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✔:What got me into roleplaying

This is very personal, but I am not ashamed.  Go back a decade to me, or to who I was.  I graduated high school and had nothing going for me.  I had no goals and I was addicted to a lot of drugs.  A lot.  I’ve done pretty much a lot of the list: marijuana, cocaine, heroin, acid, opium, etc.  My father was very abusive and my mother mentally checked out years before.  I was just some drug addicted loser who hated everything about life, and who had no access to the medications I needed for various mental disorders like my dissociative disorder and my schizoaffective disorder.  

There are no words for how empty and miserable every day was.  I walked through life feeling like I wanted to scream so loud that my whole body would tear apart.  

One day I decided I had enough.  I would get off drugs and go to college.  I would do something.  In order to do that, I had to separate myself from my friends and the person I had been with for years.  I had always loved the Vampire Chronicles and remember feeling like something had opened up to me when I read about Marius.  

Isolated, I had nothing but books, TV, and the internet.  Reading fan fiction came first.  Really, when I started in the fandom, it was the best time to be in it.  And then I began meeting people who loved the Vampire Chronicles, too.  Since I adored Marius so much and knew so much about him (this was pre-The Vampire Armand, Pandora, and Blood and Gold), they asked me to play Marius.  I said yes.

And it was pretty much set by then.  I fell in love with him in every sense of the word, to be honest.  It was through roleplaying that I was able to quit drugs, gain a sense of confidence, and even find my love of history.  I went to college to study history and am now a professor of history.  I got cool stuff, too.  Free tickets to see the Vampire Lestat musical on Broadway.  VC “swag” like hats and shit.  It was awesome.  I was a valued member of not only a roleplay community, but something more important.  I was a valued member of something real.  

My friends and I would role-play on YIM and create roleplay groups.  Then we started a forum where people could join and talk to us as if we were the real vampires.  But that became tedious for a while and I wanted to write again so…. I came here.  

‽:An unpopular/unusual ship with my character that I love

I honestly think the hate “sex” between Marius and Santino would be quite fun.  

I love this answer!! *cries*

What got you other RPers into RPing? I want more stories *u*