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(03-20-2015, 01:31 PM)Verad Wrote: Of course, I have to say the above with a grain of salt, because there are hugely popular stories out right now about characters who are marked as being "special" in some way. Divergent series, Harry Potter, most of the urban fantasy novels on the planet - we're actually still pretty okay with "special" in fiction. RPers seem to get a bug up about it more than the average reader.
I think this owes itself in large part to the nature of the medium as a collaborative venue unlike any other. In roleplay, you have the potential for two narratives to come up against one another, and if you've two "special" characters and the authors don't take measures and/or don't establish some guidelines early on, they'll find themselves engaged in an arms race until both "special" characters end up so over-the-top that both narratives could be said to suffer for it.
You won't find this in most forms of writing. Novels, comic books, television, films: very rarely do you come across two intertwined narratives in which the authors have such vested personal interests that they at times find themselves cross-purposes. In contrast, you see this often in roleplay, on the tabletop, etc.
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