Rape in RP (was Re: [Discuss] Status ?)

[LilWolf]

Gloria Santos kirjoitti:

> 
> Granted, I do believe when Mikko played Sleanra being raped he did it 
> carefully and in a way that did not offend nor disgust anyone.  Still, I 
> don't like the fact that he created and controlled a female character 
> only to rape her.  It did cause strong reactions.
>  
> 

Sleanra is a rather tragic character. She has had numerous bad things 
happen to her(seeing her parents killed by monsters, people she loved 
dying, a past haunting her, bad health caused by her personal healer 
poisoning her etc.), the rape was just one of them.

I didn't create her just to have her raped and I really don't like it 
that you're implying that that's what I did. The rape was a bit of a 
test wether I could pull off such a RP in a believable way(a test of my 
imagination and how I could relate to something that is a completely 
foreign thing to me), but the thought of rape occured to me only after 
months of creating her. There's much more to her than just that and she 
really is the character I care the most about, because of the hardships 
she has encountered.

It never crossed my mind to depict the rape in detail. I don't feel 
comfortable writing things like that in detail and really, there's no 
need for it. So I just RPed her passing out and waking up to seeing the 
man pull up his pants. You get the idea without having to read anything 
too detailed or offending without actually deducting anything meaningful 
from the RP.

As for the strong reactions, do you remember what Old Grehk was like 
after they saw that RP? People from King to quiet infiltrator were RPing 
wanting to capture the culprit. The realm felt *alive*. A bit later 
there were several people who RPd with me in private about her dealing 
wih the rape. IMHO it sparked some of the best interaction any of my 
characters has had with anyone in the game and was well worth it to me 
as a player.

Now, if the mere idea of a completely *fictional* character being 
*fictionally* raped in a *fictional* world gets you all worked up, then 
I really feel sorry for you, since the world is a bad place and a lot of 
worse thing are going on all the time and you see them every day in the 
news.


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