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What is love!? ( character relationship question)
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Eternal Father
*Pitchforks you back into the grave.*Evelynn said:
Get outta hurr.
BABY DON'T HUR....oh, it's been done.
Eh.
ANYWAY - I have only had one character really experience love, Krius Syonis. That was a love that blinded him because he THOUGHT he was in love but towards the end he knew he wasn't. He just wanted to be.
The love took place over 3 threads of mine with Matsu Xiangu, partly planned, but party a real trust in eachother's character writing to be natural in their discovery of the Force they both wanted to use as a weapon and their discovery of trusting eachother.
We didn't want to plan every little action, and so I had to trust the writer to really embody Matsu and write only as HER, not a "writer" planning every action. It had to be natural, either a strong or weak love, but it had to be love.
It was a mix of enjoying spending time with other, learning to trust eachother and finding out that the actions and thoughts we had were practically felt by the other and so a friendship swelled into love for eachother and a want to protect, care and guide them on their path whilst being the one to give them affection and passion that made them feel invincible and alive.
But as they turned into enemies and ego took over, and they clashed and became horribly violent towards each other (Krius is a sociopath and will NOT give himself to anyone who opposes him, as Matsu innocently did), the love soon lost out to hate....but now I feel the ember of love they both felt is still inside them both somewhere although I know it will NEVER return, but it will fuel their further encounters which I feel is important for good character development and emotional anchorage.
So, I feel love needs to come more from the characters rather than the over-planning of writers, because you lose how natural it feels if you can't distance yourself from "real" love and "RP" love, so to speak.
If that makes sense...!
Eh.
ANYWAY - I have only had one character really experience love, Krius Syonis. That was a love that blinded him because he THOUGHT he was in love but towards the end he knew he wasn't. He just wanted to be.
The love took place over 3 threads of mine with Matsu Xiangu, partly planned, but party a real trust in eachother's character writing to be natural in their discovery of the Force they both wanted to use as a weapon and their discovery of trusting eachother.
We didn't want to plan every little action, and so I had to trust the writer to really embody Matsu and write only as HER, not a "writer" planning every action. It had to be natural, either a strong or weak love, but it had to be love.
It was a mix of enjoying spending time with other, learning to trust eachother and finding out that the actions and thoughts we had were practically felt by the other and so a friendship swelled into love for eachother and a want to protect, care and guide them on their path whilst being the one to give them affection and passion that made them feel invincible and alive.
But as they turned into enemies and ego took over, and they clashed and became horribly violent towards each other (Krius is a sociopath and will NOT give himself to anyone who opposes him, as Matsu innocently did), the love soon lost out to hate....but now I feel the ember of love they both felt is still inside them both somewhere although I know it will NEVER return, but it will fuel their further encounters which I feel is important for good character development and emotional anchorage.
So, I feel love needs to come more from the characters rather than the over-planning of writers, because you lose how natural it feels if you can't distance yourself from "real" love and "RP" love, so to speak.
If that makes sense...!
Matsu Xiangu
The Haruspex
^ What [member="Kail Ragnar"] said.
I've been RP'ing for a very long time. I'm 22 now, started when I was 10 (and genuinely wish I could find the stuff from when I started back then because I bet it was just magical >__>). I've had many characters fall in love, sometimes spontaneous and sometimes planned. I WILL say the spontaneous ones are the most fun because you learn and discover with your character. That's not to say that in my opinion planned romances aren't as fun - but even if you say "hey, so and so might be a cool thing to try together", I'm a FIRM believer that beyond that point you should just let it go. Let them run where they want to. The characters will bounce off each other and usually take you places you hadn't expected.
But in answer to the original question, for me it's usually obvious something is going on if I as a writer am excited to get to the thread to respond. Characters that are going to work well together (even if it's a twisted relationship, those are fun) will be SO easy to write it's insane. There's the little cues in posts like those that were mentioned - touching, smiling, etc. But I'm recalling the very first real relationship I wrote with someone and I'd never talked to them OOC, our characters did not even know each other by reputation, and I responded to an open thread that had been posted for kicks and the characters just...knew. They wrote it themselves. Their conversation flowed easily and they seemed to just get it. Hard to describe really, but such is the nature of love anyway.
And if you start something because you think maybe it's love, you'll find out if it wasn't. And you can write some really excellent angry posts.
I've been RP'ing for a very long time. I'm 22 now, started when I was 10 (and genuinely wish I could find the stuff from when I started back then because I bet it was just magical >__>). I've had many characters fall in love, sometimes spontaneous and sometimes planned. I WILL say the spontaneous ones are the most fun because you learn and discover with your character. That's not to say that in my opinion planned romances aren't as fun - but even if you say "hey, so and so might be a cool thing to try together", I'm a FIRM believer that beyond that point you should just let it go. Let them run where they want to. The characters will bounce off each other and usually take you places you hadn't expected.
But in answer to the original question, for me it's usually obvious something is going on if I as a writer am excited to get to the thread to respond. Characters that are going to work well together (even if it's a twisted relationship, those are fun) will be SO easy to write it's insane. There's the little cues in posts like those that were mentioned - touching, smiling, etc. But I'm recalling the very first real relationship I wrote with someone and I'd never talked to them OOC, our characters did not even know each other by reputation, and I responded to an open thread that had been posted for kicks and the characters just...knew. They wrote it themselves. Their conversation flowed easily and they seemed to just get it. Hard to describe really, but such is the nature of love anyway.
And if you start something because you think maybe it's love, you'll find out if it wasn't. And you can write some really excellent angry posts.
Not Ordo
Just under the upper hand.
The best relationships usually develope as a set of reactions based on the stimulus recieved during multiple encounters. Then the characters express those feelings acording to the character's personality. One character may be blunt, another may show it via becomeing more attentive, while still others may do a myriad other things. They may even try and fight the feelings they have developed.
There are so many ways to write these things that really require one to know their character and just play them accordingly.
There are so many ways to write these things that really require one to know their character and just play them accordingly.
You suddenly get the desire to buy them boots, [member="Cira"], and do stupid things to be with them.
Jonathon Patches
Information Broker
That was your first mistake... [member="Sarge Potteiger"]Sarge Potteiger said:
S H A D O W
[member="Cira"]
For Spencer - Love is the understanding of someone else and willing to put their needs above your own. Home is love.
For Sam - if she doesn't want to kill you then you're golden
For Ally - don't know yet, she hasn't fallen in love.
Finally for Sopher - love allowed him to feel real and human, not a copy of someone else.
For Spencer - Love is the understanding of someone else and willing to put their needs above your own. Home is love.
For Sam - if she doesn't want to kill you then you're golden
For Ally - don't know yet, she hasn't fallen in love.
Finally for Sopher - love allowed him to feel real and human, not a copy of someone else.