Secrets of a Student

[Erik7622]

I'm generally not a fan of pigeonholing characters into "character types," as it encourages clichéd characters in my opinion. That said, I'll put up with it. One thing I really dislike about some GM's on this site is how they insist on using random .gifs of their faceclaims for profiles and whatnot. I don't understand the fixation, and the damned things can be really distracting. Actually, what I dislike more than that are people who insist on using a particular faceclaim and attaching it to an outline for the character. It takes half the fun of the character out of it. Three of my favorite characters I have made were made in RP's that didn't have set character roles. They develop more naturally in my experience. I mean, hell, one of the characters is in the early parts of a romance subplot that neither of us discussed OOC. It just worked with the characters.

[LostRiver]

I agree wholeheartedly. A certain aspect of RP that I love is that you don't necessarily have set characteristics for your character. They change and develop as you move along. I mean, this RP is still a great idea. However, I find that when there is a set faceclaim, I spend a majority of my time looking through the gifs that I find online for my faceclaim. Haha! And I'm very OCD about character sheets. I absolutely love creating the actual character and then making it look pretty. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of RPing. But I completely agree that a lot of times the GM has a set way that the story is going to go and - this may not always be true - that story line almost always revolves around their own character. It makes the story line a bit bland at times simply because everyone knows where everyone is going to end up. That having been said, I know that in the past I've struggled with creating RPs that include everyone. It's very hard - at least for me it is - to create a good RP that everyone can agree on. Although, I wish I could do it and finally have a beginning and an end to one of my RPs. (:

[Erik7622]

Yeah, the compromise between character and plot can be difficult.

On an unrelated note, for f**ksake, what is taking the GM so long?

[JEDH3]

I PMed him/her (her?) about it yesterday or the day before, and have no received an answer.

[Erik7622]

*sigh* Fantastic.

[LostRiver]

That's too bad ): I was excited. Haha! I wonder what happened..

[itookaChance]

Guys I'm SOOO sorry ): I had the SAT yesterday and everything was haywire...

[JEDH3]

I really hate sounding impatient and mean, and I understand that a lot of people are busy, but just out of curiosity; who all is still following this, and are we close to starting?

[Erik7622]

Well it looks like I'm out of the running, given that JEDH3's character got accepted over mine. I'm cool with that; I've got too many RP's right now as is. I'll still keep up, and might post a second character if needed.

[LostRiver]

I mean I'm still up for it.... if the others come back...

[JEDH3]

I am not so sure anybody is coming back.