I played in Vanilla WoW a NE born and raised in Westfall. Just thinking about it makes me shudder.
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I think the most cringe things I’ve ever done were a lot of the kind of “assumed importance” ones. Commandant of my own citadel and commanding a battalion and a navy of a dozen warships and such and then going out in public and trying to convince people that yes, I had these things. N-no they didn’t get wiped out when everyone else’s did mine are really good.
I get this is popular now with the rise of Discord and all where you can spend more time writing about your spaces. It hit a lot differently when trying to convince people it was just… kinda a little bit off screen. Behind that tree. Not that one, uhh that one. Also the most important thing I’d done at the time was quest to (original) 60.
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Oh I remember another cringe moment.
I think it was on Blackwater Raiders but this was around TBC and I was raiding full-time on a non-RP server. Yet decided to make an RP alt and dabble in RP but I thought RP was way more serious and you had to be in character 100% of the time.
So I was doing a lot of RP walking in questing areas and I remember grouping with some people to kill an elite in the Barrens.
Everyone was chatting out of character in group chat with the usuals like, I’ll heal you bro and Ima a tank bleh bleh but I was like the one weirdo that was still pretending to be a Rogue and I just cringe thinking about it. No one made fun of me or called me out but they really should have LOL
Another time I did some forum RP with High School friends and I wanted to RP as a British Person so whenever I talked I phonetically wrote out the accent. Not just a few words BUT EVERYTHING. It’s already cringe when you meet Americans that try to fake a British accent, now imagine that but in writing.
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I played through the entire Halo 3: ODST co-op campaign in-character with two of my friends.
The price of true freedom is cringe.
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As far as bad gimmicks go, I am kind of your one-stop-shop for equally awesome and terrible ideas.
One was an undead warrior who was mute from birth and had to communicate nonverbally & lost his jaw in the ~dark embrace~ of undeath. He earned a nickname during his time in the Horde military that just kind of stuck. That name? Quote.
One I never did but contemplated was a Disciple Priest that is modeled after Winston Churchill. That is to say a highly functioning alcoholic who also likes sucking down cheap cigars and has a bit of a temper & foul mouth. I never pulled the trigger because Kul’Tiran males were not available until only recently and prior to that there was no skeleton that could really do old Winston justice.
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So I had never RPed before playing WoW. I’d never gotten involved in DnD or any of those sort of things. I had no concept of what it was like, or how to do it.
But when I played Warcraft 3 and WoW… I loved WoW’s story.
I moved to WRA during the first patch of MoP, when Pandaren were released. My main motive was to find friends to talk lore with. But I saw RP happening and I thought one day that I’d join in… on my main character that I made when I was an awful teenager in the ancient days of Cataclysm.
Enter my first ever character - Crazyprophet, the Worgen Warrior. I more or less followed the quest experience for him. So his RP name was Bradley Silverlaine, Crazyprophet was just my cringe teenage gamer tag… I at least had that one down. But other than that I had no concept of community RP and thus built my backstory around the quest experience… filling in the blanks in my own fashion.
Bradley Silverlaine was an orphan from a noble family, raised as a Ward of King Genn Greymane. He was childhood best friends with Liam Silverlaine. Due to his heroics in Northrend. He became a cool Alliance hero, saving like half of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms probably, before heading to Outland and Northrend. (after Cataclysm? Wtf me!?!). With the death of Bolvar Fordragon, Bradley was the biggest coolest Alliance hero in ever, and so was named Highlord of Stormwind. 
Luckily it only took me like one RP for a well meaning person to reach out and explain to me how community RP works. We can’t all be the Dragonborn, sort of thing. So I retconned him pretty fast. But I still cringe at THAT being my first ever RP character concept.
I like to think I’ve improved, these days. A bit 
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i refuse to talk about the Wrath of the Lich King era where my character died like 2 or 3 times, one of which was coming back as a death knight, and then getting fixed up to being alive again
wait what
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i decided to play a second-generation death knight.
i didn’t know exactly what that entailed or the entire lore of arthas but i realized kinda fast it wasn’t gonna work and went back to just doing werewolf things.
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A character dying is a rite of passage. You must know what people say about your character at their funeral.
Nothing concerning WoW, but back in the olden days of 2001-2002 I used to RP in MSN Groups chatrooms and the dinky little websites you could make for them (really just prettied up forums). My first character was a vampire in a vampire chatroom, but honestly I had no idea what the story was there. I just sort of showed up and started RPing.
My character was eventually turned back into the living via the ‘power of love’ about two weeks in. After that she was a wandering adventurer that bounced between ‘realms’ (chatrooms) and just had random adventures with other players.
I didn’t really start RPing in WoW until I started this character and started playing on this server back in 2020. Before then Lightninghoof (which was RP-PVP but only in name), Nesingwary and Thunderlord and my friends back then were not RPers. I’m usually not all that great at RPing in games but I’ve been working on improving and not showing up to events, saying a couple of things and then running away because I get nervous.
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Ah, you think cringe is your ally?
You merely adopted the cringe.
I was born in it, molded by it!
I never met a normie until I was already a man!
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I was a regular on here around the time Cata was released. I was 15. Ladies and gentlemen when I say I have posted cringe I mean I have posted the purest, most concentrated cringe to ever befoul this community.
Some of the most truly insane and unhinged character backgrounds conceivable. Some PvP banter which I thought was much more sportsmanlike than it really was. One particular YouTube video I made and posted which only returns to me in deep night terrors or sleep paralysis.
When Blizzard rebooted the forums some time around WoD(?), they deleted all posts made prior to a certain date. That day an immense weight was lifted from my soul. I am a cringe poster, and I always will be, but the sins of the past must never be relived
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I’ve told this story before but when I came here I had no RP experience at all, other than an active imagination. It was really neat seeing people live out their characters.
There was an event at Fight Island where Orcs were having like a fighting tournament (I know, imagine that.) Someone challenged me and I was like, “ermagerd!” Again, I had -never RPed before ever-.
We emote back and forth but I don’t know what I’m doing. I go to kick him in the face. He catches my kick and throws me back.
So, being new, of course I did the coolest thing I could think of and -use the momentum to backflip and land on my feet-. I can still read the crowd’s literal groaning emotes. They haunt me. I promptly let my character get his butt beat because I was so embarrassed. I spent a lot of time afterwards just watching people because I felt really, really dumb afterward and I swore I’d never let that happen again. It was a good lesson though. It forced me to think about RP in a plausible way.
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I feel like we’ve all been here, though. Learning how to take a hit and extend a conflict instead of viewing it as a competition you need to badass your way out of is something a lot of RPers go through.
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Borgg I still remember your duel with Balrik(?) of the Bouldershoulder Brigade on top of the Undercity tower. Good times.
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“Pssh, nothin’ personnel, kid.”
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That was super cool. I remember too. Wish I had won though lol. It was a really neat impromptu thing. I remember I was with someone exploring the UC ruins and we ran into a ton of Bouldershoulders. They could have just wiped us off the map but instead we emoted and the rest of them stood back while Balrik and I fought. It was super epic.
The Bouldershoulders were always honorable adversaries. I really miss the days when WrA had its own thing going on. You don’t get stories like that anymore.
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Cringe for me usually involves half dragons, child characters, anyone playing a peon( it’s not funny or original) vampires, role players who immediately show you sexy fan art of their toons then immediately tries to erp with you. coughwra guildscough
But but but we have a “farmers market” 
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