To echo the two above, I saw your check (since Puella Magi is one of the few fandoms that interests me at all) and the thing that nixed it for me immediately was the pre made OC and plot elements. Half the point of RP for me is developing a story with someone, and if I'm getting signals off the...
To be honest, isn't far off a read of my own public personality. There are circumstances in which this can happen (in my case, I'm a very protective/hot headed person, but I also deal with some anxiety that can cause me to be extremely quiet in group settings unless I get incredibly worked up)...
I wonder if these two facts are kind of connected. Easier to start up rp, and rp that's probably less plot dependent, seems altogether like it would be more conducive to a casual writing style.
I'm basically curious what are things people have noticed differ between fandom and non-fandom RP, and non-OC vs OC rp.
Things like, are the personalities of the people who generally write one or the other different?
Are there themes that are more common in one or the other?
Do you tend to...
100%. This goes on a lot in MMORPG rp. There's always a few people per community that talk about how horrible everyone they've ever rped with is like, and much like 'all my exes were crazy', it should usually scare you a little.
One I remember in particular, was a woman who swore up and down...