(2 done, soooo….)
5. Have you ever RP’d with someone simply because of their character’s faceclaim, even if you did not like their character’s personality?
(Well, considering I’m open entirely to rping with any character, I’ve never really had any issues with a character’s personality before… Considering my own two muses are at opposite ends of the personality spectrum, nothing really fazes me there. Very few faceclaims that didn’t match the character, either, because most are canon characters from somewhere. And then there’s the fact that those with more troubling personalities that I’ve seen either I don’t know the canon character, or they weren’t using FCs. So basically, no, faceclaims don’t really influence who I’ll RP with. I’d still largely be dealing with the character as a whole, not how they look.)
12. What’s your biggest pet peeve when it comes to the fandom you RP in?
(Really… Hmm… *is honestly trying to think of how best to encompass everything* Blinders? I’ll admit to being guilty of it myself at times, but it seems like people like to focus and throw love on characters and then throw hate at others without ever really thinking about everything about both ones they like and don’t? It’s a general fandom thing really, but I see it a lot in DC especially. Maybe because there’s so many characters, people just don’t look too far into them.
(Sorry, rambly and got out of hand, so I’m hiding the rest.)
For example, I get irritated (and with complete and utter bias, I might add) when people hate on Kid when he shows up in Detective Conan. I understand if people aren’t happy because it adds nothing to the plot, but really, how many normal cases do? Sorry if you didn’t get a murder for one case. But more because people hate without knowing the characters, like if they only know Kid though DC and hate on him. No. You may hate, but at least know more about the guy than just ‘the thief who comes in, causes trouble and brings a crowd, then leaves’. Same goes for if you think a character is perfect and ignore flaws. Like a character, hate a character, that’s fine, but this fandom in particular seems to have people that will bite and insult peoples opinions on who they like and dislike. Some don’t, but the ones who do aren’t pleasant and don’t bring much argument to back them up. Kid, Haibara, Shinichi, Akai, Sera, all the popular characters are fun, yes, but far from perfect. I don’t know, they just tend to get idolised so much.
It applies to ideas too, like Kid’s ‘no one gets hurt policy’. (Kaito rper, Kaito argument, yes.) If you take off those blinders for a minute, look around, that doesn’t exist. I know I’ve probably said too much about it, but lets face it, Kid is one of the worser ones it hits. Kaito has hurt people, Shinichi’s moral code isn’t the best, Akai as awesome as he is has made mistakes, Ran is more than a little insecure about some things as strong as she is, Hakuba isn’t just a prick who shows up to make people angry (he’s a prick who shows up to make people angry by proving them wro– I mean *cough*).
I’ll give it to rpers and many fic writers who don’t look at a character shallowly, but many only look at one, maybe two of their favourites in any kind of depth, and ignore qualities of others. Like I said, a general thing, but it does bug me.
Or for a minor thing, people thinking Kaito is a Detective Conan only character, though that’s changing with the new anime somewhat, I still get the feeling people are like: Oh, that guy from DC is getting his own show? No, Magic Kaito is getting it’s own show, he’s not just in DC and just-
I get it. It’s ignorance. But really, I read DC first, I liked Kid, I looked up Kid, and found he had a manga with very little effort. And I became a fan of that manga. It wasn’t hard to know he isn’t a DC character only. So it bugs me. Possibly irrationally, bu it does.)
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