[RP] It's a rant/discussion/thought process... who knows.
I've been RPing a very long time, it seems. Well, when it comes to LJ/IJ RP, anyway.
In January of 2004, I did a search on Livejournal for fans of 'stargate' and came up with a roleplay game. It was a game called the_sgc and the first character I picked up with was Anise and her human host, Freya. The moderator there was a girl who went by the name of![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
panthera.
Now, Panth? Panth was a kick. She was one of the best mods that I've ever had the joy of writing with. She was patient with newbies and when I went to make an original character (that was really supposed to come and go), she let her be a Mary Sue kind of gal and that was it. There was no accusations or rudeness, she just let us all play and it was glorious.
OH, well. I also metambisis in that game, and it turned out she lived like, ten minutes from me and we've been best friends ever since, but that's another (fantastic) story. ;)
So, I played Anise/Freya (who had twins with Sgt. Walter Davis - those twins will be FIVE in July) and I had my new character, Shannon Weiss. Shannon's gone through some reworking, but she eventually became thesgc_spybarbie that married daniel_sgc and those two had a baby named... hattie_notqueen. :D
I really love my RP's.
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I started off in Theatrical Muse in March of 2004 with Helen of Troy and wrote prompts for her for a year before I even thought about jumping into the side business of RP with her.
She became good friends with John Munch (of SVU fame), and eventually married him, much to Hermes chagrin. But before they were married, she and Hermes had a really amazing one-night-stand. Oh, those two. Always snarking at each other, bitching about each other, and really? The closest friends. They do love each other. Not in a way that they'd ever BE together, but it's a love nonetheless.
So, they had this lovely one-night-stand and from that came...antigone_grace, who eventually came into her own in my head.
Helen, after three years of marriage to John, witnessed his death in a drive-by and ended up asking Zeus for her mortality before committing suicide. Hermes took her to Elysian Fields and there she stays.
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So, basically, I've had the same characters in my head for years... and years... and years... and though I try to let them go, it's hard. Even now, when Hermes does something outrageous or wacky, Helen is the first to poke her head up with a LOOK.
I've spent years creating elaborate storylines for them and played those storylines out with very skilled writers and I've been so fortunate to have that in my life.
To be honest, I miss that.
I miss the time and the dedication that went into the weeks and months of storylines and not knowing what was going to happen next, exactly. Having a starting point, knowing what points we wanted to cross and getting to some kind of vague ending... thing. Whatever happened in the meantime was awesome.
The closest thing I have going with that is the KITT & HATTIE thing, but that's because we play in journals. Maybe the LC people, at times. Occasionally the SPN people, but yeah. It's all just sitting out there in petty one-offs.
People are so concerned with the concept of godmodding that they don't TRUST their RP partners anymore. I know I can say to certain people, "Okay, take over for me with [my character] and I'll see you tomorrow!" in a party post or something. I know they're not going to do something wildly out of character with mine.
And when writing a scene, how hard is it to say, "Sue smiled. Motioning with her head, she led them to a table and sat first." How dare Sue assume that Ted wanted to sit down?!
I just don't understand why some assumptions can't go into writing if you trust the person you're writing with. If you don't trust them, why are you playing? It's made me skittish around players I don't know very well. I don't want them to jump on me.
That said, I just met an entirely new group of people, an entirely NEW GAME. I don't know them, they don't know me and yet... we all MESH. And I did. I said, "Okay, Lauren, you can move _____ for the rest of the party. Have fun!"
My girl got another drink and made out with her boyfriend on a couch. It was in character (enough) for the game, and the scene. I'd known Lauren all of a week. But I trusted she wasn't going to make my girl the party floozy and have her do a strip tease.
... I just miss that kind of RP. Where epic stuff happens. Example? Antigone's had quite a life. ♥
/rant
In January of 2004, I did a search on Livejournal for fans of 'stargate' and came up with a roleplay game. It was a game called the_sgc and the first character I picked up with was Anise and her human host, Freya. The moderator there was a girl who went by the name of
panthera. Now, Panth? Panth was a kick. She was one of the best mods that I've ever had the joy of writing with. She was patient with newbies and when I went to make an original character (that was really supposed to come and go), she let her be a Mary Sue kind of gal and that was it. There was no accusations or rudeness, she just let us all play and it was glorious.
OH, well. I also met
ambisis in that game, and it turned out she lived like, ten minutes from me and we've been best friends ever since, but that's another (fantastic) story. ;)So, I played Anise/Freya (who had twins with Sgt. Walter Davis - those twins will be FIVE in July) and I had my new character, Shannon Weiss. Shannon's gone through some reworking, but she eventually became the
sgc_spybarbie that married daniel_sgc and those two had a baby named... hattie_notqueen. :DI really love my RP's.
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I started off in Theatrical Muse in March of 2004 with Helen of Troy and wrote prompts for her for a year before I even thought about jumping into the side business of RP with her.
She became good friends with John Munch (of SVU fame), and eventually married him, much to Hermes chagrin. But before they were married, she and Hermes had a really amazing one-night-stand. Oh, those two. Always snarking at each other, bitching about each other, and really? The closest friends. They do love each other. Not in a way that they'd ever BE together, but it's a love nonetheless.
So, they had this lovely one-night-stand and from that came...
antigone_grace, who eventually came into her own in my head. Helen, after three years of marriage to John, witnessed his death in a drive-by and ended up asking Zeus for her mortality before committing suicide. Hermes took her to Elysian Fields and there she stays.
-------
So, basically, I've had the same characters in my head for years... and years... and years... and though I try to let them go, it's hard. Even now, when Hermes does something outrageous or wacky, Helen is the first to poke her head up with a LOOK.
I've spent years creating elaborate storylines for them and played those storylines out with very skilled writers and I've been so fortunate to have that in my life.
To be honest, I miss that.
I miss the time and the dedication that went into the weeks and months of storylines and not knowing what was going to happen next, exactly. Having a starting point, knowing what points we wanted to cross and getting to some kind of vague ending... thing. Whatever happened in the meantime was awesome.
The closest thing I have going with that is the KITT & HATTIE thing, but that's because we play in journals. Maybe the LC people, at times. Occasionally the SPN people, but yeah. It's all just sitting out there in petty one-offs.
People are so concerned with the concept of godmodding that they don't TRUST their RP partners anymore. I know I can say to certain people, "Okay, take over for me with [my character] and I'll see you tomorrow!" in a party post or something. I know they're not going to do something wildly out of character with mine.
And when writing a scene, how hard is it to say, "Sue smiled. Motioning with her head, she led them to a table and sat first." How dare Sue assume that Ted wanted to sit down?!
I just don't understand why some assumptions can't go into writing if you trust the person you're writing with. If you don't trust them, why are you playing? It's made me skittish around players I don't know very well. I don't want them to jump on me.
That said, I just met an entirely new group of people, an entirely NEW GAME. I don't know them, they don't know me and yet... we all MESH. And I did. I said, "Okay, Lauren, you can move _____ for the rest of the party. Have fun!"
My girl got another drink and made out with her boyfriend on a couch. It was in character (enough) for the game, and the scene. I'd known Lauren all of a week. But I trusted she wasn't going to make my girl the party floozy and have her do a strip tease.
... I just miss that kind of RP. Where epic stuff happens. Example? Antigone's had quite a life. ♥
/rant
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