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RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Kellach Woods - 04-29-2015

The "fish out of water" cliché I guess - I always use it if I've no prior contact with the lore as to explain my OOC shortcomings.

Alternately, edging the lore as well.

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Gegenji - 04-29-2015

I don't know if it's a cliche, but I seem to really like generally silly/goofy characters who actually have a rather serious/dark backstory behind them and can be straight just as much as they can in a more lighthearted manner.

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Fox - 04-29-2015

(04-29-2015, 10:28 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Other than that, like Clover, I tend to make my characters relatively young (late teens to early-mid twenties), as I can personally get more character growth out of them and I feel that age range works better in the "monomyth" structure. My monomyth "mentor" characters are all usually NPCs -- I've never been able to play one for an extended period.

I like playing younger characters as well like you said late teens-twenties because I can rp through their storyline and make them more rounded by the time they're older. So I guess toss that trope/cliche onto my stoic woobie as well. XD

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - allgivenover - 04-29-2015

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WiseBeyondTheirYears

Usually with a huge crack in the personality that pushes them to make poor decisions,

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Caspar - 04-30-2015

Not a cliche I encouraged, but a lot of people on my old forums pigeonholed me into The Smart One role. I guess I did the whole "overly wordy, pretentious know-it-all" too well, to the point at which people expected it of me and were disappointed when I didn't feel like playing it.

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Nirri - 04-30-2015

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceGuy

Is the one trope I find myself always sinking back into at the initial creation of the character. I don't know why, but of the get go I always use the nice guy trope but slowly that sort of develops into something else through RP / plot development of the character.

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - ChewableMorphine - 04-30-2015

...cyborgs/prosthetics. 

In every game or medium where I'd roleplay, my weapon or main tool had to be a prosthetic or something akin to a limb replacement. 

Like I push lore to it's limits here on XIV, but using other FF logic (specifically Barett in FF7) to somewhat rationalize Flynt's arms/legs. Sure they don't turn into guns or anything crazy. They're just motorized ceruleum-fueled prosthetics. 

And to give another example, I'm playing though Bloodborne pretending my character's arm has been replaced by the Stake Driver.

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Cliodhna Eoghan - 04-30-2015

(04-29-2015, 10:28 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Other than that, like Clover, I tend to make my characters relatively young (late teens to early-mid twenties),
as in clamp clover??? love love love love looove that manga! >u< shame they never finished the series, but i still hope they might..and really wanted ora's tattoo at some point.
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i tend to play younger characters for the most part too, but mine usually have a common theme of having some sort of troubled past or the patents are dead or divored or missing. (one i had drop a five year old at an orphanage, left the husband and it took him a few months before finding the character and regaining custody) buut those two i mentioned usually go hand and hand. another thing i rarely escape is they all seem to have red hair o____O

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - FreelanceWizard - 04-30-2015

(04-30-2015, 02:32 AM)Cliodhna Eoghan Wrote:
(04-29-2015, 10:28 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Other than that, like Clover, I tend to make my characters relatively young (late teens to early-mid twenties),
as in clamp clover??? love love love love looove that manga! >u< shame they never finished the series, but i still hope they might..and really wanted ora's tattoo at some point.

I meant the member Clover who posted above, but the Clover manga is also great. Smile

I also can't help but mess up the pasts of my characters as part of their Call to Adventure. In CO, I played a character whose life was totally normal (parents still alive and supportive, was going to art school before she decides to take up the figurative cape, etc.) which was a bit of a weird experience. Smile

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Cliodhna Eoghan - 04-30-2015

(04-30-2015, 08:57 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I meant the member Clover who posted above, but the Clover manga is also great. Smile

I also can't help but mess up the pasts of my characters as part of their Call to Adventure. In CO, I played a character whose life was totally normal (parents still alive and supportive, was going to art school before she decides to take up the figurative cape, etc.) which was a bit of a weird experience. Smile

ohhh i see xD *feels silly now*

i don't doubt it, i rarely have ones that have normal background. there was another one i played that had parents but the father was a mix of the king of all cosmos, shun tendo (ranma 1/2) and was obsessed with anything modern...like spending crazy amounts of money for a new phone that was better than his current one by two weeks. things like that. buut that was more comedy so i could get away with it, was pretty fun even though it still wasn't normal. xD

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Kellach Woods - 04-30-2015

(04-30-2015, 08:57 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I also can't help but mess up the pasts of my characters as part of their Call to Adventure. In CO, I played a character whose life was totally normal (parents still alive and supportive, was going to art school before she decides to take up the figurative cape, etc.) which was a bit of a weird experience. Smile
Reminds me of my DCUO mains when it comes to used to do messed up pasts but then didn't for one game. Just sad that to this day I think Searchlight might be one of the most solid RP characters I've ever made and chances are I'm never gonna use her again.

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Virella - 04-30-2015

Magic in my roleplay always seem to come back. I've got/had a few non-magical character, but. No, I need to snort my magic in roleplay, else I get bored.

RE: The Cliche That You Can't Escape - Cogito - 04-30-2015

Oh, Orphans as well, I don't know why but my  character's parents are always dead or missing.
I blame Disney.