Comments | kseenaa: Roleplay... drama? Troubles? Misunderstandings? Not sure... Have some history to.

kseenaa

Roleplay... drama? Troubles? Misunderstandings? Not sure... Have some history to.

Jul 09, 2013 00:51

Just to get some background here, let's take a walk down memory lane and my roleplay history...

( My roleplaying history... )

xenaverse, pirates of the caribbean, tokio hotel, rpgs, buffy/angelverse, friends

Comments 8

fyredancer July 8 2013, 23:38:41 UTC

RP is tough because it's not like co-writing, not really. It's more interactive, it's more like ... acting, in a way, than writing. I'm guessing this is your current friend/RP partner's first RP? There's a lot of stuff that has to be negotiated when it comes to RP. And one of the biggest issues is when the two parties feel really differently about where the RP ought to go, and how to get there, as well as what to "play" and what to time-shift ( ... )

kseenaa July 9 2013, 23:09:55 UTC

I'd call RP online acting in a way to. :-) I always compare it with LARP and that is definitely acting. And yes, it is her first RP ( ... )

steinsgrrl July 9 2013, 00:44:37 UTC

Short answer: if you're willing to walk away from the story now, I can't see why you couldn't try to write it the way she'd like to try it, and if it doesn't work, you can still walk away from it.

kseenaa July 9 2013, 23:14:45 UTC

I have tried to wrap my head around her solution. I have. I love the storyline and the UST between the characters, the push and pull and the buildup. The sexual tension IS through the roof...

So with all that said? Skipping the sex or do it in a time-skip-reflexive-way? Feels very very weird to me.

In a fanfic doing it that way would have worked perfectly! No question about it! But this is no fanfic. *shrug* I've walked away from tons of RP's, and according to me it is better to start a new RP where we both agree or none at all then playing a RP where one is unhappy.

steinsgrrl July 9 2013, 23:17:17 UTC

I think a big problem is that you're coming in as someone with a lot of RP experience, and she's coming in as a writer. She's not going to see it your way and you're not going to see it hers.

kseenaa July 9 2013, 23:21:22 UTC

That is probably true. We've talked about the difference between RP and fanfic a lot. Sometimes I think she gets it, and sometimes not. I get a feeling she sees it as a sort of fic, since it is written. But it really isn't. :-/ I've tried to use various examples to show the difference, I just don't know what else to do than that?

thilia July 9 2013, 10:15:46 UTC

I do understand the skipping-the-sex part to some extent. Some people are either not very good at writing sex or just don't enjoy it that much (or are embarrassed to do it in RP? also a possibility). Lately, in my RPs with Candi, we sometimes kind of do the sex in a couple of replies, rather than in great detail because it does get repetitive when you've played hundreds of sex scenes before. BUT if a storyline is as focused on sex as the one you've mentioned, then I don't really see a way around playing at least some of them explicitly ( ... )

kseenaa July 9 2013, 23:18:40 UTC

Agreed! You don't have to go all out in detail every time. Couldn't agree more with that. But to skip it totally or to just time-skip-reflect-on-it? Especially since it'll be the first time for the two characters after a TON of sexual tension and build-up and feelings... That... feels very very weird to me.

Now saying you can't turn RP into fic. Clearly you can. (I adore GCBC!) But then both have to be fine with it. And I am very much not.

According to my RP-partner, I am not open to solutions. Since I can't wrap my head around her solution. :-P We've been discussing it a lot, so it is not like I haven't heard her out on the matter. So it all ended up in a standstill more or less. Hence I thought it was a good idea to freeze it.