My roomie is a triplet. That is all my mother can remember about her. She can't even remember her name (mixes her up with my sister's roomie from last year) but she remembers she's a triplet and it's the first thing she tells people whenever the subject of my life at college comes up and someone asks about my roomate. I never noticed this until my sister pointed it out but good grief, her sisters don't even GO here geez.
Not only that, but twins from what I've seen have a tendency to grow apart as they get older - especially (and this might in fact be a direct reaction) if they were treated like carbon copies most of their childhood, dressed in identical clothes, etc. (Apparently that is a really annoying thing to grow up with. Go figure.) At the very least, they're bound to have some different interests, different abilities, different perspectives on events, and different opinions, because that is how people are.
Also agreeing with the OP that describing two people only in relation to each other is utter fail. "Okay, this one's smarter than the other one and the other one's dumber than this one. So... how smart are they relative to other people? Anybody? No?"
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.
While I agree that twins are definitely very different people, I think this may be a bit YMMV. I don't see anything wrong with applying for a set of twins with the same application, as long as it's made very clear that they are in fact two separate people. The same goes for using a single account for them. Sometimes you have both twins in the same scene. I used to play the Autobot twins Sunstreaker and Sideswipe on a Transformers board, where this happened quite frequently. It would have been a little silly for me to be hopping from one account to the other to tag myself when they were having a conversation with another member of the team and bantering with each other at the same time.
It really depends on the place. If you can do one application for a husband/wife pair, or for older and younger siblings, then one app for twins is fine. But if you have to do separate apps for each character, that means each character - if there's a char limit, twins count as two chars against the limit, et cetera.
That said, I play on IRC, so I'm used to posting all my chars under the same nick, related or otherwise.
Agreed. From what the OP is saying, however, it sounds more like a pet peeve. If it were actually against the rules of the RP, the mods wouldn't be accepting these applications.
I play a set of identical twins who, in 7 years playing 'em, have only interacted once. xD They live very different lives, aaand...one of 'em is winding up framed for stuff his brother did in a different country. >_> That wasn't even planned; it was just a consequence. xD
Then I play one half of a fraternal twin pair. :B Another player plays the other.
No doubt! I've personally never seen the appeal of that, either. >_< I mean, I often play characters that are connected to each other in some way (like siblings or colleagues--especially colleagues, but in one of the games I play on, that can't really be helped xD) but I try hard to keep from playing them together. Sometimes it can't be avoided, though, for plot purposes. (And it usually happens because someone else's character is somehow connected to a couple of mine...the character relationship tree gets pretty complicated. xD)
But I RP to play with other people, not with myself! D8 I don't really get folks who purposely posterbate. For me the fun of RP comes from interacting with characters that aren't mine. .__.
I was lumped together with my twin brother most of my childhood, because apparently twins = always a single unit. It made us both feel terrible at school especially, but thank god it ended right around the time pre-teenage started to creep up. I have known identical twins who were always together and occasionally spoke at the same time, but it was in kindergarten so I'm not sure how they are now.
I'm playing fraternal twins at a forum, and I set up separate apps for them even though it wasn't specifically asked. The genders were the first reasons to start working on separate profiles. And if it's a rule in your RP that one character, one account, then yeah, slipping to fail. Über-twinunits creep me out ("Come play with us, Danny."), but I think I'm not the only one. >_>
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Whether it is multiples or just regular brothers and sisters, they are not the same people. They are individuals.
Well said! *applause*
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Also agreeing with the OP that describing two people only in relation to each other is utter fail. "Okay, this one's smarter than the other one and the other one's dumber than this one. So... how smart are they relative to other people? Anybody? No?"
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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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That said, I play on IRC, so I'm used to posting all my chars under the same nick, related or otherwise.
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I play a set of identical twins who, in 7 years playing 'em, have only interacted once. xD They live very different lives, aaand...one of 'em is winding up framed for stuff his brother did in a different country. >_> That wasn't even planned; it was just a consequence. xD
Then I play one half of a fraternal twin pair. :B Another player plays the other.
So it is possible!
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But I RP to play with other people, not with myself! D8 I don't really get folks who purposely posterbate. For me the fun of RP comes from interacting with characters that aren't mine. .__.
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I was lumped together with my twin brother most of my childhood, because apparently twins = always a single unit. It made us both feel terrible at school especially, but thank god it ended right around the time pre-teenage started to creep up. I have known identical twins who were always together and occasionally spoke at the same time, but it was in kindergarten so I'm not sure how they are now.
I'm playing fraternal twins at a forum, and I set up separate apps for them even though it wasn't specifically asked. The genders were the first reasons to start working on separate profiles. And if it's a rule in your RP that one character, one account, then yeah, slipping to fail. Über-twinunits creep me out ("Come play with us, Danny."), but I think I'm not the only one. >_>
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