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How much research, time and effort do you put into it?

If it varies then talk about your most recent or currently in progress app

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honestly i'm pretty shit at reviewing

i'll just go back and skim over the parts that contain my character, slow down and actually reread/play for Super Important Moments that are ~transforming~ or whatever, but those are few/far between

it takes me 20 min tops. often after i'm accepted i'll do it a couple more times for voice but

overall i'm a lazy fucker i guess

I don't feel comfortable apping/playing the character unless I've recently reviewed the entire canon. It's a personal quirk and it's a pain in the ass, but I do know most people find it easier to play a character fresh off a canon review.

I'm just pretty sure most people don't end up canon reviewing almost every single time they app a character. ):

I put a lot of effort into canon reviewing. If it's not unreasonable, I'll go back and rewatch/replay/reread the canon and copy down lines I fine important to the characterization of the character I want to play. If at all possible, which often times it isn't, granted, I'll copy down every bit of dialogue the character has so I can easily reference it if need be.

I do this too. I compile notepads and private entries filled with important references I'll go back to and, well, refer to as much as I can.

I also like to write down parts of their body language so that I get a better feel for writing it out in text.

I don't usually tend to spend more than a couple of hours on my apps at most. As far as research goes, if I like a canon then I've probably already watched/played/read it more than once before I even apped from it. I usually go back and watch a few scenes/read a few parts with my character in it right before I write the app, but that's about the extent of what I do.

I've apped to over a dozen games and I've never been asked for revisions or rejected yet so clearly this works just fine for me.

I try to review as much as possible, unless it's a character I know so well/whose voice I really feel I have down enough that I don't need to. Maybe not the whole canon, but definitely the most relevant parts of it.

I actually do a lot of canon reviewing for some characters after I app, too. I have more trouble maintaining some than others...

I grab a notebook and jot down important lines and conversations. I take notes on stuff I don't think I'll remember and then some. I really only use the stuff when I first start playing, but it's helpful to have the information on paper for me.

For me, it helps to write down every single thing that's going on while I watch. It's definitely way too much tl;dr for an app, but it's a good reference. Yeah, there's a wiki that I could check, but if I watch it and then write it and then reread it, it's easier to remember.

Then I make a copy of that for the app and trim that shit down. For my last app (for a MLP character), it was about a paragraph or two for each episode that they had an "important" part in. For my current app (for a drama show character), it's about 800-1000 words per episode so far. I think 1000 words per season is a good maximum word limit, but I try to keep it as low as I can without getting rid of too many things that I consider important.

I try to work on the personality section while I watch too, at least to add a checklist of traits. Friendly, naive, kind of an asshole, whatever. Then I add onto that later. Appearance sections are always pretty easy. I always delude myself into thinking that samples are sooooooo easy so I save them for last, and then I struggle with them because I suck. And then I proofread and reword everything fifty times until it's "almost perfect enough" and submit it... and maybe edit a few things anyway because I have problems.

I obviously put a lot of effort into this and take longer than most roleplayers would. I know that it's pretty unnecessary, but what if I need to know that this character read a certain book in her English class or that she's interested in, I don't know, some band?! Or some other useless shit. I've gotten my past two apps done in 1-2 weeks though, so the one that I'm working on now'll probably take 1-2 weeks, maybe 3 if I slack off a little.

I just fucking love tl;dring, as you guys can tell. At least this keeps me from apping twenty characters and overwhelming myself...?

This is assuming I've already read/watched/played the canon, because why else would I be apping them, but I'll do another quick runthrough and maybe jot down any dialog/important quirks the character might have. The app itself doesn't take more than a few hours tops, but this also includes the fact that I refuse to write history sections (or apply to games with history sections, they just feel so redundant) so it's really only personality + samples.

I canon review by making icons, usually. If it's a manga, I save every page that the character is on into a folder, so that I can make the icons and have them at hand for when I need to go "well fuck how'd this character react in this situation again".

But most of the characters I play are from movies, which means canon review is watching a movie and maybe chattering at someone about it. Pretty easy canon review.

Usually if I'm playing a character, it's because I know their canon backwards and forwards and really love them. I don't pick up new muses often.

I don't write apps unless I've gone through their canon start to finish at least once since I decided to pick them up as a character. That way I can pay special attention to them specifically and get a better grip on their little mannerisms and turns of phrase.

Canon reviews are easier. I just reread or replay with a focus on my character's big scenes.

Varies depending on the canon. Most recent one was also a bit more than I'd normally put in because of the sheer mass of canon, a lot of it not yet translated as well.

Normal for me would be to review a script for the game (I usually app from video games) and if one doesn't exist, then I make it starting with the scenes my character is in and often end up just doing the rest and posting to a site like GameFAQs to help other players. Making a script of my own is more normal because I play from the more obscure games, so I end up playing again or at least watching a playthrough because of this.

I generally play from lengthy shoujo series so doing an entire canon review tends to be a little too much to ask-- most characters I play have their main development in about three or four volumes, so I'll read their part in those and go from there.

If it's a series with a lot of background and worldbuilding or scheme-heavy or whatever kind of setting I think it's also important to gauge what in particular your character would be aware of (if it's a main character that... gets obvious, but secondary, not so much).

Depends. Usually only a little bit of important moments.

It depends on my canon. For example, one of the characters I play is from a 12 issue comic miniseries. I read the whole canon for that guy when I want to canon review. Another character I play is from a currently ongoing show in its fifth season. I pick and choose the fuck out of episodes I want to watch for that guy, but I'll usually only watch two to five eps.

As for my currently in progress app, I plan on taking my character from an early point in canon, but I'm definitely watching his origin episode as well as one or two of the focus episodes he has.

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