→ meta questions! ama about tagging, writing, character questions & motivations, myself, whatever! here's a couple lists but rly hit me with whatever.
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
→ meta questions! ama about tagging, writing, character questions & motivations, myself, whatever! here's a couple lists but rly hit me with whatever.
→ meta questions! ama about tagging, writing, character questions & motivations, myself, whatever! here's a couple lists but rly hit me with whatever.
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my adhd meds are finally hitting their stride so I'm rambly
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
in keeping with my pattern of being gone for a week or whatever like a ghost and then coming back to spam ur timelines all afternoon for 2 straight days
𝐳𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤
OKAY hold on to your hat I've got some stuff
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
oh god
𝐳𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤
How do you choose which characters you want to roleplay (if you have a choice process at all and it's not just vibing)? How do you decide if a game is right for you and/or a particular character you play?
𝐳𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤
Is there anything that makes you a. not want to play a character or b. not able to play a character? Bonus: .....even though you'd love to play them if it wasn't for this or that aspect?
𝐳𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤
What makes you stop playing a character and do you usually stop for good or circle back to old characters often?
𝐳𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤
And that's it!
𝐳𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤
(That's actually literally it there are no ants coming those are the questions there will be no ant-related follow-ups.)
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
1 - it's a mix of choosing and vibing. sometimes it's an immediate vibe, like it was with Dean — I wasn't even through season 3 when I was like 'yeah I want to play him'. bucky I think started as slightly more of a choice, because I made his journal in 2014 but didn't start actively playing him until like 2016
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partly because I took a 2 yearish break from RP to be a debauched partying hellion
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
but I was a little burnt out on Dean (because the show was sucking dicks and I trailed off watching it for a long time) and I didn't have a ton of other inspiration
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
and i was always a little interested in the brain shenanigans because I love me mental stuff and guilt and angst
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
so I started playing him on memes, and then found that I really liked his voice/the headcanon I was coming up with, and also... really loved the stucky ship which was effective at getting me hooked
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
I think it has to start at least a little with vibing, otherwise I just can't stay motivated. for instance, I picked up Snape relatively recently as a Choice and I can only play him for a few weeks at a time before I'm like. meh.
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
in terms of game choices
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
it's all about the premise
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
honestly most other things like AC, rules, powers, whatever, they don't matter to me as much as a neat premise or interesting mechanics
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
if I'm interested in the premise, picking a character is kind of like a combo of a - who am I vibing the most right now, because if I'm really feeling a character I can play them just about anywhere, and b - my gut feeling about whether or not they'd be interesting in the setting
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
like I don't think Jack would be quite as interesting in Abraxas because his genre and his comically apathetic attitude wouldn't lend itself to getting engaged in a politically charged game with no real network and nothing to propel him to be social, but I'm interested in taking him to TRJ because it's a fuckin. space ship
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
where he's forced to interact with people thanks to the inmate/warden dynamic, and where he can be active on the network since he's a blogger/storyteller
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
(i told you i was rambly i am sorry about this tl;dr)
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
2 - a few things have turned me off of characters i was interested in playing. wildly inconsistent character motivations and decisions — which like... supernatural... but that was mostly just for a few seasons and they got their shit straight-ish eventually, but that's another reason I stopped playing Dean as much for a few years
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
he felt a little less like what I considered the truest version of his character for seasons like. 10-13ish
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
i still haven't rewatched those much, consequently
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
just like once or twice when suckering new people into the fandom by doing let's watches with them
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
but another great example is Bellamy Blake from the 100, who i really enjoyed playing for a long while until the show absolutely fucked him for a couple seasons
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
when characters flip from being "good heart / loyal to Their People" and it's not part of a short, actually character-developing plot I'm like
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
ehhhhhhhh
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
I'm also not great at characters that feel emotionally manipulative or emotionally dramatic — the latter feels a little cringe to me, as a pretty stoic person
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
i also
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
and this is dumb and I feel vaguely ashamed of myself but not really
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
can't play characters I don't find aesthetically pleasing to look at in some way
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
idk man
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
can't get inspired by it. happy to play OFF of characters I don't think are good-looking but can't play them myself
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
3 - a lack of motivation, slowly fading inspiration, particularly if there isn't a lot of content for the character for me to watch / they're hard to canon review
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
in terms of circling back
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
i keep coming back to bucky and dean despite waning and waxing motivation for them and I probably will for years, when I love a character u tend to love them for good
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
but they're kind of an exception
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
like every once and a while I get the fleeting inspo to play Rose Tyler again who I played for years but that only lasts for like a thread or 2
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
possibly because her seasons are dated and hard for me to give a shit about rewatching whenever i try
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTIONS i am not sure i believe u about the ants
𝐳𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤
BEAUTIFUL RAMBLING thank u
💀 ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇ.
YOU ARE VERY WELCOME