Because sometimes it hurts to be a literary fascist.
have you ever seen a gaia rp where you have to fill out a journal that details your character’s feelings towards everyone? because I had to fill out THIS. FUCKING. SHIT. for 20+ characters and the topic died of inactivity a week later. turns out everybody was too busy shipping to actually participate.
Dear god, why would you do this to yourself? I’d see this, be like NOPE, and not participate in that RP because holy hell nobody should care that much about how TOTES HAWT their character thinks another character is when they’ve just met or something.
Like, this is the exact kind of thing I just let happen with my characters because that is how real people work.
So this was inspired mostly by characters in MMOs/virtual worlds but is a general character design thing and is applicable to characters in general so whatever.
Occasionally I see a pair of characters I’d call “coordinated”; they basically look exactly the same except for being different genders, or their names are a letter apart or something. My knee-jerk reaction is a little bit of ‘ugh’ to tell you the truth.
One of the things I’m really not getting about all these beyond the I’M A BEAUTIFUL SLUTTY MINOR character descriptions is how much of A Shit these people give about what their partner looks like in real life. If you’re using sloppily pre-made characters anyway, who cares?
Like, are they looking for an internet boyfriend through boring romance/sex RPs on Omegle? … Actually they probably are nevermind.
(Source: godawfulroleplay)
WHY WOULD YOU START A RP LIKE THIS LIKE WHAT IS THE OTHER PERSON EVEN SUPPOSED TO SAY
(Source: godawfulroleplay)
That’s still no excuse to talk about how you know somebody’s character better than them. You’ve simply observed an inconsistency in what was told and what was shown. Sometimes somebody’s just not good at remembering things (me, I’m not) and a minor detail they assigned to a character just slips through the cracks and gets lost in the deep dark recesses of the mind.
If you see this happening, just point out to the person, if you can, “Hey, here you say this, but then you wrote this,” because most of the time it’s due to a novice mistake. It’s not nearly as forgivable in published works though and if you’re an aspiring novelist you should probably try as hard as you possibly can to keep your characters one hundred percent consistent. It sort of goes without saying I guess.
I was going to get a lot more argumentative but then I realized you’re probably just trying to inform us and not trying to argue anything so it’d be silly to get all defensive about nothing.
- Cos
I combed through the notes and this reblog has been driving me crazy for the past day or so.
I tried to look up what the fuck an “informed trait” was via Google and it brought me to TV Tropes. You know, a wiki made entirely for amusement’s sake (despite what its regulars might tell you) that should never be used as a legitimate writing resource ever. I honestly don’t know what exactly they’re getting at. Are they trying to say that the difference between what an author says their character is and what they write the character as would mean the readers know more about the character than the author does?
That’s the only line of logic I can coherently follow, and it’s complete bullshit. If somebody says their character acts a certain way, the fact they don’t is more the fault of their writing skill than it is an issue of somebody not knowing their character. Unless you’ve got some kind of Ghost in the Shell shit going on and hack into somebody else’s brain, there is no way in hell of knowing how they would have THEIR OWN CHARACTER react to a particular situation. There’s no way of knowing for sure what they have planned in the character’s future, without being told anyway, and even then they could decide to do something else.
So still, if you think you know a character better than the author does, you are wrong. The idea of somebody thinking they know any of my characters better than me is incredibly insulting.
if you think you know more about a character than the author you’re wrong.
(via theshitpeopletweet)
Name: kyuu
Age:18
Ninja
Shoulder length hair black shaggy with red streaks, tanned skin, red eyes -sharingan-, anbu outfit,
Weapon: - you knw zoko in avatar where he has them two sword tht are made outta one sword thing…..tht-
Extra: bit laid Bak, loves to use his sharingan and ninjutsu, can be annoying at time, only Uchiha left - he killed Sasuke- )
I thought by 2013 we’d be done with Naruto
It’s almost like this is written in the same way the characters in Dragonzball P and its sequel talk.
And naturally I reblogged this to my personal instead of here like an idiot.
