[quote=@Piddle] Wait, for real!? Assen represent! And also Amerfoort, but that's where my apartment is, doesn't quite feel as homey as Assen :') Cocksleeve made me giggle. But it's quite often very true. And same, a friend of mine can write the shy, easily intimidated sort in an amazing way (one of her characters actually gets into a lot of odd situations, simply because he's very bad at saying no and walking away). [/quote] I mean, I'm not a real Hagenees, since I'm from Voorburg originally and currently living in Leidschenveen. But I live like 200 meters from the Kyocera stadion, so I guess even the most Haags thing isn't even in the Hague anymore. :lol But yeah, for real. I already noticed you were Dutch, the name on your art gives it away. I think something to keep in mind when writing shy characters is that... I wanna say 'nobody cares about them' which sounds harsh and is not entirely true in the sense that people do care about them, it's just that shy people tend not to get noticed. Playing an invisible character then by extent can be interesting in the 'fly on the wall' formula by having them observe crazy things, and nobody notices them because they blend in. But just having your character scream 'I AM SO ALONE PLEASE TALK TO ME BUT OH I AM SO SHY SO I CAN'T REALLY SAY MUCH BACK' to avoid putting in that effort creatively is not even bad writing, it's just bad character. [quote=@Mercenary Lord] I also kinda wonder why people would actively choose to play a character so shy that they can't even be around other people, unless the goal of the rp is to get them less shy) The other reason I can think of is just to put their own personality into the character, I just woke up so my brains a bit muddled [/quote] Because it's a self insert, because it's the easiest thing to write, because they are lazy, or because they want their character to be the center of attention (which is somewhat paradoxical because you're writing a shy character that doesn't like attention). It's funny, because the people that always complain about nobody interacting with them in a roleplay tend to also be the same people who have characters that shy away from any form of interaction [i]unless[/i] it's about their character. Similarly, I've noticed these are the same people who forcibly begin shipping their character with other characters and going 'hehe would be cool if they dated amirite' about every potential relationship candidate. I feel like these characters are typically just lazy self-inserts and an attempt at playing out boring fantasies we have already heard of 200x. It's really just 'the shy nerdy guy gets the girl' innit.