The Roleplay Explained

If you are here to find out how to create a character, use the contents tab (underneath this on Desktop, on the right side of your screen for mobile) to skip to the section labeled **Donuts 101**.

## **History**

### Earth-47; **The Beginning**

Originally, the concept that would later become known as Donuts, was created by Morpheus and M. Stark/Zoro. Morpheus began to craft the idea of rewriting the Marvel Universe in such a way that roleplayers could actually grow the world around them without having to adhere to pre-established lore. This idea bore what became known as Earth-47. This roleplay consisted of some of the similar characters we have now in Donuts. These are Shay Daniels, Maria Stark, Tony Stark, and a few that haven't shown up yet, these beings Wanda Maximoff and Doctor Strange. This roleplay was well-received by the people involved and looked upon fondly in conversation. But while it was successful, the downfall of this roleplay came from an overfocus on writing things that did not pertain to the ongoing roleplay. This resulted in the server dissolving and a long lapse of time between Earth-47 and what would come later. While Morpheus stepped away, he never stopped creating and perfecting, at the time, Shay Daniels. However, unknowingly, he created the basis of what would become The Nevadaverse.

### The Nevadaverse; **Just Can't Get Enough**

When Morpheus presented the new Shay to both Zoro and his newfound friend, NeoFantasy, they both agreed that Shay deserved to be in his own universe as the written text was too expansive in order to be in normal roleplays. This conversation led to Morpheus and Zoro creating The Nevadaverse, a better version of Earth-47 but Morpheus still found himself thinking about the future and doing isolated stories that were not helping the overall server. However, Zoro, NeoFantasy, and Tay began to come in with characters that forced Morpheus to begin collaboration with everyone. While the roleplay was perfect, nothing was happening because of how it was structured. People who were a part of it believed that so much had happened that there weren't enough stories to be told in the roleplay, something Morpheus attempted to alleviate by creating smaller villains. However, this proved fatal because as Morpheus scrambled to fix one problem, another arose with people becoming inactive to the lack of overall progress.

The believed perfected server fell due to Morpheus' scrambling and server-wide inactivity. Though, the server still stood until an event occurred that changed the lives of almost everyone involved. Morpheus and Zoro were in a relationship and once this ended, Morpheus sadly deleted the Nevadaverse server, finding himself unable to go on without Zoro. Morpheus didn't only step away from Nevadaverse, he also stepped away from Shay Daniels and superhero roleplay as a whole. He focused on other projects with NeoFantasy and his newfound friends Tony and Steve. Many months went by and Morpheus began to think about bringing back Nevadaverse and began to finally sit down to work on Shay. However, this time, Morpheus had a plan as he had finally learned the importance of collaboration.

### Morpheus, Tony, Steve, & NeoFantasy Present: **Donuts**

Morpheus gathered all of his newfound friends and proposed the idea of a "more perfect Nevadaverse". As they all agreed, their work began. They began to rework all of their primary characters and gave new life to each of them. Ren and Shay became friends from high school, Ford met Shay and Ren during their high school time, and Captain America was introduced in Operation: Zero Tolerance. They were active and promoted collaboration above all else. As they created the server, more people began to come in through friends of friends and this is the current state of it all. This is Donuts, and while it seems like we have everything together, it's a work in progress. *chuckles*

## **Donuts 101**

### **So, What You Want To Be A Person**

To begin with creating a character, it is recommended that you send the link to the channel in the discord server "character-submissions". Even if you are doing this for a canon, it is imperative you still perform this action. Once the character has been reviewed, it will go through the process of being added to the wiki. Once it's up, you can begin roleplaying. However, if you are doing this for a canon, you will have some more work to do. In order to use a canon character, you will have to talk to an admin and see what you want to change about their history and what you want to keep, this is in order to make it original and keep it fresh and detached from the main Marvel Universe. Once this is done and you have come to a conclusion that works for both the admin and yourself, once it is added to the wiki, you will be able to use the character.

### **Deeper Than Submissions**

For OCs (Original Characters), there are certain rules to follow.

1. Your character has to make sense of the story and overall narrative of Donuts. We are pretty flexible but will have hard stances on certain things that are on a case-by-case basis.
2. Please do not make your character God, or God-adjacent. Keep it grounded. If they have the opportunity to become extremely strong down the line, then work towards that.
3. Make sure your character's stories are narratively satisfying, don't just say that they become powerful in one post, give it some feeling.
4. Lastly, don't worry about "Oh, but they have similar powers" or anything like that. **Do what you want**. Don't worry about other people.

### **Roleplay Confusion**

If you ever get lost or confused about what's happening in the rp (ie. you got skipped due to inactivity, or took some personal time), in the discord server, there is a category called "RP Details" which houses channels that have the currently ongoing event, the current era of the roleplay, and more importantly, RP cliff notes that are updated daily to give anybody who is lost a brief summary of what is happening in the rp as of that day. It also doubles as an archive. :)