(08-18-2015, 09:04 AM)LadyRochester Wrote:This. Like. Okay, if you're an adventurer, got kidnapped by bandits or something for a ransom and your friends came to save your ass, then the trauma would probably be mild at best, because let's face it. Eorzea's a harsh place. Shit does happen. But yeah, with rape or torture, real traumatizing, fear creating events, the 'walk it off' thing annoys me to no end.(08-18-2015, 08:41 AM)A'klonn Sargonnai Wrote:
VIII: I confess I hate kidnapping/abduction/torture and rape as drama plots with a vengeance. The whole abduction/(gender here) in distress/rape/torture as drama is bad, and you should feel bad if you do them on a frequent basis. Not because of the subject matter (though for some that alone can be a reason), because sometimes shit needs to get real. But because I have run across only a handful of people in over twenty years of RP that have actually managed to play the severity of any of the above situations in the seriousness they need to be taken in order to have impact. Kind of the same as playing true villains. It takes a certain mature approach that the majority of people don't have.
I'm only annoyed in this case if they do shit like this and then they make their characters just walk it off as if it never happened. You know, being all casual like:
"Oh yeah, I was kidnapped a few weeks ago, I got saved though, haha."
Or, even worse, those who do the "false fear" scene for attention, like...
"Oh no... I--I was... R-raped!" Two days later, you find them going "Oh no, I was raped!" And flirting with a random dude, using the fact the character was raped as some sort of... "Hook"
I'm aware many RPers don't do this, but as a psych. student and someone who has known people in that reality, that attitude is cringe-worthy.
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