I think the sorta stress I feel in regards to character interaction is two fold. The biggest upset I've ever had with a character was when some fairly traumatic stuff happened to one of my old ones, and she became unplayable. That upset me a big deal, because her reaction would have been to become a genuine recluse (ie, leave everything and go wayyyy far away) -- so she was dead to the rp, essentially. I feel bad for my characters, but I don't get sad.
Besides that, the most stressed out I get is when I have a character who I don't fully get. Case in point, I have a playboy on another site who is using a woman's recent upheaval (husband died, had a miscarriage) to further his own goals within his social circle. He's faking love for her, and even though she knows this, it still makes me disgusted to play him. Like, I don't want to get into that mindset. It makes playing him difficult, and some days I wish I hadn't made him -- he's in effect a compilation of some of the worst behaviors I've experienced with men-who-are-also-assholes, and so by trying to play him in a sympathetic fashion I tend to not want to play him. And it doesn't help that the character I'm playing opposite is so gosh-darn likeable that I sometimes wind up icking myself. Sadly, he's an important part in a plot, so I can't just give up on him, but I'll admit to sometimes avoiding the rp because I don't particularly feel like playing him.
And other that that, I also tend to sorta spend time daydreaming and thinking about plot and character, and sometimes it's a matter of 'ooh, I need to do this, start that thread, I need to pm this person and ffff it's been ages since I checked up on this, I really need to touch base there and snap, I told so and so I was going to do this today but I also need to do this' -- which can affect my mood, but I'd much rather have lots to look forward to than nothing at all!
Besides that, the most stressed out I get is when I have a character who I don't fully get. Case in point, I have a playboy on another site who is using a woman's recent upheaval (husband died, had a miscarriage) to further his own goals within his social circle. He's faking love for her, and even though she knows this, it still makes me disgusted to play him. Like, I don't want to get into that mindset. It makes playing him difficult, and some days I wish I hadn't made him -- he's in effect a compilation of some of the worst behaviors I've experienced with men-who-are-also-assholes, and so by trying to play him in a sympathetic fashion I tend to not want to play him. And it doesn't help that the character I'm playing opposite is so gosh-darn likeable that I sometimes wind up icking myself. Sadly, he's an important part in a plot, so I can't just give up on him, but I'll admit to sometimes avoiding the rp because I don't particularly feel like playing him.
And other that that, I also tend to sorta spend time daydreaming and thinking about plot and character, and sometimes it's a matter of 'ooh, I need to do this, start that thread, I need to pm this person and ffff it's been ages since I checked up on this, I really need to touch base there and snap, I told so and so I was going to do this today but I also need to do this' -- which can affect my mood, but I'd much rather have lots to look forward to than nothing at all!
