A character concept you always wanted to try...

[LadyRochester]

Have you any character concepts/ideas you always wanted to try but didn't for whatever reason? Well, tell us! Why do you want to try this and what has stopped you so far?

 

I always wanted to roleplay the character embodiment of this. A character so self-centered, insensitive and oblivious to others that it would cause everyone around them to want to cringe and/or slap them on the face. 

 

Considering self-centered RPers can be annoying, I don't think a character like this would go well. 

 

Otherwise, another concept I always wanted to try is a stupid, over-the-top, ridiculous couple like Isaac and Miria from Baccano! They are by far my favourite couple in any series ever. A couple that is constantly in sync with their idiocy to the point they are simply an entertaining entity. 

 

I haven't tried this either because I need to find someone who is willing to RP this... And I would also have to level another alt with them. Seems like  lot of work for something that could (or could not) work.

 

What about you?

[Dogberry]

I've always wanted to play an old knight. Like, someone way past their prime, but they make up for it with wisdom and experience. I don't know why I've never made a character like that. I guess one day I will. It will be very amusing to play a character like that when everyone seems to play characters that are very young.

[Teadrinker]

Have you any character concepts/ideas you always wanted to try but didn't for whatever reason? Well, tell us! Why do you want to try this and what has stopped you so far?

 

 

I will do an Alucard/Integra style relationship someday. I will do it. Not necessarily the powers/vampire aspects - mostly the way they interact with each other amuses me to no end.

 

Haven't done it because this setting hasn't really inspired me in such a way that makes me feel the drive to pull it off. It'd feel forced to me.

[Steel Wolf]

Oh man have I got a few...

 

I've always wanted to do a Dan Hibiki-styled character. One who is an outright braggart and generally inept at typical combat, but manages to get by on a combination of sheer dumb luck and brutish power.

 

The problem I would have there is that the suspension of disbelief would be so astronomical to ask of many that he/she would probably never get any interaction.

 

Another one I had envisioned is some Don Karnage-style villain...someone with charisma and is almost affable. Maybe even carrying a sense of honor...and absolutely a sense of inflated self-magnificence and cowardice. Someone you could like, except for the part where he would blow up an entire village in order to find a buried treasure.

 

The thing that halts that from happening is making the sorts of connections to have the idea work would probably end up more effort than it's worth. And, again, probably a little too compartmentalized of an idea. Still, would be fun to play a baddie one boo's and hisses at instead of some gruff-voiced edgelord like many villain RP'ers tend to write.

[Kellach Woods]

Anything in my sig not named Kellach.

[Aya]

I've always wanted to play an old knight. Like, someone way past their prime, but they make up for it with wisdom and experience. I don't know why I've never made a character like that. I guess one day I will. It will be very amusing to play a character like that when everyone seems to play characters that are very young.

I love that idea Dogberry! I have a very similar idea I'd like to play kicking around right now too, involving an old tramp of a healer/druid (depending on the setting!).

[ɴᴘᴄ]

I've always thought it would be interesting to be a troubleshooter for a noble house... Ishgardians, I suppose, but perhaps also Ul'dahn mercantile princes.

[Virella]

An Ishgardian temple knight. Not alone, but with a group of people. Harassing citizens ect. The evil type of character. It is a thing people might take wrong OOC, the sole reason I never bothered to roll one!

[TheLastCandle]

RPing in various settings since about 1995 (and being a terrible, horrible altaholic) means this is a very short list, but it'd be fun to play the "big, dumb brute" archetype. I've never done it, but if I did, maybe I'd model him after Groo the Wanderer, or something.

[Raven Omen]

Something like Rorschach. I love that character though, so I'm afraid that I wouldn't live up to my own expectations.

[Martiallais]

I've had the urge to play a character who only spoke in rhymes (whether by curse or some other reason). Don't know why, I've always thought it'd be something of an interesting challenge to do (hello thesaurus!) though I worry it'd end up being annoying to RP with.

[Aya]

I've had the urge to play a character who only spoke in rhymes (whether by curse or some other reason). Don't know why, I've always thought it'd be something of an interesting challenge to do (hello thesaurus!) though I worry it'd end up being annoying to RP with.

 

Hello, then, who is this?

Someone new, unless remiss?

But what is he,

Whom I see?

 

He speaks in ryhme,

But, all the time!

So be off and hither you,

Or else I'll slug you -

with my shoe.

[Kismet]

I've always wanted to play a character who's as dumb as a bag of bricks... But I don't feel I could pull it off very well without the character either being a) extremely annoying on both an IC and OOC level, or b) an embodiment of several stereotypes and/or cliched tropes.

 

Playing a grizzled old war vet could be fun, but there's no way I could play that as a main. I feel like I'd get bored too often.

 

I also keep making up concepts for villains, but they end up becoming softer-hearted than I originally intend. I want to play a villain who falls into gray territory in several aspects, but still ultimately stays a villain! I may work on something like that for whatever the next big MMORPG I jump to is...

[Aaron]

I always wanted to rp a male Yandere.

 

But well uh, y'all see how sensitive rpers are. Someone's bound to get offended.

 

Or assume I'm a starved and hopeless romantic irl.

[Kurt S.]

The really edgy emo ultra gritty grimdark dude. The guy who runs over the edge limit at 360 e/h.

[LiadansWhisper]

Okay. I fully admit that I am terrible for this.

 

I wanna play an Awakened Mage* in Eorzea.

 

There are plenty of ways to justify this in the MtA setting, but dimensional-hopping lunatics don't go over well with many people. But I really want to. I might do it incognito. :cactuar:

 

* If you're wondering what the hell I'm talking about, Google "Mage: the Ascension"

[Erik Mynhier]

I have one I have only ever told two people (Clio and Freelance Wizard) about and as of now never seen it replicated or used so it would be unique.

 

The problems though of doing it are less Lore (only slightly dicey really, could be easily explained), and more of overall set up and the need of a dedicated partner willing to play off the character. It literally requires a second person to make sense, be funny, and work.

 

Also a whole lot of leveling..... blah, and glam farming.

[Michaux]

I have an NPC that I've been tempted to turn into a playable character. He's an Ishgardian knight from a noble family. He has slovenly habits, a deeply cynical worldview, and a long history of doing terrible things to further his family's interests while feeling increasingly awful about it. He's a complex character who would probably be very entertaining to play, but I don't feel like leveling up a PLD or DRK so he can carry a sword and wear heavy armor. So it's not happening. But I still RP him a little on Skype.

 

Other than that, every time I have a new character idea, I fantasia whichever alt I'm not currently playing much and run with it.

[Kurt S.]

Actually I just cooked up two other concepts I wanna try out.

 

Enter...

 

Shitting Bull, Lord of the Tall Tales and Master of Embellishment, at yer service *cue standard roe voice laugh..the one that sounds like you're short of breath/dying due to lung failure* kind of like a Varric Tethras sort.

 

And 

 

Dangereux Giruaffe, That ultra grizzled Elezen veteran guy, really old and grizzly but still fights like a bear. Lots of knowledge to impart at 7 and still crazy enough to fight a dragon at 8.

[FreelanceWizard]

I remember that concept, Erik.

 

As for me, I've gotten to play the "loyal employee" once or twice briefly, but never as much as I'd like to. The character concept is the sort who'll make lunch for his boss, talk about how the day's going, stand behind him silently while he cuts deals, then break out the piano wire and go assassinate someone on orders. The loyal employee is unshakably loyal, rather like Alfred to someone else's Bruce Wayne, but is also quite competent. I got to do it for about a week or two in CoV, but that's it.

[Madda]

I've always wanted to play an old knight. Like, someone way past their prime, but they make up for it with wisdom and experience. I don't know why I've never made a character like that. I guess one day I will. It will be very amusing to play a character like that when everyone seems to play characters that are very young.

Madda actually has been playing around with Towering Peach for Madda's idea. She wouldn't be venerable, but she would be considerably aged near the brink of middle age. Of course, she wouldn't care mostly for crow's feet and all those things that come along aging, and would actively be seeking to teach the next generation of adventurers, maybe finding somebody to settle down with.

[Momo]

High Class Prostitute....any race, with a sort of "multiple personality", where in real life they are much less than elegant, but in personal settings of business are the perfect host...yeah...that is all I think...

[Warren Castille]

The bonafide mastermind villain schemer. I think, given the time and resources, I could do a decent job of befriending someone, earning their trust, and then destroying their soul for petty villain reasons over the course of long and earnest RP. I also think that it's kind of fucked up to do to someone. The challenges are thusly:

 

1) Requires a blindside, which is a coin flip of being appreciated or making you reviled

2) Requires a blindside, which means something actually abusing someone's trust to learn where to stick the knife

3) Requires a buttfuck load of time, up to and including the patsy not getting bored/quitting/etc

4) Requires the willpower to have good, fulfilling roleplay specifically for the reason of burning it spectacularly.

5) Ain't nobody down for permadeath

 

Imagine, though... Your hero rides into her greatest challenge beside her most stalwart and trusted companion, only for the whole thing to be an arranged deathtrap. You're reminded of that random snippet of your backstory from years ago alluding to helping to break up whatever smalltime badguy you invented without even giving them a name, and then as the dagger plunges in you're told that nobody was your new best friend's brother/sister/wife/father/whatever...

[Roen]

I wanted to play a total scrapper, a short tempered fly-the-seat-of-her-pants kind of a girl. Stubborn, willful, gets into a lot of fights, mouthy and confident because she believes she is better and more suave than she actually is, with a chip on her shoulder because of parental issues.

 

I actually wrote an alternate "What If" post about her, as a possible future daughter to my current character. She was also my latest tabletop character concept, but that group fell apart due to RL reasons before the story got off the ground. In that version, she was also heavily into steam punk, got all sorts of gadgets and such.

 

So yeah, I've always wanted to write/RP someone like that but never had a chance to due to one thing or another.

[PhantasticPanda]

I wanna simply play a merchant/crafter of sorts. Like a blacksmith or a carpenter but thats entirely their life profession. I have numerous characters that can fight in battles, big and small and have a lil' crafting skill to them. Characters I've always NPC'd but never created is a dedicated craftsman. While they can hold themselves up to a common thug or thief, they are nowhere near capable as all these stinkin' adventurers. I can see how that may appear boring and unexciting to many but I believe it opens up a lot of RP dynamic and opportunities with other players, especially with returning customers.