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I've seen people have issues with playing a ridiculously smart characters, but I'm feeling sort of off balance trying to play a particularly idiotic one.

It's Caboose from Red vs Blue, for anyone who knows it, but general advice is just as helpful. I'm not confident that I'll be able to garner much non-canon CR for him because he really is just that dense and it'd be annoying for other people to deal with. How do you balance the complete absence from reality with enough solid personality to make that kind of character work in a panfandom game?

I'm not familiar with your canon but I used to play Brittany from Glee quite successfully back in the day.

Personally, I always tapped into any area where confusion could be caused. I never thought of my character as dumb or stupid, just not knowing anything. Ignorant characters are constantly learning new things. Also, in order to balance non-intelligent characters out, I focused on emotions. Most characters who aren't very smart rely on emotional intelligence. Your character likely knows how they feel and probably how others feel too. That can help them develop relationships and friendships.

Also, in regard to CR, "dumb" characters are often not as reserved as typically intelligent ones. They can say things or make the first move, causing CR which might not have otherwise occurred.

Also, if you're putting them in some sort of a jamjar setting where they wake up somewhere weird, they likely aren't going to react too negatively to it. While some smarter characters might freak out and desperately try to fight it, less intelligent characters are more likely to just go with the flow and accept it.

Basically, don't see your character's lack of intelligence as restrictive. See it as a different outlook. The focus shifts from book knowledge and reasoning to emotions, which I personally find very freeing.

I hope that was vaguely helpful!

This is actually really good advice, because I'm not sure if the OP knows Glee, but I know both and Brittany and Caboose are VERY similar in how they react to things. Obviously, they're in different situations.

On another level, you're probably going to have a lot of negative CR before you get positive CR, because the difference between Brittany and Caboose is that no one expects Brittany to be in the middle of something dangerous where she'd have to take responsibility for her actions, whereas Caboose... Has a bad habit of shooting at the wrong targets and that leads to a lot of conflict. The benefits here, however, is that in a situation where it's NOT JUST canonmates who have already written Caboose off as a failure and only put up with him because he's their teammate is the likelihood of you getting CR with ONE PERSON who will snatch the gun away when he tries to shoot allies instead of enemies or who'll calmly maneuver him into making better choices, because they don't believe he's a write-off.

Basically, once you get CR with someone who can sort of shove Caboose in the right direction and avoid his bad decisions in the field, you'll eliminate pretty much 90% of the reason why people will want to avoid him.

Here's a thread from a previous meme, anon! I hope it helps!

[D] You dirty bird

dumb characters

Re: dumb characters

not the op

http://rpanons.dreamwidth.org/22293.html?thread=69229845#cmt69229845