Johnny Tyler - The Mouth

Johnny Tyler is a character role-playing on Tarnished Coast, Guild Wars 2, by Tonrak.9406.

[renaissance-art]

“These violent delights have violent ends.”

— William Shakespeare

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Helpful things for action writers to remember

Sticking a landing will royally fuck up your joints and possibly shatter your ankles, depending on how high you’re jumping/falling from. There’s a very good reason free-runners dive and roll. 

Hand-to-hand fights usually only last a matter of seconds, sometimes a few minutes. It’s exhausting work and unless you have a lot of training and history with hand-to-hand combat, you’re going to tire out really fast. 

Arrows are very effective and you can’t just yank them out without doing a lot of damage. Most of the time the head of the arrow will break off inside the body if you try pulling it out, and arrows are built to pierce deep. An arrow wound demands medical attention. 

Throwing your opponent across the room is really not all that smart. You’re giving them the chance to get up and run away. Unless you’re trying to put distance between you so you can shoot them or something, don’t throw them. 

Everyone has something called a “flinch response” when they fight. This is pretty much the brain’s way of telling you “get the fuck out of here or we’re gonna die.” Experienced fighters have trained to suppress this. Think about how long your character has been fighting. A character in a fist fight for the first time is going to take a few hits before their survival instinct kicks in and they start hitting back. A character in a fist fight for the eighth time that week is going to respond a little differently. 

ADRENALINE WORKS AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU FIGHT. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A lot of times people think that adrenaline will kick in and give you some badass fighting skills, but it’s actually the opposite. Adrenaline is what tires you out in a battle and it also affects the fighter’s efficacy - meaning it makes them shaky and inaccurate, and overall they lose about 60% of their fighting skill because their brain is focusing on not dying. Adrenaline keeps you alive, it doesn’t give you the skill to pull off a perfect roundhouse kick to the opponent’s face. 

Swords WILL bend or break if you hit something hard enough. They also dull easily and take a lot of maintenance. In reality, someone who fights with a sword would have to have to repair or replace it constantly.

Fights get messy. There’s blood and sweat everywhere, and that will make it hard to hold your weapon or get a good grip on someone. 

A serious battle also smells horrible. There’s lots of sweat, but also the smell of urine and feces. After someone dies, their bowels and bladder empty. There might also be some questionable things on the ground which can be very psychologically traumatizing. Remember to think about all of the character’s senses when they’re in a fight. Everything WILL affect them in some way. 

If your sword is sharpened down to a fine edge, the rest of the blade can’t go through the cut you make. You’ll just end up putting a tiny, shallow scratch in the surface of whatever you strike, and you could probably break your sword. 

ARCHERS ARE STRONG TOO. Have you ever drawn a bow? It takes a lot of strength, especially when you’re shooting a bow with a higher draw weight. Draw weight basically means “the amount of force you have to use to pull this sucker back enough to fire it.” To give you an idea of how that works, here’s a helpful link to tell you about finding bow sizes and draw weights for your characters.  (CLICK ME)

If an archer has to use a bow they’re not used to, it will probably throw them off a little until they’ve done a few practice shots with it and figured out its draw weight and stability. 

People bleed. If they get punched in the face, they’ll probably get a bloody nose. If they get stabbed or cut somehow, they’ll bleed accordingly. And if they’ve been fighting for a while, they’ve got a LOT of blood rushing around to provide them with oxygen. They’re going to bleed a lot. 

Here’s a link to a chart to show you how much blood a person can lose without dying. (CLICK ME) 

If you want a more in-depth medical chart, try this one. (CLICK ME)

Hopefully this helps someone out there. If you reblog, feel free to add more tips for writers or correct anything I’ve gotten wrong here. 

[zellbellart]

I feel like this is really important since the majority of fights and rping stressful scenes somehow manages to bring out the badasses. If you’ve ever experienced death in real life and seen some of the things mentioned above, you’d understand quite a bit that one does not simply just see something and everything be ok. Death isn’t just a corpse laying there… You have more than one sense.

[bearsmaul-deactivated20180328]

(Make a complete picture. Don’t leave them guessing all the time. Make it real, make it visceral. We’re here to escape in the revelry of the awesome and awe-inspiring, not to just agree with each other endlessly! Put some conflict in, and make it great!)

[tommy-flanagan]

Chibs Telford. The Face.

[vintagecowboy]

[outlawgunslingergirl-blog]

(via GIPHY)

[hudsonsbluff]

Tombstone (1993)

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[headlesssamurai]

“He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.” ― Stephen King

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[harshlowe]

[gameraboy]

The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

[dillon-panther]

[ev01art]

kinda like this design

[dchan87]

[johnny-tyler]

Friendship - 2 - What qualities does your character look for in a friend?

Johnny lifts his brew, a slight cant coming to his visage as the question renders upon his mind. His hand rises, combing through the growing hairs of his beard."Y'wanna know? Purpose an' loyalty. If yer on Tyria jus' t'fuck around an' die? You ain' a friend o' mine. I seek fellows an' lasses who are livin' for th'same thing they're dyin' for. It's easy t'die for somethin'. But t'live yer life for somethin'? Takes balls."

[plenary-prodigy]

Some personal relationship themed ask prompts, for this Saturday the 14th February.

In your reblog, rather than deleting, score out any questions that don’t apply to your character for any reason. That way, people know not to ask them to you, but subsequent rebloggers can un-score the questions if they do apply to their character.

For sending the questions: either send the entire question, or the “coordinate” of the question you’d like to send - e.g. “General 3”, “Being Alone 6”.

General

Send 3 characters and an “FMK♥” and I’ll tell you which my character would fuck, marry, or kiss if given the choice.

What’s your character’s favourite type of sweets/candy?

What’s your character’s favourite kind of pastry?

What’s your character’s favourite scent?

Does your character like the colour pink?

What’s your character’s favourite kind of bedding?

Does your character like romance stories? Why or why not?

Does your character sleep cuddling a stuffed animal? If so, is there a story behind the stuffed animal?

Being Alone

Is your character often alone?

What’s the most common reason for your character being alone?

Does your character get lonely when they’re alone?

What does your character do to cope with loneliness?

What does your character like to do when they’re happily alone?

What’s an activity your character always comes back to, to keep them occupied?

What’s your character’s perfect night in?

What could happen while your character was alone that would make them reach out for company?

Friendship

Does your character like to make friends?

What qualities does your character look for in a friend?

Does your character make friends easily?

Who would your character say is their best friend?

Who’s a friend your character would like to spend the rest of their life with?

Does your character see their friends often?

How does your character like to spend time with their friends?

Is there anything that would make your character want to break off a friendship?

Romance

Does your character want a romantic relationship?

Does your character have any romantic preferences (besides gender)?

What’s your character’s romantic orientation?

Does your character find romance comes easily to them?

Is there anyone your character would like to be dating?

How often does your character see the person/people they’re dating?

What’s your character’s ideal romantic date?

What’s a deal-breaker for your character, romance-wise?

Sex

Does your character want a sexual relationship?

Does your character have any sexual preferences (besides gender)?

What’s your character’s sexual orientation?

Does your character find it easy to hook up with new people?

Is there anyone your character would like to be sexually active with?

How often does your character have sex?

What’s your character’s ideal setting for sex?

What’s a deal-breaker for your character regarding sex?

[bhryn-art]

oooooyes please - ask away!

[magenta-squared-deactivated2017]

I’ll gladly take these for Jojo or Xeha. Please don’t be shy.

[altaholics-anonymous]

Yes please! 

[kass-dale]

Just gonna reblog without reading.

[johnny-tyler]

Send a symbol to hear my OC talk about their

◌ Mother/Father

⌘ Guardian

▶ Sibling(s)

▣ Relatives

🔲 Best Friend

❥ Crush

◉ Dream(s)

◖ Ideal Partner

¡ Pet Peeves

☰ Occupation

✯ Perfect day

☂ Preferred weather

☢ Personality Flaw(s)

☑ A Favorite (book/movie/song/etc.)