(02-09-2015, 09:37 PM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote: It's also possible to be too disconnected, though, to the point that a character no longer feels like an actual person. There's nothing wrong with putting some of your first-world experience into a character; it helps give them life, believability. Sure, the line has to be drawn somewhere, but replacing an extreme with another extreme doesn't work, either.
This same scenario can also lead to one of my biggest IC/OOC pet peeves, and that's shirking responsibility by using 'IC' as an excuse for landing on subjects that some are likely to take personally. Roleplay is not a legitimate excuse for being insensitive to those around you.
Aye, I guess I never thought about that at all.
But well that's my method at least and I'm not too disconnected seeing as I still get salty OOCly sometimes when some other guy does shit to my own characters. Especially when they're not really on good terms, though I swallow it and still try to have an amiable conversation with the player behind the character. And I'm not saying I don't put my view point into them, a lot of their opinions stem from me and I just tweak them to fit the world.
It's just the really strange parts like trying to maintain Ramona's heterosexuality that I have to be a little more disconnected with. She wants a guy after all and I'm a straight guy.Â
And this is more to just help me keep in mind that even though they have a parts or huge chunks of me in them, they're still their own characters and they don't know what the other knows. While keeping me aware that I'm not Kurt, not Keil, not Ramona, I'm all three of them but not at the same time.Â
I should probably get some breakfast.... I'm sure I didn't make any sense.
EDIT Very bottomline: I use the fact that I have alts as an anchor in the clouds to stop me from falling in too deep. Otherwise I'd very irritated, annoyed and pissed with a few other members here. XD It helps me compartmentalize the emotions I feel when interacting with certain characters. Otherwise I basically am Keil, Kurt or Ramona when I use them. I wont lie it bleeds out into OOC and then I just remind myself I have other characters. When the bleed gets too bad I just shut up OOCly...which, now I realize is probably something I shouldnt do.
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