HOW'S MY DRIVING? + CONTACT

[socntonrers]

HOW'S MY DRIVING?
aka Insert Praise/Crit/Flames Here

Comments are screened*, anon is enabled, and IP tracking is not. So please, don't be shy! My muse list is here, feel free to crit any of my current or previous characters as you see fit.

* but I am not incredibly secretive about my HMD and it's a pain to rescreen everything if I want to reply (

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plz dont hurt me

[anonymous]

Oh jeez. I feel really weird replying to this thing, and it really isn't my place at all, but I just feel the need to say something. I'll delete it if you want.

Hello, I am a random anon who has never roleplayed in my life, and isn't particularly into it, nor do I know much about it. I'm kind of leery on the whole "fandom" thing in general, to be honest. Occasionally I get tired of trying to find good fanfics/fanart in the piles of crap out there and spy on dear_mun to see if anyone is playing my favorite characters in an entertaining way. This is how I stumbled upon your Jack, and he was interesting enough for me to stalk your archives and read some of his threads.

I'd just like to say, as a random anon, that I find your way of playing Jack plenty entertaining and interesting. I'm someone who gets pissed off by ooc and shippy portrayals of characters very very easily, and although your Jack is quite different from canon at this point, nothing about him really offends me, even without having followed his development for months. I've seen some really really bad portrayals of my favorite characters out there, believe me. More often than not it seems like most roleplay accounts exist just to act out sex and shipping, and the fact that you aren't gives you major points, from my perspective.

If Jack was able to "befriend" (in his own way) Karkat, I don't see an issue with him beginning to eventually ally himself with the 4 kids, especially in the situation he's stuck in. Heck, he even "comforts" Karkat in his own asshole-ish way in canon. As far as I can tell your Jack has stabbed a number of his current "friends" at some point before coming around to them, and that seems like being IC to me.

I'm not really sure how one would even be able to play Jack if he just stuck to attempting to kill everyone ever. Some concessions are needed just to keep whatever planet he's on intact. What pisses me off about LJ roleplay is how... antagonistic everyone seems to be to each other. I can't believe people get so self righteous over character portrayal that they take it to personal, anonymous attacks. The fact that something like Roleplay Secrets even exists makes me want to flip a table.

Really, I was just thrilled to see anyone actually attempting to roleplay Jack, since he is a hard character and has very little solid characterization in canon, especially since becoming Bec Noir. You are the only person I've seen to even attempt him, and I say that takes a lot of guts, with how vicious a lot of RP'ers are.

Again, I know nothing about roleplay, and I don't know the dynamics that go with it. I'm certainly not saying YOU'RE PERFECT DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE ELSE, especially if someone from your cast ever brings something up, but I just really don't want to see the only Jack player out there to possibly get discouraged. If you and your castmates seem to be having fun, I think that's the most important thing.

I'm going to shut up now because I feel like a huge weirdo stalker. Please don't be creeped out.

Re: plz dont hurt me

[socntonrers]

And I'm going to start off here by saying I'm not creeped out at all, and you really don't have to feel weird about stalking RP! If anything, I'm incredibly flattered whenever I find out people are following me, especially if I'm good enough to hold the interest of people who don't even RP. And besides, I'm pretty guilty of stalking other games and players myself, so you're definitely not alone in the whole stalking thing fff.

I'm not going to let anonymous commenters or negative secrets about my characterization discourage me, if anything this makes me want to try harder to be a better player for everyone. I'm having fun, the people I'm playing with are having fun, and at least some of the stalkers out there are having fun, so it would be kind of silly of me to give up because a minority of people dislike my portrayal.

I have no idea how you found out about this so quickly, but however you did it I'm glad you replied. You pretty much just made my day, anon. I think what I really needed was someone outside my circle of friends and castmates telling me I don't entirely suck. I wish there was a better way I could pay you back for this, but I guess I'll just have to settle on a thank you and try my best to be an even better Jack, for everyone ♥