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do you think a person's choice of characters to rp reflects their personality/who they are, or is there no truth to that? (like people who want attention who pick up loud showy characters, jerks picking up jerks, etc.)

people pick characters that appeal to them, obviously. i don't know if the characters work as literal reflections of the player, though in a few cases i've known that to be true. i used to know a very bitchy, unpleasant player who picked up similarly bitchy and unpleasant characters so she could have an excuse to behave like that ic, but i have no idea if this is a common thing across the board.

Not really. Some of the most terrible, manipulative and nasty people I've known played friendly, gentle sweethearts in their respective canons. And some of the greatest people I've known played characters I couldn't stand.

Not really. The only thing it shows is what interests the player and what sort of things they want to explore in RP.

i agree and disagree, so i'm tagging onto this comment (sorry, airt!)

i think rp is wish fulfillment a lot of the time, not a writing exercise, so what interests the player often reflects how they want to be treated. (ex: someone who likes to be babied and made to feel special will play a lot of ~heart of the group~ types, someone who likes humor and crude jokes will play jerks/buttmonkeys). it doesn't always have to do with who they are, because people are complicated and have their own individual reasons for wanting attention, or being jerks, or whatever etc. but there will be some overlap that may tell you a little bit about their personality!

What about RPers that play characters that are in roles that are completely antithetical to each other? I've seen some RPers play characters that are exact opposites sometimes, like the baby of the group and the kind of person that kicks the baby of the group.

I don't think you're wrong about this for some people, but I've seen others with some pretty diverse cast lists, with characters that are entirely different, sometimes in oppositional roles.

'roles' don't always negate 'pings'. maybe the baby of the group and the person who kicks the baby of the group are both the type to secretly enjoy handholding and being shitty at romance, and the player picked them both up because they enjoy playing fumbling terrible courtships.

i'm not saying this applies to all people. some people play all sorts. but i was speaking generally. where you find players with a type, you have a player who's letting some ooc prefs bleed ic, and you can often get a sense of their personality as a result.

no truth to it at all.

if someone plays 20 characters and that all have something in common then you might be able to make an assumption of some kind about them, but not in the sense that whatever quality those characters share they also share with the player.

the other day i looked at my muselist and found something in common with almost all of them and it made me wonder if 1) anyone else noticed and 2) if people make assumptions based off that.

i mean, it wasn't intentional or anything and it isn't too immediately obvious, but it made me curious anyway.

it can but it doesn't necessarily. i'd never make the judgment without having pretty significant ooc interaction with them first.

if they mostly or only play a certain kind of character, it probably says something. otherwise, nah.

yes, but not directly. looking at someone's muselist will tell you what kinds of things they like writing/reading about, but from there, you have to extrapolate a little. that common trait or trope or plot element might be direct wish fulfillment, but it also might be fascination with something they don't personally relate to or it might be a catharsis thing or any number of other reasons people like certain things in fiction.

another telling thing is not just the characters they play, but the kinds of plots they usually run or cr they usually have. same applies there.

all the nicest people ooc i've known have been people who played really assholish characters from a position of removed, analytic interest, and all the most irritating have been people who play near-flawless hero characters with lots of personal emotional investment and only want positive threads and cr.

idk, i don't think so, but then again i don't play any characters that are similar to one another because otherwise they get watered down and blur together. i need the contrast to keep the edges sharp.

i guess if someone's picking the same type a lot, they probably see something of themselves in it.

I think there's some degree of truth to it. Speaking from personal experience, I know that I tend to gravitate towards characters who are damn weirdos/social outcasts, because I too am basically a damn weirdo/social outcast. Although their personalities, morals, etc. are all over the place.

but i also don't think that it's necessarily something to judge people for. Someone who plays only protags might want the attention because they never got it in their own life or something.

ime, people who are jerks can pick up any character and turn them into a jerk.

I'm wary of people who play exclusively villains and like, really shitty serial killer villains because they're inevitably a little unhinged and either into woobifying these guys or just making everyone else's lives a lot more annoying while fake-screeching about how bad their baby is.

Otherwise I haven't seen any real correlations.

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