Characters based on characters

[Ozuse]

-depends on what you mean exactly. I hate it when people use a movie/game/book character and RP it 'as' that character. For example, someone around here was roleplaying the crew of the serenity/firefly here, without changing anything - that, i cant stand.

I use the 'image' of movie/game characters to portray my own, but they always have different names, personalities, and origins. In essence... I dont like people who are so lacking in originality that they feel they must copy another character trait for trait.


-ever actually RP'd with em?


-Doesnt matter, it's still imported RP and very uncreative.

I love firefly/serenity, hell my own smuggler character was originally -based- on the serenity crew (hence the name, tenacity, in it's similarity), but I didnt copy character names, personality traits, or backstory.

I just find it incredibly lazy when someone uses import RP like that.


-You have misinterpreted the point. All of you. The characters where not "copied" out of laziness nor lack of creative capability. It was not even about the writer. This was about the actor. The desire, the challenge, the lust, the essence of being, of taking on a role. When someone creates their own character by copying another your right that's just lazy and you can't talk to what they've made of a character you know, but when someone wants to act, to play a part. Its best to let their passions be, let them soar and enjoy the show :laugh:Granted it helps if you have a story to transision your "copied" characters into the freelancer-4.85 storyline. However when and how you portray that story is up to the writer/actor who has become the director of their own little side show.

I actually like to hear feedback about my performances of the characters I portray as well as what people think of my writing for the characters i do create.

My opinion on the whole subject is that people who copy names are only asking for lame encounters with people who want to interact with them based on what they know they have in common. Its best that people who have names like that simply act like they think your being weird since in character you technicly are... Though i suspect my point has already been previously illustrated.
Though i myself have taken a "copied character" i am opposed to people just picking one on a whim. You have to KNOW the characters your choosing when you don't choose your own or you'll ruin the character. Granted you can take them down different roads but you can only change a character by what they encounter and the decisions they make. However most of their decisions are preordained based on what the charter is already prone to do. "Copied Characters" are only impressive if they're transitioned with an acceptable occurrence and are played accurately. Those who do it properly give other players the opportunity to interact with a character they know in a new world as the character the player has made.

These experiences can be the works of acting artists or can flop like a bad pancake if the actor is unprepared. You have to study your character as much as you possibly can which is impossible to do if your character is only from a movie. Maybe if it was from a movie series but all you have to go off of are the experiences of that characters life portrayed in the movie. If you start filling in the blanks of the characters past you'll upset what made that character because you don't really know. When you change the wrong thing the character falls apart and people disagree with your acting and thus your RP.

Its a tricky thing to do but i believe those who try deserve for us to give them a chance... Then bash them when we KNOW they suck. IF your a fan (in some way) of the character they've failed. Though performances may very... so outright attacking an actor's portrayal of a character may not be Just without multiple encounters... (just to be fair)

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