Serious Questions About Mirroring Replies

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DISCLAIMER: This ain't a rant. I'm seriously asking.

Okay, so, I get why we like to mirror length and style, and I get why we like other people to mirror us, but why is it so stressed? I genuinely want to know.

I, personally, don't care much how someone writes, and I don't care much about how much they write back. Like I can send you five descriptive paragraphs, and you can send me 40 equally descriptive lines worth of writing, and I'll be okay. But I feel if we're both, at the very least, giving each other something to work with, why does how we go about it matter so much?

It might not be as neat and put together as two people doing para, or two people doing script, but it would be easier if we could all just reply however it feels natural to do so at the time, don't you think?

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unknownymous893 7 years ago
I might be the most annoying rpers ever, bcs I don't like the term of what most people said as 'mirror', I like people who are not only match my length & style but also put effort to develop the plot of the story, I hate if I have to think from the beginning in every replies...
For eg : when I wrote A-B-C, I don't want their replies by just respond my chara action in ABC, I hope they write BCD so I can continue to CDE, etc, lol wth am I saying? bcs for me it can be irritating when I purposely drop cliffhanger on my post with hope my partner continue it but their response just stop right in that cliffhanger too, and another example in , most submissive chara rpers tend to let the dominant take control, they like "just do anything to me I'll follow you, I can keep up with anything" but in the end they only let you be the one who think for everything... /sighs/
75bd8d51488fd100f027 7 years ago
Personally, I can do different styles when I get the muse.
A few descriptive lines, a whole word document.
I usually mirror just so they don't feel pressured at all.
I don't mind how much they can write. Usually, when
someone suddenly sends a big reply, I'm taken back and really
have to think it through, so yeah, it's all about what feels natural to you.
4a294d7d7b8280abc8f8 7 years ago
i prefer to have someone that is able to mirror my style/length-
for example, let's say i have a like, 8-10 line reply. if someone were to reply to me with a 2-5 line reply, i feel less motivated to reply to them back.
its like sang, at say- if you seen our replies-
realllllmino 7 years ago
i honestly don't do mirror replies
i just squeeze out whatever i can from the respondents reply and work from there tbqh
shinrin-yoku 7 years ago
When it comes to mirror replies, I take forever because i constantly edit my paras PLUS I'm really slow at replying so I give them my all in these replies.
silvermist1116 7 years ago
To put it simply, it's because people want the same amount of effort put into a response as they put into their own reply. If you write five descriptive paragraphs and you put thought and effort into it, but the other person only replies with a paragraph it comes off as though they don't care about the plot as much as you do, initially. It can feel like a waste of time. Like if you write a five page paper and did the best you could, then you teacher takes a glance at it and slaps whatever grade on it. That's happened to me before and I was like what was the point of me doing it if you don't care to actually look at it.

Personally, I don't stress it at all, but if we have an agreement to rp with a certain amount of length I expect nothing less when we're starting out. When I get comfortable with your rp style and I know what your best and worse looks like I don't care if I write eight lines and you reply with four, because I know you'll get back into detail. I don't think mirroring is bad to start out with, but it's not something someone should hold onto after a few replies. Did I answer your question?
psychologist 7 years ago
i think it has more to do with knowing another person's capability - speaking from experience, there were times when i would offer to start and my starter would be 15 lines. i receive only half of that back. It's not a problem if it's packed with detail but theres often a higher chance that there's less action to carry the plot forward. more is always welcome, but 'mirroring' is mainly to counteract 'getting less than what you give'.
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