What is Love?

[Ellie Mors]

A loaded question for some, a chemical reaction in the brain for others. In your time as a writer how have you written love? It doesn't need to be the good kind - love through loathing, betrayal, all of it goes, family ties too.

Do you feel a thing when you snuff out those sparks, flames, and so on, or is jt just the stroke of the pen?

 

[Alric Kuhn]

https://youtu.be/HEXWRTEbj1I

 

[Ellie Mors]

Obviously I ask because I am a droid and seek this information for.. educational purposes.

 

[Sanya Val Lerium]

[member="B.I.A.N.C.A MK VII"] personally I write how I feel I would act in said situation. How string is the connection between the lovers. Head over heals or just a simple fling/crush. My experience writing with camellia we already have that bond off board so I find it easy. I image myself been with her and what I'd do and what would I say. As you have told me (and I took the advice) the 5 common senses are good to flesh out what you are wanting to post and say. Describe in your own eyes of how you see that person. Describe the touch etc.

As for what is love
Love

Noun
1. A strong feeling of affection.
Verb
1. Feel deep affection or sexual love for (someone)

 

[Connor Harrison]

[member="Alric Kuhn"] Aww man, beat me to it!

Well I've written one real story of love; unrequited.

If your stomach goes and your palms get clammy as you write the journey, however it goes, then I believe it's a true calling of a good relationship with the writer. Anyone can write a story about love but if it's forced, or desperate, it doesn't work IMO.

Don't look for it, and just let it happen, but it's not always perfect, which if feel is more emotive and engaging as a writer to think how your character would act and feel. You invest in them, you want them to be real, so you deal with everything as best you think they can.

I find it a strong factor to help develop a character however love is perceived, but it must be as real as you can make it for your character and not just a "fad" to try. Love is powerful, so don't toy with it unless you feel it's reciprocated and able to be developed without causing anyone to be offended, or feel pressure with your character. It IS fiction after all.

Probably not answered your question, but that's how I feel with this single experience for now.

 

[Antoir Setrrin]

I've yet to write a relationship that I was satisfied with. Ven's loves have been rushed and sloppy, sometimes motivated more by OOC wants than by IC reasons. Ire had an interesting thing with Elani for awhile, but I wrote it like they were in real, actual love, instead of the puppy love stuff that Ire would have actually been experiencing.

I've written her recovery from her 'love gone wrong' better than I wrote her actual 'love story'.

As for what love is, well... Obviously I haven't found the right recipe for it IC yet. And I'm way to young OOC to be thinking about RL love (at least the romantic, significant other kind). I'll find what it means to me eventually. Maybe with Nyx and her jumbled mess of emotions and that NPC who she thought she had feelings for but was mostly confused. I never did wrap up that subplot... oops. Or maybe with one of my bazillion other characters.

Now that I think about it, Azrael the sentient lizard-man will definitely be the character I 'discover love' with. Totally. It is confirmed.

 

[Fabula Caromed]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hab3R_TRazg[/youtube]

 

[Corey's OOC]

Real life experience: That person you're not sure if you want to sleep with,or drown.

Roleplay experience: Distraction from the actual story of a character, a subplot to add flavor, a character weakness.

 

[Aithne Charr]

Love i sa painful, very much so, experience.

The reason i say this is simple. Love makes you do the dumbest things sometimes, through rose tinted glasses so to speak. What is it though, or how does it show?

Love is that wanting to do whatever you can to make them feel better and help them, even if that do not want it. Its wanting to protect them even if they can do it themselves and it makes you want to be around and think about them every day. It lets you dream of futures with them, hold them close at night and know you are never alone. Love is based on them and not their looks, knowing for certain that this is the best friend you will ever have beside you and loving every moment of it.

Love is hard to give a true definition. But it can be something extremely painful. When your love is sick you become sad and worried for them, even if its just a cold. When your love is crying you want to just hold them and never let go. When your love is worried you want to reassure and be there for them. When they are hurt you want to do anything to be there for them and most of all when someone is hurting them, you want to protect them and make that person hurt twice as much.

Some think of it differently, but thats how i see it and in my Roleplay thats how i write it. Love is one of the single most intricate and greatest emotions given to a person. And while i am still a bit annoyed by the stereotypical 'power of love' cop out ending. It is still something that cannot be simply overlooked because if you truly love someone you will never hesitate to say or show it. Again, its simply just one impression, one experience with those rose tinted glasses among millions. But i hope that this answers your question.

 

[Seraphina Shel'tah]

[member="Alric Kuhn"] - I see your Haddaway and raise you a Tina Turner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCBttS_y7lE

 

[Jak Sandrow]

Spoiler

Love for Jak has been something that I've had minimal practice in writing. Started out terribly, with Circe, and sort of climbed out of the mudpit from there. Definitely failed a few times, but, with time, I've gotten a bit better at writing it. My biggest flaw is not giving enough character growth to Jak; a problem I never see anyone else do. So it's an interesting challenge, to make him fall realistically in love.

Love for me? Non-existent. Heck, I'm a Star Wars nerd living in my parent's basement during college. What do you expect.

 

[Jsc]

I like writing companion love. That long cherished if slow burning style of affection. It grants a welcome opportunity for a sense of humor without being obnoxiously sarcastic. It also allows a character to disregard reason and do things the plot requires. Such as self-sacrifice, panic, or rage. Even from the most sensible of characters. Tis a lot of fun.

I dislike writing passionate love. It's almost always nonsensical, long winded, distracting, shallow, avatar driven, and sexually repetitive. Not to mention sorta creeps me out sometimes with all the xenos-fetishes and anime playbys we have floating around. Ugh. Bleh. Awgh. Gross.

As for feelings? Yeah. I do often feel a human connection with the love material I write. But it is more a feeling of satisfaction and pride that comes from expressing the emotions accurately through text media. Like an actor who is happy with his stage performance. I'm just glad my vocabulary could pull it off. However. I do sometimes find it unhealthy to actually connect with my love material in any other way. I mean. This game does very little to ever actually return the affection. It's just fiction. So I always try to keep in mind that I'm writing with other people internationally. A sort-of partnership and a literary relationship where I often have no idea who the other person really is IRL. So... As the bros would say back home: "Dude. Don't make it weird." I try to stay plot centered. Not groping my feelz.

*shrugs*

 

[Darth Carnifex]

Kaine is incapable of feeling love.

So he just indulges instead.

 

[Enoch Zambrano]

Love is beautiful.

*tear rolls down cheek*

 

[Garith Darkhold]

Love…

Now only if this question came up in a month or two and not now? No really, good question what love is? Is love just limited to just romantic feelings for another? There is conditional and unconditional. It could be love for a family member or something you really like to do. I would be typing here all day if I tried to explain ever character I’ve written that felt some type of love.

So I will just explain it from Garith’s perspective or the angle of his story.

When I first made Garith I wanted a character that had depth that could tell a great story between the darkness and light. How easy it could be for someone to fall.

Over the years he has lied about his original origins. What was he running from?

The truth is he is afraid of love. For some reason something happened that Garith developed a fear of it. It is why over the years he has been a womanizing drunk pig. It is the reason why he was always so lustful for war. If you’re a drunk pig no woman would want you. His true lust for war is he fears love so much…in his twisted mind it all must be destroyed.

In the beginning I had never thought or planned what happened to Garith to make him fear and hate love so much. Until here recently. I aim to tell that story. If it shatters him more or he finds redemption? I will not plan that. There are some things you should just leave upon in a roleplay. The conclusion will be one of those things I will leave to chance.

 

[Connor Harrison]

[member="Alric Kuhn"] [member="Seraphina Shel'tah"] Please. I call you both with Take That.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxEVPe7XMcs

 

[Kenrath]

[member="B.I.A.N.C.A MK VII"]

Vengeance is the first character I have ever written love for. To be honest it was never meant to actually go down that road. As a writer I saw a chance to toss in some harmless flirting into a character's personality to give him more depth outside of a typical Power and bloodshed archetype of character. As it turned out it took a life of it's own.

Everything I wrote was off the cuff and I never put much thought into it. It does however make for a fun read to go back and see some of it and go where in the heck did I come up with that line.

 

[Kana Truden]

[member="Connor Harrison"] [member="Seraphina Shel'tah"] [member="Alric Kuhn"]

I'm going for second place!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM​

 

[Rusty]

[member="B.I.A.N.C.A MK VII"]

I'll let you know when someone gives me a satisfactory answer. Organics go on and on about it endlessly, but as near as I can tell, it's an excuse to copulate and then get angry at each other so they can copulate again in a more vigorous fashion before finally deciding to go copulate with someone else once they get bored.

 

[Liam Quez]

Love is infuriating, but its never jealous, or evil. It is there and reminds us every day that we are human.