But I know the word is also used to mean something you just decide, that isn’t at all canon compatible, and that usage isn’t wrong per se. So Lord of the Rings was one of the fandoms I had an eye on as I got into online fandom in the early aughts, and then also Silmarillion fandom. But I was pretty passive until Tumblr gave me my very own soapbox for my fandom opinions, an actual audience, and mutuals who liked to talk Tolkien from time to time. Then I started theorizing in public, and then fanfic.And considering how poorly some of the other characters are written, that’s saying something. Angela is always shrouded in mystery and no one ever knows what she’s thinking. She’s a powerful enough sorceress that the rules of magic don’t seem to apply to her, and it’s heavily implied that she’s one of the Grey Folk, a supposed extinct group of people who are responsible for the magical state in the land Alagaësia. The books build her character up, and then they provide no payoff whatsoever.
But you're not sure they're actually doing that, because you don't roleplay. Admittedly I haven't been involved in the roleplaying community on Homecoming, so maybe they don't have that issue here. It sure seemed to be an issue on the retail servers though. ALL the Zig maps show some level of damage, and ingame text makes it clear the place is in a constant state of "under repair from one or more breaches". Which makes perfect sense, considering that supermax or no, it's still an effort to keep superhumans (some of whom are capable of Boomtown-level destruction) locked up with mostly mundane technology. Breaches WILL happen even without outside shenanigans, and they're going to be messy when they do.
This way, when I present my character's background to others, I can be definitive about it, and not be concerned I'll step on someone else's. In that light, what I find another player presenting their perchance headcanon as if it were already agreed-upon and accepted game canon, I'm a bit bothered. It doesn't happen that often, but it sticks out to me. I'm sure I do this myself from time to time, but I hope I am at least somewhat aware of it and try to give a fair attempt to avoiding it. The canon works we write our story around are at the heart of what we do as roleplayers. Part of the fun about roleplaying is sharing what you've come up with to others and then using your shared love of writing to create something new.
Special magic substance that only your character uses? Other people probably shouldn’t step on your ideas, because they don’t know how everything about your character interlaces. That reaction to a family member may have driven an important personality trait, and if they say "they don’t act like that to them! " then it could destroy the entire character if you hinge on that feeling. Especially if it’s something that could be read ambiguously, which means they can shove it in their pie hole in the most courteous way of saying so. Another advantage of character headcanon generator generators is their ability to foster community and collaboration.
’ and his hands are roamingggg all over you, not an inch of you untouched. Satoru who asks you for lip balm but he always means he’s going to kiss it off of you. Plenty of times he’s left with your lip combo pressed onto his lips and chin. Bruce just didn't think to tell Clark that he was, by all means, his son's emergency contact.
I'm interested in actual roleplaying, not just a bunch of 15 year olds power tripping, so beyond usually staying in character during party chat I don't roleplay in City of Heroes. But in all honestly that one is probably just going to remind me of all the reasons I eventually gave up and said to hell with roleplaying in the City. For one, for the vast majority of the game’s life span before sunset, the tutorial mission for villains was set to have Arachnos break you out of the Zig. So your very first experience playing a villain was breaking out of what was supposed to be max security. It was the equivalent of a nation state laying down military grade hardware and training against prison guards. Since that was your first impression of the prison as a literal level 1 villain, it was going to stick one way or another.
Lore that you multiple people and collaboratively build, sometimes just from a seed planted by one person. Craziest headcanon I ever saw from someone ingame that drove me up the wall, despite it being kind of a small detail? Marvel and DC were canon things in the CoHverse. Even ignoring the potential issues with ToS there, I just don't understand how that could ever work.
