You know I do appreciate how hard it is to get into RP and while I respect your choice to RP however you want and in whatever way you want....... I find it hard to deal with and accept people who choose to RP the "Mysterious Background" Archetype.

And while there is nothing wrong with it, it sounds cool I guess...... its definitely not a fulfilling way to RP in my opinion. One of the joys of RP is creating and moulding that character you choose to channel and creating his story yourself. Some people choose to make their character and extention of themselves, others idealised version, other still something completely different and unique.

So I would say to you, if you would be willing to take my advice, I've done RP before, not so extensively as some others here on the forums but enough to know that yourself and other people will find the RP aspect much more enjoyable and exciting if you have a clearly defined character prior to opening so RP.

It doesn't mean you have to be an open book about your character but a rough idea of who he/she is can always be appreciated.

Not only that but I almost certainly guarantee you will like your own character more if you clearly establish your character, where they are going, what they want, what they did, why they did things.

E.G

Leithe Askarii (an alt of mine purely for RP)
Bloodline:Civre
Social Status: disassociated

Leithe is a known abuser of the stimulant drug Crystal X, has been self medicating for years after he was picked by CONCORD agents at a suspected Gurista's hide out in Lonetrek. Since then he has been in and out of State medical facilities, only surfacing to get prescriptions of anti depressants and do the occasional security work for small regional police forces.

Now if you asked Leithe about his life he would say

"You have the earn that right"

You can still play it mysterious but give your fellow RPers a little bit of info about your character with little trouble. And personally I find that the more open some RPers are with me about their basic character info the more open I am with them IC. Whereas those who have less information about them.... I am wary around.

Also I suspect you were in Dead 6 at one point from the Dead 9 Assassins comment....am I right?

EDIT- Yup I was right. Both in Knightz of the Round and Dead Six during the Lokun Listamenn days.