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Kellach Woods · **04-29-2015, 10:53 PM**

The "fish out of water" clichÃ© I guess - I always use it if I've no prior contact with the lore as to explain my OOC shortcomings.

Alternately, edging the lore as well.

Gegenji · **04-29-2015, 11:04 PM**

I don't know if it's a cliche, but I seem to really like generally silly/goofy characters who actually have a rather serious/dark backstory behind them and can be straight just as much as they can in a more lighthearted manner.

Fox · **04-29-2015, 11:06 PM**

(04-29-2015, 10:28 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Other than that, like Clover, I tend to make my characters relatively young (late teens to early-mid twenties), as I can personally get more character growth out of them and I feel that age range works better in the "monomyth" structure. My monomyth "mentor" characters are all usually NPCs -- I've never been able to play one for an extended period.

I like playing younger characters as well like you said late teens-twenties because I can rp through their storyline and make them more rounded by the time they're older. So I guess toss that trope/cliche onto my stoic woobie as well. XD

allgivenover · **04-29-2015, 11:54 PM**

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Ma...TheirYears

Usually with a huge crack in the personality that pushes them to make poor decisions,

Caspar · **04-30-2015, 12:19 AM**

Not a cliche I encouraged, but a lot of people on my old forums pigeonholed me into The Smart One role. I guess I did the whole "overly wordy, pretentious know-it-all" too well, to the point at which people expected it of me and were disappointed when I didn't feel like playing it.

Nirri · **04-30-2015, 12:59 AM**

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceGuy

Is the one trope I find myself always sinking back into at the initial creation of the character. I don't know why, but of the get go I always use the nice guy trope but slowly that sort of develops into something else through RP / plot development of the character.

ChewableMorphine · **04-30-2015, 01:06 AM**

...cyborgs/prosthetics.Â

In every game or medium where I'd roleplay, my weapon or main tool had to be a prosthetic or something akin to a limb replacement.Â

Like I push lore to it's limits here on XIV, but using other FF logic (specifically Barett in FF7) to somewhat rationalize Flynt's arms/legs. Sure they don't turn into guns or anything crazy. They're just motorized ceruleum-fueled prosthetics.Â

And to give another example, I'm playing though Bloodborne pretending my character's arm has been replaced by the Stake Driver.

Cliodhna Eoghan · **04-30-2015, 02:32 AM**

(04-29-2015, 10:28 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Other than that, like Clover, I tend to make my characters relatively young (late teens to early-mid twenties),

as in clamp clover??? love love love love looove that manga! >u< shame they never finished the series, but i still hope they might..and really wanted ora's tattoo at some point.
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i tend to play younger characters for the most part too, but mine usually have a common theme of having some sort of troubled past or the patents are dead or divored or missing. (one i had drop a five year old at an orphanage, left the husband and it took him a few months before finding the character and regaining custody) buut those two i mentioned usually go hand and hand. another thing i rarely escape is they all seem to have red hair o____O

FreelanceWizard · **04-30-2015, 08:57 AM**

(04-30-2015, 02:32 AM)Cliodhna Eoghan Wrote:
(04-29-2015, 10:28 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Other than that, like Clover, I tend to make my characters relatively young (late teens to early-mid twenties),
as in clamp clover??? love love love love looove that manga! >u< shame they never finished the series, but i still hope they might..and really wanted ora's tattoo at some point.

I meant the member Clover who posted above, but the Clover manga is also great. Smile

I also can't help but mess up the pasts of my characters as part of their Call to Adventure. In CO, I played a character whose life was totally normal (parents still alive and supportive, was going to art school before she decides to take up the figurative cape, etc.) which was a bit of a weird experience. Smile

Cliodhna Eoghan · **04-30-2015, 09:36 AM**

(04-30-2015, 08:57 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I meant the member Clover who posted above, but the Clover manga is also great.

I also can't help but mess up the pasts of my characters as part of their Call to Adventure. In CO, I played a character whose life was totally normal (parents still alive and supportive, was going to art school before she decides to take up the figurative cape, etc.) which was a bit of a weird experience.

ohhh i see xD *feels silly now*

i don't doubt it, i rarely have ones that have normal background. there was another one i played that had parents but the father was a mix of the king of all cosmos, shun tendo (ranma 1/2) and was obsessed with anything modern...like spending crazy amounts of money for a new phone that was better than his current one by two weeks. things like that. buut that was more comedy so i could get away with it, was pretty fun even though it still wasn't normal. xD

Kellach Woods · **04-30-2015, 07:34 PM**

(04-30-2015, 08:57 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I also can't help but mess up the pasts of my characters as part of their Call to Adventure. In CO, I played a character whose life was totally normal (parents still alive and supportive, was going to art school before she decides to take up the figurative cape, etc.) which was a bit of a weird experience.

Reminds me of my DCUO mains when it comes to used to do messed up pasts but then didn't for one game. Just sad that to this day I think Searchlight might be one of the most solid RP characters I've ever made and chances are I'm never gonna use her again.

Virella · **04-30-2015, 08:04 PM**

Magic in my roleplay always seem to come back. I've got/had a few non-magical character, but. No, I need to snort my magic in roleplay, else I get bored.

Cogito · **04-30-2015, 08:13 PM**

Oh, Orphans as well, I don't know why but my Â character's parents are always dead or missing.
I blame Disney.

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