This depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to show that your character has changed in some way from what they once were, this can be shown by using incidental dialogue and actions to describe how they are no longer what they once were. Maybe they reflect on the changes and marvel at it. Maybe there are documents that show what they used to be, documents you can show players. There's options.
If your goal is to show that your character is in some way more powerful or dangerous than any other given character because of in-game RP and they should be respected for it . . . well, you can't. It might as well all be pre-written backstory from the perspective of a new player who's never met you before. and, indeed, one of the most obnoxious things I remember from freeform RP sites like Ayenee and Rhydin was the tendency of players to insist because the character had been played for X years and had all these cool abilities that they "earned" through RP, that I should respond to that accordingly. I am pretty willing to react as a player wants if they want to be seen as cool or witty or whatever, but doing so based on the argument of character longevity alone was one that never quite sat right with me.
If your goal is to show that your character is in some way more powerful or dangerous than any other given character because of in-game RP and they should be respected for it . . . well, you can't. It might as well all be pre-written backstory from the perspective of a new player who's never met you before. and, indeed, one of the most obnoxious things I remember from freeform RP sites like Ayenee and Rhydin was the tendency of players to insist because the character had been played for X years and had all these cool abilities that they "earned" through RP, that I should respond to that accordingly. I am pretty willing to react as a player wants if they want to be seen as cool or witty or whatever, but doing so based on the argument of character longevity alone was one that never quite sat right with me.
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Current Fate-14 Storyline:Â Merchant, Marine
Current Fate-14 Storyline:Â Merchant, Marine
