Makin' my blorbos smooch is what gets me through the hard times

[socksuke_uchiha]

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[(Anonymous)]

hmm. a bit? but i don't weigh all aspects of icness equally. i'm much more bothered when the characterization feels hollow and there's no real insight into how and why the character behaves a certain way, than i am about how they sound. to me, there are multiple layers to being in-character. the most obvious is capturing the character's voice, which most people can do by studying and mimicking their lines.

what goes much deeper is understanding what's happening in the character's head, why they choose to do A instead of B or C, especially in moments where there's no introspection and you're (canonically) left to piece that together on your own. that's where some folks can go wrong and end up misinterpreting, or worse, bastardizing. others are so observant they seem to develop this gut feeling and intuition for their character. like, have you ever RPed something and then the character did or said it in canon later? congrats, you probably have a phd in your blorbo. successfully intuiting what hasn't been written in the text yet means you've hacked the mainframe and cracked the character's code. i certainly don't have that kind of insight into every character i've ever watched or read about in media.

all of this is to say i think a decent player who has the second part down can develop and write a character in a way that makes a very convincing case for something being ic, even if it hasn't happened in canon yet. "yet" because, to truly feel ic, that "something" should still fall within the realm of possibility if certain parameters are met. it should either be hinted at in the subtext or inferable. if the potential is there, that player will find a way to bridge the gap.