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Oilbasedoleander · **08-10-2015, 11:10 PM**

My RP intrigue started in AOL chat rooms when I was a youngin'. My first character was a Carpathian named Raven... because I was an angsty teen who read way to many Christine Feehan novels because vampire romance was soooooo legit. But it eventually came back around thanks to Twilight? I'd like to pretend that doesn't exist though... moving on.

During work (I'm a massage therapist), I get incredibly bored staring at the painting in my work space so my imagination runs wild with things my character experiences and ideas flourish and I use most actions in my random RP's with folks. And sometimes I forget if I've worked on the the clients right leg already... *ahem*

I've been strictly chat/forum RPing. I've played WoW for over four years, and never once roleplayed in-game. I found it... limiting. And I prefer to write and describe which you just can't do in such a fast paced environment where the deeds you do are on a whim instead of planned. The first time I ever roleplayed in-game was in FFXIV. And it was awesome. And I initiated because Chaz is just bubbly and enjoys being a social butterfly.

Backstories... *sigh* I'm terrible at them. I can not plan out my characters back story completely. I always keep it general to leave room for intrigue and minute details while interacting with other characters. It keeps the RP interesting, and me from getting bored.

My RP style reflects my taste for action/adventure, slice of life, romance and drama. I love having it all. And I will lovingly put my characters through the ringer... and yours and LET YOU put mine through hell as well. I do my best to spark reactions. To make you feel something. Whether it's amusement or full blown "omg-wtf-did-you-do, wwhhhyyyyyy!!" I love it all, and I want my unique character to be memorable to yours.

Hrmm... that's it really.

Artigan · **08-11-2015, 12:25 AM**

Sometimes Artigan touches himself at night.

Kaniko Niko · **08-11-2015, 12:37 AM**

I'm an enabler. I get my kicks out of fleshing out an already established world. My mind is such a churning chaos of creativity that every attempt made and spinning something from whole cloth tends to fray and the threads snap.

And the spinning wheel locks up. Then the loom collapses in on itself.

Give me an idea. Your character. Your character's perception of mine. Your headcanon on how you think Magic A works. The fact Eorzea is such a huge, rich world is such a bounty for me that I can't even begin to explain it. There's joy to be found in pulling weeds in the farm in Upper La Noscea. Fun to be had in plastering up posters for the next big fight in the Coliseum. Slaving away in front of a forge? Yes, please!

My confession is that I want to bask in the possibilities afforded to me.

Kaiz · **08-11-2015, 02:07 AM**

4: As attractive as your character is, my eyes are always fixated on my own character. I'm sorry. I know you're pretty but... I'm just prettier. Nothing personal. Honest.

Artigan · **08-11-2015, 03:10 AM**

(08-11-2015, 02:07 AM)Kaiz Wrote: 4: As attractive as your character is, my eyes are always fixated on my own character. I'm sorry. I know you're pretty but... I'm just prettier. Nothing personal. Honest.

I know right?

Kurt S. · **08-11-2015, 04:02 AM**

I haven't rp'd before, ever, and I swear to god and doge almighty I still have no idea what the hell i'm doing most of the time. I just...roll with it. I like to roll with things and it makes some really shitty things for Kat meanwhile vaguely interesting scenarios for me.Â

Also I have a habit of biting more off more than I can chew in terms of rp.

LadyRochester · **08-11-2015, 07:16 AM**

8. This one might offend more people than necessary, but I usually avoid characters that don't match the OOC player's sexuality because of how unrealistically they are portrayed. I found that gay people roleplaying heterosexual or bisexual characters roleplay them rather poorly, often making these characters come off as ridiculously cartoony (And more often than not, their characters eventually end up going exclusively for the same sex anyway.) This also applies to straight roleplayers roleplaying gay or "bisexual" characters. Most players can't roleplay a character that doesn't match their sexuality. I also despise how 9/10 times straight men roleplaying lesbians (and straight women roelplaying gay men) do these characters to fulfill their homoerotic fantasies. It's sexualizing and degrading to the LGBT community. So if you're one of these people, chances are that I have judged you. Have I met rpers who managed to rp a different sexuality realistically? Yes, but it's extremely rare.

9. I may or may not have shed a tear once or twice during really emotionally intensive moments for characters. I'm kind of a sucker for tragedy. I'm the kind of person who watches Titanic ten times and enjoys every single tear that rolls down my cheek.

10. Most people irl think I'm very cold and emotionally detached from everyone. I cringe at the thought of any of them seeing my more sensitive side. Sobbing and getting all warm and fuzzy over RP.

Gegenji · **08-11-2015, 08:54 AM**

Confessions, confessions, hm.

Well, I suppose I can start with the same thing everyone else has - I started back on AOL chats for online RP, but my very first full RP experience was a 2nd Edition DnD game where I basically played myself as a wizard. It... wasn't as cringe-worthy as you might expect, but the group fell apart when my parents wanted to keep me away from the game for a while - so I've always held this slightly egotistical view that I was keeping the group together. Blush

As for current RP, there's a few things I could probably fess up about.

1. I have this horrible need to have to explain why my character would be somewhere. I actively shoot myself in the foot here and there because I want to RP with someone, but they're over "there" and my character is over "here" and I somehow get it into my head that I can't have it happen because there's no IC reason for my character to be over there. Which conflicts with another sort of hypocritical issue I have:

2. I really want to try and roll with all the punches that get thrown my way. Improve my improv and general RP skills - but I'm generally not very good at it, resulting in situations where something is happening and I'm just sort of... standing there doing nothing or providing meager input as I try to figure out how I want to have my characters handle it. And if it's suitably off-kilter or wacky enough - the "one-way-to-win Berserker" or the NPC that was haphazardly discarded by having them take a tumble to their death - I'll resort to complaining about it more than working with it. Which gets worse as this flows into:

3. I really don't like blocking people, and rather try to deal with them ICly as part of Part 2. However, this also means I'm purposefully putting myself in annoying situations from time to time and then will openly complain about it later. Even worse, the general solution of "blacklist them" oftentimes just irks me and I get all defensive about it. Sad

4. Like several others, I'm rather nervous and timid about initiating RP. I don't want to interrupt anything, I worry that I might not have anything to actually bring to the RP, and I even worry that the other person or people involved might not even like my character. Add this to Confession #1, and you have someone who often fails to get that RP they yearn for. So, I instead just quietly ask over LS or FC chat "Hey, anyone wanna RP?" and then fade into silence and go back to FATE grinding or leveling Chachan's crafting classes.

And, um... well... there's one more that I feel the most awkward about mentioning...

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Blue · **08-11-2015, 09:22 AM**

(08-11-2015, 08:54 AM)Gegenji Wrote: 1. I have this horrible need to have to explain why my character would be somewhere. I actively shoot myself in the foot here and there because I want to RP with someone, but they're over "there" and my character is over "here" and I somehow get it into my head that I can't have it happen because there's no IC reason for my character to be over there.

There is absolutely nothing "horrible" about this, or you are calling me horrible for doing this as well. I frankly wouldn't even consider it a confession... It's just common sense that should be in every good roleplayer. Roleplaying is acting, it's writing a script, it's directing your own movie. If a movie character you were watching suddenly moved to point A to point B without reason whatsoever, wouldn't you yell "WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING THERE NOW?!" at the screen? I know I would.

So yeah, don't be ashamed of that, it's a good trait.

---------------- Also, new confession:

I once saw an IC partner of an RP friend of mine ICly cheat on them... And didn't say anything. Because I was in that location OOC at the time. Oh, but I wish I had been there IC <.<

Gegenji · **08-11-2015, 09:25 AM**

(08-11-2015, 09:22 AM)Blue Wrote:
(08-11-2015, 08:54 AM)Gegenji Wrote: 1. I have this horrible need to have to explain why my character would be somewhere. I actively shoot myself in the foot here and there because I want to RP with someone, but they're over "there" and my character is over "here" and I somehow get it into my head that I can't have it happen because there's no IC reason for my character to be over there.

There is absolutely nothing "horrible" about this, or you are calling me horrible for doing this as well. I frankly wouldn't even consider it a confession... It's just common sense that should be in every good roleplayer. Roleplaying is acting, it's writing a script, it's directing your own movie. If a movie character you were watching suddenly moved to point A to point B without reason whatsoever, wouldn't you yell "WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING THERE NOW?!" at the screen? I know I would.

So yeah, don't be ashamed of that, it's a good trait.

Well, the usual response I get is to just BS a reason why the character would be way over there. Or not even worry about a reason and just toss them there regardless. Not to mention there's others who will do stuff like that and have their characters suddenly in the middle of Coerthas to get that sweet-sweet RP I desire so much. So it makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong, at least, by being so stringent on where my characters are and where they could be. Sad

Sylentmana · **08-11-2015, 09:30 AM**

5. I prefer to remain IC while logged in and react to players and the world in a more organic way rather than acting out "scenarios". To me, that's more akin to stage acting than RP, though I suppose its really just a question of preference.

6. People who ERP don't really bother me so long as they don't harass me with it and aren't just openly banging out in the open, like right in the Aetheryte plaza or something.

7. I might get some flak for this, but...I cringe a bit whenever I read a wiki or meet a character who has a "dark/super tragic" backstory. Minus double points if it makes the character all "angsty." It just seems like these types are everywhere and its getting a little old.

8. I'm silently judging you for your misspellings and improper use of grammar in your wiki. Wink

Not so much in-game though as you don't often have the time to proofread as thoroughly as a wiki.

9. I think players who can have their characters carry on a conversation while walking have crazy mad RP skills. I can't do that and I respect others' ability to do so.

10. I allow for a certain level of meta when RPing solo so I can suddenly go from an open field or city to a dungeon (duty finder) without it bothering me or disrupting my RP experience. Put simply: my immersion is only disrupted when I allow it to be. It would take the game crashing to pull me out of immersion against my will.

Aaron · **08-11-2015, 09:37 AM**

Also a confession that should get rid of any uncertainty.

If your girl character is hot, Aaron's probably looking at her. He was staring at Ritsu in a swim suit the other day and it was just funny how he did it in front of everyone.Â

Anyone who says you can't be loner and still check out girls is a goddamn lie.

Sounsyy · **08-11-2015, 09:59 AM**

(08-11-2015, 09:25 AM)Gegenji Wrote:
(08-11-2015, 09:22 AM)Blue Wrote:
(08-11-2015, 08:54 AM)Gegenji Wrote: 1. I have this horrible need to have to explain why my character would be somewhere. I actively shoot myself in the foot here and there because I want to RP with someone, but they're over "there" and my character is over "here" and I somehow get it into my head that I can't have it happen because there's no IC reason for my character to be over there.

There is absolutely nothing "horrible" about this, or you are calling me horrible for doing this as well. I frankly wouldn't even consider it a confession... It's just common sense that should be in every good roleplayer. Roleplaying is acting, it's writing a script, it's directing your own movie. If a movie character you were watching suddenly moved to point A to point B without reason whatsoever, wouldn't you yell "WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING THERE NOW?!" at the screen? I know I would.

So yeah, don't be ashamed of that, it's a good trait.

Well, the usual response I get is to just BS a reason why the character would be way over there. Or not even worry about a reason and just toss them there regardless. Not to mention there's others who will do stuff like that and have their characters suddenly in the middle of Coerthas to get that sweet-sweet RP I desire so much. So it makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong, at least, by being so stringent on where my characters are and where they could be.

I relate to this a lot. Sounsyy can neither teleport (weak aetherially) nor fly (terrified of flying), so this really limits her movements realistically. So I mostly just RP her as being in transit between Limsa and Ul'dah most of the time. I like to keep my options open to be in those places, but can be hard when I've got something I wanna do in Ul'dah and my character is doing something in Limsa.

Currently Sounsyy is out in the middle of the Indigo Deep and has been for a little over a month now doing a plot, which explains my RP absence. Eventually, she's going to wash up in the Hinterlands. And I'll have to RP her trying to make her way back to "civilized" Eorzea. In the meantime, really missing Grindstone. ; ;

As for my own confessions?
1 - I'm a terribad para-RPer. And it's not that I'm a slow typer, but it takes me forever to think of what to type. /trying to get better about short posts.

2 - XIV is first MMO I've had the guts (kinda) to jump into open world RP. I've done it passingly in other MMOs, but meh. Strangers are terrifying.

3 - I post lore stuff on the forums. In RP, I'm really not a stickler for strict lore-compliance. Some of my favorite RPers take something that's vaguely justifiable in lore and make something super creative out of the grey area. I love that kind of thing!

4 - I like reading people's wikis. And usually have a huge bout of "I WANNA ARRRPEEE WITH THEM SO HARD" shortly after.

Caspar · **08-11-2015, 10:07 AM**

Yeah, I wanted to do the "can't teleport" thing but instead just settled for it making her sick, being unable to do it alone, and sometimes teleporting into the wrong place, or into the air. I just couldn't give up the convenience because so many events had too much time constraint to realistically use the airship. I still kind of want to do it though.

Kage · **08-11-2015, 10:09 AM**

(08-11-2015, 09:22 AM)Blue Wrote:
(08-11-2015, 08:54 AM)Gegenji Wrote: 1. I have this horrible need to have to explain why my character would be somewhere. I actively shoot myself in the foot here and there because I want to RP with someone, but they're over "there" and my character is over "here" and I somehow get it into my head that I can't have it happen because there's no IC reason for my character to be over there.

There is absolutely nothing "horrible" about this, or you are calling me horrible for doing this as well. I frankly wouldn't even consider it a confession...

I believe you are misunderstanding where the horrible comes from. It is not the act or person doing the act that is horrible.

"Horrible need" is a figure of speech used to describe a desire that one has that we perceive others might see as unnecessary or irrational.

I have had others give me a similar sentiment (Aetheryte travel etc). This is true for Kage who is actually able to do so (he has the gil for the fees but most especially he has the aether to do so) but in the current moment he's going to be in the Ishgardian areas. Someone had casually mentioned that there was nothing to stop me from having Kage travel to and from Ishgard to the Grindstone every week, but per the character he doesn't feel it's safe to do so. In other times that was easy but currently his mindset is 'can't go out too far away'.

It's just simply a matter of figuring out even the tiniest of hooks. Sure a character might hate x-city-state. But perhaps they had to track someone down there or perhaps a story arc forces them to, the story repercussions and character development is delightful.

In fact, someone I know plays a character that absolutely abhors Ishgard. Kage tried to get him there through any means (some much more beneficial to Kage than the other and some were to perhaps help dive into the character). Instead of what I imagined, the character is there and it's sorta the usual time-to-be-mean-to-Kage way. >.>

(08-11-2015, 09:59 AM)Sounsyy Wrote: 4 - I like reading people's wikis. And usually have a huge bout of "I WANNA ARRRPEEE WITH THEM SO HARD" shortly after.

PLEASE ARRRPEEE WITH ME... JUST NOT AT 3AM *hug* WASH UP AND KAGE CAN BE THERE?!

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