I agree for the most part with the general consensus, except for oooone thang .. and maybe it's just me!
I personally don't have anything against "self insert" in games. I mean I constantly do that in single player games because I love being immersed in a story!
And I 100% admit that I like playing an aspiring musician who happens to like to physically exert herself for the sake of training because these are things I can bring an actual knowledge to in RP. With as casual an RPer as I can be (casual as in, I don't always invest a lot of time into for IRL busy life scheduling reasons) it's easy for me to settle into a familiar role that I don't have to study for hours on how to RP it correctly. So I guess I just have more fun, personally, to RP something I know a lot about.
For a "real world" example: an old friend from GW2 RP liked to RP being a doctor because she was actually a DR IRL. It made "Dr" RP with her really immersive and genuine.
That being said, I don't act like my characters ARE me. I'm not going to get personally offended if someone says blonde girls with blue eyes are the ugliest thing on the planet.
Forgive me if someone already said something along these lines, I kinda just skimmed
I personally don't have anything against "self insert" in games. I mean I constantly do that in single player games because I love being immersed in a story!
And I 100% admit that I like playing an aspiring musician who happens to like to physically exert herself for the sake of training because these are things I can bring an actual knowledge to in RP. With as casual an RPer as I can be (casual as in, I don't always invest a lot of time into for IRL busy life scheduling reasons) it's easy for me to settle into a familiar role that I don't have to study for hours on how to RP it correctly. So I guess I just have more fun, personally, to RP something I know a lot about.
For a "real world" example: an old friend from GW2 RP liked to RP being a doctor because she was actually a DR IRL. It made "Dr" RP with her really immersive and genuine.
That being said, I don't act like my characters ARE me. I'm not going to get personally offended if someone says blonde girls with blue eyes are the ugliest thing on the planet.
Forgive me if someone already said something along these lines, I kinda just skimmed
