#and when they say theyre confused and don’t understand everyone just gets angrier at them and insists theyre lying and they MUST be

[clanoffelidae]

Always been a little bit confused by the whole ‘our ocs are often inadvertent reflections of our personal traumas haha’ like i mean yeah in a ‘horoscopes are so generic they can apply to anyone’ kind of way

Idk my characters have their own stories

‘Oh so none of your characters are at all personal reflections?’ No, it’s often clear they’re written by a singular person with core values that show up in them too in some ways, but there’s not really any of that ‘oh i struggled with an abusive family growing up and oops all my characters have abusive childhoods’ kind of stuff that I see people talking about a lot

Like I’ve got a couple of characters that are expressions of personal struggles but they’re few in number, I know who they are, and I know this because I designed them that way intentionally, everyone else is doing their own thing man idk

Seeing that topic go around always feels kinda like what being ace feels like in that I can see that there’s something I’m just not getting but everyone says it and I can kind of see how that could happen so I smile and laugh along despite that not really ‘getting the joke’

#like let’s see the untouched are LITERALLY intended to be metaphors for neurodivergency #and auru is an rp character who has mental health struggles as one of his defining characteristics #and has endeared himself to quite a few people because of it actually lol #he’s the mental health issues projection boy and turns out a lot of people i’ve played with relate 🤣 #but everyone else just kinda. has their own stuff going on. idk. #so basically i have one projection character and then a group of characters #that are INTENTIONALLY DESIGNED to be metaphors for neurodivergency #haha eldritch horrors being baffled by our world and not getting things that seem obvious to us #and so being called monsters because its OBVIOUS so they MUST know what theyre doing #which means they MUST be doing it INTENTIONALLY so they MUST be TRYING to hurt people #meanwhile the untouched have absolutely no idea what’s going on because no. no it’s not obvious. not to them. #they’re beings that exist outside of time they dont have an intrinsic understanding of what things are ‘right and wrong’ by us #and when they say theyre confused and don’t understand everyone just gets angrier at them and insists theyre lying and they MUST be #doing it on purpose - and are just trying to be manipulative #and the untouched just keep crying that they don’t understand what theyve done wrong or how to not do it again #and no one will answer them #theyre just deemed monsters #because well #its OBVIOUS - isnt it? #so saying theyre confused must be a lie #and they MUST be doing it on purpose to hurt us #even as they cry and cry that they don’t understand why we’re so angry with them and don’t know what they’ve done wrong #but again they were made that way intentionally lol #everyone else is like ‘oh beni was a feral child who lost his parents when he was young’ #my parents are alive and well and raised me quite caringly thank you lol