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  1. So this is just at the forefront of my mind and is something I've been avoiding like the plague since my somewhat recent run-in with it. In a thread with another member of a forum I was part of (I hadn't Rped with this person before, but they were friendly and I was new, so I leaped at the opportunity to start), their character kept knowing what mine was thinking or planning. As a random example, she would say something along the lines of "oh... I'm sorry to hear that" but would be thinking in her head "holy shit this guy is a psycho, I'm gonna be found chopped up in tiny pieces somewhere, why did I come here with him?" And he somehow "sense" her discomfort (when she made no outward indication of such) and reassure her that he wasn't a threat, etc etc. And later on when he suddenly put his hand right by her face (non-threateningly, but my char didn't know this, and after his earlier dialogue she was already on edge) to do a magic trick he somehow "instinctively" caught her arm which she'd frantically thrown out to defend herself from a perceived attack... despite the fact that his dexterity was 4 points lower than hers. Then after he did his magic hoodoo and she was in awe of it (mouth agape, smiling, dazzled look), she also thought to herself how that magic could also be used for ill, to hurt people or take advantage of them, and she wondered if anyone should have such power. Well, apparently, and I quote the character: "I can read faces fairly well, and I definitely saw fear and concern. Are you worried I might try to harm you? Because I won't." So frustrating. I get that sometimes your character will catch on to what mine is thinking, especially if she's showing it in her expressions, but come on, every single time?? I don't remember ever encountering this so blatantly before - and this was coming from a person who'd been Rping for more than five years and is even older than me. And from what I gathered it was an issue other members were having with this person as well, but no one knew how to talk to them about it. Do you guys ever deal with the same thing? How do you manage it? Is there a good way to approach this issue with some tact and sensitivity so it doesn't hurt them, but rather encourages them to see what they're doing and try to correct it? I ended up leaving the site (for multiple reasons, not just this member) but I'm still friends with a few of them and would like to give advice (as well file away the information for the future).
  2. So I brought this up brief in the Pet Peeve section but wanted to elaborate on it more and see if anyone else had ever encountered it because frankly this is my first experience with it and I'm totally shocked that any writer would think that this normal. The issue was this, people who change their characters history (as they see fit) in a way that completely contradicts everything they've previously been writing. I have no issue with 'surprises' like oh you thought you were a single fun-loving bachelor oh shit, your ex actually had your kid and you just found out. That's fun or w/e but these were blatant contradictions totally changing the character's history I find that extremely annoying and confusing. Especially when it messes up what's already happened between other characters on the board. In this case it's two staff members making these blatant contradictory changes together and then blind siding other members/characters by suddenly changing up their character history/adding things to their pasts that they previous stated in thread/site canon that they didn't have expecting other member’s characters to be aware of what’s going on. It’s like they’re trying to use a plot twist tool and doing it all wrong it’s like … The Right Way: Chance was raised as only child, his entire life and personality has been defined by this fact. He never knew his father, and his mother never really talked about it, so it was just the two of them. Years later, he runs into a man who he eventually realizes is his half-brother. He is shocked by this revelation and those in his life begin to find out only as he starts to come to terms with it. The Wrong Way: Chance has talked again and again about never having any siblings or a father, just him and his mom against the world until she died. It’s his entire life he’s just on his own now, it defines his character. He tells everyone in his life (and in threads) he has no siblings, no father, and that his mom’s dead. Two weeks later, Chance is hanging out with his miraculous brother at thanksgiving dinner with their happily married parents and then is getting angry at other characters for not knowing about these people in his life. They’re doing it the wrong way. As if that wasn’t annoying enough in this situation they are ‘in character’ are berating my character for not knowing these things about them when the character would have no way of knowing. It’s like they’re expecting you to metagame which is another shock. How are they supposed to know if they weren’t there or if they weren’t told, or if they were previously told the opposite? RP is supposed to be fun but I also write as a career so I take my story building/character development very seriously. I treat every forum/board as if it’s a novel and my character is on a journey within this world. I would never blatantly contradict anything in their past because it’s convenient or I felt like it because I have too much respect for my fellow writers and their efforts. It’s not fun to suddenly have everything you worked toward just tossed out as if it’s nothing. I think of like... imagine reading Harry Potter, knowing the whole time Harry Potter's parents are dead. Last book starts with Harry's parents sending him off to school with no mention of the fact that they had been dead, written as if they're been there the whole time but we're all supposed to pretend like this is normal/canon. I’m just curious to hear others experiences/thoughts on this.
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