(07-05-2015, 06:06 PM)Faye Wrote: I'm not sure if this is really a pet peeve since it's a pretty legit insane thing to do? But it's happened often enough that I'm going to include it. People have already mentioned being irked by people with a blind focus on romance or who try to force relationships to happen, but what's worse is people who take it a step further and use OOC manipulation to try to make it happen, especially after you've already expressed your disinterest IC and OOC both.
I've had people try to force the RP in directions that would put our characters in romantic/sexual/intimate situations. I've had someone make two separate characters, pretend to be two different people OOC, and use one character to try to seduce my character and use the other to try to seduce my character's love interest (still not really sure which of us he was actually after???). One girl randomly sent my RP partner nude photos of herself IRL because she wanted their characters to hook up and have an affair. Another girl kept harassing him for a while about how he was "breaking lore" by having his Miqo'te in a relationship with my Hyur, basically insisting he was a bad RPer for it and offering that he could role-play with her Miqo'te character instead (I've had similar instances of this tactic, as well: "Why is Faye with a brute Miqo'te? She must be unhappy. That doesn't make sense. RP with me instead."). In another MMO, I knew a guy who would try to romance almost every female character he met, and OOCly portrayed his character as single and a virgin because he would hide the fact his character had other lovers and try retcon all their sex scenes to try to deceive every woman he met into thinking his character was fully available and pure and chaste and not a playboy, etc. (basically wanted to sleep around with every girl but have no IC repercussions from it and keep it a secret OOC).
The level of creepiness is astronomical. Stop. Just stop.
Holy-
I mean, on one side I'd be flattered that someone fancies my character bordering on obession, but jesus.
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