mariusthevampire-deactivated201:
✔: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*
