/erp/ - Erotic Roleplay

I think most people like it simply for the disconnect between the person typing and the character they're playing.

Personally, whenever I see first person roleplay I can't help but think of the horrible 90s chatroom "I put on my wizard hat" roleplays of yore.

>>61864

thats what I assumed tbh

Pretty much this. Everyone knows that one person who can’t separate their character from themselves, who uses first person and gets far too clingy. There is a stigma, but at the same time it’s a shame, since first person can be just as good as the other options as long as everyone is mature about it.

I personally like second person.

>>61864

>Personally, whenever I see first person roleplay I can't help but think of the horrible 90s chatroom "I put on my wizard hat" roleplays of yore.

pretty much

I think of it as I'm playing this character, so my partner wants to read Miranda gives you an inviting wink as she draws your already stiff manhood from your pants, softly brushing her silky hands along its length instead of I did X.

>>61869

Second-person is my preferred option, too. I think that people shy away from first-person because it sounds too intimate and weirds them out. Less like "our characters are fucking" and more like "we're fucking", and that turns most folk away.

>>61862

I mostly do character based roleplays via F-list and I have partners there too, it's a situation of the character I'm playing doing things. Someone doing first person perspective in a persumably character based roleplay would just feel wrong, I suppose.

Because unless you made a complete carbon copy of yourself which is weird on it's own, there's no need to use first person in any way. I've indulged someone in first person play, they always catch some sort of feelings or OOC connection because they cant separate the erp from what I may actually feel about them, resulting in them half assing it for no real reason or trying to start some shit that I wouldn't erp to start.

>"B-but clingy gonna cling!"

Yeah, but third person provides more of a disconnect so they have less of a chance.Second person is iffy.

>>61869

>>61880

second person makes no sense to me

In my experience, first person players pretty much use that style of play to live vicariously through their characters.

If I have a scene that calls for a specific type of character, there's a good chance a first person player will come up and try to shoehorn their character into that role, with awful results.

>>61862

For me personalty its an autism thing. Everything about rp and me was shaped by the chatrooms I used over on ChatCity back when. You just never saw it happen there, hell most of my rp "quirks" are a result of my time there. Well, save for the furry hate

>So many half X characters

Now I scorn them as human garbage

>Scythes and katanas errywhere

2-handers all the way for me

>Every other character has magical innate ability

Play mine as the angry self-made man with no time for the extra-naturally gifted

>>61880

Second person comes off as stilted, imo. Either sounding like a half-assed attempt to meet me half-way or just a sign of bad, bad skills

I enjoy second person. I think it's personal and immersive without any hint or tinge of that classic, dreaded creepiness.

>>61862

too many people don't want to or fear to BECOME the character rather than pretend to be the character

anyone who's done theatre will understand the difference

>>62109

This really, I'm not a rapist IRL :^) but I believe it brings much more soul to the RP if I take up the whole mindset of the bitchbreaker characters I play as.

I always write primarily in "second person" and not a single person has cared, though 95% of my partners write exclusively in third person.

It has a huge advantage in same-sex two-person role-playing so you avoid ambiguous "his" and "her" without having to long-windedly name/describe the characters over and over, and I don't see anything wrong combining "your" with third-person style descriptions of a character when it can add flavor. It flows fine and is grammatically sound. You're not co-writing a novel together, so unless you're some weirdo who goes around showing everyone their ERP chat logs, it makes no difference.

The best way I have to explain writing in second person is not that I'm some weirdo who confuses the player with their character, but that I'm directing a post towards that character. I image three levels of interaction, OOC (talking player to player, something I avoid 99% of the time), IC (the "don't metagame me bro" level), and Pseudo-IC (who we're pretending to be, and how I'm going to be interacting with anyone who contacts me on a sleazy role-playing site). If you're the kind of person who has no investment like that in to their character at all and just says "hi wanna rp let's talk about a scene?", no passion or flirting, then you just come off dry to me.

After all, role-playing IS about pretending to be someone you're not. It's probably more natural in furry circles where people attach themselves to a fursona, while also potentially playing instances of it as a character when role-playing.

On the other hand, if someone were to try writing first person at me, It'd feel immersion-breaking for reasons I can't explain exactly, and maybe that's the same feelings I'm giving to other people.