Subject: Ooh! Ooh! I have some ideas!
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Posted on: 2017-12-07 22:55:00 UTC

Part of it depends on how meta you want her to be and how YOU want to write it, what you feel comfortable with and such. It would be tricky to be in a situation that you can't describe very well in words, despite it working out in your head.

On one side of the scale is strange compulsions and urges. She might say something like, "The other day, I had this strange urge to dash through a dangerous part of the world. Most of the monsters there would have killed me, but I just did it. I don't know why. I stumbled upon a flight point, which was convenient, but I couldn't think of anything else to do so I went home."

Then in the middle is the Dark Legacy stuff. She would know stuff respawning, debuffs, and corpse running, but not that she's part of a game. It would just be everyday to her. In the real world, she might say something like "Wow, everything's open-world! There aren't any instance portals or loading time!" She'd sort of blank out and forget what she was talking about and say she went AFK, or she might get drunk and pass out, then say that she disconnected.

On the other side, there's full awareness. Maybe she knows that she's being controlled and just assumes that this is life, or she resents her player. When the servers go offline, she complains with other characters about level grinding and how she really wants a new transmog.
Or maybe she's the only one who knows she's a game character. She would walk up to a random guy and say, "Hey, your gearscore is awful" and he would just walk away and say she was crazy. She would be one of those people who goes to bars and says to random people, "Do you ever wonder if you're a character in a game, and your choices are being made by someone else?" before being kicked out after the seventeenth time. Basically the resident crazy person/conspiracy theorist.

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