(10-01-2013, 12:30 AM)Theodric Ironheart Wrote: I find that I swear much more often when in the company of close friends and family members. I think it's a comfort thing, since I know their limits and they know mine and so there's very rarely any misunderstandings between us.
I suppose it's the same online, I tend to type in a very formal manner when on a site such as this, though when in the company of people I've come to know and trust I end up becoming a lot more informal. In regards to role-play itself I'm not opposed to having my characters swear, though only a few of them actually do. Theodric is rather rough around the edges and does it fairly often, whilst my blood elf soldier back in WoW never did as he was conditioned to live and fight for his homeland and very rarely showed his emotions as a result.
ICly my characters rarely swear. I guess because a lot of the environments I find myself playing in don't really call for it so much. In fact... most of them hardly talk at all...
My blood elf warlock had a back story and a half. He was rough, weathered, old. He was quiet, made very few facial expressions. There was a scene where he leeeeeeans over the table and with an uncharacteristic undertone of violence whispers "I want you to fucking kill him." And it just made the whole thing a lot more powerful I think. I sound dopey, patting myself on the back like that. It's one of those story lines I, and the people who participated in it, look back and think 'that moment is the moment that defined this.'Â The fact that he rarely talked, and never swore, meant shit had officially gotten real.
Compared to say... my priest, who was... well... priesty. Very extroverted, helpful, kind, sincere. His life's work was helping people. Even in the darkest parts of his characterization, there was just never a time where any curse really felt organic coming from him. Any attempt to include it sound forced. It just wasn't in the character's vocabulary.
X'chail's kinda off on his own world though. He doesn't swear, but it's more of 'he doesn't know how' than any moral or characteristic flaw. He'd be the sort to eaves drop on some colorful conversation, then try to work it into a completely random scenario, pronounce it wrong, and have no idea why everyone was shocked or offended. Still, imagining hard swears coming from him is difficult. He'll probably never really graduate past 'flaming knicker weasels' or the like.
