Thank you, Elina, I appreciate your comments.  Reactions could have been made to facilitate the introduction of the planned idea better though.  Just like Bo introducing the idea of waiting at least a day was generated by me, so too a more receptive reaction in other's characters could have been generated by the authors of those characters.  We are the creators, after all.  I think a more natural reaction for Bo would have been to continue participating in the sexual banter, and if I wasn't writing to a strict "script" then I likely would have gone that route.  Any removal of spontaneity happened in the ooc planning stage.<br/><br/>Also, the other characters may not be directly labeling him 'judgmental', but glossing over the tension and even in internal musings expressing discomfort at what is going on, just makes me feel like he is becoming more of an outsider.<br/><br/>Try to understand from my perspective how surprising this all is.  I write into the story what I thought we had all discussed, and then suddenly find all the others writing shock and outrage into their characters.  Natural or not, it doesn't make a ton of sense from a "big picture" perspective.<br/><br/>What it make me want to do, so as to avoid in the future this feeling that I'm left out to dry for trying to move things in the agreed upon direction, is to go back completely into the "this is most natural so my character is going to do this" mode and let the story outline be damned.  But I'm not sure that six of us doing that will bring about the results that we hoped for when joining this project.<br/><br/>