What An AWFUL RP Style You Have~

FOREWORD EDIT: Since people seem to think I'm being rude or mean in this topic or attacking the characters they make/have made, and I want to dispel these thoughts since that is not my intention. My point is asking about why people don't make more unique/different characters. Another point I want to clarify is that I didn't and still don't intend for this to come off as superior, condescending, rude, mean or otherwise.Sorry for any confusion on this matter; I was just trying to ask quesions about character development~

I know we've all thought about this at one point or I have encountered on other sites people who it's very difficult to rp with, and people who are afraid to break away from the standard rubric set for a character's personality, style, appearance and whatnot; this is clearly evidenced by seeing mysterious/aloof/tired with life character/distressed characters who gave a short blurb about WHY; and when you try to rp it out you get nadda' to complement it and a refusal to admit if there is something wrong even when it's blatantly obvious. I don't run into these problems here, which is why I keep coming back, but I do see the rubric remaining unbroken, or with people who seem to only be good at making one type of character, or characters with back-story plotholes that I wouldn't mind seeing filled. If you'll notice; heavily tattooed characters or characters with tatooes aren't all that common on here, plus a lack of scarred characters, nor are characters with driving forces that truly motivate them for reasons beyond just joining, or reaching the top; one of my characters wishes to prove herself to her father, another believes she is walking a divine path, and another solely follows her sister; and Terry, as revealed in an rp fight to honor the memory of his dead brother who he truly loves; even in death!~

People on here are far more liberal and open with their characters but yet I feel that lots of people are afraid to take risks in designing characters; making them stick out, and only a few people actually do; some expansion on their characters beyond simple details in RP's and a backstory on the profile. While I like to make my characters more elaborate and outrageous; I like to add more to them and I plan on doing an overhaul as I mass edit/fix my characters and even add on to the list with more characters; but I must ask: are you really afraid to take risks on your character design and what you feel would be nice & pleasant or mean & swarthy?~

Another question I have is this; when posting or doing a collaberation on work do you like to try and drop cues to guide it? I admit that I do, but I usually catch a go with the flow feeling from people or a this is my house feel. In other words, matches and rp's have ways of the users working together but usually; I end up feeling people in rp's in general trying to avoid the happy medium for them to instead dominate the rp or leave you in charge as you work out the story. Believe it or not; I'm actually a fairly competent writer in my own respects; even been offered a deal for ananthology of short stories I did, which I had to turn down due to circumstances at the time; I even do collab work with people anonymously for fun, and while I have found my happy medium with those people and others I often times feel like the happy medium people simply aren't around anymore;a distant and fading memory.~

In my works, one of my characters is a detective who is on the run from the law since he tried to take his son from his wife who he pulled a gun on before Police arrived and he sped off in his truck with his dog named Wolf because he simply can't deal with his wife, and his kid forgets him more and more. While on the run a magical Grand Grimoire starts following him as he reads it and tries to avoid the magical situations for obvious reasons before finding out along the way that it has dire consequences such as when his son is destroyed as a young adult in an inferno by a demon which he absorbs in his rage; due to his nature and he starts to weep as he finds a disintegrating picture of him before a ghost of a girl gets trapped in his body, dead from the fire, serving as a comedic relief. Later on he attempts to stop these occurences and battles a phoenix to absorb it and use it's ability to kill himself and revive his son who is actually being held alive in a block of ice by an ice demon gangster who runs an insurance firm which insures supernatural creatures everywhere. This leads him to question his friendship with the ghost and if he is willing to help her and leave his son and his family alone ~

Sre what I mean as in story and how people work with or around it? And what about risks? Where are they nowadays?~

Please don't post drunk.

(Edit: That was a joke, but what I mean is: "That post needs to be edited for clarity and content." )

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[quote="anegge":ryf6mgo7]Please don't post drunk.

(Edit: That was a joke, but what I mean is: "That post needs to be edited for clarity and content." )