Well if you think they think you want to “lose your identity”, why do you think they will be persuaded by a “no, I don’t”? “Identity” is a big thing with many parts, you will have to show it doesn’t get lost.
There is a thing called ОБВМ in Russian, it stands for “[but has a] Very Rich Internal World”, and AFAIK initially it was said about RPG players who avoid playing action or are side-lined by the orgs into being “the third elf in the fifth row”. And maybe they do have rich internal worlds that could be made richer by cold tentacles, but for the rest of the players they don’t have an observable identity.
Well if you think they think you want to “lose your identity”, why do you think they will be persuaded by a “no, I don’t”? “Identity” is a big thing with many parts, you will have to show it doesn’t get lost.
There is a thing called ОБВМ in Russian, it stands for “[but has a] Very Rich Internal World”, and AFAIK initially it was said about RPG players who avoid playing action or are side-lined by the orgs into being “the third elf in the fifth row”. And maybe they do have rich internal worlds that could be made richer by cold tentacles, but for the rest of the players they don’t have an observable identity.