"The Spirit of RP"?

This is the last I'll say on the matter, but I sent someone an email today that I thought summed up "the spirit of RP" nicely.

I've been using that term a bit, and I've been referring to the backbone of what makes our project a success. Maybe this can help explain exactly what I mean?
And even if it doesn't, I'll drop the matter from here on out (okay, Michael?). ;)

Yeah, our characters don't like each other, which actually creates some problems in my eyes. The spirit of this writing project is interaction between characters as they work towards some goal (or goals). That happens less and less if everyone hates each other. 

As dramatic as it sounds, I'm honestly hoping that our characters can actually meet and unite under a common goal to work towards a similar aim, even if they don't necessarily like each other. The few common goals our characters have might be Annakate's "calamities", Lauren's antagonist who wants to kill us all (perhaps they are the Dark Elves, or perhaps not), or the TSU.

Put in the right situation, we'd not survive very well without unifying our characters at least to a common goal. They don't have to be friends, but they need to want the same thing (not to die, etc.).

That said, given the right situation, I actually can see unanticipated actions like Jace going to rescue Eris or Juno rescuing Tessa. Given the right situation where the person who needs rescuing is part of the end goal.

Our characters can (and should) have enemies --I'm just personally hoping its not every other author-ed protagonist. That makes RP incredibly, near-impossibly hard.

How? Because if your character isn't interacting with the others in a helpful way, then your character should be in his own book about his own story by himself, not in an RP blog based on character interaction and adventure (which involves some form of character alignment, if not friendships, to accomplish).

So by "the spirit of RP", I'm referring to what makes an "RP-writing blog" different from collaborative writing or individual story writing. It's us promulgating our characters' personalities, actions, and agendas in a way that they run into each others' personalities, actions, and agendas for the worse (Hunter and Jace) or for the better (Malphas and Autumn…sort of). But I'm hoping there should be many more "for the better"s (everyone/most of us vs. the TSU/Dark Elves/calamity/etc.) because that's the only way the story will favorably progress.