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Hidden 9 yrs ago Post by RPforthatPR
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Everyone in RP's seems to play a 15-18 year old, invariably.

Why?
Hidden 9 yrs ago Post by Vilageidiotx
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Because most of the RPers are 15-18 years old.

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Most of my characters are between 21-30, with a few being outside that for certain situations (1x superhero school RP where I was a 17yr old girl, 1x Post Apocalyptic RP where I was over 30 man). I gauge that to be because I in fact....... 28.
So therefore it's easier for me to play an older character.

I assume it's the same for a 15 year old. How can a 15 year old understand the emotions and feelings a fully grown adult will experience, and then understand them enough to create a character and roleplay that adult like character?
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I assume it's the same for a 15 year old. How can a 15 year old understand the emotions and feelings a fully grown adult will experience, and then understand them enough to create a character and roleplay that adult like character?


This is a very good point too.

Like, once you become an adult you can understand a whole range of shit. If your a relatively rounded person (and I think most creative people are at the very least well aware of the world), then you have developed empathy and an understanding of a whole lot of shit. But teenagers? They are still growing mentally. They haven't quite fully developed empathy, and so they can only truly feel a limited range of conditions.

Hell, for me at 25, its easier to RP people in their sixties and seventies than it is to roleplay non-adults because the range of development for adolescents and children is so limited, and it is way too easy to look back on your own experience in childhood and accidentally project your adult personality into that.
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@Vilageidiotx I found that when I did play the younger character I found it VERY hard since most of what I learnt back in the early years and the way I did things is completely different to kids these days. Something as simple as owning a mobile phone before 17, and a smart phone at that (The good old unbreakable Nokias).

Don't wanna sound like a geriatric but if I was to enter a Slice of Life School RP, I just don't think I could actually do it and create a comfortable character that I would enjoy.

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Everyone in RP's seems to play a 15-18 year old, invariably.

Why?


I never play children unless that is the only option.
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@Vilageidiotx I found that when I did play the younger character I found it VERY hard since most of what I learnt back in the early years and the way I did things is completely different to kids these days. Something as simple as owning a mobile phone before 17, and a smart phone at that (The good old unbreakable Nokias).

Don't wanna sound like a geriatric but if I was to enter a Slice of Life School RP, I just don't think I could actually do it and create a comfortable character that I would enjoy.

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I don't know if i've every seen anyone create a comfortable character that they enjoyed in a School RP.
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I don't know if i've every seen anyone create a comfortable character that they enjoyed in a School RP.


I wrote one seriously fucked-up kid in a powers school RP once. The first post was fantastic -- some of my best ever. Everything after that was god awful.
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I once RPed a twelve year old professor in a college-based slice of life RP, but like so many it died a page or so in.
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I simply can't. Sort of the opposite for me, I prefer to rp "the older folk".

Don't ya start calling me old, now.
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I simply can't. Sort of the opposite for me, I prefer to rp "the older folk".

Don't ya start calling me old, now.


Does this mean there is a slice of life Nursing Home RP I don't know about?
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Does this mean there is a slice of life Nursing Home RP I don't know about?


Let's do it! xD
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"Nursing Home for Supernatural Old Folk"

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Does this mean there is a slice of life Nursing Home RP I don't know about?


Do please make one :P
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I believe my youngest character was about 17. My oldest was 30.
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"Nursing Home for Supernatural Old Folk"


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Do please make one :P


I was thinking about this today... I might actually make one for shits and giggles. May throw it into the Free Roleplay section as a Jump in and see how many people are willing to do it. xD

"Will these heroes be able to regain control of their Nursing home when they can't even regain control of the contents of their pants?"

Also, so have a 'Mode of Transport' in the Character sheet (Wheel Chair, walking frame, Grandma slippers)
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I was thinking about this today... I might actually make one for shits and giggles. May throw it into the Free Roleplay section as a Jump in and see how many people are willing to do it. xD

"Will these heroes be able to regain control of their Nursing home when they can't even regain control of the contents of their pants?"

Also, so have a 'Mode of Transport' in the Character sheet (Wheel Chair, walking frame, Grandma slippers)


Make it so. MAKE IT SO.
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