Hey guys, I got some news from some of you before, which there was a "Rin look-alike" about. Some of you came to me about it, which I said to leave it alone and it's whatever. I was a little iffy about some looks of her, but honestly they are probably just having fun and let them be.
After some time though, this person came to me and said they were being harassed. This is NOT okay. It's never, ever okay to harass anyone. SO after some talking, we came to an agreement.
This person is Tiera-The-Yordle. We have spoken about what has happened and came to terms. She's going to fix a few minor issues with the design so 1.) she stops getting called a "Rin Clone" and 2.) to make me comfortable on some design aspects that I was slightly worried about (The wings specifically. Maybe some other minor things to differentiate the two. Ear shape? Tail shape? Possible. We're working on it!)
I've given her freedom and feedback on how I felt, and we're both working everything out peacefully.
But I will once again specify, never, ever, ever is it okay to harass someone. I've said that a million times on Twitter, Twitch, everywhere I go... and I'll say it again here. Do not, ever, if anyone has a similar design to me or stealing my work, harass someone. Bring it to my attention, and it becomes the absolute worse-case-scenario, I'll ask for help taking it down if people are stealing my work and unwilling to comply. No matter HOW MAD, SAD, DEPRESSED, OR UPSET I MIGHT BE, IT IS NEVER OKAY TO HARASS SOMEONE. EVER.
I do not own "yordle". I only own Rin's design. And even HER design was inspired from other things that I enjoyed, which was the IDEA of Yordles back in 2010 (meglings were just veto'd, so what would a female yordle look like between a teemo and a tristana?) and also my love for my FFXI mithra character, along with aspects of an animal I enjoyed, Fennecs, for the ears and a desert cat, for the long puffy body. The parts of Heimerdinger came in because I was a Heimer main, and my friends started to call me "Rinidinger" as a joke. I thought, wow! I could turn that into a cute character in the game I bet, and even went about putting this INTO THE CLIENT. I was designing off of elements that I loved of me, that defined me, and turned "me" into a yordle. Also, I needed a senior thesis for college...
The tail idea was for my mithra, and later when I decided Rin WAS going to be a "yordle", I realized it was bad to have and tried to chop it off. Ya'll got so mad at me though... so I kept it. Then Gnar came out way later, and well, ta-da? I had a SOMEWHAT bad reason to have it for her?
The wings were another bit that I came to develop after some years, since Rin needed her own invention. When I was young I use to be chastised for the "wing craze" and I hated that (You can't draw wings on a character! It's so cliche! It's so dumb! You can't be an artist doing that!). I was so heart broken about it I ripped the wings off of all my characters.. and granted, to a degree, some of them were right! But it still gave me fuel for the fire. Instead, I decided to design Rin a unique glider with my obsession of flight and the use of aether and magic, and hextechnology. Literally, my thought was "They ripped my wings off, so I built my own". Also, one of my favorite moves to help inspire this? TREASURE PLANET AND FLY AWAY HOME. AAAAA MY HEART. SO I HAD TO OKAY! And it worked!
This is how Rin is. This is how she came to be. INSPIRATIONS off MANY different things that eventually molded and morphed and designed slowly over the last 8, almost 9 years to create what she is today. Her lore and everything has changed to what she is. This is INSPIRATION of many things. And Inspiration is okay. COPYING isn't, but again, NO ONE DESERVES A HEAPING RATION OF HATE MAIL AND SPAM TO GO KILL THEMSELVES. THAT IS NOT OKAY. THAT FIXES NOTHING. Talk stuff out, calmly, and work things out together. Help people learn. Maybe see their side, maybe it was coincidence? Maybe they thought things were okay but it's not? There could be so many options that the person is going through we don't know. And again, even if it's worse case scenario, giving them the attention if they are meaning vile problems is not going to solve it at all. It's going to spur them to do it more. Try to take it down, quietly, and move on.
Spread love guys. Sorry for the long post.
