(02-04-2015, 12:00 PM)Zhavi Wrote: => Try your damndest not to hold other peoples' choices with their characters against them. Â Even if you feel they are breaking [insert unspoken social rule or bit of rp etiquette or setting rule here], the only character you have full control over is your own.I love this so hard you have no idea.
I've had my characters do things other people don't like. Why? Because it's what the character would do. I'm playing something that is not an extension of myself nor ever meant to be. The only time I have ever made such an exception is in certain RP with my boyfriend or my other significant others in the past who were RP partners. Even then, there was still a huge limit on the leeway I would allow.
Probably the biggest source of drama I ever had in this game (and seen others go through) was over the above, and it's one that I keep watch over to make sure it doesn't happen in my FC like it's happened to me. It's a kind of IC/OOC blending that most people don't even realize they're doing, and is even trickier at times to point out.
The most I'll do is maybe make a comment or chat about it because it's interesting. Like if someone's toon kills/maims/harms/dislikes/etc. another's. I'd rather chat about it then get upset over it xD
