Now that I think about it seriously… The only loophole for me to be able to divorce myself from characters in games is if there’s a gender option. If I can play as a guy, I usually just make them like the complete opposite of myself. I still feel a bit remorseful… but not nearly as much.
It’s so weird. But probably explains the Guen situation.
As a very self-aware and anxious person, I would never in a million years walk up to Sage and ask her to dance. I want to live. So of course I’ll go with my safe (but tragic) bAeson.
That’s pretty much exactly how I would approach some that I don’t think is a good idea. I can feel awful about something and still do it, but the second something doesn’t make logical sense, that is the deal-breaker for me.
P.S.: what is your actual definitive type again? A shame I can’t search for it in the conversation without scrolling back through all the posts. I just can’t be bothered to do that.
Rather than intelligent I would rather say that Aphrodite is cunning. Very cunning. Not that she is an idiot or anything.
Is there a world for cunning intelligence in english?
@RanchoJoe@Sherlock221B@poison_mara In a way, I must admit that I envy this ability of yours to separate your own personality, your own morals for the factice one that you give your MC!
I am a mess of overflowing feelings most of the time. I feel my MC’s pain almost like my own, at least for the short time it lasts! I could learn a thing or two from you i guess!
Exactly why I went with a male MC this time. Less immersive, thus less personal. Thus less moral resistance!
I love intelligent and charismatic characters. However, to learning to proper role-play guides recommend started with a silly stupid jester style character. The humorous and the stupidity making play with a role easier. She is a bitxh but like she is stupid and ludicrous people felt easier play as ruthless . At least that’s most people felt.
Cunning is pretty much the word that English people would use as well. Conniving or devious are others, but I’d rather not delve into dictionary mode; I do that too often.
And I’ve often admired my sisters and my mothers and other people’s abilities to feel emotions so strongly; my personality and my mind is always an overwhelming force of logic and it’s actually difficult for me to correctly process emotions because I instinctively trample them with logic and reasoning. It must be brilliant to feel such uninhibited emotions at times, mustn’t it? I know it would have probably helped me at various points in the past.
You have to felt as your character NOT feeling as you where the character . Sunny wouldn’t felt conflicted about Aunt Alice she is back and it’s ok, she didn’t felt betrayed or happy she is just to focus in flirt with Calyso and Adonis and be forever pretty and be a model or a movie star
That’s because ignorance is bliss; it’s easy to not feel the plight of your victims or the people you terrorise if you’re too stupid to understand. If you’re unintelligent, you can do so much more stuff and you won’t comprehend how they must feel.
If you’re intelligent however, if you know full well how to dismantle them and know perfectly well the heartbreak they will feel and still choose to do it…this is true ruthlessness to me. You experience all of the extra obstacles, but your intelligence proves that you are that much more willing to go the distance to cause others pain.
I am supposedly an ENFP-A. I’ve taken the test a few times over the past few years and that’s what I’ve always gotten. The percentages change but the letters have stayed the same.
Intelligence doesn’t really have to be a factor in it. One can know a lot of things and solve problems and answer tests quickly and still be ruled by emotions. It’s more about what drives someone. Do you knee-jerk into a decision, trusting your gut and instincts or do you methodically weigh the pros and cons?
One can argue that “intelligent people” are also more likely to come up with a reason that they can truly and honestly believe as a righteous justification for their actions, however cruel. They themselves don’t necessarily have to believe it’s cruel. They’d just think they’re right. The Reapers from Mass Effect can be an example.
@Nyxerie I actually think that it’s my own curiosity and empathy that allows me to separate myself from the characters I play as. Instead of putting in my own feelings and beliefs, I try to think “What would a bad guy do in this situation? What’re their motives?” and build the character up from there.
Or I can just play the game to make certain numbers (money, stats, relationship bars) higher. This explains how I was addicted to Cookie Clicker…
In a way, someone being so completely selfish, self-centered and self absorbed is almost as terrifiying as being pychotic.
… that’s way Cercei is a monster. (Yay GoT)
@RanchoJoe Also I did that personality test. In two languages to be sure. I am apparently ESFJ. I did not really recognize myself but hey, what do I know!
See that’s the thing; intelligence always has to be a factor for me in the sense that they’re quick-thinking and astute. I would prefer it if they methodically weigh up the pros and cons as I do (in case you forgot or anything, I’m an INTJ-A), but if they’re ruled by their emotions then I can accept that usually since it’s a departure from my own personality; my MC in CotG is the type of person that tries to be calm and collected, but also has more knee-jerk reactions than she would like.
For example if Thora saw somebody getting attacked, her knee-jerk reaction would be to help them rather than methodically thinking whether or not getting involved would be the best thing for everyone involved, especially not giving much thought as to whether or not she would actually win the fight, which will prove problematic in the future. Then again, she’s a 6’3" warrior with over 70% strength at this early point in the game, so I find it extremely unlikely she would lose in most circumstances, but you understand my point.
Which is the one I’ve taken a few times. It doesn’t have the Assertive/Turbulent aspect but I think it’s more in depth with the rest of the types than the 16 Personalities test
I want so bad to offer you a rebuttal… I’ll will keep it short, because I don’t want to be lynched.
Cersei loves only two things herself and power. She considers her children and Jaimie as an extention of herself so she “loves” them. And I love her being so bad![quote=“RanchoJoe, post:4620, topic:15482”]
You can also take this one:
I dunno about that. Tywin loved power and I think he saw his children more as extentions of himself than Cersei saw hers as such. He wanted to keep the family great and respected and whatnot and he thought it was up to his kids to act as such. If they failed at doing so (Tyrion, Jaime when he became a Kingsguard and thus couldn’t inherit) then he either ignored them completely or tried to make it so they can live up to his “legacy” (Cersei may have ambitions for her children, but I feel like that’s because she wants them to have a decent life in luxury).
Cersei, on the other hand, is willing to murder her brother and all of Dorne for her children.
@SiROSTRiKE I don’t think this is necessarily off topic? We’re still brainstorming how different characters can be motivated by different reasons, which may help others with their role-playing?
Nah. I’m too busy judging for the CS-comp to react at everything that goes a little bit off topic at the moment. I’ll still yell at you if you go more off topic though
Speaking of character motivation and genuine love for children: Do you think that Poseidon or Zeus would be able to really love the MC?
(I am excluding Hades because Rohie explained his motive and state of mind earlier in the thread and I am too lazy to go look for it. I am not the future god of relaxation for nothing!)
I cannot for the love of me, guess the answer to that question.
I find the Zeus, as pictured in Rohie’s work, to be rather cold and calculative. And yet his relationship with Saint seems too complicated for someone just cold.
And Poseidon, well, he seems to be using the famous technique of ignoring the problem until it magically goes away. The problem in this case being the MC. And yet he tells us he is willing to give us a chance : is it because he is being careful, is he genuine? I don’t know.
So of course I’ll go with my safe (but tragic) bAeson.
I am not the future god of relaxation for nothing!)