The funny thing is, back when I made Chieun, my intention was to make something to heavily contrast Ashiraya. Ashiraya, being a DK, wasn’t really too bothered by the horrors of the world. Chieun, accordingly, is very much affected by traumatising events, stress, worry and other mortal concerns - the way a person realistically would be.
Of course, this being Azeroth, she’s predictably not had a great time. There’s some real messed up stuff going on in every corner of the world.
All my characters are emotionally vulnerable in some form or another. I couldn’t imagine RPing otherwise. It’d be incredibly dull.
Like my Thunderlord orc is tough as nails on the outside and talks the talk a lot. But she’s absolutely insecure on the inside. She’s a really sore loser.
I think my characters suffer from being emotionally invulnerable in most tough situations, IE they won’t blink at someone’s head exploding because that’s just how grr tough warrior does things. It’s kinda hard to justify some characters - Paladins, high level Warriors or Hunters - being uncomfortable with such things, and more specific kinds of fears and anxieties don’t happen that often in the kind of RP you end up doing with warrior/soldier types…
What do you think is a good way to add some vulnerability to Big Strong Warrior’s personality?
Why not?
Chieun’s a proper warrior. She has her own style but can dance with the rest of them. That doesn’t mean she can’t have somewhat realistic reactions to crazy stuff happening.
Uncaring characters aren’t that cool tbh. Understandable if you’re a DK, sure, but I’ll take a grounded personality any day.
To you your character’s enemies might just be disposable NPCs, existing to be mowed down by the dozen. But that doesn’t mean your character has the same point of view.
(Not sure I should be taking this argument, all things considered…)
Mainly because I take quests “semi-IC”, assuming that a high level warrior might have experienced things like you’d see in quests, if not those events specifically.
And in the case of my warrior specifically, she does run around with a gigantic battle-axe doing leaping death strikes onto people… I imagine she gets messy as a rule.
Anyway, the point was that the setting sort of justifies a character like that being at least somewhat numb to most conventional battle trauma. It’s a heroic fantasy setting, it comes with the territory, so I’m trying to think what could be a different way to show vulnerability that still fits with this archetype.
Lol scrub get on my level, Broadblade doesn’t flinch to any kind of gore.
But he has an extreme phobia for bees.
I had to leave an IC wedding once mid-way through screaming because I saw bees in-game. All IC of course.
I agree with you to an extent, but I don’t really think that’s what I meant when I originally brought up the problem of emotional vulnerability. I meant it more “socially”, the people who dish out insults left and right, and do not have any emotional response when you respond in the same manner. It gets very tiring, especially when you notice people like that tend to be extremely insecure and easily offended in the real world. I had a longer thing written out, but edited it down, cause I’m way too meandering in most of my posts…
Even though I hardly RP Moroleth anymore, he’s actually the closest thing to a “psychopath” I have. His whole thing is basically the mysterious merchant type, he sends people on dangerous missions in exchange for his weapons. And while he doesn’t intentionally send anyone over their head, and would even help them out if necessarily, if they DID die working for him… well, eh.
But that said, he has his weaknesses. If you insult him, he will get offended. He will even get irrationally angry at times. He will most likely keep his cool, unless you know exactly what buttons to push, but you would likely see him struggle.
As for hardened warriors etc… Well, maybe at some point you won’t care if you see an enemy’s head explode. But your friend’s head? That’s going to mess anyone up. And maybe in the heat of battle, you will keep your cool. But afterwards, when you’re at the campfire with your comrades, or find a lone moment, you will be flooded with memories of battle. Or maybe you really will feel nothing. But you will realise that, maybe, just maybe, that numbness, that disconnect from all the horrors of war, is not necessarily a good thing, and maybe it will seep into other areas of your life, causing you to doubt yourself. Especially for paladins, who have to maintain their faith in the light to remain effective. There’s a lot of options, and a lot of things to explore potentially really.
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My five in no particular order.
The only one I feel a bit guilty for listing, but it’s the truth.
They have the drive for RP, but they are either so new or indifferent about the lore, that they have not grasp of even the more basic events and contexts of the setting. I have no problem helping out in those situations, but it doesn’t do the immediate RP any favors.
Here being the ones that believe RP is a competition. Their characters rarely ever lose a fight, contest or campaign. If and when they do, you can be certain they aren’t going to be happy OOC. Expect the cold shoulder treatment at best, and spiteful comments at worst.
Or gal. There are stories from close enough acquintances on both sides of that fence, but loverboy is more catchy.
I don’t mind RP relationships. They can add an angle on the stories that is somewhat unique, at least with the right characters involved. What I do mind is the creeping overlap between RP and OOC. Not much to say here; keep it IC or prowl about somewhere else. Preferably in a forested area just outside of Stormwind.
And no, I am for once not referring to the worgen variety. The Pack is my term for coordinated and angry OOC players who, for whatever reason of theirs, choose to attack someone else directly or otherwise. Usually there’s some disagreement on RP, server policy, politics or sexuality involved.
Whether or not they’d be in the right is quite besides the point here; I just don’t want to associate with that type of people. What if I one day fail to fulfill some expectation of theirs and get flak for it?
Hard pass.
They’re great when they’re there. They know their stuff, their character feels real and there’s a great IC connection that makes the hours just fly by. It’s everything RP is supposed to be.
When they’re there.
Because sometimes (perhaps even quite often) they simply disappear without any word of warning. Guild events, campaigns or even casual RP appointments go by without them ever resurfacing, despite having said otherwise. They have vanished.
I think they were busy making a child.
But tbh I’m not even sure how Rhonin got promoted to big boss of the Kirin Tor. He was a bit of a black sheep and suddenly -BAM!- they make a new position for him.
yeah that’s me : )
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Desartin here is basically a walking embodiment of this. He used to be an Argent Crusader and though that, managed to gain some friends on the Horde. Yet it also painted his image of the Horde, in that he did not alway see their more ugly side. Same with the Alliance.
But the attack on Teldrassil was the straw that broke the camel’s back so to speak. His people were attacked by the Horde a -second- time ( he’s Gilnean), and he felt Sylvanas to just be a female Arthas, so he decided to rejoin the Alliance, and realises there’s no way back after this. He still does not like the Alliance and Horde fighting, but after having witnessed his first AvH war and fighting against ( and alongside) he atleast understands that sometimes it’s inevitable. He even understands and somewhat sympathizes with those who want to continue the war. That I think is a good example of ‘disliking war but fighting anyways’ done right.
Yo Maraad was pretty messed up due to what he saw and he was a p. stoic dude. Legit gave his life so no one would witness the things he saw happen. Seems like he was very much affected by it and to me at least, he personifies the Holy Warrior/ Strongguy archetype.
Yeah, but that’s kind of his formative experience. He never faltered once actually back in Draenor, which is what I would count as a vulnerability/weakness. Instead he had a moment of weakness long ago and that experience makes him stronger in the present.
I agree wholly with everything you’ve said, but you have to consider there’s some suspension of disbelief when it comes to military tactics like was discussed when I made that post - I wasn’t referring to blades of grass being made of titanium and taking your foot off. In the real world if the night elves used the same tactics for 10000 years for sure they’d get their asses kicked, but this is a fantasy world and if we’re told their tactics work their tactics work.
But clearly their tactics did not work as the War of the Thorns showed for us.
Didn’t work against Grom and the Warsong either, as they got their bums handed to ‘em’.
Or against the Horde invasion during Cataclysm
Night Elves since War of the Ancients:
Lost the War of Shifting Sands (until dragons bailed them out)
Lost againts Grom’s Warsong (until Cenarius bailed them out)
Lost the War against the Legion (until the Alliance+Horde bailed them out)
Lost Ashenvale to Garrosh (until Varian bailed them out)
Lost the War of Thorns