[quote=@Cynder] I've seen this as well, but it seems to have a new magnitude in highschool Roleplays. It is amazing to me that so many Roleplays can be filled with loner archetypes and still manage to stay alive. [/quote] It's just like how Naruto is considered the shonen of all shonen - in a bad way - where all the characters in those RP's typically follow the archetype; [i]X was a young child when he was orphaned. His father died doing y (usually a special super top secret mission) and his mother died doing y too. See they were partners. Just like Naruto's father and mother! So anyway, he didn't have any friends, because everyone hated him. But also, he is really friendly! But because he never had any friends he's kinda lonely and sad. Like emo-sad.[/i] Bonus points if they self harm. Seen these characters a lot in Naruto RP's. I guess it's kinda the same for highschool/college/educational facility RP's in the sense that there's a common archetype people follow with their characters. Lonely characters just seem to be something people like for some reason because it makes them look cool, edgy and gives them a reason for their character to play the victim (which is easy, unlike playing a villain. For most people anyway). When in reality it just leads to over saturation of loners who are cool and don't need nobody. On the other hand there's also a shit tonne of 'super happy' people that could have their arms chopped off and they'd still be happy about it.