Andy Samberg
Andy Samberg
What was the first Roleplay you remember participating in, and what was it about?
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If Im to admit, it was a roleplay when I was around the age of 12-13 somewhere there, where I loved the Warrior cats books. So I ended up finding out about roleplaying online in the computer lab at school.
I think my first RP was Warriors as well, around that same time, maybe a touch earlier. I was on Neopets at the time actually playing the game (people do that?!) and probably lied about my age (yay, more scandal. (x ) to be able to write messages and stuff. They had a roleplay forum there and I hopped in. My character was awful, it was that angel "messenger cat" thing I made up. And then for a little while I was in a Warrior clan on Toontown, but if you've ever been unfortunate enough to deal with that, you understand what a mess it was.
Pretty much all of my writing was Warriors at that point, it took a while before I ever managed to come up with something original. I think I was in a few dragon or hatching stories after that, which helped a lot.
Mercifully, I don't remember many details from my earlier days (though I once found one that I wrote with my cousins about female pirates and me trying too hard to be mysterious/deep). I know that they were awful, but I enjoyed them at the time. I think that works well because it lets people learn what they enjoy without having to be too concerned about making something "good" yet. Once they learn to enjoy it and have fun, the "good" will come in time.
Iduno, I always thought my initial rp (though still cringy) was still pretty decent. The character development was there. (from what i remember), and though the writing was cringy, it wasn't AS cringy as it couldve been.
And that first rper, ended up being becoming a very close friend of mine. XD
So I look back on my first rping fondly. Probably not really the norm.
That's really great, actually! I think most people look back at their old writing and die a little inside. (x
I don't remember for sure how good or bad it was, but glancing through the ones that were still around later, I don't have much hope. Sure the "old-timers of the golden days" may claim it used to be better, but I kind of doubt it. They just grew up and saw it more objectively, but didn't realize that they were ruining it for people who did enjoy it. Thankfully, that doesn't seem to be so common here, and there's lots more to choose from.
I think the worst storytelling was on TT, though. Goodness, what a mess... Get a bunch of twelve year olds together trolling, causing drama, freaking out about who was cheating with who, starting "wars" (in which they all get together and figure out creative ways to bypass the filters and kill each other in brutally overpowered ways), making new characters to spy or pretend to be someone else, and you can imagine the results... The drama was there, to be sure, but zilch character or plot development. I think it was like those free-for-all's someone mentioned.
Hehe, yeah it was/is. X3
And oh yeah, I definitely remember a lot of 12-14 year old tween drama in many of the earlier warrior rps I was in. It seemed warriors in particular just drew in a lot of that childish/immature writing style / characters / roleplayers.
I do remember all that being really insufferable, and hard to deal with. I must have ran around 20-30 different Warrior rp sites because of that.
I think that's exactly it. I think people who get started with Warriors are, in general, pretty young. Then you have the books, which are decent enough for the group, but not the best for rounded-out, multifaceted characters or complex plots. Basically, you have the evil cats and the good cats, and the evil cats want to be leaders. (You also have an entire Clan that's considered evil, so no room for edgy there). Then there's the superpowers and heavenly prophecies. Anyway, my point is, they're good books for their purpose, but they're written for early-tweens, and people beginning with them may often tend to emulate the less-than-stellar storytelling for a while. There's plenty of potential, it just takes a bit to get to it. Once they've started, though, they are usually able to branch out and become better.
I have to say, though, I'd be really interested in seeing an original, detailed Warriors rp with a group of people who wrote Warriors in their childhood and grown through that introduction.
Haha, yeah. Basically, right there.
That could be interesting I havent rped Warriors in SO long, though. XD and i never finished the series, I think I got half-way through this latest one? (unless theres even another latest series.. iduno xD)
The one with Dovepaw as the main char.
That could be an interesting rp though for sure!