
...you try to extrapolate the base effects of Eorzean crafting components based on what they're used to make in the crafting menu just in case you ever have to make/explain an item in character. And then you realize goddamn, I'm not a fucking alchemist.
...you don't RP a character until you're 100% sure you have their mannerisms and/or speech patterns down because the mental anguish of goofing your own character makes you want to sepukku in shame. So you have a conversation with yourself while pretending to be this fictional person you made up.
...your character begins to bleed into real life. Not emotionally, but you begin to react to things and situations and things twice: once as you, and once as your character.
...you write solo and the banter isn't good enough and you delete it out of shame, but you don't have the balls to share it in the first place.
...you don't RP a character until you're 100% sure you have their mannerisms and/or speech patterns down because the mental anguish of goofing your own character makes you want to sepukku in shame. So you have a conversation with yourself while pretending to be this fictional person you made up.
...your character begins to bleed into real life. Not emotionally, but you begin to react to things and situations and things twice: once as you, and once as your character.
...you write solo and the banter isn't good enough and you delete it out of shame, but you don't have the balls to share it in the first place.