How attached do you get to your characters?

Well I RPG but with email groups like yahoo. I build my characters from a basic bio and go from there. I can get very attached to them. Yes I've had dreams about them and I have killed time while trying to figure out what to with them and how I think the story might go. We build our stories by interacting with other characters. It doesn't always go the way we plan on though :) That can be the fun part. I play multible characters, male and female. I enjoy them all. Some are good guys, some bad and like most people many in-betweens. I love doing RPG and I've been doing it now for 7 years. Yes some characters I get more into and more attached but that's ok with me. It's all in fun.

I tend to get very attached to my characters. Fortunately for me, my characters usually end up retiring. I have had one character die and I actually cried when it happened. I also have dreams of my roleplaying characters.

I don't know SLA, what is it and what is it about? I have an Interest in Role playing games, but can't decide which one to go for or to check out, I am also interested for another reason, but it's nothing to do with your question so I won't go Into that?

I'm pretty attached to my current character, a lumberjack who has in only a year or two been trough so much and really he only wants to retire though still he never gets the chance. I've managed to think like the character very well now and he has developed very much, by chance he got the leader of the group and so, I kinda like playing him.

I'm not familiar with SLA Industries, but I will say that I used to play EverQuest, a "massively multiplayer online role-playing game," as they call it, for the better part of three years. I was VERY attached to my character and VERY sad to see her go, when the time came to move on, that is. Right now I have a subscription to the new MMORPG, Vanguard, but just haven't built up the courage to start playing, as it demands so much attention.

I tend to roleplay more one-on-one with a friend of mine, and even though I have more than one character, I feel extreme attachment to them all. Not to where I think I AM that character, like you said...but if we're in a situation in the roleplay where one of my characters would be greatly emotionally effected...I kind of, feel their pain, for lack of better words. Its almost as if I am that character for that moment, though I don't really have that mindset at the time. I can often make myself cry by imagining something that my character fears happening to them.

Since this is something that I know nothing about (re: my post about what is anime?) I can't really answer to that specific question but I think I can give a round about answer. I am an avid TV viewer of just certain television programs. One of my favorites is Nip/Tuck and I know how I held my breath for weeks during the "Slasher" period because I was so afraid that one of the characters was going to be harmed. As to you lecanis, now that I understand cosplay, after you have spent the money for the costume and all it has taken emotionally to get into character, how do you think you are going to feel when that character is gone? Will the character ever reappear? I know it may sound trivial to some, but I do understand how you can get attached to an "alter". If the character does not come back, will you be assigned or will you pick another character, or will you just be finished with the game and the other players go on without you? I've quite a bit to learn. And as for you, I'm really sorry about your impending doom~Donna

I can totally understand. I tend to develop my toons by writing stories about them, fleshing them out with personality, faults, lives, and families. I do this mainly because I am a writer and it is what is needed for writing stories. This "attachment" can also occur just by roleplaying with your toons. Roleplaying can include a lot of involvement on your part depending on your style of roleplaying. As much as I enjoy roleplaying and the toons I create, however, I still try to keep on foot in reality and remember what is fiction and what is real.