So cringe!

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Tell me about your most cringiest, godawful, terribad, makes you cry just thinking about it RP character or concept.

I’ll go first…

My first real RP character was born from boredom actually. A nice troll player named Lash would visit the Wisp n’ Spirit bar in the Park of Stormwind, back in the day and on Thorium Brotherhood. He was so nice. He’d chill in the upper level of the bar, and no one would fight him, because he was Lash and nice. He came to my characters birthday party once. And to say thank you, I rolled a female tauren warrior named Clair, and I leveled her until I found Lash was online to whisper him and thank him for coming to my birthday party.

It took a while for me to find Lash, so I leveled to about 13. A lengthy endeavor at 14 years old back in Classic. So I kinda liked warrior. (That’s this warrior by the way!) i kept playing, and eventually gave Clair a backstory…

Clair Winterhoof was (in this iteration of her character, since permanently retired) a tauren. But not only was she a tauren, she was dead. Undead. Okay, so I didn’t really understand anything back then, and this concept could even work nowadays with so many folks being open minded about character concepts and lorebending, but back then it was awful. Really terrible stuff.

Clair Winterhoof’s family was killed by centaur in raids on the Barrens, and somehow, a kaldorei banshee spirit from Stonetalon found its way into the camp that had just been raided, and found Clair, a calf of only a few years, and possessed her. Clair Winterhoof is a banshee. And she struggled with that spirit for all her life, but ultimately the banshee took over, and controlled the tauren vessel for a long while.

Clair rose through the ranks of the Royal Apothecary Society early on, since the banshee could tap into whatever herbalism specialist that Clair was at her young age (god it’s soooo bad). She eventually became a higher up member, even working directly with Putress to create the plague used at Wrathgate (which Sylvanas DEF knew about btw- because Clair and Sylvanas were actually friends on a first name basis).

Anyway. Clair had this boyfriend, Owa. He was a tauren too. And through this love, the tauren inside started to emerge… she started to fight back. The inner turmoil Clair faced with the banshee caused a lot of friction between Owa and Clair, and eventually they got married, but not before the banshee revealed itself on their wedding day and that caused Owa to hunt Clair down to kill her.

There was a massive chase that somehow managed to go from Feralas to Booty Bay, where on the rooftops in a Jason Bourne movie sequence of action ended up with Owa completely hoof stomping Clair’s legs to the point that she couldn’t walk.

Okay, now for the fun part. Because Clair was in the forsaken crowd, she knew this Doctor Carnage guy, a blood elf forsaken abomination thing… a cool character played by a then-friend of mine. This doctor gave Clair ROBOT LEGS. Yes. Mechatauren. My title for a while in my Trp was Ghost in the Machine or something.

So after a few years of playing this character I came to realize the feebleness of the character and background and story, so I killed her.

I had the banshee abandon the tauren, and possess another one of my characters: Greyah. And then I killed Clair. And then I left the ghost a secret until eventually I just let it go completely because it was absolutely bonkers.

Anyway, thanks for reading and please let me know your cringe character concepts that you wish you never had. Or that you wish you kept around because you should be able to play whatever you want!

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I was big into Torchwood and I had an idea where my Hunter had a bronze dragon scale lodged into his heart so any time he “died” the scale would revert his body back to the way it was when he first got it lodged in there or something.

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There was one I could barely recall entailing a narcoleptic Draenei, but I fear it’s buried too far to recall with enough detail. I did however also remember a more recent idea I had for a joke character during BfA.

I thought of making a Pandaren who was meant to be a kind of wild-woman bandit in Zandalar. She’d speak in brief broken sentences and be highly energetic and aggressive, jumping merchant caravans for food and other perceived valuables; probably dressed in loincloth and using a spear or staff. I quickly rejected the idea, in part because it seemed impractical, but more so because I could easily people being more likely offended than amused by it; I myself didn’t care much for it the longer it stayed in mind, hence why I’m sharing it here. Either way I doubt I would’ve stuck with it even if it was favorable. It just wasn’t the kind of character I usually prefer.

The brief backstory I thought up was fairly solid, I think. She’d be an orphan from a shipwreck, forced to survive in the jungles of Zuldazar; learning how scavenge and forage while learning pieces of Zandali from spying on the local populace. Thinking about it now, the character probably could be made to work, given some changes, major and minor, but I no longer care and am in no position to capitalize regardless.

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Y’all are crazy these aren’t cringe, they’re cool.

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Here, let me fix that, Opherial.

I have a red dragon. She’s nice. Very nice. She’s an easy going youngster born during the Second War who deals with the trauma of being almost raised to become a war mount with hyper activity. Can’t think about it if you’re distracted by a million things.

That’s not the cringey part, though. As a red dragon, she loves life. Bugs, plants, mushrooms, fish, and, indeed, people. One night I had this bright idea to express her excitable and xenophilic personality by having her enjoy listening to other languages. Which culminated to asking a goblin to speak goblin to her then giggling and saying it’s such a funny language.

I wanted it to be quirky and outgoing, but instead it came off as cringey and racist :grimacing: I really don’t know what I was thinking.

This was a few months ago, too. Wasn’t even while I was a newbie. Let this be a lesson in humility, fellas. Sometimes, even after years of experience under your belt, you can still make mistakes. And that’s okay, we aren’t always perfect all the time.

Then from my blunder years there’s my first proper RP character who was a worgen that was a Forsaken experiment on par with Wolverine. Except instead of getting a metal skeleton they just became a growth pot character. The kind we all know about, the cringey kind.

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I used to roleplay as my Sonic OC on the Neopets forums. I bet none of you can top the pure concentrated cringe of that sentence.

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You fool… I would RP warrior cats on those same Neopets forums! I was born in the cringe… molded by it…

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I played a zombie pirate-ninja once.

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but anyhow I don’ actaully hate the neopets and warrior cats OCs i made as a kid. The toons I made during Cata as a teen are a bit more awful imo because they’re still pretty poorly written but lack the excuse a kid just having fun would have. The details are hazy, but baisically I tried to play a not-so subtle villain Druid and my Belf mage was utterly annoying. Just really awful. Her NETHERDRAKE mount had to babysit her. wth??

Fortunately I was surrounded by people of a similar age and skill level, so it wasn’t THAT bad all things considered, but I haven’t roleplayed since then so I dread what might happen if I try again in earnest.

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Two words. Dwarf Batman.

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Used to RP Zoids in a yahoo group chat that was so full of over powered God modding dorks. Gundam Wing came out later I think and it eventually dissolved as everyone migrated to that. For awhile there was a lot of in fighting between Gundam and Zoids people.

I just want to be a robot dinosaur!!!

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Durning one of my forays into Moon Guard I made a Blood Elf Paladin who was meant to speak in overtly flowery poetic language, because to her Orcish was too ugly and brutish spoken normally. I made frequent use of a line I pulled from Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, “May I mine your grey matter?” Several people assumed it to be sexual which, even now, I can barely understand how, but I digress. If you’ve played as a Malkavian in Bloodlines, the dialogue options are more or less what I was going for. It was tremendously difficult to do and not particularly satisfying to do, not including the aforementioned inquiry to pick one’s brain being woefully misinterpreted. She lasted all of one night in Orgrimmar before I dropped her.

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From the cringe I was born, and in the cringe I shall forever remain. I embrace it. It sustains me.

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I try to forget about my first foray into RP on the Middle-Earth Online forums.

The less said about my cringe the better.

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When I was 17 I was just starting RP and loved it. I watched terminator and wanted to make a goofy one off character as a homage- so I settled on a goblin deathbot in fake skin. I walked up to a friend I knew, had the deathbot pull out a shotgun after confirming their name, then emoted pulling the trigger. Yeah- caught a fat ignore on that one. Ran off and pretended I never made the character.

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I think my “cringiest” was back in my teens. My peak edgelord phase, RP’ing over on the forums of Gaiaonline. Good times.

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Lovi’s a vampire so you may cringe now!

:joy: :black_heart: :smiling_imp:

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I based a character on a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion and I do not care to elaborate further

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Enekie’s original concept was a military experiment gone wrong. I remember ditching it as an idea because I couldn’t figure out the plot holes and also the Darnassian military is a hard concept to believe.

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It hurts to admit, but I used to RP the main villain from Inuyasha in AOL chat rooms which involved me initiating SA. :nauseated_face:

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