[ SECRET POST #335 ]

[degrees.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #335 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

I'm not actually around, Semagic is doing the work for me, so you guys do the name that fandom! :D

Also... the amount of not posted secrets today worries me. Perhaps some of you could do with a refresher on the rules and regulations?

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 47 secrets from Secret Submission Post #048.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken link, [ 1 2 3 4 ] not!secrets, [ 1 2 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] WTF?, [ 1 ] Teal Dear Rant Sans Secret But Amusing Enough To Make A Seperate Category For Because Of The Tattoo.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Friday, December 7th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[ruxi.livejournal.com]

No, definitely - one concern for me (and I realize this is going too far on a personal tangent) has always been the idea of making a character your own. There are a thousand and one ways to interpret given canon material, and let's face it - RPing, or writing fic? We work on estimations. No one will get a character as well as its creator. Hades, that's sometimes never accomplished even by the original creator in succession. I want a penny for every manner of inconsistent character development that I've found in graphic novels and general literature insofar.

Then I want a candy-house outta it. Make that, a neighbourhood.

This is something that people can and should spot - the fact that your handle of a char is forced, or that you're going in one thousand of directions at once, or that there just seems to be no feeling behind your character.

But again - I wouldn't think that's a question of OOCdom.

Different Anon!

[(Anonymous)]

I am a new anon! HI! Re: making a character your own.

There's a difference between character interpretation and steering completely away from canon. To use an example unrelated to this whole thing, let's take Goku from DBZ. You could argue and maybe it would be a valid interpretation to say that he's secretly emo over Picollo being Gohan's father figure. And maybe you could explain why and show canon instances or what not. But if you're RPing Goku crying his heart out to his closest friend, you're OOC regardless of the justifications. Because Goku doesn't do that in canon.

Re: Different Anon!

[ruxi.livejournal.com]

Hey ~ ! Anons seem to wish I STFUed already like me, or some such. *pettum!*

Yenno, I don't know DBZ - I do think maybe you could find an extraordinary circumstance and get the fellow to. Er. Cry. Maybe? But yeeeeeeah, for most of us, extraordinary circumstances =/= valid excuse of making a particularly OOC habit.

Making a character your own shouldn't be the same as making an OC out of them, coincidental name and physical appearance similarity excluded. I find that to be the most troublesome deal with AU fanfic, myself.

I know this is asking a bit too much - but would you mind logging in, or giving me something to call you by? There're a lot of anons here, and this is frankly a very fascinating discussion at least for me. Because I have no life. Woe.

BK Anon

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, coming in with my two cents a bit here. After reading the newcomer anon's comment concerning Goku up there, I think I'm seeing his/her point. In that, even as a good writer, while you can make Goku cry his heart out in a friend's shoulder (somebody could wish it to the Dragon Balls, for example? Just for fun?) and make it believable, no matter how WTF-like... it doesn't mean you should. It could alienate the other players?

Re: BK Anon

[ruxi.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't =/= couldn't.

And I think excruciating liberties with a character are maybe best performed in a fanfic, rather than RP environment. I mean... in a fic, they get to see where you're coming from, and what you're doing - linear development, or at least some evidence of previous input.

In eljay RP? A lot of char development happens in eljay posts, usually someone else's - people don't keep track, no one will stop to look'em over, etc.

Re: BK Anon

[(Anonymous)]

I agree on the fic > RP statement. In the end, I guess it really depends on the people you're playing with. That must be why drama is always existent in larger RPs... or more explosive.

I think everyone, anons included, have been pretty civilized so far. Is this wank material by now, or not?

Re: BK Anon

[ruxi.livejournal.com]

Dunno, yo.

Might be OT for the com. If I weren't a lazy SOB, I'd post up a discussion thread in my personal eljay and have an anon party.

Anons are given too little credit.

Re: BK Anon

[(Anonymous)]

Anon Party = Mass Orgy?

Anons get to be more honest sometimes, even if that ends up in wank.

[perrito]

BUT I FEEL SAFE IN MY ANONYMITY.

And here I was going for a well known canon. Anyway, I don't really follow the RP in question, I know TB in manga form and that's about it. I'M JUST DRAWN TO DISCUSSIONS.

The making a character an OC happens a lot, specially with characters with little canon info. And yeah, I'm not a fan of AU fic unless it's made for crack.

[ruxi.livejournal.com]

LOL IT'S OK, I WAS GONNA CALL YOU ALPHA-ANON.

[perrito]

OH MY GOD. DOES THAT MEAN I LOST MY CHANCE TO TOP?

[ruxi.livejournal.com]

B-but this will not help my UBER DOMINANT REPUTATION.

Well. If you... insist.

[perrito]

Oh baby~ ♥

Why yes, I am a bad person.

[ruxi.livejournal.com]

I... come bearing OT3 (http://queen_qing.livejournal.com) gifts?

[queen-qing.livejournal.com]

There is a rule. There is a rule that says that bebes do not have secksu.

._.!

[perrito]

HIIII~ :D ♥

[queen-qing.livejournal.com]

Hiii! :3 ♥

alksjdlaksjdf YOUR ICON IS MADE OF WIN.

[perrito]

abfluvver is a bad, bad person. FULL PIC! because you know you want to see it.

[queen-qing.livejournal.com]

*chokes*

....

Oh, my God. O_O!!!!

[perrito]

I TRAUMATIZE OUT OF LOVE. RLY.

[queen-qing.livejournal.com]

THIS IS NOT LOVE. THIS IS TORTURE. TORTURE. I WILL NEVER HAVE SEX AGAIN. ;-; ....Or ever.

[perrito]

You're just encouraging me to hurt you more ♥

[queen-qing.livejournal.com]

.______.

I am actually secretly a masochist >:D

[perrito]

... I deny any responsibility for your poor, poor brain. NSFW. Or brain. Or anything.

[queen-qing.livejournal.com]

.........

I DON'T CARE WHAT OTHERS SAY. THAT HAT IS A PENIS. AUGH DX