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Tomo Vida

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Your Roleplay is Just Fine

I’ve met a lot of people in my time RPing, and I’ve met a lot of people who are very insecure over their roleplay and get a lot of hate for it. So!

  • Noble roleplayers, whether your house is an entirely original idea or inspired by something else
  • Roleplayers who use titles like “Highlord” or “Archmage” ICly
  • Roleplayers whose characters are “tropes” like the suave rogue woman or the honorable handsome knight
  • Those who roleplay controversial things, like Scarlets and criminals
  • Those who enjoy dark roleplay, in whatever flavor that comes in for you
  • Those who used to be really good at roleplaying, then something happened and you feel like you can’t hold a candle to how you used to be
  • Those who prefer to roleplay background characters like a blacksmith or a cook rather than an adventurer
  • Those who are new and still learning the ropes
  • Those who roleplay LGBTQ+ characters
  • Those who roleplay non-white characters and constantly have to defend as to if it’s “lore friendly,”
  • Those who roleplay having a personal relationship with a major lore character, or having an artifact ICly
  • Those who follow lore to a t
  • Those who stretch lore 
  • Those who disregard lore all together and write their own original stories within the game
  • Roleplayers who try to be as practical as possible when it comes to combat, weapons and armor
  • Roleplayers who prefer to take the more fantastical route, entering battle bare-legged and with a weapon as big as they are
  • One-liner RPers
  • Para RPers

All of you. Your roleplay is just fine. Roleplay what makes you happy, you’ll find people who are into the same stuff that you are.

Roleplayers who are not fine and need some juice and a time out:

  • Those who make anyone feel like they’re lesser or deserving of hate because of how they roleplay
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hint: if a person with clinical depression and anxiety says theyre tired …. dont tell them they have no reason to be …. bc guess what….. They Know and Its Shitty

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Louder!!!

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I just want to add one thing-

If you have depression or anxiety? you’re not tired for no reason.

You’re tired because you have depression/anxiety.

Not only do they both come with low energy/fatigue as a legit common side effect, but they’re both fucking /exhausting/. fighting your brain all the time? exhausting. adrenaline crashes from anxiety/panic attacks? exhausting. being on edge all the time? exhausting. plus doing things costs /more/ energy when you have those mental illnesses.

You’re not tired for no reason, you’re tied because you have an illness that makes you tired.

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Digital Intimacy

  • knowing when your friend is out of the house, because their phone capitalises their messages
  • noticing they’re down because that was the wrong emoticon
  • lol vs lmao vs hahaha vs ahaha
  • subtly wrapping your schedule around the edges of timezones on the other side of the world
  • conversations that play out over a week because you’re both perpetually idle but you want to know how they’re doing
  • not being able to wake up for an alarm, but leaping halfway across the house for the message alert you’ve been waiting for
  • talking to the same person about different topics in three conversations simultaneously
  • knowing when your friends have been spending time together because they start to type alike 
  • watching them start and stop typing over and over and not interrupting, because this must be important
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  • Sending them links to pictures or posts or articles you know they’ll enjoy, whether or not they’re around.
  • Knowing exactly how they always say hello and goodbye, and what it means when they change it up.
  • Leaving an addendum to a conversation after they’ve gone to bed because you thought of something else that was too important to wait until they come back.
  • Having a rough idea of their schedule because you know when they log in.
  • Keeping connected throughout the day with phone games (like Words With Friends), even when neither of you can talk.
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Took this while waiting for a maintenance to drop 

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(Rae does NOT approve of walking into this.. xD )

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We still don’t know who did it.

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RP Hooks for Anti-Social Characters

AKA How To Reel In Dem RPers with Tasty RP Bait.  If you also play a quiet, shy, or anti-social character, feel free to add your own hooks.

1) Have an injury. One that’s not so serious where your character looks foolish for not getting immediate medical attention, but also noticeable enough where someone with a healer-type or mother-hen character might want to strut on over and patch you up.

2) Turn on RP Flag and have notable things people can use for interaction in your Search Info - Put in your character’s noticeable scar. Put in the unusual artifact they’re carrying that would make all the mages in a half-mile radius go ‘wtf is WITH THAT AETHER HOLY SHITE’. Put the strange marking they have on their throat. Put in that half their horn is missing.  I personally haven’t done this yet, but I’ve had friends with anti-social characters report success stuffing notable details about their character or even the URL to their RPC wiki directly into their search info.  People walked up and commented on something they’d read like a necklace or physical attribute. If you dump in an RPC wiki, just make sure all of your RP hooks are easy for people to find. (Mine is actually a bad example because it’s one log slog :V)

3) Be chased or followed. If your character’s backstory lends to them being chased or followed, and they’re the kind of person who would react very noticeably - it could be a neat way to entice other people to get involved.  Bonus points if you’re willing to RP NPC henchfolks actually coming after you.

4) Mistaken identity. Confuse a random player for someone else, friend, foe, or even just a secret contact for a job. Maybe you’re supposed to meet someone at x-location, wearing y-item, to get something important.

5) Have a wing man. My alt, Leilani Leilai - is a bright, outgoing, cheerful character who wants nothing more than to hunt down potentially legendary adventurers and hear all of their amazing stories so she can turn them into epic ballads. Placing her right next to a quieter, more anti-social character gives us a ton of interaction material that makes it way, WAY easier for the anti-social character to get involved in RP. So grab your friend who plays their wacky social-butterfly character and ask them to be your wingman into RP.  (OR you can send me a message and I’ll jump onto Leilani Leilai if I’m free I SHALL BE YOUR WINGPOPOTO.)  A wing man is especially useful during RP events instead of trying to solicit walk-ups or going to a place like the Quicksand.

6) Look for help with [insert task here] - as quiet/shy/anti-social as your character might be, there are things they can’t do by themselves and need other people for.  Maybe have them look for a healer or alchemist to assist them in mending some sort of injury or illness that they can’t handle themselves.  Have them look for a smith that can fix their broken armor or blade.  Have them look for a temporary partner to go with them on a mercenary contract they realised will definitely need at least two people to accomplish and they’re willing to split half the profits.

This is actually really great to read as a shy Rp-er. I’m just delving into the world of RP with Erevard and this gave me ideas. 

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