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The Tornography feature has been absent from the Torn City Times of late, mostly due to the recent spate of controversies, attacks and general changes to Torn City facilitating a need for coverage of current events.
But today, our recurring piece on the city's most notable citizens returns with a bang, thanks to the generous participation of one of Torn's most fearsome women - Collete...
...who is actually a man, with a penis and testicles.
"After 2556 days of playing female I've come out as male but I'm keeping the name Collete I earned it."
To some, this will come as no surprise, as Collete has already informed her nearest and dearest of her real gender. But others outside of her inner circle will no doubt be shocked by the presence of a throbbing great Y-chromosome within the DNA of Torn's most fearsome matriarch. It was apparent to all that Collete possessed a large set of metaphorical bollocks, but few knew of their literal existence, so why has she chosen to reveal this secret now, and how have people reacted?
"Just felt it was time, I have a few good friends here I just wanted to let know the truth. I mass mailed my faction already, even placed a classified advert in the paper, told global chat and have been opening chats with friends as they come online."
"So far all the people that like me don't care at all...all the feedback I've received from people I know since I've come out is that nothing has changed, they're still my friends or they don't care. I wasn't a beggar like a lot of fake females you get here, if I was then people would have a low opinion of me."
This last statement sums up Collete's mind-set quite accurately. She has never been one to tolerate beggars and is known as someone who does not suffer fools, whiners or chancers either. Styling herself as a kind of quality control enforcer, it seems Collete takes great pride in keeping Torn free of those who demand something in return for nothing.
"I do my best to remove one waste of space from the game per month, three is a good month."
I myself discovered exactly what it was like to be on the receiving end of Collete's particular brand of justice early on in my career when I was bountied several times without provocation. In response, I petulantly demanded respect for my status as a Torn employee so I could do my job and report on the city's happenings.
This did not impress her one bit.
"u aint staff lmfao."
I asked her to elaborate on our initial meeting, and Collete's response gives us insight into not only her own character, but that of Torn City too.
"My game wife didn't like your articles and I agreed with her and bountied you and we exchanged banter about whether you were staff or not. I asked a staff member and she said it was a grey area and kicked it to higher ups at the time."
"As this took a couple of days I posted our conversations in global and got the unwashed masses riled up against you indirectly and they took over the bountying for me and sat back and watched while I waited for to see what the feedback was from staff at the time."
Until recently I had no idea that Collete had shared our conversations with Global, and looking back my oversight seems rather naïve. But at the time I was emboldened by this unwarranted harassment by strangers, so I set out to besmirch Collete by constructing a mock interview with her, after my efforts to make contact fell on deaf ears.
The piece was not at all complimentary, especially as I used a set of ladies' hosiery stuffed with mince as a metaphorical stand in. However, far from being offended, it seems Collete actually appreciated the devious nature of my work."
"That first article you did on me I was like you little bastard then I read it a couple of times then chuckled. A few people I know thought I had actually done that one with you lol."
The ice thawed a few weeks later as Collete and I conversed over the strange behaviour of another player. But while my status was clarified, I was unsure what role players like Collete played in the game. Were they bullies, or are her and her ilk merely enforcing an unwritten behavioural code?
I attempted to explore this in articles covering the bounty sprees which she and others had frequently embarked on. My initial articles painted Collete in a negative light, as all I could find were newcomers complaining about their harassment at her hands.
But eventually, thanks to her reaching out to me, I began to understand not only the role of mass-bountiers in Torn City but the person behind Collete as well. The following extract is taken from my previous interview with her back in 2016.
"When I first joined Torn I was quiet as a mouse as I watched global chat and stored medical kits. The first time I posted in global I wasn't hospitalized so I thought good so far, I saw some much older ladies post how they were queen bitch's of global and I thought no they are not so I made it my goal to outdo them and I did."
This quote came at a time when Collete was still masquerading as a woman, and in hindsight, her desire to outdo "other" women looks most intriguing. Collete was a man, yet she wanted to be queen bitch. Last week she elaborated on her beginnings in Torn and revealed to me exactly who knew about her secret male status.
"A friend of mine pestered me for months to play this as we know each other elsewhere so a few of us joined Torn together. They all knew I was male, my spouse did and so did my later 2 spouses."
"Ali [1445620] has met me in real life a few times for lunch. She would tell the men I was a good looking lady to help with my ruse."
It seems that this deliberate act of deception worked rather well, and in a place that loves gossip and snitching as much as Torn, it seems incredible that such a secret could stay hidden for so long. In fact, so believable was Collete's faux-female persona that some of Torn's men became rather smitten indeed.
"I've blocked a few people. Only the other week I had a friend I have known for years drunk as, pestering me for pics, but I politely fobbed him off. Though (it) was awkward at times when someone I knew would hit on me."
Most men would be shouted down for attempting to comment on what it might be like for a woman living in Torn City, and rightly so, as we cannot comprehend things from their perspective without spending a day in their shoes. But Collete has spent over 2,500 days in ladies' footwear, and as such, she has a unique insight into what women experience in Torn, but from a male point of view.
"Well it depends really. A lot of female players have no problems really at all, but if you are active in chats you tend to draw idiots to yourself at times or you hear about idiots there harassing ladies."
"For example one lady came to chat she was new to the game and had this idiot Markb [2006453] telling her she was now his slave and had to obey his commands or she would suffer, so I yelled at him a lot and beat him up and he soon left her alone."
In marked contrast to her reputation as a bounty bully, these quotes blatantly show Collete as someone who takes newcomers - especially women - under her wing in order to help them survive Torn's many perils and pitfalls. When I asked her why she'd adopted this female persona, her response was thus.
"I rather enjoyed standing up for female players in the chats and beating on rude young boys with potty mouths lol."
"If you are female and being harassed do not show fear, or appear to be upset, some people feed on that. Look for someone to ask advice about the situation if you are not sure what to do, but if it's in global be careful how you word it as the guy might read it and intensify the hits or bounties."
"And ladies should be careful in fact all players should be careful of what they share about their personal life/pics, whether it's on their profile on in forums or chats some guys like to use that information."
Collete's specific style of advice and humour is evident from her own words, but perhaps nowhere is this starker than quote from one of our previous interviews, where she gave Torn's ladies a handy hint as to how to deal with unwanted attention.
"I've told several ladies to just tell the guy they are fat that seems to work well or I just beat the shit out of the guy and make him apologize to the lady in question that's always fun to do."
Having a distinctly abrasive attitude early on in the game seems to have worked well for Collete, as when Krakfreak gave her 10 bounties during her first steps in Torn, she responded by adding him as a friend and bragging about it in Global. Not that she'd recommend that everyone takes up such an aggressive approach.
"I tell the new players just be yourself and make normal conversation and not talk shit to impress people, when they posting like a 12 year old on red cordial people soon want them to stfu."
"Ballsy is choice if you choose to be like that then you got to back it up as a lot of players may laugh with you when you do or they might want to break you if they think you are a little smartarse."
Sound advice indeed. In our prior conversation, Collete also implored newcomers to be polite when requesting help, as these people often end up being welcomed and occasionally mentored by some of the city's old hands. But as we mentioned before, she still has no time whatsoever for anyone looking for a free lunch.
"People really don't need to beg. A lot of people actually get helped in global if they be themselves and don't ask for hand-outs, older players at times will rent them a spare property for free or toss some cash because they didn't ask for it."
"I tend to be careful on who I pick to help these days. One time a so-called-lady came into chat asking for help from a bully, and guess it was her husband and he wasn't bullying her at all he/she was just some weirdo wanting the husband beaten on for its amusement he soon divorced it."
"You get a lot of people asking for help in chats but you work out they are the instigator not the victim."
In conclusion, when all is said and done, Collete's reputation now seems highly inaccurate - and it has nothing to do with her revelatory cock and balls. On the one hand, you have someone who has bountied their way into the bad books of many players, and as such, she deserves to be loathed and feared.
But on the other hand, you have a charitable mentor who simply believes in a certain way of operating, who believes that things should be earned and not given for free, and who, unknown to most, is fiercely protective of those in her close circle of friends.
"I cherish the few friends I have here so I do not like people upsetting them, so at times I've taken the heat off them and drawn it all onto myself in global so they can drift into the shadows and be left alone. I think that is the one true aspect of my character. I try to be a loyal friend, doesn't mean I'm a perfect friend."
Collete is an interesting individual. I guess you have to be to play an online crime game for nearly seven years while pretending to be a woman. Yet fittingly, as befits Collete's consistently ballsy persona, he - to finally give our subject his correct pronoun - appears unconcerned at what his reputation may be, referencing this quote from writer and poet Brendan Behan as proof of that very fact.
"There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
But today, our recurring piece on the city's most notable citizens returns with a bang, thanks to the generous participation of one of Torn's most fearsome women - Collete...
...who is actually a man, with a penis and testicles.
"After 2556 days of playing female I've come out as male but I'm keeping the name Collete I earned it."
To some, this will come as no surprise, as Collete has already informed her nearest and dearest of her real gender. But others outside of her inner circle will no doubt be shocked by the presence of a throbbing great Y-chromosome within the DNA of Torn's most fearsome matriarch. It was apparent to all that Collete possessed a large set of metaphorical bollocks, but few knew of their literal existence, so why has she chosen to reveal this secret now, and how have people reacted?
"Just felt it was time, I have a few good friends here I just wanted to let know the truth. I mass mailed my faction already, even placed a classified advert in the paper, told global chat and have been opening chats with friends as they come online."
"So far all the people that like me don't care at all...all the feedback I've received from people I know since I've come out is that nothing has changed, they're still my friends or they don't care. I wasn't a beggar like a lot of fake females you get here, if I was then people would have a low opinion of me."
This last statement sums up Collete's mind-set quite accurately. She has never been one to tolerate beggars and is known as someone who does not suffer fools, whiners or chancers either. Styling herself as a kind of quality control enforcer, it seems Collete takes great pride in keeping Torn free of those who demand something in return for nothing.
"I do my best to remove one waste of space from the game per month, three is a good month."
I myself discovered exactly what it was like to be on the receiving end of Collete's particular brand of justice early on in my career when I was bountied several times without provocation. In response, I petulantly demanded respect for my status as a Torn employee so I could do my job and report on the city's happenings.
This did not impress her one bit.
"u aint staff lmfao."
I asked her to elaborate on our initial meeting, and Collete's response gives us insight into not only her own character, but that of Torn City too.
"My game wife didn't like your articles and I agreed with her and bountied you and we exchanged banter about whether you were staff or not. I asked a staff member and she said it was a grey area and kicked it to higher ups at the time."
"As this took a couple of days I posted our conversations in global and got the unwashed masses riled up against you indirectly and they took over the bountying for me and sat back and watched while I waited for to see what the feedback was from staff at the time."
Until recently I had no idea that Collete had shared our conversations with Global, and looking back my oversight seems rather naïve. But at the time I was emboldened by this unwarranted harassment by strangers, so I set out to besmirch Collete by constructing a mock interview with her, after my efforts to make contact fell on deaf ears.
The piece was not at all complimentary, especially as I used a set of ladies' hosiery stuffed with mince as a metaphorical stand in. However, far from being offended, it seems Collete actually appreciated the devious nature of my work."
"That first article you did on me I was like you little bastard then I read it a couple of times then chuckled. A few people I know thought I had actually done that one with you lol."
The ice thawed a few weeks later as Collete and I conversed over the strange behaviour of another player. But while my status was clarified, I was unsure what role players like Collete played in the game. Were they bullies, or are her and her ilk merely enforcing an unwritten behavioural code?
I attempted to explore this in articles covering the bounty sprees which she and others had frequently embarked on. My initial articles painted Collete in a negative light, as all I could find were newcomers complaining about their harassment at her hands.
But eventually, thanks to her reaching out to me, I began to understand not only the role of mass-bountiers in Torn City but the person behind Collete as well. The following extract is taken from my previous interview with her back in 2016.
"When I first joined Torn I was quiet as a mouse as I watched global chat and stored medical kits. The first time I posted in global I wasn't hospitalized so I thought good so far, I saw some much older ladies post how they were queen bitch's of global and I thought no they are not so I made it my goal to outdo them and I did."
This quote came at a time when Collete was still masquerading as a woman, and in hindsight, her desire to outdo "other" women looks most intriguing. Collete was a man, yet she wanted to be queen bitch. Last week she elaborated on her beginnings in Torn and revealed to me exactly who knew about her secret male status.
"A friend of mine pestered me for months to play this as we know each other elsewhere so a few of us joined Torn together. They all knew I was male, my spouse did and so did my later 2 spouses."
"Ali [1445620] has met me in real life a few times for lunch. She would tell the men I was a good looking lady to help with my ruse."
It seems that this deliberate act of deception worked rather well, and in a place that loves gossip and snitching as much as Torn, it seems incredible that such a secret could stay hidden for so long. In fact, so believable was Collete's faux-female persona that some of Torn's men became rather smitten indeed.
"I've blocked a few people. Only the other week I had a friend I have known for years drunk as, pestering me for pics, but I politely fobbed him off. Though (it) was awkward at times when someone I knew would hit on me."
Most men would be shouted down for attempting to comment on what it might be like for a woman living in Torn City, and rightly so, as we cannot comprehend things from their perspective without spending a day in their shoes. But Collete has spent over 2,500 days in ladies' footwear, and as such, she has a unique insight into what women experience in Torn, but from a male point of view.
"Well it depends really. A lot of female players have no problems really at all, but if you are active in chats you tend to draw idiots to yourself at times or you hear about idiots there harassing ladies."
"For example one lady came to chat she was new to the game and had this idiot Markb [2006453] telling her she was now his slave and had to obey his commands or she would suffer, so I yelled at him a lot and beat him up and he soon left her alone."
In marked contrast to her reputation as a bounty bully, these quotes blatantly show Collete as someone who takes newcomers - especially women - under her wing in order to help them survive Torn's many perils and pitfalls. When I asked her why she'd adopted this female persona, her response was thus.
"I rather enjoyed standing up for female players in the chats and beating on rude young boys with potty mouths lol."
"If you are female and being harassed do not show fear, or appear to be upset, some people feed on that. Look for someone to ask advice about the situation if you are not sure what to do, but if it's in global be careful how you word it as the guy might read it and intensify the hits or bounties."
"And ladies should be careful in fact all players should be careful of what they share about their personal life/pics, whether it's on their profile on in forums or chats some guys like to use that information."
Collete's specific style of advice and humour is evident from her own words, but perhaps nowhere is this starker than quote from one of our previous interviews, where she gave Torn's ladies a handy hint as to how to deal with unwanted attention.
"I've told several ladies to just tell the guy they are fat that seems to work well or I just beat the shit out of the guy and make him apologize to the lady in question that's always fun to do."
Having a distinctly abrasive attitude early on in the game seems to have worked well for Collete, as when Krakfreak gave her 10 bounties during her first steps in Torn, she responded by adding him as a friend and bragging about it in Global. Not that she'd recommend that everyone takes up such an aggressive approach.
"I tell the new players just be yourself and make normal conversation and not talk shit to impress people, when they posting like a 12 year old on red cordial people soon want them to stfu."
"Ballsy is choice if you choose to be like that then you got to back it up as a lot of players may laugh with you when you do or they might want to break you if they think you are a little smartarse."
Sound advice indeed. In our prior conversation, Collete also implored newcomers to be polite when requesting help, as these people often end up being welcomed and occasionally mentored by some of the city's old hands. But as we mentioned before, she still has no time whatsoever for anyone looking for a free lunch.
"People really don't need to beg. A lot of people actually get helped in global if they be themselves and don't ask for hand-outs, older players at times will rent them a spare property for free or toss some cash because they didn't ask for it."
"I tend to be careful on who I pick to help these days. One time a so-called-lady came into chat asking for help from a bully, and guess it was her husband and he wasn't bullying her at all he/she was just some weirdo wanting the husband beaten on for its amusement he soon divorced it."
"You get a lot of people asking for help in chats but you work out they are the instigator not the victim."
In conclusion, when all is said and done, Collete's reputation now seems highly inaccurate - and it has nothing to do with her revelatory cock and balls. On the one hand, you have someone who has bountied their way into the bad books of many players, and as such, she deserves to be loathed and feared.
But on the other hand, you have a charitable mentor who simply believes in a certain way of operating, who believes that things should be earned and not given for free, and who, unknown to most, is fiercely protective of those in her close circle of friends.
"I cherish the few friends I have here so I do not like people upsetting them, so at times I've taken the heat off them and drawn it all onto myself in global so they can drift into the shadows and be left alone. I think that is the one true aspect of my character. I try to be a loyal friend, doesn't mean I'm a perfect friend."
Collete is an interesting individual. I guess you have to be to play an online crime game for nearly seven years while pretending to be a woman. Yet fittingly, as befits Collete's consistently ballsy persona, he - to finally give our subject his correct pronoun - appears unconcerned at what his reputation may be, referencing this quote from writer and poet Brendan Behan as proof of that very fact.
"There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
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