...Isn't the whole point of multi-universe RP to pull a character from a certain point in canon and drop them somewhere unfamiliar? So they can grow and be changed by their unfamiliar new circumstances?
This was not what I said at all, and I thought we would simply agree to disagree on the topic instead of making it a "I'm right" fight and looking for confirmation from our flists. Or that's what I had decided to do because I wasn't planning on angering you. I figured there was something in what you were saying I didn't understand, and that there was something in what I was saying you didn't understand because we were on such difference paces, and I had planned to just... move on.
I'm disappointed I was the only one thinking this. I don't want to explain myself again, since I don't know how to do it differently than I did it already, and we still wouldn't understand each other, but I am sad that this was brought up in public.
You're the one that said you wanted to agree to disagree, I never said I would; especially since to do so I would first have to understand your point and I really don't. I told you that.
If you want to think this is about who is "right" go ahead. You'd be wrong, but knock yourself out.
I was trying to understand. You said you wouldn't explain and went to bed. So I vented on my LJ. It's how I get things off my chest.
Perhaps you look for validation, I don't. I was wondering if someone saw something I missed. Not that I really expect someone to be able to explain YOUR reasoning, since they aren't you. But other points of view are often a good thing when I'm try to puzzle something out.
If you want to explain your ideas (yes the above is what I saw you as saying, and the reason for my feelings. If you think that my understanding is wrong it's up to you to tell me what you DID mean) to me, go ahead. That's all I ever wanted. Otherwise, if you want to just "move on" I'm not stopping you.
I'm sorry, our conversation was at seven in the morning my time, so I wasn't as clear trying to explain this as I could have been.
What I meant to say is that my character is being taken from a certain point and developing away from his canon future. From what I understood -- and I could very well be wrong -- you were going to take a character and ignore information that is revealed about his past because it is revealed in the future canon. The information mentioned in a ten-years-in-the-future canon about "ten years ago" has to be taken into consideration. If one decides to play a character disregarding that information because it's in a future canon and the pull-point chosen is before, then, I think this makes the character an AU. A similar example might be if someone were to take Roy from just before Snowbirds, and decide that, since he was taken before his addiction was revealed, that he has never touched heroin in his life.
As I told you before, it's not HIS past. I was using a jump off point well before he fired Dick. So yes I was going to ignore the "revelations" of DKSA since none of that had happen or would BE happening given that the character would be in the game verse and not the canon setting.
Your Roy example fails because you're still missing the fact that my pull point was to have been before the EVENTS themselves occurred, not the reveal. I pointed this out to you several times. Making the pull point before the EVENTS means there is no issue.
I fail to see how this means I would NOT be playing a Miller Verse Batman.
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Yeah, I don't think it's you.
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And thanks.
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This was not what I said at all, and I thought we would simply agree to disagree on the topic instead of making it a "I'm right" fight and looking for confirmation from our flists. Or that's what I had decided to do because I wasn't planning on angering you. I figured there was something in what you were saying I didn't understand, and that there was something in what I was saying you didn't understand because we were on such difference paces, and I had planned to just... move on.
I'm disappointed I was the only one thinking this. I don't want to explain myself again, since I don't know how to do it differently than I did it already, and we still wouldn't understand each other, but I am sad that this was brought up in public.
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If you want to think this is about who is "right" go ahead. You'd be wrong, but knock yourself out.
I was trying to understand. You said you wouldn't explain and went to bed. So I vented on my LJ. It's how I get things off my chest.
Perhaps you look for validation, I don't. I was wondering if someone saw something I missed. Not that I really expect someone to be able to explain YOUR reasoning, since they aren't you. But other points of view are often a good thing when I'm try to puzzle something out.
If you want to explain your ideas (yes the above is what I saw you as saying, and the reason for my feelings. If you think that my understanding is wrong it's up to you to tell me what you DID mean) to me, go ahead. That's all I ever wanted. Otherwise, if you want to just "move on" I'm not stopping you.
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What I meant to say is that my character is being taken from a certain point and developing away from his canon future. From what I understood -- and I could very well be wrong -- you were going to take a character and ignore information that is revealed about his past because it is revealed in the future canon. The information mentioned in a ten-years-in-the-future canon about "ten years ago" has to be taken into consideration. If one decides to play a character disregarding that information because it's in a future canon and the pull-point chosen is before, then, I think this makes the character an AU. A similar example might be if someone were to take Roy from just before Snowbirds, and decide that, since he was taken before his addiction was revealed, that he has never touched heroin in his life.
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Your Roy example fails because you're still missing the fact that my pull point was to have been before the EVENTS themselves occurred, not the reveal. I pointed this out to you several times. Making the pull point before the EVENTS means there is no issue.
I fail to see how this means I would NOT be playing a Miller Verse Batman.
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