I roleplay on a small little comfy site, not much people know about it. You make “groups” where a lot of characters roleplay. I made a group, about a school for talented students. [Names have been changed.]

The roleplay started off easily enough, then I opened a topic about math class, where a math test was going on.

This girl, we will call her Sheena, had a character named Whitney. Whitney was popular, pretty and an absolute Mary Sue. I only realized it when we started roleplaying.

After posting about the teacher handing out the math test, Sheena posted this exactly; “Whitney smiled, she was a straight A student, always, she was going to ace this test.”

According to her form, her personality is: Sweet, Caring, Lovable, Sarcastic, Sweet, Strong, Cute.

Her biography was this: Ever since she was three, she had been singing. When she was five, she got put into singing lessons, and at seven, all her notes were perfect. Every scale and everything. Now she just picks up songs and tunes, memorizing them as she read them or thought them. Every word. People say her talent is unbelievable, but she didn’t believe them. [She has some grammatical errors; she frequently mixes up her tenses.]

Back to the math test. Her next post, is this: Whitney looked at the test she had infront of her. This is easy shit. She thought to herself, finishing the first page in about five minutes.

Then she begun chatting with my character, we will call him Jake. Jake wasn’t exactly smart, but he was amazing at football - his strengths and weaknesses were balanced.

She begun flirting with him, constantly. All I could do was play along. 

Whitney kept on being her-Mary-Sue-self, unfortunately. She would constantly finish the classwork first, and walk off to the music room to write a song. Her songs were always either Demi Lovato’s or Selena Gomez’s. She would go onto the stage and sing, and she would bring my character, Jake, with her. She would sing on the stage, and when Jake complimented her, she pretended to be insecure.

She was also rich. She had … Gucci or something sunglasses [I’m terrible at brand names!], Hollister clothes and Converse shoes. 

Whitney was;

• Sweet
• Caring 
• Lovable
• Sarcastic
• Sweet [once again]
• Strong
• Cute
• Talented at music
• Straight-A student
• Extremely intelligent
• Rich
• Popular

I wanted to kick her out, but I was too shy to do so. But this is a lesson to all RPer’s; please don’t be a Mary Sue! It annoys everyone, and not much people will be willing to RP with you because of it. Balance out their traits; please?!

Well this story was a doozy, and I have had my share of bad rp experiences but this one by far infuriated me the most. I will refer to myself as Myself, and it is a bit long.

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I have a Haphephobic character. Haphephobia is the fear of touching others and being touched by others. Some cases are extreme, so extreme that even the slightest tap could cause a panic attack. That’s what my character suffers from.

To him, the slightest touch makes him feel as if he’s dying, or that’s the only way he can describe the emotion anyway. But the amount of people that say to him “Can I touch you?” and “Touch isn’t that bad.” or variations of either are half of the people who respond to his openers. 

It gets tiring and annoying and I seriously hope that none of them know anyone with this phobia and say things like that. It’s not something to be taken lightly and unless my character specifically says you can touch him, don’t bother asking. You’re not special.

That recent story about the multishipper got me thinking. While there is nothing inherently wrong with multishipping, even with the same character (which I’ve done myself), I do think there are… less constructive ways to go about it.

Take this one girl. Her character really liked one of the canon guys. No problem; we certainly had a lot of them. And she went after every single one she could find. Blindly. It didn’t matter if they were gay, already involved, psychotic, in a body non-conducive to sex, or simply disinterested; she went after them all and used the same “sweet, innocent girl” approach regardless of their VERY diverse personalities or how many times they rebuffed or in some cases physically attacked her.

When another character politely inquired about it she admitted that “I just love [This Character]. Any [This Character].”

It feels… disrespectful to me. I have friends who play popular canon characters and I know how much time and effort they put into making their interpretations unique and interesting. This girl’s attitude makes it seem like she doesn’t care about personalities or even the quality of the RPer as long as she can add another so-and-so to her collection.

Like I said, I’ve multishipped with the same character before, but while the name was enough to draw my attention it was the personalities and quality of the writing that made me interested enough to pair off with them. I’ve passed over a lot of others with the same name because they either weren’t a good match or because the RPer couldn’t write him effectively. I also added some variety by having her hook up with unrelated characters because why not? There’s a big difference between the mun liking someone and the character liking him/her.

Yeah, let’s just call me Debby. And the person I’m talking about, Agnis. While I have not roleplayed with Agnis personally, I have seen her posts with others throughout the months I joined a certain roleplay community. Her work got so bad to the point where I had to TumblrSavior her url and avoid most contact with those she RPed with, because it appeared she had a horrible affect of causing everyone she talked to to become sex demons.

So, here it is.

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I roleplay in a war-themed setting. The threads that wind up being roleplayed include a heavy mix of NSFW themes: extreme violence, death, sex, drug use and abuse are all commonplace in our writing. My favorite partner (Bravo) and I work hard to research our characters’ ranks, equipment, etc. in order to ensure that we’re as accurate as possible, both in the mechanics of our writing and in how they react to the situations we throw them into.

Into this reasonably well-organized group steps a newcomer. We try to be welcoming, but when people come into this without having done any research we’re naturally a little skeptical of their writing abilities. This most recent person, who we will term ‘Kilo’, was more than just a poorly-researched military OC however.

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