I use amnesia as a plotpoint for Verad in the sense that he has a long and storied history he doesn't remember with only a memoir full of outrageous lies and a hint of truth as a guideline. It's a convenient way to slot in storylines related to dumb adventures from his past as the mood strikes, and, his personality being what it is, lets me focus on RPing his actions in the present instead of focusing overmuch on his backstory. It's also a convenient way for players I trust to create adventures of their own, leading to one of the few times I've been genuinely surprised by something somebody else created in RP.
Whether it's respectful or not to sufferers of amnesia isn't particularly relevant or interesting to me; I am pretty insensitive to the trend of only portraying issues like mental illness in highly-researched formats for the sake of didacticism. Knock yourself out if you care to do so, but the actual effect it will have on amnesia sufferers is minimal to nonexistent one way or the other.
Whether it's respectful or not to sufferers of amnesia isn't particularly relevant or interesting to me; I am pretty insensitive to the trend of only portraying issues like mental illness in highly-researched formats for the sake of didacticism. Knock yourself out if you care to do so, but the actual effect it will have on amnesia sufferers is minimal to nonexistent one way or the other.
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Current Fate-14 Storyline:Â Merchant, Marine
Current Fate-14 Storyline:Â Merchant, Marine
