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Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

I have not tried to RP her anywhere but my wol is an actually bad person. someday I would love to play her against canon npcs who can't stand her but have to be nice or she won't kill gods for them

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

The wol really has no canon personality at all to stick to, huh

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

da, kinda. from the vague interferences you can make from the occasional answer option you can choose from and some job/general questlines, the wol comes off as "willing to be the hero to their own detriment." why they're willing to do so, and what their general demeanor is (other than the game making jokes about you being a silent protag), is entirely up in the air.

the wol specifically doesn't act or do too much in cutscenes for 90% of the game either outside of generic reactions (being alert when an enemy appears! looking sad when a sad thing happens!), likely to allow for the player to project their own intended personality onto the protagonist.

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

you're trying really hard to convince people that you're not like the other wols, huh? seems kinda pushy tbh

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

tbh i have no idea why these wol players keep chiming in to beg for y'all's approval, you guys sound like a complete drag to be in a fandom with

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

if you think people should suck it up qand be smut dispensers for bad fandom ocs over and over again while not having fun themselves because they owe it to their castmates, you might enjoy playing the warrior of light

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

i wasn't asking but ok.

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

Alisaie will just punch her tbh, if she can tell Zenos off to his face she's not gonna hold back.

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

delightful

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

cr with your wol sounds like hell

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

all cr is bad

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

cr where your character is expected to put up with an all powerful asshole is especially bad

+1

[(Anonymous)]

"I want to rp my asshole wol and be a huge bitch to everyone so the NPCs have to pat her butt anyway"

Then cry and scream when I opt out of tagging you with my npc ok got it

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

why, yall love this type of character when it's a dude considering how popular they are in dwrp

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

speak for yourself, i love for this type of cr

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

this feels like those old "anti-mary sue" OCs from the early 2000s where people would make characters that were awful and edgy and not like all the OTHER girls because she was TOUGH and MEAN but all the popular characters hang out with her anyway

i can only hope this is bait and that you aren't serious in thinking that people would actually want to rp with a character like this

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

nah she's gonna peg thancred

da

[(Anonymous)]

joke's on you no one tags in the pegging meme

Re: ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

good luck finding a het thancred who doesn't just want to fuck urianger's boyhole

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

+1 there are multiple games with customizable protagonists that will let you be morally gray and even outright evil, and npcs will react accordingly. but instead, anon wants to play an evil character from the linear game where all the npcs regularly tell you how great you are, and have the same relationship with you no matter what. if it's not bait then it's a huge red flag.

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

you seem to misunderstand the issue with wol rpers. it's not that they want npcs to be their character's friend or lover. it's not that they're goodie two shoes, or girls who are sweet but feisty, or carboy uses, as much as wg dunks on them. it's that wol players get so caught up on what they think is fun to play that they don't stop to think about whether it's fun for their rp character, and your wol is the perfect example of that attitude.

sure, it would be a lot of fun to write someone who isn't an all loving jrpg hero. but would your castmates enjoy it? because unless she only recently revealed what a terrible person she is npc players are going to wonder why the hell they got in so deep with her (and i mean a genuinely bad person who does bad things and harms innocent people, not some surly asshole who's mean but still does the right thing). alisaie players are going to wonder why she never punched her out until this thread. other scion players are going to wonder why she was even hired when there are other people with the echo. estinien and ysayle players are going to wonder why they didn't push her off a cliff while alphinaud wasn't looking and try to handle the plot themselves. people who play characters who were active in stormblood will wonder how this monster was able to unite people to rise up against the empire, while others will wonder why they just don't replace her with fordola. etc etc. sure, you can say your wol is still necessary because she's the best of the best, but that just leads to cr where npc players can do nothing but wring their hands and gnash their teeth over and over and over again. how is that fun to play out?

tl;dr you've created a character that requires your cr to be willing to twist canon and sit around doing nothing for it to work. if you really want to play a wol who's a bad person, find some way to give other players something to work with. make her a sleazebag who keeps her worst tendencies hidden away from friends and allies. make someone who's nice to most of the cast, but has no problem killing kobolds and baby dragons because she doesn't think they're real people. have someone who's self-righteous or hypocritical or a little too bloodthirsty, and one step away from having that twisted into a corruption arc. just give your castmates something to do.

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

catboy ukes* lol autocorrect

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

this is worded so well, thank you nona

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

this is a lot of words about a wol who is not being rped

Re: CHARACTERS YOU HATE BECAUSE OF DWRP

[(Anonymous)]

nonny, i don't think they care. they came into a thread of people venting about how tired they are of wol bullshit to talk unprompted about their wol, repeatedly. they probably wouldn't care if their castmates are going to struggle to accommodate the enmity they're forcing the npcs to have for their wol, just because they want to play that out.