Reflecting on a thread in which my friend’s character, a hot blooded and rash but well meaning and earnest type, said something casually kind of fucked up to my character (think “I get the feeling your friends would rather try to hide that they know you, is that why you’re jealous I’m hanging out with them too”) in an argument, with my character having recently met them and being a major antagonist in their canon but not having been any worse to their character than flippantly annoying by that point.

Realizing that was really weird for their character to say and wanting to ask the friend if they might unintentionally be doing the “I know your character’s bad news bears OOCly, so mine can treat them however they want and it’ll make sense because, OOCly, I know they have it coming” in case it needs to be nipped in the bud early but also not because we recently had an argument about something unrelated and I never want calling someone on it to look butthurt or “I’m going to tell you how to play your character, which is not being an asshole to my asshole character” even though I like the IC drama in and of itself.