What things are taboo to you in roleplaying?

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Hmm.

  • character sheets (when they are done right they work perfectly, but if you're going to post an elaborate character sheet and then your character is a mary/gary sue who can't do crap, then i won't do them plain as that)
  • people who want to play one character and one character only (same as the character sheets, there are some people who just want to use the one character they have for every single roleplay)
 
I would have to say sexuality with beasts. Something about that rubs me a weird way.
 
Roleplays in which the pair-up is FxF. I cannot write for them anymore because of a single person ruining the experience for me. It definitely left a mental scar.

Also, if it's a romance RP, I don't like my character being a teenager. Even doing age 18 or 19 might make me cringe. My brain can't stop associating teens with kids still, even ones who are legally adults.
 
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I can't use real people as the photo in a character sheet. It really bothers me, I don't care if someone else does, but I can't. I'd rather just explain the appearance.

I can't play across from a character that is both shy and naive. One or the other is fine, but I find I get bored if it's both.

I can't play MxF romance, not sure why. I don't mind if the characters are platonic bffs.
 
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Everything because I can roleplay nothing.
 
  • furries
  • rape / abuse / sucidal character or angsty characters
  • adult x child (mother x son, father x younger daughter)
  • winged wolves
 
Ottriman said:
I fell there is a story behind this one, interested in sharing or?
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if you want to know the story. On another roleplay site there is a person who repeats the same search every single hour of the day, he has been banned on multiple occcassions for naughty actions on a pg 13 site. I roleplayed with him once and he has harassed me since then.
 
Hm. Absolute taboos...

I don't have many. The biggest (which I'm breaking) is I won't play with anyone under 21, with the next being kemonomimi, and furries.
 
  • Furries. I can't do this. If other participants in an RP want to portray furries, it's neither here nor there, but I personally can't.
  • Super explicit sex. I don't do this anymore.
  • Incest pairings involving generational gap, even if no sex is involved.
That might be it, I think? I know there are darkedge things like rape/torture/abuse/suicide which I don't strictly like, but I can and have done RPs involving them.
 
ooh tough one.

Leading roles - by the gods i do not have the self confidence to do this thus why i also never GM anything. ( have tried to do it to train it away but to no awail it is an anchor for me)

Information dumping - i can't write out a lot of information about things. I hate it when it happens in movies, books, comics you name it. I want it to be revealed step by step not all dumped on me at once or trough exhibition. And never in my life will i do that in an RP myself(OOC is fine but never IC that is). Besides i see pattern that this tends to kill of most RP's as people run out of things to write. (boy i have been carrying this taboo in silence for a while.)
 
Hrmm...

The "Hell No's"

- Writing in the first and/or second narrative.

- Roleplaying with partners under 18 is a huge one. Even more so now because this site allows age mingling. The site on which I formerly rp'd on had groups where only those 18+ could join and write, so that was never really an issue (Unless they lied about their age). Now that I'm here I have to be conscious of blue stars when seeking writing partners. That way I can avoid them.

- Engaging in rp with characters that are under aged. I have no interest in playing as, or writing with characters who are 18 or younger. No kids. Even as NPCs. Just no. That's also something I was blindsided by when I started looking around on here. Young characters made for explicit rp's centered around sex. In a similar theme of age I also prefer not to play the elderly.

Random Peeves

- Repetition of Rp Characters. I can not wrap my head around using the same.exact.character. in almost every single roleplay. Same base, bio, etc. Not all characters fit all settings, situations, time periods, and so on, and yet some are awkwardly forced to do so anyway. Why not create a new character? Or at the very least tweak said character a little bit so that it isn't a straight up copy/paste.

- Bases with blond hair. Have never been interested in a base real or non-real that has had blond hair. That goes for my partner too. It's an instant "......*crickets*...." for me if a character is made, and has blond hair. Preferences I suppose.

- If I am in a 1x1 rp then I really do not like to double, and create two full bios for two functioning characters (This does not include NPCs). Only just realized this fairly recently. I have no problem doing it in a Group roleplay, but am not a fan when 1x1. I for some reason lose interest, or favor one character over the other, and no longer have the motivation to play the latter.

- Female characters. Have pretty much sworn off making them, and rping with others using them for awhile. They've become so painfully cringy to me that I can not stand it. Doesn't matter who makes them or why, they do not hold my attention at this point, and time. Most likely because I have some bitter feelings about them, but one day that may change.

- Overly fluffy romance.
"No YOU hang up first!" " No you!" "Noooo~ you!" "No no no, you hang up first!"


That...might be it.
 
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Basically, there are only two things. roleplaying with people who are RL under 18 and playing real people/existing characters. The age thing is why I migrated here in the first place. The other site that I used to go on makes no distinction between adults and teens, and that just creeped me out after getting an onslaught of 15 year olds with romance rp requests. I can play characters that are underage and I enjoy it. Just not with underaged people. I don't want a visit from Chris Hansen.

I don't care about existing characters or real people at all, so playing them and their universes also doesn't strike me as "Fun."

A token thing to mention is that I'm kind of tired of MxF roleplays, and I don't really play female characters, but I'll cave if the plot catches my eye or I get to play a badass warrior girl.

Other than that, bring me the most sick, non-rule breaking rps that you can think of. I'll play rape, violence, graphic smut, smackheads, crackheads, pill heads, methheads, use of other drugs, alcoholism, mental health issues, physical health issues, racial issues, discrimination, religion, class warfare, the entire LGBTQ+ spectrum, and all of that fun stuff on a public forum where everybody can see. :3 I'm a roleplaying exhibitionist. My favorite character ever is an illiterate junkie and I love him. <3
 
ObsidianNyx said:
The site on which I formerly rp'd on had groups where only those 18+ could join and write, so that was never really an issue (Unless they lied about their age). Now that I'm here I have to be conscious of blue stars when seeking writing partners. That way I can avoid them.
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But... this site does have age-divided sections. o.o" The Redstar and Bluestar areas. They're intended to be for sexual RPing specifically -- since, by law, we can't allow adults and minors to write sexy scenes with each other -- BUT technically there's no reason why you can't use the Redstar section for non-sexual RP's if you're just not comfortable RPing with minors. o.o I know I've met others who use the Redstar section for that reason, for instance.

Alternatively, I do believe we have something akin to an "adults only" tag that you can put on your threads...
 
The List

Incest
Non-con
Damsels in distress
Transformation
Mind Control
 
I have quite a few things that are considered "taboo" in my dictionary.

Anime characters
Canon characters
Kids & teenagers
Sibling rivalry (probably)
Anthro
Animals
Smut over plot
Male x Male (I can't write this because I can't read it with a straight face on.)
Seme/Uke dominant stuff
Rape
Gore
Gratuitous sex scenes & fight scenes
Self-insertion
Hard core sci-fi
Damsel in Distress
Overpowered characters
 
Whatever those guys said times twenty-eight and breaking the fourth wall. I'm a scary chap.
 
- i used to roleplay with this person on this site (i'm not sure if they go on the threads anymore, because they always reas as 'checking inbox') who always insisted on roleplaying alpha/omega (basically mpreg) and that just... i cannot get behind that at all.

- i absolutely cannot play female characters for the life of me. i don't know why, i just feel so uncomfortable when i do... same goes for straight pairings. i just don't enjoy roleplaying heteros, i think.

- any drastic age differences.​
 
My Partial "Don't Wanna" List:

I'm not drawn to any RP (or even stories) featuring children prob. because (in my history of experience) such things seem to obsess on them as abused, or wise old people in a child's body, or ADORABLELY CUTE, or/and Mary Sues.

That being said...

Not interested in playing:

Fandoms
Real people
Animals
FxF
High Schoolers
Techno
Incest
Parenthood
Gore
Military
Being a passive female

My current avatar (as of this date) is one of my favorite female characters. She has a slight case of demonic co-existence, is a fighter but also enjoys reading and music, etc., is blunt, wicked violent, impatient, curt, gentle with the infirm, a creature of instinct and doesn't put up with any shit. I don't play her in possible romantic situations because I've become exasperated with male characters trying to dominate her. Even if it is to order her to dominate them. (Convoluted, yes?)

I've had much less hassle with my MxM. With the right partners, I've had great fun with romance and erotica as part of a story (but I don't do fluffy, sentimental, standard hearts and flowers, or sex as a vulgarity).

Usually, I skip this genre altogether as it's just too much hassle to find a good writing partner and I don't want to be stuck trying to explain to someone why I don't want to use them as a footstool or whatever. (Like, just no.)

Most monster stuff is boring to me, unless wildly original.
 
Taboo in my writing, hm...
I will not play real or chars made by others. It feels like taking thé easy way out. I have no actual problem with fandoms, but I dont play in Canon worlds.
I can't play stuff that I can't see myself doing.... Ok that is not true. I can twist my mind into doing anything. More like I wont play without adhering with thé right trail of thought.

I will not write plainly, I abhor dealing in absolutes. My writing is vague, and if you want to understand what I mean, read until you do so or die trying. It hurts to say exactly what I mean.

As for sexy stuff, it is far from me to play yaoi. Other than that Im a really fucked up person. (should be mentioned that I rarely play anything but hetero action)

I can't play stories that dont have any piece of fantasy or SF in them. Its too... Boring.
 
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