With most characters the most I do is catch a wee case of 'the feels', feeling happy or bad for them in particularly emotional situations. I've laughed a lot and cried or felt a little crabby more than few times over my roleplaying career, and have edged into territory where I was over-identifying and needed to remind myself to back off a bit. I don't consider a little emotional investment in a good story to be a bad thing as long as you're feeling that FOR your character and not as something super personal. But when it stresses you out or makes it to the point where you aren't having fun things need to change. It's something I actively watch for and try to nip in the bud as early as possible. Taking it the other way and venting certain OOC moods IC is also something that I try to avoid. I'd rather not RP at all if I'm crabby and having difficulty reacting otherwise IC, than bring down someone else's day and possibly veer my character OOC for what and who they're supposed to be.
...cripes that was a ramble. Sorry if the flow of thought is hard to follow. Bleed-through is something I struggled pretty hard with in the past, though a big part of it might have been being young and over-invested.
No, my main hangup comes when handed OOC authority/responsibility that goes along with my IC fun times. :< My stress management needs work, so I Â just sidestep that pothole in the road as often as I can unless the work comes in small manageable doses.
...cripes that was a ramble. Sorry if the flow of thought is hard to follow. Bleed-through is something I struggled pretty hard with in the past, though a big part of it might have been being young and over-invested.
No, my main hangup comes when handed OOC authority/responsibility that goes along with my IC fun times. :< My stress management needs work, so I Â just sidestep that pothole in the road as often as I can unless the work comes in small manageable doses.
Heavenly Calyx's wiki, a work still very much in progress
S'amina Fhey's wiki, an even rougher draft
S'amina Fhey's wiki, an even rougher draft
