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<blockquote data-quote="Roseweave" data-source="post: 6937447" data-attributes="member: 6806914"><p>tbh sexual violence is so common and treated with such a blasé attitude that I'd be very wary of including it as an element in a game.</p><p></p><p>I remember one time after a joke went sideways my Cyberpunk 2020 character(that I played around 2004 or so) ended up being a "pimp" and had 5 girls he tried to take care of. The GM then proceeded to turn it into a murder mystery, with each of the escorts being murdered in increasingly brutal/grotesque ways. Like, stuff out of the Hannibal TV show or some nasty horror film. As someone who was coming to terms with being trans, this messed with my head. Reflecting on it, having dipped my toes into a form of sex work, it's even more traumatic. I'm lucky to have never experienced really serious sexual violence personally, but I have experienced transphobic violence and various somewhat casual instances of molestation(when your trans especially your boobs and butt sort of cease to become fully just yours). </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>My character fell in love with a giant spider we picked up as a guide on the Rock of Bral. She was an Aranea who lost her memory and couldn't shapeshift(it turned out she was actually a super Plastic Man/Kamala Khan-esque shapeshifter later on, from a family of royal mutant aranea). The GM thought it was sort of a cute/sad story, with the poor girl stuck as a monster getting rocks thrown at her, but of course my character fell utterly in love with her because it was such a perfect fairy tale. It was also sort of a trans girl metaphor(or more specifically maybe genderqueer since she goes over and back now) so I identified with it on that level. (Here's some arts of them! <a href="http://roseweave.deviantart.com/art/Spiderfairy-Learning-to-Walk-476106391?q=Roseweave%2F17246133&qo=18" target="_blank">http://roseweave.deviantart.com/art/Spiderfairy-Learning-to-Walk-476106391?q=Roseweave/17246133&qo=18</a> <a href="http://roseweave.deviantart.com/art/Ellie-and-Deja-in-spider-form-snuggling-624713894?q=Roseweave%2F17246133&qo=11" target="_blank">http://roseweave.deviantart.com/art/Ellie-and-Deja-in-spider-form-snuggling-624713894?q=Roseweave/17246133&qo=11</a> and my fav with them dressed up in pirates from that one priate episode - <a href="http://roseweave.deviantart.com/art/Grappling-Hook-627213488?q=Roseweave%2F17246133&qo=0" target="_blank">http://roseweave.deviantart.com/art/Grappling-Hook-627213488?q=Roseweave/17246133&qo=0</a>)</p><p></p><p>I adopted her and some other NPCs to write stories about them(which you can read here! <a href="http://crystallineprincess.tumblr.com/tagged/short-stories" target="_blank">http://crystallineprincess.tumblr.com/tagged/short-stories</a>) I often wonder if it's flattering or just weird to do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roseweave, post: 6937447, member: 6806914"] tbh sexual violence is so common and treated with such a blasé attitude that I'd be very wary of including it as an element in a game. I remember one time after a joke went sideways my Cyberpunk 2020 character(that I played around 2004 or so) ended up being a "pimp" and had 5 girls he tried to take care of. The GM then proceeded to turn it into a murder mystery, with each of the escorts being murdered in increasingly brutal/grotesque ways. Like, stuff out of the Hannibal TV show or some nasty horror film. As someone who was coming to terms with being trans, this messed with my head. Reflecting on it, having dipped my toes into a form of sex work, it's even more traumatic. I'm lucky to have never experienced really serious sexual violence personally, but I have experienced transphobic violence and various somewhat casual instances of molestation(when your trans especially your boobs and butt sort of cease to become fully just yours). My character fell in love with a giant spider we picked up as a guide on the Rock of Bral. She was an Aranea who lost her memory and couldn't shapeshift(it turned out she was actually a super Plastic Man/Kamala Khan-esque shapeshifter later on, from a family of royal mutant aranea). The GM thought it was sort of a cute/sad story, with the poor girl stuck as a monster getting rocks thrown at her, but of course my character fell utterly in love with her because it was such a perfect fairy tale. It was also sort of a trans girl metaphor(or more specifically maybe genderqueer since she goes over and back now) so I identified with it on that level. (Here's some arts of them! [url]http://roseweave.deviantart.com/art/Spiderfairy-Learning-to-Walk-476106391?q=Roseweave%2F17246133&qo=18[/url] [url]http://roseweave.deviantart.com/art/Ellie-and-Deja-in-spider-form-snuggling-624713894?q=Roseweave%2F17246133&qo=11[/url] and my fav with them dressed up in pirates from that one priate episode - [url]http://roseweave.deviantart.com/art/Grappling-Hook-627213488?q=Roseweave%2F17246133&qo=0[/url]) I adopted her and some other NPCs to write stories about them(which you can read here! [url]http://crystallineprincess.tumblr.com/tagged/short-stories[/url]) I often wonder if it's flattering or just weird to do that. [/QUOTE]
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