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About RP with my characters
a year ago
Many people who have personal characters are unhappy that other people can take them for RP without asking permission and simply not knowing who their true owner is,
and the owners of these characters organize raids to ask some dude to stop roleplaying someone else's character. It amazes me how many people can have free time to worry about this, and even ask others for help to explain to some dude that this is not okay.
I was pulled with this to help someone "win back" a character that "illegally" fell into the hands of a roleplayer, because there were my artworks with this character, who ordered from me.
I will say this - it is not my concern that I run to someone and waste my time on a dialogue with a child (or whoever it is) so that he stops roleplaying someone else's character.
It would be different if we were talking about commercial purposes, where your character is sold and art is ordered with'em without your knowledge, then yeah we have a big ass problem, but just RP?
At one time, In the past I also was into "witch hunting" when someone used my characters for RP, but over time I realized that this is complete bullshit and not worth my attention and time. People will play
with your character and quit because they will find a more interesting character and so on. I haven't done this for a long time and thank God it dawned on me that it is not worth a damn, so if
someone just role-plays my characters on the F-list or somewhere else, then let the child play. No need to arrange a fight or anything, it is temporary anyway.
So RP my characters to your heart's content. Just don't order art with them (nothing commercial with them) and don't say that they are yours. I will appreciate that despite the RP, people will still indicate that I am their true owner.
Thank you for your attention.
and the owners of these characters organize raids to ask some dude to stop roleplaying someone else's character. It amazes me how many people can have free time to worry about this, and even ask others for help to explain to some dude that this is not okay.
I was pulled with this to help someone "win back" a character that "illegally" fell into the hands of a roleplayer, because there were my artworks with this character, who ordered from me.
I will say this - it is not my concern that I run to someone and waste my time on a dialogue with a child (or whoever it is) so that he stops roleplaying someone else's character.
It would be different if we were talking about commercial purposes, where your character is sold and art is ordered with'em without your knowledge, then yeah we have a big ass problem, but just RP?
At one time, In the past I also was into "witch hunting" when someone used my characters for RP, but over time I realized that this is complete bullshit and not worth my attention and time. People will play
with your character and quit because they will find a more interesting character and so on. I haven't done this for a long time and thank God it dawned on me that it is not worth a damn, so if
someone just role-plays my characters on the F-list or somewhere else, then let the child play. No need to arrange a fight or anything, it is temporary anyway.
So RP my characters to your heart's content. Just don't order art with them (nothing commercial with them) and don't say that they are yours. I will appreciate that despite the RP, people will still indicate that I am their true owner.
Thank you for your attention.
In my experience someone impersonated my fursuit, used the photos from my photoshoots and it was revealed that person was 16y o and was also zoo + were RPing extreme fetish things
So idk about you in particular, but hope you won't get in trouble later
I sorry that you had to deal with exactly this example.
Like a heads-up
Same thing but more extended was told by
But still, there are people who identify very strongly with their characters, or I should better say their fursona. So if someone uses them for role playing, often erotic role playing, I can understand why the orner feels ill treated, even abused in some cases. It also shows the lack of creqtivity from the person using the character.
Still you are right of course, witch hunt is always a bad thing and should be avoided. Talk to the person in privae if you feel like it, but don't drag others into it.
I also have a furson and more than one, but I do not make them the center of my life, because there is REAL life and you need to think about how to arrange YOUR life. Characters will not go anywhere, they will always be with you, no matter how many of them are taken for roleplaying.
Is that in most cases, the person who 'Stole the art / character' are not stealing your Identity or the characters identity.
Now, Im not saying it doesn't happen, but 9/10 times, the person just wants a cool and sexy image on their profile.
The whole point is to just give a visual to attach to the character. Because people are lazy: either they dont want to take the time to write up a super detailed description of how their character looks, and people are to lazy to read said description, much less use the brainpower to visualize the description.
So its just easier on both parties to have a picture as a Face for the RPC.
And not everybody is an artist that will draw their own thing......and not everyone can or wants to use AI.
Personally I find it flattering that someone would use my character on their RPC, and Id actually be more curious to see what they are doing with them. What kind of character they wrote up, but are using my pictures for a visual!
The Only issue Id ever have, is if the person does literally steal the art, the character, and the identity of the Authors of either or both the Character creator, and the artist.
An Example....if somebody claim to actually own and be the creator of: Dedrut Talbot, and/or they claim to be the artist that drew it: dimikendal101
This right here is a problem.
You read my mind, dude!
I would also be only glad to see how other people see my characters in their stories, roleplays, and I am really flattered, because it means that they really like my characters, even just art with them.
And I agree, there is a problem if such a person pretends to be me or you in order to pull off a scam.
the author of Hazibin Hotel also has intellectual property on her characters, especially speaking about her favorite Alastor, but she doesn't get mad on the internet when someone cosplays her character and draws all sorts of art with him. Sometimes really disgusting. Has this somehow affected her reputation?
And where did I encourage people to do the same as me? Reread the text if you didn't understand. The point was that I (!) don't give a shit if someone roleplays my characters, so that there won't be any drama "ooh, dude stole a character from Hast for a sex roleplay!", because I personally don't care, that's all
Just my two cents, I won’t say more as I don’t want to spread drama.
YES!
Nobody asked yes, but nobody asked your opinion either.
Even if you manage to make them stop they'll just use someone else's character later.
If I'm ever targeted by a witch hunt due to someone RPing my character I'll laugh because of how ridiculous the conspiracy board would have to be and how much stretching of the mind it would require to make it stick.
I find the best solution is to make yourself discoverable by linking your accounts where and when you can, so if someone finds one account of yours they usually can trace and verify your actual account on other sites, or that you might not have an account there. But it is impossible to cover all the bases and in the end people need to think more critically before engaging in a witch hunt to burn their target.
However, policing that to the point of rallying strangers to the cause of getting them to stop is a bit overkill and honestly kinda narcissistic in way to get complete strangers to basically bully someone into stopping the RPing with a character that isn't theirs.
Its not something really anyone can truly stop because there's always private places for the RPs to take place. I agree with you that a more reasonable middle ground on the issue is acknowledgement that the character isn't actually theirs nor do they do shit like get commissions of the character.
The mob mentality that exists within this fandom is well... I shouldn't be surprised given how extreme the reactions tend to be on relatively minor issues that they make out to be major ones.
Is the issue that the art is being used, or is it that you actually feel like you / character is being RPd?
Because as I mentioned above, in most cases, people just want a pretty picture on their RPC profile.
Their character in itself is completely 100% original to them, the pictures just serve to be a visual. 9/10 the person is not RPig your actual character.
People are just both to lazy to write a description of character appearances, or visualize said description. So its just 1,000x easier to just use a random picture.
Not everyone can or will draw, commission, or use AI to generate art, when you can just find a pretty picture.
Do you feel about the same even with that perspective?
Again, I just wonder if anybody ever truly think about this.