Where is your line?

[lightandwinged]

So a recent post got me thinking about this.

I have a line when it comes to Sueishness, in that I can tolerate just about any outlandish or special snowflake character if certain conditions are met. For me, those conditions are as follows:

• The character isn't a ploy for attention. I think you can usually tell when someone's playing a character just

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[lady_gray_rose]

I entirely agree with this.

I will tolerate "speshul snoflaeks" if they're done well. Such as a dragon, if they never tell anyone short of a most-trusted ally or in incredibly dire, life-or-death for them situation. I've seen it done well, and I've seen it done HORRIBLY.

And then I've seen people who aren't so tolerant and draw things all out of proportion. Such as: "If she can be a dragon I can be the Lich King." Or "If he can be a demon, I can be the Lord[or Lady] of Outland." It's all about the tolerances of various people, which also makes people who do things such as that well much more unlikely to admit it, to a point where when they finally do play their sueish trumph-card, they're bettered into making it much less powerful.

It's a very fine line for this whole thing, as such, it's incredibly difficult for the people who do it right to continue to do it right and with enough RP to make it worth while if the wrong person knows, leading to things such as well-done, however rare they are, dragons, demons, halflings and more losing RP to the point of scrapping the whole idea because of a few bad apples making the good ones look bad.

And then there's the people who do these things for attention, which pisses me off to no end as someone who enjoys when "snowflaek" RP done right and not for attention.

/end rant