Chopping onions during RP

[Lucius Ignatius]

Oooooh yes. Very much so. Kiht'a has recently gone through a lot of relationship issues, and it was a week from hell for him. Hes growing up and learning things he didn't know about the world. The darker side of things. Not everything is cheery and happy and things sometimes cannot last or go the way you want them. That mistakes must be made in order to learn.

 

His relationship RP with his partner was especially powerful, and I teared up so much I needed a tissue. Kiht is just someone who only wants to love people and make friends. But it has been the exact opposite for him. He wants someone to just make all the bad things go away, but he knows no one could.

 

In the end of his most recent relationship, it ended that his mate felt betrayed and he never intended to make him feel that way. His mate ended up not accepting his apologies and disowned Kiht'a as a friend. It was earth shattering for Kiht'a.

[Kasumi]

The last... two weeks of RP have left me with an over abundance of freshly chopped onions on more than one occasion. 

 

Relationship issues, horrible luck for Kasumi all around, unresolved dramas and new ones springing up. I feel so horrible for her, but at the same time-- it's all just so interesting to see it take a life of its own. 

 

I don't mind the onions. The characters and story are proving worth it.

[Ozma]

[rainichan]

Yes. Not on FFXIV yet, but I have in previous roleplays. It was emotionally draining on top of it, but both myself and my partner were tearing up and writing. I'm fairly sure when we both hear the song we associated with it, we get those feelings all over again. I sure as hell do, and we're close enough in similarities we call each other our clone, so there is that.

 

I know it'll eventually happen in XIV, but it hasn't yet.

[Mia Moui]

I will cry at almost any provocation.  I watched "Inside Out" last night and I was in tears within seconds of the movie starting.  I had to turn it off several times.  I will always try to avoid tearjerking movies in theaters but I'm sometimes blindsided by sad scenes in action films.

 

So given that I'll cry over just about anything, I've cried during RP.

[Dat Oni]

It's happened to me, before. Sometimes the moment is just to sweet or too sad to not burst into tears. 

 

I'm human, I have feelings. Something touches me, I cry. ;_;

[Swashbuckler]

 

In all seriousness, this didn't make me cry. But it still felt gut-wrenching.

[Edda]

I recant my previous answer. It finally happened. Certainly didn't see that shit coming... Damn me and my... easily overflowed tear ducts!

 

It'll never happen again.

[ZoktaiKhor]

.....Carrying a dying mother's child away from her as thy kick and scream for their mother did that for me. .....Especially wheni killed the mother.

[Coatleque]

Got misty eyed just last night. As Crofte looks the man she loves square in the eyes and admits she was spying on him for months.

[Eses Fafa]

Yes, during major character deaths.

Usually I disapprove of the use of infanticide in RP since it usually follows with intense grimdark, though this was pretty well executed.

Essentially, our FC had a mascot babby that everyone adored (possibly due to maternal/paternal envy ICly). Now..one of our members was taken along with the kid, and so everyone deployed on their merry way to rescue the two, and we had a jolly time doing so! There were laughs, the occasional corpse, a few 'WHY WON'T YOU DIE ALREADY' moments..aaand then we realise at the end of all the chaos, babby didn't make it.

The sudden realisation hit us IC and OOC, and sent everyone spiralling into 'ooooh no..' moments.

Suffice it to say, someone was taking layers off of Shrek next to each of our members at their desks.

[-no longer matters-]

Honestly, I don't think I have. I mean I've been in some tear jerkers but they've never IRL punched me in the feels.

[Wemrys]

I haven't had a sad RP on FFXIV in my time on it quite yet. Not one that made me cry anyway, but I can tell you about the first time I did cry in a roleplay situation.

 

I was at a LARP some time back and playing as a staff NPC during the big end of weekend event (we went in-character 24 hours a day for 3 days straight at each event with no soft-stop on activities so that night owls could have events in the dead of night). The whole in game town had been fighting off invaders during the day and undead during the night all weekend and were exhausted from it all.

 

Cue our NPC military detachment tromping into town. We were supposedly the good-guys, coming in to inspect the town and check in with the military unit of player characters assigned to the town. Our NPC leader met with the leaders of the town's unit (the commander of which being the game director's NPC and the Lieutenant being an actual paying player) in front of the whole town of player characters. The NPC in charge of our side spoke with the Lieutenant and asked to see an heirloom of the Lieutenant's...an old gun.

 

The NPC took the gun, complimented it, and then shot the Lieutenant dead with it in front of all in attendance. Cue massive battle. The aftermath of it I observed as a different nameless NPC and found myself in tears over all of the players who were distraught about the loss of one of the longest running and most well-liked player characters in game. (It had been the player's choice to retire the character)

[Lori-Nasharia]

I dont think crying over something that hit home is such a bad thing. Everyone has feels same as watching a movie and crying over it, because it touches you. I think if you do feel yourself welling up then the RP is successful specially since more raw and honest actions will come to the RP with how your character feels over the matter.