ValkyrieRangris

Thank you Warren, will keep in mind others opinions on how my character reacts would love to be able to convey this kind of character to others but will take practice. Thank you Alothia, will get rid of any emotions that others feel about my character until I do some roleplaying then I will put down the reactions that I get from past roleplays on my profile. Thank you T'caska I will keep that in mind for future use Thank you Nebbs the sunlight idea is a good idea I can have it so that my character hides in shops or inns during day time. I will write down more notes to build up on her flaws. I agree with Nebbs here. Xheja has a pretty similar concept, and I go this route myself. There are a lot of characters out there that are sensitive to others' aether. It's not unreasonable to think that they would be picking up on a case of heavy Void corruption. Of course the problem with this is that if your character is a beacon of big bad Voidyness, public RP can be hard with how many people will sense that and potentially come after you. That can be especially problematic just starting out when you don't have a real foundation for a character yet and are feeling them out through public RP. So finding a logical explanation to balance believability and convenience is pretty important. Really it's just a matter of balancing and rounding out your character with positives/negatives and strengths/weaknesses, especially when messing around with Void associated characters. Because there's a definite line you can easily cross from acceptably quirky to annoyingly overpowered if you're not careful (or sometimes without even meaning to), IMHO. Thank you Xheja, maybe I could make my character kind of inverted and choosing to work odd jobs at night, playing it up as she is weak and it is hard for her to find a normal job. When in reality it is because she is unable to spend much time in the sun and wants to avoid attracting negative attention with her being corrupted. Hmmm, the void part I was going to take as her weakness if anything I do not want her to be powerful at all. I want to her be more weak than most people but fighting to stay alive. As if her existence in this world not should not be possible but she keeps fighting just to try and blend into society. I do want her to be smart and seem as though she is always plotting things but that knowledge she has and uses I want her to take from reading books.

Okie posting the idea that I enjoy so far. Criticism is welcomed. Last thread died before I start roleplaying just want to get some input. [align=center]History:[/align] Valkyrie is the daughter of a farmer who has two sisters Her mother died giving birth to her Her two sisters are very talented and travel often Her eldest sister is an archer Her other sister is a blacksmith Both of them are always traveling and her father is very proud of them Valkyrie has no real goals in life and is very naive and innocent she loves her father despite him being a drunk and seeing her as burden When her eldest sister came back from traveling she seemed to be struck by madness The father hired a conjurer and the conjurer told the father that she had been over exposed by voidsent from being near the void gate Valkyrie father urged her to follow him taking her to a secluded area There Valkyrie father begged a voidsent to take Valkyrie and in return the voidsent would give some of its blood to save his daughter The voidsent agreed and took Valkyrie back with it to the void Valkyrie spent many years in the void but does not fully remember any of her past or time spent there only knowing that she was in the void Valkyrie mind is very twisted from spending so much time in the void and has become corrupt While she looks innocent for her to be able to remain in Eorzea she has to consume large amounts of Aether and be exposed to the void gate She seems mentally stable and unaffected by her past events it is only a mask [align=center]Personality:[/align] Valkyrie seems very innocent and sweet the odd time she will say something that will throw everyone off making them think that there may be more to her than meets the eye. She is very good at controlling the conversation and making others feel at ease. When she does put something on the table by mistake she is good at moving the conversation forward and making others not really look into the past words she had said. She seems to be always plotting something. People that once knew her before she was sent into the void would not be able to recognize her at all. She is always smiling and sometimes her smile seems almost creepy. She uses her looks to her advantage She pretends to have a bit of a temper but it is only an act she puts on for others

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Okie posting the idea that I enjoy so far. Criticism is welcomed. [align=center]History:[/align] Valkyrie is the daughter of a farmer who has two sisters Her mother died giving birth to her Her two sisters are very talented and travel often Her eldest sister is an archer Her other sister is a blacksmith Both of them are always traveling and her father is very proud of them Valkyrie has no real goals in life and is very naive and innocent she loves her father despite him being a drunk and seeing her as burden When her eldest sister came back from traveling she seemed to be struck by madness The father hired a conjurer and the conjurer told the father that she had been over exposed by voidsent from being near the void gate Valkyrie father urged her to follow him taking her to a secluded area There Valkyrie father begged a voidsent to take Valkyrie and in return the voidsent would give some of its blood to save his daughter The voidsent agreed and took Valkyrie back with it to the void Valkyrie spent many years in the void but does not fully remember any of her past or time spent there only knowing that she was in the void Valkyrie mind is very twisted from spending so much time in the void and has become corrupt While she looks innocent for her to be able to remain in Eorzea she has to consume large amounts of Aether and be exposed to the void gate She seems mentally stable and unaffected by her past events it is only a mask [align=center]Personality:[/align] Valkyrie seems very innocent and sweet the odd time she will say something that will throw everyone off making them think that there may be more to her than meets the eye. She is very good at controlling the conversation and making others feel at ease. When she does put something on the table by mistake she is good at moving the conversation forward and making others not really look into the past words she had said. She seems to be always plotting something. People that once knew her before she was sent into the void would not be able to recognize her at all. She is always smiling and sometimes her smile seems almost creepy. She uses her looks to her advantage She pretends to have a bit of a temper but it is only an act she puts on for others [align=center]http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/37300000/Darker-Than-Black-Hei-hei-37374485-450-253.gif[/img][/align]

Asked some players in Quicksand for tips a lot of them were not that lore heavy. Is there someone on this forum that specializes in learning lore? Someone that has a lot of passion into it? I would be willing to do some art of their character in exchange for teaching from someone that enjoys it. Sounsyy usually is. But um...depending on what you have to ask, it may have already been answered. I'd recommend trying a search on the forums, and if that doesn't yield an answer, posting a new thread with questions. Will do Thank you everyone! I think I have finally narrowed down after talking to some people who were roleplaying and brainstorming with them with the ideas I had. Should I create a new thread or leave it here for people to decide what needs to be fixed?

Asked some players in Quicksand for tips a lot of them were not that lore heavy. Is there someone on this forum that specializes in learning lore? Someone that has a lot of passion into it? I would be willing to do some art of their character in exchange for teaching from someone that enjoys it.

I loooooooooooooooooooooooooove Saya no Uta, it is one of my favorite Visual novels. In points of it leaves you wanting to stop playing and even disgusted but it is so well done that is able to give you those emotions so easily. I really enjoy things with abnormal plots. Ah I see, I took a break for around two years. I use to be a giant weeb and made a piczo site for roleplaying of Inuyasha. That was what got me into roleplaying when I was thirteen. I am now in my twenties and enjoy a more mature plot with strong character development. Any tips for someone just getting into this community? I think maybe be flexible and be willing to start out small and grow into something grander? I can't really consider myself established, but being in an FC that is willing to work with my stories helped me a lot. But I know a lot of players outside the fc and rp with them as well. Unlike forum rp, where I usually cooperated with players to establish connections before rp, the world already is established, so developing a really complex background ahead of times could interfere with your ability to play with people, like I mentioned before. I like the idea of being connected to voidsent and struggling with trauma as a result. I think you could build off that, as long as you're aware what the people you are playing with like. A lot of people on here avoid touching anything involving the main story quest or sidestories, but still hold as close to the lore as they can. It's the approach of conceiving of a plausible person who could be born in this world and sort of just dropping them in where it makes the most sense. Yeah, I'm pretty fond of utsuge like Saya. I liked Phantom by the same company a lot, and it pretty heavily influenced the kinds of characters I like to play in rp. Any suggestions for finding a small RP FC? Is generally where everyone roleplays at Quicksands? Are there any other popular roleplaying spots? Hmmm. I get it but I do not at the same time kind of. I will check it out I have not played Phantom yet. Not visual novel related but I really enjoy Ito Junji work too.

Hmmmm. I am okay with having horror elements in my character, but you are right that they would not really be able to be diverse in different situations causing people to only be interested in roleplaying in certain situations. I kind of thought of the Broker being able to handle different situations. When I created the brainstorm of it the first thing that came to mind was the Happy Mask Salesman kind of. Maybe a short temper and really twisted but the temper can be used for comedy in some cases. [align=center][/align]

I loooooooooooooooooooooooooove Saya no Uta, it is one of my favorite Visual novels. In points of it leaves you wanting to stop playing and even disgusted but it is so well done that is able to give you those emotions so easily. I really enjoy things with abnormal plots. Ah I see, I took a break for around two years. I use to be a giant weeb and made a piczo site for roleplaying of Inuyasha. That was what got me into roleplaying when I was thirteen. I am now in my twenties and enjoy a more mature plot with strong character development. Any tips for someone just getting into this community?

Thank you for the link following the development Thank you for the suggestions, I will keep that into consideration. Maybe I will make my IC a different name than my ingame to suit my characters plot best. Plot is what is most important to me.

[align=center]Ideas[/align] Tam-Tara based ideas: Traveling Knowledge Broker gets an odd request for information by a young conjurer named Edda Knowledge Broker feels something is off, she hears from the villagers that Edda is in Tam-Tara and heads there to check out the situation. Shortly after she is greeted by Paiyo Reiyo and some adventurers leaving looking very shaken up. The traveling Knowledge Broker is very baffled by the use of the little information she gave that had made Tam-Tara become what it is now Traveling Knowledge Broker spends many hours investigating Tam-Tara Despite having all the information she needs after weeks of coming back to Tam-Tara she keeps returning wanting to know more becoming obsessed with Edda's work Tam-Tara based ideas 2: Traveling cook regulars are Edda, Liavinne, Avere, and Paiyo are always making her laugh they all seem to butt heads often but they share a common goal which I really admire. Cooking for them becomes something very dear to me to see their daily antics. Avere and Edda are dating but Avere is not very nice to Edda. I confronted Edda telling her she deserved better and Edda just smiled at me with no response. I thought nothing of it at the time. I gave the group extra food and they went on their way to Tam-Tara. Cooking for adventurers later on I heard about a mishap at Tam-Tara. My heart quickly sunk and I rushed to the entrance of Tam-Tara. There I saw Paiyo a mess leaving with a group of adventurers. I entered Tam-Tara without any skills of combat hoping I be able to find Edda she was always the calm one of the group. Everything was dark. Torches suddenly lit as I walked by I heard a loud twisted laugh seeing Edda pale and with a cynical smile. I ran as fast as I could getting lost Tam-Tara spending my time running from Edda. Spending more time there made me see what truly was of Edda and it made me want to leave even more. I spent weeks running from her waiting for someone and having her twist my thoughts. I awaited for someone to come save me. Months soon went by and time faded away. I lived off of anything edible in my surroundings. A group of adventurers found me one day helping me escape Edda. My eyesight had change from being in the darkness for so long and my mind had also been broken. The Void Ideas: A Conjurer gets a request to help assist a group of adventurers who are getting rid of a demon named Buso who has taken over a nearby Mineshaft. Her duty is help assist the group while they defeat Buso. The battle is successful but last second everything goes wrong. The Void is very unhappy and drags the Conjurer to the Void. Conjurer becomes trapped in the void. Being tortured as entertainment, stealing her aether when needed but letting her stay alive for their enjoyment. She awakes in Eorzea unsure of what happened but with a burning sensation in her head that will not go away. She travels to the crowded streets of Ul'dah. Orbs of light flow everywhere and twisted faceless demons dance around feasting. The imprints in her mind and odd flash backs have seemed to effected her brain in a way that she is able to see the voidsent and who they are latched onto. But also making herself in danger because of the voidsent knowing that she has this ability to see them. The Void Ideas 2: An honest farmers daughter from Limsa who has two sisters One sister is an archer The other is a blacksmith Unsure of what she wants she continues to live along side her father who hates his job, he wishing to one day be a rich merchant. Both of her sisters went off to travel leaving her and her father alone She loves her father but he complains a lot causing her to one day snap yelling at him He takes her yelling at him very serious and forbids her from going outside She thinks that he may be plotting something for him to get that wealth he wanted out of her Shortly after her sister the archer returns maddened and sick she has been over exposed somehow to voidsent He hires a conjurer to look into the archers health, she tells him that she has been over exposed and the only way to cure her is of voidsent blood The father fetches his daughter and drags her up to an area that most people do not dare go to. A voidsent appears and just stares at the father "I beg of you, please give me your blood inreturn I will give you my youngest daughter." The voidsent seems interested and offers some of his blood for the human. The voidsent takes the hyur daughter back to the void where she spends many of her years. Her mind is blank she can not handle anymore of the void. Seeing her as a used doll the voidsent release her back to Limsa where the once world she loved so dearly she could no longer remember.

Working on little ideas I had with regards to the material everyone has given, will post them shortly.

I had a best friend growing up for nine years who had schizophrenia so my idea was based off my experiences and how much time I spent with that person. You can not truly know someone unless you are them though, but I had such a strong bond with her that it felt like we were one most of the time. It can take a huge toll on you though, not only for the one with the mental disability but the people who are close to them. Boundaries are really hard to be kept. How many hours a week do you spend roleplaying? Just curious seems like you have spent a lot of time and love into it.

Is there a list of things that are acceptable? Not being rude just very curious. I did not see any rules besides the ones posted on the sticky for guides. Please post I am actually curious. Its not so much matter of "what's acceptable" as it is a matter of roleplaying mental disorders as a gimmick is incredibly derogatory. ( I know this is a troll post but just wanted to scream that out into the internet finally ) What lol. I am generally worried that you have to make a statement like this lol. You must of seen some really bad roleplays where people are not researching into the actual mental disability and building a character that could be like a real person, not perfect but trying their best. Most people now a days are diagnosed with mental disabilities, we are far more accepting now of knowing that everyone thinks differently. It be different though if they are running around with a black face like role screaming they have autism or other mental disability copying stereotypes. I do not see that as acceptable.

Sorry guys I fell asleep briefly lol. Could not resist with having my window open and listening to the birds. Ah makes sense, the roleplays I have done in the past were all forums. The worlds were created by the OP and people would build on upon it with their characters. So not really use to roleplaying on MMOs.

There are many, many different types of voidsent http://www.ffxiv.gamerescape.net/wiki/Category:Class:Voidsent of various power levels and such. We actually don't know them all, voidsent could be pretty much anything. I wouldn't really be adverse to just inventing one like Koh if you are so inclined, BUT there's probably someone who knows way more about the void then me around here. Thank you for the link. What is the most well known voidsent? I may be able to base it around that because there may be more people who know it. Hmmm. Any recommendations for Void experts?

I went to Quicksands once on my first day playing and two female characters wanted to ERP. All I did was sit at there table with them and talk and then they asked if I like to fool around with them and that their relationship to one another was open. I was really put off by it and have been avoiding roleplaying for the past two months since then. So wanted to get some background to myself to make erpers not interested. If anything your current backstory will only draw ERPers upon you. Given very few actual lore-abiding roleplayers would wish to roleplay with you. ERPers generally do not care for the lore in the slightest, the thing you seem to be appearing to do yourself. The more exotic, the more likely these people are fawning over your character, seeming they often try to find the strangest of people to consort with. The closer you stick to the lore, the more chance you have running into serious roleplayers, and not just the deviant type. Okie dokie thank you Virella

Tam Tara HM was just mentioned, but if you want to be able to see the true form of Voidsent creatures, there's really nothing that says your character can't. Imps can take the form of other things and High Ranking voidsent can possess people or corpses. Having a character that can see their "True forms" isn't too far fetched (And players can choose to believe her or not, still), though I would make it so your character had a terrible run in with the void that could explain why she can see it. Maybe, if you want to go down that route, she could also see mortals who are "Voidtouched" and see just how void-touched they actually are? Also, ERPers are gonna try regardless of what you do. Unless you play a Lalafell. Maybe. "Maybe", haha I guess I will just have to have my teleport ready at all times. Is there any monster in the void that is known to be like this? Koh the face stealer that would be just the right amount of spooky. Since they steal people aether they are kind of like Koh.

Spoilery Tam-Tara Lore at Reddit Looks good will read. I love spooky hidden details in games.

I went to Quicksands once on my first day playing and two female characters wanted to ERP. All I did was sit at there table with them and talk and then they asked if I like to fool around with them and that their relationship to one another was open. I was really put off by it and have been avoiding roleplaying for the past two months since then. So wanted to get some background to myself to make erpers not interested.

Edvyn you are very clever. I would of never thought of this. Thank you

There's a silly anime called The Devil is a Part-Timer where Satan (from a highly trippy canon in its own right) ends up in "the real world" and works at MgRonald's. Yeah. Anyway, what makes the story is where he came from, even though he can't share it with the populace - Satan serving burgers, ahha! And then... he makes manager! Granted, what also makes the story are the other characters from his world, the part where they're theoretically trying to get back to the place they came from and/or deciding whether or not they'd like to stay, and the part where he can hulk out in Satan-mode when he needs to. A roleplayer trying this kind of cross-dimensional thing probably isn't going to have the benefit of interactions with other characters from their previous world (unless they bring their own, which starts to move into weird) and really can't hulk out in PreviousDimension-mode without ruining ordinary folks' fun. What I mean to say is there's an element to Valkyrie-working-at-a-fried-fish-stand-in-Eorzea that a player might find fun, but they'd have to find it fun all on their own, without anyone else's approval, without the benefit of anyone else being in on that part of the story, except maybe in a not-taking-oneself-seriously way. There's no real reason to remove that element of the fun, unless it starts getting in the way of a desire to be part of the community, which right off the bat it can obviously do. Thank you for the suggestion, its a really good idea. I do not think I be able to handle being the MC though, that is a lot of pressure! Question. Is there some kind of NPC that is super spooky? Spooky backstory? Also I generally really love the idea how the MC in Saya no Uta sees things. I could do something like that with the void? Not constantly seeing things disturbed but rarely and very subtle.

I laughed. There was a guy in my party a while back in a dungeon that thought he was Kirito and was running around pretending he was in SAO during the dungeon. It was very funny.

But isn't that where all the roleplaying happens?How do they ERP in public? That is lewd.

I think so too, but I'm just thrown off by her now because her first post was: Which is why I gave it a read. She seemed open to critique, and hearing what the general consensus on her character was. So I totally gave her advice on that... and then completely shut down. "No, I'm not changing it lol" And it was like "But you JUST SAID...?" Which was frustrating to say the least. I wrote down your idea you gave me on a brainstorm chart silly. I was asking what is acceptable before going any further. There may be some unheard of roles I have not heard of that experienced roleplayers use. I also really want to avoid ERP. I fine with others doing it, I mean it goes into their character development and I am sure it can be done very tasteful but I want to avoid that side of roleplaying.