I hate it in fanfic as well, when people think they can just throw in an OC and it'll have no effect at all on canon events. In some ways that's even worse than the Mary Sue who waltzes in and fixes everything the author didn't like about the original story.
I have to think that the best response to this kind of thing would be to have your character react as if they have absolutely no idea who the newcomer is, and get creeped out by the insistence that they're a blood relative and/or SO.
If this is a structured game, I see a "bad mods suck" here as well, for them allowing these people into the game in a way that breaks your character's canon without actually consulting you first.
If it's a multiversal/dressing room situation, though, you have the option of pointedly telling them that things didn't happen that way in your world, sorry, and your iteration of the character isn't actually related to/involved with them. You can even have your character express a bit of (possibly) morbid fascination with how such things might have come about, so you're not ignoring them outright. Unless they keep trying to insist that they are from your world, in which case, shun them with extreme prejudice.
But otherwise, the only way that they'd have a right to do this is if they were in a game first and you're only just apping in now, in which case it wouldn't be too unreasonable for you to conform your character history to fit the in-game canon. Even there, though, they need to give you more to work with.
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It could spin off a while 'unknown love child' thing too...it'd be an interesting story to say the least.
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If it's a multiversal/dressing room situation, though, you have the option of pointedly telling them that things didn't happen that way in your world, sorry, and your iteration of the character isn't actually related to/involved with them. You can even have your character express a bit of (possibly) morbid fascination with how such things might have come about, so you're not ignoring them outright. Unless they keep trying to insist that they are from your world, in which case, shun them with extreme prejudice.
But otherwise, the only way that they'd have a right to do this is if they were in a game first and you're only just apping in now, in which case it wouldn't be too unreasonable for you to conform your character history to fit the in-game canon. Even there, though, they need to give you more to work with.
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