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Psycological Disorders and Trauma
Caoimhaen
Targossas
Just wondered if anyone played their characters as a lunatic,multiple personalities,ptsd, trauma, anything you can think of. Purpose of this discussion is of course, what disorder(s) or defect(s) does your character have, if you feel like sharing..and if they have some, how do you play it? When is your character too nuts? Do you feel you can ever over do it? Do you feel this viable rp? Or maybe these people who rp this just drive you nuts...Lets discuss. And..go!
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Things like a stutter, blindness, accents, and speech patterns or impediments are easy to malign as gimmicky, but they are at least much easier to display. I think the main problem with that type of thing is people getting bored of them - not just other players, but you yourself losing interest in your character.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
Zii's known for torture and masochism. Does this count?
I like killing people
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
While I've never really picked out something exact, you have got to be a little fucked in the head to think carving out the heart of your brand new husband would convince him to come to Mhaldor with you, after several life-altering events in a short (well, short compared to the general lifetime of your character) span of time.
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
If you're going to play crazy, play crazy. This 'I'm a nutter one day, but super smooth with ladies the next' bullshit drives me up a wall. People don't have an on/off switch for their manias. I also don't buy the whole 'I'm a sociopath to everyone except my lover/family/friends' thing, which seems as common as dirt, in Achaea.
In short, if you're not okay one moment, okay the next, and so on, I'm probably going to write you off as just wanting attention off of cheap characterization.
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
ETA: Not saying you -have- to explain yourself to everyone, always. Just saying, if and where you don't, I can see where people are disinclined to care/see you as being motivated by anything but OOC motives.
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
Can't control what others do, only what we do! Like I said, it's fine, nothing wrong with it, and you don't have to explain yourself. I just think you're being a bit unkind about how people react to that sort of thing, when I feel it's a pretty reasonable reaction. Jump ship and don't explain yourself/make an effort to bridge the gap, you're likely to get written off, I don't see anything wrong with that.
I have explained to any who asked and had a reason to know, though, which is a great majority of people who have approached me IC. There's just a short version and a long version, the latter of which takes time to explain since it involves fifty IC years of events and roleplay.
Long story short, I think it's better to assume there's a reason rather than there not being one. Whether you would choose to ask, or whether you feel one should have to present it could be argued, I guess, but I think most people can be thought to have a reason. I think what Herenicus is trying to say is that you shouldn't just automatically jump to "oh they OOCly were bored", unless that particular character has a clear history of such. Benefit of a doubt, etc.
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
The onus is on the person making the change to leave a door open for people they're leaving behind to engage, even if they're upset (maybe after they've cooled down). When no doors are left open, I, personally, have no intention of wasting more time on a person who's switched sides, not because I think they're bad roleplayers, necessarily, but because the impression that said person doesn't want to interact with members of the faction they ditched is pretty strong.
It's a case, it feels like, of wanting one's cake and eating it too. You leave, you don't explain yourself- what are the people whose ship you jumped supposed to do? Being written off seems a legit reaction.
Now, when that is taken as 'x is a crap roleplayer,' I can see where it comes from. I have a hunch that most faction changes are OOC-motivated and/or badly roleplayed out (if at all), and I can see where people'd be inclined to assume that. As I said, the onus is on us to make ourselves appealing/engaging, not on others to perceive us as being so.
ETA: Yes, people should be better. But to be on the safe side, we should give them a reason -not- to assume that you're doing things just because you're OOC bored, w/e. It's your story, how your audience reacts is at least partially on you; if you haven't given them anything to react positively to, that's your fault, as much as it is theirs.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
You can also RP someone who's able to keep their shit together 95% of the time, but who has unsettling quirks or brief moments of questionable sanity.
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
I've fussed around with the idea on an alt just to see how different it would be to play character that's more easily intrigued by others, as well as completely unaware of social implications, perhaps on the spectrum. The way Tillie is socially, she doesn't exactly care one way or another about striking up conversations, though she does like to talk, and it able to carry herself remotely OK in talking with others. It is, though, still a struggle for me to find reasoning for her to talk to just about anyone, save her bar-hopping tendencies.
I've written characters like this alt before - not in an Achaean context - but didn't just want to inject different personalities/ideas into Tillie, because she's pretty "normal" as far as psychology goes. She likes to eat. She likes to drink. She likes to do Art stuff. -shrug-
TLDR, Creating characters or developing disorders/trauma that allow you to just throw your characters in certain places can be fun. Sucks I can't seem to find new ways to sculpt my main in different ways (positively or negatively, otherwise,) but that's why exploring it on a different character has been at least new, and roleplaying has been worthwhile.