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[Nov. 10th, 2009|11:00 am] |
Dear Player A:
You played a character that I'd initially loved from a film I'd loved when I first saw it. You brought this character into the game, and portrayed him as weak, scared of everything, and completely unable to adapt to change without OH so much angst and drama, for MONTHS on end. I disliked this portrayal, but it had been long enough since I saw his canon that I had no idea the extent to which you ruined him. Then, one day, I watched his canon with a close friend who'd also been avoiding your character, for the same reasons, so that we could remind ourselves why we'd loved this film when we'd seen it, before you'd come along.
Twenty minutes in, we realised that the character, while repressed and awkward and a bit bumbling at times, was in fact cunning, brave, a rather good liar when he had to be, and able to adapt to strange situations when thrust into them unexpectedly, with relatively little fuss. This wouldn't do. I emailed my findings to the other mods, and we emailed you telling you that we'd noticed this, and that he was suspended from play until you filled out a new application for him that demonstrated you had an actual grasp of the character, not the whinging dramabucket you'd been playing. We didn't hear back from you for a couple of days, and because we weren't sure if you'd decide to flounce or stay, we told you we were TEMPORARILY removing him from the cast list since we'd been updating it anyway, and the moment we got your re-written application, he'd be back on and you could continue playing.
So WHY OH WHY must you then IMMEDIATELY go bemoan to your friends about how we "kicked [character] out of the game"? And refrain from mentioning until pressed that you were "allowed" (you WERE encouraged, not allowed, but whatever) to re-app him when your friends got defensive on your behalf?
I'd thought you were a decent enough person who wasn't the best at characterization before. Now I just think you're sort of a dick.
Glad you never sent that re-written app in,
Baudy
ETA: I should point out that we had been having other problems with Player A already, and that the play suspension is a regular policy in our game when things are being discussed between mods and the player regarding the play of a character.
Dear (potential) Player B:
Okay, here's a hint: When you publicly play a character basically acting the exact OPPOSITE of everything that's provided in canon, you may not want to mention you're the person who plays them when you app to a game that's already "kicked your friend out" due to characterization issues. It wouldn't have made a difference, we knew who you were regardless, but STILL. Playing a character who was the future's answer to a secret agent, was sent to sex, drug, alcohol, AND murder rehab (and relapsed from ALL OF THEM), who is very much a "I will sex any and all comers, one at a time or all at once!" sort of person and seems to have no real moral compass on his own, and making this character MARRY some chick, stop killing and things just 'cause she wanted him to, and making him a proud daddy who works for a FLORIST or something like that? That's not IC. That's nowhere in the same HEMISPHERE of IC, unless there was, I dunno, BRAIN DAMAGE involved. If it's AU, and you can make me believe it with slight differences in temperament and personality, fine, but it was CANON, and that shit is not on.
Okay, fine, you app, fine. I'll read it. The first thing I notice? You mention you're making him a new journal. You haven't made it YET, but you give us the username that you'll be giving him. Just because I'm a pedant sometimes, I want to make sure that it's even AVAILABLE. Guess what? It's NOT. In fact, it's been taken since 2005. But, okay, that alone is not enough to deny your application with any sort of dignity. How about the rest of it? The appearance and personality are mind-numbing, the history is so poorly written I have very little idea what's going on, and the writing sample is bad enough to cause me to make faces that made my girlfriend laughed hysterically.
I applaud you for not complaining when we denied your application. But, on a whim, I went to your public journal a few days later to see if you'd pitched a fit - mostly out of morbid curiosity, and so I could laugh. And what do I find? You've applied with this character to THREE "srs bsnss" RPs, and ALL THREE denied your applications. You said sarcastically that there must be something wrong with the way you RP, but I'd say that actually YES THERE MUST BE. So you will stick with games that don't require you to fill out an application or anything stupid like that. Heh. Okay. Please do. That way, I'll never have to risk running into you and your HORRIFICALLY BASTARDIZED CHARACTER.
Laughed my ass off when I got the app, and harder when I denied it,
Baudy |
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