CyberChaosV2
Lord of Altera
(I understand this is a sensitive topic, im just a bit miffed right now about certain things, and I actually don't like seeing this in rp)
Due to recent events that have occurred, I've witnessed characters that seem to try to mutilate themselves in a sort of emo-punk way in order to reflect how sad they are, or are trying to get attention...
THIS IS NOT OKAY
We get it, your character is feeling sad and feels like the world is against them, but it takes a different mindset entirely to begin inflicting pain upon yourself and continue doing so. Okay, maybe you cut your palm, but then a normal person would be like "WTF am I doing? jessus crust I've cut myself, that's not okay." and yes, I know not everyone is normal...
But those same people that aren't entirely normal may also be our friends on this server. I once had an idea to have Roy have to cut his arm off to have an obstacle in his life (this was in the first month of playing when I didn't know jack-diddly) after not being able to think about how to go about this, I had come up with the idea that he'd slide off his anvil while sleeping and his arm would fall into the fire... after talking to a few friends about this, they talked me out of it by explaining that it wouldn't help my character at all other than make him the equivalent of a mopey zoo lion. jump ahead about a year, and I'm now seeing characters (sometimes graphically, which I've asked them not to do) cutting themselves, hurting themselves by punching stone, or doing other stupid crap, sometimes in the presence of one of my online friends who has had a problem with this (I will give no names, I ain't no snitch)
Long story short, TL;DR I request the banning of self hurt caused by self pity, depression, self loathing, or self punishment.
Cutting yourself to get noticed at the bar? Void it immediately.
chewing through your wrist to free yourself from a shackle so you might escape your captors who want you dead? That's fine, so long as you emote it properly.
Character clawing at their arm to punish themselves for something they did wrong? Get out of here.
It's just not very fitting in a setting like the one we've got where, normally, if someone was that depressed, they usually didn't last very long due to a lack of drive to live, causing them to die of starvation since they didn't work for anything.
Due to recent events that have occurred, I've witnessed characters that seem to try to mutilate themselves in a sort of emo-punk way in order to reflect how sad they are, or are trying to get attention...
THIS IS NOT OKAY
We get it, your character is feeling sad and feels like the world is against them, but it takes a different mindset entirely to begin inflicting pain upon yourself and continue doing so. Okay, maybe you cut your palm, but then a normal person would be like "WTF am I doing? jessus crust I've cut myself, that's not okay." and yes, I know not everyone is normal...
But those same people that aren't entirely normal may also be our friends on this server. I once had an idea to have Roy have to cut his arm off to have an obstacle in his life (this was in the first month of playing when I didn't know jack-diddly) after not being able to think about how to go about this, I had come up with the idea that he'd slide off his anvil while sleeping and his arm would fall into the fire... after talking to a few friends about this, they talked me out of it by explaining that it wouldn't help my character at all other than make him the equivalent of a mopey zoo lion. jump ahead about a year, and I'm now seeing characters (sometimes graphically, which I've asked them not to do) cutting themselves, hurting themselves by punching stone, or doing other stupid crap, sometimes in the presence of one of my online friends who has had a problem with this (I will give no names, I ain't no snitch)
Long story short, TL;DR I request the banning of self hurt caused by self pity, depression, self loathing, or self punishment.
Cutting yourself to get noticed at the bar? Void it immediately.
chewing through your wrist to free yourself from a shackle so you might escape your captors who want you dead? That's fine, so long as you emote it properly.
Character clawing at their arm to punish themselves for something they did wrong? Get out of here.
It's just not very fitting in a setting like the one we've got where, normally, if someone was that depressed, they usually didn't last very long due to a lack of drive to live, causing them to die of starvation since they didn't work for anything.