Weirdest Roleplay Moment?

Maz

Maz

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I'm sure we've all had strange things happen in our roleplays-- players who decide they don't want to conform to real-world physics and their character can suddenly fly, character sheets with some really strange, nonsensical details, and IC posts that make you go ".... WHAT."

This is a thread to share said moments for everyone else's entertainment. No names or specifics, please!
 
I react with loud "WHAT" to almost every Mary Sue character. They are just perfect and untouchable, which makes me want to walk around my room because of uneasiness.
As a fantasy lover, I do not like character with magic powers clearly beyond anybodys reach. I am not innocent here, I had characters like that but on very early stages of my roleplay. For now I could say that I purposely make my character magically weak, modest and very frugal.
 
Quiet_Wanderer said:
I react with loud "WHAT" to almost every Mary Sue character. They are just perfect and untouchable, which makes me want to walk around my room because of uneasiness.
As a fantasy lover, I do not like character with magic powers clearly beyond anybodys reach. I am not innocent here, I had characters like that but on very early stages of my roleplay. For now I could say that I purposely make my character magically weak, modest and very frugal.
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Although I hate the term "Mary-Sue", as it seems to focus solely on female characters, I feel your pain! I've had to deal with many a character like this. They aren't weird in themselves, but seeing an OP, flawless and initially strong character suddenly fall to pieces in front of their love interest is very strange and really puts me and my character off for a second.

I am also guilty of making my characters very modest! My characters have been accused of being "Plain Janes". It's something I'm working on, haha.
 
Maz said:
Although I hate the term "Mary-Sue", as it seems to focus solely on female characters, I feel your pain! I've had to deal with many a character like this. They aren't weird in themselves, but seeing an OP, flawless and initially strong character suddenly fall to pieces in front of their love interest is very strange and really puts me and my character off for a second.

I am also guilty of making my characters very modest! My characters have been accused of being "Plain Janes". It's something I'm working on, haha.
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Ah, it surely seems to focus on female characters but in my opinion Mary Sue relates to both genders. ^^
Too modest and weak characters can be bad too, but honestly I like the feeling of helplessness my character has, she is almost designed to live this way. I still have some way to balance that out though.
 
I think the weirdest moment for me was when this really young roleplayer I was with had her character waaaaaaaaayyyyy too involved in one of my main characters (if you catch my drift) a few years ago. I have nothing against seducing tactics of characters but the boy I was using was only thirteen at the time and I was just thinking the entire time, "Please stop my son is so pure at this age don't ruin him"
 
I had some pervert try to set up their twelve year old boy character with my nine year old girl in a role play based around an orphanage.
 
Everything was going fine in a perfectly normal, characters in a forest RP.

Then, the fire nation attacked
the wolf butts appeared.
 
When you realise that one of your fellow RPers in a RP is a Mary-Sue/Gary-Sue, and you try avoiding their character as best as humanly possible. True story.
 
I had one roleplay where two of our characters were hiding in a ship. Unfortunately a huge monter confused the ship for a potential partner, and then... well...

I'll leave the messy details out.
 
Don't know if this counts, but I had to decline a guy's character like seven times.
It was a magic city with two tiers, mortals and "superiors" with magical equipment and powers etc.
I tried to stress that it wasn't about having strong powers, it was more about the personality, and he came in with an honest-to god, Copy-and-pasted CS taken from a Wikipedia character page out of some obscure god anime.

I said no, so he took out a power... Then replaced it with something stronger, I said no, explaining "one or two minor powers, or maybe on big power"

Comes back, has the ability to control time and fires city-destroying fireballs.

Etc,etc. This went on to a while until I just.. Gave up, told him to leave because he wasn't listening to me at all.
 
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There is that one moment where you realize the most competent member of the party is the cringy weeb who picked the generic samurai
 
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Sure have had my share of weird moments in rp.
My first rp experiences were on a list that sounded very promising, all sorts of characters and personalities from various times and places, though it wasn't limited to fictional characters, people could rp personalities from history too - including famous Bible people. I never really liked that, and places like Quotev have taken this a step further to include fan fiction about real people living today, so they can rp/write out their Directioner/Bieber fantasies for anyone to see. I prefer sticking to rp-ing fictional characters, with the real people being inserted occasionally being limited to the players themselves, for comedy effect, or for slightly deeper reasons like proving that I can kill off a notoriously bad creepy pasta character and nothing bad will happen to me. Because I'm still here.
But that's a slight tangent.
The first weird experience I remember was being quite involved in a plot with a vampire slayer, who had been cool, until it was revealed that he was Lazarus, as in the one raised from death - and since that had happened, he'd encountered a vampire that bit him and made him immortal and he never wanted to live in the first place. So the take-away was basically implying that what Jesus did, sucked. And this was a famous Bible character, not a make-believe "once upon a time" sort.
I don't know how I jammed out of that plot, think I just told the writer I wasn't cool with that, and my character wouldn't be either, so just bowed out. He took it just fine. There were plenty of others willing to do that kind of fiction over there.
On another rp, I learned that both main characters were Mary sues. One had linked her life via some kind of psychic bond to the main canon character, and was a girl friend to another lesser known famous fictional character that had been turned into a human for that purpose. Double Mary Sue.
The other character had a thing for the guy who was young enough to be her son, because he had bullied her adopted son (main canon character) in school. And when I mean she had a thing for him, I mean, she fell in love with him at some point when those boys had grown up. Ugh! The author's justifying of this twisted repulsive idea was that her character was super good at reading people's character, so this had to be the fault she had, to make her and her power not perfect.
Eww.
That definitely wasn't what I thought I was signing up for.
This isn't exactly rp, but closely related.
I wanted to rp with this person, who seemed really classy, on the surface. And she was being horribly harassed by cyber bullies. I was just learning what Mary Sues were. I gave it to her bullies with both barrels. Any in-character stuff I wrote about Lady One to make her laugh, and tick her flamers off to no end, got a really curious reaction from her. She always praised my writing, but added "You don't show even a hint of jealousy about Lady Une." My reaction was always "Why the heck would I be jealous of her?" I knew her bullies were jealous because she replaced Lady Une with her own Mary Sue whenever she wrote about that stupid Treize Khushr-aw, scrap that freakishly long ree-darn-diculous name of his. I always thought she was way too stuck on him, and saw nothing in him. But I had believed the jealousy had come from only the bullies, who were childish enough to fight over a cartoon character they crushed on.
Eventually, I learned that she was jealous of Lady une, and put so much into how characters looked. She couldn't rp with me because I was all about plot and character interaction. She was all about snogging Treize K, and out-shining every other female around. so she couldn't rp with my characters because they couldn't care less about Treize, or how Mary Sue's hair looked, or how she had a luminous dark-eyed stare that was so hot it could melt chocolate 20 steps away. No kidding, she actually wrote that. And when I happened on one of her erotic stories, it made me gag.
Yeah, when characters, writers, and plot schemes turn out to be nothing like you thought they were, it gets off-putting, fast.
Oh BTW, the male version of a Mary Sue is a Gary or Marty Stu.
 
When you realize an rp character realized that everything he sees is ridiculous, and so became ridiculous himself. Doesn't make sense huh, that's what makes it wierd.
 
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