I've never been one to go actively seeking "romance RP", mostly because my attitude towards roleplay is more of a "If something happens, it happens, be it an affair, an assassination attempt, a betrayal, a secret, a booze binge, a lasting relationship, a friendship, or anything in between and all around." It's all just roleplay to me!
Two characters in my previous RP experiences have been involved in "romantic" relationships, but the romance itself was never really the center of any plot. Well, that's not entirely true. There was a huge plot many years ago that had centered around my character desperately attempting to find my partner's character who had gone missing (and ended up being involved in some really evil stuff) which resulted in my character realizing she actually cared about this crazy elf as more than just a friend. That was such a strange RP relationship, though. xD He was lucky if she let him hold her hand or touch her waist! But it was fun, and though the relationship itself was certainly significant, the best part is including those layers of interactions on top of whatever else is going on. It wasn't just a Forsaken and a Blood Elf poking at dangerous druidic corruption on a misguided science adventure in the Barrens. It was a damaged woman stuck between wanting to be close to someone and wanting to hide for shame of her existence and a man who was quite capable of and had partaken in evil in the past but was wholly smitten by someone who seemed more interested in trying to ignore her feelings than anything - both attempting to work together to uncover a very dangerous mystery!
Of course, those kinds of layers of interaction are present even if the relationship between any given set of characters is platonic. The point is really: A lot of times, the most fun you'll get out of roleplaying a relationship is roleplaying around that relationship.
Two characters in my previous RP experiences have been involved in "romantic" relationships, but the romance itself was never really the center of any plot. Well, that's not entirely true. There was a huge plot many years ago that had centered around my character desperately attempting to find my partner's character who had gone missing (and ended up being involved in some really evil stuff) which resulted in my character realizing she actually cared about this crazy elf as more than just a friend. That was such a strange RP relationship, though. xD He was lucky if she let him hold her hand or touch her waist! But it was fun, and though the relationship itself was certainly significant, the best part is including those layers of interactions on top of whatever else is going on. It wasn't just a Forsaken and a Blood Elf poking at dangerous druidic corruption on a misguided science adventure in the Barrens. It was a damaged woman stuck between wanting to be close to someone and wanting to hide for shame of her existence and a man who was quite capable of and had partaken in evil in the past but was wholly smitten by someone who seemed more interested in trying to ignore her feelings than anything - both attempting to work together to uncover a very dangerous mystery!
Of course, those kinds of layers of interaction are present even if the relationship between any given set of characters is platonic. The point is really: A lot of times, the most fun you'll get out of roleplaying a relationship is roleplaying around that relationship.
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