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I just think it's fun, for the most part. It scratches my fandom itch in a way that caters to my particular interests and talents. I'm terrible at art (don't have the time or inclination to learn it, I should say), mediocre at writing fic, but I'm good at playing characters. I love obsessively analyzing them and slipping into their voice and mindset. There's no other vehicle that's quite the same for that skillset.

One of my issues with writing fic is that I tend to only focus on a small number of characters (sometimes just one) for any one fandom - maybe I want to see some interaction between Harry and Ron but I've only fully analyzed Ron and have no interest in doing so for Harry, so I don't feel confident writing a Harry and Ron fic. But in RP, I can just find a Harry player and we can each contribute the parts we're most confident in, and there's the added joy of uncertainty as to how things are going to play out since I'm not in complete control of the story.

I play a lot of minor characters too, because I like testing the limits of how to flesh them out into complete people with what little canon gave them. It's like an exercise in human psychology and literary analysis, except taken a lot less seriously, and I'm into that.

I wouldn't say getting people interested in my character is one of my primary motivations, but it's one of my favorite bonuses too, anon.

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