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Does your mood affect RP?

Not only my mood, but my body as well.

I come home from a long night of work with my feet pounding and my body begging me for the least amount of effort possible. Sometimes the need to rest is too much, and I eat and sleep right away.
 
I find that when I sit down to write that my mood shifts to accommodate the activity, evening out the highs and lows of my day.

That said, I do struggle to settle into a proper schedule for posting usually right after returning from vacation or after a work project has wrapped up.
 
Definitely. It happens in both directions for me - if I'm in a low mood, I might not feel the desire to roleplay... At the same time, the right roleplay might be able to boost my mood. When I'm feeling higher, my motivation, inspiration and dedication to my roleplays can amplify. When I'm riding higher I can seek certain roleplays more enthusiastically, while when I'm lower even my favourites can be hard to keep up with.

I have one roleplay, however, that has persisted in being my favourite and most-developed for well over a year now - despite breaks, pauses and changes. I find that an understanding partner who can work with you matters even more than mood - mood you can recover from if it tanks your muse, a partner who isn't understanding and patient won't last through a tanked muse/busy period. A partner who isn't understanding leads to dropped roleplays.... and potentially a worse mood, when you're not prepared for that.
 
Yes when I rp highschool dxd usually it's very smutty... but one time the juggernaut drive was unleashed and any highschool dxd fan knows that's pure terror rage and sadness put into physical form
 
I sometimes avoid roleplaying all together when I am really really angry or in a lot of grief, because I tend to show it in my writing. I figure my partners would notice. Lol
 
It has always been a bit strange to me when roleplayers exclaim that their mood at the time they are writing a response affects the way their character acts and how they feel. It personally has never happened to me as I feel as though the character that I am playing is simply a figment of my imagination and should not mingle with myself in any way. This helps me to keep my characters feelings and thoughts separate from my own. Obviously this changes if/when I intentionally make a character similar to myself, but even then I never allow my emotions to dictate how my character functions.

If I find myself to be angry or sad in any way, I refrain from interacting with others entirely as I don't want my emotions to overflow and thus hurt or affect the other person in a negative way. I apply this to people as well as roleplay or any other hobby of mine. Though I do understand that there are people who use roleplay as a positive outlet to help them cope or do away with any negative emotions they may have, which I find to be a good method.
 
I'd say it is a 50/50 at times. I feel like there are times where I am generally in the zone and just like charging onto the field ready for the game and ready to get in those...well...posts, but, other times if I am drained, distracted, bummed out...I just don't feel like putting up a post at that time. It is like I see the post, and, perhaps I've read it but the drive to respond doesn't quite take so the response will come the next day. I would like to say it doesn't happen all the time but sometimes it does. I don't like to keep my rp partner waiting too long but sometimes I have to be in that right mindset let alone that drive to really focus and get those responses in and once I do it feels quite satisfying. Rpers have good days and then not so good days.
 
Yes, absolutely. Sometimes when I am feeling certain ways I avoid writing because I know my characters will be affected. I try not to let this happen, but it slips in from time to time. Writing in a good mood typically produces better responses as well.
 
It depends on what happened beforehand. If my day went well - it makes things easier. If I'm tired for whatever reason - then there is a struggle. But I once I get going in a story/RP, then it's not too bad
 
Mood might have to do with what I am doing in the background too. Some good writing comes when I am listening to the right tunes.
 
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