(04-22-2020, 01:59 PM)Chris Chaos Said: For me, I have always liked realism. I have also had my character attacked many times without my knowledge before hand, LOL.

However....

A backstage attack? Sure, I'll sell it. Fuck, I'll pretty much sell anything if it could REALLY HAPPEN and still have my character participate. For example, a backstage attack, or hit by a car, or thrown through a window, or numerous crazy things within the ring, sure. I can have my character appear beaten/bruised in the next promo, vowing revenge.

What I see here sometimes that I don't like is the otherworldly shit (I know, it is some of ya'll cup of tea and I am not knocking it, its just not for me). For example:

If a character is shot, then stabbed, then lit on fire, then thrown off the top of a building 20 stories, then ran over by a steamroller and fed to piranha's then have to come back next week and promo like its all fine and dandy. I can't do that. Like if it would KILL your character, it just doesn't feel real to me and I can't justify a promo saying "YEAH! YOU LIT ME ON FIRE AND RIPPED MY HEAD OFF AND THEN SHIT DOWN MY NECK THEN PUT MY HEAD BACK ON, GOUGED MY EYES OUT AND CUT OFF MY PENIS........BUT IMA GET YOU NEXT TIME!" Ya feel me? Like, for me anyway, at the end of the day this is WRESTLING. It's not sci-fi. I understand some of you have sci-fi based characters and that's all fine and dandy with me, I am just saying I couldn't sell it because it takes the realism out of it for me.

Call me old-fashioned

Ok, but let's say instead of someone doing all those things to your character that would no doubt kill him... he just cuts his ear off? Is that a problem? Could you sell that and role with it, because you easily could include how the issue is handled in your RPs? Does the ear get reattached? lol (I dunno, just wild off the top of my head example there)

I agree though, the attacks that would KILL a victim don't really make a lot of sense. I mean, as far as attacks, I'm asking about stuff that's fucking brutal but your char would IC be able to recover enough over the course of your next RPs that it's believable you COULD wrestle the following card you're booked in.