It becomes very awkward, very quickly, to come up with IC reasons for an OOC split from an IC FC if said FC had any kind of ongoing story whatsoever (particularly if your character had become invested in said story). I've personally witnessed in other games numerous situations in which a player chose to remain in a guild which made them unhappy because they couldn't justify the IC of leaving... sometimes for months, or even years.Â
In some cases it can cause the abandonment of a character, because rather than trying to resolve the issue and move on with the character, the player instead ends up making a new alt due to the belief that the main character's story is so wrapped up in the guild's story that they can't leave without it ruining the character. Or, they kill the character off, either of which gets the same general result - they aren't playing the character that they had spent so much time working on.
Unfortunately, I don't really have an answer to either problem. I just know they happen. S'why my FC, in spite of being for the purpose of RP, isn't an IC one. If someone decides they want to remove their character and migrate them to another FC, well, it's unfortunate, and of course we hope it won't be the last we see of them, but it doesn't ruin their character if they do so.
In some cases it can cause the abandonment of a character, because rather than trying to resolve the issue and move on with the character, the player instead ends up making a new alt due to the belief that the main character's story is so wrapped up in the guild's story that they can't leave without it ruining the character. Or, they kill the character off, either of which gets the same general result - they aren't playing the character that they had spent so much time working on.
Unfortunately, I don't really have an answer to either problem. I just know they happen. S'why my FC, in spite of being for the purpose of RP, isn't an IC one. If someone decides they want to remove their character and migrate them to another FC, well, it's unfortunate, and of course we hope it won't be the last we see of them, but it doesn't ruin their character if they do so.
Lydia Lightfoot ~ The Reliquarian's Guild «Relic» ~ Lavender Beds, Ward 12, #41
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