Well, there is such a thing as schizophrenia and disillusionment.

Generally the people who "live" as their characters are the same people who get posted in "weeaboo failure" threads.

I've read stories of the woman who believed that she was Jenova from FF7, does anyone have those?

I've met a couple people, both online and offline, who get WAY too attached to a character or two and live their lives that way - it's a little alarming. I mean, when I was younger (read: 6th grade-ish?) me and my best friend spent a day pretending we were Sango and Kagome, but.. that's a little different.

It's weird, and there's most likely some sort of psychological problem rooted to it, imo.

I've tried Yuki Nagato and Yui Hirasawa, complete opposites. The funny thing is, if you try to act like one, normal people will just think you ar mentally disabled or annoying.
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I killed my parents so I could be a better Batman.

LOL, MJ should be in this thread, bitch self-posts so much you'd think she thought she's the real Asuka.

Anyway, people who do this as adults are nuts. It's cute when you're young, but not when you're an adult and are supposed to be having your own identity and not being a cartoon character.

I once tried to live as Luigi.

>>5004900
Do you mean this?
http://www.demon-sushi.com/warning/index2.html

I know a married couple that are secret closet MEGA weeaboos. They hide it very very well, because they know that the rest of us would probably laugh our asses off if we ever found out.

The female wears her hair in the same style every single fucking day of her life. I've known her for 4 years and never once has she ever worn her hair in another style. The husband, for pretty much his entire life has always had the same haircut and style. "Well, perhaps they're just bland and boring." you may say. No. NO. They've told us once how it makes sense that anime characters almost never change their hair style, because all the characters in an anime look the same and their hair and clothes are pretty much the only way to tell them apart. (Me: "What...?")

She went to Japan on the JET program and lived the typical weeaboo life over there. He went to go visit her. They went to a hot spring and ate all the traditional foods and sent us pictures and....ugh....it just made me facepalm.

The worst part? They reproduced.

>>5005224
>They reproduced.

>They've told us once how it makes sense that anime characters almost never change their hair style, because all the characters in an anime look the same and their hair and clothes are pretty much the only way to tell them apart.

That sounds pretty valid. For characters, not real people, I mean.

>>5005244
to >>5005224 *

>>5005213
mind is full of bililons of fuck.jpg

I know a couple who RP as Allen Walker and Dr House. The House pretends to have the house-hobble in public and walks around with a cane.

And yes, they ship them as a couple. Because House would be "interested" in Allen's "condition", and Allen likes to take it up the bum from hateful old semi-disabled men.

>>5004835
>permanent cosplay?
>live as a character?
You are talking about two different things here. There is cosplay, which is taking on a resemblance to a character or person, and roleplay, which is attempting to act as the person or character.

While the two can often cross paths, they are not one and the same thing.

I cosplay a shut in virgin, I'm extremely committed to my role, I don't think anyone could be better then me at it.

Usagi Kou, I believe at one point, took Sailor Moon as her personal identity. She styled her hair like Usagi, dressed like her, even exclusively dated only men who looked like Mamoru and would be willing to take on that persona from time to time.

And then there's Maryjane, I suppose, who never takes off her Asuka wig in fear of her real look being discovered.

>>5005259
I... what?

Just... WHAT?

Don't want to live on this planet anymore.

>>5005306
Oh boy, I fucking love Usagi Kou stories.

>>5005280
I don't know man, I do a pretty good job of that myself.

Wanna hear more about Usagi Kou. I remember finding her website a few years ago and wondering how someone who makes so much crap never seems to improve.

>>5005306
I don't really care for the girl but MJ said she wears wig because her hair's ruined and is waiting for it to grow back or something like that, moreover I don't see how waring a wig = believing you are a character. Asuka's hair isn't even weird or that recognizable without the clips.

My girlfriend tried to live as Mello once, and wanted me to live as Matt. I refused at first, seeing as I hate smoking. But eventually I gave in. It lasted for about 3 months, and was very fun at first (VERY), but then it got complicated. And sex got.... awkward. I mean, we both have vaginas, so things got a bit weird when she said she would "ride my ass into the sunset". Turns out her computer contained tons of seriously dark S/M MXM fanfictions that gave me nightmares. Apparently she got inspired and aimed to make me her bitch. Which I already was.

She is an AMAZING Mello cosplayer btw, looks fucking hot in leather too. High metabolism on top of that, so chocolate wasn't a problem.

Its just that My girlfriend is such a wonderfully crazy motherfucker it makes everything way too real. And it frightens my 17 year old body to extremes I didn't think possible....

>>5005433


...please be careful. D:

>>5005433
That's one of the dumbest things I've read. You deserve a congrats.

>>5005463
>>5005473

I know, it's almost hard for me to believe that I actually gave in to that. But what can I say? She is craaazy...

A real sweetheart deep down though.

Lurker from /tg/ here.

Most I've gone "in character" is ~48 hours (sleep mostly excluded, but broken and full of strange nightmares), in weekend live-action horror events.

It's really quite an experience, but it's a lot easier to get into characters who fit what you play well - I couldn't successfully roleplay, say, Goku for two-three days as he's just nothing like me.

I've also had plenty of long-running tabletop and live characters, but they're one evening a week jobs.

You can try to style your life around someone, but *being* someone else permanently? Plenty of experience states that's possible, if you've got a genuine mental health issue that's causing it. Willingly subsuming into a character? You need to take breaks - not "you'll want to" but "your brain will force you". At three day horror lives, people occasionally break character. There's weird moments where some sort of humour will break through to the players, everyone will stop and take it in for a moment, then the 'masks' go back down.

>>5005488
>>5005488
>dark S/M MXM fanfictions
>crazy motherfucker
>frightens my 17 year old body to extremes


this is a weeaboo horror story in progress

>>5004912
They call it "Replacement Personality Syndrome" in Asia according to my Japanese gf. It's not limited to anime characters; people will act as deities, celebrities, book characters, etc. Pic very related. Of course in the west it'd just be a specific kind of delusional disorder, but it's considered common enough overseas to warrant its own subcategory.

To someone who's a total loser, it can sound like an attractive prospect -- if they admire X for whatever qualities, pretending to be X can help them feel more positive about "themselves", by transferring their positive feelings for X onto their own ego. It acts to lift a little of the self-loathing if they can make themselves believe it's true (and most of the people I've seen who do this to an extreme are just very deeply in denial, not actually deluded). And of course it provides an excuse NOT to fix their own issues, which is also attractive.