lovelorn
Full Member
real winners quit
as someone who's fc'd fcs with little to no art (shahrazad from trinity blood, marco adriano from gangsta, etc.), old fcs (trigun pre-release of stampede, etc.), fcs from just manga/manga-style art (old CLAMP etc.), unpopular fcs (anyone know cecil from escape devildom, etc.?) and has been rping on public/private/semi-private rps for years and years, i've never had problems with anyone wanting to write w/me because of my fc. it's true that people won't be as interested in your character if you use something that's unpopular/not 'pretty' compared to a popular/pretty fc with lots of art, but that's just true abt anything 'popular' - when i put my char in an unpopular location/faction, i know that they're not going to get as much attention as a character in a popular faction or accessible location, or when i don't talk about my character in public chats or the discord, i know they're not going to get as much attn as they would otherwise. people won't reach out to you because of your fc, but that doesn't mean no one's going to write with you at all, esp if your character has a canon/subcanon position. it just means that you have to put an effort 2 reach out to get more plots. fc is an element of rp that i consider the same as any other element of rp. there are a lot of ways to get plots/plots of threads, and fc is one of them. talking about your character publicly/integrating with the community is another, reaching out and plotting w/other people is 1 more, putting your character in a position where they're related to others via wanted ads/canon positions is 1 more, etc. etc. etc.. not choosing to do any of them doesn't mean you won't get plots at all, but it definitely means it won't be as easy/people won't come to you as much, so it's something that i take into consideration when i make a character. if i want people to come to me/don't want to reach out to people to plot as much, i'll put all the things i can to appeal to other rpers in my app, from nice formatting to a popular fc. because our hobby is literally rp, people's impressions of you/your character will be based off of these things, and yes, people will judge you from your fc, but i don't consider it any different from people judging your writing/your formatting/how you present yourself in public spaces/etc. when it comes to me personally (finally getting to the FC confessions part of this thread LMFAO), i do judge people off of their fcs. i assume older fcs (like old manga/anime) are from people that are older (which was relevant when i was <18 and people were like, i personally do not want to rp w/a minor even if the site allows it). if someone's gfx are resized wrong/uncropped, i assume that they don't have a lot of experience w/this kind of rp. i usually find that people who have fcs who don't really "match" the rp (for example using inuyasha in his original outfit/form in a modern london rp) tend to be less detail-oriented/strong on "immersion" than the ones that try to pin the vague time period/setting of a site down w/their fc, and i find that a lot of the rpers who put a lot of effort into their gfx (adding effects, filters, etc.) also are usually the ones who try something new with their writing (typography in posts, format, perspective, prose/poetry etc.)
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