Special Snowflakes

[call me rae]

Well, "blank" definitely describes Kristen Stewart's acting ability.

In fairness I don't think that was Kristin's fault. You can only polish a turd so much. And the character was never meant to be exactly engaging. I doubt anyone else could have done better.

 

[Bum Bear]

Once there was a girl, she was orphaned at a young age. In her orphanage she


was bullied for having no parents. Because they all have parents right? The orphanage benefactor


took a strange liking to the four year old, her c-cup breast most definitely catching his attention.


Not to mention she was 4'7" and already bilingual. He went about having sexual relations with her until she


couldn't handle it anymore and gained a split personality. Then during this event, she gained supernatural powers


because God felt sorry for her struggle and so she went about killing everybody who picked on her.


She then ran away from the orphanage, her split personality going on a rampage without her knowing


about her. 


Whilst during the rp, the loss of attention fueled her power and overall gangster-ness. She soon


forcefully lost her memory after starting a fight and slamming her own head into a wall, reverting herself


into a child and eventually annoying the shit out of Bum Bear who then went about abandoning them


because it didn't have children and was not about to raise one now.


The story ends and the struggles continues.

 

[Mythee]

Kind of the antithesis to some of the examples given in this thread of people trying to make characters too attractive or too much of an imitation of  popular characters that aren't theirs, I once made a character ( she makes amazing comic relief and I love her ) in an RP full of enthusiastic shippers. And because it was an RP with a dozen or so enthusiastic shippers, I made a character which I thought, at first, would be unlikely to attract any ships.  I outright stated that she was ugly by common aesthetic standard, and created a total violent mess of a personality for her without going emo (she had loads of ego despite being dumb as a doorknob and having a talent for making a mess of everything for everyone). The nail in the coffin, I thought, was that she could only express her affection as an adversarial hostility instead, kind of like how some little boys bully the girls they like except it just never turns off. 


Despite all of that, she was the most shipped character in that RP. 


Goes to show, maybe those who want to have the RP's special snowflake might want to build their snowflake out of dandruff and derps instead of tears and death. Might become your most popular character ever. The sweet irony! x'D

 

[Trombone Geek]

Well, when I was about three years or so younger, I was a big special snowflake. Always the center of a roleplay. At one time I had this weird character concept that if anyone tried to hurt me and such the world would end. It was.. -cringe- Ugh.

Well, I've gotten a lot better now. I also do character drama a lot better, without needing earthquakes to signify a depressed or angry kiddo. Woot!

 

[ApfelSeine]

I feel somewhat terrible about it, but my instinct when dealing with a special snowflake character is to be really mean to them. Never to the player of course, since there's rarely a good reason to be mean to someone, but always to the character. I tailor my character to be one who's likely to give theirs a hard time and take their bs completely seriously. So if an instance pops up where they're like "my family was murdered in front of me" after talking for two seconds, my character's response is usually "do you tell everyone your life story the second you meet them?" or "I don't really care how hard you've had it, you're still a weirdo."


I mainly feel guilty since a lot of the time it's a younger player who doesn't know any better (I feel somewhat less guilty if it's an adult doing it, since I feel like they should know better than to make their character the most special human being on the planet). Awhile back I encountered a special snowflake character who kept calling on anime powers that I was unfamiliar with. He essentially murdered a crowd of people, and then was surprised that my character didn't fall in love with his. I have to say, it'd have to be a very strange character for indiscriminate blood shed to be a turn on. I have a feeling that this was a younger player, though I'm not sure, so I feel somewhat bad for having my character lecture his because the player didn't take it too well. He also didn't take it well when I told him that mature content like what he was having his character try to do with mine was not allowed on this site. Ah well. It's still rather cathartic to be able to be judgmental directly to their character, while still maintaining a degree of respect for the player themselves.

 

[call me rae]

I feel somewhat terrible about it, but my instinct when dealing with a special snowflake character is to be really mean to them. Never to the player of course, since there's rarely a good reason to be mean to someone, but always to the character. I tailor my character to be one who's likely to give theirs a hard time and take their bs completely seriously. So if an instance pops up where they're like "my family was murdered in front of me" after talking for two seconds, my character's response is usually "do you tell everyone your life story the second you meet them?" or "I don't really care how hard you've had it, you're still a weirdo."


I mainly feel guilty since a lot of the time it's a younger player who doesn't know any better (I feel somewhat less guilty if it's an adult doing it, since I feel like they should know better than to make their character the most special human being on the planet). Awhile back I encountered a special snowflake character who kept calling on anime powers that I was unfamiliar with. He essentially murdered a crowd of people, and then was surprised that my character didn't fall in love with his. I have to say, it'd have to be a very strange character for indiscriminate blood shed to be a turn on. I have a feeling that this was a younger player, though I'm not sure, so I feel somewhat bad for having my character lecture his because the player didn't take it too well. He also didn't take it well when I told him that mature content like what he was having his character try to do with mine was not allowed on this site. Ah well. It's still rather cathartic to be able to be judgmental directly to their character, while still maintaining a degree of respect for the player themselves.

Yeah that's my default response to over the top characters play em like they're the comedic weirdos they are. And while it can be hurtful you also never learn unless someone points out your doing something wrong. My own first characters were cringey tripe and when people started pointing it out it I started trying to improve. Even if it didn't always feel swell to have my bad habits pointed out.

 

[Khadame]

Aw man. I remember when I had joined a SAO RP once (don't judge me, I liked the first season!). I honestly expected absolutely nothing, I just had a weird craving to join. Anyway, I was in for a while and made my character and all that (more of a gag dude) and was browsing through the CS'. Then. Then I saw it.


Her name was Miku fucking Kawaii. She was Asuna's way cooler cousin who was also way stronger and way betterineverywayimimimi and because she was so cool and popular, she was dating Kirito. For some reason she could also dual wield mag1c sw0rds (but it was not Alfheim????). 


And my mind was so blown because it was the worst thing I had literally seen up to that point. At least the grammar was passable. Eventually, I had the pleasure to fite along side her and guess what. She two-shot the boss. Who, as the GM and me have stated, is literally Satan himself on the common-slime-enemy to Keemstar scale. And very hard to beat. Lolnope just stab him in the eyes lmao

 

[Gegawat]

....and guess what. She two-shot the boss. Who, as the GM and me have stated, is literally Satan himself on the common-slime-enemy to Keemstar scale. And very hard to beat. Lolnope just stab him in the eyes lmao..

This reminds me of another RP, it was kind-a free to play, there was this guy, who was a big Attack on Titan fan. As you can guess, his character was Levi, and he was super cool and strong and everything. So here comes the Demon Emperor Mundus, who unleashes his titan form. (for reference - DmC - Devil may cry, last level, boss level). It was stated MULTIPLE times that his weakness was his 3rd eye, but he was holding it closed and somebody needs to find a way to open it, by sacrificing himself. Before my character could react, here comes Levi, jumps around him with his uber-cool 3D maneuver gear, lodging his hooks onto the "Titan" and running up his arm (despite the fact Mundus was covered by lava) and cut his neck and killed him. Yeah, you rock bro, it doesn't work like that. Of course, GM did nothing, as he was friends with the so called player and we all had to you know, just deal with it...

 

[usuka]

i remember running a cyberpunk rp on another site and having this...13 year old monster hunter guy come in.


i allowed it at first, because the setting was open ended/minded, not to mention turning him away would've been seen as rude because we had a literal shark girl and this demonic elf guy.


he was great at first, advanced the plot and all that, but a few posts in had him derailing the rp with his own character arcs ; basically he devoted a lot of his posts to himself, chronicling his 'epic' fights against the things he dubbed 'kamis' and stuff. it was crazy, the guy had a real big head.


i eventually had to remove him because i got dm's about him being rude to people ooc.


i also heard stuff about him jumping from faction to faction?? there were four set roles i placed for people to play if they wanted, and i'm pretty sure that it was explicitly stated in the rules that overlap wasn't allowed.


thinking back on it makes me wish i had just banned him a lot sooner, jeez. i need to gain a backbone.

 

[Lappi]

Yeeeeaaaa when I first started RPing on this sight I had alot of chars like this but i have tried to improve and correct my mistakes. My chars still use tropes but they aren't completely bad, they use the tropes for reason. But I generally believe these tropes (Snowflakes are the tropes in my opinion, characters occasionally use the tropes) 


Are only acceptable in certain cases 


Simple RP: Yes, it's acceptable in these rp's because they are meant for people not looking to develop complex chars or just are in it for fun


Casual depends on the severity


Detailed is somewhere you Never do this stuff 

 

[Izayaorihara]

There's this chick of has this OC named Yuno *namedafterYunoGasaipfft* and HAS to HAVE every single Lavi *a character she ships her OC with* fall for her then her herself becomes a reaaaaal bitch, she acts depressed and suicidal, causing you to become emotionally down in the process  and tells you how you made her feel better.. Then when you decided you've had enough she goes and tells you that YOU are the CAUSE of her problems! 


But anyways.. She claimed that everyone "hated" her and her character, and just tries to force Lavi roleplayers to SHIP THE DAMN THING then hates on them if they don't. 


Sadly I've done a few roleplays with her.. And she tried to control  the way my character reacted and YADA YADA.. It was one hell of a mess.


By the way, the bad experiences I read.. They make me cringe, cause oh my god those people are just UGG

 

[Demonhunter]

Well, "blank" definitely describes Kristen Stewart's acting ability.

this! Just THIS!

 

[Reinore]

Once there was a girl, she was orphaned at a young age. In her orphanage she


was bullied for having no parents. Because they all have parents right? The orphanage benefactor


took a strange liking to the four year old, her c-cup breast most definitely catching his attention.


Not to mention she was 4'7" and already bilingual. He went about having sexual relations with her until she


couldn't handle it anymore and gained a split personality. Then during this event, she gained supernatural powers


because God felt sorry for her struggle and so she went about killing everybody who picked on her.


She then ran away from the orphanage, her split personality going on a rampage without her knowing


about her. 


Whilst during the rp, the loss of attention fueled her power and overall gangster-ness. She soon


forcefully lost her memory after starting a fight and slamming her own head into a wall, reverting herself


into a child and eventually annoying the shit out of Bum Bear who then went about abandoning them


because it didn't have children and was not about to raise one now.


The story ends and the struggles continues.

I think this one is the best I've heard yet.

 

[SkyHawk MK IV]

There is this character in a roleplay that I'm in (He's the GM surprisingly) and his CS is pretty good. However, under his "Other skills" he is able to "woo women across the galaxy". So when I made my CS I smiled to myself, bringing in another female CS that doesn't like being hit on unless she likes them in return. I wonder what will happen *giggles evilly* 

 

[Gegawat]

I am afraid I unintentionally made my OC (the one I use in almost all RPs) kind-a special snowflake. He was orphan but he was adopted by a rich guy. However I made it intentional, because I want to leave a plot hole for the future. He was not abused in the orphanage, neither was abused by his step brother, neither later at school. Nothing special, up to the point he starts making business alongside his father, and soon after - alone. For RPs where secret identity is wanted, I make him rich and famous, just to make it harder to conceal his hidden identity. Usually the GMs go with that and make it even harder when paparazzi pop up in the middle of the night when my character is attempting something. 
 

 

[SkyHawk MK IV]

I am afraid I unintentionally made my OC (the one I use in almost all RPs) kind-a special snowflake. He was orphan but he was adopted by a rich guy. However I made it intentional, because I want to leave a plot hole for the future. He was not abused in the orphanage, neither was abused by his step brother, neither later at school. Nothing special, up to the point he starts making business alongside his father, and soon after - alone. For RPs where secret identity is wanted, I make him rich and famous, just to make it harder to conceal his hidden identity. Usually the GMs go with that and make it even harder when paparazzi pop up in the middle of the night when my character is attempting something. 
 

Everything has a downside to a CS. I intentionally made my CS to have a little background as possible for the same reason as you.

 

[call me rae]

I am afraid I unintentionally made my OC (the one I use in almost all RPs) kind-a special snowflake. He was orphan but he was adopted by a rich guy. However I made it intentional, because I want to leave a plot hole for the future. He was not abused in the orphanage, neither was abused by his step brother, neither later at school. Nothing special, up to the point he starts making business alongside his father, and soon after - alone. For RPs where secret identity is wanted, I make him rich and famous, just to make it harder to conceal his hidden identity. Usually the GMs go with that and make it even harder when paparazzi pop up in the middle of the night when my character is attempting something. 
 

I think you bring up a good misconception. A special snowflake isn't a character that is over the top, has a tragic backstory, or any of the other examples.


a special snowflake is a character that derails the entire plot and make everything about them ( typically because the player either doesn't know how to share the spotlight or doesn't want to)


but yeah just having a tragic backstory doesn't make your character a snowflake, especially if it actually serves as a foundation for their characterization over all.


for instance I have a character who is like a grim reaper and her backstory is her father murdered her and her mother while possesed by a demon and she traded her soul with death to free him.


that is very tragic but it influences her being a of grim reaper and also her over all personality and how she interacts with people.


its not something that i made up to force other people to feel sympathy for that character and react in a specific way ( which is what would make her a snowflake, because I'm making it all about me and how I think the character should be treated rather than letting her stand on her own)

 

[Gegawat]

For some reason I cannot like that, so I just write in response. Thanks for clearing this up for me. Besides - my character never talks about the past, so even if it some sort of a tragic past, it is all behind him. He is the type that thinks more about living for the moment and the things to come, not what has been. 
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” 
― George Orwell, 1984