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Joined: May 2012
Staff roles: Balance Dev
A strangely young character in a very high-ranking position is par for the course in Discovery, so while I don't think it's S-tier roleplay I don't think it's unusual enough to deserve negative feedback. It's often happened as a consequence of players joining a faction with a 19-year-old Ensign and blazing up the ranks. Even just being in the faction for a few years with such a character is very likely to naturally get you bumped up to mid- to high command. I've always personally "locked" characters deliberately and simply made new ones for high ranking positions as I find it slightly more immersive for my "GRN General" to be a middle-aged dude captaining a capital ship rather than the young(er) gun I'd originally joined the faction with. But again, while I think this is a cool rule to self-enforce it isn't exactly mandatory.
Your original character picture was literally a child. Not someone aged "28-33". Someone aged 12 or something. That is what players - and later staff - took issue with, and it should really come as no surprise. Perhaps it should've been caught sooner, so you maybe wouldn't have gotten as attached to the picture or whatever. Alas. You then found a cosplayer for the same character, and that woman is objectively not a child, but is still trying to do her best to look as childlike as possible. If staff request you change your character picture and you then try to stick as closely to the original as legally possible that does feel a bit.. disingenuous? Probably the wrong word. But you could've picked from uncountable mid-20s to 30s character pictures that simply looked their age, but went out of your way to basically keep the original with an asterisk. Why not avoid this whole debacle by picking someone who's clearly the age you want the character to be inRP?
Just for the record, I've really not involved myself with the staff decisions when it comes to your character picture. This is just my opinion as a player.