Kaga

Is it bad...

Overwatch said
(Kaga, don't ruin this.)

Sorry; I'm too slow. Didn't see your post in time.

Is it bad...

Overwatch said
Damn, need to put more females in my set and expand my vocabulary and agree more and shit.

...You want to be mistaken for a female?

Is there something you haven't been telling us, Overwatch?

Apparently I'm a Myth, a Legend, and now an Oldfag.

Most of the time when I re-visit old sites I'm first shocked by the changes, then too awkward to jump back in or look for people I used to know, then embarrassed by the fact that I used to frequent such a place, then I leave.

But then again, I've never left any sort of "legacy" anyplace, that I'm aware of, so I guess I can't completely relate.

Is it bad...

Oops. I should probably go edit my post in that mental illness thread.

Although... I swear you've corrected me on this before, now that I think about it. Don't know how I could've forgotten again.

Halo said
To be fair, most people who have sets with identifiable male or female characters in them tend to stick to their own gender, simply because they know the assumption will be made - which, in the long run, makes those assumptions more likely to be right, and, weeelllll, it's a vicious cycle.

I can't even remember the last time I had a female character in my set.

Hooray for breaking the cycle?

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nautilusmp said
There goes my post, sorry for being so late.By the way, taking note of this:then logically, should the roleplayers, at least those not careful enough, have one weakness which is the ?

Yeah, that's kind of one of the things that makes it difficult, as thinking too hard about how it works would in turn lead to skepticism and/or unsureness. It's not overthinking it and just believing that you naturally have the capability that makes it turn out smoothly.

RPing characters with mental illnesses

Sorry Brovo, but I'm with Halo on this one. It really bugs me how all the discussions in here and in OT always become debates such as these. There doesn't need to be a winner or loser, you know. Halo just wanted to voice an opinion that he wanted you to consider, and honestly I agree with him. Yes, I have read the whole thread and I see in the end that you were being helpful, but for much of it, you didn't come off as such. To me it mostly looked like you were attacking Wayne by calling him out on what may or may not have been a lie, and he seemed rather frustrated by it to me.

I'm not saying that was your intention. I understand that it wasn't. And I understand your reasoning for being skeptical. All I'm saying is that the way you presented your skepticism could easily be misinterpreted as an attack, and I think that's something you should keep in mind. Because, like Halo said, that can be potentially harmful to people with real mental illnesses - and that's a point I agree with. While I see how you were trying to be helpful, I'm not sure Wayne ever really felt like he was being helped.

As for what this thread was intended to be about,

Platinum said When I roleplay people with mental illnesses... I do something which is probably unforgivable. But, um, well, I do that.

When I play someone who is mentally sick, I do not go and research the mental illness. In fact, I never look up anything at all, not even the name of the illness. I don't even know what I am giving my character. When I create the character, I give them the illness that I want them to have. I give it the properties which I want to roleplay in my character, and twist it the way I want it to function. For instance, at some time I wanted to play a character which was an adult but with the mind of child. I did so, never learned if that was any specific name for that or anything. At another time I wanted to play a character completely unable to feel sympathy or sorrow, or anything else like that, and so I did. At another time, I played someone who got terribly scared and shy without wanting to the moment she even entered vision range of another person. Some of these I don't even know if they are character traits or mental sicknesses, I give my character what I want them to have.

More than once I've had my character whose mind I've twisted a bit be asked about "he has -name of mental illness-, right?"... And my answer is "Could be!". At times, I go check what it was that was referred to, and lo and behold, it was what I had given my character without even knowing the name of it or doing any particular research. I have yet to encounter a time I've been absurdly wrong in what I gave the character, since I never really gave the character that specific mental condition to begin with. I just gave them a mental condition of my customization, after all. Up to the rest to identify which name fits it the closest. Heh-heh.

That's what I do, anyway.

Edit: Of course, I don't mind people who go into detail researching exactly the illness they want for their character. In fact, I respect them, because I could never do the same. This is because, I would get too scared of insulting or misrepresenting actual people with said condition, and as so I shy away from actually calling any such condition by name, even if there is a perfect one for my character. That's just how I work.

I do the same thing with my characters, for the most part. Even if I am somewhat basing a character's mental illness off of one that does actually exist, I always try to avoid labeling them by name, just because there's always the possibility that I got something wrong and that I'm misrepresenting a mental disorder that people (potentially even people on the site) might actually have. Seems easier to me just to mix and match whatever traits and symptoms you want to create your own, fictional mental illness for a character. It means more creative liberty, less details you need to get right in order to avoid offending anyone, plus a complete absence of real people to offend.

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BrobyDDark said
Breaking from anonimity for a second, I chose the people who are the most active right now as the characters and Kaga, Squee, Nurgs, and Drakel as the main cast.DarthWarman as the incompetent antagonist.

I'm curious as to what sort of storyline you had in mind for me.

Spamventures Episode 1:The Courtesy Call

You can put me in it if you want.

I can't guarantee I won't change sets in the near future, though. So I guess I'm not the best choice. ^^"

Edit: There. Just changed it. I plan to stay with Hartnell for a while.

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@Euclid: I'm assuming you're alright with your character being left out of GM and Leon's interactions for a while? You seemed to have been distancing yourself from that group for a while, anyway.

Welcome Back to the Guild

“Oh uh… Hello!” Muse greeted awkwardly as he retracted his wings, looking the two newcomers over. The one who approached him, Bellua, didn’t look like a roleplayer, though he could’ve been mistaken. He definitely sensed one nearby, though, so it was probably the girl…

“Ah, my name is Muse.” He introduced himself. “And this is Books, and the bird is Ebil.” He introduced his two companions, gesturing to them, respectfully. “Though he’s usually human in nature.” He informed the newcomers. Then, whispering to Ebil, “It’s ok to change back now, by the way.”

“Anyway! We probably shouldn’t spend too long on pleasantries. This part of the school’s turning to void! Either of you know any good escape routes? Or perhaps a safe area?”

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GM grinned. “Agreed!” he chirped, pleased that Leon would be so eager to serve him, and happily dashed into the other room with his arms spread wide. He sat down cross-legged on the floor with his computer on his lap, just as he had when he woke Leon earlier that night, and re-opened what he’d been fiddling with before, quickly rummaging through some files to find what he’d been looking for. He placed the laptop on the floor in front of him as he beckoned Leon into the room, then pushed the screen down so that the entire device lay flat on the floor. Once he was sure he had Leon’s attention, he pressed something on the keyboard, and the content on the screen seemed to reach upward as what was previously a 3D model on a 2D screen became a full-fledged hologram floating in three-dimensional space in front of them. The image in front of them was Rin, though scaled down considerably, and still in a healthy state.

“Here’s Rin when I first got her.” GM spoke. “Terribly plain, I know, she was one of my first beasts – in terms of my Guild reign, at least. Not to mention I used her for a lot of basic experiments, so I didn’t exactly take the best care of her.” He explained. “Ah well, I can just make another. A better Rin, more suited for long-term use.” He turned back towards Leon. “How did you say you killed her, again?”