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I am placing this here for people that don't understand what I was trying to explain in the self help area. If you post here, I will try to further answer your questions, plus it will also let me fill in the gaps of my answer to make it more complete.

I do wish for this to be a reference for all to use and see, so I want it to be understandable to all that may/will read it.

Thanks!

(When you said post here I hope you meant in the thread. My apologies if I misunderstood)

How in depth should you study a subject before role playing it? Like archery, or equestrian? And what should you do if don't to take part yourself, like insanity or drug abuse, how would you manage those?

-Lady Ariez (2/22)

hey i have a q what if you look ate a guild and you really wanna enter it and its a rp but all the rp storys are really far along and you have no idea whats what as in tha charechturs and whos dating who...

also[oh no not agine]this is the most helpful guild iv ever found!!!!
thats it*smiles*[finally!!!] xd biggrin mrgreen thankx

Fist off... I wish to appologize for not seeing these two posts sooner. I shall quote the person I am answering their question...



Some of that is going to be you getting a 'feel' for the character. You can place down a base, like their typical attitude, view on the world around them, and even their own morals. From there, you have to establish the rest as you go. Sometimes you can get lucky and have the character completely in your head before you even start, but other times you only learn about the character as you go.

An exersice I tend to do is think of cinareos and events, then place your character in them and see or think of how they would respond. Keep this in mind as you go through the role play world you are in. If they are arragant, yet kind, they probably would want to make any kind act sound like they did it because they felt like it, not because they cared about you. If they are shy, yet curagious, maybe they don't speek up for themselves, but will gladly do anything for a friend, even if they feel embaressed about it later.

Some of this goes with my 'string' theory. I feel that there are strings that tie you and your character together. As you learn more about the character or as you create the character, you grow strings to them. You attatch to them in a way only you can, as you can see into their minds.
Everyone else can grab onto a few strings from your character, but they will never be as attached as you will be, as other people don't see into your own world as easily as you can.

As a final suggestion I can give (that I can think of right now), is to think of your character as a person on their own. They aren't you. They are themselves. Let them be them, as much as you can. Crawl inside their head. Try to think as they think. (A good way to help this is to base the character on a few parts of yourself, but change it. Like I have a character called Tassen. he is my shy self, as well as my intelectual side. He is so reserved that he can't really speek up in large crowds. He is extreamly smart and catch on to some things quickly, piecing together things faster than most, but he can also be very dense.
Then I have Alex, Tassen's polar opposite. Alex is my bolder side taken to the extream, as well as my impulsivness. He is more likely to pull a prank because 'It seemed like a good idea at the time'. In front of other boys, he will strip down to nothing without a though... drop other boys (as long as girls aren't around, as even he respects that), and he's more og a ladies man. He is loyal and a good friend, but isn't always trustworthy, as he can sometimes do something that would hurt his friend when he is just trying to have fun.

Each of them is a part of me, but they are each so totally different from myself and each other. Alex I didn't find till I started to role play in that role play, and he just came to me. Fully made all in my head. I was lucky with him. Tassen was created and I had to discover his personality as I went, and as he grew, I found out he has a smart mouth, in more than an intelectual way. He can sometimes lay down a one line sarcastic comment with his friends, which can sometimes be hurtful even when he is trying to just joke around. Alex I discovered cares enough for his friends that he is willing to get himself hurt to proctect them, dispite his tendency to hurt them himself with his 'joke' (or rather just utterly embaress them).

I was wondering how to get started in a rp?

I have a question for you, Cybering is when you are being sexual right? Does that include groping? If so then to which degree?

Also, the "keep cloths on" rule, does that include whenever I have my character switch cloths? Or go into the shower?

If I for some reason, decide to uncloth(is that even a word) the character and have them look into the mirror(and describes what he/she sees) is that a no-no too? Or have them attacked at that moment?

It's not very likely that I'd do that (I don't think I'm that cruel to my little victims) but I'm still curious.