So somewhat relevant but I think this is legit why I don't get soulbonding. My first experience was reading over some journal entries of someone I just added back when I still used LU for legit blogging. She was a nice person. Lots of problems but still pretty nice. Decent writer. Had no OOC problems with her, either. Can't remember her name for the life of me; it was years ago. She was really into dancing at the time.
Lo and behold: suddenly I see in a fairly recent entry that she "asked Lightening to share this dance with me, and she said she'd love to" about a public proformance. Which honestly just floored me, because I was getting some pretty good CR, at least in my opinion. Canon blind at the time. She later talked about how tags have been difficult because Lightening wouldn't talk to her or something. I didn't know why at the time, but it seriously just skeeved me the hell out. It wasn't until much later someone told me what soulbonding was.
Ever since then I really haven't been able to understand it at all. Most of the ones people have mentioned and I've actually played with as being soulbonders were obviously bitches to the nth degree, so it's hard for me to compare that to my first experience and somehow comprehend it. Like it skeeves me out so much so that I almost can't make myself even believe the notion that they're soulbonders.
TL;DR— It skeeves me out and I guess when I compare it to my first experience it feels doubly out of this world. I don't believe anyone is actually a soulbonder, though.
soulbonding as we tend to use it in dwrp has a bit of a broader definition than the classical soulbonding, which is what you're talking about, someone getting so obsessed with their character they start 'talking' to them irl and making decisions as if their character was an actual real person or whatever. here we tend to use 'soulbonder' as more of a catch-all term for people who are just so bound up in their characters that for them the ic/ooc line basically doesn't exist -- say, that master. by the classical definition they're not technically a soulbonder since they seem to realize, at least on an intellectual level, that the master is not a real person they talk to. but they basically are playing themselves in the skin of that master, treat all crit of that master as attacks on them personally and their interpretation of him has maybe 0.0000000000001% to do with anything canon, making them a soulbonder in the dwrp sense of the term.
becca is that dwrp kind of soulbonder. afaik she doesn't think any of her preshus babbus are real, but she plays them so much as basically herself, especially her ocs, that at some points in the becca saga anons would catch snippets from her plurk rants that were basically identical to the rants her character ashe was making in genessia. and judging by how her response to any crit ever was to delete it and ban the person making the crit, it's safe to say she has a that-master-styled approach to crit too, where it's all an attack on her. so she's not exactly delusional as a legit soulbonder would be, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see she's not exactly playing with a full deck either
Okay this makes a lot more sense to me. I was taking it all at face value rather than thinking it in terms of DWRP lingo. Now I'm just facepalming because that seems like an obvious thing I should have know.
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(Anonymous) 2015-03-30 06:00 am (UTC)(link)Lo and behold: suddenly I see in a fairly recent entry that she "asked Lightening to share this dance with me, and she said she'd love to" about a public proformance. Which honestly just floored me, because I was getting some pretty good CR, at least in my opinion. Canon blind at the time. She later talked about how tags have been difficult because Lightening wouldn't talk to her or something. I didn't know why at the time, but it seriously just skeeved me the hell out. It wasn't until much later someone told me what soulbonding was.
Ever since then I really haven't been able to understand it at all. Most of the ones people have mentioned and I've actually played with as being soulbonders were obviously bitches to the nth degree, so it's hard for me to compare that to my first experience and somehow comprehend it. Like it skeeves me out so much so that I almost can't make myself even believe the notion that they're soulbonders.
TL;DR— It skeeves me out and I guess when I compare it to my first experience it feels doubly out of this world. I don't believe anyone is actually a soulbonder, though.
ayrt
(Anonymous) 2015-03-30 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)becca is that dwrp kind of soulbonder. afaik she doesn't think any of her preshus babbus are real, but she plays them so much as basically herself, especially her ocs, that at some points in the becca saga anons would catch snippets from her plurk rants that were basically identical to the rants her character ashe was making in genessia. and judging by how her response to any crit ever was to delete it and ban the person making the crit, it's safe to say she has a that-master-styled approach to crit too, where it's all an attack on her. so she's not exactly delusional as a legit soulbonder would be, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see she's not exactly playing with a full deck either
Re: ayrt
don't be so sure about that:
http://memebells.livejournal.com/278270.html?thread=278873854#t278873854
Re: ayrt
(Anonymous) 2015-03-31 04:36 am (UTC)(link)