Well i think i made my first enemy on this site.
Enalais said
Well i think i made my first enemy on this site.
Miss Gallagher said
Who and why?
HollywoodMole said
... She's talented with a gun even though she's blind? And an actual cowgirl? The lack of historical correctness, oh god.
Miss Gallagher said
Technically, whether she is blind or not isn't known. She only shows one eye, and it's white. It's very plausible the other eye isn't blind.And no, she is a bounty hunter. She doesn't call herself a cowgirl.But historical correctness is only needed in RPs that are to be historically correct. Technically, adding anyone who didn't exist in time makes something no longer historically correct. Changing anything that happened, so on and so forth. You cannot really have a 100% historically correct RP. Any RP will rewrite what history said. That's the fun of it though.I wouldn't join an RP if everything had to be perfect. That's nit-picking and isn't fun unless you enjoy nit-picking.
Enalais said
HollywoodMole said
... No, but you have to keep some correctness, unless it doesn't fit.Like, a female bounty hunter?
Enalais said
Tydosius said
I can't help but feel uncomfortable whenever someone role-plays a canon character, regardless of whether they're a good role-player. Even if that character is a prominent character in a long running series, there's still the extremely high chance that they'll get something completely wrong about that character, and that their emotions and personality will influence that character.I also get annoyed whenever people use a story they like and try to emulate the intense parts of it whilst disregarding the pacing that made them good in the first place, bonus points if the original story doesn't have good pacing either.
HollywoodMole said
... Oh god, Canon characters that aren't jokes... jesus.
Derpestein said
This all the way.No one is going to properly RP as a canon character besides the people who made the show.Anyways, all this discussion about RP's makes me want to make a parody RP, making fun of tropes and cliches. But that's hard to pull off and I'm not funny at all.
OutlawTorn said
Bullshit! I completely disagree based on personal experience. I happen to for a fact that it's possible for a good writer, who knows the character in question to write them accurately. You have to the character intimately, however. This means that not every character can be played well. Take a video game character for example. This character is the star of 1 game. IN that game, his character is explored in very little detail, and relies on the strength of the script alone, which was was average at best.Playing this character would be hard to say the least.But take for example Goku, from Dragon Ball. Anyone with a knowledge of the rich history and lore of the Dragon Ball franchise could accurately play Goku, Vegita, Gohan, or any of the main cast.I was once involved in an X-Men RP, and I've been told that I played Wolverine well, because Logan is a character I know very well.This entire thread could very easily rock a writer's faith in this community to the very core. Any good writer can take on any character given to them, and hold their own. That's what defines a good writer and role player.