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ArmachiA · **12-24-2013, 02:02 PM**

(12-24-2013, 12:37 PM)Ildur Wrote:
(12-24-2013, 10:49 AM)Raeletta Wrote: Plus, sex is a part of life, why would you not RP it?
Going to the bathroom is also a part of life. Yet nobody roleplays that. Why? Because the specifics of going to the bathroom (or sex, for that matter) don't add anything to the story or your character.

Now, I'm not a hardcore ERP-er, but I don't think that's true.

Roleplaying out a sex scene, depending on context, can add a lot to your character.

~ What if your character and the other character are together for the first time? How would they react to each other? How would each others quirks work in that kind of situation?

~ What if your character is a virgin? How would that play out? IT would be hard to fade-to-black that without a LOT of discussion on what that entailed because there are just a lot of logistics in losing something that important (I'm not saying it's impossible to FTB for that, I've done it, you just really need to communicate what you think happened and it actually could be easier to just rp the whole thing).

Those are just two off-hand. It's like violence. In a violent scene a character can learn a lot about themselves, but TOO MUCH violence loses meaning. Going out and killing people everyday, well you know how your character would reacte, you don't need to rp it all out. It's the same. Sex is part of the experience of your character if you want it to be, but doing it everyday - after you know how your character would react or - loses some of it's meaning.

I actually have had people RP the specifics of going to the bathroom when they were going to get knocked out or attacked or something in there. Context is everything!

It's weird how people say "But thats not important to your character." EVERYTHING can be important to your character.

I have roleplayed Armi baking cupcakes. Yup, just baking cupcakes. That... was the whole thing. She was with two friends and they just baked cupcakes. Sounds unimportant right? There was so much behind that, so much story in the background, that even BAKING CUPCAKES became an important character building experience.

Don't count out anything just because you don't agree with it.

The Stigma

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