This isn’t a weird question at all and is something that can happen pretty often to roleplayers.
Here are a few things to do to separate yourself from your muse:
Take a step back. When you notice these feelings are occurring or happening, stop. Assess what is happening and calm yourself down. remind yourself that you are not upset, but your character is. Not you. This isn’t always easy when you’re in the mindset of your character when you’re writing, but you need to remind yourself they are the one’s upset, not you.
Take a break. If you feel that it’s stressing you out in your daily life, take a break. Maintaining your health is really important. Even if it’s just for a day or so, take some time to yourself while you sort these feelings out.
Write it out and catch yourself. After your break, I suggest getting some prompts. Some nice, gritty, grab-your-heart, super emotional prompts. One’s that will make your character angry, uncomfortable, upset, etc. Then write it. When you notice yourself getting angry, or upset yourself–stop! Assess your feelings and then bring yourself out of the situation. Your character is upset, not you. Remind yourself that your emotions and the way you feel about the current situation are not inclusive.
When you’re able to catch yourself before you get overly upset/stressed, eventually you’ll be able to manage it better. This takes practice and isn’t something that will happen over night, but know this isn’t a rare thing and happens a lot.
But the most important thing is to take care of yourself. If you’re stressed out due to roleplay right now, take a break.
rper 1: we gotta do this sad thing
rper 1: like what if [sad thing]
rper 2: ohhh my goddd NOOOOOO
rper 2: IM DYING
rper 2: ok but then [sad thing] while [really sad thing]
rper 1: fuck you ok
rper 1: who pissed in your coffee
rper 1: it’s perfect
repeat for 5 hours
when people apologize for being late with replies i get confused. is there a deadline i was unaware of? am i gonna get demoted because i’ve been missing it this whole time??
darlings:
↳ your replies are not late, but exactly when your muse/schedule allows ↳ i will never fault you for taking your time ↳ i hope you’ll do me the same courtesy because i’m super slow at times ↳ you are awesome! even when you’re slow! don’t forget that
