[RP] Wheel of Morality

[mushpot]

When RPing a character - any character at all, canon-based or original - are the moral standings of that character important to you as a player? Do you feel conflicted if their standards are different (which is a really dumb and easily-answered question but I'm asking it anyway)? Is it easy to continue playing these characters, good/bad/neutrality

Comments

[alba_aulbath]

This is usually only very hard for me if I play a serial killer who kills innocents, or a stupid nice person who doesn't know how to say no. B(

[elycien_xiii]

It's almost constantly on my mind with Thundercracker, since... that's a huge part of his character. Most if not all of the major conflicts in his character stem from his wrestling over moral issues, his own personal principles vs Decepticon values. He's a noble character, but he Does Bad Things. And he doesn't always feel remorse over it, either. It's a really hard balance to strike with him.

I don't really feel conflicted about the darker parts of his character, or his Decepticon-ness. But I have to sometimes make a conscious effort not to make him nicer than he is. On-the-fence characters like him are hard to RP, I think, because while heroic characters will always rush in and save the day and do what needs doing, and outright villainous characters will always rush in and screw up the day and make everyone miserable (however they prefer to do that)... he's not really inclined to do either

[faetan]

I've found that I can play any morality, for the most part. There hasn't been a character who caught my interest who I wanted to play, but couldn't because they were too awful or too good or too BORING.

However. The only character I wanted to try but couldn't is Hit Girl. I could never type out the F word or many of her other vulgarities, especially as many times as she would probably use it. XD

[parasaurolophus]

Hey, you too? I don't swear, either verbally or in text, so I do shy away from characters who have 'is foul-mouthed' as a personality trait.

I think the closest I've gotten was playing Anise Tatlin and she really only uses one word that I have managed to be okay with in quoting.

But, to the question at hand... I haven't really had a huge problem! I've played characters from goody-two-shoes to eviler-than-a-Disney-villain (hey, some of them were pretty darn evil!) and everything in between.

[tree_of_silence]

I've never run into a problem with it. It's a character, not me. In a lot of ways, I treat it like acting: just because I'm playing a role doesn't mean I am that role. There's a very clear distinction