Lately I've been getting into the Amnesia games [I'm too scared to play them myself, but I've watched other people playing] and have scoured deviantArt and found really great and interesting works of art. I even made my own Amnesia fanart, which I may post later. There was something I came across, however, that needs a little explaining

I found a fanart piece of a character named Daniel who looked a shit ton like Daniel from Amnesia, but despite the same name and similar appearance, this other Daniel is a completely different character of someone else's making for a novel and has a last name. Naturally, I was all 'HOLY CRAP THERE MAY BE TWO OF THEM!' cos come on, two Daniels? Fuck yes

After a little searching, I found this other Daniel's creator on dA and messaged them about the similarities and my confusion when it came to favouriting the art pieces. All I said was that I was confused and curious that his character looked very similar. I even mentioned Amnesia in the message. Just a little 'Hey, I noticed this. Pretty neat, no? Totally got tripped up with the fandoms XD' message. The author messaged me back, saying that they had received other messages like mine and considers them spam. They went on to say that they did not even know what Amnesia was, and that their character, while not 100% original, is an original character that has not infringed on copyrighted works and to not message them again about character similarities, but to talk to their agent about it

What the hell? I never mentioned anything about copyright infringement. I only said something cos I figured it was pretty cool. I mean, who wouldn't? I understand that getting relatively the same message from other people would be a bit frustrating. I've been there. But the overall tone of the message sounded rather rude and it really was uncalled for. They could've worded it a little differently and a little gentler. Just because you're a published author and whatnot does not give you the right to respond to messages like a jackass

That's not all. They had a favourites folder for their Daniel and in there, there were four, I repeat four, fanart pieces that depicted their Daniel and Daniel from Amnesia, which means I'm not the only one who saw this similarity and found it awesome. And one of them, the author commented thanking the poster of one of the pieces for showing them videos of the game. And they told me they'd never heard of Amnesia. I call bullshit. That and if they really didn't know and got so many messages about it, you'd think they'd do their fucking research to find out why

It's people like them with that attitude that piss me off. Stop being an asshole

/end rant

- Lilium