[@Leaves]: Facebook smileys?
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Oh. That. Ehh... I'm actually kinda neutral on it, given that I mostly use messenger over the actual fb lol.

But, uh, referring to the elephant in the room (because it's better to address the issue than pretending it doesn't exist, as I've come to learn)... I'm also pretty against Bel's character and that last post is a pretty big offender by itself. The whole 'offensive' thing aside (because that's been addressed by Vita here), that last post raises a lot of flags that, while seemingly innocuous at first glance, made me do a double take because of how [i]trivial[/i] it made things seem when they shouldn't be...

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First off: carving wood by hand is a CHORE among chores. My school has woodworking as a class, and I have a few friends in it. They are, for the most part, amateurs at the job, and even with advanced tools it takes a few hours to make even the simplest of things. I've also watched my dad work with wood in the past, and holy crap does it take a long time. Being able to suddenly generate a bow out of nowhere in what is comparatively much less time, from a person who, even in their past life, has done nothing to indicate the kind of ability to create such an item, feels contrived at best. Also, the bowstring being bark, while not inherently flawed, doesn't seem logical to even attempt to perform without the prerequisite knowledge...
Which, once again, I must mention that the character is not implied to have given the backstory that has been supplied.

Next: Rabbit hunting with a rock. Okay, I don't know how someone could justify this without invoking a REALLY good throwing arm to brain the thing or the ability to avoid detection or MAGIC. What kind of rabbit would be killed by a person with a ROCK, of all things? Blunt trauma will hurt the little bugger, sure, but a) the character is mentioned to be in a forest, which means that spotting a rabbit in such a place is REALLY HARD because of all the foliage at ground level, and b) IT'S A RABBIT. In the wild, they're jumpy little buggers and run like hell. No way is someone gonna be able to kill them at melee range with hits from a rock. Unless the rabbit is, you know, THAT airheaded. Or dead already, but it's been stated to have been killed here. So. Yeah.

To follow: The quiver. Yes, you can make a quiver from tanned leather. No, you can't just skin an animal and jerry-rig it into a quiver without some kind of agent to sew/bind it together and just magically expect it to not get screwed over. Tanning hides, like a lot of things, takes TIME. A LONG time. Also, no mention of anything to clean up the blood and guts while doing so. Also, how the heck would your character have the skill to skin an animal in the first place? Or anything to let the skin keep its closed shape?
Oh right, and cooking also takes time. To say nothing of the fact that you're hacking away at a rabbit with a stone (which, you know, is a bloody mess no matter how you look at it), meat does not cook instantly. Unless it's being eaten raw, in which case I ask [i]why the hell are you eating raw wild rabbit?[/i] The background you've given implies that your character spent a lot of time in an urban/suburban setting before their passing, which means that killing and carving up an animal isn't exactly something that you'd expect to be on their resume, if at all.

And... Let's get to the biggest issue: the first action performed is to sexually harass a character. Like...
What?
I don't have any words. Just... What?
Seriously. That kind of action is not only morally ambiguous AT ITS ABSOLUTE BEST (which this case isn't), but it detracts from the enjoyment of other RPers. Vita's spoken up about the action in question, and though I cannot in any way share her circumstances as a heterosexual male, I DO understand that people feel uncomfortable about having their characters molested in front of them. This is no exception. This is not comedic in any sense, and I hate to see how this would pan out against the cast of characters as a whole in turn. This, in my eyes, is a character that does not interact well with the people we have set on stage. I cannot speak for the people RPing them (because I am obviously not them), but as far as I can extrapolate given what I've seen so far, a vast majority of them would likely disapprove of such a character being around them, for various reasons.

As a precautionary defense: my char has spent three days studying the language in-RP under people who know it, and the ability he has makes that process speed up because, well, learning. That doesn't mean he'll be able to wield a blade like a master swordsman or snipe a hawk from a hundred meters away with a bow if he learns from those people about their respective fields; knowledge doesn't necessarily mean that he'll be able to utilize it effectively, which is why he's effective a support for most of this RP as far as I can see. He's not going to be able to make tools in hours what would take more experienced men days; unless he develops his own methodology, Takeyoshi will almost assuredly be inferior to the original.
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So, uh... Yeah. It's less a list of grievances and more of a rant, but this is something I really can't let slide. I have a bad feeling I'll be derided or something of the sort, but it'd feel really wrong to sit by and watch the embers catch onto the house we're trying to build here, so to speak.