Character Thieves and birth-mother who doesn't bother. Grrrr!
As you know by now, I'm a keen roleplayer. I have plenty of original characters. I use them in various online forums and tagboards as well as over good old MSN. I was using one of my X Men charries--Phantom, a complete accident of a character--on an online C Box a few months back. She has a mentor/mentee or father/daughter relationship with a character my friend plays. Someone had put her in a story with this guy, in a romantic relationship. Yes, not only had some complete jackass stole my character, they'd used her as her adoptive-father's girlfriend. Which is just sick, seriously, seeing as he's actually old enough to be her grandfather. I mean, for God's sake, guys, only my boyfriend and a few other treasured, trusted people are allowed to use my characters, and yeah, I know they're just rp characters and storylines and I don't have official copyright, but for goodness sake, they're mine! And to pair a sixteen year old with the guy who's meant to be her mentor/adoptive dad is just sick.
The story got taken down, thankfully, as soon as I started kicking up a fuss, but since then, it's happened to my friend, Kat, who's character Morwen has been nicked and put on a fanfiction site as a mary-bloody-sue! It's driving me mental, I tell you, and she was really quite upset. So, if you're rpers, keep your eye out. Guard your characters, cause there'll always be some prat who tries to steal them.
In other news, I haven't said this before, but I'm in long-term foster care. I won't go into specifics. I asked my social-worker to contact my birth-mother by letter for me, and ask her to write to me, so we could get back in contact. My social-worker did do this, however, four months down the line, and my mother still has made no attempt to contact me. My social-worker said it could just be awkward, which I understand if it is, it's been a while, I'm loads older and she might not know what to write. But my birth-mum's mum, my Nana, has sent Christmas and Birthday cards still. My birth-mum hasn't for years. So I'm thinking that maybe my birth-mum might not really care anymore. It aches. I'm probably being stupid/unkind here, but it's really, really hurting.
Anyway, that's me done right now. Rants over. Seeya.
xx
The story got taken down, thankfully, as soon as I started kicking up a fuss, but since then, it's happened to my friend, Kat, who's character Morwen has been nicked and put on a fanfiction site as a mary-bloody-sue! It's driving me mental, I tell you, and she was really quite upset. So, if you're rpers, keep your eye out. Guard your characters, cause there'll always be some prat who tries to steal them.
In other news, I haven't said this before, but I'm in long-term foster care. I won't go into specifics. I asked my social-worker to contact my birth-mother by letter for me, and ask her to write to me, so we could get back in contact. My social-worker did do this, however, four months down the line, and my mother still has made no attempt to contact me. My social-worker said it could just be awkward, which I understand if it is, it's been a while, I'm loads older and she might not know what to write. But my birth-mum's mum, my Nana, has sent Christmas and Birthday cards still. My birth-mum hasn't for years. So I'm thinking that maybe my birth-mum might not really care anymore. It aches. I'm probably being stupid/unkind here, but it's really, really hurting.
Anyway, that's me done right now. Rants over. Seeya.
xx