Remy/Infobox

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Mental Illness - I don't believe Mental illness is something to be taken lightly. Too often we see the "Fish-Malk" which gives characters with mental illnesses a bad reputation. Remy knows fully well he has schizophrenia and that talking out loud to any type of external/internal stimuli that others can't see or hear is going to attract undue attention to himself. However, with Mental Illnesses, what might be deemed as normal to them, might be completely socially unacceptable. I'm not playing a character who is "insane" to break the rules and do whatever I feel like it. I'm playing a character who /has/ a mental illness and isn't defined by it or its symptoms. Remy is still new to the human world and he has much learning and adapting to do besides overcoming severe mental issues. Overall he is a nice and friendly character trying to find his way in the world, but with a Ratkin metabolism, anti-psychotic drugs are not going to effect him the same way as a normal mortal. He will have breakdowns, lapses in judgement, or make choices that might seem off. However this is in the spirit of what Remy might actually do, I don't want to break immersion. If anything he is a normal person, and you might not even know he has an issue until it becomes unexplainably scary because mental illness is not a joke.