Obviously it started when I was a kid and we'd play TMNT and I'd pick raph because he was a brooding badass (in the live-action movie which was the GREATEST THING EVER at the time)
I was 5 OKAY.
Then I'd just play pretend with other things because the internet wasn't as widely available back then. Also knew that it was "shameful" so I hid that shit for when I was alone. (REST RESERVED FOR THERAPIST)
Actual internet RP only started when I discovered the internet. For me, at that point, my exposure to roleplaying games were D&D and JRPGs with set characters such as Final Fantasy. It's really only when I first started in the wonderful world of fanfiction that I discovered RP as a collaborative storytelling experience and only when I hit a certain forum (which then had its inhabitants split from that forum because the admins wanted to overhaul the RP forum for... reasons I really didn't understand and I'm sure you'd explain it to me now and I'd still go "wat")
Then I started to play CoH. I was looking for RP but also wanted to play with my friends. I lucked out as I was on a server that ended up having both - Robust if small RP community and where my friends played (Hint : It wasn't Paragon or Virtue).
After that I just started looking for RP everywhere I went because it flexes the creative muscles and allows me to push boundaries that I wouldn't otherwise push.
Funnily enough it's because of RP that I got into wrestling as much as I did. I also skipped over efedding. I also LARPed but fell out of it due to the lack of quality LARPs around here.
I was 5 OKAY.
Then I'd just play pretend with other things because the internet wasn't as widely available back then. Also knew that it was "shameful" so I hid that shit for when I was alone. (REST RESERVED FOR THERAPIST)
Actual internet RP only started when I discovered the internet. For me, at that point, my exposure to roleplaying games were D&D and JRPGs with set characters such as Final Fantasy. It's really only when I first started in the wonderful world of fanfiction that I discovered RP as a collaborative storytelling experience and only when I hit a certain forum (which then had its inhabitants split from that forum because the admins wanted to overhaul the RP forum for... reasons I really didn't understand and I'm sure you'd explain it to me now and I'd still go "wat")
Then I started to play CoH. I was looking for RP but also wanted to play with my friends. I lucked out as I was on a server that ended up having both - Robust if small RP community and where my friends played (Hint : It wasn't Paragon or Virtue).
After that I just started looking for RP everywhere I went because it flexes the creative muscles and allows me to push boundaries that I wouldn't otherwise push.
Funnily enough it's because of RP that I got into wrestling as much as I did. I also skipped over efedding. I also LARPed but fell out of it due to the lack of quality LARPs around here.