RPing In A New Light*

It's true. You're never too old to learn something new.

I've RPed the same way for years. I don't think too much about what's going to happen down the road to my characters, I don't plan much, I don't set things up OOCly in any great detail, and I never worry about things until they happen.

After picking up fyeonly, all that has changed. And it's really an interesting thing for me, to approach RP from a different angle after so many years. I've played intelligent characters before. I've played characters that are the equivalent of FBI agents before. I've played politicians before, all people who need to think one step ahead of the game. But because I'm weird about not wanting my own thoughts and knowledge to taint the characters, I just let them do their thing and draw their conclusions once something has happened. I don't really work out in advance how they'll react.

I know I'm in the minority when it comes to this. But I'm very much a 'whatever happens, happens, deal with it then' sort of RPer. With the exception of major things - like character death or something. So despite my flailing and spazzing and threatening to hide under my desk, I really am enjoying this.

I've been very 'I don't know what's going to happen!' and all since I freaking apped Naomi, but now...

xpotion has made me do what no other RPer has made me do for years. Sweat and hang onto the edge of my seat. Not since the days of IB have I sat and gone 'dude, wtf is being planned? What's going to happen? WHAT IS MY CHARACTER IN FOR?!?!' and lain awake wondering about it.

It's like a little energizing jolt. And I like it.

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*Pun not intended