(07-08-2015, 02:32 PM)Blue Wrote: On Val's note, another thing I'm reminded of as a RP pet peeve is the impossibility to RP a fail casanova. It must be because this game really offers no way to be physically unattractive, but single people just will not reject me if I try to RP a fail casanova.
No matter how bad-mouthed, sexist, jerk and overall asshole I make Clive, if I try make him flirt with someone who isn't in my circle of friends (who know he's supposed to be a fail casanova), he'll always succeed and never get a no. It's... frustrating. Is it a case of people having very low standards for partners, or do I just RP a fail casanova wrong? Who knows...
Really? I seem to encounter the opposite more often. Men who try really hard to portray their characters as casanova/charming/sexy and more often than not come across as, and I will apologize for the term, "fuckbois". There's no bigger cringe RP to me than the gentleman/woman who tries SO hard to make their males appealing that they miserably fail. Too many stereotypical Thancred-wannabes (And personally, I don't really find Thancred that charming to begin with.)
People seem to LOVE playing the "I'm a sexy bad boy and I'm a total asshole but love me" trope. I hate it with passion. Some people can pull it off, but more often than not, they don't.
