Do You Incorporate RP Into Your Healer?

So, as you all may or may not know, I make webcomics.* As such, I'm inflicted with a kind of schizophrenia common to all storytellers and writers, where I see and act upon things from my character's point of view.

In this case, Kacho Nacho. He's very much 'real' to me, with a distinct, developing personality which is somewhat different from my own.

When I play my humble lalafell white mage I can't help but emote or say things in character. Whether it be a dungeon run, a FATE, or just helping a stranger with a difficult mob, the other players are mostly meeting Kacho.

That got me thinking. Do other players do this too? When they switch from one character to another do their online personalities change?

*Kacho Nacho
*Trigonometry
*Gnomeregan Forever

I don't do that specifically, but I always try to think about the Lore whenever I see people suggesting changes in any job in the forum. Sometimes, the spells/skills are good but they don't fit the lore nor the general theme of the job people are proposing them to; this bothers me a little.

Yes and no, though I understand exactly what you mean by a 'writers split personality'... as I rp (and used to write a lot) quite a bit outside of ff. I do somewhat "tilt" in personalities based on which alt I'm playing without really thinking about it, and moreso with DFed parties and not so much with FC... my responses, or how I respond, to convo in the party change slightly depending on which character I'm playing. One more submissively responsed, one more neutral, one more energetic, one more apologetic.... etc
I'd write more in my response if I wasnt on mobile, though.... :/

Somewhat.

At the very least when it comes to glamour I'd like to reflect it as close to the job as possible, ex:

WHM: A natural/ foresty look, so it'll be furs and shades of brown and with more wooden canes. The woad set is perfect for this.

SCH and AST share the same type of "academic and practical" look ... mainly because their gear are shared.

I love your responses! To continue the discussion, does your RP affect your healer class/job choices?

In other words, after you developed your character, did you decide certain healing classes were must-haves and others were definitely not?

My friend actually has a different way of greeting a DF party depending on which of her many characters that she is playing, hahaha. Part of me kind of wants to do the same, but I honestly don't have the heart to give the cold or more stagnant responses that other characters might offer. A simple ellipsis would actually suit one or two of them more than any actual greeting but I could never do that!

Ahh... and I just realised that this was asking about healers specifically, so I guess it only applies to my friend really(....sorry!).

On the topic of rp, not so much healing, just the concept of rp in general, yes. I incorporate quite a lot of rp into my character and the reasons for why he does what he does both in terms of writing a story and in terms of his personality in game. Which makes his current race quite a topic... A story for another date.

When I started this thread I was thinking just about RP and healers in general. After all, I have found healers overall have more empathy and a greater tendency to tell stories than players of other roles.

I'm not certain why. Perhaps it's due to the fact that, by definition, healers have to interact with other players. Whereas tanks and damage dealers have a lesser need to interact with their fellow party members.

But why be so exclusionary? I'd love to hear more about how players incorporate RP into any of their characters.

Perhaps a friendly moderator could move this thread to General?

When I'm out doing content (DF, fates, etc.) I'm not in character, but my character and her story are definitely influenced by her job and role as a healer/white mage, as I always main healer and it just made sense to build her identity around that (it seems to be different with my alts, although I end up incorporating healing into their characters too because I can't play anything else well, lol).

For me, it doesn't really extend beyond glamor choices (which, in turn, are mostly influenced by headcanon... an internal-facing RP of sorts?).

Depending on what job I have equipped, I'll RP a little bit gear wise / Lore wise and I do have my own personal background for my character. The FC room is decorated to their made-up personality but I don't actively RP as the character itself when I interact with other people. It's more themed than anything else for my own private info.

"Why's there 4 million books in your FC room? And is that Fortemps's portrait over a fireplace in her closed bedroom? "
"Day's a nerd and she loves him to borderline creepy level."
"Ah."

Sounds rather terrible in my ears.

I just glamor sensible equipment over the terrible ones, plus my gut feels wrenched whenever I see some horrible text macro thrown onto a Raise or some finishing attack like Deathflare and just want the run to be over.

I don't play in-character unless I'm specifically RPing with someone. Mostly my outfits are just to look nice, but I have few non-combat outfits that I've made for RP purposes. (Mostly because she doesn't learn any combat skills until she's 29.) I have a super long background story for Haprilona (and several other alt characters) all the way from age 4 to age 33, so it's quite a wall of text that I have with me in my head.

I haven't properly RPd for almost a year since my only RP buddy left the game and the RP scene seems to have pretty much died on my server. Even so, I like to write stories and I like to RP in my head without really expressing it to other players. For now I just play the game "normally" and interract with others like I do in everyday life.

I'm also so tied to my character's personal story that it'd feel weird to act as her in, say, Aery, where she has no business to be in in the first place. And she certainly isn't an omni-crafter or a master of ten combat styles like the actual game character is. XD

Yeah, when I queue into DF on my SCH, sometimes I do a little thing where my fairy is sick and can't come along. I dunno why I keep getting removed from the group, though. I think they just can't handle the sheer awesomeness of my RP.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

For me, it doesn't really extend beyond glamor choices (which, in turn, are mostly influenced by headcanon... an internal-facing RP of sorts?).

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This is basically how I am. I don't really engage much in direct RP in game, but I have my own headcanon that impacts the jobs I focus on to some degree, as well as my glamours. Sometimes people think I'm weird for not always being comfortable playing some jobs (such as DRK or BLM—though I've twisted headcanon enough at the moment to play both because they're more fun than what would have been my normal choices, PLD and MCH, for those two roles) or how picky I can be about whether a glamour is something that Alahra would actually wear into combat.

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Originally Posted by pushin_tin

Yeah, when I queue into DF on my SCH, sometimes I do a little thing where my fairy is sick and can't come along. I dunno why I keep getting removed from the group, though. I think they just can't handle the sheer awesomeness of my RP.

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I know you're trolling but that's a funny image. Thanks for the laugh! :D

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This is basically how I am. I don't really engage much in direct RP in game, but I have my own headcanon that impacts the jobs I focus on to some degree, as well as my glamours. Sometimes people think I'm weird for not always being comfortable playing some jobs (such as DRK or BLM—though I've twisted headcanon enough at the moment to play both because they're more fun than what would have been my normal choices, PLD and MCH, for those two roles) or how picky I can be about whether a glamour is something that Alahra would actually wear into combat.

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I don't think it's weird at all. I do the exact same thing.

My main has a number of sets, two of which are used in dungeons. Her main set is just a standard tribal, miqo'te look which is something IC even if her presence in such a place is not, whereas her other set is one for cold weather and is more modern and refined in appearance and is mostly just my way of getting around the fact that I hate seeing people wearing revealing gear in those cold dungeons like Snowcloak, haha. My Warrior is the same way in that he has a warm and cold weather set. I have a bunch of other fluff sets for out in the world too. All of my characters have a raincloak for instance that I always equip when the weather turns dreary, my main eve uses part of the Halloween barding and Highland barding for wet and cold weather respectively!

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Originally Posted by Alahra

This is basically how I am. I don't really engage much in direct RP in game, but I have my own headcanon that impacts the jobs I focus on to some degree, as well as my glamours. Sometimes people think I'm weird for not always being comfortable playing some jobs (such as DRK or BLM—though I've twisted headcanon enough at the moment to play both because they're more fun than what would have been my normal choices, PLD and MCH, for those two roles) or how picky I can be about whether a glamour is something that Alahra would actually wear into combat.

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I do the same.. my alt I use to RP but my main, not so much. Though of course he still has quite the story, so I COULD.... but nah.

I like how a lot of people are "I RP in my head but that's so weird" but it seems to not really be that weird... hehe.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

I like how a lot of people are "I RP in my head but that's so weird" but it seems to not really be that weird... hehe.

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To be fair that's not what I said. :P I said that other people find it weird sometimes (I've been told as much directly, lol).