(12-24-2013, 02:02 PM)ArmachiA Wrote: 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).
Quoted for truth. Even if you don't fully RP out such scenes, those are two examples of where some sort of RP around the event is going to provide character development. Whether that's an OOC glossing over of the key points, some IC pillow talk afterwards (which, I might add, tends to produce some very interesting RP even if the event itself is faded to black), or a fully, ah, "detailed" scene, these are two examples of story milestones that offer big opportunities for character development. It'd be a pity to squander them out of a dislike of ERP -- which is not to say that they require ERP, but that some discussion of the act itself is going to be necessary to reap the narrative benefits.
It is possible for a sex scene to develop a character. I do believe several authors, playwrights, screenwriters, and others would take issue with the claim that it can't.
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