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251: back in my day wank meant something

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to be clear, is your counter that a player influenced astarion is the default astarion

anon they're submitting converted selunite paladin astarion who is madly in love with shadowheart as an example of a valid and real characterization choice upthread

what do you think

i love this response for so many reasons

including that it reminded me their friend swapped him to paladin early on but shadowheart takes a while to admit she follows shar, which doesn't even touch how long it takes her to convert to selune

loving this the more i think about it negl

is the problem in this fandom that some people have no idea how to distinguish between gameplay and rp and are just using rp the way tumblr and twitter use the word headcanon

based on the thread a couple months back where tav players were insisting it's ooc for npc players to not want to tag them because everybody wants to fuck tav in the game,

yes

who said this? where?

on rpa a while back

the more this bizarre anon keeps digging the more they sound like the exact same brand of out of touch weirdo who doesn't understand dwrp at all

reminds me of neth and her wol with how she insisted on apping to games with mastery of every in game class because you can do so in ffxiv

but it is. people on here argue that a tav is irrelevant because you can play as origin companions without tav, as if the origin companions don't have the same malleability as a tav when they absolutely do.

i have no idea what people argue because i almost never come to wankgate

i can tell you that i see origins as no different than tav when you play as them because you're largely playing with the same options. so yes, they're malleable when you play as them. having said that, you should not be rping the characters this way on dwrp because the choices presented to them are not always ic for them. lae'zel could go to the grove but we know if left to her own devices she will run to her people. the choices you can make are not the choices the character would make, they are gameplay decisions. they aren't blank slates, they are characters with backstories and personalities. if you are assigned a character and given a sheet with all their information and you disregard it, you aren't playing that character but an oc

you're arguing that someone ignoring their sheet info is a valid interpretation but it isn't an interpretation at all. yonout it another way, an actor in a movie or show can ad lib but they still have a script and if what they add doesn't make sense for the character then it won't make it in

unless it's thor, but also we should ignore thor

if that were true, the origin characters would not be reclassable and would not have tav's dialogue choices. "you should not be rping the characters this way on dwrp" is ridiculous. people can play however they want, and *every single option* in the game is canon, even ones you don't think make any sense.

origin characters are reclassable for player benefit and gameplay flexibility. redistribution of their stats is the same because their stats are not well balanced for gameplay

you are arguing everything is strictly rp and willfully ignoring what is clearly designed to be gameplay. by your argument, because you can flipflop and make arbitrary choices it's a valid characterization because it's part of the game. an origin who spares the tieflings can choose to slaughter them, so what would cause that development? or if you side with the myconid colony then decide to attack them after doing everything you want, what would the rationality be?

if you want to rp any arbitrary decision and call it "role playing" on dw, go ahead. good luck to you

this is a bonkers stupid take on characterization, like "you only rp on dear_mun" level stupid

oh, ok. you're trolling

there's no way you're this dumb

sadly they probably are

unfortunately i have better things to do than keep arguing with them. hope to see them or their friend rp paladin astarion

don't be a coward. back up your beliefs, anon

selunite paladin astarion who never says anything mean about anyone is clearly what bakerstreet needs

idk if i'd say he's the new loki but it's close

are you the tav that got really mad on rpa about this exact topic

in hindsight this would explain why they acted as if rp preferences like "not wanting to play with tavs" were an alien concept never before heard of in dwrp

i wasn't even there but if they are this whole argument is even dumber

"you can play anything you want it's all ic" "except not ship with tav"

maybe this hypocrisy is a way of coping with their rejection

no, not at all. i am saying there is no default astarion.

astarion makes it clear multiple times he wants to ascend and plans to. that is part of his character and part of his story by default

there is no scenario where this is not true even if you play him as developing later because of tav

it's possible as origin astarion...

it's also possible as origin astarion to do every single thing regular astarion disapproves of, and if someone plays him like that, they're the exact type of shitty astarion that started this thread

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