Me, I just refuse to have my character be that emotional support unless I see the other players also do it. Since a few do, I happily have my characters support them and ignore the others.
Gets me some buttfurious PMs and 'crit', but whoopdedoo, not my fault. I'm not playing a therapist, but a canon jerk, he's not gonna soften up for random dudes and cockhop girls he doesn't care about and has no reason to respect. He saves that for people that actually seem competent and don't break down over breaking down one of their nails, ffs.
That's kind of where I am. I try to play only characters who are at least some kind of hard-ass and not inclined to be endlessly soppy when people give them no reason to give a fuck about their personal problems.
But are decent enough human beings that if someone IS a friend they care/can care. Yeah, yeah, it's some degree of OOC manipulation of my character, but it saves me nasty, annoying, soul-sucking "CR" which gets me NOTHING in return but a broken, exhausted, used up character and pisses me off.
And likewise, I get some buttmad reactions but I honestly don't care. If you can't treat my character are more than a prop for your character's drama, I don't want to play with you OR care about your opinion.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-08 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)Gets me some buttfurious PMs and 'crit', but whoopdedoo, not my fault. I'm not playing a therapist, but a canon jerk, he's not gonna soften up for random dudes and cockhop girls he doesn't care about and has no reason to respect. He saves that for people that actually seem competent and don't break down over breaking down one of their nails, ffs.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-08 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)But are decent enough human beings that if someone IS a friend they care/can care. Yeah, yeah, it's some degree of OOC manipulation of my character, but it saves me nasty, annoying, soul-sucking "CR" which gets me NOTHING in return but a broken, exhausted, used up character and pisses me off.
And likewise, I get some buttmad reactions but I honestly don't care. If you can't treat my character are more than a prop for your character's drama, I don't want to play with you OR care about your opinion.
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