Farquaar wrote:You are not your character.
Correct
Farquaar wrote:You don't own your character.
Incorrect. You don't need to copyright your character for you to own it. It's your original character. It's simply yours because you say it is and play it. No one stops me from making an OC that looks and acts just like a videogame character or another artist's character. That does not mean they do not own their character. Legally - you don't, that is correct.
Farquaar wrote:Your character is not a stand-in for you as a person, and if it is, you should begin to distance yourself from your OC and develop a healthy detachment from it.
Healthy detachment is not taking it personally when an antagonist kills you, not having porn drawn or written about your character. Which, if you haven't really read or seen any, involve a lot of sexual abuse.
Farquaar wrote:Are you seriously suggesting that every single smutbook about characters in SS13 is written with malicious intent? If so, you must be both an oracle and a mindreader.
This is not what I said and you know it. I specified countless times this was about books written without consent - how did you make this about *every* book? When did I ever say every book is wrong? Not even going to say anything about the last sentence - mocking and not even accurate to anything I've said.
Farquaar wrote:We're not children. We're adults who are expected to tell the difference from fantasy and reality. Detaching yourself from your character is a basic requirement for good roleplay.
I can detach myself and still be uncomfortable at someone writing smut about them. I feel uncomfortable at the amount of porn of statics that has been drawn without their consent, and it's not even my character.
Farquaar wrote:Would you be open to the possibility that your strong reaction to character-based smut is, in part, a result of your strong attachment to your OC?
No, it's because people doing sexual stuff that involves me in any way without asking me is fucking weird and boils my blood.
Farquaar wrote:The OC you frequently draw and play ~90% of rounds as?
I draw my character because I don't gift art very often, as it has lead to people trying to befriend me to get free art. I am inspired by my own experiences in the game. This is irrelevant to the thread, anyways.
Farquaar wrote:But I think that if you started creating new characters and exploring new avenues of roleplay, you wouldn't feel so strongly about a fictional character potentially being desecrated by scribbles in the library.
No. For the last time, this is about people being sexual about others without their consent. Of course it's going to bother me more if it's about my character - because I am on the receiving end of it. You might find fun in making multiple characters, I enjoy building social relationships and having some sort of consistency. It's a roleplaying game, and I like having one main character.
You really need to stop trying to make this about statics and try to comprehend that this is a boundaries issue. If you really need to know - anything that involves sex and non-consent makes me sick and affects me on a personal level deeply. Please, please, for the last time, this is not, and has never been about your sonic fighting academy OC.
I am not the only person who has said that it's gross and I am fairly sure you will not be able to apply the same argument to everyone.