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Some people have pointed out League’s newest champion, Seraphine, and mentioned how similar she is to me. I’m uncomfortable with the similarities and I believe she might have been based on me. THREAD [1/?] https://step-nie.medium.com/the-problem-with-seraphine-58dc16c07e79
In 2019, I had a relationship with a Riot employee. He’d joke about making content based off me. We stopped talking after a few months, I had no hard feelings and largely forgot about things. [2/?]
![In 2019, I had a relationship with a Riot employee. He’d joke about making content based off me. We stopped talking after a few months, I had no hard feelings and largely forgot about things. [2/?]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Emo8OxoVcAAe1ah.jpg "In 2019, I had a relationship with a Riot employee. He’d joke about making content based off me. We stopped talking after a few months, I had no hard feelings and largely forgot about things. [2/?]")
![In 2019, I had a relationship with a Riot employee. He’d joke about making content based off me. We stopped talking after a few months, I had no hard feelings and largely forgot about things. [2/?]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Emo8O-IUYAApBcR.jpg "In 2019, I had a relationship with a Riot employee. He’d joke about making content based off me. We stopped talking after a few months, I had no hard feelings and largely forgot about things. [2/?]")
![In 2019, I had a relationship with a Riot employee. He’d joke about making content based off me. We stopped talking after a few months, I had no hard feelings and largely forgot about things. [2/?]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Emo8PM8VcAEf9zS.jpg "In 2019, I had a relationship with a Riot employee. He’d joke about making content based off me. We stopped talking after a few months, I had no hard feelings and largely forgot about things. [2/?]")
Then, this year, Seraphine was released and the similarities started to build up. Besides her appearance and name, her drawings looked like mine, her photos and poses looked similar to mine, and she "joined" K/DA on my birthday. [3/?]
This has been really troubling and damaging to me, especially since she's been controversial - either people hate her guts or defend her passionately. I haven't been able to enjoy the game since her release and it's impacted my personal life. [4/?]
I wrote out the details in the Medium article, as well as explained more about why this character really bothers me. I hope you'll take a minute to read it - it comes down to the fact that her faux social media presence is weird, creepy, and borderline exploitative. [5/?]
