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fandomsecrets2012-10-14 03:46 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-10-14 03:46 pm
[ SECRET POST #2112 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2112 ⌋
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I thought the idea was fun, but soon found that I was older than every-one, because I'd been a book fan for years, and that almost all the rp-ers had only seen The Fellowship of the Ring.
Still, what I expected was huge plot-based rp, and found it was just people claiming canon characters, flirting with others, getting married and having children, who then then rp-d so they could do the same thing over and over.
In the end a couple of us who were more interested in the books, and liked writing stories created our own rp-site. Because I had seen the girls trying to interact with guys who were very young, I decided to play male characters, both canon and original.
The only trouble was the female characters wanted to marry them, so again it went back to the get married, have kids, rinse and repeat. I did this for five years (every day) and created a vast AU spanning all the continents of Middle-earth. I have no idea how much I wrote, but it bothered me that with all the potential for dramatic storylines, the mate/marriage was the most popular. It got very boring, as how many times can you write that?
I also unintentionally wrote two OC's who after a while. I realized were my first slashable couple. I knew nothing about slash, but after building their dysfunctional relationship over two years, and reading back one day, it was so obvious I experienced an epiphany. I got excited. This was new for me, who'd written het for five years in role-play, and in o-fic for years before.
I was, by then, so bored I found no joy in writing any-more, which frightened me. This discovery of slash made me enthusiastic again, but I couldn't explore the nascent relationship, as the other players had characters married to these two men, and were upset. So, I had to leave and write what I wanted.
In the end, I am glad I rp-ed as it gave me the confidence to allow people to read my writing, but I found it incredibly restricting as time went on. Some people might say, well they're your characters, why not do what you want with them? but if you've played them for years, and other people have invested their own characters into relationships with them, it's not so easy; the reaction to 'infidelity' can be explosive. It goes both ways.
Saying that, I have rp-ed with people who don't need to interact with my male characters in a romantic sense, but can create their own stories, and I've rp-d a bit of slash. When I first rp-d, slash could get you banned from rp sites.
I could write an essay on rp-ing male characters; I ended up feeling as if they were all just being 'used'. d;-) But, so saying, I would still rp; I would just rp the characters I now write who are not up for marriage, and are all bisexual.