have learned to mature or open up the way she did without him. She was always able to rely on him for advice and just be a total dork with him. Rome was another character she had a rocky start with and then ended up adoring, and both Lance and Rome became her BFFs in ways that I have a ton of gross feelings about!

And then of course there's Harlan and Tucker, who she started out close with and only became closer with. It was really really interesting to see the way Hadriel affected their "canon" cr, and how much more mature and healthy their friendships became.

This game was incredible and I'm going to miss it so, so much. I don't know where to begin thanking the mods and playerbase for making it into such a welcoming and fun experience. I tried a few other games in the time I was at Hadriel, and none of them ever seemed to grab me the way this game did.

As for Kyna, she's headed home with Lance and is going to work on bringing back Wash and Rome as well, and she's probably going to try to cram them all in her apartment for a while until they get themselves settled. She'll put all her energy into learning plane shift so that she can keep world hopping, because there are a lot of friends she doesn't want to give up and she might even want to come back and visit Hadriel once in a while! I'm also apping a Hadriel crau version of Kyna to In the Night along with Wash and Nate. I know a few Hadriel players are apping there, and I'm really glad a little faction of Hadriel is going to stick together! I think I'd be extra disgustingly heartbroken if we weren't.

[unheeled]

We didn't thread a lot, but I loved Kyna stirring the pot when Brennan and Lance started arguing about magic and who could do it better. Alas for what could've been! Take care of Lance and Sandy for Brennan, Kyna! She'd be happy to know Lance is in good company. Best wishes, Jenny!!!

Alexis | apps, Rage & Confusion, Z, Emily, Faith, Brennan, Rita

[unheeled]

...and Kat for a little bit!

It all started with a Power Ranger. It ended with amazing memories, the honor of joining the NPC team, amazing writing from all over, a fun plot with NPCs I loved, some deep and memorable CR, and a story to follow when life tried to take my world out completely. Hadriel was my home game even when I couldn't RP anymore. My writing/RP brain fizzled out, but my love for this game did not, and that's because of everyone involved. I played a good number of characters here. All of them went home, but please if you had close CR, go rescue them!

Some of my favorite memories... how to list them when they're so many!

For Emily it's her CR with Maketh, Glacius, and Carlisle as far as crosscanon CR. Em and Maketh arrived in Hadriel on the same day and became close after Maketh punched Emily in the gut :) Glacius defended Emily during the assassins event when no one else would've stood up for her, which really helped her start to change for the better. Carlisle taught her how to sew and how to glyphcraft, but he quickly became more than that. One of my top favorite threads is the one where she confesses how guilty she feels about the prank, and he acts like a counselor to her until she shuts that down because emotions are bad. BUT no she loved them. Maketh was her soldier mom. Glacius was her source of joy during Loud Valley (Lifesize Glacius Plushie!). Carlisle was her teacher and confidant. Her CR with her castmates was also excellent. She got to work through her mistakes and start to heal those relationships. It was fun. I can't say enough good things about all of her CR.

IDK I mean, I could say more about the other characters I played, but it's all basically "here read all the threads in their thread trackers, I love it all." That's how much fun I had in Hadriel.

Playing Rage and Confusion was so good. Being on the other side of NPC posts was a great experience. Challenging, fun, and rewarding. I can't thank Rae and Manda enough for letting me in on that, and for letting me scream with them about Delight's betrayal a few months before it happened. PCs' CR with the NPCs hurt me so good, and I'm deeply grateful I got to do threads with Rage and Atem.

THANK YOU, HADRIEL! Thank you everyone. I'll treasure these memories always.

And now, to hit up some toplevels. :>

[dedikated]

I don't know where to start. You've genuinely become one of my closest friends over these last three years, I don't even remember the last day we didn't at least exchange stupid memes. As much as we joke about being twins, I do genuinely think you've become a permanent part of my heart. I love and adore you. <3

BUT NOW FOR THE RP. I've told you a million times and I will tell you a million more that your picking up Faith was one of the single highest points in RP for me because it was so much more than I ever expected to get playing a dumbass OC that I made in 2010 (Jesus Christ...). Everything we did with them was wonderful, and Lali Hoes will be my one of my favourite in jokes until I die. You're such a wizard at picking up characters' traits and fleshing them out, making them amazing, breathing people.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that I probably wouldn't have loved Emily as much as I did on watching / playing UD had I not had the chance to know you and see how you interpreted her. I told Ami this already but I do genuinely forget that Em and Chris' relationship isn't nearly as nuanced and great in canon because you two have become my one true interpretations of the characters.

Dee | Jo Harvelle

[knifecollecting]

HEY, SO I ONLY EVER PLAYED JO. (And someone on a test drive)

Shit, I was thinking I joined in 2017 but NO, JULY 2016. Dang y'all. I've never stayed in a game so long and it's definitely because everyone is so amazing and I always had a blast even if sometimes I was bad at staying on track.

I did not keep track of the nearly three years of CR Jo had here, but I promise I treasured every thread. I never anticipated some of the CR that happened and it was all amazing. Jo accepting magic users as not evil and even accepting that superheroes are a real thing was unexpected and amazing.

I hope I can stay in touch with y'all on plurk (floodplain) and maybe we can play somewhere else someday! Everyone is so amazing and talented and doing good things (even if you don't feel like it). If I start listing people I'll worry about leaving someone out and honestly, no one deserves that! The mod team is stellar and every player has been.

Jo will be going to whatever planet her teenage roommates decide on, and doing something? She has no idea. She'll figure it out.

I PROMISE I'M GOING TO TAG THE ENDGAME THINGS SOON. This has been ... a month.

[dedikated]

DEE DEE.

You are such a kind, warm-hearted person, and getting to be friends with you is like having that one lovely warm beam of sunshine coming through your window and making you all cosy and joyful. Thank you for always being there with a hug and kind words whatever's going on, it really does help.

As with Grimme, I already spoke on plurk about what I love about the relationship between Kate and Jo, but one thing I forgot to mention is that I love how it evolved. When they first interacted it was kind of due to dating (or almost dating) canonmates but then the city moved on and the canonmates left and Jo was always there. I love that it just developed into this battle sisters, badass chicks who always had an understanding thing and that Jo always has Kate's back. Which is good, because Kate is stupid and needs people to save her from herself.

Thank you for everything, and you're definitely stuck with me for a long time now!

Manda

[lingeringhope]

Adam Parrish | unknowable
Dorian Pavus | sparkler
Josh | pighead
Rhy | anoshe
Hope | lingeringhope
Tranquility | fifthreturned
Love | lastreturned
Confusion (last 6 months) | fourthreturned

Wow, that's a lot. Also I have to be totally honest here, I was like 'hmm, who did in play in Hadriel?' and went back to look at my threads, upon which I got distracted by reading EVERY TERRIBLE SHITPOST THREAD JOSH EVER DID. What a fuckboy. I wish I had been able to keep him around a bit longer, my memories of him are entirely hilarious shitpost network threads and messed-up angst-filled log threads. I love it. The Until Dawn cast was SO fun and I will always remember that time people turned into wendigos. Classic.

Dorian and Rhy were both characters that I wish I'd been able to play longer, because they both had wonderful castmates and I had a lot of fun with them. But between modding and everything else, I had a hard time sustaining a second character - still, I really appreciate everyone who threaded with me and I had so much fun playing them.

Adam was around for almost the whole game, though Rae and I both decided it was time to send the Raven Cycle boys home a few months ago. It was really valuable having a player character in the game, getting to see things from the ground level, and the CR he had over the years was some of my favorite of all time. I tend to play one character for a very long time, and Adam was that one for the duration of Hadriel. Thanks to everyone for playing with all of my characters, and they have all returned home to have happy endings (more or less), except Josh who is, uh, dead or a wendigo. Sorry bro.

I also LOVED seeing the NPCs I played shift their opinions and thoughts about everyone in Hadriel. Every single person who slowly warmed to Hope, realizing how hard he tried for them despite the fact he didn't ask for this (Fear activated the Door! HOPE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR NOTHING, HIS LIFE IS EXTREMELY HARD) and was kind of a bitch about it. I loved the careful sort-of friendships he built with people like Alphys and Kate. Other NPC high points: people convincing Tranquility to give Hadriel the gift of weed. Everyone hating Love THE MOST even though Love never did anything to earn it, thus proving all of Hadriel needs therapy. Tranquility's totally underwhelming response to everything that happened ever.

They were super fun to play, and I loved getting to interact with everyone's characters. Thank you so much for all the threads. ♥♥♥ I legit teared up at work today when this got posted because it's so final and I will miss this game and everyone in it. You all really mean a lot to me.

[dedikated]

Gonna echo some of what I said to Rae here — thank you for being such an awesome, approachable mod and always being on board to let me bounce off all my half-baked ideas, stupid jokes and all the rest of it. Being able to participate in this game for so long was an honour and I know I wouldn't have stuck around through to the end if I'd felt the mods were hard to talk to. You have both done so much to make this an amazing experience and I don't think I will ever have enough words to properly express that.

Again, we didn't get much PC-PC interaction, but god there were so many good threads to read from your boys that I was spoiled anyway. Josh was always an absurd delight during his stay, or heartbreakingly vulnerable, but that's just a sign that you were playing him wonderfully. As I've already said, it's thanks to everyone who was in the Until Dawn cast at this game that I even knew the game existed, never mind played it. And I'm so glad I did. Each of you did a wonderful job building upon the canon and creating this amazing group of friends, and I'm so glad I could be a part of that even for a few months. And that couldn't have happened without your Josh being part of what inspired me to play the game.

I can't quite say the same for Rhy, if only because I picked up the series without actually... realising it was the series he was from. But, if I ever get out of the pile of books I haven't read and re-read SOM, I might just... re-attempt Kell.

So, now onto the NPCs! And again, I'mma lift from what I said to Rae and say that these NPCs have been amazing to watch and you guys never made them feel like they were just there to provide information or be antagonists. They developed and really lived and I was (and still am!) so invested in their outcomes. I absolutely adored each of them and I'll just give a special shoutout to Love, because unfortunately all my characters who would like them didn't stick around long enough. Matt and Serah support you, Love, I promise!!

Hope... God I have so many feelings about Hope and I have spent so much time with my head in my hands during a tag like I'M SO SORRY YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH MY FEELINGS VOMIT. But he ended up such amazingly important CR to Kate and I honestly never expected to have CR with NPCs to that sort of level. But the emotion has always been such a fraught thing for her and to have that development from "I hate him on the very principle that he's fucking with an emotion that already hurts me so much" to "Oh shit this dumbass reminds me of myself" (which he really, really does at times) was just. So very important and good and I hope it didn't bother you too much to be stuck with me in his inbox leaving novels lmao.

Liz - Bianca

[wormintheglass]

HI EVERYONE. I kinda sorta had a stroke just after getting reaccepted and consequently haven't been very involved at all.

that said, Bianca is staying, provided she can get her time machine back, so hopefully we can do things in the post-endgame city.

I STILL LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR

[dedikated]

LIIIIIIIIIIIZ.

You and Bianca are very important to me because it's all your fault I got involved in Silent Hill and I honestly wouldn't have had it any other way. When you could manage to keep up with her antics in game, it was always a delight, your writing and her personality have such a unique colour to them and I could never tire of reading your threads. You craft such fantastic things with your words. I just. Yes. You're great, never stop being great.

It's like 2am please explain why I'm still awake. This is such a loopy comment I'm sorry.

Ashen

[feelslikeimspilling]

I've quite the list of characters I've played over the years! Some stuck, some didn't but I enjoyed playing them all here!

Tiny Tina | Borderlands burn_all_the_babies
Will Graham | Hannibal feelslikeimspilling
Eleven | Strange Things theflea
Eleanor Lamb | Bioshock sister_bubbles
Floki | Vikings boats_n_hoes
Geralt of Rivia | The Witcher thanks_bunches
Lady Maria of The Astral Clocktower | Bloodborne unfortunateimmortale

I'm so sad that Hadrial has finally come to an end ;~; but I'm so happy I got to be a part of it! A bit gutted that I missed a lot towards the end due to RL but I have so many awesome memories from this place that it's going to leave a huge gap!

Tiny Tina was the first character I apped here and I had a blast with her! pun intended! I attempted to bring her back at the end but was unfortunately unable to do much with her at all. Still, I have wonderful memories from her first time around! From hanging out with a spooky skellibro! To making bombs for her adoptive uncle Junkrat! I think Tina is just going to go home. It makes no difference to her where she stays but she'd feel the vault hunters would need her expertise back on Pandora.

Will Graham Wow, what can I say about Will? I've played him for the longest time here, almost 3 years! He's been through a lot and I couldn't have asked for better CR than I got with him! Honestly, thank you all for letting me play this weird creepy dude in your lovely game and thank you for humouring me with him for all this time. He had some of the best positive and negative CR I've ever had in a game, from making enemies with Makath and spreading hate about the Gods, to making friends and lovers with some of the most unexpected people! (Jill, Pell, Rosie, Tinya, I'm looking at you lot!) I think Will is going to be torn about where to go. He'll be drawn back to his life back home but would also be curious about going to maybe Jill or Tinya's world too?

Eleven Man, I had such an awesome time playing Eleven here! At first, I was worried that to wouldn't be able to develop her as much as I did but thanks to Wash, George and Margaery I was able to pull her out of her shell a bit and really have her start to bloom here! Some of my fave memories with her were times she spent playing family with Wash! She really got to experience what life could be like and she truly loved that man! I also am really fond of the time she had a dress made for her by Margaery! She felt so pretty and girly it was wonderful! Unfortunately, I dropped Eleven before endgame but I'm sure if she'd been there, it would have been some Matrix badassery from her end lol.

Eleanor Lamb I didn't keep Eleanor in the game for long but I really enjoyed the few things I did do with her. She was very interested in Rey when she met her! And having two castmates was such fun while it lasted. I do regret not trying harder with her but I'm sure I could play her again sometime.

Floki This was one of my most favourite characters to play here! From his passionate anger towards the fake Gods and his strange ways rubbing people up the wrong way. Some of my best memories with Floki, were definitely with Caedra, Law, and Curfurin! He was able to find someone to worship, someone to act as his leader and someone to bond like brothers with. It was all awesome and thank you for that! <3 Floki too went home before endgame but I can honestly say he would have probably died in the battle lol He would have given his all to fight off the Null though!

Geralt of Rivia I wish I hadn't dropped Geralt, I really do Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower I have to say I'm so happy I was able to app one of my fave characters from one of my fave games! She was only here for a short time but she really started to develop as a person! I had some wonderful CR with Sanas Stark which I wasn't expecting and am so happy that I got to play! She also had some cool times trying to get to know the Gods or Great Ones as she called them.

I'm sad this game has come to an end but I'm so happy I got to meet you all! I really hope I get to keep RPing with some of you and look forward to what my DWRP future holds after Hadrial <3

[lingeringhope]

Thank you for staying with us so long and for trying out so many cool and different characters! It's always been great to see your characters around, and it's really neat how willing you were to try out different stuff, tag around, and plot things. I hope you had a lot of fun in our game and that your DWRP future is bright!

Ryo | Peter Parker

[itsnotaonesie]

I'm actually kind of terrible at this kind of thing because EMOTIONS so I'm just gonna wing it. I've had Peter here for almost a year, I was brand new to playing him and I was all oh God I have no idea what I'm doing. I wasn't really expecting to get him as involved as he ended up becoming, but holy shit you guys have made his stay here so much fun. I've met so many excellent people and made so much fabulous CR. Just so much CR. He's going to miss his collection of space uncles and girls who are way cooler than him and his lovely little roommate family. HUGE THANKS to all of you and our delightful mods for making me feel so welcome here, my only regret is not joining sooner ;A;

As for his epilogue, Peter still thinks he's super dead back in his world so he's going to probably try tagging along with someone else to theirs. His story isn't done yet though so his goofy butt is getting crau'd to Redshift because he can't have nice things.

Stay fabulous my dudes

[hot_mes]

I honestly wish I'd had more time to develop things more with Peter. Watching his threads with others, I loved everything you did with him, he was always such a good. He gets a manly head-nod in farewell from Law.

Sydney

[theweakhavepurpose]

notjustinthemirror | The Alcohol Demon
bring_the_beatdown | BLU Scout
theweakhavepurpose | Deputy Staci Pratt

Jeez everyone else has covered what I was going to say so well but man, having been here at the very beginning to being right here at the end has been an amazing ride. I'm so happy for all the CR I got with all my characters.

Everyone has interacted with them in ways I couldn't ever expect, from Noah deciding that the Alcohol Demon was gonna be his friend and making him feel feelings, to Nick Valentine robo-dadding Scout to everyone who kept Pratt from spiraling into a breakdown.

Pratt was only here for a year but I feel like I got three years of character development out of him just because of how awesome all of you guys are.

The Alcohol Demon went back to Metro to torment Ethan, but with more of an understanding of how people work and maybe, just maybe a tiny shred of empathy. He isn't sorry about attacking Ronan, but he does feel marginally bad about chucking crowbars at Chainsaw - and if that isn't character development I don't know what is. His only regret is not having a huge fuckoff boss battle with Nick Rivenna where they set all of Hadriel on fire and kicked the shit out of each other.

Scout is back at base reading comic books and being hella annoying to everyone. That was a weird dream right? Right.

Deputy Pratt will be taking Tinya's offer to go to the future and live in what used to be Montana as a park ranger where he can have a little cabin and a bunch of dogs and not have to fight or worry about Jacob ever again. He'll be trapped in Redshift for a while because I'm not done playing him, but the eventuality will be him having a happy ending, even though he died in the NULL attack here.

I think if any of my characters deserve nice things after what they've been thru, it's definitely Pratt.

Thank you so much for tagging my weird obscure characters and being amazing. I love everyone in this murdercave.

[aroundthecoroner]

I never got the chance to meet your other two, but Pratt has been an absolute delight. I feel so lucky to have had great CR with him with not one, but two of my characters.

Favorite moments are probably that talk Pratt and Charles had about being able to cope with/move on from trauma, and god I can't even choose with Michael but maybe it's the Visitor cuddle thread LMAO. That was so good. All of it was good.

And god I'm so glad you gave Pratt a happy ending because I was gonna cry.

Thank you friend, for all the wonderful threads! I'm glad we get to still rp together, even if I'm a mod now.

Leu | Michael Munroe, Charles Yvry, and formerly James Tucker

[aroundthecoroner]

I know I sort of disappeared around endgame, but a big triple-threat of factors (a serious illness, working on another game, being busy irl) kinda took me out of it, and it was just too hard to get back in.

That said, I have a lot to thank this game for. I had left dwrp for a while following the closing of Overjoyed and my dropping of Snowblind, and I wasn't sure I was coming back. Hadriel got me interested in this hobby again and gave me a great game to call "home". It's been the most welcoming, chill, and friendly group of mods and players I've ever been in. If I'm being honest, the atmosphere of Hadriel is what I aspire to as the co-mod of my own game.

Further, this game gave me a great place to play out the storylines of some of my OCs. Having been in some less-than-great games for OCs, I was nervous, but Hadriel took to Michael like they did any other character. I felt extremely welcome and even like I made some sort of mark on the game as a whole. I hope that's true, since the game certainly made an impression on me.

Maybe the real reason I wasn't around for endgame is because it makes me too sad to let this game go. I've been here, gosh, almost two years now, and I'm really, really going to miss it. But if it helps, I will look back fondly on it. This was, above all else, a really great game. Thank you to Rae and Manda for creating and curating this wonderful world, and thank you to all my fellow players for making me feel so included and loved and for giving me all that good, good CR. I'll miss you all, and I hope our paths cross again soon.

But okay, enough of the sappy stuff before I start crying, onto the epilogues!

James Tucker went home a while ago, but just for the record, he's fine back in his modern d&d world, running a freelance adventuring guild with his buds Harlan and Kyna. I'm ignoring the AU where Kyna ends up in my own game (lol) and saying that she and Wash came home together too. They're all doing great when they're not sucking at their jobs.

Charles Yvry went back to his own world with a slightly different perspective on how to manage things. I don't think he got enough time in Hadriel to really sway him one way or the other from his "canon" storyline, but knowing there are other, better (and worse) worlds out there really does a number on how you think about your own problems. I think he'll try to be more benevolent, even if his world is a shitshow.

Michael Munroe did not go home, he went to live with his bf Harlan Halliday in d&d world. They eventually get married and adopt three kids and have a really great life together because fuck it I want my happy ending. And thanks to his development in Hadriel, he finally learns how to control the Visitor. Eventually. Look, it's a process. I'm honestly really proud of the way his story went in Hadriel because it could've ended up so much worse, but his CR here pulled him back from winding up a crazy possessed serial killer. So thanks for that.

Once again I'm really going to miss you guys and this game and all the threads I had here, but if I keep going I'm gonna get all misty-eyed so let's end it here.

Goodbye, Hadriel. From the bottom of my heart, it's been wonderful.

[lingeringhope]

Our OCs have been so incredible - Hadriel as a game has been so lucky in that sense. I always loved seeing Michael and James and Charles around, I loved how open you were to plotting and all the cool stuff you came up with. Also I'm really happy to hear that you liked the atmosphere, and that it inspired you. From the beginning, Rae and I wanted to make a super chill game where people could be creative, and overall I feel like it really worked out. We had such a great group of players! Thank you so much for hanging out with us for so long, and good luck with everything!

Alex | Nathan "Death Wish" Drake + Maeve Millay

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madambutterfly

Hadriel was the first game I joined after an eight-year stint at my previous one, thereby making it the second game I've ever played in on DreamWidth (contain your shock). I know this sounds absolutely buck-wild insane, but it's true. I was really nervous about coming here. I'd never played in another game and the only line of contact I had was Kai, who assured me it was super rad and that I could bring an idiot who sometimes knew what he was doing, and I anxiously applied.

I am so, so glad that I did.

In spite of my fears this place has been nothing but warm and welcoming from the get-go, with amazingly communicative and open mods, who answered all of my really annoying, nitpicky questions about very specific details, and phenomenal players who have become truly awesome, close friends. I'm sad this game is ending because I've loved being able to engage with it so much, but as a narrative I think it's run its course in an admirable, succinct, and ultimately satisfying way.

Maeve had a brief but really wonderful run here, and I think external factors were the cause of me not being able to maintain two folks at once, but I still absolutely love the characters she got to interact with and the very strange, different relationships she was able to develop in those months. We'll say she went back to Westworld, if only to fuck everybody up.

Nate, on the other hand, has undergone some positively mindblowing development in this game that I never expected to get with him, nor did I set out to get it in the first place. I just wanted a place to throw this Rowdy, Dirty Boy, and Hadriel delivered. Nate has spent a lot of time exploring crazy, ancient places on his own, but having him here threw him wildly out of his comfort zone and forced him to socialize in outrageous scenarios and meet equally outrageous people. Some of his closest CR was with the Taaco twins, Lance Sweets, Staci Pratt and Nick Valentine. He made respected acquaintances in Agent Maine, Agent Washington, Kyna Midha and Poe Dameron. He made so many friends, so please trust me when I say that's not an easy feat for him.

By completely random happenstance I decided to ask the mods what Nate would find if he went diving in the creepy lake because he was desperately bored, and in turn they rewarded us with some meta-plot and backstory that wasn't elucidated on before, which became this rabbit hole of stuff to explore. I feel humbled and honored that Nate got to do what he's good at: exploring strange places, finding critically important things in very on-brand ways, and learning to navigate within group environments.

Nate went from being skeptical about everyone in the room while managing a hiding space for a small, rogue robot, to organizing large expeditions of his own accord, reaching out to people and engaging them proactively, altruistically. Up until this point, Nate's canonical adventures were generally pet projects that he satisfied with one or two other people, if he brought other people along at all. I'm so grateful that Nate got to make close friends he could share his trust and past with - a difficult thing - and became something of a leader in his own right, someone that people actively looked to with questions even if he couldn't always answer them. It was a really beautiful arc to play, and I am mad proud of this lad.

He'll go home, and wrap up the pirate adventure with his wife, his brother, and his best friend. He and Elena will buy the salvage company Nate worked at and turn it into a new organization, D&F Fortunes, and travel the world pulling up treasures from beneath the ocean as marine archaeologists. They'll have a little girl, named after Nate's mother. They'll be just fine.

Thank you all so much for this game experience and for the friendships I've made! Please don't be shy about keeping in touch on plurk, where you can find me at uncalendula.

Sic parvis magna! ❤

[pocketspa]

HEY! YOU! HEY YOU RIGHT THERE MOTHERFUCKER

Before Hadriel, I knew you but I was like... fucking intimidated by you? We met in Eway even back when I was playing there my FIRST go around when Evie was newer, but it was really this game that I feel like I got to finally become your friend. Nate and Taako is literally tip top on my favorite CR for this game and if you think they're not gonna kick down the dimensional door and go harass their niece because they've dubbed themselves officially related. Taako will call himself Nate's ex. They're gonna teach her magic and not tell Nate until she's using mage hand to steal cookies. Don't even test him.

Seriously though I could never have imagined their CR would build to such an incredible place, and thank you thank you THANK YOU for the amazing times we've had. I'm gonna remember these dumb boys forever and I have you to thank <3

pudding | rosie-dear

[hasitsthorns]

Hoooooo boy! I have so many thoughts and feelings right now. I actually had to sleep on this top level because it just made me too emotional to type when this first went up.

So, first of all, when I apped here I did not anticipate lasting for NEARLY THREE YEARS. I guess when I commit to a game, I really commit. But I definitely think the amazing worldbuilding, NPCs, and overall atmosphere of the game and its amazing playerbase really contributed to that. You guys are awesome and definitely a large part of what a blast I've had!

I was honestly a little nervous about a CRAU character - especially one so broken and sad from her previous game experiences - and it was definitely a much better run than previous tries. I got to explore some really, really amazing things that I haven't before. Even in fifteen years of playing Rosie, Hadriel still brought some new things to the table as far as her development & experiences and I will always cherish that!

Also, Hadriel allowed me to have such silly classic hits as the shipping chart. She called Hope & Sorrow end game OTP from a mile away, you're welcome. And, of course, which god would you bang quizlet. Because, honestly, who doesn't want to wrap themselves up in a sexy glowcloud now and again? And lastly, protect the weed 2k17 and on!

This iteration of Rosie is nearly five years old at this point and, honestly? I think this will be an amazing note to retire her for good on. So thank you for giving me such an amazing time with her and closing out her story in such a great way. She's gonna be staying in Hadriel for the rest of her days, growing the devil's lettuce and flowers and harassing Sorrow for as long as she lives. Which is, like, 700 years give or take so hopefully that's only SLIGHTLY long for glowcloud time.

[sciencelizard]

HEY!!! YOU!!! AAAAAA

Seriously, I don't even know what to say about Alphys and Rosie, about the absolute difference she's made on her life. Rosie is one of those people that finally broke through to her and made her really want to believe in something, and it's everything she needed during her time here. Truly I cannot even speak the right words, I love you, I love her, EVERYTHING IS SO MUCH

Shade | Ivar, Leo, and Ushahin

[ragnarsson]

This is such a bittersweet feeling for me. Hadriel was the first game I apped back into after a long hiatus was taken from DWRP in general, so it holds such a special place in my heart. I can't think of any specific moments right now aside from loving every interaction with the NPCs, but you all have been such a sweet and fun playerbase, and I couldn't have asked for a better time in a game. It really felt like home, which is why I couldn't stay away forever, and brought more characters in.

Leo's going home because now that he's been brought back to life with an actual body, his siblings need him to help protect their city from the other monsters. After two horror games, he can pretty much handle anything else his world wants to throw at him. Thanks to his character development here, he's a lot less arrogant and actually has sort of learned to care about some of humanity beyond seeing them as food, so he'll be remembering his time here.

Ivar's intent is going to be to go home because he has a ton of unfinished business (read: there's still a final season of the show that's yet to air)...but I plan on CRAUing him somewhere, which he will NOT be happy about. His time in the city hasn't done much for tamping down that psychotic personality, but he made some actual friends, and learned to mellow out just a little.

Ushahin was my first character here, so of course I HAD to give him a good ending. He is going to be staying in the city because he is old, tired, and has nothing to really go back to in his world. Now that everything has settled down, he'll just spend his days filtering people's thoughts out as best he can while tending to things like the plants and giving everyone good dreams when feeling particularly happy. Fetch the psychic raven will be staying with him and demanding food from everyone he meets.

[pocketspa]

I'm SO glad for all the fun CR we had with all three of your boys. Truly it was incredible to meet you and I love all the dumb shit we did, thank you so much for all of our amazing threads!!!

Mey l Lup

[restinglichface]

It's so hard to put into words just how much all of you and this game has come to mean to me.

Hadriel was the first jump back into rp games after a couple year hiatus. I was in a game back in like 2010 for nearly five years and after that, I just really couldn't find another game that ever held my interest like it had. I dipped my toes in here and there, then decided dw wasn't my thing since I couldn't get into any of the settings.

But then I found Hadriel after my hiatus and holy hell, it was exactly what I had been missing from other past games. Being able to bring in a character like Lup and see her make these beautiful friendships and grow has meant something to me personally, above all of the amazing fun I've had writing with you all. I feel like my confidence in rp has been fully restored and that's mostly in thanks to the warm welcome I was given and to the friendships I've made. Without Hadriel, I would have disappeared from dw again for at least a few more years, but because of this game I've made some of the best lifelong friends I've ever had.

GOD trying to think of good memories is so hard when I'm certain there at least a hundred or so. Some favs are:

shark dick
taako and lup blowing up a toaster
sniping krav at lethal paintball
worst date ever ft gren and wade
taako dreams of killing lup
literally everything that happened during the first null invasion
SMASH OR PASS!!
baby lup and barry

Okay I could 500% just go on but let me cut myself off there.

Let me give some cr shoutouts! Lup's most important cr: Drake, Ephemera, Nate, Elena, Gren, Kate, Alphys, Ellie, Laura, Glacius, Dany, Poe, Finn, and Kyna. I also have been gifted with some amazing castmates!! Alex with Taako, Mar with Barry, Buttercup with Lucretia, Molly with Angus, Dani with Merle!! My GOOD BABES. Thank you all for writing with me, for plotting with me, for letting me bounce dumbass ideas off of you. I'm so grateful for these beautiful friendships and connections I've made here. Thank you thank you thank you!!

Lup wants desperately to go home, but she is going to be crau'd somewhere (still figuring out where) and end up off on her next adventure with her family tagging along. She will be keeping her memories, so if anyone wants to have a Hadriel playdate, she'd def be up for that kind of fun! (And Peanut is coming with them, in case you needed to know.)

Thanks again to all of you, mods and players alike! Please keep in touch!

[murderpotato]

hello yes i love lup and i love the weird, great relationship that she and Gren had

10/10 would have gross monster man get high and set shit on fire with skeleton wizard lady

kai ; inquisitor cecily trevelyan ; daenerys targaryen

[closerift]

woowwww, where to. even begin.

i'm not great at writing out my Feelings on things like this, so it'll probably be more brief than suits my time here, but i'll do my best.

i apped here in the first round when the game was brand new. i was also in another game, one i'd been in for years, so jumping into a game SO new and unfamiliar was definitely daunting. it seemed like a great concept, though, and a good fit for my basically-an-oc dragon age character.

when i apped, i had a handful of castmates, and they came and went over time. the same would be true for dany, who i apped something like a year and a half after cecily. i learned in that period more of the beauty of cross-canon cr, met some of the sweetest, most talented writers, and got to play in a game run by the best dwrp mod team. every new event or interaction was a treasure, and i've gotten so much joy and angst out of my threads over these past years.

i'll always remember my time in hadriel with the greatest of fondness, and the bittersweet feeling that i'm not sure i'll ever find anything quite like it. thank you to each and every person who tagged me, and who replied to my tags. thanks to the people who gave the game a try when i enabled them and who made the game richer for it. thank you, of course, to the mods, who produced an incredible environment, an enormously compelling story, and an experience that had none of the trappings of a negative rp space. Everything you did - all that hard work - made a truly unique and beautiful experience for us, your players.

i hope everyone will tag either cecily or dany when i put up their final top levels, but the gist of their ends are:

cecily, having lived and died for hadriel, finally gets to rest...sort of. she's going back to thedas to work with the inquisition to stop a certain egg. so, not really rest, but she's quietly relieved that she'll get to see her friends and loved ones one more time. she might be bringing a stowaway from another world to add to their forces...

dany is not planning on going anywhere without jon, so the two of them will be traveling through the door and back to their world. even if they don't remember each other, they'll be able to find their way to a happy ending for the seven kingdoms and for themselves, which wILL DEFINITELY HAPPEN NO MATTER WHAT A CERTAIN SHOW SAYS OR DOES

tl;dr thank you to everyone for everything, and though i can't even begin to start listing favorite moments, just know that there's a high chance you were involved with at least one of them ♥

Re: kai ; inquisitor cecily trevelyan ; daenerys targaryen

[soldier_blade]

We didn't get to thread as much as I would've liked, between timezones and work and RL in general. Most of our threads with Sonya and Dany had to be handwaved to move along.

That being said, I'm glad I got to play with you when we did. Even if we didn't tag as much as I'm sure we would've liked, it was still fun interacting with Dany, especially the chances for her to take a look at more modern and mundane parts of Sonya's life.

Buttercup | Lucretia

[madamdirector]

I wasn't able to be part of the game for very long, having just apped in this January, but I've enjoyed every minute of my time here. I want to thank everyone for making me feel welcome and providing such great opportunities for Lucretia to build CR and get involved in the plot! Special shout out to my fantastic cast for all the pain and angst.

Post-game, Lucretia believes she'll be going home to wrap up her story in canon. In actuality, she'll be CRAUing with her cast into another game this summer. She's had some great development here in Hadriel and I can't wait to see what comes next for her.

Thanks, everyone! I'll be posting a toplevel on the Aftermath post if anyone would like one last thread.

[restinglichface]

im not crying youre crying

thanks for being the best lucretia of my life i adore you and i cant wait to see where our next game takes us!!!

alex | alphys & taako | this is so long im so sorry

[sciencelizard]

Okay it full ass took me like two days to stop crying and try and get my ASS together on this, so, HERE FUCKING GOES I GUESS

So I apped Alphys here in October of 2017 on the game's one year anniversary. I had just gotten back into RP about 6 months previous after a LONG hiatus, and the only game I was playing in before this was one where I knew the mods and most of the playerbase. It was a very safe space, and I followed a canonmate there to be a canonmate here just to... try. Back in the day, city jamjars were my, well, jam (I modded at Discedo forever ago) and I was really hoping to recapture some of that magic.

What I got was... so much better than I could have imagined. There was plot I could pick apart to study, there was reveals that made me CRY (LOOKING AT YOU, DELIGHT AND END OF ARC 2), and I don't even think I can get into what this whole thing means to me. I brought in Taako almost a year later, going way out of my usual character comfort zone, and ya'll welcomed me in that too. With both of them I've had some of the most amazing cast I can think of, and the most incredible CR I never could have dreamed. Seriously, I don't think I can put into words how happy I am. There was a certain point last year, where I just realized like... damn, I'm sticking with this until they fucking kick me out. I'll leave when they fuckin MAKE me leave. And now they are so im ;A; WEH

I wanna go by character to shoutout some amazing shit, so starting with Alphys:

-the great prank war of 2k16
- theshipping chart because it was fucking golden
- Alphys' network post after Sans left because it was so FUCKING heartwarming to me that people cared about this little lizard
- tfw Sorrow just SHOWED THE FUCK UP and gave her a FUCKIN HEART ATTACK because he thought she was a SPY
- getting to see the sun for the first time
-her first chat with [Name] and everything this fucking robot became and represented and CAN I LINK EVERY [NAME] THREAD, FUCK
- every stupid exchange with newt ever i literally just lobbed one at random because this one still leaves me reeling
- and i'd be BEREFT not to mention GETTING A KEYBLADE AND BECOMING A MAGICAL GIRL LIKE FUCK

im sorry this post is already so long but i knew this was going to happen BECAUSE TAAKO HAS SIX BILLION GOLDEN THREADS:

- THE ENTIRE GHOST THAT WE KNOW EVENT FOR RUINING MY LIFE FOR YEARS NOW
- theres only 2 threads on this tl but they are the first threads with lup and nathan drake and they are. flawless. perfect. im fucking
- just every fucking network post they've ever made but magic fights and smash or pass CANNOT be ignored
- taako walking in on dream nate and elena having sex and elena decking him in the face
- BABY ELVES BABY ELVES BABY ELVES
- the sappiest love confession i've ever gotten to write that i cherish
- this absolute trainwreck of a thread that ruined my life
- CAN I SAY EVERYTHING WITH MY CASTMATES IS THAT CHEATING, FUCK

seriously im gonna be shot if this continues but. shoutout to Nate, Elena, Cecily, Rey, Rosie, Newt, Kate, Rhy, Wash, Nick, Mariane, Gren, Aqua, George, Tinya, ALL MY FUCKING CASTMATES EVERY SINGLE ONE IVE EVER HAD, OKAY, but especially my current squad for just... being there, always. I've literally never been around for an endgame of a game before but this one's gonna stay in my heart for a long, long time.

FINALLY: ENDGAME PLANS. Taako is going straight home, until I CRAU him somewhere else and he throws a fit, but he will also be trying to convince his close CR to come with him. If you're friends, he wants you to come party it up in his world where he's rich and famous and can have magic. It's all good, y/y, come break shit with him because he's about to olly off this fuckin plane!!!

Alphys was a really hard decision because she's even been ICly waffling for a long time, but I finally decided she's going home too. I was struggling on what her "good end" was, because I think she deserved this happiness and growth she got, and I finally realized it wasn't about avoiding her problems. She's going to go home, free all of her friends from the Underground, and then whoever wants to come with her can come with her to Hadriel again and then... somewhere else. Who knows where, by then. Just somewhere, with her friends by her side, returning to a place she didn't think she'd ever want to go to with her head held high and a purpose in the world. It makes me cry, frankly.

ANYWAY... THANKS TO EVERYONE... Seriously ya'll have been incredible, I cherish everything I've done, I'm going to miss so fucking many of you it makes me die. And if for SOME REASON you've read this long....... I made a playlist for hadriel alphys and her journey here, if anyone else cares about stuff like this :V

I LOVE YOU ALL, SERIOUSLY, THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES I HOPE I SEE YOU ALL AGAIN IN THE RPVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[restinglichface]

my TWIN

of course I don't have to scream here when we are still in a game and planning to app into another together BUT LOOK I JUST LOVE YOU AND i want the whole world to know how amazing you are! Thank you for being so welcoming when I first came into the game and for just immediately dragging me straight into hell where I've never left (and never want to). We are the Ultimate Lup and Taako duo and no one can convince me otherwise.

Can't wait for a hundred years of being friends and rping together to come. <3