The Cliche That You Can't Escape

[Nirri]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceGuy

 

Is the one trope I find myself always sinking back into at the initial creation of the character. I don't know why, but of the get go I always use the nice guy trope but slowly that sort of develops into something else through RP / plot development of the character.

[ChewableMorphine]

...cyborgs/prosthetics. 

 

In every game or medium where I'd roleplay, my weapon or main tool had to be a prosthetic or something akin to a limb replacement. 

 

Like I push lore to it's limits here on XIV, but using other FF logic (specifically Barett in FF7) to somewhat rationalize Flynt's arms/legs. Sure they don't turn into guns or anything crazy. They're just motorized ceruleum-fueled prosthetics. 

 

And to give another example, I'm playing though Bloodborne pretending my character's arm has been replaced by the Stake Driver.

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

 

 

Other than that, like Clover, I tend to make my characters relatively young (late teens to early-mid twenties),

as in clamp clover??? love love love love looove that manga! >u< shame they never finished the series, but i still hope they might..and really wanted ora's tattoo at some point.

i tend to play younger characters for the most part too, but mine usually have a common theme of having some sort of troubled past or the patents are dead or divored or missing. (one i had drop a five year old at an orphanage, left the husband and it took him a few months before finding the character and regaining custody) buut those two i mentioned usually go hand and hand. another thing i rarely escape is they all seem to have red hair o____O

[FreelanceWizard]

Other than that, like Clover, I tend to make my characters relatively young (late teens to early-mid twenties),

as in clamp clover??? love love love love looove that manga! >u

 

I meant the member Clover who posted above, but the Clover manga is also great.

 

I also can't help but mess up the pasts of my characters as part of their Call to Adventure. In CO, I played a character whose life was totally normal (parents still alive and supportive, was going to art school before she decides to take up the figurative cape, etc.) which was a bit of a weird experience.

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

I meant the member Clover who posted above, but the Clover manga is also great.

 

I also can't help but mess up the pasts of my characters as part of their Call to Adventure. In CO, I played a character whose life was totally normal (parents still alive and supportive, was going to art school before she decides to take up the figurative cape, etc.) which was a bit of a weird experience.

 

ohhh i see *feels silly now*

 

i don't doubt it, i rarely have ones that have normal background. there was another one i played that had parents but the father was a mix of the king of all cosmos, shun tendo (ranma 1/2) and was obsessed with anything modern...like spending crazy amounts of money for a new phone that was better than his current one by two weeks. things like that. buut that was more comedy so i could get away with it, was pretty fun even though it still wasn't normal.

[Kellach Woods]

I also can't help but mess up the pasts of my characters as part of their Call to Adventure. In CO, I played a character whose life was totally normal (parents still alive and supportive, was going to art school before she decides to take up the figurative cape, etc.) which was a bit of a weird experience.

Reminds me of my DCUO mains when it comes to used to do messed up pasts but then didn't for one game. Just sad that to this day I think Searchlight might be one of the most solid RP characters I've ever made and chances are I'm never gonna use her again.

[Virella]

Magic in my roleplay always seem to come back. I've got/had a few non-magical character, but. No, I need to snort my magic in roleplay, else I get bored.

[Xavieraux Reinardes]

Oh, Orphans as well, I don't know why but my  character's parents are always dead or missing.

I blame Disney.