Quote:Posted by Zope - Today 10:41 PMBroody/introverted/ect doesn't mean short and simple descriptions to their less than extravagant actions or behavior, imo. For instance:
Ava laughs loudly, slapping her thigh. Is short and simple, but it's a fairly outgoing and...action...ful...emote. If I wanted to go into detail, I could have mentioned that her eyes closed and her head tilted back, or that she also leaned forward and back once or twice in the process of her boisterous laughter. Sure, that'd be a longer description with more words, but the action in my head looks the same. She isn't doing more actions or the like in the longer description of the action the description is just....longer.
Similar to broody: Ava exhales slowly through her nose, her head tilting downward to her left, eyes shifting to view the feet of the person next to her. Is longer than, Ava sighs, looking away. But the -action- is the same. She isn't less broody because I went into a more detailed description of her broody-ness.
@Edit to say that there's nothing wrong with short and simple emotes. To each their own, and from my days of multi guild/cross faction guild events in WoW, sometimes those long-winded emotes just aren't gonna work out. But the length of an emote doesn't exactly have to do with how interactive or hyper or physically expressive a character is.
I saw your edit at the last second before making a reply. Thank you, that answers my question. I wanted to basically know what people thought of descriptive emotes, and also wanted advice on how one might go about making emotes descriptive for a character without ruining their broody-ness.
I should have asked the questions that way, but sometimes my mind has a way of putting a bunch of fluff into what I write without properly getting to the point.
