Since seems to be mainly personality based for this question, probably the closest character to my own personality is Sam, but most my alts tend to be based of a certain aspect of myself and then added to for depth and to give them their own life.
It keeps them from being too similar but same time can relate to them and helps with putting myself in their shoes.
Quite a few people seem to have issues that I admit that I am like all my characters, even if I'm not exactly or even seem to be very different. Usually because they feel the only way to actually rp a character well and maintain the ooc/ic separation is because
But really it's a common enough thing with acting too. If it's someone else's character you find something about them you can relate to and use it as a base for helping understand the character and motives and for pulling yourself in to character, even with aspects of them that arn't similar to yours.
I grew up with theater stuff and earliest I remember doing things in plays/being in a show is 5 years old and been pretty active in it. I wanted to do professional acting like for movies and things but mom never took me to auditions for those because she didn't want to deal with the typical things of stalking and lack of privacy and everything else negative that comes with getting bigger, more public roles.
Kal is outwardly very confident and sensual, as well as loud and mischievous. Quite a bit of her personality is in a base of what I was like when I was a kid. Not exactly, and I was largely still introverted and not very sexual, but I liked to play tricks on people and was like... a friendly bully that would tease people and friends a lot but usually wasn't malicious about it. She's caring but she can also be very violent and physical too, especially when angry. And when I was a kid my temperament was horrible and I got in a lot of fights.
Dheina is anxiety, simple-mindedness, being emotional, and part of me that really hates people getting hurt, and has issues with feeling useless and tries to hard for people's approval or hurts themselves trying to get something done that they most likely can't because of emotional or physical limitations but doesnt want to disappoint people.
Sam is probably closest in temperament and all to how I am now but is pretty much based on identity confusion and really having no clue what to do with themselves or their life and mostly kind of just wandering around aimlessly until something hits them in the face for what to do with themselves.
Armimi is a more serious character with more interest in science and learning how things work than interactions with people.
Cardea is part of my brain that is pretty much in the gutter and goofy, but also based on a kind of idea I think about for being flirty and also probably based less on a personality trait of myself but more off the black widow seductress types you see enough on tv to figure out the characterization.
And Samhain is more or less off the misanthropic part of me that's also has sociopathic tendencies. Based on the part of me that allowed for the interest in torture devices and methods when I was younger. The part of my thoughts that come up when angry or just tired of people and how the world works and saying fuck people I don't give a shit. That thinks "You got a problem with me, that's your problem".
Honestly I see nothing wrong with people taking parts of themselves and using it as a base concept to expand on and experiment with or create characters. Just because a character is based on something of yourself doesn't mean that character is you or that there's an issue with an ooc/ic separation.
The problem is when you take problems the character has personally. Like if someone's character doesnt like yours, you feel it's a personal attack on yourself by the player (This character hates mine so therefore their player hates me!) and you get angry and you use the character as a mouthpiece for your own feelings towards the other character and their player.
This has been an issue I've seen before where someone has made a number of characters that differ slightly but overall have the same way of thinking and speaking that also matched up with how the person acted oocly. One character of theirs had a problem with mine or they oocly had a problem with me and suddenly all characters would hate mine for the exact reason they oocly hated me/my character and they'd use the same insults and language as they did oocly and would throw fits the same way icly as oocly whenever something didn't go their way.
I have a lot of friends with characters that don't like mine, but we're still friends oocly and have a lot of fun and while the characters don't get along and exhibit traits we have, whether commonly or just on occasion, we recognize that it's character stuff and not personal.... though been times of course with ooc apologizing for their character and saying sorry their person doesn't like mine though they may oocly love mine.
Some of my friend's characters I absolutely adore oocly but they just don't get along with certain characters of mine.
I don't know this may be confusing for what I'm trying to point out here. But basically to me rp is like Improve acting and you can really get in to character and the character could even be near exact to you, and you can really get in to it, but at the end of the day you can recognize that it's not you.
Even if someone decides the best way to do this is to play a character opposite from them, it's still not a guarantee there wont be an ooc/ic issue. It can still affect a person emotionally ooc, and examples of this is like with what happened to Heath Ledger (Even if Heath wasn't actually like the Joker) and more or less the Joker killing him, but that's also a different situation than with rp in an mmo because the computer can help somewhat with separation too as you're not physically putting yourself in character, which actually does affect the level of connection between actor/player and character
And I ended up ranting a bit Sorry D; I'm just kind of passionate about acting and rp
It keeps them from being too similar but same time can relate to them and helps with putting myself in their shoes.
Quite a few people seem to have issues that I admit that I am like all my characters, even if I'm not exactly or even seem to be very different. Usually because they feel the only way to actually rp a character well and maintain the ooc/ic separation is because
But really it's a common enough thing with acting too. If it's someone else's character you find something about them you can relate to and use it as a base for helping understand the character and motives and for pulling yourself in to character, even with aspects of them that arn't similar to yours.
I grew up with theater stuff and earliest I remember doing things in plays/being in a show is 5 years old and been pretty active in it. I wanted to do professional acting like for movies and things but mom never took me to auditions for those because she didn't want to deal with the typical things of stalking and lack of privacy and everything else negative that comes with getting bigger, more public roles.
Kal is outwardly very confident and sensual, as well as loud and mischievous. Quite a bit of her personality is in a base of what I was like when I was a kid. Not exactly, and I was largely still introverted and not very sexual, but I liked to play tricks on people and was like... a friendly bully that would tease people and friends a lot but usually wasn't malicious about it. She's caring but she can also be very violent and physical too, especially when angry. And when I was a kid my temperament was horrible and I got in a lot of fights.
Dheina is anxiety, simple-mindedness, being emotional, and part of me that really hates people getting hurt, and has issues with feeling useless and tries to hard for people's approval or hurts themselves trying to get something done that they most likely can't because of emotional or physical limitations but doesnt want to disappoint people.
Sam is probably closest in temperament and all to how I am now but is pretty much based on identity confusion and really having no clue what to do with themselves or their life and mostly kind of just wandering around aimlessly until something hits them in the face for what to do with themselves.
Armimi is a more serious character with more interest in science and learning how things work than interactions with people.
Cardea is part of my brain that is pretty much in the gutter and goofy, but also based on a kind of idea I think about for being flirty and also probably based less on a personality trait of myself but more off the black widow seductress types you see enough on tv to figure out the characterization.
And Samhain is more or less off the misanthropic part of me that's also has sociopathic tendencies. Based on the part of me that allowed for the interest in torture devices and methods when I was younger. The part of my thoughts that come up when angry or just tired of people and how the world works and saying fuck people I don't give a shit. That thinks "You got a problem with me, that's your problem".
Honestly I see nothing wrong with people taking parts of themselves and using it as a base concept to expand on and experiment with or create characters. Just because a character is based on something of yourself doesn't mean that character is you or that there's an issue with an ooc/ic separation.
The problem is when you take problems the character has personally. Like if someone's character doesnt like yours, you feel it's a personal attack on yourself by the player (This character hates mine so therefore their player hates me!) and you get angry and you use the character as a mouthpiece for your own feelings towards the other character and their player.
This has been an issue I've seen before where someone has made a number of characters that differ slightly but overall have the same way of thinking and speaking that also matched up with how the person acted oocly. One character of theirs had a problem with mine or they oocly had a problem with me and suddenly all characters would hate mine for the exact reason they oocly hated me/my character and they'd use the same insults and language as they did oocly and would throw fits the same way icly as oocly whenever something didn't go their way.
I have a lot of friends with characters that don't like mine, but we're still friends oocly and have a lot of fun and while the characters don't get along and exhibit traits we have, whether commonly or just on occasion, we recognize that it's character stuff and not personal.... though been times of course with ooc apologizing for their character and saying sorry their person doesn't like mine though they may oocly love mine.
Some of my friend's characters I absolutely adore oocly but they just don't get along with certain characters of mine.
I don't know this may be confusing for what I'm trying to point out here. But basically to me rp is like Improve acting and you can really get in to character and the character could even be near exact to you, and you can really get in to it, but at the end of the day you can recognize that it's not you.
Even if someone decides the best way to do this is to play a character opposite from them, it's still not a guarantee there wont be an ooc/ic issue. It can still affect a person emotionally ooc, and examples of this is like with what happened to Heath Ledger (Even if Heath wasn't actually like the Joker) and more or less the Joker killing him, but that's also a different situation than with rp in an mmo because the computer can help somewhat with separation too as you're not physically putting yourself in character, which actually does affect the level of connection between actor/player and character
And I ended up ranting a bit Sorry D; I'm just kind of passionate about acting and rp
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