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love ur lack of an ic/ooc divide
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Michael de Santa | Grand Theft Auto V
(Anonymous) 2017-01-20 01:41 am (UTC)(link)Handsome Jack | Borderlands 2
(Anonymous) 2017-01-31 02:57 am (UTC)(link)Re: Handsome Jack | Borderlands 2
(Anonymous) 2017-01-31 03:07 am (UTC)(link)OP
(Anonymous) 2017-01-31 03:40 am (UTC)(link)Re: Handsome Jack | Borderlands 2
(Anonymous) 2017-02-04 12:32 am (UTC)(link)Tachibana Kanade | Angel Beats
(Anonymous) 2017-01-31 04:29 am (UTC)(link)satya "symmetra" vaswani | overwatch
(Anonymous) 2017-02-02 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)Nyx Ulric | FFXV: Kingsglaive
(Anonymous) 2017-02-04 01:28 am (UTC)(link)malleable protagonists
(Anonymous) 2017-02-04 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)I'm talking about Bioware protagonists and similar characters whose histories fit in a few paragraphs of a codex entry and may come up a few times in dialogue or side missions, but that's all.
Re: malleable protagonists
(Anonymous) 2017-02-05 12:40 am (UTC)(link)+1
(Anonymous) 2017-02-05 04:45 am (UTC)(link)-0.5
(Anonymous) 2017-02-05 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)see: every time someone points to something ambiguous as proof the character was a child prostitute
somehow it's almost always child prostitution that's the extra edgy secret backstory of choice
just
don't
Re: malleable protagonists
(Anonymous) 2017-02-05 05:47 am (UTC)(link)Re: malleable protagonists
(Anonymous) 2017-02-05 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)- echoing what was said by the anons above. what bioware gives you is canon. the sooner you accept that as word of god fact, the easier things are going to be for everyone else having to deal with your sparkle snowflake. and for the sanity of everyone else, either in your cast or not, don't give them some tragic abuse backstory. no one wants to hear it.
- assume no one gives one single sad fuck about your character. bioware rpers have been around a million blocks with the protags and chances are there have been 999,999 before you who have soured the experience. from wardens to sheps to hawkes to inquisitors and before long ryders will join the bunch. your protag is only special to you. try not to take it personally when no one cares.
- i cannot stress this enough, in the case of dragon age protagonists, DO NOT GO IN ASSUMING ALL CASTMATES WILL KNOW YOURS! don't get a flushed fanny and blur the ic/ooc line when they don't icly recognize your protag! don't bully castmates into changing their own world state just to make an adjustment for yours! i've personally had this happen and it's rude af & admittedly why i'm extra salty toward bioware protags in general.
- tacking on to the previous point but this is important enough to have a point of its own: in the case of romances, DO NOT ASSUME YOUR CANON LI IS GOING TO BE OKAY PLAYING IT IN A GAME. always ask first if you want to do a ship. most smart people who app a protag already know not to go in with a world state romance, but there are a lot out there who feel entitled enough to assume whatever LI is already in the game has just been sitting there pining away for their sweet, sweet protag ass. though, tbf, this mostly happens with the warden/alistair or inquisitor/cullen ships.
- include relevant information of their history in your application. don't spring some stupid shit on the game after you've joined (ie the exxie wank). make that information readily available for castmates & gamemates to easily find in your journal. protags are fandom ocs basically. you have to be responsible for providing proper information.
this is tough love, anon. i say all this as someone who's been rping from bioware stuff for around 7 years. not looking to discourage you from doing what you want to do, but you gotta be aware of this shit before going in. good that you're asking first, though.
Quiet characters
(Anonymous) 2017-02-07 07:22 am (UTC)(link)Mainly, I'm just wondering how to play this character against others without having the other people get frustrated, throw their hands in the air, and ask me to toss them something to bounce off of. I can just have him stand there silently, and use some body language, but I still wonder if it's enough to only speak every three or four tags, if that.
Re: Quiet characters
(Anonymous) 2017-02-07 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)1. Does your character like (or tolerate) other people or does your character hate dealing with them?
2. Are they expressing with their body language or is their body language as stilted as their words are?
3. Are there things in the game that would engage your character (such as a taciturn mage being shown new forms of magic) or would they be bored by the setting around them?
If he likes or at least tolerates people and has expressive body language you're good. You might have to write more about what they're doing but talking about how he's frowning and wrinkling his nose and taking a sniff before recoiling and grimly passing a jug along is just as good as him saying, "It looks foul, probably tastes like piss, and smells vile." If he's more understated in his body language then you might have to simply say he took a long look at the jug before passing it along, but then you can describe how the jug looks vile and the contents smell like the bad end of a constipated wyvern and compensate that way. Not all hooks in your tag have to come directly from what your character does.
If he doesn't like or tolerate people then you might be kinda fucked in that respect. I had this one person tag me who was a pain in the ass because their character was taciturn and hated people. Their first tag to me was, paraphrased, "[go the fuck away] What do you want?" Bad enough they're quiet, but quiet and hostile's especially tough to deal with. If they're hostile then people generally want to go the fuck away, and since they're quiet you don't even get the smartass quips and the possibility of an argument. In that case you'll have to get creative.
As a general rule, just look at your tags and ask yourself...if you got that tag could you reply pretty easily or not? If y, post comment. If n, go rewrite.
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(Anonymous) 2017-02-08 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)Ryan Atwood | The OC
(Anonymous) 2017-02-08 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)