(09-13-2013, 03:21 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:LiadansWhisper needs to be quoted here, because no matter your opinion on the matter, you cannot argue with the truth she speaks.(09-13-2013, 02:09 PM)Aysun Wrote:(09-13-2013, 11:49 AM)Siobhain Wrote: We kind of have to remember-- when it comes to romance, and for many RPers, just romance, some of us want good things to happen to our characters and not have them hurt.That's fine, that's "IC" IRL. The problem is they find out OOCly, not ICly, that it won't work in the end, and then make their character suddenly not have feelings or what have you. That's metagaming. I don't like it. xD
There -are- plenty of people IRL who, once they find out someone isn't single/looking, go about their business. There are probably characters who are this way too. But that's just in terms of romance.
I'm going to preface this by saying I don't think this is what you are implying, but there are enough new RPers on this forum that I think this needs to be said:
No one should ever, ever, ever feel that they must RP out something they are not comfortable with OOC simply out of a duty to be "true to their characters" or to "avoid metagaming." Â Ever.
Now, as a humorous interlude, allow me to share where my mind went while reading through this thread.Â
 “Hark thee maiden over yonder, for I, Biff the Understudy of the West, have watched you from afar for a fortnight past. Thy eyes glow like beautiful aetheryte, and your buxom bosom like two magitek airships - forever defying gravity; I express unto thee my love which, until now, I have kept afar! Do unto me thy honour and I beseech thee to address my proclamation of love!â€
 “Please sir, I hardly know thee, take thine ‘proclamations’ else where, I do believe there is a pay-by-the-hour Miqo’te down the street!â€
“Ah, you do not take my advances seriously, and how could you? For one as beautiful as you must receive many suitors thrusting their desires upon you every hour! I shall pine for you, and prove to thee that I am worthy of thine love! As a testimate for how furious my loins doth burn, I shall catch 1000 dusky gobies for thee!â€
“Please, annoying sir, take your love and your gobies and begone! Perhaps an elezen dancing atop a fixed interpersonal missive receptacle to soothe thy burning loins?â€
((OOCly, just want to let you know my character, Elizabeth von Starmole, is not looking for romantic RP nor am I interested in participating in romantic RP storylines.))
((Ah, OK, sorry about that! Hope I didn’t make you feel uncomfortable. XD))
“Your rejections are cruel, fair maiden, and so I shall thrust myself into the hottest sands of the dessert to wander much like Sir David Carradine, hoping that by righting enough wrongs and bringing justice to the outlands, I shall quench this burning love that goeth unrequited.â€
((Um... Did you just metagame your character’s feelings away? I thought he was in love with my character?))
((Oh, well, yeah. I am looking for a romantic storyline and I thought you said you weren’t interested, so I didn’t want to bother you any more.))
((That’s metagaming. Your character is in love with mine, so he needs to pine for her. Pine like Chris commanding the Enterprise for the first time! Pine like the rainforests of British Columbia! What I am seeing isn’t even worthy of the pining done by the $0.99 car air fresheners one finds on that neglected rack shared with the dust covered packets of Yojimbo’s Sweet n’ Spicy Crab-flavoured beef jerky at the back of a truck stop on a logging highway in northern Ontario!))
((... ... Well, I guess I’m levelling Fisher.))
