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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So I'm playing a new character and canonically she often gives extremely short answers to questions and almost never emotes. How do I make my tags interesting?

[(Anonymous)]

short/brusque answers can be humorous sometimes - is there a reason behind why she doesn't talk much? superiority complex/she's shy/something?

[(Anonymous)]

You could describe what she's thinking, or simple physical gestures

[(Anonymous)]

Think about what draws you to the character and the reason you decided to try playing her, then try to convey that in your tags.

[(Anonymous)]

Introspection in brackets helps a lot. I say this as someone who has played a LOT of characters like this. The key isn't just keeping your character interesting to the others characters, but making them engaging to other players. Giving them that insight helps a lot in show there is more to the character than those short responses and they are willing to keep a thread going more even if they know it might take some extra work on their part.

Also, body language. Tone. Make sure to keep these kind of things in mind when writing because your character isn't likely to be standing absolutely still the entire time they speak to someone. What are their eyes doing, do they shift their stance, do they really want to sit down or stand up and are hiding it, etc. Think beyond words and all the other ways humans speak to each other.