My RP partner and I were both recently harassed a very stalker-esque player who went to great lengths IC and OOC to try to get with each of our characters and tear apart their current relationship, even creating two characters and two separate Enjin profiles to pretend to be two different people. Some part of me can't help but wonder if it's the same person. At any rate, I've been there, more than once, with a character that relentlessly pursues mine and slowly it beings to leak OOC. It's uncomfortable and incredibly off-putting.Â
As for my role-play, while romance is my favorite thing to RP and I hope my characters will find it, my characters are fully-functional without being in a relationship. IC they aren't desperate for romance, and OOC I don't try to force the role-play in that direction. Trying to force a role-play toward romance or sex is... honestly weird and probably hints at some blurring of IC with OOC. It seems some people use RP relationships to validate themselves and their self-worth the same way some people do in real life, and I'm sure those who do are one in the same. In both, it's obviously incorrect that you should base your self-esteem on another person, and that kind of desperation, ironically, turns most people away.
As for my role-play, while romance is my favorite thing to RP and I hope my characters will find it, my characters are fully-functional without being in a relationship. IC they aren't desperate for romance, and OOC I don't try to force the role-play in that direction. Trying to force a role-play toward romance or sex is... honestly weird and probably hints at some blurring of IC with OOC. It seems some people use RP relationships to validate themselves and their self-worth the same way some people do in real life, and I'm sure those who do are one in the same. In both, it's obviously incorrect that you should base your self-esteem on another person, and that kind of desperation, ironically, turns most people away.
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