(08-11-2015, 09:25 AM)Gegenji Wrote:(08-11-2015, 09:22 AM)Blue Wrote:(08-11-2015, 08:54 AM)Gegenji Wrote: 1. I have this horrible need to have to explain why my character would be somewhere. I actively shoot myself in the foot here and there because I want to RP with someone, but they're over "there" and my character is over "here" and I somehow get it into my head that I can't have it happen because there's no IC reason for my character to be over there.
There is absolutely nothing "horrible" about this, or you are calling me horrible for doing this as well. I frankly wouldn't even consider it a confession... It's just common sense that should be in every good roleplayer. Roleplaying is acting, it's writing a script, it's directing your own movie. If a movie character you were watching suddenly moved to point A to point B without reason whatsoever, wouldn't you yell "WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING THERE NOW?!" at the screen? I know I would.
So yeah, don't be ashamed of that, it's a good trait.
Well, the usual response I get is to just BS a reason why the character would be way over there. Or not even worry about a reason and just toss them there regardless. Not to mention there's others who will do stuff like that and have their characters suddenly in the middle of Coerthas to get that sweet-sweet RP I desire so much. So it makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong, at least, by being so stringent on where my characters are and where they could be.
I relate to this a lot. Sounsyy can neither teleport (weak aetherially) nor fly (terrified of flying), so this really limits her movements realistically. So I mostly just RP her as being in transit between Limsa and Ul'dah most of the time. I like to keep my options open to be in those places, but can be hard when I've got something I wanna do in Ul'dah and my character is doing something in Limsa.
Currently Sounsyy is out in the middle of the Indigo Deep and has been for a little over a month now doing a plot, which explains my RP absence. Eventually, she's going to wash up in the Hinterlands. And I'll have to RP her trying to make her way back to "civilized" Eorzea. In the meantime, really missing Grindstone. ; ;
As for my own confessions?
1 - I'm a terribad para-RPer. And it's not that I'm a slow typer, but it takes me forever to think of what to type. /trying to get better about short posts.
2 - XIV is first MMO I've had the guts (kinda) to jump into open world RP. I've done it passingly in other MMOs, but meh. Strangers are terrifying.
3 - I post lore stuff on the forums. In RP, I'm really not a stickler for strict lore-compliance. Some of my favorite RPers take something that's vaguely justifiable in lore and make something super creative out of the grey area. I love that kind of thing!
4 - I like reading people's wikis. And usually have a huge bout of "I WANNA ARRRPEEE WITH THEM SO HARD" shortly after.
