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Post by POLARBEAR on Aug 13, 2013 12:34:04 GMT -8
I actually recently decided to stop rping real life shiz not too long ago. One of the reasons why is because I've found myself to have a heart of a kid and like cartoons/anime. Basically...role-playing anime/cartoons and stuff bring back the days when I use to sit around and watch TV while my mom is doing wifely chores ~ dads are out working. C:
OK i'm not THAT old in fact quite young, but my life has changed from back then so...tooodddleesssss
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Post by Gungnir on Aug 13, 2013 14:50:39 GMT -8
I've never joined RL FC sites because they just didn't interest me. I think anime FCs have a lot more options and it'd be kinda awkward for me to use someone else's face. Kinda like how I'd post a picture of myself online and suddenly find someone using it as their character's FC. Although that'd be kinda cool. |D /shotruinedthepoint
Plus I can't get shojo sparkles with RL FCs.
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Post by SULLENEY on Aug 13, 2013 15:10:16 GMT -8
Laziness, usually. A majority of the characters I play are POC and it is hard to find premade graphics for them. I have the ability to make my own, but I'm usually just meh about it.
However, I've been less lazy lately so I have been joining more RL FC sites. I find that the characters on them are typically constructed in a more realistic way that I see on animanga sites and I like that.
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Post by CRANE on Aug 13, 2013 15:29:42 GMT -8
Plus I can't get shojo sparkles with RL FCs.
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Post by CRANE on Aug 13, 2013 15:36:15 GMT -8
No but, really. I did just one RL RP in my entire life and it was with the use of Korean playbys. It was really great and super fun, but for some reason, I lost the appeal after that board died down and never thought to seek out any other role plays of that sort. I guess it's pretty much what's been stated above? It's a little awkward using somebody else's face and reinventing them as a different character, essentially a different person. Anime/manga/game FCs don't have that kind of guilt factor for me because I'm aware that it's not a living, breathing, person with its own personality or ~real~ feelings. That isn't to say that I'm discounting them as their own characters. But let's face it, they're fictional personalities and faces. So it's easy, ready, and guilt-free.
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Sarcastic, Sassy, and borderline Sardonic
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Post by TragedyBitch on Aug 13, 2013 15:53:25 GMT -8
I don't think rl rps interest me b/c i can't make any super mutant monster shifters the most fun for me is making up character powers, or have someones arm blown off only for it to grow back made of iceXD interesting rp moments(XD). Especially since i rp to do things u can't in real life.
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Post by ALCATRAZ on Aug 13, 2013 16:30:53 GMT -8
If only RP RL if I could kill other characters or have my self killed. I mean...... I'd make aKim Kardashian fc and then jump off a building. Or be the first one killed in the hunger games
But in all seriousness Id be willing to try a RL rp .... So if anyone has suggestions....?
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Post by PHIM (◡‿◡ ) on Aug 13, 2013 19:10:25 GMT -8
i've been on a RL rp site for the past 6/7 months (been taking a break from anime b/c muse is weird) and I'll admit, it's probably one of the best I've been on for many, many years. I've never had a problem using people as face claims, mainly because I like to think of them playing my character as they do in movies/shows/wtfever. Then again, I never really bother myself with that thought, anyway, mainly because... they're face claims. I could say the same thing about anime/manga fc's being used as characters that aren't their copyright personas.
My drive to join RL and anime sites simply relies on the integrity of the community. If they're willing to plot with your character, helpful in any way, and friendly by all counts... then it's worth a try no matter what kind of site they are.
and if that's not convincing then the idea of me having literally 10 characters should be enough [/justify]
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Post by Zozma on Aug 14, 2013 13:35:26 GMT -8
I find that the characters on them are typically constructed in a more realistic way that I see on animanga sites and I like that.
[/size][/quote] Same. I wondered why I couldn't get into my animanga characters as deeply as the RL ones and I think this is it. Even though Somnia is inspired by video games (let's face it, I RP mostly video games and video game-esque stuff), the characters are very real to me. On Tellius, though... We get a LOT of people doing freaking WEIRD shit and their characters are so obviously inspired by shounen anime that it just makes me take a step back. I find a helluva lot more of the crazies in animanga games (but again, might just be video games) who want their characters to be the uber-most-bad-ass character on the site with insanely stupid skills that can instant-kill people and it's so annoying. I haven't had a single one of these on Somnia--which does have skills and abilities (like summoners, healers, elemental manipulators, etc). Not one. But I get them all the time on Tellius, where it's obviously not even a character with interesting back story and believable flaws but skills with a name and face slapped on it.
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Post by beekeeper on Aug 14, 2013 14:46:19 GMT -8
I actually really like the variety in rl fcs, I'd join but most of them are on invisionfree or jcink and I have no idea how to... use either site so just sticking to what I know? Also all the characters are very detailed and I can't live up to that ahaha
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Post by Wud on Aug 14, 2013 15:53:57 GMT -8
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Post by SULLENEY on Aug 15, 2013 8:20:46 GMT -8
That painful experience is called whitewashing. :'D
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Post by YUKON on Aug 15, 2013 8:36:09 GMT -8
Whenever I look for a real life, female face claim, my mom always ends up walking past me, and I just so happen to scroll past an inappropriate picture of that female face claim, and she and asks if I'm a lesbian or not. I mean, this is every friggin' time people... >_<
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Post by EMMIE on Aug 15, 2013 11:13:15 GMT -8
most of the characters i want to make are fantastical. i want them to have funky hair or otherwise and on top of that, the sites i want to join are usually fantasy based too. i can't get into the fantasy feel of it all looking at selena gomez or justin bieber's face claims... i just can't.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2013 12:04:12 GMT -8
because i run to the internet to escape anything remotely real life. to me, anime feels more fictional in setting, both plotwise and characterwise. plus, if i think about it, i feel really awks using the face of an actual human. maybe i'm a derp, but it just weirds me out and i can't. (invasion of the body snatchers?! dundundun.)
i have rped rl before, mostly supernatural sites, so i've done both. just in the end they're two entirely different communities, and i grew up with the anime one so that's my comfort-zone. i also live under a rock and know next to zero celebrity names.
ohho. deep thoughts of the night.
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