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Vyce · **09-23-2015, 02:44 PM**

(09-23-2015, 02:36 PM)Aaron Wrote:
(09-23-2015, 02:24 PM)Nebbs Wrote: I don't care what you are at the other end so long as you aren't malicious or cause a mess for people.

I work on this simple premise.. you are all this guy in my head, so I have no illusions.Â (though this is an anti-illusion)

I am here to RP and play with others, your physical appearance and gender etc.. don't matter to me.

And then they end up looking like this in reality

/sweats profusely

Lol all jokes aside though.

Actually I know one that does look like that.

Aaron · **09-23-2015, 02:58 PM**

I do too surprisingly.

Too bad I won't pursue her. Ain't nobody got time fo dat.

rainichan · **09-23-2015, 05:50 PM**

On the internet, guys are guys, girls are guys, and kids are cops in disguise.

Jokes aside, I know a lot of guys who play women, and a lot of women who play guys, so I kind of do what Aaron said he does: assume they are that gender until told otherwise, though I know internet arpees is dominated by women (I did a lot of LJ/DWRP and that hobby is like 94% women, 6% men, at least when I was active in it.) Not sure about the stats on FFXIV, so I won't comment there.

On topic: I like lore. Love it. I love worldbuilding (one of my favourite series, Ar tonelico and in part Ar nosurge/Ciel nosurge, is HUGE on worldbuilding, lore, and even have their own full constructed languages for the game universe - MULTIPLE constructed languages, in fact!) but... I'm not a huge lore stickler. It might not gel with others well, but if you can make it believable, run with it. I do it. I know others do it. Just make it work in some way and I'm cool with whatever you throw at me.

...I'm also shiptrash but that was probably a given. Big Grin

I'm horrendously shy generally, and there are plenty of people I've seen here and others I follow on tumblr and I go ":O I KNOW THEM! They're (whoever) on the rpc/tumblr!" and then when I think to wave or something I chicken out. So I'll forever be the creeper who knows people and will internally be excited I saw you but probably never say anything (probably. Maybe some day I will!)

And while it's not really a confession because I think most are like this: I love fluff. Sappy cute stuff. But I wholly enjoy hurting my characters just as much as I love the cute shoujo sparkles doki doki stuff. I don't think I've had enough of that yet in game, it'll have to happen eventually.

Illae · **10-14-2015, 01:02 AM**

1. Â I know it sounds weird and stalkerish, but I either always ask Â the person I am ERPing with Â if they are over 18 or if I do not ask, then I have checked threads and found out that way, generally from the Who are you? Â ooc threads.Â

2. Â I am that weird person that will always point out something detrimental to my character that I think someone might have forgotten, because.. Â it would not be fair and right to not mention it Â *beats self in the head* Â I am also that weird person who speaks out and calls people on their BS as long as that BS is not aimed at me. Â I have my limit and things I will not tolerate, but very much a mother bear with my friend/rp partners

3. Â Shy about new people and even my friends sometimes both ic and ooc. Â They complain that I am secretive and very difficult to get to know occly. Â I say it is just because they never ask the right questions :-P

4. Â I do not care what gender the person behind the screen is. Â I have friends who were born one sex and made the life choice to go with the sex that they felt was right. Â If I refer to you oocly as he/she/it please do not feel offended or if I refer to you by the sex of your character, also do not feel offended.

Roe Dad · **10-14-2015, 01:15 AM**

I now play hearthstone while rping Im terrible.

Blue · **10-14-2015, 02:58 AM**

(10-14-2015, 01:02 AM)Illae Wrote: 1. Â I know it sounds weird and stalkerish, but I either always ask Â the person I am ERPing with Â if they are over 18 or if I do not ask, then I have checked threads and found out that way, generally from the Who are you? Â ooc threads.Â

Everyone should do that. ERPing with someone under 18 can get you in legal trouble.

Kowa · **10-14-2015, 03:06 AM**

ugh god

So I started RPing in earnest on Gaia Online - I'd done some forum stuff before then but nothing too serious - and I think it kind of locked me into the one-one-one mindset, since on Gaia RP groups (usually accompanied by threads with complicated graphics and text formatting and players posting paragraphs about tying shoelaces in the name of advanced lit) never lasted long and one-on-one stuff was easier to manage and more reliable.Â

From this, I fell into the habit of creating characters with someone and tormenting them and/or metaphorically smushing their faces together and screaming NOW KISS. The most important part of it for me though was the extensive OOC communication. I loved the idea of creating a world with someone that's fun and lush with ideas and sometimes branches off into alternate universes and whatnot. I've had RP partnerships that have lasted years.

THE THING IS.

I haven't found an RP partner yet on FFXIV to do mushy gross shiptrash things with and create extensive character lore and be sadistic with and generally have a heavy level of involvement. And that bugs me more than it should and it just sounds childish and ugh

Also people tend to assume (rightfully so, you do have to be cautious) that you're some sort of creeper looking for an OOC relationship when you bring up intense RP partnership, so then I get nervous, and then end up hovering in the QS never talking to anyone ever and just being involved in my friends' plots and in FC RP, but not really having exactly my itch scratched.

CleverBlitz · **10-14-2015, 03:43 AM**

1. Â I tend to OOCly respect characters more that started out as relatively simple concepts, who grew to something or a place of power, rather than beginning all-powerful with abilities that make them a power-unicorn.

2. Â Half-breeds in settings that don't have them in the lore made by players who pick and choose which traits of which races they want into a character that is essentially a genetic snowflake. Â No thank you. Â Especially the sorts that become 3000 year old all-powerful creatures with the mind of a 12 year old who turns into some sort of wisdom god when put into situations that could kill them.

3. Â I dislike joining new communities. Â If only because my past experiences over months of attempting to OOCly and ICly network into communities that ultimately either lacked the activity I was willing to put forward, or paid little attention to those who had not been around for years upon years.

4. Â RP flakes. Â Please, please know that I do have a life and I -totally- understand when curveballs get thrown, but if I engage in a thread or RP scenario, I expect it to be paid attention to regularly. Â I have been to far too many site-only RP forums that claimed to be active but could not be bothered to keep up on their threads at least once per week. Â If people have to take a little bit? Â That's fine, but -let the group know-. Â Communication is essential to good RP.

5. Â I am an RP addict. Â While I do have preferences as to the IC scenarios I might go into with specific characters (mostly based on whether it would be plausible for them to partake) I do try to partake in as much RP as I can. Â This includes websites (so long as they stay active), Skype, and in-game.

6. Â I do not like reading the thoughts of characters that are not my own unless there is an IC reason behind somehow knowing what the other characters are thinking. Â I understand that it is up to the writer, and I respect most RP of that type thrown my way, but when it gets down to *John looked over at Caitlyn after she spoke. Â He always knew she was an idiot, and her words only continued to prove that opinion.*-type of stuff, where the player is conveying negativity and insult/condescension of other characters? Â I have seen it happen too many times and it strikes a nerve.

7. Â If you give me the opportunity to write about something I actually have inspiration or an opinion about, my responses will vary from short, perhaps one-liners to wall of texts, and I apologize for both.

8. Â My first character broke lore, and I didn't read the lore of the world before RPing in it. Â Rookie mistake, but at the same time, it taught me that there are really two negative types of people in communities: Elites who think they can snub other players to improve the community by "culling the bads", and the ones who are so deep into the "do whatever you want, even if it shatters the lore!" mindset that they can't truly help the new RPers establish solid roots. Â Since the day I made my first "world-fitting" character, I have always tried to not only help others with their characters when they ask for it, but to include as many people as would ICly fit into the RP I'm involved in. Â Only way to have a strong community is to cultivate open attitudes toward new and veteran RPers who genuinely want to try and bring positive mindsets to the table.

9. (See? Â Wall of Text, sorry!) Â I have a strong personality that I try to keep the leash on, but when I join something and it fails to meet the standard I was lead to believe it would have, I tend to push and speak up very clearly and frequently. Â I recognize this can clash with other people's preferences of how they like to lead (or follow), but I like a certain level of organization and leadership when I take the time to contribute to projects I did not begin, myself. Â I'm not going to try and take over if I enter FC's, Communities, Linkshells, whatever, but I can not be trusted to simply overlook things that I find unsatisfactory. Â I speak up, and my characters do, too. Â They typically have strong personalities, whether they are hidden for some reason or totally out in the open, they are present.

***Teadrinker*** · **10-14-2015, 03:46 AM**

A lot of stuff in this thread just seems pretty natural and yet everyone is ashamed or made to feel ashamed of it.

CleverBlitz · **10-14-2015, 04:36 AM**

(10-14-2015, 03:46 AM)Teadrinker Wrote: A lot of stuff in this thread just seems pretty natural and yet everyone is ashamed or made to feel ashamed of it.

I think it's less of shame and more a place to display opinions without people trying too hard to pick it all apart. Â And I forgot to add one last deal.

10. Â Traumatic historic events/mental conditions. Â I'm ok with people RPing them. Â If your character has been afflicted with mental disorders, been raped, abused as a child, whatever? Â That's fine. Â What I don't like is how casually people use it in RP. Â Your character can have trauma in their background, but please, for the sake of RP, don't use PTSD, rape, abusive history, other traumatic events/disorders as a casual attention-seeking crutch. Â It feels iffy and disrespectful to real-world sufferers. Â And DEFINITELY DON'T try to pull others into your traumatic event without first talking to them OOC. Â I've been lead to a rape scene by an RPer before without even the slightest bit of warning. Â It was poorly done and I had no heads-up, which was the part that really, really irritated me. Â If I had been warned or asked first, I may have consented or been able to tell them "no thanks", but that was not the case.

Garalona · **10-14-2015, 04:45 AM**

On vacation and this bed is terrible, so I can't sleep... WHICH MEANS LATE NIGHT CONFESSIONS!

1.) You know the deal by now. Social anxiety, all that. My method of dealing with it is to point Gara at people like a missile and roll with whatever happens, whether they're angry she barged in, taken aback, flattered, whatever. It's interaction. I generally try to avoid private moments... geberally. I'm not above going OI WHAT'RE Y' TALKIN' ABOUT if cryptic things are being said in public.

2.) Also same as many others, ERP bores me to tears. I used to go along with, feeling that I had no choice, so one time I made a sandwich while ERPing. I did this because I'd get so bored I'd 'finish' to quickly and the other party would get mad, so I figured sandwhich prep was one way to drag things out. Spread the mayonnaise (heh), post a line, add ham, post a line, etc. by the end of it I was posting one handed, but only because I was eating the sandwhich with the other hand. These days if it comes to that I just fade to black.

3.) I have a host of health problems I won't bother detailing. They eat into both my regular game time and my RP time. I feel bad I have to cut things short sometimes, but I physically cannot handle marathon RP seasons. I prefer to find an IC reason to leave than to pause a scene, as I hate leaving things in limbo when other things could be going on for all parties involved.

4.) I hate chat based RP. Long story. I much prefer running around in game snapping screenshots of interactions on the fly than having to describe absolutely everything in a chat box. Personal preference. Nobody gets my Skype but very close friends and the dorks I D&D with over voice chat... And hell, I hate Skype as a chatting platform as it is.

5.) I don't really have a problem with any given character concept, personally. I mean I'm 31, the only thing that's gonna make me lose sleep is the fact the mattress I'm currently laying on is as hard as a fucking rock. My character may go "okaaaaaay" when they run into it in game, but that's the extent of it. Everybody starts somewhere, right? That person is probably gonna look back and shake their heads over it, too, just like I do over my early RP. With that in mind, I'll roll with anything for the duration of a scene.

LadyRochester · **10-14-2015, 08:06 AM**

Here's an actual confession instead of a rant from me (for once.)

I'm too much of a pussy to tell people when their characters/rp Â is too boring for me, so I stick it out and whine in my head until it's over. If this becomes a common occurrence, I slowly begin to ignore them more and more until I fade completely and they just.. Stop messaging me or requesting RP. I don't want to offend people so I do this more than I'm proud to admit...

Steel Wolf · **10-14-2015, 09:08 AM**

I confess that I am just the worst when it comes to being in a guild, but being unguilded pretty much stone walls me out of all the RP because leaving a guild makes me feel that I've burned my bridges in an orbital strike.

I need help, in other words. XD

Aaron · **10-14-2015, 09:49 AM**

If I suddenly start breaking the fourth wall with puns and such IC, I'm probably high irl.

***Alothia*** · **10-14-2015, 09:56 AM**

1. I'm a sucker for romantic RP. I just love that whole building up between two characters.

2. I'm super embarrassed about some of my RP partner choices, especially when it came to emotional manipulation. I allowed myself to be in those situations, and I look back on those times and cringe.

3. I really also like stupid fluffy RP. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but I can't be super serious all the time.

4. I don't judge people for what they RP...but I definitely judge people based on how they write. If you have poor grammar and spelling, and it's not because English is a second language or something...I can't help it. Doesn't mean I won't be nice, or that I won't RP with you. But in my head, I can't stop silently correcting every mistake. Yay for being an English teacher.

5. I really don't understand why some people RP. Like, you don't take it seriously at all ever. Why do it? It's almost as if some people are just Troll RPers, and that hurts my soul.

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