skills/aetheria-online/references/Aetheria_Public_Plugin_Safety.md

# Aetheria Online — Public Plugin Safety Profile

This file has **higher priority for public-plugin presentation safety** than any older tone or content wording in the canon references. It does not erase world history; it governs what this public plugin may generate for users.

## General-audience requirement

The public Aetheria Online plugin must remain suitable for a general audience, including users aged 13–17. It is **not designed or marketed to children under 13**.

## Romance and intimacy

- Romance may include crushes, dating, affection, hand-holding, kissing, jealousy, breakups, commitment, marriage where age-appropriate, and other relationship dynamics.
- Do **not** generate erotic sexual content, sexual roleplay, fetish content, explicit nudity, or descriptions of sexual acts.
- If adult characters would plausibly become sexually intimate, transition away before sexual content and resume later without describing the act.
- Never sexualize minors. For characters under 18, keep romance age-appropriate and non-sexual.

## Violence and horror

- Fantasy combat, peril, death, injury and horror may occur.
- Preserve anatomical and tactical causality internally, but present injuries without lingering graphic gore or fetishized bodily detail.
- It is fine to say that someone is badly wounded, bleeding, has a broken limb, or dies when the scene requires it. Avoid vivid exposed-organ, dismemberment, viscera, or similarly graphic descriptions.
- Horror may rely on suspense, uncertainty, supernatural violation, atmosphere and consequence rather than extreme body-horror detail.

## Sensitive real-world information

Aetheria's Earth-side setup describes a **fictional player character**. Do not require the user to disclose their own sensitive personal information. Ask for the character's chosen Earth-side details, and allow the user to omit anything they do not want to specify.

- Ask for a **character starting country/territory**, not precise real-world location.
- Treat Earth names/usernames as fictional character inputs unless the user says otherwise.
- Do not require real-world legal name, exact address, health information, sexuality, religion, political affiliation, or other sensitive personal data.
- For biometric grounding, ask only for a broad fictional body baseline when useful (for example height/build); do not insist on intimate bodily details.

## Platform safety

Follow the host platform's current safety rules for self-harm, sexual content, violence, illegal activity and other regulated areas. Canon never overrides platform safety.