Experiences Personal Cliches?

DemetrioMachete

Messiah of the New Night
What have you seen in a roleplay so many times now you can't help but roll your eyes?

For me, its...

  • "Innocent" females (they're marketed as being naive and trusting but they end up being sailor-mouthed punks.
  • Including "Shadow" or "Shadows" in the title.
  • Assassins.
  • Humanoid demons
  • Edgelords who angst over decade-old personal problems.
  • Former slaves
How 'bout you?
 
- little girls with massive teddy bears who also happen to be the most dangerous killing machines in the entire room, despite them being 7 year old girls. especially true in post apocalyptic settings, where characters who can't defend themselves end up dying at a young age and the character is more competent than most raiders.

- females who can't go more than 5 feet without flashing their panties at some random NPC and typically do it with perverse intent. i don't mind it being used as a distraction. just please don't flash random NPCs to seduce them on a PG13 site

- Lesbian Stripper Ninjas

- Homicidal Transients

- Walking Arnories
 
What have you seen in a roleplay so many times now you can't help but roll your eyes?

For me, its...

  • "Innocent" females (they're marketed as being naive and trusting but they end up being sailor-mouthed punks.
  • Including "Shadow" or "Shadows" in the title.
  • Assassins.
  • Humanoid demons
  • Edgelords who angst over decade-old personal problems.
  • Former slaves
How 'bout you?
Stoned elf Druids.
 
Uh...not about my personal character cliches, but what I see in my roleplaying history, right?
  • Boy x Girl
  • Man x Woman
  • Teenage man/woman x teenage man/woman
  • Rich man/woman x poor man/woman and the variation of power difference
  • Fans x important person people can be a fan of
Ya, I'm just really really not liking romance, now aren't I.
 
Humanoid demons
*Hides Leonardo Dianto* whut... that was noting...
Huh... what kind of characters do i not like?
Characters that are a combination of Human and an animal, and doesnt know how the animal side is supposed to act, without a reason for it... what dolphin hates swimming, but is able to swim...
 
A thing I've horribly overused in my RP-ing past and now refuse to do: Characters names Lucy who have something to do with water/are pirates.
And totally with the people on the "blah, romance" boat. I don't mind romance in the RPs, but not a plot fully centered around it.
 
things i roll my eyes at
  • trans characters whose entire goddamn personality revolves around not liking their genitals or using their sex as an advantage. i could die in peace if i never saw one of those again.
  • characters never breaking up with their first girlfriend/boyfriend, never arguing, never having an issue.
  • the cyborg with proper emotions who doesnt need to charge. this is a robot were talking about.
  • submissive nekos. you guys even seen a cat before? there is no chance is hell that they would be the bitchy-omg-so-kawaii-blushy-blushy-uke youre trying to make them out to be.
  • anyone who uses the word uke unironically
  • kindly healer girls who are otherwise as useless as a porcupine in a condom factory
  • that one character whose entire character is just one solid edge. name, age, appearance, personality, history, all just one goddamn edge. when does the edge end? when the roleplay dies.
  • ram hybrids... who are girls.
  • the "oh so hot player all the girls want him all the boys want to be him hes great at fighting and kills people and will kill you if you cheat on him even the lesbians want him also his history is one solid edge but only in ways that have no bearing on his personality because the events happened before he was born that he still angsts over because they were all his fault despite how he was a fetus" character i see way too much.
  • kirito being used as a faceclaim
  • people who tell me my stalker characters stalk because they care about someone. no, my stalkers are fucking stalking because theyre obsessed, not because they care. i dont enjoy playing characters that look like they could kill you but are actually cinnamon rolls. no, that character i have that looks like they could kill you? they could actually kill you. give up, theyre not sweet and squishy on the inside.

whoops that last one was a bit personal
 
people who tell me my stalker characters stalk because they care about someone. no, my stalkers are fucking stalking because theyre obsessed, not because they care. i dont enjoy playing characters that look like they could kill you but are actually cinnamon rolls. no, that character i have that looks like they could kill you? they could actually kill you. give up, theyre not sweet and squishy on the inside.
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May I just say that one was awesome as hell and that it would make for the most lovely insult?

thank you~!

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i have literally had people look at my serial killer/stalker character and tell me "aw theyre so innocent they could never hurt anybody! <3 pure baby" because the serial killer i made was short, blond, and knew how to knit. its... really annoying.
 
i have literally had people look at my serial killer/stalker character and tell me "aw theyre so innocent they could never hurt anybody! 3 pure baby" because the serial killer i made was short, blond, and knew how to knit. its... really annoying.
that does seem like an innocent girl. Although, faces are merely masks behind our true selves.
 
I have an ex-thug character. He looks badass and everyone is generally terrified of him... He's a total asshole... But he just absolutely LOVES his kitten XD
The other players don't think he's a cinnamon roll though... cause they know differently. He literally tried to and almost succeeded in killing them. Now he's working with them and he became a little bit nicer.. But he's still a blunt ass.

Also... I'm definitely gonna steal the "insult" there as something for a character of mine to say at some point soon. The nice guy is trying to be "cool" and "badass" (for infiltration purposes). Also... he gets creative with his insults. Another one on the list is: "They're as pretty as the south end of a north traveling ox"
 
that does seem like an innocent girl. Although, faces are merely masks behind our true selves.

actually this specific example was a sadomasochistic man who was so addicted to pain that he hurt himself on a regular basis.

knitting was just sort of a hobby that i put down, and him being 5'3 was.. uhm... actually an inside joke between the creator and me

and, somehow, i got someone going "aw hes just an innocent cinnamon roll who only looks like he could hurt you" and tried to cite the fact that he had one singular friend as a reason he wouldnt kill people. my character wasnt even nice, he was a complete douche. i made him to be unlikable. i was playing a villian. somehow, people dont seem to want to accept that evil characters are supposed to be evil.
 
And that while evil characters are the most fun to play!

I love inside jokes between creators and players though. I once wrote up a character for an RP that centered around a guild of assasssins (yeah, I know. Early days on RPN.. or maybe even anotehr site. I forgot)... Said character was blind. So I wrote "for all he knew he was wearing a bright yellow pants"
Which all players took as a "he is legit wearing bright yellow pants"
I started receiving fan art from another player of a blind dude in yellow pants.... I just left it that way, so then he was the assassin with the yellow pants.
 
And that while evil characters are the most fun to play!

I love inside jokes between creators and players though. I once wrote up a character for an RP that centered around a guild of assasssins (yeah, I know. Early days on RPN.. or maybe even anotehr site. I forgot)... Said character was blind. So I wrote "for all he knew he was wearing a bright yellow pants"
Which all players took as a "he is legit wearing bright yellow pants"
I started receiving fan art from another player of a blind dude in yellow pants.... I just left it that way, so then he was the assassin with the yellow pants.

"How are you suppose to sneak up on people if your pants are sunshine yellow?!"
"What the fuckoh is a yellow"
 
Like that yes. XDD
It was quickly decided he was to never dress himself. So other characters put his clothes out for him XD

Unfortunately I've dubbed the character to be cursed, since literally every RP I submitted him to died shortly after...
 

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