It's not OOC. It doesn't mean I hate you.

[nukacherry]

For some reason I've noticed a really aggressive trend lately with my more sarcastic/witty characters. No matter what the AU or situation or series, whenever one of my characters gets sassy or insults another character, I see the roleplay end abruptly. They disconnect. 

I don't know if it's because my character isn't falling head over heels and throwing themselves down on a bed and saying 'take me now!!' that just...immediately scares off my partner. It's not even a hateful, mean insult. If my character acts like a sarcastic ass to someone, the other roleplayer seems to lose interest.

Guys it's not me. I don't have a vendetta against you. I'm not gonna spit your damnation into a volcano. Please. 

[Astro]

THis is the number one reason I try to avoid playing assholes with people Im not familiar with. I hate it when my character says something rude (but not at all out of character) and the other rper takes it as some sort of irl passive-aggressive jab.

I get that some people feel nervous and tend to feel that way sometimes, heck, even I experience that from time to time, but if you really can't handle mean characters i think its best if you just steer clear of them? Just to avoid wasting anyone's time or energy. If you'd rather not do that, shooting them an ooc message about your concerns will probably not hurt, either! And if it does, who knows? Maybe they really were being an aggressive prick and you can disconnect anyway

[Peridot]

Welcome to rping Kankri enjoy the hell

[Chairubplay]

It's also important to consider that it might not necessarily always be the case where the roleplay ends specifically because of your character getting sassy, you know? Maybe your partner has other reasons for leaving but elects not to mention them.

[Astro]

While that's very true, I was comparing this to my experience on rp sites like parp, where disconnect reasons are a bit easier to decipher. But you do have a point that it isn't always because they cant handle rudeness, though there does seem to be some correlation to my character not immediately dropping their walls for Smooth and Easy romance and disconnections

[nukacherry]

It's gotten to the point where I literally apologize OOC for my character being a dick and it feels really awkward because some people are like 'oh yeah it's no problem no worries that's great!' and other people are like 'oh okay I was worried for a minute' and at that point it's like. But why were you worried it's a roleplay.

And I say this specifically because it's happened on 3-4 prompts where the people seem like they were hinged on shipping but the minute my character doesn't immediately return their goo-goo eyes and says something rude I get the d/c, so it's what leads me to assume that's why they left, chair.

[astrivid]

Apr 22, 2016 1:00:14 GMT nukacherry said:

It's gotten to the point where I literally apologize OOC for my character being a dick 

OKAY SAME THOUGH?! THIS IS MY LIFE WHEN I PLAY AS DUALSCAR