By uber
IceCream got me thinking. The RPG experience is one where you choose to be someone else. If that person is good, bad, or indifferent, it’s a reflection on you, the player.
As I am repeatedly reminded, my Nature: Bureaucrat, Demeanor: Curmudgeon comes through in my characters. I tend to find it hard to be really impulsive, or to do things that are willfully disobedient.
I think that writing creates a similar thing, it’s clear that the author’s internal morality can show through with varying levels of transparency, depending on the nature of the narrative and the author (can anyone doubt that Orson Scott-Card is at least a teensy-weensy bit right-wing nutjob?).
Writing a blog gives you a persona too (like the angry liberal or the Automated GOP Swill machine).
When you write, do you take active measure either to self-censor or to exaggerate? Is it more you to do so?
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31st of January, 2007
I do self-censor because although this blog is meant (in my mind) to be a sort of electronic pub conversation among people who live too far away from each other to have an actual conversation more than once a year (if we’re lucky), it’s on the Interweb for everyone to see. Including people I would never speak casually to. Private communications are censored as appropriate to the audience.
I also do exaggerate for dramatic effect. This should be obvious.
Both of these are very “me” things to do, and reflect a very solid (though perhaps unflattering) part of my character. This particular flaw does come through in my roleplaying as well, though I’m taking measures to curb it. ;)
1st of February, 2007
I never selfcensor, everything you see is a crystal lens into the depths of my soul.
1st of February, 2007
I do self-censor, but not often, largely because the only person who could possibly be offended by my chicken-scratchings is myself.
Exaggeration, however, is something I don’t indulge in at all.
Ever.
Honest guv’.
Making the vernacular bleed through every orifice simultaneously is not exaggeration in my book.
2nd of February, 2007
Um…that depends on the situation really. I self censor to certain extent, probably not as much as I should. I often exaggerate because my first duty is to tell a good yarn, to entertain. I’m not a reporter.
As for character?
Usually I find it the other way around; the character bleeds into me sometimes, which can be very strange when the character is a radically differant person. I remember playing a white supremacist in a larp at Q-Con, not a “Nazi’s I hate those guys.” kind of guy, but one of those smooth sweet talkin’ bastards that sidle up to you. Coming down off him after the game was very weird.
Another weird one, but in a physical rather than an emotional sense, was the California LARP at Vaticon. I played a sexually repressed Japanese Goth artist, who never smiled….ever. Not moving my face for three hours was incredibly weird feeling, trying to smile the first few times afterwards took effort that I’d never really thought about before.
There’s always some or a lot of you in whatever character you’re playing or writing about, mainly because to give them any sort of life you have to find common ground with them. My character Alex for example, was an appalling human being, but we shared an interest in military history and I could work from that to a certain extent.
Some people’s characters are more recogniseably themselves than others.