First of all, thanks for giving me crit! I admit that my activity in the past two weeks hasn't been amazing, and I'll definitely work on that. Like you said, it's because of rl issues, but still.
So, okay, this might seem like a huge made-up excuse, but I'm actually not done tagging the log yet ._. I still haven't posted threads for my characters and I intend to do that and tag with them more when I find costumes for them. I started tagging a bit but stopped (Hideki hadn't tagged the log at all, for example) 'cause I got a bit uninspired |D;;; Then again, I do admit that I have a tendency to stick to old cr in general, so I'll try my best to work on that. Thanks for pointing it out :)
About the initiative thing... I realize that this is a problem and it might be the most difficult one to solve, for me, since I fret a lot and I'm unreasonably scared of bugging people or something... But take a look at the plotting post, for example. I /have/ pocked people about plotting stuff, I didn't just wait for them to ask me. Ana and Nina and I had been wanting Kotori to find out about Keiichi and Kamui since forever but I only recently found the guts to just ask them and post about it. I do make an effort to plot stuff and get things going. I'm not saying that I'm totally over this problem, but I have been trying to improve and I think that it's showing, even if I still have a long way to go.
Thank you for saying those things about my characters. I'm really glad you enjoy playing with them and I /will/ try to improve the stuff you said.