From what I’ve understood from talking with a person who feels that way, it’s because they’re afraid that if they commit to that, it will inevitably reach a point where people will take advantage of you and use that to maliciously try to limit your ability to communicate. If they don’t have the means to expressing themselves, they lose the ability of self-determination. Ultimately oppression.

so they want to keep the words that are used to oppress others. “I’m not using them that way!”

oh, this is so compelling though.
A completely normal campaign until halfway through the recurring villain reveals the rulebooks and campaign guide and the fact that they’re all characters in a game and only exist as long as the players play them. Also, characters have a limited control over the player, most commonly forcing players to speak as them. They knew they are an NPC, thus sharing a player with all other NPCs, as a villain however they could appear more often and have more of a life. They challenged the player characters, but never killed them, to help them develop personalities, three dimensionality and foster player attachment so they won’t get replaced. Now the villain extends a hand “Join me”. They want the player character’s help to fight for their own agency and free will, break all their world’s laws of existence to struggle against their players.
I want to know what a player would do here. Continue to RP their character but now against themselves? Force their will onto their character and erase their agency? Replace them? What would the character even do, knowing that whatever they say is also said by the player and that what they do is governed by dicerolls that can be fudged?

play him. control him.

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What she says: I’m fine

What she means: why is Treasure Planet so underrated. Does nobody appreciate the concept of pirates in space. All the steampunk is beautiful and the animation is amazing and the storyline is wonderful and it has a relatable loveable rogue character and doesn’t rely on romance to be a good movie why isn’t anyone talking about this movie.

I have had this exact thought multiple times, there are -women- I’ve met who could play him and you’d barely notice

Johnny Depp impersonators are like, their own class, like Elvis impersonators

you could replace Depp in all movies that producers wanted his character type in ever and no one would be the wiser

^^^

Pirates of the Carribean

but every scene is an entirely different depp impersonator

no one notices until the credits roll and there are like 1700 names for “Captain Jack Sparrow”

this is the dream

Ten years ago I was at Disney World and the face actor for Jack was spot-the-entire-fuck-on. A little kid in a Jack Sparrow costume walked up to him and he stared a moment and said “Well… you look familiar!” with just perfect comic timing, then leaned down and asked the kid “er, where’s your mum?” When she was pointed out, he stood up, squinted suspiciously at her for a moment, then said “Oh, good, you don’t look familiar.”

He was just so good, we stood there and watched him for like ten minutes. Hire that dude. Shoot Johnny Depp into the sun.

OMG, now I want a “Legend of Jack Sparrow” movie (despite not liking the Jack Sparrow focus n the main Pirates of the Carribean movies), where the story is told by a multitude of people, and each person’s version/snippet of the story has somewhat different design/visuals and a Jack Sparrow played by someone else. I’m also kind of thinking here of the movie I’m Not There