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(09-30-2013, 04:15 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(09-30-2013, 04:01 PM)IncubusManatee Wrote:(09-30-2013, 03:53 PM)DAISHI Wrote: When you emote that you're feeling lost, I can't acknowledge it because it's internal to you.
Isn't this just common sense?
Well... there's a variety of points of view on this, I've found.
Personally, I don't emote anything about my character's internal state unless it would be obvious to an onlooker from her actual actions ("L'yhta's tail rises, peeking out from behind her shoulder in interest"); I prefer to show, not tell, as much as possible. Since my character's not a mind-reader, like DAISHI, I also don't respond to people's emotes of internal state unless, again, it'd be obvious to my not especially socially perceptive character.
Throwing out thoughts and beliefs that characters aren't privy to doesn't really help RP very much, IMO, because they can't be responded to ICly without metagaming. It can come off as needless emote showboating or even trollish if your inner monologue is disparaging of another character, as they can't respond to it ICly and just have to "take it." If you need to let a person in on what's going on with your character to help with RP, an OOC tell is probably the better way to do it as there's no question of etiquette at that point.
I can understand this point of view, but it can be used for more then needless "Showboating", or inner monologue to insult someones character.Â
To be honest, I use internal thoughts/feelings/emotes as a means to get people to laugh OOCly, not as a means for them to work off of-but to lighten the mood of things. Since I am usually involved with a lot of "Dark" or "Grim" RP in the past, it's part of who I am as a writer and RP'er to add in things that would offset the perpetual negativity that can swirl into an endless black pool and lead to people being rather unhappy (Which has occured more then once).Â
Otherwise I don't let people in on my characters thoughts, I explain emotions or facial expressions.Â
Now I can understand someones frustration (player A) if the person in question (player B) is using aforementioned "Bad" way's of internal dialogue/thoughts. That I can understand.Â
Still it's common sense to be respectful of the other player to RP where they can be apart-rather then watching someone else write a small book for them to look over.
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