I& #39;ve sat on my hands about this for awhile but I was nudged to say something because it really does make me uncomfortable, so ...

I& #39;m flattered people like my mechagnome ideas and plotting but I& #39;d like to very gently encourage people to not lift stuff from me for their own OCs.

To clarify; this isn& #39;t a one person thing. If you are reading this afraid it& #39;s you specifically? It& #39;s not. This is a pretty small roleplay niche and ideas naturally get kickballed between us by way of us being in close proximity of eachother.

To put this into better perspective: I roleplay a prosthetist. By taking my upgrade ideas you are depriving me of IC interactions where it is literally my character& #39;s job to distribute those upgrades.

I work very hard on my plotting and it just bums me out when it happens :(

I don& #39;t really want anyone in my DMs regarding this, I just wanted to say something because it& #39;s something I& #39;ve noticed but decided to be quiet about. I& #39;m not mad or irritated I& #39;m just trying to get better at expressing my boundaries as a creator.

Replies are off because I don& #39;t want anyone in the comments of this thread defending me or calling anyone "copiers" and insulting them. That& #39;s not what this is about. I& #39;m just setting a boundary, that& #39;s it. I encourage people to get creative outside of my ideas.