 NeeNee Omniscient Omnipotent Pie Maker
People who know me on SS know that I'm a huge stickler for the autheticity of a character. It's a huge trial to RP with people who aren't putting as much effort into it as you are.
Somethings I find really important are things like:
*Mary-sue/Gary-sue syndrome - this is easy to catch, so beware. Characters who can perform unforgivable curses, at all, much less in their first years. Moody said it; you just cant do stuff like that at their age, even if your parents are Death Eaters, you're not old enough to have the power to put that kind of magic out there. Other things that put you into the category of Sue-age are things like being Oh-so-smexy at age 12. No one is smexy at age 12. The pictures of people who are, are airbrushed. Also beware of hybrid charries, veela's, vampires, etc, and ofcourse having super rare special abilities like animagi. I'm not saying a characters shouldn't be parselmouths or what have you, I'm saying it's really hard to be one without ruining the realism of your character.
*Another thing that messes with the realism of RPGs is this: How many grand children does Harry Potter have? Jeepers! I mean I get that the characters JK Rowling created are awesome, but do you know how many cousins the characters with the last name Potter, Black, Malfoy, Lupin, Snape, or Weasley would have if ALL of you really were related to those characters? You would constantly be running into your distant relatives at school.
*And finally, this drives me nuts, and i think someone else said it: takeovers! characters who walk into a scene that's going on, and try to take it over, with fainting, sudden affliction of terrible illnesses or curses, love potions, you name it. as a general rule, people ignore it, but it throws the realism of our pretty little fantasy realm down the toilet.
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