aliasLOVELORN, LL, LORN
pronounsSHE/HER
123written posts
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real winners quit
what i try to add:
- unique quirks. i'm talking like verbal quirks or appearances or like bits/gags that i repeatedly slap on them: i think a lot of ppl underestimate the power of a representative symbol/thing/idea for a character especially in terms of getting them established in a world or other people's awareness when plotting. ex. 2nd spiderverse movie "chai tea", bakugou mha nicknaming every other character, etcetera. helps people remember your character and draw connections between them and other things. would i say this makes for a better character not really...BUT i would say it def makes for a better/smoother rp experience even if in small ways because making your character "relevant" for lack of a better word or memorable to other rpers is a plus for any plotting or whatever you plan to pursue
- flaws. i wrote mary sues and it wasn't even like when i was seven it was like...decently recent and i admit it ok !!! nowadays i try to inject flaws into my characters, and i specifically try to avoid like. "they're just TOO good and TOO incredible and everyone else takes ADVANTAGE of their INCREDIBLY PURE NATURE" as flaws, and head towards more "stingy" or "delusional" or "no sense of boundaries" or "short-tempered" instead. i also try to portray their flaws as like...not ONLY AWFUL things most of the time but also like...conditionally flaws? for example yes they're stingy (bad) but they're also cost conscious and good with a budget (good), they're delusional (bad) but in like an optimistic way (good).
keep an eye out for:
- overattachment/overprojection. def guilty of this in the past (sry 2 anyone who knew me...im better now i swear) but if someone takes stuff about their character as a personal thing you need 2 run asap. like if MY character hates YOUR character it doesnt mean i hate you !! if MY character rejects YOUR character it doesnt mean i hate you !! this doesn't only apply to bad things either. if my character thinks yours is pretty and suddenly you're in my dms and we're like bffs even tho we've never talked before i will also be like hmmm...
- plot availability. if your character hates all other people, hates talking, hates being in public spaces...im sorry i don't have the energy to be chasing after your character and leading the thread and forcing them to be together even if its "ic" behavior !!! characters who need other characters to "prove" themselves to them or "spark their interest or whatever"...i would rather play an otome game im sorry </3 i also appreciate initiative and try to avoid characters who don't have it: stuff like characters who only "follow" without adding their own action to move the thread forward isn't fun to me, and that doesn't mean every character has to be the most go-getter manic pixie girl, but they need to give some sort of emotional or verbal response that prompts something in the thread imo even if they are a follower!!
profile:
- reputation. obsessed w/reputation systems in a bridgertonesque way (i have never seen bridgerton). LOVE epithets LOVE seeing people's perceptions of a character. i think this is like...the part that is most usually relevant to me as an rper because it's a shorthand of what the rper expects their character to come across as/is trying to make their character like even if its not 100% true (because obvi more rp = more depth = more revealed!!)
- plot hooks. the more interesting the better for ex. "our characters might have known each other six years ago bc they went to the same school" vs "my char was like publicly pathetically crushing on the most popular girl in school and publicly, like, promposal-ing her every week, a fact that still haunts his rep to adulthood"/"he works at ye olde generic tavern" versus "works at and has been ensuring ye olde generic tavern's drinks are more water than alcohol"
- detailedness. personally i prefer lots of details but only the interesting ones, axe whatever isn't relevant and i don't really need the app to be in like. proper sentence form either
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last edit on Oct 5, 2023 4:00:06 GMT by lovelorn |
