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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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[shunraiken.livejournal.com]

I'm going to second those who said that different canons should be allowed, but different versions of the same character from the same timeline shouldn't. There's just too much potential for things to get REALLY messy if you've got multiple versions of the same character from the same canon running around. For instance, if a Kharlan War-era Yuan were to join, he'd likely find out about Martel's death and Mithos going nuts and would probably want to do something about it... but if he did that would throw off the timeline for MY Yuan, who is being played according to canon events. Otherwise you'd have to say that the two of them were alternate universe versions of each other, which is just opening up another can of worms entirely.