okay, toyhousers, i need your help on this one since its been bugging my mind for a while
so you know how people go "dont take inspiration from my characters/designs"? i was wondering how that rule applies to adoptables for quite a while now. like... okay, for the sake of this argument/thought experiment, we are going to create the most extreme hypothetical scenario (since it's the easiest to work with).
person A does not allow ANY inspiration of their characters. person B couldn't give less of a fuck, even if you 1 to 1 copy their characters. lets say B adopts a character from A - if C, some rando, takes inspiration from said character, are they offending A's boundaries?
and the other way around too. if A adopts from B and C takes inspiration, are they offending the boundaries?
(lets also assume no changes were done to the designs at all, again, for the sake of this argument)
im mostly wondering this bc i always look at my adopted characters as mine in story, but still belonging to the original designer in design (unless they went through enough of a redesign for me to say I had a big hand in how they are looked at now). and I'm wondering if someone took inspo on one of my characters whose creator doesn't like inspiration, would they (in case this was found out) be under fire for it? i do understand that once a character is in my hands, it is mine, but, again, the design wasn't made by me, hence why I dont much understand when people go "dont take inspiration from my designs". do they mean their current designs? or even adoptables, even if the current owner allows it? I'm definitely overthinking lol but I want some input on my thoughts, please (even if its just "you're overthinking it" or whatever, its fine, just stay respectful, okay? <3). anyway, uhh, imma turn my brain off now, slug out
/uj I think boundaries should follow the og designer's rules. So if C adopts A's character from B, then yes they'll be offending that rule. Doesn't work if A takes inspiration from B since B allows that, but it just seems hypocritical to do so, isn't it?