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Post by SQUIRREL on Jun 29, 2010 3:32:10 GMT -5
Right well I am here to give you my own personal touch on how to rp guys, in general. I see a lot of in the RPing world that there are not as many guys around, seeing as the main population of RP people are girls, with a few males, seeing as I have only ever known two people to be guys in my four years experience of rping. I go round a lot of sites and a lot of people just say that they ‘cant’ play guys, as if they do no know how too, well it is not that hard to be honest, and makes life a lot more interesting as you are playing outside of your comfort zone. I am female and most of the four years I have been rping I have played guys. I started off with girls as that is what I am, but when I started playing guys I tried to be just like my best friends, one is a jock type kind of guy, flirty and brave and the other is a little shy, caring and a dream guy for soppy females. I say to people who think they can’t, just give it a try, I mean it can take a couple of months to a year to get used to the idea but seeing as males do not come round too much on rp sites, unless your site is popular or has strict rules, you can get a lot of activity and threads with people for just being a guy instead of a girl. Someone asked me how come I play guys so well and where I get it all from and this is the point of this whole thread, it is to outline what I think are the main points about rping a guy, and give people the confidence to go and create a male character and have some fun with it.
Number One: not all guys are robots and have no feelings, males are still humans and though maybe the blokes in your life come across with the whole, ‘I’m too hard to cry and I like to say the word shit alot’ act but they still have feelings like the rest of us, they might not express it as in the way us girls do, but they do it in their own little ways. Deep down, your macho character will cry, and have a little breakdown, it can be because he had been hurt. It could have been because of his past and what happened to him, the memories of it. Or for what is going on right now in his life, all guys do cry. So when having an emotional thread with someone, have your male stutter, or not even speak for a moment. When the other people (male or female) is jabbing away at them, asking for answers to questions she/he just asked. Have a whole paragraph on him just sitting there, quite silently, not really wanting to look at the person and thinking back on what it reminds them off from the past, or whatever hurt him. Even have a couple of tears come to his eyes. Which he can try to hide or wipe away. Not all guys will get up and walk away from situations like that, a lot of them have a backbone and can stick around a lot before needing to have to walk away, unlike me who would run off the second anyone started being mean :] and I can guarantee that when the other character sees your male crying they will suddenly turn into comfort, unless they really mean what they are saying and they will probably carry on till you get up and walk away. So when this comfort comes let you guy fall into it, the tear swiping and hugs let him embrace that, this is because guys do like to have comfort, they just don’t know how to come right out and ask for it there and then. When my cocky guy is upset, he will shut up, completely not speak until the other one has finished, he will be bottling up the anger and that will be expressed on his face, but at the same time a mixture of tears will be held within him. If it is someone he cares about, when they walk away he was stutter, stand there for a moment before running after them, grab their shoulder turn them round and kiss them. My guy is all about the actions and not the words, like most guys I know and have grown up with. Guys won’t like to show these emotions so make sure you act like you don’t want the other person to know, burying their head into the other characters shoulder to hide the tears etc. Use your emotions well, adapt them, have them have a rage and maybe punch something in anger, then when they have settled have them sit down and cry, even strong guys can cry sometimes people.
Number Two: Guys love to flirt, but not in the way we do ladies. We can do it in a more subtle kind of way, little hints here and there and so forth, guys just plainly come right out and say it. There are some guys that can be a little cute and strangely weird about it like ‘did you fall from heaven?’ believe I have heard that one too much, and no guy gets that far with it, unless you like the sloppy puppy dog eye type. I find in most rps, that a lot of guys come across as the whole man whore type, I know mine are like that a lot of the time but guys are prone to thinking about sex too much, we can’t help their genes. Here is how I get round flirting with my guys, they don’t really flirt face to face, most just look at the other character in a seductive manner, but online and so forth they are more likely to come right out and flirt the night away, it makes they feel better, and sexy talk is always good for a male. So when on AIM, MSN, Twitter etc have you guy come on a lot stronger than he ever does in person, then back off a bit. Have him make little comment like ‘if you are not going to kiss me, I’m sure there is a lot of other girls willing too’ but cocky with it or just put the manly edge on it like ‘babe, you know you love my cock’ guys curse a little too much but we still love them, so if your going to be a guy, get ready for some strong language. One rule with AIM and guys, do not use OMG, STFU etc etc, it makes them look a lot more girly, spell them out and put some swear words into it ‘oh my fucking god’ is a good one my characters use. Don’t give into the other character, sexy talk is all great but don’t be like ‘I’m coming over now’ drag it out and have some fun with it ‘don’t tempt me like that’ etc, guys don’t want to seem like they are bowing to the girls feet, they want to make them crave them. You know your male will end up going round there anyway so it is all good; guys love to wind the other person up and press all the right buttons, male nature I guess. In a thread make your character flirty in a different way, try to hold hands with the person, keeping touching them even if it is just a touch on the shoulder, brushing a hand across their waist, everything like this is a more subtle way of flirting with someone, kind of telling them you can’t keep your hands off them. My shyer and sweeter character loves to go behind a girl, take hold of her waist and pull her close to his crotch, but at the same time let his head relax on her shoulder, flirting at its best. Body heat is amazing at building tension between the couple, the sexuality of the crotch pressing against her, but the loving hug from the back. If your character is not shy, then he won’t be subtle about anything, he’ll most likely tell it as it is and not have a problem with it, keep that in mind.
Number Three: Shyness, yes this may sound really weird but some guys can be really shy. I do not really know that much on shyness of guys because my guys always seemed to get what they wanted too have, so I’m just going to try and come up with something from what I notice in real life. How I see it is that the shy guy, in a conversation with a bunch of people might just keep out of it and listen to everyone else, kind of figuring out what there about from what they are saying. He will probably walk off after a while since he is going no where, and most likely like one on one conversation, not groups. He might change a lot when drunk, or when hyper or something on those lines. So what I’m do if a person started coming on to your shy guy, he might suddenly change the subject and say something really odd like ‘the sky is really blue today’ so yes they can be that funny kind of shy, like people I know. They will do anything to break silence and some of the stuff they come out with can actually be really funny. They are normally the good guys as well, to sit with a girl/boy when they are crying about this other person they liked and tell them they didn’t deserve them and everything would be ok, like a shoulder to cry on character. They will be the ones who were brought up with good proper manners, open the door and let the girl/boy sit down first and all that stuff, the other guys can be like that too, but these guys probably do it to everyone, not just someone they like. If the person is that shy they don’t even speak to the other sex, then have them stutter and try to move away from it all, but if the other character keeps nit picking at you, they might settle and actually talk to them. The mentioning of sex is the best part, have them blush a little, try to look at anything but the person that is going on about sex to them, kind of immature about it really. If actually having sex, then have them making some mistakes, stumbling while on the way to the room, and always asking if it was ok, never really just going with it, kind of surprised it is happening to them. They will do sweet gestures as well, but not in person, a flower on the door for when she comes home is a big step for the guy of course, normally the guy will start off like this before soothing a lot more and as he gets more comfortably he will settle and act a little more like all the other guys.
Number Four: the big one, sex! Now do not think of yourself as a freak for rping sex, it is just writing and someone said something once on another site which was on the lines of … writing comes from writers and writers makes books, or something like that. Honestly it is not a bad thing to roleplay sex, to me it is like safe sex without actually doing it, I promise your parents would be much happier you were writing about it than just bonking any girl or guy. But don’t tell them that please. So I think you should think of yourself of a romance writer. So if people say you are weird, sick or anything else they can come up with, fuck them. I’ve done it a couple of times on the TON of sites I have been on, mainly with the same person and we laugh about it a lot of the time and it was fun to be honest, funny and something you can look back on and laugh about. I love writing about it because you can put so much emotions and feelings into the piece of writing, so I am going to try and teach this to you without be really sexual, I know that is really hard since we are talking about sex, but never mind, I’ll give it a shot. Right normally it begins with a lot of flirting, each character trying to find out how much the other wants it, having your male character tease the female and then walk off to bed is a great idea, because most of the time the female will follow. Clothes being removed but focus on what is going on within the brain of your male, more than what is actually happening as you make your way towards the bedroom. Not just ‘sexy time for meeeeee!’ try and delve into the characters emotions, how lucky he feels just to be with her right then, to spend a night with her, to pleasure her. It is good to go into detail, not the whole ‘bonking’ detail, relate the feelings to actual things that have happened to him, even something stupid like it felt like the best Christmas times two. My previous sex thread last around three-five posts, which is not that much but only two of them would actually be the action of sex, the rest would be what he was doing with his hands, head, fingers. Like caressing her sides with his fingertips, kissing her neck, and this is before the clothing were even taken off. Not all guys are rough, or virgin like, there is a good medium kind of sex and that is probably the best, they do what they want to do and nothing more or less, a lot of guys will love to be in control and once in a while he would love the girl to take control, my guys love to touch them, not really any kissing just touching, like tracing his fingertips over her bare stomach, kissing from her collar bone to above her pant line, make them look like they are enjoying it, and not wanting to hurry it. My guys love the foreplay a lot more than the sex a lot of the time. They can speak, like saying they love the other person, how amazing it is feeling, everything positive. It is what you feel your character would really do, you have to tap into their minds for this, you made them now make them as though they were real. A lot of guys will feel lucky to be in that situation so they will do a lot of things to get it just right for the girls, guys are not pigs.
Number Five: my favourite one, fighting. Guys are just typical and like to use their fists instead of words, unlike us girls, we can bitch fight with words till the cows come home. It can go from anything, depending on the plots and stuff you have going on too, like a yelling fight is good, just trying to be louder than the other, saying harsh words you’ll hater regret. When guys fight, they get so wrapped up in themselves and forget about what the yare really fighting for, and who they are fighting, because what they must be doing to them is bad and they have to stop it. They can get angry for someone challenging them, getting the upper hand, so they need to explode and guys can have a very short fuse when they want too. They like to install fear into people, and blame everyone but themselves for whatever has happened or is happening at that time. My guys just kind of go crazy, they don’t use words a lot of the time, they jump straight into it, fight and then talk later, just the way it goes really. But I’ve never really had a fight scene with anyone else before, so battling against you and some random made up character in your thread means you always seem to win. A lot of guys will get jealous when they see their girl/boy with someone else, so that might be a problem and they will go over trying to solve it. Guys can get emotional with their comments as well, mainly when they are upset and angry at the same time. But they would rather just blame someone else and have a full on paddy for a while, fingers turn into a fist, redness to cheeks, yelling all that stuff. To make it a lot more interesting go on about their past, why what they said hurt them etc. after the telling have him run his hands through their hair, over his eyes, chew on the lip and hit something. When he has calmed down he will not really want to talk, a good sorry is very good for the bloke to do, they might want to walk off for a while and then come back.
Guys love to do sweet gestures as well, make meals and stuff, make them feel good and guys secretly love to look after the person they care about. There is a lot of stuff you can still say about guys, but the main points have been mentioned and I hope they help the people wanting to rp male characters. PLEASE JUST TRY MALES if a site has low members of men, then become one for a laugh, an experience, a try. PLEASE. Thanks for reading.
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