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[Welcome to Whysperia]

I made one last week cx xx

I'm having way too much fun reading your
word wall. Someone said someone's a boob,
and somebody else just replies with "boobies!"
xD I don't know why, but it's so stinking funny
to me. Perhaps I should make a word wall. xD

[Brittle]

wassup dogs

guys guys guys, the last, like, four pages have been all a bunch of off topic stuff xD
(yes word walls are amazing but to could talk about something else)

question: what do you think of authors who write about to much gore/death or have a little too much of an active imagination
erin hunter writes a lot of gore (tiger star's death, the scene with snow tuft) but her books are addicting. sharon draper (she came to my high school today *yay*) wrote a book called Panic! and it's powerful. but the story is a bit... maturer then other books.

[deer,]

brittle you should check out your word wall c;

where do you draw the line on ''terrible instances" in your characters backgrounds?

this upsets me, when they make every single one of their characters have the same horrible past.
when it gets to i was kidnapped and suddenly they found out that all of their family was dead and that had one lost brother that suddenly had his life on the line and i was now supposed to murder one of the other characters to save him. ._. like gurl this is a romance rp.

[glassea]

where do you draw the line on ''terrible instances" in your characters backgrounds?
i have a simple solution for this.
since a lot of other roleplayer's character have difficult pasts [so many dead parents and one surviving sibling... so many] i just make my characters' histories boring. normal, i guess. the character might not live with or speak to both parents but generally one of them is still around. i try not to make twins - they're only one out of every ninety births, after all - but sometimes i succumb to that temptation. my characters generally do not have mental disorders that i mention in their forms because i would be afraid of offending someone by portraying them incorrectly. and as a general thing i hate long-lost siblings/parents because it's cliché. that can change depending on the roleplay though. like, in a hunger games roleplay, i would find it a lot easier to give my character a difficult past because life in the districts is portrayed as that in the books.

[Artesian]

where do you draw the line on ''terrible instances" in your characters backgrounds?

For character's backstories, I ask myself three questions: Can I write this realistically? Does this work with the story/roleplay? And is it plausible? There are stories and roleplays where having enormous tragedies in the character's history makes sense. Mutant persecution roleplays, or horror ones, or even just ones with a lot of angst and healing. Aaaand then there are others which aren't. (Fluffy romance, humor, stuff with too many angsty characters already.)

I've seen characters with elements in their history including missing parents, abuse, long-lost relatives, broken homes, adoption loneliness, kidnapping, mysterious orphans, or any number of mental illnesses... well, any element that can be cliche can also be really, really good. (Katniss almost starved to death, Harry Potter was abused and a mysterious orphan, Batman lost his parents, Tony Stark had distant parents, PTSD, and an alcohol problem...)

It's a matter of what you can write well. So that's where I draw the line.

[eugenides]

where do you draw the line on ''terrible instances" in your characters backgrounds?

one or two deaths is okay, but 'her whole family was murdered in front of her very eyes and she was different ever since' is just crazy. unless it's a roleplay where there is good reason to do that[which doesn't happen very often]. if you can make it sound good and not totally cliche, however, i guess you can try it out.

[Pandle]

I have way too much of an obsession with masculine names for girls... I just named a girl Sawyer Harlow lol.
and her nickname isn't even feminine...
like... it's Scout.
xD

But horrah for the nickname Scout because that was Atticus' daughter in "To kill a mockingbird" perhaps the greatest book ever written highlighting discrimination. I love that book and adore the name Scout for a girl, so don't even think that's negative.

where do you draw the line on ''terrible instances" in your characters backgrounds?
I don't. If it's not appropriate for on site then I take it off, although to be fair I only have two active roleplays here (which I adore and obsessive over far too much but I don't care because Beatus and sleeping beauty are just insane writers and it's an honour and pleasure to write with them).

I think that's why I prefer the fantasy genre: it gives rise to a range of circumstances that don't require explanation or justification yet don't seem obviously out-of-place. I enjoy making a character and then brutally hounding them up a tree, where they'll often plummet back down. But death is only the beginning of the adventure *rolls away in a puff of ominous smoke*

[gizmo,]

I'm back guyzzzzz. I hope I was missed c:
Ha. Jk. Not really though.

I have a word wall! I just got it though so it's empty :c
As for masculine names for girls, I LOVE that. I do that all the time. And as for Scout, I have a cousin named that. It's his real name and he's a boy so... /shrugs

Why is everyone quoting the question? Wuuuut. Whatevs.

where do you draw the line on "terrible instances" in your characters backgrounds?
I agree with Arty and ailurophile (btw we haven't met so hi c:). One or two deaths is fine, but a whole family, long lost family member, abduction, etc is excessive. Maybe if the roleplay calls for it, but a lot in my experience don't. As for mental illnesses, I tend to stay away from those because I don't want to offend anyone, same with physical disabilities I guess as well.

[coriander.]

guys it's my birthday and I just feel like running happy circles around everyone and coding and singing and yaaaaas

but in all seriousness I probably won't be on much today so to anyone that is waiting on me for replies;; sorry :(

[shay ;]

happy birthday, cori c: