Well here's a little dilema though. A lot of miqo'te tribe rpers, Hipparion Tribe being on this site, have established in their lore that their tribe tradition makes those at age 16, be considered adults, if they pass the trial of adulthood. My own character, was exiled from the tribe at age 16, and through RP, has been thrusted into leadership roles, been injured from combat, etc.
Right now my character is 17, and she's planning to be married around her namesday to a keeper she met, and has a romantic relationship with. Her lore which flows from the Hipparion tribe, says she is an adult. She's not a real person, she is a work of fiction, just like all of our characters. And considering how she was exiled (Sun Drake powder blown into her lungs), and the fact there's real world laws against child abuse. I suppose the ones who did that abusive RP, are in trouble as well? If someone can get in trouble for ERPing with fictional characters that real world laws say are minors, then the abuse my own fictional 17 year old went through would also apply.
Let me make it clear though. I am completely against ERPing with real world minors. If I was in an IC relationship like that and I suddenly found out the other person was underage in real life, and didn't tell me the truth, IC or not, that relationship would be over.
That being said, saying that 2 people with real life age of over 18, who play fictional under 18 characters, can get people in trouble because of real world laws, then we may as well apply every real world law to the fictional universe. In which case, the people who abused my fictional character, I wish them a lot of luck. See how silly that is?
Real World Minors - No, they are off limits and rightly so
Fictional characters - Just works of fiction and if people can be prosecuted for story telling then as someone else listed, there's a lot of real world authors who need prosecuted as well.
Right now my character is 17, and she's planning to be married around her namesday to a keeper she met, and has a romantic relationship with. Her lore which flows from the Hipparion tribe, says she is an adult. She's not a real person, she is a work of fiction, just like all of our characters. And considering how she was exiled (Sun Drake powder blown into her lungs), and the fact there's real world laws against child abuse. I suppose the ones who did that abusive RP, are in trouble as well? If someone can get in trouble for ERPing with fictional characters that real world laws say are minors, then the abuse my own fictional 17 year old went through would also apply.
Let me make it clear though. I am completely against ERPing with real world minors. If I was in an IC relationship like that and I suddenly found out the other person was underage in real life, and didn't tell me the truth, IC or not, that relationship would be over.
That being said, saying that 2 people with real life age of over 18, who play fictional under 18 characters, can get people in trouble because of real world laws, then we may as well apply every real world law to the fictional universe. In which case, the people who abused my fictional character, I wish them a lot of luck. See how silly that is?
Real World Minors - No, they are off limits and rightly so
Fictional characters - Just works of fiction and if people can be prosecuted for story telling then as someone else listed, there's a lot of real world authors who need prosecuted as well.
