Hmm ok I have tried several times to respond to this and keep failing because, honestly, I don't know the full situation anyway. I have only seen what exists in this thread and it looks like only half the story so I guess I won't comment on this and simply weigh in with my opinion on the general topic of roleplay policing and an RP community seeming to force people out if they don't 'conform'.
First of all, I do have a dislike of RP policing and have seen it in eve on the odd occasion in the years I have played. It sucks.
Of course it is subjective and always on a case by case basis when someone decides to push people out and if they are doing it from an IC or OOC sense. If it is IC then... ok echo what Svet and a few others have said a out a general view of the world and people flaying way beyond it. Of course the end result is that people will distance themselves or even vocally bash said RPer. This is not all that wrong, but sad to see happen. It is the nature of the beast and depends on your character.
In CG's case, I would see her in the summit being pretty odd and kooky and as far as Darius was concerned he would roll his eyes and say very little as it was all a bit too silly for him. I would say little because Darius had little to say to someone making a point of her bunny ears bopping around and flopping about in a goofy way.
I can imagine that some characters would definitely feel the need to eventually say something, having reached their limit. As long as this is something a character would do then, well, ok. It might not end well but if all is in RP then no real foul.
I can also imagine, though, some people would use their character to justify personal attacks on someone, not just specifically in CG's position but other RP angles as well, because of their OOC opinion about the character. Or even the person behind the character. Let us not deny this. It can happen and it does happen. And sadly, this is a very grey area that people cannot really prove one way or the other if it is the case. But yes, it really does happen and I have seen it happen several times. Only for the player behind the character to turn around when challenged OOC about this and say 'lol, iz only ArrPee! Chill!' Like it gets them off lightly or something.
Some might call me cynical for thinking this does happen, and of course this is still a rarity. Even I am not that jaded or bitter-RP-vet to think it is common in all RP.
Then, of course, we have the issue where people will OOC bitch about someone else's character for being way to abnormal and try to tell them they are doing it wrong. Again, rare to see but it does happen. And again, it is sad.
Overall, people have the option of simply ignoring outlandish RP with fantastical stories that are completely BS. They hardly affect you if you choose not to let them as no one can enshrine their character in any canonical sense in EVE lore. So maybe let things like this go? It is really not that hard.
And speaking as someone who...
[attached] a name to their day old character (Kor-Azor, Shakor, Heth, any other high profile NPC name) and claiming to be a relative, also stupid RP. By all means claim to be a relative, but until you've actually done something worthwhile, don't expect any respect.
...nearly when down this road when I was new, (yes, look at my name, Shakor! :p ) and I was a rookie to the whole RP thing, I would say giving people a chance here and there and giving them space to spin their wheels is never a bad thing.
Of course, again as Svet suggested people should do, I came to a conclusion soon after making my character, and having plotted out a backstory relating him to Maleatu Shakor, that I might be shooting way too grand and quickly dumped the idea, but the character was made. I had begun working things in game outside of the major RP scene, which was quite small at the time, and redirected my character arc. Maybe I dodged a bullet by doing this? I would not like to think that I was being gunned for by people who find my early wide-eyed fantasy somehow wrong down to the very core, but now I have to stick with it because I chose to run with it. If only I had the benefit of years of roleplay at my back, and an understanding of the social dynamics of how other RPers' characters would interact with mine...
So yeah... live and let live and all that. Either way, eve has lost a roleplayer and a character that, goofy or not, could interact with us all and give our characters an experience. Even if it is one where out characters dislike them intensely. This is never a bad thing and sometimes I see people resistant to anything that could intrude on their own narrative they have in mind. They don't want people butting in who are abnormal, because they have to do things with their character to respond to them.
... I am ranting. I will stop now.
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