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So one interesting conundrum I run into a lot comes up while I'm writing stories. Briefly put, if I make up characters, they can't all be asexual. That would be unrealistic. So I end up in an awkward situation every now and then. If I'm writing a story, every once in a while, some romance may begin to crop up. Trying to write through that can get to be a little tricky and awkward, and that all goes without saying.

I suck at it. rofl I try, but it just comes off as being silly. Still, I can't deny the fact that a little romance here and there is going to crop up for my characters. I've only had one asexual character in my stories, and the irony in that is that he has just as much trouble with it as real asexual people do. Especially if I bring him into a role play. xP I found that development to be interesting...!


So phase two turns things up a notch. I am asexual. My characters, realistically, are not.

So when I start to get into role playing, that tends to make matters even more difficult. Just about every person I've role played with has done so with romantic interests in mind. While I can dabble in that for the sake of developing the story, eventually the inevitable comes up and I find myself in another awkward situation--this time on a whole new level... .__.; I just freak at the thought of the role play gradually falling into a pseudo-cybering situation. >____O; That's what my brain immediately starts to think, anyway. So then I shove some situation in there that causes the romance to quickly die.

Only problem is that it frustrates the hell out of the person I was role playing with. rofl I can't tell you how many times a "romantic" situation has started to finally develop, only to be completely destroyed by some off the wall thing that I've just thought of. xP


It's slightly disappointing when a role play doesn't seem to be consistent of anything but that... especially when you know that the other person is really great at writing...! But to encourage any other idea besides the eventual tango seems to just put people off. xP Again, I don't mind the romance because it tends to make a story more complicated and can pull out more personality in my characters. So I don't want to be rid of it all together, but then.... ninja One cannot win in a situation like that.


Soooo, thoughts? Experiences? With writing characters that are not asexual? xO Role playing?

I haven't roleplayed since... forever. Atleast three years.
But when I did, I could never really maintain a strong story for the same reasons as you: I diverted it SO FAST. My characters were either young, engaged to some sailor away at sea, shouldering some responsibility that made relationships impossible-- yknow. And thats just for girls. Toss in a few male characters who had a family name to uphold? geez if there was some excuse i'd make it.

when i started roleplaying [NEOPETS HEY WHATS UP] make outs were never an ISSUE. so when it became one later on, on gaia, i kind of lost interest in the whole scene. i could've faked some interest, but... ah. honestly, im a bit judgmental, and i was always creeped by the person who was so intent upon gettin' kissy with my fictional dude. like, my train of thought was always 'what kind of person ARE you?'

that aside, i figured none of these strangers had the right to make me or my fictional person uncomfortable. C: so i dropped roleplays like ugly babies.

its not that my characters were ever asexual- i just couldn't imagine anyone-- sexual, real or otherwise-- falling into the throws of love so quickly.

I read a couple of dirty or gushy fanfics(since they're short) and that has gotten me used to the awkwardness. I don't cyber or anything but I can make my way to the time skip.

Other than that, nothing is wrong with playing hard to get. I never liked the immediate romances. Conflict. I either make my character give the girl he likes the cold shoulder or I make him easily distracted by other chicks. Either way he ends up talking to a bunch of different people in the rp instead of just pairing with one for the WHOLE thing. It has caused chicks to fight over my dudes adding drama and humor.

I haven't roleplayed forever, but the one relationship my character managed to stumble into was completely PG. XD

As far as other writing is concerned, I have 2 or 3 characters who I can imagine as sexual. There is 1 definite ace, one probable ace, and the rest of them are somewhere in between. By that I mean they're definitely not ace, but I don't imagine them as sexual either.

I find that I can write and roleplaying sexually suggestive things quite easily if I wish, although writing out the sex itself is quite a task, and I find it rather unpleasant and difficult to weave around with the wording and whatnot. Everyone I've played with seems to expect detail, and so soon into the game, and it kills it for me. I like long, drawn-out, gradually-developing, sometimes conflicting and emotional relationships, and when it reaches the sex it feels as if there's nothing left. And I simply don't like to be graphic with anything except emotions, if that counts.

I miss roleplaying, but I don't miss how I never encountered anyone who could just take it slow and be content with no sexytime.

ninja

I have returned to this thread! Baha!

I was just curious if anyone has or does roleplay within the Harry Potter universe?