Roleplay Etiquette! — What Are OOC And IC?

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navigation Rules definitions tips FAQ tag list Roleplay Etiquette! This blog is dedicated to the etiquette and common courtesy that go hand-in-hand with text roleplaying. Feel free to ask questions or make your comments/concerns known. This is for the benefit of everyone who wants to begin or improve roleplaying. Access our FAQ here! If you send an ask in, we recommend you turn on post notifications so you will be alerted when we answer it! What are OOC and IC?

OOC/ooc means “out of character.” When you’re speaking OOC, it means that you’re not actually making a post for your roleplay; you’re speaking directly to your partner(s). OOC is usually represented in several ways:

((I’m out of character.))
[[I’m out of character.]]
OOC: I’m out of character.

These aren’t the only ways to represent it. Sometimes people will only use one set of double-parenthesis at the beginning or end of the sentence. There isn’t a single set way to convey it. As long as the others know that it isn’t a post, anything can work.

Now, IC/ic means “in character,” which is obviously the opposite of OOC. In character posts are represented by regular paragraphs and should be easy to distinguish from casual OOC chatting.

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