I agree with @McGonigle, I feel like you may be tunnel-visionning a bit on one specific phrase in a larger brief - if that sentence had a qualifier, like, “not sadistic, bloodthirsty or unnecessarily cruel”, then I feel that resolves the consistency of the brief? The concept of necessary cruelty/evil is touched upon in the rest of the rest of the brief.
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It’s also important to remember that… there are characters who are evil, who are bad guys, who are playing antagonists. And that’s not “off brief” for them; Varushka as a whole isn’t inherently evil, we’re not “cackling disney villains: the nation”… but some of us are playing characters who ARE bad guys, which is supposed to give other characters some pvp and something to rail against and is supposed to be fun. People who are doing this are not “doing it wrong”, there absolutely IS space for characters who glorify in cruelty and hardship (in all nations, not just Varushka) or who are otherwise monstrous.
Just adding that qualifier here since the oc/ic line is thin and I am uninterested in being made to feel oc bad for ic villainy, and there’s been an increase of online conversation which is leaning towards oc condemnation of ic behaviour.
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Totally understand, I posted for help navigating the difficult line here and all the responses have been good for helping get to grips with where that line is seen to lie. I need this because morally I don’t necessarily agree that a nation/individual using cruelty doesn’t make it/them cruel (the opposite view is certainly valid) and certainly wouldn’t want to suggest anyone is doing their RP wrong - that’s down to individual characters rather than the national character as a whole and wholehearted support those who are playing difficult roles like that.
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