Subject: It's a close call
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Posted on: 2020-07-02 18:56:46 UTC
The plot itself can't seem to decide if it's in kayfabe or not, and 95% of the wrestlers involved use rgeir character names not their real names, with only one exception.
Okay, so I'm currently working on a crossover mission in which the daughter of Lily Potter and WWE Wrestler Shawn Michaels attends Hogwarts. Over the course of the mission there is in fact a mini Shawn Micheals, and in my mind as it's mostly set in Hogwarts it would be a Mini-Aragog, but wanted to double check if there was some rule that had been set elsewhere saying that it would be a WWE Universe mini.
Disclaimer: I do not know WWE very well.
I would personally say no, because you yourself mentioned the fic can't decide if it's using the TV personas or not - and it's the "or not" which really leans into RPF territory. Which we don't mission.
...misspelling the name of anything from a particular continuum in a fic generates the mini of that continuum, regardless of whichever continuum the fic is set in or how the continua are crossed over. So, if I were to misspell "Harry Potter" as "Harry Pooter," it would create a mini-Aragog even if the fic I'm writing is set in Star Trek and Harry is only mentioned in passing.
The real question is, is it a violation of our no-real-people-fic rule to mission a fic that features pro wrestling characters, given that the characters they portray do not accurately reflect them in real life?
The plot itself can't seem to decide if it's in kayfabe or not, and 95% of the wrestlers involved use rgeir character names not their real names, with only one exception.
Experienced Boarders, of course, can provide a better opinion than I ever could.