(09-11-2015, 11:08 AM)SaintEaon Wrote: I mean specifically when you do something ICly that's totally in character for your character and you know its going to annoy/anger/disrupt other people ICly? I know for instance my character has a tendency to twist arms and intimidate people's characters into not dealing with other characters with the intention of messing up the other character's plans. And every time I do it I get that smug feeling that I imagine like someone in Game of Thrones might feel knowing they made a problem for a rival, but OOCly sometimes I'm like "Yeah I won, but you know, my character's kind of a bad person sometimes." 

I mean it hasn't stopped me from doing it almost every time the option comes up to do so. I mean that's how the game's played if you're jockying for power within an FC or with street gangs in Ul'Dah or whatever. Sometimes political rivals need to be undermined and I'm never hesitant to do something to further my character's status as it is his nature to twist arms and extort people for information or whatever he's trying to get. So I'm curious are there any other people that their character does stuff like this, and do you ever feel kinda bad for it?

(09-11-2015, 11:55 AM)Ignacius Wrote:

(09-11-2015, 11:08 AM)SaintEaon Wrote: I mean specifically when you do something ICly that's totally in character for your character and you know its going to annoy/anger/disrupt other people ICly? I know for instance my character has a tendency to twist arms and intimidate people's characters into not dealing with other characters with the intention of messing up the other character's plans. And every time I do it I get that smug feeling that I imagine like someone in Game of Thrones might feel knowing they made a problem for a rival, but OOCly sometimes I'm like "Yeah I won, but you know, my character's kind of a bad person sometimes." 

I mean it hasn't stopped me from doing it almost every time the option comes up to do so. I mean that's how the game's played if you're jockying for power within an FC or with street gangs in Ul'Dah or whatever. Sometimes political rivals need to be undermined and I'm never hesitant to do something to further my character's status as it is his nature to twist arms and extort people for information or whatever he's trying to get. So I'm curious are there any other people that their character does stuff like this, and do you ever feel kinda bad for it?

At various times, my characters have:

-Told a child he was the devil before snapping her neck
-Cut a Chelsea's smile into a man's son while he was gagged, then tightened the gag into the wounds to ply information
-Nailed a woman naked to a table, removed one of her tattoos with a knife and laid it on her face, then threatened to kill her fiancee
-Impaled a man on a spike and gave him a set of weights to hold.  If he dropped them, we would have killed his son
-Rolled a man feet-first into a wood chipper
-Killed my own character's fiancee after two years of developmental relationship RP
-Set a drug-prevention church mission on fire while everyone slept
-Ripped out a friend's character's throat and stitched it back up with steel wire
-Tore out a man's tongue and cut off his hands to keep him from witnessing
-Skinned a woman alive, stretched out the skin into a shroud, and wrapped the carcass in it
-and more!

If anyone ought to feel bad about character actions, it would probably be me.  But it's all in the RP.  You have to play the character.

(09-11-2015, 11:08 AM)SaintEaon Wrote: I mean specifically when you do something ICly that's totally in character for your character and you know its going to annoy/anger/disrupt other people ICly?

(09-11-2015, 12:42 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:

(09-11-2015, 11:08 AM)SaintEaon Wrote: I mean specifically when you do something ICly that's totally in character for your character and you know its going to annoy/anger/disrupt other people ICly?

Yep.

L'yhta, for all her positive qualities, can also be a self-righteous, judgmental, selfish jerkass. While she's gotten better at holding her tongue over time, she still picks fights with people over tribal traditions, screws up others' plans because of her sometimes hardline interpretation of the Code of the Magi, and can't help but shoot her mouth off at "zealots" (such as Ishgardians who are politically active), and so on.

While I do like a bit of conflict RP, I have to confess that I feel a bit bad when L'yhta decides to start trouble. So, I tend to send OOC tells afterwards apologizing for my character being a prick. I know IC is IC and OOC is OOC, but I can't help feel a twinge of unhappiness that I might've made someone's RP less fun.

(09-11-2015, 12:01 PM)Sylentmana Wrote:

(09-11-2015, 11:55 AM)Ignacius Wrote:

(09-11-2015, 11:08 AM)SaintEaon Wrote: I mean specifically when you do something ICly that's totally in character for your character and you know its going to annoy/anger/disrupt other people ICly? I know for instance my character has a tendency to twist arms and intimidate people's characters into not dealing with other characters with the intention of messing up the other character's plans. And every time I do it I get that smug feeling that I imagine like someone in Game of Thrones might feel knowing they made a problem for a rival, but OOCly sometimes I'm like "Yeah I won, but you know, my character's kind of a bad person sometimes." 

I mean it hasn't stopped me from doing it almost every time the option comes up to do so. I mean that's how the game's played if you're jockying for power within an FC or with street gangs in Ul'Dah or whatever. Sometimes political rivals need to be undermined and I'm never hesitant to do something to further my character's status as it is his nature to twist arms and extort people for information or whatever he's trying to get. So I'm curious are there any other people that their character does stuff like this, and do you ever feel kinda bad for it?

At various times, my characters have:

-Told a child he was the devil before snapping her neck
-Cut a Chelsea's smile into a man's son while he was gagged, then tightened the gag into the wounds to ply information
-Nailed a woman naked to a table, removed one of her tattoos with a knife and laid it on her face, then threatened to kill her fiancee
-Impaled a man on a spike and gave him a set of weights to hold.  If he dropped them, we would have killed his son
-Rolled a man feet-first into a wood chipper
-Killed my own character's fiancee after two years of developmental relationship RP
-Set a drug-prevention church mission on fire while everyone slept
-Ripped out a friend's character's throat and stitched it back up with steel wire
-Tore out a man's tongue and cut off his hands to keep him from witnessing
-Skinned a woman alive, stretched out the skin into a shroud, and wrapped the carcass in it
-and more!

If anyone ought to feel bad about character actions, it would probably be me.  But it's all in the RP.  You have to play the character.

I suddenly feel glad your character is tucked safely on Gilgamesh, far away from my character.

(09-11-2015, 11:08 AM)SaintEaon Wrote: I mean specifically when you do something ICly that's totally in character for your character and you know its going to annoy/anger/disrupt other people ICly?