/erp/ - Erotic Roleplay

>>70820

I prefer original characters. They give the story a sense of novelty and creative freedom that I really enjoy.

I don't think I've ever really self-inserted. Even with minimal characters I always take some kind of role, distance myself from their actions and come up with their personality and traits, sometimes on the fly. Describing a character almost like me into a fictional story feels kind of weird, even if having some resemblance to a character does feel nice.

I'm okay with my partner playing a character that could just as well be a self-insert, as long as they aren't terrible and put storytelling first.

Canon characters that differ from the tone of the source material don't sit well with me at all and I don't think I've ever seen a portrayal from my favored canons that I wanted to play with. I've considered dropping my standards, even if just temporarily, so that I'd get to experience canon play at least once.

I don't really care. There's a time, place and way for all of it, so in the end it doesn't matter to me. I will say that for building a story beyond the erotic portions of the role play I prefer OCs. They lend better to writing your own tale I find. But for erp in a general sense, I like all three means.

>>70820

I always played as someone else's character, never really as a self insert, though I have a feeling I would enjoy self-inserting quite a whole lot.

Overall, I've had a much better experience playing with OCs. In a certain way, it puts up an imperative for one to be unique and to somewhat invent themselves from head to toe.

Canons for the most part tend to be lost on me. I don't know the modern Anime/movies/cartoons enough to know even a fraction of what the profile says, and a lot of them go very, very deep into the universe's lore, making any attempt at relating to those characters a chore more than anything else… unless you play a canon character from the same universe.

Some years ago I would've said I was playing as myself, but I realized recently that this whole thing was a charade and I had been in denial about it. ERP "me" is much bubblier and cheerier than my actual honest persona. And so in a weird twist, my alt is a complete opposite: much more brash, foul-mouthed and generally angry than the actual me, yet both are "me" in that it's the same opinions, reactions, etc. Just… delivered in a different way.