Comments | bad_rpers_suck: My typewriter will eat your stupidity!

scriptor_ipsa in bad_rpers_suck

My typewriter will eat your stupidity!

Aug 26, 2010 21:06

You know what drives me crazy? Godmodding. Not the kind where someone else dictates what your character's doing (I mean, that pisses me off too), but the kind where someone else's character assumes they have a relationship with yours. When there is no canon to support this. Because their character is an "original character". Who is absolutely ( Read more... )

godmoding, serial fail, buy a clue

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master_simon August 27 2010, 17:52:37 UTC

It kind of sounds like the only way to deal with that is, if it's a rules game, make a rule that prior histories, aside from canon histories, have to be agreed upon by both involved players. Or if it's a multiversal game, just instantly say "maybe in your universe that happened, but in mine, you don't even exist."

Have any of the mods told her to stop doing that?

scriptor_ipsa August 27 2010, 18:04:16 UTC

It's a multi-fandom free-for-all community, where the mods are just as bad. We just brush her off, or call her (IC) on her shit with the old, "Um, do I know you?" routine, but she just. keeps. coming.

master_simon August 27 2010, 23:01:16 UTC

At least that gives you a "you're not from my 'verse" out. More or less.

(I once ran an AU version of a canon character in a multi-fandom free-for-all community, only to have someone show up playing one of her canon castmates, in strictly-canon fashion, and try to insist that he was from the same universe, ignoring all of the AU differences specified in her profile. A friend of mine was actually playing the guy from her universe, so I had an easy out there and could tell him "sorry, you're mistaken, good luck next time," but he tried to turn that into major melodrama. Not fun. Good on you guys for not letting her get away with shoving her way into your characters' lives.)

ydousuck August 28 2010, 15:50:41 UTC

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I always liked to believe that, unless there's canon precedent for your character to know someone else's, you need to talk it out OOC. IM, PM, whatever, strike up a conversation. Don't just have your character show up in someone's life like they belong there.

What is keeping you from being the one to IM or PM THEM? Maybe she doesn't learn because you all laugh behind her back without talking to her? Why not send her an IM saying, "I'm sorry, but my character has no idea who yours is. Maybe an introduction is order?"

If you're that annoyed by her, tell her. Maybe she SHOULD know better, but doesn't because of people passive-aggressively ignoring her? Just a thought.

scriptor_ipsa August 29 2010, 18:55:00 UTC

The issue with trying to IM her is that she's the queen of redirection. She will forcibly steer the conversation to what she wants it to be, whether you like it or not. And all she likes to talk about is herself and her characters and how she can force them down your throat with her newest idiotic plot. So, it's a little pointless. Talk about passive-aggressive? She will get you into a position where you are forced to say "Yes" to whatever her plot suggestion is, because saying "No" would make you feel like a dick.

She's been called on things before, by other people, in various ways. It just never sticks.