So about a month ago it came to my attention that someone was stealing my character - the character this account is based around, Xolani, my wasp character. The character theft came to my attention when someone I know IRL (  VicP ) saw the person join a Discord server he was on and thought the person was me, and approached them in DM. They quickly got spooked by encountering someone who clearly knows me and left the server, so I was left in the awkward position of figuring out and explaining that this wasn't me.

Not me -->

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At the time I wanted to pursue the matter but didn't have much to go on so let it sit for the time being after taking the matter up with Discord didn't bear much fruit on what I had at the time. I was certain he'd come up on my radar at some point again in the not too distant future.

I was right. Fast forward a month or so later and me and my SO are on our way to visit  malk and  davec. Malk says there's someone in a Discord server a person he knows admins going under my name but who didn't know our friends who were in a group picture we had. I confirmed that this person wasn't me and it was arranged with the admins I'd be invited into the server to confront him.

My impostor not knowing my friends -->
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And here's a few links to the chatlog of me confronting him on this server (he's under Mekhane, these screenshots were taken after the time he changed name and icon) -->
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And then the DM exchange that took place afterwards -->
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Anyway to sum up without boring your asses I didn't engage him in DMs until after, well, I'd basically chased him out of the server he'd spent time using my character and identity to ingratiate himself into because I wasn't there for the negotiation he was hoping for, because there was nothing he could negotiate.

Having chatted with the residents of this server about the guy pretending to be me some of the things he told the group and tried to pass off under my identity bordered into the creepy and awkward, and this guy was creating a few potential awkward situations for me by passing himself off under one of my pseudonyms, especially seeming as this server he'd ingratiated himself into up to this point had friends of friends in it.

I wanted to make this post in part to make it clear that I'll create a hostile environment for anyone trying to steal any of my characters or pass themselves off under my identity in any form. If it takes humiliating you so deeply that I confront you about what you're doing in a server where you've ingratiated yourself and made friends that you have to flee immediately then that is what I'll do. My intellectual property is my own and you have no right to appropriate it.

My main "fursona" character is now  DorjeTheStego so go check me out there for a more actively updated profile and art.