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Gonna get long-winded here, buuuut...
Like Jim I also found out about 42 during a transitional period of my life. A place to express yourself freely is a powerful thing. I feel that might be why I have so many characters. (Seriously it's a problem.)
Especially at first most of my characters vented the same handful of feelings, sadness, frustration, outcasting and incapability of showing hurt (in the case of Feugo.) As time moved on I used characters to express faith and morality, as my own beliefs of any semblance of a religion wavered and waned.
For now? My characters express different aspects of myself again. Kat has trauma buried under a veneer of stability. Paidi is ambitious. Alicja is a rock, unwavering even as she is afraid. Corina has a very sarcastic sense of humour, and poor judgement of when to joke. Deborah is... Well, something.
Mostly though these past few years I roleplay to write stories because I enjoy writing, and enjoy my friends having fun with a story.
Like Jim I also found out about 42 during a transitional period of my life. A place to express yourself freely is a powerful thing. I feel that might be why I have so many characters. (Seriously it's a problem.)
Especially at first most of my characters vented the same handful of feelings, sadness, frustration, outcasting and incapability of showing hurt (in the case of Feugo.) As time moved on I used characters to express faith and morality, as my own beliefs of any semblance of a religion wavered and waned.
For now? My characters express different aspects of myself again. Kat has trauma buried under a veneer of stability. Paidi is ambitious. Alicja is a rock, unwavering even as she is afraid. Corina has a very sarcastic sense of humour, and poor judgement of when to joke. Deborah is... Well, something.
Mostly though these past few years I roleplay to write stories because I enjoy writing, and enjoy my friends having fun with a story.
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24-Apr-2016 14:24:34
When I started, it was a bit like 'just cause'. As an avid player, I spent a lot of hours on this game and needless to say, I got tired of grinding. It was by chance I found this forum; read around on it a little and applied to my first group.
It was a side thing for the first couple months. I guess I hadn't really warmed up to it then. But you know, I made connections, developed stories... For my barely teenage mind, it was awesome.
Even now, the fact I can make stories of my own is definitely one I adore. However the main reason I stick around is, as others have said, the social aspect. Don't get me wrong - I've never had any kind of social problems or disorders - but you guys are.. Something different, I guess? Here I can learn about other experiences and cultures that I'd never be able to otherwise. I've made some amazing friends here whom I would consider to be somewhat close. All of you are at least entertaining.. Even if you grind everyone's gears in the process.
All these sins disguised as blessings
It was a side thing for the first couple months. I guess I hadn't really warmed up to it then. But you know, I made connections, developed stories... For my barely teenage mind, it was awesome.
Even now, the fact I can make stories of my own is definitely one I adore. However the main reason I stick around is, as others have said, the social aspect. Don't get me wrong - I've never had any kind of social problems or disorders - but you guys are.. Something different, I guess? Here I can learn about other experiences and cultures that I'd never be able to otherwise. I've made some amazing friends here whom I would consider to be somewhat close. All of you are at least entertaining.. Even if you grind everyone's gears in the process.
All these sins disguised as blessings
24-Apr-2016 14:36:12
I feel like you can tell a lot about people by their posts on this thread and what makes them the type of roleplayer they are.
I was in Ireland meeting friends that I made on this server during the time this thread was created, so I never got to post, but I'll try not to sound arrogant or be the odd one out.
I've always had friends and been quite social throughout life, but the difference was, I could never use magic, confront an eighty foot demon that wanted to consume me, or fight in a fantasy battle with a fireball charged in my left hand and a sword in my right. Roleplay for me as always been the same and never unchanged. I roleplay to make a story I've never read, watched, or heard.
The one thing I would say roleplay enhanced in my life was grammar, like Lorelei has said before. English was always my only language, but I never learned much from others having grown up in the dirty southern United States. Maybe not grammar, but vocabulary. As I still have trouble putting a comma where it needs to be or where to end a sentence and start a paragraph, etc.
Roleplaying on RuneScape is where I write the stories of others, not my own stories. Because of character development through interactions and circumstances, I can never truly take credit for the lives my characters have lived. That is entirely their own lives in my own opinion, because each of them have duties, responsibilities, trials, errors, and are faced with obstacles each day that they themselves overcome. They have their own personalities, most of them immensely different from my own. And for that, I'm glad to be their guardian angel of sorts.
As for why I still roleplay after so many years spent here, it's always been the same reason. I enjoy formulating a story book that I'll always remember and cherish. .„¸¸,.·` |
I was in Ireland meeting friends that I made on this server during the time this thread was created, so I never got to post, but I'll try not to sound arrogant or be the odd one out.
I've always had friends and been quite social throughout life, but the difference was, I could never use magic, confront an eighty foot demon that wanted to consume me, or fight in a fantasy battle with a fireball charged in my left hand and a sword in my right. Roleplay for me as always been the same and never unchanged. I roleplay to make a story I've never read, watched, or heard.
The one thing I would say roleplay enhanced in my life was grammar, like Lorelei has said before. English was always my only language, but I never learned much from others having grown up in the dirty southern United States. Maybe not grammar, but vocabulary. As I still have trouble putting a comma where it needs to be or where to end a sentence and start a paragraph, etc.
Roleplaying on RuneScape is where I write the stories of others, not my own stories. Because of character development through interactions and circumstances, I can never truly take credit for the lives my characters have lived. That is entirely their own lives in my own opinion, because each of them have duties, responsibilities, trials, errors, and are faced with obstacles each day that they themselves overcome. They have their own personalities, most of them immensely different from my own. And for that, I'm glad to be their guardian angel of sorts.
As for why I still roleplay after so many years spent here, it's always been the same reason. I enjoy formulating a story book that I'll always remember and cherish. .„¸¸,.·` |
Valiesin
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24-Apr-2016 16:01:33 - Last edited on 24-Apr-2016 16:03:24 by Valiesin
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