i have this built in my skin as “character notes” like cw for interaction, which i think is more relevant than individual cw.

I played a manipulative, gaslighting, endeavor-coded guy and halfway through the thread being a narcissistic douche to his daughter, someone following the family drama storyline mentioned conversationally how trigger he was and me and my rp partner were like holy shit yeah this guy needs a trigger warning. It seemed obvious but ooc chat have been generally like, laughing at how shitty the whole thing is. But when you’re reading ir or maybe even interacting with it, it can get crawl up to you. Now im proud of that bc that means i really played a terrible character well but also did feel very guilty not realizing that sooner.

So yeha i do believe there should be like that stuff in tumblr abt must reads before interactinf w/tge character.

Sounds like you made the right decision.

Ooooh, I have not thought of it to this specification. The character I am thinking of, for the sake of keeping things more safe with language, has severe depression and thoughts associated with that. So it is a very heavy topic and since his ability theming is based around The Crooked Man poem, I have actually described him as a “walking trigger”. So he primarily makes me think about adding stuff like that since it is so prominent on account of his dark themings and inner workings. So overall, I really wanted to consider adding it since sometimes characters have those traits.

Though I can definitely get the weird mix of guilt and pride. If it helps, I can see how oversights happen easily; especially if you don’t have or have a lot amount of triggers. But I am glad they came to you politely. I love seeing that since there is a point of helping others learn from actions so they can take action to avoid it in the future.

it was in group chat and i dont think they literally meant it triggered them, but probably upsetting and enough to ruin your mood in the enzt 10 mins bc you didnt expect to get so pissed over a fictional character haha. We were a chill community that i’d like to think knew each other decently enough since we were rping for 6+ months there. It is nice to be able to hear and talk about these stuffs without feeling like you’re threadinng on eggshells, for sure

But this does remind me of that one time - in the same site - where a newbie came over and pointed out (politely) about how i was using the fc of an actor who passed. It was my first time using irl faces and i ddint know that was ethically inappropriate. Tbh at that moment, i thought i was honoring him but i was leaning on heeding that person’s opinion more bc i know i dodnt know much. I was also a staff at that time and when i quickly admitted i didnt know it and went over to remove the fc asap until i can replace it, they were genuinely stumped for a good minite bx of how easy it was. I could tell they were very nervous and expecting a negative reaction, and they were happy to see i didnt react that way.

They had a lot of courage to do that but it’s really sad people have to be this way when they’re doing the right thing. Because i get it. Especially when you’re pointing out to something to the staff.

Even with the ppl who i mentioned we were comfortable with each other, they were hesitant about criticizing the site system that was put in place for the premise’s main mechanic. I had to reassure them repeatedly i dont care - the point of a system is for the benefit of the community, not for my ego. Maybe bc i have a computer programmer mindset, but there’s no point of me making a code that’s supposed to fix your problem if youre on the mindset i’ll get hurt for sayong it didnt help you

I talked a log about me xD sorry about that but yeah. It’s great when ppl come forward with issues! And it’s sad when the whole issue with that is bc ppl are afraid of a negative reaction. As i always like to say, you cant control how others react.

Which is actually what the therapist of an old friend i had told them and they told me about it and now i talk about kt a lot

Not to be 'that guy', but about the Associated Triggers... Is this like.. What triggers the character or what triggers the rper? I'm sure it says somewhere but my brain is just not finding it lol.

What I mean by it is triggers associated with the character. I will use the character I mentioned above as an example. He does have some theming around depression and dark thoughts (these persist with being a balancer for his empathic abilities with worsening his depression). So he is heavily associated with what I would consider a common trigger in role-play. So having a place to say “Hey, this character is heavily associated with these heavy topics.” would probably be a good idea given I communicate this with people ahead of time.

So I guess the proper word is a discretion? Like what you would at the beginning of video games or shows that feature heavy topics.

yes, i totally agree with individual char. warnings!! i play on a site that has a section for this on a character's profile; a lot of places will ask you, as a writer, to list what triggers you, but i almost feel like having warnings listed for specific characters almost feels like it makes more sense... i always take a glance at character profiles before suggesting or starting an rp, and i feel like it makes it easier to approach people if you struggle with needing things warned for/avoided in rp. on a baseline, it's a lot easier to remember what sets you off personally rather than everyone else's triggers, and i feel like having character specific warnings/cautions helps a lot with streamlining what you can look out for in a thread.

That'd actually be really cool to have. No longer would I blindly wander into CSA histories!

Would probably call it "content warning", though, because these things don't have to be related to just people with...history. Some of us just really don't like certain topics because they bring us down or something, so being able to opt out before you sit down and hash out a plot and figure out it's going to be unpleasant saves grief on all sides of the aisle.

Both the above is where my brain goes. I try to remember to put trigger warnings on my histories that are more sketch and may trigger someone. So I thought extending it to a general “This character may trigger x.” Would maybe be a nice addition to give people an idea of whether or not they should interact or to open the door to conversation about potentially censoring if interaction is required for plotting due to wanted as groups existing.

I guess I'm struggling to understand where would you put it, if not just a section at the beginning of the profile? (And who threads with other people without reading their ocs' profiles anyway?)

+1 to language like "content notice" instead of "trigger warning". I don't have triggers, I'm desensitized to fictional content in general, but there are still some things I don't want to rp (or that I'm ok rping with some characters but not others).

I swear we had this discussion not long ago.


"Content notice" actually sounds sweeter than "Content warning", 10/10 would recommend. Avoids all the negative connotations of the word "warning", is fairly similar to what films and books have been doing for ages, and avoids the troubles of "trigger warning"! Best of all worlds.

Me. Most of the time. I only read the profiles if my character is supposed to know the other character or if I'm trying to see if I'm trying to see if the two fit together for a specific plot. If they're just meeting for the first time I prefer to go in as blind as my character is. It makes for more genuine reactions.

I'm pretty much the same. If there's something super important in the bio that I need to know about as a player, or if makes sense for my character(like my character running a background check on the other character with player permission) then I'll typically take a look. Otherwise I enjoy going in as blind as my character.