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RE: Role Play as badguys? - Dietrich Dracht - 03-24-2014
Dietrich's pretty self-serving and could be a villain in some stories.Â
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RE: Role Play as badguys? - Blue - 03-30-2014
My FC "Rose of Sharon" is an organization/cult that often times ends up being descripted as "evil" from the few people who have encountered it. That being said, any organization needs a goal, and not all the goals of the Rose's members are evil. The base requirement to join is "to have lost something one can't do without, and be willing to get it back at any cost, no matter how immoral it may be". Its members are obsessed with getting something, someone back, and will often do morally evil things to do so, even if the goals are for the good (of themselves, or someone else; after all, even villains think they're doing the right). For example, Jet'a is looking for his lost sister, and to find her he has broke the rules of his Keeper family that forbid males to fight and kill living beings, by joining the Black Mages, a job with many risks and "sins" in its lore and quests. He has taken lives, dwelt with magic affiliated to the void, and also practiced alchemy to coerce information through poisons and drugs.
Another side of the Rose that could be evil, or good, depending on point of views, is their recruitment system. They do not accept applicants. They will travel to fulfill their own obsessions, and if on their path they will stumble into people who meet the Rose's "requirements" (having lost everything/something that causes them to no longer really have a normal life; orphans, fallen heroes, men and women with nothing left, no purpose in their life), they will kidnap them and force them into joining them, less through coercing and more through persuasion.
Lastly, the Rose members do not speak of themselves to outsiders. That means that, while they may act for partially good and partially egoistic reasons, to the eyes of who have heard of them they will almost always look like bad guys. It's a 50/50, but we couldn't go with an evil organization without a goal, and "real" evil goals are not fulfill-able in RP, as they all go crushing against the god-moding wall (conquering nations, killing other people, stealing important stuff, taking over the world...).
We don't have any members so far because we keep most of our RP via LSs, but recently we've been trying to open more to public RP so, if anyone is interested and wants to ICly join, they can contact me via PM to OOCly discuss of encounters and IC recruiting (Rose of Sharon is an FC, but it is not necessary to OOCly join it to be an IC member).
Another character I have instead, Clive Stark, is not morally evil, but a plan moronic jerk. This often pushes others away from me when I RP as him, but hey, it's the price for RPing someone rude and harsh. I have a couple friends who have ICly seen Clive's heart of gold under his harshness, and enjoy every bit of RP I get with them.