My character is a flirt and sometimes I worry my partners who I have no interest pursuing a romantic relationship with will think I’m shipping.
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Threatening my muse (with death) because your muse is romantically involved with the muse my muse is flirting with is not cool. Your muse isn’t there, so stop being so jealous. If you’re that worried about losing your partner, maybe you should talk to them instead of taking it out on my (innocent) muse.
I wish some OC roleplayers would realise that canon characters don’t have it as ridiculously easy as they seem to think. I am not belittling the issues OCs face, but someone once said that canon writers ‘have everything handed to them on a plate’ and it really isn’t true. We do face our own problems; being ignored in favor of another version of our character, being accused of writing them wrong etc. So while yes, OCs face many hurdles, please don’t think that canon writers have none.
And to put an emphasis on things that can go wrong: The resources and history a canon character has is usually years worth of accumulation. It’s not information that is handed to a roleplayer on a plate. It’s a vast and specific set of rules rpers have to sort through in order to play their version of a character accordingly. While there are many answers provided canonically, the ability to get something right also leaves room to get something wrong. The other post this OP is referring to has a great deal of issues I have a problem with concerning Canon vs. Original. While it’s all a matter of opinion, original characters have the blessing of full and absolute control. Resources and reference can be used to make them, but the end result is up to the roleplayer. To say one is harder than the other depends on the writer, but saying canon writers have it all served to them on a silver platter is overlooking the very obstacles that make it difficult.
They’re both difficult in equal ways. A canon roleplayer has a great deal of information available to them at the outset, which they must absorb and can then shape slightly with headcanon and their play. A original character must create much of that information from ‘scratch’, but has correspondingly greater freedom to shape.
On the other hand, while it’s risky to make assumptions for canon characters when you begin to interact with them, there are certain assumptions that tend to be fairly safe to make — and this is /never/ true of original characters, but it happens to them equally as much. (See ‘Mary Sue’.) It’s possible, but rude as hell, to interact with canon characters without reading their information; you’re likely to draw their ire and make stupid mistakes. It’s not possible to properly interact with original characters without reading their info — yet people do it, AND make assumptions about the character to boot.
Either way, someone is going to dislike the way you handle the character — either because they think you aren’t sticking to canon, or because they think you’re a Mary Sue.
I honestly find it hard to run an OC blog when all these great canon characters keep ignoring me. At least it seems that way. I don’t mean to pat myself on the back or anything but I think I created a really good OC and I want her to interact with other characters. But when those other characters don’t give you the time of day. It’s hard to keep writing when there’s no one to write with.
Just because my muse is flirting with, hitting on, or hoping to get yours into bed doesn’t mean your muse has to reciprocate – or that I want to write smut with you.
It’s so annoying when someone is super selective about who they’ll do an askbox meme with, but then whines about how their followers don’t love them and never send them any asks.
whenever I see other OCs get a lot of attention and praise I get jealous. I work hard on being a good writer and a fun person to play with, and I really with play anything. So I’m sure there must be something wrong with me.
I wish more characters were mean to or judgmental of mine. I picked him in part because I found it interesting how he was treated badly in canon for something beyond his control. I get that other roleplayers don’t want to be mean, but I still kind of wish they would.
I don’t really understand why some people get so twisted up and jealous when ‘their’ RP partner RPs with someone of the same character, or when they do romantic/smut RPs with someone else. It could just be I’m a laid back person, but it’s not like your partners are yours alone. RP is to have fun and make friends, not to RP with one person of that one character, and only have that one ship.