09-09-2016, 06:04 PM
(09-09-2016, 03:02 PM)TheSphinx Wrote: RPing is acting as a person that's not you and live its life, not putting a character on a pedestal.
This deserves being quoted. Oh god does it ever. I apologise for the tangent but since we're talking about "writing help" I really really want to cover this.
Most of my problems with people looking to enter the RP has been with people who clearly are playing an idealistic version of themselves or a pet-character that they insist isn't them but totally is. As such criticizing said character is often seen as a personal attack when my motives are anything but. When I criticize a character I do so because that character has traits or behaviors that will either not fit, or be a detriment to them in the course of the RP.
If you are in R&D you have to be a team player. It's not a bunch of people going off on their own and doing their own thing. You have assignments, you have projects and you WORK TOGETHER to make them happen.
If you are in Military you need to learn the fun and fine art of turn-based combat without controlling the other player/opponent.
If you are Base Ops you need to show you can be creative, useful, and ultimately helpful to the cause of the RP.
There have been a few "Rare" exceptions when a personal character has not caused issues but usually they're a character that's a "Blank slate" designed to be re-adjusted and re-fitted into other worlds and willing to lose what may be considered key features from other worlds.
I rarely play Fox as the overlord herself. Because she's boring. Ironically enough she's not fun to play and only slightly more fun to write for. Gen actually writes her better than I ever could.
Darius is one of my FAVORITES. Mostly because his personality is so different from my own and it's fun to get into his headspace. He's a parental and nurturing elemental dad, but at the same time a ruthless soldier when he needs to crack down on bad behavior in the ranks. He's versatile, multi-dimensional, and a blast to explore mentally because he surprises even me sometimes. (In one of my recent brainstorming sessions for example he expressed a desire to drive a formula 1 car, only to lose interest when he found out to do so would require going around in a circle as they weren't street legal, this led to a somewhat funny sequence of him trying to convince Fox to let him have an outrageous looking car and her being fully unamused by this notion.) And that's just one example. Darius became an obsessive Tea-Drinker because of a commission I got from Akkarri. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/12214588/ Because I thought it would be funny to make that one of his "things"
Think about the story you want to tell, not about the story you already have, and remember the limitations of the world. If your aspirations for your character is to become a dragon god or a king, you're a little out of luck here. :p