Pick the thematic/narrative/aesthetic cliche you just can't get enough of, despite recognizing its on some level overplayed or expected. No matter what, you find yourself coming back to this motif when you write or RP because it just gets you by the brain every time. For me, it's the "brainwashed/child assassin" story. It's been done to death and yet I find it utterly impossible to dislike, exploitative as it is. Something about that scenario really grips me.
Short, sweet natured nerds. >_> I play them allllllllll the time. Always short, always stupid naive, and almost always nerds.
Believe it or not...mine is definitely the broken, bitter, bitch/hardass female.
...Stoic, standoffish female. Usually a badass with a dark past. XD I'm terrible I know. But I just enjoy it so much as my first RP character was along those lines in Ayenee (yahoo chat) back in the late 90's.
(Shit... I'm looking at you new-to-be-xaela
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I approve. To be sure, these are some really clingy cliches already. They don't know when to quit. Yet they endure and that lends them a strange sort of charm. Maybe you want to do something with a cliche you've exhausted, or escape it.
(04-29-2015, 02:37 AM)Caspar Wrote: [ -> ]I approve. To be sure, these are some really clingy cliches already. They don't know when to quit. Yet they endure and that lends them a strange sort of charm. Maybe you want to do something with a cliche you've exhausted, or escape it.
I'm not sure I want to really escape it just yet. But what I want to do with it personally is to actually -finish- it at some point. Not the whole "She rides off into the sunset never to be seen again."
Slapstick ... It just happens. Heroic intentions that go awry for comic effect. Physically and verbal slapstick.
(04-29-2015, 02:38 AM)Foxberry Wrote: [ -> ] (04-29-2015, 02:37 AM)Caspar Wrote: [ -> ]I approve. To be sure, these are some really clingy cliches already. They don't know when to quit. Yet they endure and that lends them a strange sort of charm. Maybe you want to do something with a cliche you've exhausted, or escape it.
I'm not sure I want to really escape it just yet. But what I want to do with it personally is to actually -finish- it at some point. Not the whole "She rides off into the sunset never to be seen again."
This right here actually, every single character I've played of this trope has never finished their story. They've never had resolve. They've either been phased out because the RP died or they've been killed at some point before anyone could change them or at least start them on a different path. I'd like to see them actually evolve to become something else or at least play out.
Clever characters. It doesn't matter if they are meat heads or intellectuals they always end up being clever.
I always gravitate toward technologically savvy characters, especially in a magic-dominated fantasy setting. I like that it represents an equalizer against magic, as magic is typically dominant and only exists in a portion of people. I also like that it comes with its own set of very human, relate-able issues.
Happy characters with almost boundless good will and energy. Too much seriousness, people must be haappeeeeh!
Or goofballs. I love making things weird, silly and funny...!
Femme Fatales. I intentionally wrote Armi the exact opposite to get away from it since I do it so often and I'm being really careful to avoid "Snarky femme fatale" on Langli - my Au Ra - too. Loki is actually what I usually roll, it's really easy to fall back on and Armi continually proves a fun challenge. Though Armi does have something I do like exploring, which is Martyr syndrome, so she even can't get away from the cliche's!