Thank you for your view on this subject, Jonas. I will remember next time I am recovering from spinal surgery, to sit at my computer and play every game possible to satisfy those involved and not listen to my doctors orders about doing as little as possible including playing games..
As for Protege being the one that created the faction, you are partially mistaken. It was my idea, to move from the PLR to something new, then we worked together, mostly with my coming up with the ideas and Protege turning them to his own desires. From square one I was pushed aside even though most of what the faction exists for came out of my head. Every attempt to lead and change things to how I, the faction leader, wanted for the faction as a whole, Protege suppressed in a harsh manner.
And as for your creating the faction lore, You were the one that offered to write it for us, and if you remember correctly, it was Protégé that constantly bothered you about finishing it and not myself. As for the lore's current status, I am still working on it because it wasn't even half finished when you decided to leave right around the time of my fully recovering. Mind you I have been neglecting the lore myself,for the past few months. However, I was working on it for nearly 2 hours today before images in the faction threads started disappearing.
On the subject of you and protege's "Heavily editing" my characters Bio, there was one mention of my character Rise's father and his abusive methods with her as she grew up. Everything else, Protege rewrote because he didn't like how I worded and detailed the bio as well as "Instructing me" to change certain aspects of her backstory due to it not lining up with what he wanted of my Role Play.
Defend Protege all you want and ignore the facts of my medical issues at the time all you want, but you left within the first month of the factions existence and never saw what really went on between myself and Protege. I did not steal this faction from Protégé, I gave him a choice, either let me lead or get out. he chose to throw the temper tantrum, removing people from the chats, telling me who I can and cant allow in the faction simply because he didn't like some one. He constantly griped about a certain ship incident over and over as the reason to not add someone I look up to then turns around and does the same thing, he goes and starts deleting images simply to ruin our faction threads, thinking it would upset me. I actually had fun hunting down the pictures and doing some artsy stuff for a change so that I could restore what he'd removed. It gave me a bit of a nostalgia trip back to when I was in high school and working on Graphic design stuff for the different clubs and teams in the school. To be honest, it actually helped me feel a little better after all of what has happened over the past few days.
Anyway, not only did Protégé's exiting on a sour note leave a large awkward hole in the faction, but he did so with the promise of, "I won't mess with anything or delete anything", yet things have not lived up to such a promise. You are telling me to be ashamed of myself for stealing this faction from Protégé, yet you know nothing about what happened after your exit. My leadership abilities were severely suppressed by Protégé in a very abusive way. When people not even in the Bloodrose Syndicate faction know of what went on between myself and Protege and how I was treated, and that they supported this action, even aiding me with suggestions and advice, I find myself hard pressed to feel ashamed.
Now, I have been throwing a lot of blame on Protégé, however, it takes two to tango and I am not above admitting where I am at fault in all of this. I admit I wasn't highly active in the faction between its creation and now. At the beginning, I had a logical, medical reason for not doing anything and I decided to have Protégé lead the faction for me. Once I was able to lead, I continuously felt unable to do so due to how I was treated, again, by Protégé, and never really took the proper steps to enforce my will as a leader. I felt that doing so would cause unneeded issues and thus, I stood by and took his way of leading the faction and controlling my authority until slowly, over the past few months, it has grown into an issue I could no longer allow and have thus, taken the steps rectify the issue at hand. The faction was not going in the proper direction it should have been, its very core ideals were hardly being touched, a Focus on Liberty PVP and PVP in general is not what this faction is about yet that is all the faction has done for the last month or two. The faction needed leadership that would bring it back to its true purpose, and I finally took the steps to stand up to Protégé and do what needed to be done.
Now, after all that is said and done, Jonas, I have no hard feelings towards you, I think you are a great guy and a great member of this community, but when you come and tell me this, I find myself a little upset. I would even go to the point of saying I'm a McDonald French Fry.
