1. Have you killed your character before?
I haven't, but I've had a roleplay partner kill their character that mine was romantically involved with, so I can give a little insight to what happened with the characters that had to deal with the person's death.Â
2. How did your friends take it?
Basically, before our characters even held hands, my roleplay partner at the time informed me OOCly he was killing off his character come Heavensward to race change to an Au Ra. This was six months??? before the release of the expansion, so he basically gave me an out if I wasn't interested in roleplaying a romantic relationship with a character that will die.Â
I chose to keep RPing with him, we basically worked together to create a story arc that would lead to his death in a satisfying way that would give good character development (my character never had a person he knew die on him before, and then there was the task of getting revenge on his lover's murderer, just for example.) We informed FC friends and those who RPed with us as we went along that this was going to happen so they could choose to get involved or not, and there was only a few joking tears luckily.Â
Roleplaying it was fine, but there was an issue later with the player missing his deceased character and wanting to play him again, despite it being impossible to have him revived, so please take this into consideration. Are you truly fine with killing your character off? Because it's pretty irreversible and you'll piss everyone off by retconning a shitload or coming up with a bogus excuse of why he's back.Â
3. Would you not want to RP with someone who may unceremoniously kill off their character? Why?
Not really. I've had a few other friends who just completely written off a character several times because they did not like them, they were problematic, etc. without informing the FC they were in or the people they RPed with. This especially hurt when I took time to roleplay with their character, hours of chatting and getting to know them, then the next day I find out they were no longer present in the living world. How do I and my character even react to that? Do I just retcon knowing them at all, or should my character be worried they have gone missing? I stopped roleplaying seriously with those players because I couldn't be bothered getting to know a character then having them disappear without a word and having to mourn another 'death'.Â
Like most roleplay things, OOC communication is key. Get in touch with those people your character is well acquainted with, your FC and roleplay linkshells and let them know what's up. Do you know the reasons why people are hesitant you're killing off your character possibly? Are they afraid of you not RPing with them any longer when you roll your new character? Some people just don't like roleplaying sad shit, and someone dying is really sad. But, it's your character at the end of the day so do what makes you happy even if it involves murder, you have every right to say "well this happened, so tough shit."
I haven't, but I've had a roleplay partner kill their character that mine was romantically involved with, so I can give a little insight to what happened with the characters that had to deal with the person's death.Â
2. How did your friends take it?
Basically, before our characters even held hands, my roleplay partner at the time informed me OOCly he was killing off his character come Heavensward to race change to an Au Ra. This was six months??? before the release of the expansion, so he basically gave me an out if I wasn't interested in roleplaying a romantic relationship with a character that will die.Â
I chose to keep RPing with him, we basically worked together to create a story arc that would lead to his death in a satisfying way that would give good character development (my character never had a person he knew die on him before, and then there was the task of getting revenge on his lover's murderer, just for example.) We informed FC friends and those who RPed with us as we went along that this was going to happen so they could choose to get involved or not, and there was only a few joking tears luckily.Â
Roleplaying it was fine, but there was an issue later with the player missing his deceased character and wanting to play him again, despite it being impossible to have him revived, so please take this into consideration. Are you truly fine with killing your character off? Because it's pretty irreversible and you'll piss everyone off by retconning a shitload or coming up with a bogus excuse of why he's back.Â
3. Would you not want to RP with someone who may unceremoniously kill off their character? Why?
Not really. I've had a few other friends who just completely written off a character several times because they did not like them, they were problematic, etc. without informing the FC they were in or the people they RPed with. This especially hurt when I took time to roleplay with their character, hours of chatting and getting to know them, then the next day I find out they were no longer present in the living world. How do I and my character even react to that? Do I just retcon knowing them at all, or should my character be worried they have gone missing? I stopped roleplaying seriously with those players because I couldn't be bothered getting to know a character then having them disappear without a word and having to mourn another 'death'.Â
Like most roleplay things, OOC communication is key. Get in touch with those people your character is well acquainted with, your FC and roleplay linkshells and let them know what's up. Do you know the reasons why people are hesitant you're killing off your character possibly? Are they afraid of you not RPing with them any longer when you roll your new character? Some people just don't like roleplaying sad shit, and someone dying is really sad. But, it's your character at the end of the day so do what makes you happy even if it involves murder, you have every right to say "well this happened, so tough shit."
