I'm pretty disheartened by my niche roleplay interests...

I don't mean to suggest I think I'm some masterful writer that brings something fresh and new to anyone they come across. In all honesty I cringe at most of my writing, and always feel as if I am the less skilled one of the pair between myself and any roleplay partner I've had. But I do find myself to be more a little more original than your average roleplayer. I care deeply about writing a compelling character.

I don't really know exactly to describe how I feel. I feel like no one seems willing to want to create something completely original (meaning not related to any existing IP) outside of the easily recognizable medieval fantasy genre. Like I get it, it's a comfortable genre, massively popular, there are many IPs to draw inspiration from, but holy fuck, I've been doing it since I was like 12. I've seen it enough.

Not only that, many of the characters that I read about in DMs are the most generic, cookie-cutter lines of text I've ever read. I don't care about an orphan thief that raised themselves on the streets, who has a tough exterior with a sensitive side that hides a tragic past. It's been done a million times over. I also don't care about overly extensive world-building, that makes me feel as if I've just booted up the newest popular MMO. I don't want a cosmic struggle, just something personable, relatable.

I don't know if my advertisements just give a very generic feeling to them, but I once received DMs that described that very same character from four different people in one day. When that happened, I just tossed my phone on my bed and said I wouldn't think about roleplay for a long while.

Now, as I'm coming back to it, and wanting to do new things, I find that my interests have very little presence the RP community, at least the ones on reddit.

"Oh, a Victorian setting with horror elements? I love Bloodborne." That's great, but Bloodborne is not what I had in mind.

"Sci-fi? Like Star Wars, or Cyberpunk?" Like... anything in between that, something different.

"Western? I love Red Dead Redemption." Red Dead was great but it's not the tone I'm going for. It's not the only Western.

This is mostly a me problem, I know. It's probably that I'm bad at making ads for roleplay. I've always struggled with trying to convey the unique feeling I want out of a story, but it's like trying to describe an crazy dream to someone. It's like a cologne ad trying to convey how something smells through a sight and sound. Fuck, dude. Am I just stuck up?

I guess I mean to say I wish more people came to me with something they were passionate about, and just said fuck it lets try to write something different, without relying too much on any other idea of other movie, game or book we've seen.