Role-playing a foreign activity to me.

[ILikeYaoi]

These questions are for you role players:

1) Why do you Role play?

2)How does role playing make you feel?

3) Do you generally try to build/play characters which are total the polarisation of the real you, if yes then why?

[Fable]

1) I'm a writer outside this forum and I have a few books in the making. Roleplaying helps me practice, and it can also be kinda fun. Alright, so it's mostly for the fun part. XD

2) Depends! If it's especially sexual it'll arouse me (duh), if it's cute it'll make me feel snuggly. If it's especially well written I'll probably feel a bond with the person I'm roleplaying with, and of course it cheers me up in general! I'm usually quite miserable.

3)Uhm. A lot of people here seem to only be able to play characters that they relate to, which I see as a major flaw. The best Roleplayers on this site in my opinion, are the ones that can play as a variety of intriguing yet quite different characters.

As for me, I'm not sure. Perhaps I try not to put too many of my own traits into my characters, but I could never be certain it was working. But I guess it makes it easier to play as someone you relate to?
So yes and no?

[powergirlcool]

1. I role play because it's fun. I enjoy making characters and developing their lives, personality, past, and so on in the world they live in.

2. Happy. Been role playing since I was 13 so it's an enjoyable past time for me. If I can get an rp that doesn't die before the good stuff of the story happens....

3. Sometimes, sometimes not. It depends on the base personality I gave them and how they develop in the story.

[Pram]

Roleplaying is escapism, out my boring life, my repressed self-expression, my choking closet. Call it wish fullfillment.