Special Snowflakes

[Quantum]

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<em>Disclaimer: this thread is not intended to insult anyone or target anything. Is your character in the foster system? Yeah, that happens in life! Does your character have green hair? That's swell, green hair is cool. This is simply for talking about outrageous, over the top characters that are occasionally seen in role plays. </em> Have you ever seen characters in role plays that seem to have way too much piled on them to be even slightly real? Things such as: "My name is Pegasus Ryder. I'm 16 and I'm an orphan. Both my parents were murdered right in front of me but I fought off the assailant myself. I was put into foster care with my two younger sisters, Hannah and Sarah, that I had to take care of. They were both adopted before me because they are preppy and popular whereas I'm a social outcast. They both have blonde hair and blue eyes while I have naturally hot pink hair and blood red eyes. I'm really mean to everyone all the time but it's really because I am extremely emotional inside but I literally don't know how to cry. Everybody wants to be my friend though because I'm such a mystery but I won't let anyone in." Yeah, those people! What are some of the weirdest special snowflake traits you've witnessed in your role play experience?


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[Talon]

not pegasus ryder kinda special... but i once saw a mage who was half dragon... there were no dragons in the rp... not a very good one but best i got.

 

[Zilla]

This isn't about a snowflake character, but a snowflake player.


I knew a player who had a habit of making doppelgangers of popular characters already in the RP. She claimed that she didn't know what she was doing, but it happened so much that I'm pretty sure it was very intentional. She also never played a character for very long unless they got a lot of attention. So the characters would start out as a carbon copy (sometimes down to using the same picture basis) who would become increasingly tragic and whiny to get sympathy, then eventually they'd become suicidal or show up beat up all the time or self-harm or pretty much anything until the character would move away.


When she wasn't doing that she was making characters that she felt would be perfect matches for any new male characters or newly single male characters. Then the same process would happen when they didn't fall in twuw wuv.

 

[Talon]

ouch...

 

[JayTee]

Sonichu.


Don't look it up. You'll only end up hurting yourself.

 

[Saccharine Cyanide]

not pegasus ryder kinda special... but i once saw a mage who was half dragon... there were nodragons in the rp... not a very good one but best i got.

Were you in my rp?


/suspicious sideye


(Kidding, it was an off-site rp, so the odds are very low)


I swear, the same exact thing happened in an rp of mine. It was split so that about half the characters were mages, and one person decided to be a magical half-dragon. There were no mythical creatures in the rp. There were no mythical creatures in the entire universe the rp took place in.


Is this a common thing or what?

 

[Talon]

lol idk *shrugs* @Saccharine Cyanide

 

[call me rae]

I've roleplayer against a variation of the snowflake :the one everyone wants.


A character that us supposedly the center of the universe and magically the most desirable person in it. Where literally the whole roleplay is just about her and her boyfriend epic wuvvv story and how all the other girls are jealous,of her awesomeness.

 

[MoltenLightning]

There was a character who happened to be a toddler....


They was also part cat, master of a swords, and VERY sensitive. That last part might be more centered towards the actual player of this character, because they were one of the people who make their character cry and whine to get attention.


Also, they would do instant posts that were extremely OP. Such as making them slash through a bullet, disarm the character then kill him on the spot.


Not the most enjoyable parts of the RP...

 

[Ballerina]

This isn't about a snowflake character, but a snowflake player.
I knew a player who had a habit of making doppelgangers of popular characters already in the RP. She claimed that she didn't know what she was doing, but it happened so much that I'm pretty sure it was very intentional. She also never played a character for very long unless they got a lot of attention. So the characters would start out as a carbon copy (sometimes down to using the same picture basis) who would become increasingly tragic and whiny to get sympathy, then eventually they'd become suicidal or show up beat up all the time or self-harm or pretty much anything until the character would move away.


When she wasn't doing that she was making characters that she felt would be perfect matches for any new male characters or newly single male characters. Then the same process would happen when they didn't fall in twuw wuv.

I'm actually having an eerily similar experience to what your talking about :I


It's frusterating because there's really nothing you can do about it without getting into an argument.

 

[Ballerina]

I've roleplayer against a variation of the snowflake :the one everyone wants.
A character that us supposedly the center of the universe and magically the most desirable person in it. Where literally the whole roleplay is just about her and her boyfriend epic wuvvv story and how all the other girls are jealous,of her awesomeness.

I absolutely hate it when roleplays fall into that trap.

 

[MiracleKa]

Once roleplayed in a multiverse setting where someone was a Keyblade-wielder, trained by Xehanort and also Eraqus and Yen Sid so she wasn't REALLY dark, and she was also a member of Organization XIII (when did it become Org.2347984634766542?). Also she was totally best friends with Axel, and a L'Cie chosen by Etros. Looked like a clone of one of the FFXIII characters, and she was very dainty and not very muscled but she was SUPER-STRONG of course. Oh, and did I mention she apparently had the power to make a heart lighter or darker on a whim? Also "charmingly innocent" despite being raped, abused, and otherwise taken advantage of.


Yeah, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.

 

[Seiden]

A few years ago every roleplay forum had this one character :


I am [insertJapaneseNameHere], I am really cold and emotionless. At the age of 14, I suddenly decided to kill my parents for no reason at all, because I am so dark and so mean. I never smile, never talk and I am totally unable to fall in love, yet I will fall in love with the first pretty male character (yaoi love love) I will meet in the roleplay. Yuy.


But the new snowflakes characters are, to me, the autistic PTSD demipolypansexual metagendered furretkin that are so misunderstood and so rejected for how special and different they are. But their players usually are the same kind =/

 

[Cloudburst]

I was in an RP once where it was meant to be a post-apocalyptic pokemon world where all humans died from the planet and it was only pokemon trying to survive and such. So one member comes in and decides she's going to be the only human left on the planet and the GM was ok with that for some reason?? So the rest of us had to deal with this whiny angsty girl who read minds and teleported around a lot and threw temper tantrums if she wasn't being paid attention to. She also found a pet manaphy in a pond because like why not right. >__> Everyone except the GM tried to ignore her lol. Her writing was terrible to the point of being difficult to read to boot.

 

[Idea]

I agre with @Zilla in the sense that I think it's more about the role player than the character, although this type of character is rather common.


There is a type of character that I named the "arbitrary characters" which consist of creating such contradictory or vague personalities, usually with the traditional "they are cold and rude outside, but inside they are really nice and kind" type of deal, that they become meta gaming in disguise. This is because they canchange their entire personality in the blink of an eye and nobody can say anything cause "technically" they didn't.


Another thing I find is pretty common is hyperbolic statements. "The wisest" the "fastest", etc... Or power gaming statements (stuff that forces opinions on other characters or in the normal opinion of the character), like "x is loved by everyone" or "Y is always beaten up by everyone", which is specially annoying when you realize half the times, that is not the case in any world with even an inch of logic to it. But the cherry on top of the cake is when this is done with stuff that relies on a subjective opinion, like adding they are "beautiful". You don't or shouldn't do that. Describe how the character actually looks instead.

 

[call me rae]

Another thing I find is pretty common is hyperbolic statements. "The wisest" the "fastest", etc... Or power gaming statements (stuff that forces opinions on other characters or in the normal opinion of the character), like "x is loved by everyone" or "Y is always beaten up by everyone", which is specially annoying when you realize half the times, that is not the case in any world with even an inch of logic to it. But the cherry on top of the cake is when this is done with stuff that relies on a subjective opinion, like adding they are "beautiful". You don't or shouldn't do that. Describe how the character actually looks instead.

I'll agree writing into the character's description "Everyone thinks/feels/acts XYZ to by character is kind of annoying." Because first off unless there is an actual reason for XYZ then chances are not everyone is going to react to it in the same manner. Different people have different personalities, upbringings, ways of handling others, etc. So very rarely will everyone treat a person in the same manner unless they are forced to by your character committing some kind of continuous taboo behavior. ( and even then you'll get people who don't believe in the reason for said taboo and choose to befriend your character anyway )


To use an extreme example : Say your character boils puppies and walks around with their poor cooked bodies on a stick. Yes most people would find this abhorent behavior and steer clear of your character due to him being an obvious madmen/social pariah.


But say you get someone from a different culture where eating dogs is commonplace. Or they just don't have any strong opinion on animals and thus the behavior doesn't bother them.


Then obviously they aren't going to treat your character the way "everyone" should.


Although I will say I'm not as worried about descripters : your character is attractive. your character is beautiful. that's subjective sure but it doesn't necessarily force my character to react in a certain way. Everyone has a different idea of what is beautiful ( although there are some more socially acceptible criteria that could be seen as "conventionally" attractive/beautiful )


But even if my character and yours happen to share the same definition of attractive and beautiful that doesn't necessarily have to effect how my character reacts around yours. And honestly some people just suck at written descriptions. I'm far more willing to let that go then leading statements like....


My character is the smartest most beautiful and successful person in the whole wide world.


Then chances are they are too busy to have anything to do with the random high school drama. So kindly go back to reinventing the world in your image and leave the rest of us shallow idiots in peace.


For that matter another thing when people say their character is : the smartest ever. or a genius scientist at thirteen. and yet have them act just like a typical teenager. like they don't ever use their brains except to psychically detect what someone is thinking or when a plot point is coming up.


Like don't tell me your character is a genius and have them continuously make stupid and nonsensical decisions.

 

[Idea]

I'll agree writing into the character's description "Everyone thinks/feels/acts XYZ to by character is kind of annoying." Because first off unless there is an actual reason for XYZ then chances are not everyone is going to react to it in the same manner. Different people have different personalities, upbringings, ways of handling others, etc. So very rarely will everyone treat a person in the same manner unless they are forced to by your character committing some kind of continuous taboo behavior. ( and even then you'll get people who don't believe in the reason for said taboo and choose to befriend your character anyway )
To use an extreme example : Say your character boils puppies and walks around with their poor cooked bodies on a stick. Yes most people would find this abhorent behavior and steer clear of your character due to him being an obvious madmen/social pariah.


But say you get someone from a different culture where eating dogs is commonplace. Or they just don't have any strong opinion on animals and thus the behavior doesn't bother them.


Then obviously they aren't going to treat your character the way "everyone" should.


Although I will say I'm not as worried about descripters : your character is attractive. your character is beautiful. that's subjective sure but it doesn't necessarily force my character to react in a certain way. Everyone has a different idea of what is beautiful ( although there are some more socially acceptible criteria that could be seen as "conventionally" attractive/beautiful )


But even if my character and yours happen to share the same definition of attractive and beautiful that doesn't necessarily have to effect how my character reacts around yours. And honestly some people just suck at written descriptions. I'm far more willing to let that go then leading statements like....


My character is the smartest most beautiful and successful person in the whole wide world.


Then chances are they are too busy to have anything to do with the random high school drama. So kindly go back to reinventing the world in your image and leave the rest of us shallow idiots in peace.


For that matter another thing when people say their character is : the smartest ever. or a genius scientist at thirteen. and yet have them act just like a typical teenager. like they don't ever use their brains except to psychically detect what someone is thinking or when a plot point is coming up.


Like don't tell me your character is a genius and have them continuously make stupid and nonsensical decisions.

I pretty much agree with everything there, except for a tiny detail, albeit it may be my own fault for not mentioning it earlier or not making it clear.


The problem with "beautiful" in the description is that they want to force attraction. As in, the character HAS to be visually appealing to the others.


In fact, more often than not, those characters have vague descriptions of how they look if any, leaving us without options to differ. Worse off even is when their description actually contradicts the statement: I've seen man described as beautiful whose appearance was an unshaven man with scars all ove the face, piercings and an eyepatch. I'm sure SOMEONE out there probably sees some beauty in that, but I'd say that's quite a ninche that you are making universal.

 

[call me rae]

I pretty much agree with everything there, except for a tiny detail, albeit it may be my own fault for not mentioning it earlier or not making it clear.
The problem with "beautiful" in the description is that they want to force attraction. As in, the character HAS to be visually appealing to the others.


In fact, more often than not, those characters have vague descriptions of how they look if any, leaving us without options to differ. Worse off even is when their description actually contradicts the statement: I've seen man described as beautiful whose appearance was an unshaven man with scars all ove the face, piercings and an eyepatch. I'm sure SOMEONE out there probably sees some beauty in that, but I'd say that's quite a ninche that you are making universal.

Well I don't know I don't read " Joe is an attractive man " as meaning my character Daisy has to throw herself at him.


But that's probably my age showing, I'm old enough to know that physical attraction isn't enough to make someone a viable candidate for romance. So I'm looking at character's personalities to see if they're compatible not their appearance.


And I make this very clear to my partners as well. I am not really one for romance but if it does show up it will be because it makes sense for the characters to have some kind of chemistry.


Just basic attraction isn't enough to warrant that.


And typically speaking in the case of the people that use it as an obvious attention grab it's hardly the only Snowflake like thing about said character.


Typically it's not just that "Joe is attractive." "It's that Joe is so attractive that all the girls want to date him." Or "Joe is smart, attractive, successful, and has all the women throwing themselves at him."


Which is more in tune with your previous statement of "Everyone" being forced to feel a certain way about people.


So yeah if it's just "Joe is a beautiful man." I'm willing to let it go. Just because I don't see the point in making an interview out of a character sheet.


"Really how is Joe beautiful? Can you describe his best features in sentence form?" Yeah honestly I don't really care.

 

[Idea]

Well I don't know I don't read " Joe is an attractive man " as meaning my character Daisy has to throw herself at him.
But that's probably my age showing, I'm old enough to know that physical attraction isn't enough to make someone a viable candidate for romance. So I'm looking at character's personalities to see if they're compatible not their appearance.


And I make this very clear to my partners as well. I am not really one for romance but if it does show up it will be because it makes sense for the characters to have some kind of chemistry.


Just basic attraction isn't enough to warrant that.


And typically speaking in the case of the people that use it as an obvious attention grab it's hardly the only Snowflake like thing about said character.


Typically it's not just that "Joe is attractive." "It's that Joe is so attractive that all the girls want to date him." Or "Joe is smart, attractive, successful, and has all the women throwing themselves at him."


Which is more in tune with your previous statement of "Everyone" being forced to feel a certain way about people.


So yeah if it's just "Joe is a beautiful man." I'm willing to let it go. Just because I don't see the point in making an interview out of a character sheet.


"Really how is Joe beautiful? Can you describe his best features in sentence form?" Yeah honestly I don't really care.

I don't read it as it implying my character needs to have an attraction to that one , but that seems to be the intended purpose half the times.

 

[call me rae]

I don't read it as it implying my character needs to have an attraction to that one , but that seems to be the intended purpose half the times.

True enough.

 

[Telvin]

I know a lot of people like that. Bugs the living heck out of me. That's why I'm quitting the one server I'm on in a game. I can't stand the people sometimes.


A lot of those people are the ones who make everything about them in group roleplays. I can't stand it.

 

[Eye Of Magnus]

My personal favorite are people who practically beg you to ask the right question so they can do some gratuitous special-snowflake elaboration. Like this one person I know of who kept placing like a ridiculous amount of emphasis on a necklace their character was wearing, droning on and on about how somebody should ask about it and how strange it must have looked for someone who appeared as poor as him to have such an expensive, clearly symbolic necklace.


Never mind that we were being attacked by bandits. We were supposed to drop everything and talk about his magical bauble. I think he eventually got frustrated and left. You know, since no one wanted to play twenty-questions with another exiled prince/rightful king on the run from the assassins his evil uncle sent after him.

 

[Talon]

lol

 

[DemetrioMachete]

Oh good lordy snowflakes. I have a lot I could pick from.


Exhibit A: Shadow Kyo, the character of an old friend of mine. He is a "Psy" Vampire born around the same time Homosapiens were beginning to emerge on the scene. He was born as the runt of his clan and they all made fun of him, but then they all died except for the hottest two female vampires and his evil brother Light Kyo. When he came of age he took his clan's sword, the "Kyo Blade", and learned swordplay while murdering other vampires for sustenance.


Even the sword has a case of special snowflake syndrome, as the sword is a katana, is solid black, and kills most enemies in one hit due to its own greedy vampirism.


Not only is this the least "real" character I can imagine, since he's a good guy vampire with a one-hit-kill blade, but it's also quite stale since it leaves little room for character development. It's like Saitama, but less cool.

 

[Yuffie Kisaragi]

From RP Overview and Character Sign-Up:


"You are a regular human, living a regular life in 2015."


1st Sign-Up


"*japanese name* is a red-tailed Saiyan with control over all the elements! He is super likable and everyone loves him because he's always cheery and optimistic!"


Hrnghhhhhh


He ended up being a young player and very cooperative with us, this character ended up having a pretty neat character arc, if a little anime cliche. But still, that original sign-up gave my an aneurysm it was so bad.