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The loss of a character

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Ame88:
This is actually something I've had on my mind for a long while now. You beat me to the punch!

Personally, if it's a character I've really been attached to, I generally wouldn't delete them due to wanting to hold onto the sentiment and emotional value their in-game model holds. I do that because I know at some point down the line I'd log in years later, granted this game is still running (which I believe it is still running strong in some regards) and look through all of those characters. Some I may not remember at all, but then running across those gems that make you go "Oh my gosh! I remember this one- oh, and that one rp we had, oh those were the days!" Just to tug some of those cherished and amazing, fun, and maybe emotional memories back your way. That's why I'd hold onto them, personally. To me, some, if not all, of those characters stand as a reminder of something you did. Something to remind you of your time. A reminder of all the hardships, and fun, unforgettable times you had in that place. Those characters also stand as a mark of your growth as a person. One to remind you of your noob days, edgy days, power playing days, and so forth up until wherever you left off. Even if they are just characters, they are indeed special.

Now some people don't get attached to characters and can easily move on from them as a stage of "growing up." Which, it is. People do grow up and move on from the things they do as a child or young adult. But some of the things they did in the past will always stick with them. Good, or bad unfortunately. But, chances are, some of those characters are still with them somewhere.

Likuu:
I have PLENTY of characters I've used so many times that i've finally grown to wanna play newer characters. Personally, my roleplaying muse entirely has been getting more slim as I get older but I occasionally get the spark again to roleplay. Sometimes I'll find a way to use an old character with a twist, simple name change and a little bit different personality compared to how I played them when I was younger as well!

PocketMutt:
Characters have such significance to many of us, doubly so if you've rped with them. It's interesting to consider the ones that slip through the cracks or ones in which our engrossment in them waxes and wanes. For me, I've always been dependent on one character for years at a time and it would take a lot for me to willingly detach from them. But for some reason, at a certain point, I just move on to another character with no forewarning or expectations. In fact, it seems like all the characters I've ever been most attached to have been made without any expectations and absentmindedly. Spontaneous might even be too strong a word to describe it.

I suppose it's a cycle and everyone seems to have their own sort of cycles when it comes to this as well as their own rates of going through characters. It might say a lot about the way in which we get inspired or the way we establish our interests. Either way, I try to hold on to as many memories of characters as I can even if I seem to only be able to stick to one at a time.

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