Evil Characters Helpfile

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======================================================================Other: evil characters======================================================================This is a subset of rp rule 4, that is not rping things different tohow it is on the show. Like it or not to prevent large moral ambiguitiesthe show fairly conclusively made it so that vampires and other soullessentities were purely evil and unredeemable.Particularly the lack of a soul seems to cause a type of sociopathy,wherein the person cannot feel guilt or any kind of moral restraint,they would happily rip out a person's jugular just to move up a positionin a line at the DMV, and generally consider the DMV to be a governmentprovided buffet anyway.If you are going to play a soulless character you have a responsibility tothe mud and the rp environment to do it in a way congruent with how itis presented in the show, that is, you're a bad guy. If you're incapable ofplaying a bad guy, reroll, if you wish to have your bad guy want to go good,want a soul, you must ask permission, we believe this has only occurred oncein the past millennia or so, so it's very unlikely to actually happen ICly.Evil characters are the most important for rp, but they're also often themost difficult, playing someone completely devoid of morality is oftenmuch harder than just playing someone of a different race, gender, or withdifferent speaking patterns, again I'd suggest if you're not up to thechallenge, you not attempt it.Signs that you’re rping evil correctly are that you are generally hated,a mob is forming to kill you, or you’re constantly under some sort of attack,either verbal or physical.  If you haven’t experienced these, then you'relikely not.How can you know if your evil char is actually bad, well ask yourself thisdo the good guys want to kill or imprison you? If the answer is no, thenyou're likely not, there are of course exceptions, some good guys won'ttry to kill/stop evil chars they're friends with, either cause they'rebad RPers or are playing a morally weak character. Also some might wantto kill you for personal reasons, or you could be playing a sneaky charbut in that case you can just ask yourself, if they actually knew what I wasdoing would they wanna kill/imprison me?While I'm aware that most people come here to play the concepts they wantto play, remember this is a community, you have an obligation to the otherplayers who want to play in a buffy world, also the immortals are alwayshappy to talk things through with you if you think any of your conceptsor RP might be a bit iffy.----------------------------------------------------------------------
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