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Eh. I just have a confession to make. Characters with unrealistic heights and weights kill me. I just... Maybe it's the science major in me that wants for everything to make sense.

So... yeah. I suppose you guys can post your pet peeves too as long as they're not aimed at specific people or are mean/ hateful in anyway.

Gaslighting, stalking and Drama are my major pet peeves. Gaslighting is pretty mean spirited.

Drama is the bane of everyone's issue in RP in general.

This is a small petpeeve of mine, but the thing you said. Unrealistic sizes on characters.

Edit: Forget it

Unrealistic is like a 7 foot tall character that weighs 50 pounds. I think that a person's bones would weigh more than that alone. So yeah. And thankfully, it doesn't pop up a whole lot, but when it does it just makes me like 'D; their character seemed so cool!'

I agree with the unrealistic sizes. I've seen it most on other sites where someone would have a female character at an unbelievably small weight with unrealistically large breasts and hips.
Now I get you want a curvy sexy lady but... you don't have large boobs when you're 5 feet tall and 40kg. It just doesn't happen

Personally though, my biggest pet peeve is clichés. you know those details people think are just edgy or something and you read over the character profile thinking... yeah cool, cool and then you visibly cringe.

Or vampires that can walk in the sunlight and are happy go lucky I don't wanna drink blood kinds. o.o

That's actually one of my personal pet peeves. I just... I'm not a fan of shooting down creativity, but I do appreciate a bit of research before typing, "this character has a muscular and slender frame, is 4'10, and is 450 pounds." Unless your character is on steroids that also slims waistlines, I can only see that character as... big. Not muscular, just big.

Another pet peeve of mine is when people write in first person or script style when you and/or everyone else is writing in third person. With first person, it just feels like you're putting yourself into the RP even though it's supposed to be a totally different character, you know? It just blurs the line for me and makes things confusing, especially in 1×1 RPs. With script style, it outright breaks the flow and doesn't look right to me at all. I can't usually reply to something like that unless I force myself to... And when I'm forcing it, it no longer becomes fun.

When people offer a character that's basically the opposite of what you're asking is also a thing I'm not too fond of. (Ex. Asking for non-vampire medieval characters for a hetero romance/action-adventure RP, and someone offers a vampire who wants same sex and slice-of-life, or requesting that you don't want anthros/elves/another species in a story, yet someone offers one and tries to pass it off like that is what you wanted.) It just makes me feel that people haven't really read what you're asking for and just want a RP with a cool looking character. I understand the enthusiasm, but if it doesn't match, it doesn't match. And with me, I can't force it to match even if your character looks cool, you know? I can try, but I won't be happy with it unless it really does click better than I expected. (And that's something I've yet to experience first-hand, so...)

I have many more, but I can't quite list them here because despite the wall of text, I don't like complaining that much. Also, because I can't remember them all.

Oh yeah. The script and 1st person writing kills me too xD I've yet to have someone give me a character that I haven't asked for though. I'm sure that would be annoying, for sure.

First person is hard to follow when most of us use third person. Script annoys me more. I do know allot of rookie Rpers do use scripts, but they can learn.

I have more of a problem when people mix script with regular format. It looks tacky and sloppy. I seen people write dialogue when someone speaks, then add a script action. I seen it on Tumblr RPs.

I never liked when people bark at people on what they roleplay. I RP canons and I am OC friendly, but I don't RP as OCs, because I am not good at making them. Which is why I left some RP forum in 2015 before I joined here. Too much snobbery, gaslighting and admins who do nothing. I don't mind what anyone plays. Just I won't force people to do something they dislike. However, I do dislike when people RP canons and ruin them for their own weird purposes. Head canons and AUS are okay, but making Dante into a Pony or something is kind of pointless.

People who give their characters a million powers and forms. Unless it's a joke or troll character, it looks stupid when you see a character can do all these powers and have the ability to change into super duper forms.

I am not sure what the term is called, but I don't like when Rpers force things on a player. Such as a relationship, a kink or action. It is polite to ask the player and make sure it is okay.

Or they don't give that character some immediate and very crippling flaws or weaknesses to counter act the fact that they're powerful. I'm not particularly fond of that either, I like character balance.

Can't comment on the height thing, haha. A lot of my characters are very large in height, but I like the think I at least get their weight in the right ball park for what I want to portray for them.

I try not to be negative, because everyone should be able to express themselves in their roleplays any way they want...

But I can't stand when someone offers up a character that is obviously a more ideal version of them self. It makes things so much more personal and you have to be so very careful.

Reading a good cringy few peeves here I wholly agree with.

Another peeve I don't like dealing with is how unrealistically 'evil' is sometimes portrayed. Mostly as in, the character being 'too aware' of themselves being evil, if that makes sense.

'Evil' is in the eye of the beholder I think. A person never considers themselves 'evil', but psychologically try to justify it. (in extreme cases; they delude themselves into thinking they are doing good, like in the Knight Templar trope.) There is in a realistic case just too much internal conflict when they do wrong, while they realise they are morally wrong. (This can be countered when they believe they do it for a good cause, and that their behaviour justifies the means. Given that the reason is strong/believeable enough.)


No, I am specifically talking about the characters who do 'evil' and are evil just for the evilness, who most importantly, -know- and realise they are being evil for no reason. The kind who cackle and announce just how evil they are, unironically. Who don't try to morally justify themselves, but just do it for a 'cool, edgy' impact without any substance to their act.

And that would hardly be a pet peeve of mine if they wrote the character well. Because sometimes, a character being evil for the sake of evilness can actually work out just fine. (See, the Joker from Batman/Kefka from FF/extreme cases of chaotic evil.) But for that, the character would need a psychological condition, like being an actual psychopath.

And some do take that route, but they don't -stick- or -dedicate- to it. They cherry-pick the best, convenient traits of the disorder and portray pure chaotic evil in the most uninformed, inaccurate, half-hearted manner. They disregard kicking puppies on sundays and burning down orphanages, but somehow have that incredibly sweet spot for that other character who shows interest in them, revealing a soft side that includes flustered blushing and melting over the puppy they receive as a romantic present.



TL;DR: Badly written evilness for the empty sake of evilness without consistency. If they have fun with writing characters like that: power to them. I ain't stopping them. But it's a bit of a turn-off if I am on the receiving end.

Lately, I've been ironically humouring such characters for the giggles though.

Tiny nitpicky thing: when people flippantly mention objects that shouldn't exist within the roleplay's setting (example: bringing up lightbulbs in a medieval fantasy roleplay or saying that their character in an ancient Chinese setting wears jeans). It jars the flow of the post and overall story for me.

Oh yeah! I've experienced that before. It confuses me about which time period we're doing

I seen this allot in Gaia RPs. This also goes for modern technology in a setting or time period that doesn't have it. Maybe if a character from the Modern Era or future is transported into the past and has items they carried with 'em would make sense.

The only creative thing I remember was someone's character making a makeshift flying machine ran by a small windmill blade and their character peddling a contraption.

One thing I never liked are the thread invaders. Ones who just jump in and disrupt a good story. I.E having their character try to kill or harm everyone or one person or play the damsel in distress to get a person's attention. Speaking of disruptive people. I dislike the hero always there type people.

This can be a guilty of all of us, but lack of research on disorders or problems such as PTSD. I have seen some people's characters say they have this or that or fail to do research on injuries that happen to them.

There is also the "I DUN LIKE YER CHARACTER SO I WILL HARASS OR IGNORE U!" type people. I sometimes RP antagonists, such as my Gunvolt muses. One of my muses is pretty discriminate towards humans, due to humans crushed his dreams and killed his mother and siblings by burning them alive. I also RP a rather vulgar GV character who was a former street gang member and he isn't exactly friendly.

I still get some discrimination on other site for RPing canons. I don't let it bother me. I left those people to rot.

I may have pointed out, but I will say it again.

Horrible OOC behaviour. I seen this on other forums where people would harp, gaslight or talk about others behind their backs. Double if it is something that happened in the past and isn't relevant any more. It's toxic, vile and disgusting.

@ Vinters

My Gunvolt muses, save for GV himself can change their forms, but they have their flaws. I.E Asroc can transform into his armoured form and can puppet his robot sidekick to battle or ride on him. Most of the time, Asroc is in human mode and totes around a smaller version of his robot and rarely the larger one unless he needs to due maintenance on him or use him when he is baking. After all, Galette Krone doubles as an oven.

As for Merak, I have yet to use his armoured form, since he normally sits in his chair and lets it do all the work.

I just can't stand OCs that have a boat load of powers and abilities and then get angry when you ask them to fix their character or stop godmodding and meta gaming. This also goes with canon character Rpers who don't do research. I don't mind AU, but making Dante into a Pony or Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII suddenly rescue orphans seems OOC.

This is a pet peeve of mine too. It's the same with character beauty, when someone assumes that your character will find them drop dead gorgeous regardless of their own personal preferences.

Allot of my muses would just walk away from those characters.

This, just... Ugh. Especially when you're kindly and calmly suggesting to them alternate sorts of powers that could also work with their character or a slightly downgraded version and they're just like, "BAWW, I PUT 812984029187481298 HOURS N2 THIZ UBER EXTRA SPECIAL OC, N U WNT ME 2 CHANGE EET?! UR JUST JEALUZ LOL" (*coughs* I can't do all of that.) It's just... It's a suggestion, you don't have to follow it. But I can't play with too overpowered characters. There has to be some weakness or it's just no fun.

On canon characters, I love when people who play canon are able to keep to the personalities of the characters they're roleplaying as. It's just, I've seen so many of the other kinds of canon RPers, it puts a sour taste in my mouth when I think of maybe giving canon roleplaying a try myself(I'm honestly afraid of messing up details about a character and adding too much of my own headcanons, so that's also why). People like you, Asroc, are always the exception to the rule, and it's always a joy playing with you and your characters. I just want to experience more people who RP canon characters as they should be played, not Kefka from FF6 suddenly falling in love with a random character.

Also, the ponyfication thing is also a pain. I don't wanna see Ash from Pokemon or Sailor Moon as a pony. I just can't do it.

Gonna admit that I once did something like that, because I had no idea how measurements worked or what to reference and was required to give something. (I still generally avoid giving numbers.) I'd actually encourage you to politely point out issues like that - you may have found someone else who just doesn't know. I know I felt pretty dumb when I realized what I'd done, and I wished someone had corrected me before the story started.

Aww thank you! It means allot!

With my canon bbys' I study 'em. I do have some AUs for them, such I RP Gunvolt when he is with Sumeragi. I give my characters headcanons, but not to the point they aren't themselves.

Asroc and Merak tend to be popular choices here by people, due to their unique quips.

Oh I got a couple!

1. Completely disregarding an important attribute of your character. For example the character has exceptionally hearing and the other person expects to be able to literally charge up to them on horseback and put a sword at their throat. No words like "attempt" or "tries" either.

2. They disregard your post in a fighting scene. Example: They try to attack your character with a sword the size of Cloud's when your character is not only behind them, but their character is also on horseback. Then they try to justify it by saying that their character could backswing the sword. As in backswing it like it was a golf club...