[quote=Cynder]
[*]When people won't Roleplay with you or your character because they disagree with your characters morals. Characters are like people -- they are racist, prejudice, they have fears and they have hate. Some are just bitter bastards. I absolutely [i]hate[/i] it when people believe that your characters actually reflect your own personal beliefs. And this actually does happen, though it's mostly, as I've noticed, on other sites.[/*]
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I feel you on this one. As far as I see it, this happens because some people really are playing themselves in any RP. You get characters that talk and act disturbingly similar to the player behind them. Sometimes a little bit of this is justified, because I feel like a bit of me bleeds into every character I write. Inevitably, people will draw on their own view of the world when writing, and that's natural. But when people [i]really[/i] play themselves, it's when they've invested their ego in the character. It's when they go on moral crusades like you described, and when they act suspiciously contrary to the way they wrote their character when someone insults them IC or stuff like that.

For example, I knew this person that wrote their character up as being "bubbly, friendly etc." Standard stuff, but then, when their character gets into a confrontation IC, suddenly they're acting borderline psychotic in response. But the real clincher is the fact the player of this character was pretty much saying OoC that they were planning on wrecking this person's day for messing with their character. Now if that isn't a clear example of what I'm talking about, I don't know what is XD

Next, there was another person that had a character that was a nice enough guy overall, but there was this one person they didn't think much of. The character's player didn't like this other player in the RP, and when they meet their character IC, suddenly, they're a complete dick towards them, in spite of being nice to just about everyone else. This character was a little bit nutty due to experiencing some nasty stuff IC, and the "nice guy" is suddenly completely intolerant of him. It seemed completely contrary to his character beforehand, but given the bad blood between the two players, I think I can assume it was a matter of ego in the game again.

This might be a little off the topic of morality, but the point I'm making is; it's not that your character reflects your personal beliefs, but that their character reflects their beliefs, and their ego. In my opinion, at least. It's been a real problem for me because due to experiences with this sort of thing, I find the line between IC and OoC insults to be somewhat blurred. Like, I sometimes have a hard time telling if it's aimed at me or if it's a genuine IC reaction with no malice behind it.