@Lunar: It's a mystery. >>


@Alice: I do memes for my OCs too. :D It's fun.

Some of my characters behave or are a certain way, so I don't mind saying it as it is. If my character is a jerk, he's a jerk, though it doesn't mean he's a jerk to everyone. However, some of them do behave differently depending on the people or the situation. *nods*


@Lunar: What do you mean, don't know how to describe their personality exactly?

@Lunar: Ah, I see. Well, I guess in a sense I understand that, but when I have to fill out a character profile, I generally know what's going to go in there; like I said, there's some consistency to who they are, so I know what to pull from that. Of course, character profiles aren't the end all, be all of who they are, but it gives me enough to work with when I write (even if the character later develop differently than planned and some things no longer apply).

There are some aspects of them that while I'm sure I can figure out if I sit down and think about it, I let be until it naturally comes to me.

I think I understand my characters pretty well and can describe them alright; much easier than I can describe myself. XD Character profiles tend to go more smoothly with them (in a sense) than my personal profiles.

Does that sorta make sense to you?

I think active descriptions is the better way to write, if you're writing out your character in a story. It's the sorta thing that takes a bit more skill to pull off. For example, an RPer could say that their character is cool, but just because they say it doesn't mean that their character is one if the RPer doesn't have enough skill to write him/her in such a way.

I think that's the problem with Sues --people want to them to be something that they aren't, because the RPers themselves still don't have what it takes to write their characters in a way that is in line with who they are, and what comes of that creation is, well, it's a fake. It's like wanting a Coach bag and not having the money to pay for it, so instead of working hard and saving their money for it, they just go to Chinatown and buy a knock-off. People who /know/ Coach bags can tell it's a fake, and there's no real value behind it at all.

That's probably why my perspective of Mary-Sues and power-players tend to be different from other people's, generally. I personally don't mind if my RP partner has a character who is super-special-awesome-amazing, as long as my partner is /capable/ of writing a character who is super-special-awesome-amazing. Role-playing isn't a contest to see who has the better character for me; nor is it a world of equality. Each character doesn't come with an even number of points to put into different skill slots. Though there is a general standard of normalcy, so to speak, some people are just born with very little skills and some are multi-talented.

In fantasy RPs, I can also be incredibly fickle, because there's age to consider. For example, if your character is a teenage vampire who has been alive for 100 years, then that means he has had the experience of 100 years, and has been through 100 years' worth of emotional and psychological growth, and has met 100 years' worth of people, and have gone through 100 years' worth of history and even fads and changes. This means he probably won't behave like a normal teen or think like a normal teen at all. Though there are certain aspects of the personality and certain habits that may stick, this vampire OC in the modern times is not the same vampire OC he was when he was just turned.

Many people don't seem to understand this concept, so I tend to avoid RPs with beings like this altogether. I do love creating them though, and have respect for people who can pull it off. I have one being, a faun, who's currently a WIP, and I'm trying to create some sort of time-line to put together his years. XD;