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(NOTE:  I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this sort of thread, so if any staff members see that I've made a possible mistake, please feel free to move it to the correct area!)

The title means exactly what it says.  I've an original male character whose voice didn't break when puberty began, but otherwise has a normally functioning body, though with some attributes played around with because of him being meant for anime and manga based role-plays.

To give a bit of background, I was a boy soprano prior to my own voice break.  I could go almost an entire octave above C6, also known as the "High C."  My timbre was a soft, warm sound that was often described as "angelic."  I was soprano soloist several times between elementary school and middle school.  When puberty began, my voice gradually dropped from a very light tenor to the baritone that it is now. 

Despite, I hated singing in my new chest voice; thus, I chose to make use of my falsetto register to continue singing soprano as I did when a child.  My family, my choir teachers, and my fellow choristers didn't like what I was doing.  I often got into heated arguments with them all in regards to, and I was even threatened by my high school choir teacher to be given a failing grade and kicked out.  Needless to say, I didn't audition again, but my peers continued to basically make me out to be a homosexual eunuch.  I'm neither of those things, so when people directed those sort of comments at me, I got very angry. 

Post-adolescent, I'm now an untrained sopranist.  "Male soprano" in regards to me isn't an appropriate term because I produce the soprano range and tessitura with, again, my falsetto.  My current vocal range is F2-E6 (F - E'''), providing four octaves; however, I'm most comfortable singing only up to C6 and D6 on good days.

Given all the mockery, I finally decided one day several years ago to create a character based on the castrati, who were the sixteenth-twentieth century singers that basically were the equivalents to today's international superstars.  So, as aforementioned, the boy isn't a soprano castrato.  I can support my case with the example of Michael Maniaci, a modern opera singer whose voice only partially changed, then stopped for unknown reasons. 

The fifteen year old's Face Claim is either Mikoto Yutaka from Princess Princess or Tomoe Izumi from its single volume manga sequel.  There are two different face claims because it's a single character I've been trying to rework over and over again for the past three years due to the staff of the site where I originally made him scaring their dwindling member base away.  My predicaments are several, though.

When mention is made of my choice in Face Claim(s), members on past venues have typically called my and/or my character's sexuality into question, as well as make comments on shōnen-ai and/or yaoi because of Tōru Kōno and Yūjirō Shihōdani from the original manga and subsequent anime series.  Princess Princess isn't either of those genres, and it's actually rather silly when the mangaka Mikiyo Tsuda stated so herself in the former, but yet alleged fans don't bother to read or have, but ignore.

Another is that the operas which I've focused my attentions on aren't by the typical Bach, Beethoven, Händel, Haydn, Vivaldi, etc.  Instead, they're on works from the seventeenth century, Claudio Monteverdi not being the main focus despite being the most recognized name from the early Baroque period.  I'm rather a history buff and enjoy looking through highly obscure things.  My initial starting point began with composer Stefano Landi and his 1631 opera Il San'Alessio (Saint Alexius).  A series of subsequent operas on the lives of saints were later commissioned by the somewhat scandalous Barberini family of Rome; librettist for all was Giulio Rospigliosi, later to become Pope Clement IX.

I downloaded a report I found on Goggle a time back that analyzes those aforementioned "sacred operas" among some, which has proved a valuable resource for my character's concepts.  My others include reading through old or obscure books on Google for free about the history of castrati, especially ones from the time period I've focused on.  What opera scores I can download for free from The International Music Score Library Project, I've stored in My Documents folder.  I've also a digital book of arias written by Stefano Landi on my Google Play account that I downloaded for free. 

There are even further resources I work ideas from, but they're too many to mention here.  I'll add that part of those I've not have involved me transcribing the original Italian onto Microsoft Word and trying to make out what I can from free online translators. 

Rarely have I encountered people who can take all this without making ignorant comments and whatever else because of a lack of maturity.  It's true that part of my character's idea is for comedic relief, but on the other hand, I'm actually serious about writing him from a historical perspective as well.  The Face Claim choices are prime choices because my character has long hair to his waist that will eventually be cut off at some point.  His first operatic roles, much like those of castrati who made it to the stage, would be as females and a gradual transfer to male roles would later happen.  He himself is heterosexual and identifies as male; in his case, he doesn't overreact about being cast as girls, but it does upset him all the time.

Mikoto Yutaka as Face Claim gives me the wavy hair that ends in curls which Italians of the period either had naturally or styled artificially.  His origins, due to his red hair and red eyes, were Celtic-inspired.  For fantasy settings, his name is Jamos Barrhem; for ones that take place in an actual historical one, James Kelly.  A chosen singing voice is that of Max Emanuel Cenčić, one of my favorite countertenors.  Jamos's/James's own would begin as Cenčić's from the latter's years as soprano soloist of the Vienna Boys' Choir, then change over to his sopranist years when the character is older and finally cuts his hair.  Any elements as far magic and such go, I feel would be either fire or earth based.

Tomoe Izumi as Face Claim gives me a fellow whose body proportions are more in line with those of actual castrati.  He was English-inspired, so Tamos Darhan or Thomas "Tom" Gage would be names in the same manner as the former version.  A singing voice for the long-haired years hasn't ever been truly fixated on, but one for the latter is Maria Cristina Kiehr.  Her soprano is allegedly the closest a female can get to the Baroque castrato voice, and she's also sung a castrato role written for a highly obscure one named Ferdinando Mazzanti.  Of any castrato roles written that I've looked at (I'll spend hours looking through opera scores), his are the highest I've ever seen.  Associated elements with Tamos/Thomas are ideally air, light, or time.

Either version I use, the comedic relief comes from the teenager being taken for an exceptionally beautiful girl who dresses in male clothing.  His background is Oliver Twist inspired as far as how he came to be born, for the novel is my absolute favorite.  Baroque paintings I've downloaded from free sites and of engravings from actual seventeenth century operas have been utilized to give me ideas as to what he'll wear both on and off the opera stage. 

Musical training for his voice would likely have come from either private study with a teacher or at a conservatory, done under the exact same regimen castrati endured in the hopes to produce voices unmatched by any man, woman, or child.  Foremost singing, as well as the ability to play whatever period instruments and the ability to compose works like arias, madrigals, and possibly operas would intertwine.  The boy would've spent six-ten years under the complex training.

As far as where I've attempted to tweak here and there, I've tried Bleach role-plays, but I'm no longer a fan of the series and personal experience has shown most venues based off of it tend focusing more on the fighting aspects than actual development of characters.  I'm also not a fan of the lengthy applications that expect me to list every Kidō spell he's supposed to know, much less the pain of having to work with trying to translate Japanese properly.

The Legend of Zelda video game series has been my other, but my experiences have found communities abundant with drama and immaturity from members and staff alike.  Recent ones have also used nitpicking aspects regarding what playable races can look like.  I'll never play a Hylian on any, just as I won't an elf in any fantasy settings.  I'll thread with and such, but it's either only humans or half-human hybrids that don't have an elven parent.  It's a personal preference.

Just so anyone knows, I'm not going for one of those Gary-Stu characters that are often called things like "Special Snowflakes" or "God's Gift to the World" and the like. 

It usually takes me a good while to finish an application, as well as to post.  I've health issues and another character on another site that I've been trying to get caught up due to my medical problems and a series of family emergencies that occurred last month.  Towards the issue of posts, I'm not a "rapid fire" role-player.  I know most people on anime, manga, and video game based venues don't like that, but it's how I roll.  I don't do short applications either, although that's primarily in regards to history portions.  Appearance and personality sections are admittedly my weak points.

Given all I've written, I'm looking for a site that's hopefully relaxed, has kind staff and members, and is one with some historical basis that I can adapt the operatic and male soprano aspects into.  I don't care for most fandoms anymore like Bleach, Digimon, Naruto, Pokémon, etc.  I'm also not into battling aspects so much as I am developing my character and his relations with others. 

Sites that require me to read extensive amounts of lore prior to even joining aren't ones I've the energy and patience to fiddle with.  Apocalyptic and Modern Day settings, as well as venues using realistic Face Claims will be skipped over as well.  My other aforementioned character is on one that incorporates the last two aspects, so I want to keep my male soprano within anime, manga, and/or video game role-plays if I at all can.  I've no intention of reworking him to have some celebrity or model as his Face Claim.

Medieval fantasy settings are among my favorites, so those would be splendid choices!  The same to ones that allot for non-Japanese characters in the early Baroque era, too!  I miss writing for this character dearly, so I hope anyone who reads all this will take him and I with the utmost maturity and respect. 

Please and thank you in advance!