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Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

they still clearly decided they didn't want to keep running a game

their prerogative whether it gets a proper ending or not. you are not owed the conclusion you want from people offering you free entertainment

+0.5

[(Anonymous)]

no but when people sink time and effort into your endeavours the very least you owe them is transparency

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

yeah i'm just saying a mod who properly closed a game isn't at fault for losing interest.

if you ghost your game though it's a dick move to the people who also put in effort to making the game actually move.

either way i still don't really see why it can't just go in the way of psls after especially if you put so much changes in your character that they are an au version of any sort. like i won't avoid a game that has crau and would play with those i am not canon familiar with anyway, but not a single crau of a canon I know has ever really sounded like their original counterpart enough for me not to think they're basically an oc. I just don't think they're really that different from fandom au which most games don't allow.

but i'm not a mod so it's moot point. i'd probably opt out with any overinvested crau player anyway.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

da but i'm really confused by the idea that a character growing and developing past what they were at their canonpoint somehow makes them an au because most characters grow and change in their own canons? like it's very rare to have characters who remain static throughout the course of their canons.

what's the difference between a character undergoing a character arc in canon and a character undergoing a character arc in a game?

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

i think there's a vast difference regarding time and game type. a character having 3 years in a sex game is going to 'develop' differently than a 10 year long horror game survivor. and when you crau that version that's either full of ptsd or on high alert or the version that's open to bang everything/solves everything with sex, it's not going to hit the same as a castmate to have horny spock or missing an eye spock or murder first, talk later spock who is now a wildly different version of spock than the canon version.

if you app into a horror game and a spock has been in there for a few months/a couple years, you're going to expect him to be horror-based. same with a smut game. if you app into a pirate high seas game and spock comes in with either of the other game cr, that's not what you're expecting to play off of when you app to a pirate game with a castmate.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

sorry i'm kind of high

are you really asking what the difference is between canon and dwrp rp game development

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

character arc in canon is constrained to the premise/genre/constraints of the canon setting whereas a game is not. someone could find the idea of exploring a character in a genre on the complete opposite end of what they deal with in canon, and if they CRAU that character into a game that's gonna be so much tonal whiplash not only for the next game but also castmates.

ex. say i play strawberry shortcake in a horror survival game, but then I decide to also play her CRAU'd after that in a cyberpunk game. it's different from canon character development because in canon strawberry shortcake would never deal with horror survival elements. this tends to be the most common/egregious type of crau - because it's something the player can't replicate in canon they're unwilling to let go of it or start fresh.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

ngl that sounds to me more like an issue of bad writing than of CRAU. A Strawberry Shortcake in a horror survival game should react to the horror survival elements in a way that is still recognizably Strawberry Shortcake. It may not be the same as canon character development, but there are still going to be some ways of reacting in that situation that are IC and some that are OOC.

Regardless of what they've experienced in their game, the character should still be Strawberry Shortcake at their core. If they aren't, then that's a failure of the player to understand how to develop Strawberry Shortcake outside of the constraints of canon and still have her remain IC.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

please see the reply below mine labeled "ayrt" for a more detailed explanation of why it's considered an au other than the point blank fact that it's got AU literally in the name if we're still on the original source of confusion.

aside from that I still argue that no matter how "ic" they were in reacting to survival horror elements, **I** never signed up to deal with that shit when I apped into my cyberpunk game, nor did I sign up for it when playing from a canon that doesn't address that shit in the source material either. esp considering 9 out of 10 times my orange blossom would be saddled with coddling a traumatized strawberry shortcake and trying to juggle not one, but TWO game premises. one of which if I actually gave a shit about I would have played there. even if strawberry shortcake doesn't use orange blossom as a fun dispenser the strawberry shortcake is still submitting other characters to elements they did not agree to play with

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

i don’t think this hobby is for you if you’re this much of a control freak

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

"I didn't sign up to get saddled with a canonmate's sparkly oc version of a character with five years of sex game buttfucking history I don't care about" seems p reasonable honestly. esp because the generally agreed upon response here is either ignoring it or dropping so you don't have to deal with it

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

+1 you aren't in the vocal minority of this thread either

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

i mean if you app into a game that allows craus you did kind of sign up for it, yeah

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

stop trying to resuscitate this thread. you already tried this elsewhere

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

+1 we're ignoring it like we ignore craus

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

nah

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

-1

when 'i'd rather not play with a wildly ooc version of a canon castmate' is controlling.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

then drop or don’t app

idk what anon wants here they’ve been going about it for days now

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

that's what most people have been saying. the 'going on about it' has been the defensiveness of crau anons claiming they wouldn't do that and their crau is different and it's not fair to not want to play with them and fuck you if you app into a game with them and not play with them.

newsflash: i don't have to play with your uterus in the ass flavor of bucky just because i also play natasha or sam. i could choose to have my character think your character is a skrull or a fucked up alternate and they can nope out of that. my character does not have to play along with bucky being pregnant or leaking from his ass. that's not what i signed up for in a pirate game or a space game.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

if a game allows crau and you join it anyway, then yes, you implicitly **did** sign up to deal with that shit

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

good thing I'm the anon that specifically said I don't app to games that allow crau. but people still wanted to argue it's bad players that are at fault and not the concept of craus to begin with.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

we're making the right choice by not joining these games if this is the hill you're gonna die on lol

so much for just ignore them

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

that's okay doesn't sound like anyone's losing out with you not being there

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Others already answered this but just to add my two cents in, an au means that the character is already a version that had development or situations that is not what happened in the original canon. That is essentially what happens in craus. You develop a character differently from their original canon, and depending on the canonpoint, it could very well be a big difference because they might not even know of future events because their experiences are different.

Like some people play characters at an earlier point in canon, so early that they probably missed majority of their world's events. Three years of being in a game and carrying it over to a new game essentially makes them someone very different from canon, especially if they come from settings that are vastly different from their original canon.

An au doesn't have to have a completely different origin. If one lives in canon and dies in an alternate timeline, that's an au. Games kidnapping your character from their world is already an alternate timeline itself.

sa

[(Anonymous)]

I also want to add that the change doesn't have to be tonally different games. If I app a Last of us character in a horror game then app as a crau in another horror game, it is still an au because people will not be able to glean their game development by playing the original game. They'd have to base it off details in their app or look through their last game, where they met anime characters, game characters, movie characters etc.

Development doesn't make it less of an au. It still has a very different direction from canon.