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I tend to subscribe to the school of 'fake it till you make it'. When I first started RPing when I was younger (11-13ish), I wasn't as witty or as intelligent as my characters were. So I pretended. I faked it, I looked up witty conversations, I copied what I'd read in books, and tried to insert it appropriately.Â
And eventually I started not having to rely on outside sources to do the work for me. You can pretend until its a skill you develop. And it is a skill you can develop. Trust me, mimic something enough, it starts to rub off on you and you begin to learn the appropriate way to formulate responses that are just the right combination of scathe, snark, and intelligence to be seen as 'witty'.
Intent is important, though. And I've RP'd with people who aren't 'as intelligent', but who played characters that way. And while I acknowledged to them as another RPer that they could try and make x or y changes to make their character seem wittier, or referred them to resources I'd used, my character acknowledged their character, until my character had a legitimate reason to doubt them based on interacting with them.
It doesn't take much to not be a judgmental snob when someone is trying to portray something that they're not good at. Just a bit of patience and offering to help them get to where they want to be.
And eventually I started not having to rely on outside sources to do the work for me. You can pretend until its a skill you develop. And it is a skill you can develop. Trust me, mimic something enough, it starts to rub off on you and you begin to learn the appropriate way to formulate responses that are just the right combination of scathe, snark, and intelligence to be seen as 'witty'.
Intent is important, though. And I've RP'd with people who aren't 'as intelligent', but who played characters that way. And while I acknowledged to them as another RPer that they could try and make x or y changes to make their character seem wittier, or referred them to resources I'd used, my character acknowledged their character, until my character had a legitimate reason to doubt them based on interacting with them.
It doesn't take much to not be a judgmental snob when someone is trying to portray something that they're not good at. Just a bit of patience and offering to help them get to where they want to be.
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