Kaiverta

Sorry you had that issue, but at least you recognized a potential problem and removed yourself from the situation. Really, RP should be fun and even dramatic, but the drama should never spill into OOCly relations. It's ICly. It's separate. Hopefully you can build strong, safe RP relationships (ICly ones and trustworthy OOC friendships) in the future.

Definitely player-related. A couple of my failed IC relationships were not because of the other person's character, or mine, but because of the other person OOCly. I understand being busy, but if you have enough time to send messages elsewhere or be online in a public setting so I know you are online (I don't stalk ), then surely you can spare two minutes? So for the most part, it has been OOCly nonsense from the other person (way more detailed than that but I won't go into it) that causes the IC relationships to fail. The pre-planned thing failed because the characters didn't develop together before they were PUT together. It just didn't work - it wasn't ever going to since it wasn't a 'pre arranged marriage RP', like someone mentioned before. That is a good way that a pre-arranged thing might work, but where characters are supposed to have known each other for a period before the RPing even started, that's more complicated and less likely to succeed.

Oh yep, I never roleplay with the intent to have romantic relationships. In fact, I started with my silver-haired OC (Krice) almost seventeen years ago now, not even wanting the possibility of the relationships (I was a kid back then, what did I know lol), and I tried to avoid them, but naturally over the years, he grew to become his own man, almost external from a character standing, and developed the relationships on his own, even though, at THAT time, I didn't want relationships because I knew they'd make things complicated. Now I let things flow as they will, and it's great. Sometimes it ends and it's miserable, but at least it's organic and realistic, and doesn't feel forced. Exactly! Mine was weird because I was a treasure hunter and she was my client in seeking a particular pendant. That was good and all until we decided to take our OOC relations into IC and when things ended, it kinda made me look at my char and go "ehhh.... I'm not feeling it", mostly because it felt it crossed too far into the territory of the character itself. I think at some point I claimed there was a hidden marriage of some kind but it felt like the relationship grew OOCly romantically first, we began RP'ing together, then eventually the OOC life kinda poured into the IC one at some point. Then again, I was a light RPer at the time with not much time so, who knows what happened there. Ohh, yep. Once the OOC/IC line is crossed, things can get very messy. It's a shame.

Your 'blast' planned RP reminds me of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I love that movie. Sounds like it was a lot of fun to write. Definitely has to be with people you know and trust, then it more often than not goes well or at least works for a while. With strangers, though... I dunno. It makes sense that you OOCly develop friendships with the people whose characters develop alongside your own, if enough time goes by, so they're only strangers in the beginning. But like with the characters, they interact and slowly become less than strangers, and then friends, and then sometimes romantically inclined. RP is great.

Oh yep, I never roleplay with the intent to have romantic relationships. In fact, I started with my silver-haired OC (Krice) almost seventeen years ago now, not even wanting the possibility of the relationships (I was a kid back then, what did I know lol), and I tried to avoid them, but naturally over the years, he grew to become his own man, almost external from a character standing, and developed the relationships on his own, even though, at THAT time, I didn't want relationships because I knew they'd make things complicated. Now I let things flow as they will, and it's great. Sometimes it ends and it's miserable, but at least it's organic and realistic, and doesn't feel forced.

I thankfully have not seen that happen as of yet. Though, I've seen people more blatantly look for OOC relationships by not even RPing, but writing questionable stuff. I've happened upon that over the years on various sites. Not fabulous. >.> But yes, the organic and realistic way of developing characters together, who learn about each other as you write them, is a really cool feeling. And it makes the relationship more solid.

I looove your lineart. It's so crisp and clean. And the picture of your two characters being 'not friends' in the cell. That's cute.

I understand why people pre-arrange relationships, too. For me personally, though, it takes away from the beauty and excitement of a developing relationship. Not saying it's bad, just that it's not for everyone. I just let my characters fall for the other character if it goes that way. My characters essentially write themselves. I had ONE pre-arranged relationship and that was basically between an established character, and mine was new, and they were just hanging out. The girl character admitted that she had feelings for MY character, who then that he had had feelings for her for the last couple of years TOO (they were in a family unit of gypsies), and that relationship was hard to write. It was fun, but it didn't feel natural. The relationship didn't go anywhere and it didn't feel authentic. So with that single relationship aside, my characters always develop feelings (or not) as they interact with characters, just like in real life. And it always feels authentic, beautiful, exciting, and great. It can take anywhere from five months to years for my character to fall for another (my main OC, the silver-haired guy in my avatar pic), but once he does, it's wonderful. Of course, they run into problems which usually stems from the other person getting very busy and not keeping up communication, even OOCly, and it's a shame, but it does happen.

Welcome, welcome! Thanks very much.

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