My first RP character was an edgy Draenei Grey Warden with the serial numbers filed off… who was also a Death Knight as soon as I unlocked the option because I didn’t have the patience to actually level her up.
My first Roleplay character was a set of twins in the dragonball universe who used fusion i was very young at the time and had tons of fun with the entire concept of roleplay and lucked into an amazingly supportive group of fellow dragonball roleplayers.
Seph and Maxwell the amazing double trouble dragonball characters who fusion danced into the amazingly creative character Sephix
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I’m trying to remember my first RP character but it’s all a blur nowadays. I think he was a noble-born battlemage from Stormwind but also Dalaran who owned property in Duskwood and was also on the run from a secretive order of assassins because reasons.
My first RP was actually held on my Pandaren mage, Laoku. But my first RP character was Bradley Silverlaine - heir to the Fiefdom of Pyrewood, last descendant of Baron Silverlaine, personal best friend of Liam Greymane, and, after I quested through the Cata content, the Highlord of Stormwind. I mentioned it earlier in the thread:
I had a good concept of the lore at the time, but had zero idea of how RP etiquette worked, insofar as you can’t make yourself the big important person the game presents you as - otherwise we’re ALL big important people. I guess I was so used to being the “Dragonborn” or the “Champion” that I never really considered that RP didn’t work that way. Not that I knew a thing about RP, when I started.
Bradley’s actually still around as a character (his toon name is Crazyprophet and he’s my current Alliance main still), but I hard retconned the guy early into MoP. Now he’s a Captain in the Gilnean military, who has some vague distant relation to the Silverlaine family that was enough to get him an officer’s comission, but not enough to really claim a title… not that there’s anything left to claim anyway.
So yeah, first RP characters are a hell of an adventure, aren’t they? xD
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Late to the party but my DK was my first WoW RP.
She’s a 25K plus year old whose life could best be described as “and then it got worse”.
When finalizing her chatacter I wanted a DK that wasnt the tried and true “first I was a hero, now I’m an angry anti hero” I saw in a lot of NPC DKs. In that vein Saehri is my old wizened character and its only now, after her death and then Arthas’ death that she has achieved any measure of peace.
Sure, Sae is quite literally a monster in battle (fun fact the only reason my undead Black Dragon stays relatively in line is because he is %!@&ing terrified of her), but she is far more likely to try and use her horrific experiences to set you on the straight and narrow than kill you.
I have two favorite memories with Sae. 1st was RPing the first time shes felt actual real love since the death of her daughter. It terrified her to a degree that it very nearly drove her back into the monster she used to be.
2nd was when a specific misdeed caught up with her, the only surviving member of an Orcish family Saehri slaughtered in life cut a bloody path of her own in order to track her down.
When she did the battle you’d expect ensued. When the Orc was beaten and begging for death Saehri refused. Instead she verbally tore into her, insulted her, brought her down to her lowest and at the end showed her that she had become exactly what she hated in Saehri and set her on her own path of redemption, and now the two are more like family than anything.
Anyone who thinks Death Knights can’t be versitile, full of life, love, and emotion are simply wrong and stunting themselves from some possibly great stories.
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I want to like this at least 509 times more. Even with the typo 
My go to example whenever someone tried to pull the “DKs cannonly be angry edgy murderbots” was Thassarian.
He clearly loves Koltira, and clearly loves his sister and the quest chain in Dragonblight involving him and his sister remains one of my favorites to date.
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The “Death knights have no emotions.” Bs is a prime example of idiots trying to treat their stupid headcanon as actual canon.
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I’d say that’s just realistic.
All too often, businesses can give individuals the false impression that they actually care about them enough to do something out of the kindness out of their heart- or to spite them. We must always remember that they all exist to try to figure out how to make profit. Otherwise, they’d be charities.
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I actually started out playing my monk as not a monk but Versca had started as a rogue so there was an awkward crossover period. Yet it took some time and a lot of outside inspiration before I finally reworked my character to be a proper IC monk.
I think part of the problem people don’t RP as a monk is because Blizz has tied the monk class exclusively to Pandarens and Pandaren culture. At least that’s how I felt at the start. It’s like how some of the classes have unique organizations within their culture to represent them. A Blood Elf hunter could easily be a Farstriders while the Forsaken hunter is a Dark Ranger. A Night Elf rogue could be a Sentinel while a human rogue could be a scoundrel or an SI-7 agent.
Monks on the other hand, it all just ends up being you got trained by a Pandaren and these are the Pandaren monk styles you can choose from. Which can feel stifling.
I do like Pandaren and enjoyed Pandaria a lot but it took some time and outside inspiration before I finally worked a lot of that into my character.
Nah it’s definitely about that sub count and it’s working because I’m seeing friends that haven’t touched WoW since TBC or Wrath coming back. I think the game has gone on for so long that it’s overwhelming and difficult for people to jump into or want to get back into.
i confess i was looking on wowhead at some leather gloves from redridge and saw a Versca outfit in one of the tabs at the bottom and was like “is this Versca-Versca or just a big coincidence”
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So, the first RP arc I took part in was during WoD.
It was a super serious arc involving a ranking orc character in the guild confronting the AU version and seeing the MU version of an individual who tormented them in their younger days (character was Shatteredhand who was sold into slavery to ogres by a Blackrock)
During the finale part of the event, following an epic duel between the two driving characters, my character rolled a Natural 20 to set up escaping the fortress in what was supposed to be a dire situation.
My character hijacked a Clefthoof, had some helpers in looting the fortress armory and then rode off shouting “HAHAHA! I GOT YOUR STUFF!” while stopping just long enough to let the guildees hop on and escape all the while a goblin character mocked the BLackrocks playing the A-team theme song.
Azhaar is a character I first created on a private RP server after I “quit” WoW the first time. That place was kind of insufferable, and one of the reasons I’ve since taken a laid-back approach to RP; too much purism takes all the fun out of it. But I liked Azhaar too much to just throw her away, and now here I still am.
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Here’s an actual confession from me.
My first two WoW characters were a worgen druid who was essentially a copy of thrall BUT AS A WORGEN!!! and also had a tauren girlfriend for reasons; and a goblin hunter who was basically a demon hunter by minus the glaves and a crap ton of angst and cliche tropes glued on.
I eventually revamped both into much better versions that have actual depth and development. God, being 13 was a rough time.
you want a confession? heres a spicy one: I created my void elf Vystarin as a direct response to the woobification of lor’themar, rommath and the blood elves overall and how theyre treated as untouchable good guys by the playerbase, despite the enslavement of M’uru, the exceptionally cruel exile of the High Elves, their bizarre loyalty to the Horde in the face of the Draenei saving their sorry asses from themselves, and the breathtaking hypocrisy of Umbric and his followers being exiled while they sit in a city held together by fel
i dont normally enjoy playing villain-esque characters but the concept of a killmonger or magneto style “I mean, he’s got a point.” anti-thalassian government shadow priest one had been super fun to play and explore, especially in the face of how gung ho ultra-loyalist blood elf characters tend to be
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I mean, it’s pretty obvious why Belves aren’t going to be going back to Alliance even after the Draenei helped them.
It’s this ‘minor’ issue of there being a heck of a lot more humans present than their being dwarves. And yes, that would be a deal breaker given the humans of SW -never- actually did anything in particular to prove they weren’t Garithos until MoP.
Then we had MoP, could have had an opportunity to have belves role Alliance and Jaina’s horrid writing at the time preformed a Miley Cyrus song going “I CAME IN LIKE A WREECKING BALL!”
** Edit **
I now hate myself because I have the image of Jaina actually riding in on a wrecking ball stuck in my head. Damn it.
blood elves: i don’t know 
if we can trust the people of stormwind they’re probably just like garithos even though he was from lordaeron you know where the forsaken are from
void elves: ayy yo stormwind can we come chill with y’all
stormwind: all refugees are welcome here uwu
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On the Hordeside of WrA and MG, on my alts, I tend to yell out Sylvanas sucks or some line that would infuriate some of the ICly guards, and walk off before anyone has a chance to arrest them.
Also almost all of my toons hate Sylvanas, Alliance and Horde. And each in their TRP promises they would kill her when the tides change and she is outed of the Horde. Mag’ har Orcs, Nightborne, Zanadalari Troll, Blood Elf, doesn’t matter, I will say they hate her. (Only very few actually do side with Sylvanas, but it’s for their own gain, usually sinister.)
Anduin: I don’t care, and have no opinion about anything.
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That’s not fair. He felt very strongly that ending the war while the Zandalari were sad would have been dirty pool.
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