Reply With Quote[2]Originally Posted by Kagamine
Even when playing good characters, I like to slowly manipulate things to tug at other characters heart strings.
Not just making characters cry in general, but a sadistic kidnapper holding hostage a damsel in distress and making her cry because her attempt on his life failed... It's complicated. I don't like making undeserving people suffer, that's the short version. I can make people cry, but I don't like to, so whenever I play any sort of villain I have difficulty making them really "evil" without feeling bad about it. Don't ask me why, 'cause I dunno. I can be bad, but I don't enjoy it.
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The more I stare at that eye the more creeped out I get. Pretending that it's a horse makes me feel a little less creeped out.
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Even when playing good characters, I like to slowly manipulate things to tug at other characters heart strings.
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I like to give my characters all sorts of flaws, usually I reveal most of them. I try to make their lives as shitty as possible, at least on the inside.
Embrace the creepiness.
Ha, you remind me of another RP friend, she always makes her characters suffer emotionally all the time. I can't play characters like that, or if I do it's really hard for me to stick to their story. I just can't be sullen for a long period of time, maybe I could if I tried really hard. It's like Griffin, he's a cranky hermit who hates people, but he's not really evil like the kidnapper is (I guess I should come up with a name for him eventually). Griffin actually amuses me greatly, whereas I have a strong dislike for the other guy and it all comes down to their intentions, their motives.
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During my beginnings on this site, I got so obsessed with making characters depressed (usually my own) that it actually got on other people's nerves rather often. I've since learned to turn it down but I do still very much enjoy character misery when enjoyed properly in moderation.
The way I can do it is because I come up with a complete life story for a character. Seriously, I could write a novel on just their history alone. It's all in my noggin. Then I just reflect on that history to shape their behavior, and then as they are influenced by outside things, their behavior will begin to change. It's more realistic than having a character that is perfect in every way, or has a few flaws but is not really emotionally affected by them. Also, I don't take it overboard where it's just a constant sob-story, because that's annoying. I do that by not revealing all of the flaws, or specifically stating what the character is thinking or feeling. I leave a lot up to interpretation, but I'm not sure if people look deeper into my writing or not. If they want the whole story, they should. xD
That's another factor when I create a character, I try to avoid the "bad childhood leading to messed-up adulthood" backstory because I see it too often, it's not really something unique or at least it doesn't seem that way. If I have to be a villainous character, I'm more likely to make them a "good-person-turned-bad" for whatever reason.
Nah my characters usually just become annoyingly depressed after being wrecked with grief over the death of another character.
Still I would arrange for that way too often.
Oh yah, I get that. I could tell you the childhood of every one of my characters, knowing their entire history makes them seem much more real instead of them just being information on a character sheet. I know what they're thinking constantly, what trains of thought lead them into whatever actions they take. Most of the time, writer's block happens to me when I can't figure out what my character is thinking, I have to figure that out first so I can keep them in character and not have them change into someone totally different.
I hate writing up history for my characters. I enjoy the versatility of making it up as I go. Evolving them as a character throughout the RP.
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