Statement on Ethics and Responsibility

The world of Vilous is a creative work of fiction: the real world and the authors’ experiences may influence or serve as inspiration for it, but none of the characters, locations, events, or concepts featured are intended to have any connection with real-world people, cultures, politics, ideologies, events, etc.

It is our intention for Vilous and its community to be open and inviting to everyone, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and views on politics or ideologies.

SCOPE: This applies to all places that are officially sanctioned by Vilous. It includes (but is not limited to) the Vilous Lore telegram chat, official Vilous events, comments on YouTube videos posted by Team GRG, Twitter replies to Vilous Official posts, Mick and Kiki’s Vilous-related entries on FurAffinity, their Patreon, etc. This is not meant to manage every online or personal Vilous fan interaction, but please bear them in mind, and be respectful.

Fan Creations

We recognize that fans and their creations are independent from official Vilous content, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Vilous, its creators, and its staff. With some exceptions, we feel that all fan creations are valid as a form of creative expression, regardless of whether they adhere to our canon views of the Vilous universe. 

However, while we do respect the freedoms of speech, we do not condone works that are intended to spread hate and intolerance of others. We also object to fan works that unfairly violate or harm the intellectual property rights of Vilous, including for-profit projects that are unfair to the creators.

Fan Behavior

It is our wish that Vilous and its community to be a place where everyone feels welcome and comfortable. In order to facilitate this, we do have expectations for how we wish people to behave in places and events officially sanctioned and/or hosted by Vilous Official. The following is a list of things that we feel are unacceptable:

  • Discrimination, hate speech, and bigotry or offensive remarks about, but not limited to, race, gender, sexuality, origin, creed, ideology, religion, and disability
  • Harassment, insults, slander, libel, stalking, revealing personal information (“doxxing”), impersonating others, inappropriate or aggressive language, and aggressive pushing of opinions
  • Trolling, baiting, flaming, disrespecting, or other attempts to purposefully or systematically create disruptions to create arguments or to trigger reactions from others
  • Anything that gives a negative impact or are damaging to the community, its members, and Vilous Official
  • Doing anything that obstructs the ability for others to enjoy Vilous or the Vilous community

Heavy topics and debates related to politics and religion are only allowed to be discussed in regards to Vilous lore. The authors have been inspired by Japanese politics and religion and wouldn’t want to punish discussions about parallels and analogies to history and religion when the main topic is specifically the in-world lore. However, discussing politics and religion for their own sake (e.g.: proselytism) is forbidden, as those topics tend to incense profound division and animosity and pose an undue burden on moderators and administrators. Moreover, avoid discussions involving extremist and hate/controversial groups and their ideologies, and derailing conversations in that direction.

Those that are found to be in violation of these rules may be, at the sole discretion of the Vilous Team, be excluded from all official Vilous hosted and/or sanctioned functions. Violations can be reported by contacting us at [email protected]. Final judgments are made by Vilous Creators and Vilous Team.

Ultimately, it is not the responsibility of Vilous or its team to tell people how to live, think, or for us to lead them to be good people. We cannot control people, but in places that we -can- control we will do so by excluding those that go against our Code of Conduct.