(04-15-2014, 06:32 PM)Naunet Wrote:(04-15-2014, 05:44 PM)Ignacius Wrote: Which, thank God, because I've had to roleplay someone that had to display realistic and understandable emotions in a serious dramatic RP, and I was bored to tears. Â RP isn't a time I want to meet people who think and act like real people. Â RP is a time I want to go nuts with other people who are going nuts! Â The next time someone's head gets taken off in combat, I want people scrambling for the best sociopathic one-liner.
"I guess he's seeing things from a new angle, now."
I don't really understand this at all. What's uninteresting about playing believable characters? I mean, we can't all be sociopathic, weathered adventurers who have seen so much death and killed so many that it's as easy as pressing a couple buttons and watching things get shiny. If Antimony sees someone get killed, she's not going to just brush it off all "Ah, sentient blood! What a perfect accoutrement to my afternoon tea"-like. She's going to react like a person to whom death is a seriously frightening, grief-inducing, terrible event. And I don't really understand how that's boring. It's human emotion and gut and instinct, visceral and ugly and indifferent to the wants and needs of its bearer.
I mean, I can understand someone not wanting to rp a "normal" person (I've rped my fair share of... weirdos, for a lack of a better word), but to not even want to interact with "normal" people? That's confusing as hell. xD
Honestly, it really is that way. Â There might be drama in and around it, but I get bored, quick, when the focus of an RP is the drama. Â Mostly I think that's because I hated high school and if I wanted to listen to people's "feelings" all the time, I'd have paid more attention when I worked at Target.
No, I'd rather talk about squeezing somebody so hard their head pops off.
Seriously, though, I interact with normal people having crazy dramatic moments every single day. Â I don't want to make a hobby of doing it with imaginary people at home. Â I'd rather explore the drama associated with combat, crime, and justice.
Actually, I'll be honest, I'd rather just RP where the drama can sometimes take a backseat to the sudden outbreak of violence. Â Nothing like sitting in a bar listening to people talk about their love life and wishing somebody would just throw a punch already.
