In general, most players make up histories that annoy me.
It's unavoidable, in muds, even by myself, but everyone has a Hero complex in these games. After all, a fantasy story has a hero and a villain, and Every player is one or the other. Every character history has great tragedy in it sooner or later, since only great events and tragedies shape people into heros or bend them into the life of the bad guy. The loss of parents is used by a good 75% of the mud population. For others, its the lost of someone else loved and close. Or personal loss, such as power or limbs or nobility or something.
Which is why, for several of my latest characters, I have roleplayed a janitor, a bad, unpopular bard, and cannon fodder. After all, in the books, there are plenty of nameless soldiers that die; otherwise, the Hero/Villain wouldn't be dangerous in appearance. So I namelessly died, and stayed dead, in a battle, rather than maxxing the char out.
That's just a peeve of mine. I tend to not write my character's history; I make it up and stick to those facts, as they are drawn from me.
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