One or Two characters?

Have you ever ran into the person who refuses to ever role-play anyone but the ONE character he or she has? This has always been a tad odd to me... I mean as a role-player I fantasize about many situations that either are interesting sexually, I find INCREDIBLY romantic, or that is exciting in other ways like action or adventure. Also I have an insatiable need to create without actually having to put to much time into my creation because art in any form is A LOT OF WORK. Although I do have projects I work HARD on, role-playing characters are stuff I can throw together on the fly and let slowly evolve through the work of actually role-playing them. Although this leaves me with a lot of bad role-plays when the character starts (not always... it just hinders it), but this fills my needs quite well. However there are a few people who I've met who only have one character. Not only is this instantly weird to me because I can't understand or associate with the person's feelings at all on the subject of having one character... it also leaves me with very little choice. Frankly there are many interesting characters that fill peoples interests in couldn't possibly understand why someone would limit themselves to one character. Here are some hypotheses.

One reason why one might think it is a good idea to have one character goes with this idea of how any project works: The more time you put into something the better it will be. The logic then goes if you put ALL your role-playing time into just ONE character, that character will be SUPER AMAZING. This however never seems to be the case. People who do this just tend to make characters that are super amazingly god mode-y. Why is this? Well if you only have one character all these amazing traits you want in what normally would be balanced flawed characters have to be stuffed into one. Although they may see the logic in how stupid it would be to have a character who has ALL the possible flaws stuffed into one character and how stupid that is, it is beyond them to see that it's just as stupid to have all the good traits in one character. (Lets not get into a discussion about how that IS a flaw. When talking about flaws we're talking about the character as if they were a real live person rather than a character flaw seen by the onlooker and how entertaining that character is to the onlooker.)

Another reason might be by that the person WANTS to be god mode-y. The only person I ever saw who role-played just ONE character and had no others made the statement that your character's power (As in ability to fight and such) HAD to be based off of how long the characters had been played. People couldn't just create characters off the fly and have them be powerful! How lame would that be? Or at least that's what he said. I totally disagreed with him of course and never spoke to him again. Let us understand though where he is coming, weird though he is. He's coming from a place where his character he role-plays is also his D&D character. He keeps sheets for this guy okay. In D&D you do start off weak and constantly get stronger, so in that game it makes perfect sense. You invest all this time in a game and some newb comes around gets to be as strong as you? NO! Well either way I'm not against either, but I understand the logic for D&D. However this ISN'T D&D. There aren't "character sheets" there are no "dice" (at least if you role-play with me there aren't) and this isn't about being the biggest baddest dude around. It's about co-writing to let out a little creative frustration! (It's also a great way to push lonely feelings into the dirt). Either way, he's getting his games mixed up and so are you if you choose this philosophy.

Apart from that I have NO idea why someone would only have two characters. IN FACT! I'm starting to think I should always have a set of characters that are ALL playable in a set of scenes. It adds diversity. Some conflict is wonderful! but sometimes to create a fun and interesting enough character you have to make a character that is so conflict heavy it's impossible to get any role-play that isn't just two people hating each other. However when you have more than one playable character in the rp you can build dynamic SETS of characters rather than a character that has self contained dynamic traits. It varies it up a lot! You just gotta learn to make sure people know who's doing what. What ya think?

Okay... role-playing venting session.

Part of it is, spring break started and I'm taking the liberty of not doing anything. What this does it makes me not enjoy my time quite as much when all I've been doing is sitting around enjoying my time... time starts to mold into one useless unproductive moment and I start feeling lonely. Although boredom is not a word I'd use, since I did use lonely it's what I do. So I want to role-play. This gets rid of my loneliness and exports creativity from my eager wiggly creativeness needed in the pit of my stomach. However I haven't been able to get role-play lately... I'm probably just a bitch... however once upon a time I had the role-play of my dreams. It was the most fun thing on the planet and the person has basically started ignoring my every pm. She apparently got into a depression because of financial problems and basically stopped having the emotions to role-play. Eventually though... seeing her on made me very depressed, ya know why? Because BEFORE when I'd see her on I'd jump up in my seat almost. I didn't have romantic feelings for her or anything, but god seeing her online I could only contain myself from pming her 10 seconds after I or her got on before jumping into her pm and asking her to role-play. I would get distracted from school cause all I could think about were story ideas. It was on my mind constantly. I could redescribe for you our entire role-play.... Then it happened. I only complimented her, we never fought... but then obviously for some reason she was done for me, whether it was her explanation or my over enthusiasm (or a whole range of other ideas frankly.) Regardless, my lack of role-play, especially in light of my extremely fun role-play being thrown out the window, is leaving me lonelier for role-play than I realized. It's quite sad :(

One Liner Blues

Ya know I've done a number of posts (at least one) on this site defending one liners, cyberers, and all the general hated role-players on the internet while successful (at least I feel so) ripping apart the ideas held up by the mean condescending role-players. It isn't so often that I feel I have any conflict with people who post very small, in fact sometimes I'll play with semi paragraph role-players even though I'm more of a multi para role-player myself. There is however once in a while I'll run into someone who doesn't do para rp who is a rude, shallow person who comes into my role-playing sites and tries to play victim on-top of me for wanting to role-play para. This happened the other day and it was such an odd thing I couldn't help but post it on here since it was so incredibly unprovoked. Lets take a look shall we? As a bit of history for this conversation, when in chat rooms I post "/think Looking for creative para rp. Pm me for details."

START OF CONVERSATION

ShameInducer: it is ashame u are a paragrapher i was interested

supercompoundrper: What a shame what a shame.

supercompoundrper: It is what it is though.

ShameInducer: a person can be creative without a paragrpah

supercompoundrper: I'm not judgeing your rp.

supercompoundrper: But I role-play para. If you don't that's fine, but please don't think you'll convince me I don't like para rp... I do.

ShameInducer: i am soirry i was not tring i was just suggesting that there are others out there that may be non paragrpahers and maybe not perfectthat are creative but are not given a chance

ShameInducer: not telling u one way or the other on your choice

supercompoundrper: I certainly won't give non para players a chance.

supercompoundrper: I don't want to role-play non para, I want to role-play para.

supercompoundrper: Again, stop trying to convince me I don't like para I do.

supercompoundrper: I'm not being unfair by restricting myself to the type of role-play I like.

END OF CONVERSATION

So I guess if I was implying that creative role-play only takes place in the form of paragraph role-play then I would understand his defensiveness. The fact of the matter is, my post didn't say anything negative or directed of non paragraph role-playing. The only reason I posted it at all was because I needed people to be aware of what I role-play. In posted para role-play, but frankly I do multi paragraph so I'm trying to let people know I wiggle a little each way for the role-player. I try really hard to be flexible and this is how I'm replayed! Oh well. Since I don't really know what to draw I just drew colors. Enjoy.

"Do you do kink role-play?"

Sometimes I get asked this and I often don't know what to say. First of all I'm not a very kinky person usually. There are some things I find very kinky but most of the normal "kinks" are either null or a negative for me, making kinky role-play (especially if that's the focus) to be really odd for me. There still is the question as to what they mean though, because kinks are so widely different. I feel I'm a bit out of the loop, does this actually mean a certain set of kinks or what? Usually I have to ask them what they mean and they doll out a lot of categories to choose from. Age-play always comes up... this annoys me. Unlike the rapist role-players out there who's deepest darkest fantasy is to reenact a horrible truth on this planet, the pedophile role-players have to hide themselves because of the huge negative stigma the internet has towards pedophilia and thus uses with the term "age-play." I don't think this ever is used for anyone but children with adults. At first I thought I did like this, because I find it extremely kinky and sexual for an 18 year old (or other young adult) to be having sex with a much older person, but not a 16 year old or below having sex with a much older person. (This doesn't apply to real life though.... having sex with a younger person just seems icky to me when presented with a real opportunity) Either way... I'm really out of the loop here and don't think I've ever actually gotten a good role-play going with someone asking me if I role-play kink, it doesn't help it out that I call it pedophilia role-play instead of age-play. Oh well.