(12-07-2014, 09:07 AM)Ritual Wrote: I also want to point out introverts aren't necessarily people that don't talk, I'm introverted and if you get me hooked on a subject I can talk for hours, it's just we don't like small talk too much, the "formalities". As an ISTP, I'm very non-communicative, unless you require my knowledge, I just HAVE to tell you something or again we get on an interesting subject, I speak more through actions than words and I choose my words very carefully. Introversion and Extroversion have nothing to do with if you're social or not, the man who came up with them himself said this, Carl C. Jung, they're just how your first function is orientated.
That line really stroke a chord to me because it's exactly how I feel.
However, as much as I want to thank everyone for the kind advice, I feel I was a little misunderstood. I am aware that people will not RP with me if I end conversations or don't talk back in general, but that is certainly not my case. I always try to find ways to open topics with strangers and involve them in my own plots (Aya should remember this in particular from the one RP we had together during one of my rare visits at the Quicksand). What I'd like to know is how to avoid occurrences such as the cases I have displayed, in which people either won't even give me a chance upon learning that I am introvert (1) or discovering that I am not an e-dater RPer (2).
I have pretty much come to the conclusion that if people don't get back to me to RP it's just something I have to accept. Not every fish will bait and my lure is very small. But when people walk off from me for purely OOC reasons, I do not know.. is that something I must come to accept as common behavior as well? I am introvert in real life too but this kind of stuff has never happened to me, because again, in-game it seems to be much easier to walk off from someone. Or this is how I feel.
To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
