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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/33109
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/33109
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

> A few years ago I was like 13 and I posted some characters I made up and I really love them.

If the stolen characters are still **recognisably** the same characters from that post, then you have **incontrovertible, time-stamped proof** that you are their original creator. If you still have screenshots of your correspondence with her (or access to them to take screenshots), then that's further proof, as she basically admitted to you that she stole them.

Again, I am not a lawyer, so I can't tell you whether that proof will stand up in a court of law. But it **will** stand up in the court of social media. So keep on posting your characters, and if anyone accuses you of ripping off that other woman, you can post your screenshots and show that it's the other way around.

If they are **not** recognisably the same characters, **then they're not the same characters anymore.** They're her own not-quite-original characters. In that case, the characters you originally created when you were 13 **still belong to you** , and you can keep on posting them with inpunity.

In short: regardless of what she's done with them, they're still your characters, you can prove they're your characters, and you can absolutely keep on doing whatever you like with them.

Original score: 9