Guh, I ran into that once on a game I ranted about a while back. My friend even nicknamed them the 'Codependent Twins'. They didn't go anywhere without each other, wore the exact same thing, spoke in unison... Nnnnngh. Oh god, and there were another set of twins in the game who were just barely better and they, predictably, ran into each other. I tried to have one of my characters interact with them all, but the second set (who were both boys) completely ignored her and they all refused to play with anyone who wasn't a twin.
It was kind of creepy, actually. Make that really creepy.
Fraternal twin, eh? Pretty sure those don't exist in RP. Seriously, I've only ever known one person besides myself who had twins that weren't identical. Even the boy/girl twins I've seen in RP are written as being identical...biology/research fail.
If it's some kind of horror game where the idea is that these are supposed to be creepy supernatural twins like in The Shining I can understand, but if these are just a pair of normal folks who happen to be twins, yeah, come on now.
And is it just me or does it seem that if they aren't OMG FREAKY IDENTICAL then they're SUPER DUPER OPPOSITES?
The "refusing the play with anyone who isn't a twin" thing is new to me though 0.o It does seem like it could be done interestingly if the it was a conscious choice on the part of the characters (versus the player just beign weird/snobby) because of some kind of crazy issue on their part (and there was enough other twins for them to actually have interaction with) but something tells me that wasn't the case.
I've written them in fanfiction, but I've never played them. Then again, never played an identical twin either. One looked like this father, the other more like his uncle (mother's brother, so just inherited the same traits from the grandparents as said uncle did).
I've rarely run into fraternal twins in fiction in general. And the few I do read about are treated with that same treatment a lot of identical twins get, of being almost one person. Considering that that's not necessarily true even with identical twins, it always bugs me and comes off a really creepy.
I have a set of fraternal twin characters (haven't played them anywhere yet, but they're there, in my head). I try to be very clear in the fact that they are very much separate people. Sure, they have similarities, and do have a psychic link (at one point, they were a team of psychic superheroes), but they have different jobs and aren't always together. Actually, they aren't even very close, due to a big fight they had when one of them decided to quit being a superhero and the other felt betrayed over it.
Speaking as someone whose characters have twins every generation (two so far, starting on three), I try really, really hard to avoid that exactly alike/completely opposite trope. It's overdone and takes absolutely no imagination.
I play a pair of twins who look like very close brothers. They don't even have the same eye color. They DO the identical thing every so often, but that's because they think it's funny.
Apart from that they're very much their own person.
I have a couple, but I've stopped using the ones that are older. In fact, I have a lot of OCs I need to get back to using... OTL
That whole thing about opposites annoys me too. I kind of subverted with a set of my characters- they're actually two from a set of triplets, and while they do act alike, they are always on the opposite side of whatever issue is being discussed, even if it disagrees with what they said just three minutes ago. They just like arguing, so they do it for fun. They also all look alike, but everyone in their family looks alike. Long story.
Like Higenishi said below me, they were also apparently trying for a boring as all shit romance plot with them, so that probably didn't help. Because clearly twins can't fall in love with anyone else but another twin!
I had a character once who was a fraternal twin (his brother wasn't involved in the RP). I had someone try to convince me that it was impossible to have same-gender fraternal twins. The hell.
I have both identical twins (who don't get along too well and actually did their best NOT to look like each other) and fraternal twins (of opposite gender, with fairly different personnalities and a sick, twisted love for each other). I would never dream of apping any of these as an inseparable pair of clones.
My friend even nicknamed them the 'Codependent Twins'.
They didn't go anywhere without each other, wore the exact same thing, spoke in unison... Nnnnngh.
Oh god, and there were another set of twins in the game who were just barely better and they, predictably, ran into each other. I tried to have one of my characters interact with them all, but the second set (who were both boys) completely ignored her and they all refused to play with anyone who wasn't a twin.
It was kind of creepy, actually. Make that really creepy.
As a fraternal twin, word.
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If it's some kind of horror game where the idea is that these are supposed to be creepy supernatural twins like in The Shining I can understand, but if these are just a pair of normal folks who happen to be twins, yeah, come on now.
And is it just me or does it seem that if they aren't OMG FREAKY IDENTICAL then they're SUPER DUPER OPPOSITES?
The "refusing the play with anyone who isn't a twin" thing is new to me though 0.o It does seem like it could be done interestingly if the it was a conscious choice on the part of the characters (versus the player just beign weird/snobby) because of some kind of crazy issue on their part (and there was enough other twins for them to actually have interaction with) but something tells me that wasn't the case.
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Or used to.
...That RP died. ; ;
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I have a set of fraternal twin characters (haven't played them anywhere yet, but they're there, in my head). I try to be very clear in the fact that they are very much separate people. Sure, they have similarities, and do have a psychic link (at one point, they were a team of psychic superheroes), but they have different jobs and aren't always together. Actually, they aren't even very close, due to a big fight they had when one of them decided to quit being a superhero and the other felt betrayed over it.
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Apart from that they're very much their own person.
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That whole thing about opposites annoys me too. I kind of subverted with a set of my characters- they're actually two from a set of triplets, and while they do act alike, they are always on the opposite side of whatever issue is being discussed, even if it disagrees with what they said just three minutes ago. They just like arguing, so they do it for fun.
They also all look alike, but everyone in their family looks alike. Long story.
Like Higenishi said below me, they were also apparently trying for a boring as all shit romance plot with them, so that probably didn't help. Because clearly twins can't fall in love with anyone else but another twin!
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If Athena is aggressive, Sherman can be aggressive too!
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