Post by cptkickercutleg on Oct 28, 2011 4:39:35 GMT -6
Hey guys, just posting to say hello.
I'm not new to roleplay, in fact, I consider myself an intermediate player, having been with several RPs from start to finish, although I'm REASONABLY new to RPing a wolf in that I've never RPd a wolf among his own kind.
I have, however, played the role of 2 wolves, and a human simultaneously to create the true feel of a pack of brother wolves in a strict hierarchy, total immersion in an online Gmod server (not DarkRP for those who know the different scripts).
I know much about both dog and wolf social mechanics, with emphasis on body language, and I know how to play them in a literary scenario.
I look forward to RPing with you all, should Graal ( www.shinkouookami.com/index.cgi?board=newchars&action=display&thread=15752 ) be accepted.
- Kicker
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Just so I make this clear, I'm not a total newbie at character creation or play, and I've found a method of roleplay that works for me, and I base my characters around a rough template of "Was a wanderer, now looking for somewhere to settle down and help people".
It may seem a but Mary Sue, but trust me, my characters have their fatal flaws and their happy memories, they aren't characters that a cripple would mess with, but they aren't anything special either.
The point is, they are there, they have wants and needs just like any character, and they don't want to start fights, only help those who are suffering, in order to make friends and settle down, be accepted, and die among friends when the time comes.
They are providers and protectors, but they need to be provided for and protected because they won't hold anything back for themselves once they are committed to helping people, they need someone to protect, and once they have that someone, they'll do everything in their power to serve that person and make them happy.
A past example of this would be my character Marcus Tyler, who died of a chest infection because he hadn't the strength left to make it to the doctor's clinic, coughing blood and collapsing in the middle of the forest with nobody around to help, because he was too stubborn to let them help him, he didn't want anyone to see him die, didn't want people to know how close he was to death, too proud to let the ones he loved give anything back to him, when he (in his mind) didn't deserve anything back after his sins (killing civilians in a cold rage during war long ago).
Again, this is a rough outline that I like my characters to follow, and of course, there are variations and anomalies. I begin with this outline, and let my characters grow to envelop their experiences past, present and future. Each character plays and reads things differently, but they have the same kernel that made them what they are up to the point of beginning the roleplay.
I feel like a fool for putting all this, as if putting all this up merely undermines what I said earlier about not being a total newbie by making Mary Sue characters, instead I should clarify that that particular RP which I gave an example from was rife with Synth characters that could withstand a grenade launcher to the chest and say "That hurt... My feelings." (Actual quote there), dinosaur characters from a low grav planet with ridiculous amounts of strength, enough to crush a 2 tonne robot with split personalities, and a psychic smurf.
I kid you not.
I made the only truly human character with a select skillset, a believable past, and textbook example psychological issues caused by his past, instead of either a generic personality-less masked soldier with no free will, a legendary starship captain or genius mechanic who could create a robot out of nachos and water.
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I'm not new to roleplay, in fact, I consider myself an intermediate player, having been with several RPs from start to finish, although I'm REASONABLY new to RPing a wolf in that I've never RPd a wolf among his own kind.
I have, however, played the role of 2 wolves, and a human simultaneously to create the true feel of a pack of brother wolves in a strict hierarchy, total immersion in an online Gmod server (not DarkRP for those who know the different scripts).
I know much about both dog and wolf social mechanics, with emphasis on body language, and I know how to play them in a literary scenario.
I look forward to RPing with you all, should Graal ( www.shinkouookami.com/index.cgi?board=newchars&action=display&thread=15752 ) be accepted.
- Kicker
[Edit]
Just so I make this clear, I'm not a total newbie at character creation or play, and I've found a method of roleplay that works for me, and I base my characters around a rough template of "Was a wanderer, now looking for somewhere to settle down and help people".
It may seem a but Mary Sue, but trust me, my characters have their fatal flaws and their happy memories, they aren't characters that a cripple would mess with, but they aren't anything special either.
The point is, they are there, they have wants and needs just like any character, and they don't want to start fights, only help those who are suffering, in order to make friends and settle down, be accepted, and die among friends when the time comes.
They are providers and protectors, but they need to be provided for and protected because they won't hold anything back for themselves once they are committed to helping people, they need someone to protect, and once they have that someone, they'll do everything in their power to serve that person and make them happy.
A past example of this would be my character Marcus Tyler, who died of a chest infection because he hadn't the strength left to make it to the doctor's clinic, coughing blood and collapsing in the middle of the forest with nobody around to help, because he was too stubborn to let them help him, he didn't want anyone to see him die, didn't want people to know how close he was to death, too proud to let the ones he loved give anything back to him, when he (in his mind) didn't deserve anything back after his sins (killing civilians in a cold rage during war long ago).
Again, this is a rough outline that I like my characters to follow, and of course, there are variations and anomalies. I begin with this outline, and let my characters grow to envelop their experiences past, present and future. Each character plays and reads things differently, but they have the same kernel that made them what they are up to the point of beginning the roleplay.
I feel like a fool for putting all this, as if putting all this up merely undermines what I said earlier about not being a total newbie by making Mary Sue characters, instead I should clarify that that particular RP which I gave an example from was rife with Synth characters that could withstand a grenade launcher to the chest and say "That hurt... My feelings." (Actual quote there), dinosaur characters from a low grav planet with ridiculous amounts of strength, enough to crush a 2 tonne robot with split personalities, and a psychic smurf.
I kid you not.
I made the only truly human character with a select skillset, a believable past, and textbook example psychological issues caused by his past, instead of either a generic personality-less masked soldier with no free will, a legendary starship captain or genius mechanic who could create a robot out of nachos and water.
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