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If you find their character boring to play against, don't play against them? It's not like they're a canonmate, and their OOCness can affect your ICness.

Better to just ignore it, tbh. If their characterization is that awful and they've been playing for almost a year, either they've already been offered crit and ignored it or no one cares.

I'm not really following how someone else's OOCness can affect your ICness. If your character is reacting off of what is presented to them in a way consistent with who they are and how they ought to react, whether the other character is IC or OOC shouldn't matter. It's not as though your character would be aware that the other person isn't acting like themselves.

I agree with the rest of this, though. Unless the canon is so obscure that you are the only two in game who have seen it, this issue has probably been brought up by someone before.

But if a character is reacting off of what is presented to them in a way consistent with who they are and how they ought to react, they wouldn't be OOC.

If you played Pepper Potts and suddenly found Tony Stark sitting in a puddle of his own tears because he's gained weight and his pants don't fit anymore, it would be OOC of Pepper not to be very confused as to why Tony is acting like that, rather than trying to comfort him.

Most people wouldn't want to even play off of a version of a castmate who is extremely OOC, which would in turn cause Pepper to appear OOC for ignoring Tony's existence. I've seen people get critted for this with chronically inactive or squatting characters as well.

Right, but that's Pepper reacting to someone she actually knows in canon. From what they wrote, it was pretty clear the characters in question weren't canon mates and didn't know one another outside of the game.

If you're canon blind and your character only knows a character through what they have seen over the course of play, your character is not being OOC by not knowing that this person they've been interacting with is behaving uncharacteristically from how they ought to behave.

It's a completely different issue when it comes to castmates.

When I said "It's not like they're a canonmate, and their OOCness can affect your ICness" I meant "because they're not a canonmate, their OOCness can't affect your ability to stay IC, so it's not worth complaining about." Sorry if that was confusing. I'm pretty sure we're all in agreement on the subject.

[M] Life in the dreamhouse

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