Guidelines to play an "evil" character

[Frois]

Agreed, and I knew he was pulling my leg but it did show that I forgot to mention stuff, which I do alot. And ''guidelines" Are only there to give an idea, anyone can make anything they want out of it, I made them only so that if they feel like being evil (I made my character just for the sake of playing an evil one, to try it out) but dunno how they could have ideas, My character fits none of these to be honest and is a combination of alot of those. I simply wanted to show people a few things so they would have a bit more of an idea of what they could do, once they have a view on the matter, and as they read they can probably come up with ideas, in fact I'd personally be coming up with about 7 or 8 ideas for characters from reading these guidelines.

So basically I made that to bring inspiration to the hearts of those inspiring evil doers. I agree if they follow these guidelines strictly it'd be boring as heck but if they are the slightest bit immaginative they can pick details from here and there and make their own cool custom type evil character. Roleplay is all about taking things we know and using them in new ways to make an awesome story so, sangwa, these are only ideas I have which I wanted people to see so they could be inspired and maybe use in a way or another, regardless of wether it's to sprout an idea of their own, or to guide themselvs a bit. as long as I'm helpful i'm happy and well even if the guidelines themselvs are useless the fact I wrote this got you to talk about the fact they shouldn't be followed, and players who see this will read your post and thus know not to follow the guidelines and rather make their own.

And Tessra, sorry for getting this wrong, I am usualy a good guy and don't feel these kinds of needs (neither sexual urges nor the need to asert dominance) so I couldn't tell. In fact I tend to stay away from evil subjects trying to supress my own darkness and not wanting to let it loose (I know it's unhealthy but I do it that way and not gonna change) So thanks for clearing that up.

[Tessra]

There is something I don't quite understand about people playing evil characters.  We aren't our characters.  We aren't playing ourselves or our own urges.  We are playing someone who in theory should be entirely different from us.  When my character tortures someone, or murders someone, I don't feel guilt about it.  It isn't *me* doing it.  It's a pixellated being who has their own sense of morality and ethics, which should be comepletely different from my own.

Some people tend to feel bad about "getting in character."  Maybe I'm just too evil in real life.    But I don't get upset about the actions my character takes, nor do I feel psychotic when my character acts a bit like a psychopath.  The only time I ever get upset about something my character does is if his/her/kra's actions cause another *player* to become upset.  This is a game, and should be fun. 

[Frois]

Yes I see your point, we shouldn't be affected by what our characters do but I'm not sure in other people's case but personally when I play my character I completely forget my own self and become the character, my mind works like his/her's/kra's and I now am the character, I of course know it's only a game and a character but my personality adapts, this is why I can roleplay so many characters (not at once but I have several that I use alot) while keeping rp smooth and never mixing OOC with IC

Alot of people who read alot of novels (in my case mostly medieval fantasy novels) will know what I'm talking about, I get so cought up in the book (or game) that I share the character's pains, joys and desires. Same happens when I watch anime I do get influenced by the character's actions. Although this always only result in small variations in my main personality it does make me feel sadness when my favorite character dies (Honestly this is truly pathetic but when my favorite character in my favorite anime of all times died I felt depressed for over a month, well I was on the edge of depression I guess it pushed me over lol)

maybe you simply are one of those who find the midle in RPGs, you are enough in character to allow smooth rp while preventing negative repercutions on yourself, as for others some can't go IC enough so their RP is sometimes inconcistent or chaotic. and as for those like me, (assuming I'm not alone) we get IC too much and thus override our personalyties with that of our character. then once done we return to a backup which got currupted (I rarely make annalogies with electronics but I've been messing with my two computers lately so that's what's mainly in my head XD)

It is hard to find the middle between too IC and not enough IC, maybe you could post a topic to say how you do it it could be interesting and useful.

[Frois]

I truly doubt you understand the full extent of suffering torture, and as for delving within my inner darkness I will not let anyone do that, in fact I don't myself. Being a proud person means I also refuse to be imperfect (yes I am that proud.... which I also repress. odd in a way) besides this is not the reason this topic was made and thus I would require that you stop trying. This topic is so we discuss how to roleplay an evil character. not to undo the chains on one's inner darkness. Which , by the way, can be a really bad thing.

[Frois]

Ninja assassin isn't an anime...

[Frois]

huh I don't even get what you just said, regardless from this point on I will disregard anything you say since it is off topic

[echong]

keep in mind, no matter what type of character you play, that people always choose to do what they sincerely believe is the right thing to do. it is society that deems someone good or evil, a hero or a villain. even the most universally accepted as pure evil historical figures (your hitlers, stalins, caligulas, pol pots, etc.) acted in what they believed was the right. and they had followers, supporters, then and even now. nobody acts on what they think is an evil or bad choice. we all try to do what we think is good, it's just that some people are twisted enough to believe that murder, rape, theft, even genocide are the right and good choices. nobody thinks of themself as a villain, everybody thinks of themself as the hero. even the joker thinks that he's the hero and batman is the villain.

[Frois]

very true, in the real world nobody claims to be evil (those that do are not much of a threat) and only in movies, on tv and in books do people do things only for the sake of destroying everything (there may be a few real world cases but so rare they don't really count) We all act on our own beliefs of what is good or wrong, there is no ultimate rule and even law doesn't care wether it's right or wrong, even if you save lives by killing someone you can still go to jail for life (I think this is BS but I can't do anything about it)

Even Hitler had good motives; yes his method was way wrong since it involved so many dying but the purification of the human race does sound good, but then again if you want to cleans all that is wrong you might very well blow up the whole univers, since wrong is everywhere where there is right

It's very important, as you said, to know that even pure evil thinks it's good. And yes the joker did concider batman to be the villain as all "evil" think those against them are evil "I am justice and you who try and interfeer you are truly evil" (Quote from Death Note)

In fact I'm certain that a character that would do evil just for the sake of doing evil would be boring (Mine has yet to make a big move, since I have to raise my stats because most will refuse to bow to roleplay powers regardless of how much sense there is in my char's backstory) but he has a plan which sounds awesome, I mean his ways are wrong but his plans are awesome. Anyways getting off topic and revealing things about future RPs

[Phantomboy86]

Look what I'm dealing with, man. I'm dealing with fools and trolls. I'm dealing with soft targets, and it's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee … they lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then they look at me and say, 'I can't process it.' Well, no, and you never will! Stop trying! Just sit back and enjoy the show.

Charlie Sheen. 

Don't be ripping off that crazy drughead. XD

[Sarras Volcae]

what the hell is an inner darkness?

[Frois]

just the name I use for the "evil" or "darkness" people repress, jealousy, lust, glutony, greed. That kind of thing, when people repress enough of it it becomes a burden and can be called "an inner evil" or "inner darkness" it's really just a name for the concept of darkness within light.

[Sarras Volcae]

you mean a deadly sin? a vice?

[Frois]

well sort of, let's take for example a model worker, He worked at the same place for years and his life is boring but everyday he is being harrased by his boss, his boss keeps saying that his work is mediocre and the such. Well the worker won't ever say it out loud but inside he'll be brewing hatred and anger towards his boss. This is that worker's inner darkness, if it's left to gather it can explode and make the man come into the office with a weapon and start shooting everyone.

If he exposes it to someone and that person doesn't listen or even critiscises the man then the rage will be fueled and spread on more people. if it is listenned to and people give him support it will be managed, inside He'll always hate the man even if he claims not to.

This is what I mean by inner darkness, although it's not always rage it usualy evolvs into pure rage for X or Y reason

[verden]

The man's rage doesn't shoot anyone. No matter what his state of mind, he chooses to do that. He has to make the mental decision to take certain actions that lead to other actions. He is not a victim. He makes a choice. Seeing it as anything else is allowing the evil to manipulate you. Its interesting to see so many romantic takes on evil. Evil in real life is not so interesting.

[Jekkar]

What about forum rage? Imagine this purely hypothetical scenario: a poster posts ludicrous message after message, so ludicrous that one doubts the sanity of the poster. The poster clearly has psychological issues, but with each post one feesl one's tolerance being stretched that little bit further. Could one not snap, lose one's reason and iindulge in some murderous vendetta against the poster?

Two typos in one paragraph, I shall treasure this post always.