Random Things Left Unsaid
Consider the below post as coming out. My insecurities have simply been boiling too much to keep private anymore. (And no, I’m not going to change my beliefs just because some LiveJournal moderator said so.) You can imagine how desperate I was to blurt everything out when I did it in private OOC conversations to a random (and surprisingly mature, as in non-childish) 25-year-old female roleplayer in World of Warcraft.
She treated my confessions, which were even more numerous (and disgusting to most) than what I wrote on this site, with surprising interest and understanding. Since then, we’ve been freely talking in private about our respective anatomies and experiences with them. I listen to her with great interest as well, because most of what she says is something I’ll never be able to experience—yet I want to know what various things feel like for females, if only for the purposes of fiction (but seriously, who am I kidding here?).
For the skeptics out there, I doubt it would be humanly possible to make up all that. And if you think there’s no such thing as female roleplayer in World of Warcraft, go douse yourself in cold water right now, especially if your name is Ranma Saotome.
WoW was my second major experience in roleplaying in general. I only started on Argent Dawn in September, but I’ve already become attached to the character beyond what can be considered healthy. Blizzard summed it best with their loading screen tips: “Remember to keep all things in moderation, even World of Warcraft”. I actually found myself looking in a mirror more since I started actively roleplaying, just to avoid mentally associating myself with the character’s appearance stronger than my own (which I also became more concerned with lately).
Regarding the Kreia quote itself, I think TVTropes said basically the same thing even more succintly: Poor Communication Kills.