I play two different kinds of anti-social characters, though it never really occurred to me until stopping at this thread. I'm not sure what that says about me...
So, first we have Kym'a. He's very shy, perhaps to the point of it being painful for everyone around him. He generally won't initiate contact with other people, so I have a few different ways of initiating it for him. The first and foremost way is that he is a total klutz, so I'll literally just have him fall into RP situations -tripping, accidentally hitting someone with his tail, dropping things in the way of himself and others, etc.
He's a SCH, and I actively role play both the ACN aspects and more recently the SCH aspects. I also actively use the pets in role play, something I've done since table top games with my necromancers and their summoned pets, and such.
His Emerald Carbuncle is more of an active hook, as she's a bit of a bitch and will sometimes be the cause of aforementioned falls or will outright push him towards people, or she'll go initiate contact with people, because she's very vain and a bit of an attention whore. Macha's a lot like a cat, really...if cats were mafia bosses, because she's a bit more cunning than your average cat - she's put Kym'a into some awfully strange situations to get him to do what she wants, or get her what she wants.
The faeries are a bit more of a passive hook. He mostly brings Althea, his Eos fae, to events. Even though she can't talk, she does use a lot of body language, and has a very clear personality (based on the fact the SCH quest faerie had a clear personality in the cut scenes). People usually start talking to Ky just because the faerie is there, and their curious, or they'll see Althea actively instructing Ky on healing and watch them work and get curious. This forces him to talk and interact.
Needless to say, all three methods take a lot of emoting, because I do all of my pet interactions via emotes. Even after the talking gets rolling, the pet actions are still done via emote so that they're clearly not part of the talking conversation.
Anti-Social number two is Claire, and her brand of anti-social is the more classic brooding anti-hero kind. I think. She's just not one for using energy for excessive amounts of words or actions. She doesn't really show much in the way of emotions in public, and her humour is generally dead panned in presentation if she bothers with it at all. She's seen a lot of combat, and thinks like someone who focuses on fighting more than anything else, and she has a very clear cut set of goals in life.
There are, however, a number of things about her that do draw attention that I emote as RP hooks; not all of them are things people notice, so I do put sort of clauses on the ones that need them. She rarely keeps her back to the open, usually keeping it to a wall or some form of solid structure. Something people familiar with combatants will notice - when she enters a room, she always takes a moment to analyse all of the room's occupants, gauging their combat strengths and weaknesses based on their body language; she also tends to keep track of where people are in a room in relation to herself. If she ends up not immediately engaging with people, I will continue to emote what she's doing from time to time to let people know that I am an RP, and hint that she might be approachable. Like if she's reading her book, she'll glance up and look around, take a drink or eat something, look at specific people, etc, before looking back down at the book.
There are hooks that will draw her attention, though. Having reverse hooks for anti-social characters kinda does help too. (Like Kym'a's reverse hook is languages!) If people start talking about combat, or mention the front lines, or talk about the Maelstrom, or aetheric creatures, she'll usually find a way to draw herself into the conversation; she immediately finds a way to join the conversation or will become a super-active eavesdropper if someone mentions specific monsters or persons (but that would be telling).
So...yes, high levels of narration like Azalea noted, and like Sae said, manipulate your environment into responding to you, along with having some sort of reverse hooks that always draw your character in are pretty solid ways to make RP work as an anti-social character
So, first we have Kym'a. He's very shy, perhaps to the point of it being painful for everyone around him. He generally won't initiate contact with other people, so I have a few different ways of initiating it for him. The first and foremost way is that he is a total klutz, so I'll literally just have him fall into RP situations -tripping, accidentally hitting someone with his tail, dropping things in the way of himself and others, etc.
He's a SCH, and I actively role play both the ACN aspects and more recently the SCH aspects. I also actively use the pets in role play, something I've done since table top games with my necromancers and their summoned pets, and such.
His Emerald Carbuncle is more of an active hook, as she's a bit of a bitch and will sometimes be the cause of aforementioned falls or will outright push him towards people, or she'll go initiate contact with people, because she's very vain and a bit of an attention whore. Macha's a lot like a cat, really...if cats were mafia bosses, because she's a bit more cunning than your average cat - she's put Kym'a into some awfully strange situations to get him to do what she wants, or get her what she wants.
The faeries are a bit more of a passive hook. He mostly brings Althea, his Eos fae, to events. Even though she can't talk, she does use a lot of body language, and has a very clear personality (based on the fact the SCH quest faerie had a clear personality in the cut scenes). People usually start talking to Ky just because the faerie is there, and their curious, or they'll see Althea actively instructing Ky on healing and watch them work and get curious. This forces him to talk and interact.
Needless to say, all three methods take a lot of emoting, because I do all of my pet interactions via emotes. Even after the talking gets rolling, the pet actions are still done via emote so that they're clearly not part of the talking conversation.
Anti-Social number two is Claire, and her brand of anti-social is the more classic brooding anti-hero kind. I think. She's just not one for using energy for excessive amounts of words or actions. She doesn't really show much in the way of emotions in public, and her humour is generally dead panned in presentation if she bothers with it at all. She's seen a lot of combat, and thinks like someone who focuses on fighting more than anything else, and she has a very clear cut set of goals in life.
There are, however, a number of things about her that do draw attention that I emote as RP hooks; not all of them are things people notice, so I do put sort of clauses on the ones that need them. She rarely keeps her back to the open, usually keeping it to a wall or some form of solid structure. Something people familiar with combatants will notice - when she enters a room, she always takes a moment to analyse all of the room's occupants, gauging their combat strengths and weaknesses based on their body language; she also tends to keep track of where people are in a room in relation to herself. If she ends up not immediately engaging with people, I will continue to emote what she's doing from time to time to let people know that I am an RP, and hint that she might be approachable. Like if she's reading her book, she'll glance up and look around, take a drink or eat something, look at specific people, etc, before looking back down at the book.
There are hooks that will draw her attention, though. Having reverse hooks for anti-social characters kinda does help too. (Like Kym'a's reverse hook is languages!) If people start talking about combat, or mention the front lines, or talk about the Maelstrom, or aetheric creatures, she'll usually find a way to draw herself into the conversation; she immediately finds a way to join the conversation or will become a super-active eavesdropper if someone mentions specific monsters or persons (but that would be telling).
So...yes, high levels of narration like Azalea noted, and like Sae said, manipulate your environment into responding to you, along with having some sort of reverse hooks that always draw your character in are pretty solid ways to make RP work as an anti-social character
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