Some of my OCs do have an unstable backstory because it would also be unrealistic if everyone had a lovely, wonderful, life, and many of their struggles reflect my own in a way, but it's so hilariously frustrating when you get this:
Vera faked an excited smile, hiding the pain she felt deep down whenever she saw a zebra. She forced herself not to think of that time, when she had been staring at a zebra so similar to this, when her world had fallen apart...
Bob looked at her, wondering if he should help or not. After all, the last time he had tried to help... He was an utter, complete failure. He should best be locked in his room to prevent him from harming people when he was just trying to make things better.
And you're wondering how terrible the RP world really is if people have terrible flashbacks every time they went to the zoo.
Edited By Larkian on 2/28/2020 at 7:01 PM.
Orcastration
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Posted: 2/28/2020 at 6:54 PM
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True t
Honostly need to work on my other ocs
Nicote and Cole are overused. And btw wha ti mena by torukture is sticking say, like Orkhannas "torture" is actually more like having to deal with Owen annoying her to death XD
It's more Nicote that got th eblintforxe but his main focus is horseback riding and stem so
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Posted: 2/28/2020 at 6:58 PM
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Honestly, of the two characters of mine that have ever had mentions of flashbacks it's only been an event that's been brought up when they were pretty much already having a mental breakdown from something else. For example, had to write a scene last night involving my space captain who had a flashback involving her husband that was murdered in front of her by her son. It only came to mind to her because she was reminded of her husband thanks to the similar personality of one of the antags she was trying to chase down and running her ragged.
I definitely get a chuckle whenever PTSD gets involved in a character description or rp because it's pretty poorly written even a lot of professional published works. There's a lot of misinformation about a lot of mental health conditions. (Don't even get me started on multiple personality characters...)
But a lot of time I understand when it comes to rp, there's people much younger than myself with probably limited personal understanding of the conditions they are trying to write. Half the time I don't think it's intentional, it just registers as "cool" to people.
Mostly I just mentally file under it under poor researching and writing ability.
I could finish probably a full rant on this but I feel like we're already bogging the thread down talking about it and I want to avoid trash talking bad rps/writers here, lol.
You onboard to do a group, Orca?
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Posted: 2/28/2020 at 6:59 PM
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I torture emy ocs by having them surrounded by generally annoying ocs
E.g. Orkha and cat have Owen. Luna has a live hate relationship with Mike. Poor Briyan somehow got dragge into a love triangle (~\~[ ctually.......) and I never finished sorting that out actually whih I should.
Nicote is mainly my torture oc but honostly hes got enough for a lifetime so I just let him dabble in animals and stem stuff like a good oc and my focus is now turning to Alex, Xander, and all my other Alex's except Alex Yan. I dont like Alex Yan, I've had him for about three years but I still dont like that I actually created him
Hes really weird, so......
Wait why did I bring him up? Ok that oc isjust wacko I'm gonna go and dump him at the bottom of the pile again
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Posted: 2/28/2020 at 7:02 PM
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Yay, time to use someone other than Phoenix! Let's go?
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Posted: 2/28/2020 at 7:03 PM
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Tbh that's what X was built to do. If I can't drive everyone else in the rp up the wall by annoying their characters into the ground, I'm not trying hard enough with him.
I have a lot of interactions going on between mine and my other characters but when I move them between groups, a lot about them gets revised or edited as I go. I don't have fully fleshed out backstories for most of them for this reason but I have stacks of notes on their characters and bits and pieces of their lives.
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Posted: 2/28/2020 at 7:12 PM
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Yo guys oh, remind me why were discussing brutal treatment of ocs right now?
([ p.s.. rping?)
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Posted: 2/28/2020 at 7:14 PM
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Got sidetracked talking about edgy characters, lmao.
Idk about setting, I'll let you guys decide but I'm leaning on fantasy/modern right now. Maybe something kind of noir-y.
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Posted: 2/28/2020 at 7:15 PM
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I'm thinking something like my Valencia Academy setting
Like normal
But with fantasy stuff
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Posted: 2/28/2020 at 7:16 PM
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Do you have a link to it? Like normal how? Normal high fantasy or more a modern + supernatural kind of thing?
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