hi! so i'm kinda new to the beatles rp community & was wondering if you could give me some tips on portraying John in rps? I've never done band rps nor have I rp'd as real people before, hence I'm more used to playing as fictional characters like ocs & certain canon characters ( though i do find myself hesitant rping as certain canon characters ), so I'm kinda afraid that I'll mess up and give John an ooc portrayal.
John is a goofball, he loves a good joke. He’s a smartass, too, who also sometimes (not all the time) plays the “captain obvious” role. Playing real people with an OOC portrayal is super hard to avoid sometimes, especially if you can see some part of yourself in them. I suggest very highly, whatever era of John (or all, of all) you intend to portray, watch interviews or videos of him at the time. Like if you plan to play A Hard Day’s Night era, try to watch the film, watch interviews from that set of years. But my most important (to me) advice when playing John, is don’t make him constantly too uptight. He wasn’t like that. Even if he was stressed it he usually made some silly face or joke or noise. And Paul was basically his best friend. Big tip, in case you didn’t know, John was suppose to always wear glasses because he was nearly blind but he didn’t in the early days because of a mix of just plain not wanting to and the fact he couldn’t see the audience or crowd if he was blind. Pail often has to lead him through dense crowds because of this.
