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[carnality.livejournal.com]

Basically, we've been allowing doubles of characters on a case by case basis. It's come to our attention how difficult and sensitive this can be, and it'd really help us know what you think.

Feel free to be completely honest but be tactful of it. Do not call people out, do not make examples of people who are not comfortable being made examples of and if you get into a discussion with someone, keep it civil or take it to IM. I will freeze threads if I see people are getting too personal or heated (and you can happily IM me and tell me I was wrong if I mistake your passion for anger, consent would be needed from both in the discussion.)

Basically, double characters, yay or nay? How do you feel about it? What are the pros and cons of it, in your mind? Should we allow instances of it, or should we just ban it all together? Should it not be so black and white?

There was some discussion on this post here about it earlier, if you'd like to expand on ideas or whatever you like.


We are not going to force anyone with doubles to drop their characters, this is in no way going to affect any of you so please don't feel the need to get defensive! We just want to know, for the future, what we should consider. ♥ thank you, in advance. :D

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[felldeedsawake.livejournal.com]

Case-by-case basis.

In some canons, doubles of characters have actually occurred - Ben Reilly, Spider-Man's clone, or the numerous episodes in which the Doctor has met his earlier incarnations - these doubles were concurrent with the character's timeline. They met each other canonically and were aware of each other's presence.

But take a case where someone's trying to play a character from a different timeline or series? Is it a spinoff, is it an earlier/later version? These can cause trouble. Like haruzac said, [X character] from earlier canon and [X character] from later canon are the same person. In that case I would say no, that's not OK. If [X character] had some kind of spinoff/AU and it's a different canon in its own right, that would probably be OK. If that makes any sense. That's my view.