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socksonkittens in bad_rpers_suck

Pardon Me, Here's My Life Story

Aug 26, 2010 16:54

I figured you guys'd enjoy this. In this game, there's Fighter Girl.
Fighter Girl is unique in lots of ways that squick me, but my favorite one is how she treats her past.
She murdered her parents in a house fire because daddy was abusive and mommy was crazy. Mentally ill. So nobody saved her, so she murdered them.

( What's the big deal, you say? )

tragic past!, ic actions = ic consequences, characterization fail

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runaan August 26 2010, 22:39:25 UTC

I really can't stand players who use abuse and other mentally traumatic issues like this. It comes off as serious attention whoring and it's not exactly sensitive to people who have actually gone through this kind of thing.

I know it's not at all my place to decide what is and isn't an appropriate reaction to abuse, but talking about it casually in public just seems... horrendously terribad on multiple levels to me. Ick.

gizzybiscuits August 26 2010, 23:44:35 UTC

It pretty much is. Unless they were doing some public speaking thing on the subject to a crowd who came to listen to that sorta thing then...Well, it'd be anything _but_ casual. Rp characters casually going on about deep secrets in public like that is commonly noted as doin' it wrong.

trickster_lord August 26 2010, 22:52:16 UTC

Hi! I'm an assassin! I killed my parents! So-o-o who wants to be my friend, huh? Huh? Aren't I just *badass*?!

sagelylegs August 26 2010, 23:28:21 UTC

This kind of thing is why I have an assassin who only talks to himself about others, rather than to them directly. One friend and I had a running gag that he has two levels in the Narrator prestige class as a result. ^^

In practice, he just has very little to say, and doesn't really regard people as individuals until they break past a certain mental bubble. Biggest thing this reminded me of is that he DOES NOT TALK ABOUT HIMSELF. Period.

trilies August 26 2010, 23:32:11 UTC

I have a character who might pull of something like that...
Except it'd be a blatant lie (parents were normal, if occasionally distant due to work) and he'd immediately laugh and go 'kidding!' or something.
Because he's a douchebag who likes getting reactions from people. Also, a serial killer, but that's something else entirely and he definitely didn't boast about those.

...Well, at least he refrained until after he was on death row after being caught after a, uh, long and 'successful' career. And escaped to another world/dimension with a group of people who've done just as bad.

But this chick? Stupid. On so many levels. Please tell me there's a cop character around?

socksonkittens August 27 2010, 02:02:42 UTC

My girl is knightly, and became one shortly after. If it happens again, she'll be arrested and interrogated.

I would like to add that PLOTTWIST.
ONE OF THEM MAY STILL BE ALIVE.
She cackled about this in public.

trilies August 27 2010, 02:31:58 UTC

Go for it!

...I'd have one of my characters call the cops/knights/constable/whatever floats your boat.
Stick that in your PLOTTWIST and suck it!
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jay_in_a_box August 26 2010, 23:40:57 UTC

But tragic pasts are so romantic!!

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socksonkittens August 27 2010, 02:08:56 UTC

You're definitely reading it right.
It was more of her friends were having a casual conversation about their pasts and she brought it up. It's pretty much how she introduces herself; right down to her biography page being written like an introduction that includes this fact. And apparently her closest friends know and accept her as 'unique'.