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Old 01-09-2009, 05:40 AM   #60 (permalink)
strawberriesandlace
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I would love to see clever takes on Malfoy and Potter legacies, but what I'd be afraid of is that these characters - through their canon connections - get more kudos than your average OC schmoozing down the street. Naturally, people would want to be connected and be a Something-Something Malfoy-Potter-Weasley than, to take a complete and random example, Dogberry Dinglesbee.

Actually, I take that back. I'd love to see what complexes a Dogberry Dinglesbee would have to deal with. XD.

I think the point of the AU/in the future SSRP is that people get to play in the world itself, not with the characters that previously populated it, but that's my own personal take so it's definitely not writ in stone. ^^;; I really love when people toss in other cultures though, like your basing your character's wizarding heritage off Greek mythology! I try to do that, but since my background is Chinese/Malaysian, that's what I base mine on.

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but then again I'm an experinced RPer who has made dozens charries and can pull one out of the air and jump right in with a past you know

But not everyone can do that. They may need to base their first charrie off a canon charrie just to get started

My first charrie was decedent of Zabini but then I evolved and learned how to do character development on my own

But me personally I don't go for all the drama of angsty past...my parents were both murdered, I'm on the run from DEs kinda thing. I think that is a cop out when you have to use drama to give your charrie a past

I mean my currest charrie Paris came from a wealthy two parent home with 6 brothers and sisters...but she just blew up a rubbish bin in Diagon Ally and she used home made cherry bombs...see you don't need a angsty past to make your charrie multidimensional

You just need to be a good RPer and to be good you have to have a starting point and then progress.
Sure. I personally have never based a character off a canon character for RPing purposes, but I have developed (fanfic, mostly) characters to play off canon figures. That said, enough bad roleplayers have made me want to run away when there's a Lily Weasley-Potter-Snape flashing her green eyes, red hair and pale skin at me. (They never have knobbly knees, freckles all over or a hooked nose.)

Relating to to the discussion concerning angst, I think I stated my point a few posts above poorly; what I meant was that, everybody has their private hangups from daddy being a DE to having their puppy die when they were five in a horrible car accident related to Pygmy Puffs. But when players take it too seriously and justify and enable their characters to exist purely on the point that they were assaulted by Dementors, that's when it gets dull. Just like being a justified mopey whiner sad doesn't make a rounded character, neither does being a troublemaker or a flirt or any other stereotype.

Actually, I'm not stating that well either, haha. GAH.

Basically, I think a good character boils down to good writing and a sense of humor. You can come up with the best, most thrilling person but if you typ lyk d1s, it's hardly compelling. Likewise, I've seen talented writers turn stereotypes into things of beauty and joys forever. XD
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