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Sapphire Rose

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I also think that this is a great idea! Something like this would give us something to do between big serious posts in other RPs... it might also help us get to know our own characters from other RPs a little bit better, which would inevitably make our posting as them much better.

Not only that, but if it was a more casually structured thing it might encourage new people to give RPing a try... in doing so it could bring more attention and players to the RP corner overall.

But hey, that's just my two cents on the topic.
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machomuu

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How about more RPChallenges and events where you can toss in existing characters instead?
I'd actually be quite happy being able to use characters I've made in older, defunct/discontinued roleplays. There are quite a few of them that I enjoyed playing and, honestly, if I were given a chance to do that in a RP event, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Just seems like a waste to let 'em go like that.

Jay

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All characters! Run! We got a psychopath in our midst!
Shh~ Sh-shh-shh! Don't tell them that. They don't know that. It'll be more fun for him if they don't know that.

Groc

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I've been wondering something for a while and I'd like to share it with all of you.

I've noticed that in almost all the SU's for RP's I've read through that the characters are usually handsome, good-looking, pretty and/or cute. I don't remember I've ever seen a character that was actually pretty ugly or fat/chubby and grew prettier during the RP or something.

It would be quite funny now I think about it?
It's rare to see, but occasionally people play uglier characters. As Fox pointed out, I have one. In my opinion, it depends on the setting and the general theme. A lot of our games are inspired by anime, video games, or general sci-fi/fantasy. In most of those, you see characters that are attractive, or bulky and strong, or just generically visually appealing. In gritty, dark genre's, like the old west or "realistic" apocalypse stories, you'll see uglier, more flawed characters.

I also blame the option to use pictures instead of descriptions. Even gritty, dark characters tend to look better in fan art and drawings. Plus, I've noticed a trend of people using anime style pictures, which in general have a cleaner, prettier look.

So, the theme of the story and the medium of the pictures tend toward cuter, more visually appealing characters. Personality helps, too. Most ugly characters, I find, are either villains, misunderstood loners, or comic relief. Even I'm guilty of that. Most of my gruff or ugly characters aren't meant to be taken seriously, and serve as foils to the more handsome characters. I guess I enjoy the comically serious or bumbling fat guy tropes.

...what? Thought I was just the funny guy? I can overthink and analyze things, too. Hidden depths!

gimmepie

Age 27
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Australia
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Hello I'm not entirely new to RP's but I am new to PC and just want to say hi and hope to enjoy RPing with a lot of you. Sorry if this sounds like an introduction but might as well start off with a hello right? :)
Hello, looking forward to RPing with you also!

Make sure you have read up on the rules and all that, otherwise if you need a hand with anything feel free to drop me a VM/PM (or of course ask one of our three glorious mods).
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Jay

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On the topic of "perfectly pretty characters"...

I feel like the reasons mentioned are fairly accurate... but in my opinion it's probably due to "protagonist syndrome".

As writers, people will be proud and excited to act out their characters actions in written word. A lot of the time, especially with newer Role players, people will tend to want their character to be someone of major importance to the story and subconsciously when building their characters they will try and include certain aspects that will make them more appealing as a central character. This can sometimes bleed into personality, which leads to "Mary-sues and Gary-stues", but the more common example is found in the appearance section.

Ninety percent of the time in media of all forms the main character is good-looking, attractive and likable. This is because these qualities make us like the stories protagonist more and root for them to be victorious, "quirky" aspects like physical imperfections and weight can be added to side characters and villains to give them their own charm. So long as they don't take away from the protagonist.

As people we will always be influenced by other people, we know that the populace likes better looking characters most of the time and without even thinking on it deeply we often want our own characters to match these standards. As we get better at RP we begin to see that every story needs characters whom are more imperfect in personality AND appearance (it makes for better character development and more potential for interesting sub-plots), though even then we still tend to make "pretty and perfect" looking characters from time to time.

Now, I'm not saying that making beautiful characters is a bad thing at all, nor am I saying it's a primarily rookie mistake. I'm just saying that it's a common thing and it tends to be more frequent with newer players.

At the end of the day, in writing games such as these, appearance is only one small factor in the larger scheme of things and I find that other aspects are much much more important. Still, it's fun to talk about and improving on these tropes is a way to improve all of our skill in the long run.

Once again though, this is just my two cents on the issue.

Hello I'm not entirely new to RP's but I am new to PC and just want to say hi and hope to enjoy RPing with a lot of you. Sorry if this sounds like an introduction but might as well start off with a hello right? :)
And hello there Haunter! Seems you've managed to make your way to the RP trouble without any trouble... welcome to the hub of interactive writing games here on PC! I anticipate many great RPs in our futures!

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Hello I'm not entirely new to RP's but I am new to PC and just want to say hi and hope to enjoy RPing with a lot of you. Sorry if this sounds like an introduction but might as well start off with a hello right? :)
Welcome to the Roleplay Corner! ;) what kinds of RPs do you like?

I love the idea of being able to use characters from defunct RPs! How about you'd sign up in a stickied OOC thread by simply linking to the SU post of any char you have made and want to play as?

We could also vary the IC setting every month or so. To start off, maybe it's a hotel with descriptions of various places within. Then next month it becomes a medieval castle. Then suddenly we're castaways on a tropical island...

The settings could be presented as new "chapters" in the same IC thread and you wouldn't have to sign up anew and could just keep playing as whoever you happened to be (unless you want to change). The mods could try to keep a list of which player is currently playing what character.
... Or we could just start new ooc and ic threads every time we change setting, but that would make the threads shorter and not as history-filled in the long run.
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Jay

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Welcome to the Roleplay Corner! ;) what kinds of RPs do you like?

I love the idea of being able to use characters from defunct RPs! How about you'd sign up in a stickied OOC thread by simply linking to the SU post of any char you have made and want to play as?

We could also vary the IC setting every month or so. To start off, maybe it's a hotel with descriptions of various places within. Then next month it becomes a medieval castle. Then suddenly we're castaways on a tropical island...

The settings could be presented as new "chapters" in the same IC thread and you wouldn't have to sign up anew and could just keep playing as whoever you happened to be (unless you want to change). The mods could try to keep a list of which player is currently playing what character.
... Or we could just start new ooc and ic threads every time we change setting, but that would make the threads shorter and not as history-filled in the long run.
I'm literally squealing in anticipation.

That sounds like so much fun! I'd love to play as a specific (slightly murderous) character across various stories and setting in an RP like that one. The setting changing idea is excellent and the ideas you posted alone have me excited... hotel, island medieval castle... it all sounds so cool! *Eyes sparkle.*

I'll definitely be joining it if we go through with it and if you ask me a single OOC and IC thread would be best with the setting changing every so often. That way we have a record f all the previous chapters so that one day in times to come we can look back and say. "Dang, this thing is awesome."

Foxrally

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Welcome to the Roleplay Corner! ;) what kinds of RPs do you like?

I love the idea of being able to use characters from defunct RPs! How about you'd sign up in a stickied OOC thread by simply linking to the SU post of any char you have made and want to play as?

We could also vary the IC setting every month or so. To start off, maybe it's a hotel with descriptions of various places within. Then next month it becomes a medieval castle. Then suddenly we're castaways on a tropical island...

The settings could be presented as new "chapters" in the same IC thread and you wouldn't have to sign up anew and could just keep playing as whoever you happened to be (unless you want to change). The mods could try to keep a list of which player is currently playing what character.
... Or we could just start new ooc and ic threads every time we change setting, but that would make the threads shorter and not as history-filled in the long run.
OMG I love this idea so muchhh

It's copyrighted though. The only way you'll receive my permission to use it is if you make Blarzigord the mascot of the RPC.
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moon

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OMG I love this idea so muchhh

It's copyrighted though. The only way you'll receive my permission to use it is if you make Blarzigord the mascot of the RPC.
Provide me with a picture of Blarzigord, lord of all aliens, and I'll put him in the splash banner.
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Foxrally

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Provide me with a picture of Blarzigord, lord of all aliens, and I'll put him in the splash banner.
From Outbreak:

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=8675240&postcount=79

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gimmepie

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From Outbreak:

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=8675240&postcount=79

Blarzigord looks a lot like Kang (or is that Kodos?)
But that's okay because Blarzigord can be whatever he wants to be, one of the perks of being a supreme overlord.

I support the "use old characters" idea, that's what I did with Smash which was really fun whilst it lasted. Unfortunately it just went up at a bad time and everyone became too busy IRL. I have a suggestion though, if you make it a long running thing, I think it might be cool to open it up to characters from FF&W as well to perhaps draw some more interest into this section and help our "cousins" in that section with their characters at the same time.
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moon

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Blarzigord looks a lot like Kang (or is that Kodos?)
But that's okay because Blarzigord can be whatever he wants to be, one of the perks of being a supreme overlord.

I support the "use old characters" idea, that's what I did with Smash which was really fun whilst it lasted. Unfortunately it just went up at a bad time and everyone became too busy IRL. I have a suggestion though, if you make it a long running thing, I think it might be cool to open it up to characters from FF&W as well to perhaps draw some more interest into this section and help our "cousins" in that section with their characters at the same time.
That is an awesome idea! We could work together with Bay to advertise it in there. Maybe even put up an announcement or redirect thingy on the index so that people could find it easily if they feel like making their characters coming alive.
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gimmepie

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That is an awesome idea! We could work together with Bay to advertise it in there. Maybe even put up an announcement or redirect thingy on the index so that people could find it easily if they feel like making their characters coming alive.
I would love to see that become a reality.
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moon

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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?
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gimmepie

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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've had a lot of characters honestly, so I'm not totally sure. My One Piece character Skellen would be really fun and my character from the old Hoenn Grand Festival Event would be pretty fun too I think.
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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?
Aahah, you guys better give me credit for this >:D

I'd love to have Sophia from Gunpowder or Ryan the waterbender from Avatar New Legends. Sophia would rant about her day and Ryan would constantly make puns.

"Ugh, I tell you - being in a roleplay GMed by that pie dude is so stressful."
"Oh, you mean GM-e-pie?"
"..."
"Come one, you have to gimme credit for that one, it was good.
"**** you, I'm going to the One Piece guys."
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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?
Turnip. The Turnip that led to me being called Turnip. Turnip the Turnip. All the way.

From the looks of things, this little café get together RP character thingy is at the very least chipping away a bit at the fourth wall :P How do you guys feel about the fourth wall in this sort of thing? Should it be preserved as much as possible? Entirely abolished? Or is it just down to each individual RPer?

Also Foxrally had nothing to do with this idea it was all me give me all of the credit ayylmao
Woah holy moly this boi's got a funky old signature

Foxrally

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From the looks of things, this little café get together RP character thingy is at the very least chipping away a bit at the fourth wall :P How do you guys feel about the fourth wall in this sort of thing? Should it be preserved as much as possible? Entirely abolished? Or is it just down to each individual RPer?
The fourth wall is meant to be destroyed in this sort of RP, although in the end it's up to everyone :P
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gimmepie

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Turnip. The Turnip that led to me being called Turnip. Turnip the Turnip. All the way.

From the looks of things, this little café get together RP character thingy is at the very least chipping away a bit at the fourth wall :P How do you guys feel about the fourth wall in this sort of thing? Should it be preserved as much as possible? Entirely abolished? Or is it just down to each individual RPer?

Also Foxrally had nothing to do with this idea it was all me give me all of the credit ayylmao
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.
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Jay

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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!

gimmepie

Age 27
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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 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!
Deceptio for president.
That is all.
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moon

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Aahah, you guys better give me credit for this >:D

I'd love to have Sophia from Gunpowder or Ryan the waterbender from Avatar New Legends. Sophia would rant about her day and Ryan would constantly make puns.

"Ugh, I tell you - being in a roleplay GMed by that pie dude is so stressful."
"Oh, you mean GM-e-pie?"
"..."
"Come one, you have to gimme credit for that one, it was good.
"**** you, I'm going to the One Piece guys."
The moderators will take all cred for this cafe thing, sorry. We are, as you've already established, evil.

(You get bonus points for dem puns still tho)

Deceptio for president.
That is all.
Yeah, I think we'll have to put Deceptio up next to Blarzigord in the splash. Yea.

I also think we shouldn't break the fourth wall. Overarching plot can either just be that an omnipotent force has thrown characters in from different universes, or maybe they can believe that this setting is a place within their native universe and just react as they should at whatever chars come.
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Jay

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Yeah, I think we'll have to put Deceptio up next to Blarzigord in the splash. Yea.

I also think we shouldn't break the fourth wall. Overarching plot can either just be that an omnipotent force has thrown characters in from different universes, or maybe they can believe that this setting is a place within their native universe and just react as they should at whatever chars come.
Spoiler:
*Shakes Blarzigords tentacle.*

I for one would like to welcome our new Alien overlord Blarzigord! As newly established president of the RP corner I wish to express to him that he has the full support and co-operation of the human workforce present here and to assure him that they are all prepared to labor in his name and honor.

*Crowd goes wild.*


Ahem... I mean...

I'm glad to see we're not going with the fourth wall breaking. Whatever reality you choose to go with for the RP I will accept. Though it does seem like it would be a bit difficult to link things like hotels, desert islands and medieval times if these were all just everyday events for the characters. XD

Unless each new setting was it's own instance and story where the characters already existed in the newly established setting. Thus showing us how they lived out their lives in said setting. That would be cool and unique in its own way entirely.

I'm super excited for this now! ^^ I can't wait to just jump right into it.