I'm going to open this by saying I didn't ask feels to do this and this is how I found out about it.
I'm not in a sappy mood nor do I particularly feel like I should have to grovel before yall for forgiveness, so I'm going to be blunt, maybe blunter than usual. I know that many of yall do not like me and never will and I don't really care if you do or don't. You have your reasons, some valid, some not. You will read what you want to read from this so I'm not going to sugarcoat anything.
Spartan is a piece of shit of nearly unrivaled proportion in the roleplay sphere, and probably the most prolific of the unrepentant, evil creeps I've ever encountered in this hobby. I hate him with every fiber of my being and what he did to Bekah and multiple other girls in this community AND OTHERS is utterly unforgivable and as close as you can get to molestation over the internet. So I will not accept any question of my feelings about Spartan.
Spartan being a creep was not really a secret. Those of you who have really been around remember that I began railing against him extremely early and never stopped. Not only was he very outwardly a weird, womanizing pervert, he preferentially gave promotions within the CCA to his inner circle of mostly Ravenwood members. This being well-known, it was not uncommon for users to try to buddy up to him in order to receive boons in the CCA. There was a whole circle of TnBers who joined Ravenwood just to find favor with Spartan - most of whom have now been rightly run out.
What I said about Bekah's interactions with Spartan had nothing to do with vindicating Spartan. I did not say or even imply that Bekah deserved to be creeped upon by Spartan. What I said was that Bekah knew that Spartan handed out favors to people he liked, and, like others had, tried to play him in order to climb the ranks, both IC and OOC, and that in the process, had hurt a lot of people and ruined a lot of fun. You are willfully blinding yourself if you cannot or will not acknowledge that the Bekah of TEN YEARS AGO was a toxic person - as were many of us, including myself. She now has had ample time to grow, as have we all.
HOWEVER- I said this in a private discord conversation where we were discussing the old days and in particular, people who were weird, manipulative freaks. This was some months before Bekah started playing at TnB again, when my last impression of her was somewhere around 2017 and, as far as I knew, she was long gone. Upon learning that she was back around I was not unkind to her and helped maintain her ~secret identity~ knowing that there were still freaks looking to dox her. However, somebody, for reasons unbeknownst to me, shared a screencap of my comment, stripped of context, intended to make me look like a creep.
The OOC political climate at this time was that I was operating a form of Combine intelligence division. I had no way to know that Decepti, Jon, and I guess Bekah and some others were also planning to do the same. Through Decepti an effort was made to shut what I was doing down because, I suppose, it was seen as competitive to their idea. After winning that fight I logged on several days later to find myself permabanned without chance of appeal and unable to speak to anyone. I am sure that is not a coincidence.
I am also sure it is not a coincidence that my assessment of Bekah as a weird, manipulative, toxic person once again came true very recently. All I said was that Bekah deliberately kept company with some gross people and guess what... looks like old habits die hard.
I didn't ask to be unbanned but yall pointed the spotlight at me so there's what I have to say.
