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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wankgate2015-03-23 07:32 pm
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(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
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