ugh god
So I started RPing in earnest on Gaia Online - I'd done some forum stuff before then but nothing too serious - and I think it kind of locked me into the one-one-one mindset, since on Gaia RP groups (usually accompanied by threads with complicated graphics and text formatting and players posting paragraphs about tying shoelaces in the name of advanced lit) never lasted long and one-on-one stuff was easier to manage and more reliable.Â
From this, I fell into the habit of creating characters with someone and tormenting them and/or metaphorically smushing their faces together and screaming NOW KISS. The most important part of it for me though was the extensive OOC communication. I loved the idea of creating a world with someone that's fun and lush with ideas and sometimes branches off into alternate universes and whatnot. I've had RP partnerships that have lasted years.
THE THING IS.
I haven't found an RP partner yet on FFXIV to do mushy gross shiptrash things with and create extensive character lore and be sadistic with and generally have a heavy level of involvement. And that bugs me more than it should and it just sounds childish and ugh
Also people tend to assume (rightfully so, you do have to be cautious) that you're some sort of creeper looking for an OOC relationship when you bring up intense RP partnership, so then I get nervous, and then end up hovering in the QS never talking to anyone ever and just being involved in my friends' plots and in FC RP, but not really having exactly my itch scratched.
So I started RPing in earnest on Gaia Online - I'd done some forum stuff before then but nothing too serious - and I think it kind of locked me into the one-one-one mindset, since on Gaia RP groups (usually accompanied by threads with complicated graphics and text formatting and players posting paragraphs about tying shoelaces in the name of advanced lit) never lasted long and one-on-one stuff was easier to manage and more reliable.Â
From this, I fell into the habit of creating characters with someone and tormenting them and/or metaphorically smushing their faces together and screaming NOW KISS. The most important part of it for me though was the extensive OOC communication. I loved the idea of creating a world with someone that's fun and lush with ideas and sometimes branches off into alternate universes and whatnot. I've had RP partnerships that have lasted years.
THE THING IS.
I haven't found an RP partner yet on FFXIV to do mushy gross shiptrash things with and create extensive character lore and be sadistic with and generally have a heavy level of involvement. And that bugs me more than it should and it just sounds childish and ugh
Also people tend to assume (rightfully so, you do have to be cautious) that you're some sort of creeper looking for an OOC relationship when you bring up intense RP partnership, so then I get nervous, and then end up hovering in the QS never talking to anyone ever and just being involved in my friends' plots and in FC RP, but not really having exactly my itch scratched.
