I'll get to work on it! Wheeeenever I'm back on a computer, I've had a cray week. Again.
So what character would you guys put into a "café event" then? :3 have you got any old favorites you'd like tl brush up on, or maybe a current one?
I don't have many characters on this site yet. So I'll most likely have to go with Vanish. The troublesome murderous psychopath whom seems like the handsomest, most charming and innocent guy in the World.
That is... until he's murdering you brutally with a serrated knife. Why serrated? So he can draw out every bit of pain in your expression of course!
I don't like it when writers break the fourth wall outside of first person. It feels kind of tacky and it stuffs the flow of the writing around.
I also quite dislike the breaking of the fourth wall. Especially with the idea of multiple settings and characters you know? I thought it would be cool if there was some strange and nonsensical overarching plot to bring every character to the various scenarios played out.
You know, some random omnipotent force is like; "Here's an idea. Let's pick up a bunch of random individuals from across the multiverse... and toss them into various scenarios for fun! It'll be like my own private dollhouse!"
Something like this is suitably silly and opens the door for all sorts of comic relief, interesting circumstances and even some light character development.
Breaking the fourth wall, however, kind of defeats the point of roleplaying these characters in my opinion. The whole point is to have the characters play out how they would naturally, with other characters, in different scenarios right? I think if the characters are AWARE that they're in an RP that that will negatively affect those reactions.
For example, let's take a character from a zombie apocalypse RP, like outbreak, and put them into a medieval setting with a dragon.
Example of Natural Reaction: "WHAT THE HELL, HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?! IS THAT A- THAT'S A DAMN DRAGON!"
Hilarity thus ensues as this more believable and semi-modern setting character is confronted with something like a dragon.
Let's now see his reaction if he is aware that this is an RP and thus is capable of breaking the fourth wall.
Altered 4th Wall break Reaction: "The GM wants me to fight a dragon now?! Being an RP character sucks!"
Still ironically funny, but if you ask me, that kind of humor will dry out fast (I know I used an extreme example but still), you can only break the wall so many times before it's gone completely... and with a long term RP like we all want this one to be, the lack of a fourth wall will hinder rather than help us in the long run.
In other words, I think having a broken fourth wall is a bad idea as I can guarantee that we'll get bored faster with that mindset.
The occasional fourth wall breaks are funny, yes, and it would be fun to see one or two thrown around at times. But making it so we can casually ignore the fourth wall? I'll have to put a foot down and say I'm personally against that.
We want this to be fun! But we also want it to stay fun! That's my opinion on it and I hope you guys can see where I'm coming from.
I for (haha four) one vote to keep the fourth wall standing!