at least in my experience the most narcissistic rpers are often the first to tell people how hard a time they've had, but if you get close enough to them that reality seeps into their stories you start to realize the past they've come up with is just there to make people feel sorry for them. i really feel you on that last part, it makes me want to gag when some past abusive experience someone's talked about turns out to be like, a stern talking-to, or they were grounded once, or something. i resolutely don't tell people who aren't my therapist about truly bad life experiences, so when some rper starts up the LIFE IS REALLY HARD AND MY TRIGGERS engine on plurk or otherwise in public I automatically sideeye. maybe that's not fair, but if there's one thing i've learned from rp it's that no precaution is too great when you're trying to avoid actual narcissists. they will chew you up and shit you out without a second thought if you don't go out of your way for them.
one of the worst bullies i've ever rped with was constantly sobbing about how we were all bullying her by doing things like "heyyy i don't think it's... ic... for your shiny pure good hero... to hit a kid in the face with a hammer???"
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