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Hey! I am aware there are worse pictures but honestly, panty shots are tacky and we prefer not to have them in this guild. Cropping it is fine. We just don't want to be seeing underwear--this is a pretty normal school RP, not an ecchi otome game so we want to keep things appropriate. Thanks for understanding. =)

As for your character, I'm afraid I still can't approve her as she is. She does not meet our guidelines just yet. You'll need to make the following changes.


1. Not scared of anything? That's honestly not at all realistic. She needs to have normal reactions to things, please. Everyone gets nervous or scared about some things. Unless you're able to back it up with a real, named personality disorder where a symptom is not being afraid of anything. Because there is nothing in her history that would lead to this trait. In fact, given the abuse she went through, she should most likely be a bit on the nervous side rather than fearless.


2. Curiosity is not a flaw. In fact, based on everything else, stubbornness is really the only actual flaw you have listed here. You're welcome to keep the other traits but I want to see some actual personality flaws. Right now, she's kind of bordering on being a tough-girl Mary Sue because every possible flaw is countered by an excuse or virtue.


3. Please take time to actually read the ability/spells thread to understand how magic works in this guild. You clearly haven't done that yet. =) Also, you need to read and sign the rules thread as well, to demonstrate you've actually done the reading. It's important to read the rules and other critical information before putting up a character to make sure they fit within the framework of the guild. We don't just have generic 'dark magic.'

4. Why is she not going to live past 25 because she can't feel pain? o.O; Please don't make up nonexistent disorders for dramatic reasons. We don't really like damselmodding or superfluous drama as it can be highly disruptive so please make sure if she has some kind of condition, there is some logic behind it.

That's all. Please quote me when you've tweaked these areas. Thank you. ^^

1. You're making her a psychopath? You intend to actually RP her as properly psychopathic with all the other things that entails? Like the following:shallow emotions (in particular reduced fear), stress tolerance, lacking empathy, coldheartedness, egocentricity, superficial charm, manipulativeness, irresponsibility, impulsivity, criminality, antisocial behaviors such as lacking guilt and living a parasitic lifestyle (i.e. blatant or willful dependency on another person, entity or public aid program, such as Section 8.

Considering how she hates clingy people, that doesn't seem like it's going to work well for you.

2. I'll wait to approve the character until you've read.

3. Then why is not mentally retarded? Does she suffer all the medical complications that can come from this disorder--like the extreme susceptibility to hypothermia and aneurysms? Please don't think you can just tack a disorder on to make her special without taking into consideration all the implications. How does she know when to urinate? that's also affected by CIPA. Are you aware of these issues; infection and scarring of the tongue, lips and gums, chronic infections of bones and joints, bone fractures, multiple scars, osteomyelitis and joint deformities, which may lead to amputation.

Have you looked at people with this disorder? She looks awfully pretty compared to what this disorder actually tends to make people look like.

Were you aware of:
Most treatments are hard to narrow down for this condition because each CIPA patient may have other conditions including the absence of a sweat gland, nerve fibers, ulcers, and other sub-conditions. It has been suggested that young CIPA sufferers have their baby teeth removed so they cannot chew through their tongue, lips or fingers until their full set of adult teeth grow through.

Were you also aware that most people with this disorder require nearly constant monitoring of their vitals and health because they're unable to tell when something is wrong with them? It seems really unlikely she would have been abused by her step father for so long considering how often she would have been at the doctor's. In addition, how could she possibly be at a normal school when she requires so much medical attention? People with this condition frequently bite off their own tongues and fingers. In addition, they have frequent bone infections, the tissue around the joints can be destroyed causing distorted limb formation, and they also heal very slowly from injuries. They require very, very VERY careful medical care in order to make it past early childhood.

This isn't reflected anywhere in her profile.

People slapping unique and highly rare disorders onto their characters and giving them the "pretty" characteristics but not the hardcore and REAL characteristics is an extreme pet peeve of mine. It's one thing when you're dealing with a mild disorder like albinism, but with something serious like this--no. I'm not okay with it. It's good for drama mongering, but not good RPing. If you want to play serious disorders, she's going to need to display more than one or two of the "cool" traits and none of the ones that will impact her appearance or ability to be self sufficient.

Sorry if these seems harsh but I do not usually let people get away with this kind of thing because I find it insulting toward people who actually cope with those disorders and I find it usually is just used as a way for a character to get positive attention, but not the negative attention that would almost always come with such disorders.

People with CIPA and psychpathy are not pretty, friendly and vivacious young girls who just live normally and cope with situations normally. They are people who really can't get by on their own, have extreme social and physical difficulties, scars, amputations, deformities, few friends and a lot of very real and very serious difficulties.

So please keep that in mind as you make changes to the profile to accurately reflect these disorders. Thanks ^_^

My goodness. I'm sorry but we do tend to have higher standards than a lot of other guilds when it comes to Mary Sues and faked out illnesses that exist only for drama. We dislike special snowflake characters that draw attention to themselves and sadly, she has all the hallmarks.

I'm sorry if I upset you but if you intend to stay in this guild, I would recommend a slight attitude adjustment. I have pretty high expectations of people when it comes to being respectful and when it comes to quality character building. If that's going to be a problem for you, then this guild may not be a good fit.

Take care. ^_^

Once again the illness is not made up (and that's what mad me upset actually along with the fact you didn't even bother to look it up in the first place). I've used her in a paranoid schizophrenia in a guild before like this and they didn't get any attention. I don't use my characters like that. Don't be, I don't see the real point in being sorry about a pointless thing like a profile of a nonexistent person. Recommending that is actually kind of rude to be honest, pardon that if it offends. I don't need one, thank you though. I'm not that hard to deal with really. Today's been pretty crappy and it's just gotten worse and worse throughout the day. I'll think about it. I'm less interested now after that the person above just said.

She's not based on that disease. I added that after a while. If you plan to tease me about it (which is what it feels like) then please keep it to yourself.

I read an article in it, but it didn't provide that information. I know that now, but I didn't before. I had a fall back character which was the paranoid schizo, but I won't use her since she's really no fun when she isn't talking to illusions, confusing fake people for real people, and running from imaginary wasps. I have another one I can use, but she's rather shy and I'm not sure how well she will do.

Oh no, that would kind of defeat the purpose of having her lol. She's shy, but she'll talk. She stuttered and such until she knows the person better or well enough that she feels more comfortable. She does take medication, of course, but it's usually fun to write about her having small, minor illusions her and there.

I think that should be fine then (the shy character). She should work out well.

I had a family member who was being evaluated for early onset Schizophrenia due to some pretty extreme problems he was having in school. It's a hard disorder to RP well too. Like, some people parody it and that can be so hilarious (in this one RP, there was this character having a really funny conversation with a blanket; I will never forget that scene. xD ). I think the hardest thing with disorders is portraying them accurately and non-disruptively. I'll be honest--I nearly always groan inwardly when I see someone post some kind of major personality disorder because unless they've done a lot, lot of research then they inevitably do it weirdly or disrespectfully.

Like, I live with someone who has OCD so I'm really familiar with it and most people who try to RP this disorder just have me constantly facepalming. xD But, um, Phaea? She's one of our crew members here and she has an OCD character that she does really well. I think when you have characters where the RPer has done some research about the disorder and has really integrated it into the character instead of just tacking it on to make them "different" the characters can be super loveable and really amazing.

And...now I'm rambling. LoL. It's not aimed at you, though. Just general rambles. I really, really, really love characters that are well put together and where all the traits mesh completely so that it's a cohesive character rather than a base character with a bunch of random things tacked on and none of them really make sense together. The former are so much fun to RP with. <3<3