The Semi-Literate & Literate Roleplayer's Club (V4)

[Darius4Ever ~ ♥]

“Do your characters have fears other than dying or losing their family/loved one/powers?”
Oh gosh... Um, Jesse is terrified of trusting people due to an abusive father. He's also scared of bones and blood because they make him queasy.

Uh, I think I'm gonna make Addison nervous and kinda scared of falling in love, because I want him to be my confused, aloof, clueless little Hufflepuff.

An old character I had, Cassandria, had Multiple Personality Disorder, and her other sides would come out to help her when anyone tried anything romantic, because she had a phobia of falling in love. It's really illogical, though, she had no real reason she was scared, she just was.

woops you said no phobias haha ignore the last one ; D

[Soriams]

“Do your characters have fears other than dying or losing their family/loved one/powers?”

Humm, yes. I have a character that is terrified of being alone, and a whole slue of them that are afraid of failure. Even some who are afraid of water or other silly things. It all depends on what I'm trying to portray with them.

If i were to create a character who was afraid of death, there would have to be a good reason for it in their backstory. Say they were religious and feared what waited them in the afterlife. Or perhaps it was not death so much they feared but being forgotten? Maybe they are just craven, and fear all sorts of ends and the pain it may bring to their final moments.

Fears don't always have to be something that infects all their waking hours, either. Occasionally I will have a character that has had issues in the past, and if they run into a similar situation they will fear what happens next. I guess basically what I'm trying to say is that rather than picking a fear and making it work, I find it better to consider their history and they extrapolate the fears from there. They are just little things that help to define them, and bring them to life.

[intriguing]

“Do your characters have fears other than dying or losing their family/loved one/powers?”
I have a character who's claustrophobic and for that reason is fearful that she'll end up in small spaces, she tends to pass out if she gets into those situations. She's also got a fear of cockroaches too, a little bit, due to a spiteful tease by her brother involving a jar of cockroaches when she was young.
Another of my characters is afraid of women, or at least getting close to them - as his mother left when he was young and his last girlfriend was abusive.
Other than that though it seems I don't think about the fears of my characters very much, it isn't one of those things that's immediately obvious for forms, even though it really should be. Like Soriams, sometimes it's easier to incorporate their fears when roleplaying, thinking about similar situations which may have happened to them in the past.

[king boo]

wip thread

so yes, i have not forgotten it and therefore it is a wip. if you have any suggestions on slots then go on ahead and give me suggestions but only the most important have pre-chosen genders, shifting forms and ranks u.u

rank system are a wip u.u

[pancreas]

^ ahhh, i actually have a character who would fit really well in that rp, except his animal form is an eurasian magpie
heh, hardly an exotic zoo animal
... he'd probably be more suited to someone who lurked around outside the cages and taunted the ones inside eheh

anywaY, had an idea for a character who is like half-human, half-dragon (scales, eyes, good with fire, greedy), but all of my face-claims are too cute. at the same time, i don't want a... really manly one??? hhhhhh idk

[VesVes]

wip thread

so yes, i have not forgotten it and therefore it is a wip. if you have any suggestions on slots then go on ahead and give me suggestions but only the most important have pre-chosen genders, shifting forms and ranks u.u

rank system are a wip u.u

Yay! I've got no suggestions right now; Imma just sit here and develop a character in my head. c:

[glassea]

“Do your characters have fears other than dying or losing their family/loved one/powers?”
wow i actually love this question. like, a lot.
so i feel like irrational fears... well, some of those cases are bound to be phobias. although i do not know the exact definition of a phobia it's probably something that someone cannot stand even though logically they know there is nothing to be afraid of. actual fears is a lot harder. i don't include fears in many of my character descriptions. they just kind of unfold in my head. some of them may include a fear of specific forms of death or injury, ex. drowning, but that would always be due to past experience with those things. yes, people are born with fears. one of my characters has an aversion to buttons for no reason whatsoever. and, um, most people are afraid of heights, i think it's something like ninety-eight percent of the population...? some of my characters - the ones who are portrayed as abnormally intelligent - have a fear of going insane, because i feel like most people are afraid of that whether they realize it or not and if you're some kind of philosopher it will probably come to mind.

a while back, some of you answered my plea for help with writing a character, and i totally forgot to say thanks. THANK YOU. it helped a ton.

[rose;]

looking for some one x ones! prefer they be rather active, idk.. and mxm
send me a message please ^^

fairytales;; I have ideas in mind for Beauty and the Beast, Fox and the Hound, Lion King, and Little Red Riding Hood.

book based;; I have a lengthy divergent or mortal instrument plot. I'd also about kill for a roleplay based around The Immortal Rules if anyone has read it.

vampires;; I've been craving vampires atm. Just send some ideas over!

wolves;; yeah yeah, don't judge. I've been feeling a bit nostalgic, and I was hoping for something a bit more relaxed for this. still need a good plot though

slice of life;; I've been holding onto a few plots for quite some time, mainly one where the boys are the best of their respective sports and constantly make friendly fights over who's really better, and one is openly gay, whereas the other sort of comes to realize their feelings later on
I also wouldn't mind something just cute and fluffy

werewolf;; oh yes, werewolves werewolves werewolves. All plots send 'em my way! all sorts too. I've been toying with an idea of the werewolf being more dog-like than wolf like, after their species being dominated by humans... And the one is captured/a servant to/whatever to a human, and then it develops from there... needs work xD

I also love those 'I've always wanted but...' sort of ideas people have, sen d'em over if you think you'd like to have me as a partner

[Artesian]

“Do your characters have fears other than dying or losing their family/loved one/powers?”

Ahahaha! Yes. Yes, they do. I may not always write them down, but my character's fears are numerous and rarely 'dying' or 'loss'. I have a very intelligent character (okay it's a darker version of Sherlock in the 23rd century) who is frightened of being caught, but not because of potential punishments, but because, without difficult problems to exercise his mind on, his mind will fall apart, and he'll lose his grip on addiction and reality. My demon/fallen-angel FBI agent character is not easily frightened, but he is terrified of losing his center, whatever bit of morality he still has left beneath his damnation. (Oh, and he's afraid of churches and Christmas carols.) John Markov is afraid of failure, of being anything else than perfect when it counts. My main character of my main project is a gung-ho action hero type, but he's actually pretty frightened of the idea of having to persuade people for a living (also spiders. Stupid spiders. And giant robots and losing his sweetheart again and uh, a lot of things). Even my version of Death is afraid. To quote: "Other things terrify her. Existential things that most people just go, 'okay, right, so?' She doesn't know where she came from, or her origins, and that spooks her. She's not always certain she's doing the right thing. Most people'll live their lives perfectly happy without knowing if what their doing is right, but for her, this is a big deal."

Fears are an important part of building a character, because while you can write a story where the only thing holding a character back from achieving what they want is their circumstances (villains in their way, a journey to undertake, whatever), the most compelling of stories are ones that include a character struggling with themselves. The Hunger Games would have been much less interesting if Katniss' only challenges were physical. Anyway. </philosophy>

Though, it would be fun to play a character who is literally fearless. Hmm.

[Soriams]

Though, it would be fun to play a character who is literally fearless. Hmm.

That could be fun, but I think they would be pretty dumb... If you're never afraid then you're just not thinking hard enough. XD

LOL But in that respect, it sounds fun too!