Your Character's Gaming Rage

[arydthefoxeus]

How do your characters game? And when they fail, how do they react? Maybe their rage is the silent, cool anger, or just furious screeching paired with enemy trashing. It could also be a process that goes from the former to the latter. How long do they last anyway before rage quitting?

If you want to make their reaction specific to a game, then it can be any kind of game, whether it be board game monopoly or even Battle Royale. You can even pull in Flappy Bird.

My protagonist, Kaede, plays mostly video games. With/against strangers, he doesn't really care. But against friends, he's easily a tryhard. Poor guy lets his sanity deteriorate until he gets at least one win/ kill of whoever keeps destroying him. Starts out with heavy sighs, then raising his brows real high. It goes on to music to either pump him up or calm him down (if his browser isn't slow). It doesn't take him long before he's reached madness with cursing inanimate objects, enemy trashing and furious mouse-slamming.

He lasts long playing, but his sanity doesn't.

Stillwaters | Tapas

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[Mithril]

James' super competitive and he's the type to curse when losing. He'll just keep playing until he wins. Might even break a mouse/controller in the process. He's pretty chill when playing against friends/boyfriends, but he doesn't go easy on them lol.

The Victorious | Tapas

[vblairehawthorne]

Justin would probably just cry. But not sudden crying! A systematic one!
Step 1: gets confused
Step 2: ask if this is really how this game works
Step 3: ???
Step 4: CRY!!!

However, he doesn't really have an interest for gaming as seen in his journals. It's such a real shame that we can't see him have the opportunity to play a game for us anymore.

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[DasIstWunderblyat]

The main character of my series Kôra would just silently rage quit if his attempts has failed in a row for a solo playing. He is quite patient and thinks it's silly to get too serious and mad over a game.

If he plays with some friends he will jokingly accuses them for cheating if he lose and gloat if he wins. With strangers he tends be more silent. When ended up losing he sometimes ask the winner how they did their thing. It's all light-heartedness, because it's what separates a game from competition to him. This applies to all kind of games (video, board, card, sports, etc.)

Karana | Tapas

[CodeMonkeyArts]

Tristan, the male romance lead in my story, would let be very good at certain games, but for an object of his desires, he would allow himself to lose and be complimentary if that meant having his way with his loved one later. However, if there is someone that acts like a dick, he would play the game, lose horribly, compliment the guy and ask for a rematch. Then the second match it would be closer and closer until he wins and then with each match after he would trounce the opponent in more and more brutal ways, needling his opponent with backhanded compliments each time until the guy rage quits.

Because Tristan is a manipulative, passive aggressive asshole who will happily play the long game to destroy someone.

Meanwhile, Ira will go straight into trying to beat the opponent/game. If she is against an opponent and wins easily, she'll mock them as pathetic, weak-hearted shits. If she wins but it's close, she is more complimentary. If she loses and it's close, she won't be happy and will want to try again, but she doesn't get really upset until she loses horribly. And if the guy ends up rubbing that in her face...well it will turn into a bar fight and she will do everything she can to MURDER the guy.

If the game is a hard game, like 'Get Over It', she will destroy the hardware the game runs off and probably find the developer to beat the crap out of him.

Birth of a Sin | Tapas

[atoamsh]

Yeah, exactly. I think that it is the most realistic reaction. However, the rage can be different Have you ever played counter strike global offensive ? If yes, you should really know what RAGE is. You should see my face when I am playing against cheaters or with bad players in my team! Oh, this is terrible. I have lost my rank because of them! When this happens I am ready to destroy everything around! It makes me very very mad Fortunately, I found a solution, now I am using this boosting service http://eloboss.net/csgo-boost , and it keeps my nerves safe

[Zaboem]

This actually happens in my Alien Fiction, so it doesn't take much imagination for me today to answer the questions. The three aliens are powerful entities from space who abduct humans and make those humans fight each other.

Odin loses a lot, at least half the time. He lets out a long exaggerated sigh (which is purposefully dramatic because he doesn't otherwise breath). He bemoans his luck.

Shiva loses even more than Odin, and it's his iwn fault. He isn't stupid, but he gets over-excited and makes stupid mistakes. After losing, he will growl or scream or curse out his opponent. He might blow up a moon. This tantrum will quickly pass, and he'll grow sullen and pouty until he finds something else to grab his interest (which often takes less than a minute to find). Then he's happy and excited again.

Isis almost never loses. On the rare occassion when she does lose, it's a novelty event for her. She might find it hilarious.

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[ratscout]

Eory strikes me as the kind of guy who would curse a lot while playing and as a result his skills would slowly worsen all-the-more while playing. I think he would eventually rage quite after like... Three hours, but after a quick TV break he'd be at it again. LOL

[Aims]

So far I only have one character who actually plays video games.
When David's loosing he'll get redder and redder with each loss. After the 20 losses, he starts quietly screeching and grumbling insults at the game's boss. And he doesn't ever rage quit, he's just too stubborn, his best friend has to be the one to take the controller away from him before he has an emotional meltdown because of frustration (which doesn't stop him from playing, but seeing him such state is uncomfortable, to say the least). But he's also really sensitive and can get choked up easily when he reaches an emotional or bittersweet ending, or when his favorite character dies.

Little Sparks | Tapas

[DogshitJay]

If he's playing with others, Inho would laugh it off, or pretend to get angry just cuz talking shit with friends is fun. If he was playing alone, he'd get pretty into it, and curse under his breath when he loses. Lots of chewing his lip and moving his body with the controller when he's in stressful parts.

Stephen would be like: "haha video games? how pedestrian! I want to hear about you instead", then he'd seduce the person offering to play.

Kiss It Better | Tapas