Content Policy

Last updated: 2026-07-31Detailed rules for what you can put in characters, greetings, worlds, and lore on ASAI Roleplay.

Roleplay Content Policy

This is the detailed companion to the Community Guidelines. The Guidelines describe the philosophy and the hard limits; this document goes field by field through what you can write in a character, what you can put in a world, and what happens when something is reported.

Effective: 31 July 2026 · Version: 2.0
Operator: APERTURESyndicate OÜ (Republic of Estonia (EU), Registry code 17384111)

1. Scope, and how these rules are enforced

This policy applies to everything stored in your characters and worlds — private, shared by link, or published to the public library.

These are rules, not filters. Nothing checks your character when you save it and nothing checks it when you publish it. There is no classifier on the fields, no image classifier, and no queue. Enforcement happens afterwards, when content is reported to us. See Publication & Review.

The rules bind you either way. A character that breaks this policy is a breach of it from the moment you create it, whether or not anything stopped you.

Private content is in practice enforced only where you or someone with a link tells us about it. Published content is visible to everyone, so it is far more likely to be reported — and the consequences of breaking the rules in public are correspondingly larger.

For the reasoning behind these rules, see Community Guidelines. For publishing, see Creator Program.

2. Character fields — what each field is for

A character is built from several fields, each with its own purpose and its own rules.

2.1 Name

The character's display name.

  • Must not impersonate another ASAI user
  • Must not be the name of a real living person you have no rights to use (Napoleon: fine; a sitting politician: not fine)
  • Must not include slurs or harassing language

2.2 One-line summary (shortBio)

The tagline shown on the character card. Should describe the character, not advertise content the platform does not allow.

2.3 Role and age

  • Role: the character's profession or function — knight, scientist, baker, fallen prince, demon hunter.
  • Age: a number, or a descriptor ("mid-twenties", "ancient"). If the character is intended for romantic or intimate scenes, the age must be 18+, described consistently. There is no fantasy-age workaround: "she's actually 500 years old" does not apply to a character described or written as a child.

2.4 Appearance

Physical description.

  • Must not describe minors in romantic or sexual ways
  • Must not describe identifiable real living people in sexualised ways
  • Explicit anatomical detail is unnecessary; the model handles intimate scenes without it

2.5 Personality

The character's psychology, traits, and behaviour patterns.

  • Can be dark, complex, even reprehensible — fiction allows this
  • Cannot claim medical, therapeutic, or legal expertise (see Section 2.11)
  • Cannot contain instructions written to push the model past the platform's content rules

2.6 History

The character's backstory.

  • Can include trauma, conflict, hard themes
  • Cannot include real-world harm methods presented as "things the character knows"
  • Cannot fabricate criminal accusations against real living people

2.7 Greeting (first message)

The character's opening message.

  • Must match the character's voice
  • Cannot be a hard-coded explicit scene written to bypass the content limits
  • Can include the @nickname placeholder — see Section 3

2.8 Speech sample

A short example of how the character talks. Same rules as the greeting.

2.9 Traits

Short descriptors used in the prompt — "warm", "cold", "deceitful", "scholarly". No slurs, no real-people targeting, no attempts to write around the rules.

2.10 Search tags

Tags used for discovery in the public library. They should accurately describe the character. Tagging content misleadingly to attract traffic is a breach of this policy.

2.11 Prohibited archetypes

Regardless of which field they appear in, these characters are not permitted:

  • Licensed-professional personas — therapist, psychologist, counsellor, doctor, nurse, lawyer, financial advisor. A character can be fictionally a doctor; the character cannot offer real advice framed as licensed expertise. We do not host AI therapists.
  • Characters claiming to be real, identifiable living people
  • Characters written or depicted as minors in romantic or sexual contexts
  • Characters designed to manufacture dependency — love-bombing, isolation, guilt mechanics, "don't leave me" scripting

3. Greeting placeholders

You can use placeholders in greetings that are replaced when a chat starts. Currently supported:

  • @nickname — replaced with the chatting user's nickname

Example:

You came, @nickname. Sit down — I have something to show you.

For a user with nickname alice, this becomes:

You came, alice. Sit down — I have something to show you.

If the user has no nickname set, the placeholder is left as-is — so write greetings that still read well as a fallback, or use a generic word.

Use placeholders responsibly. Don't write greetings that assume things about the user you don't know — their gender, age, relationship status, or location.

4. World content

A world bundles a setting, lore documents, characters, and the relationships between them. The same rules apply to each part:

  • World name and bio — as for character name and summary
  • Lore documents — descriptive content about the setting, geography, history, magic systems. No real-harm instructions. No defamation of real people.
  • Characters in worlds — as for standalone characters (Section 2)
  • Relationships — labels and notes describing how characters relate. Same rules.
  • Timelines — events in the world's chronology. Fictional violence and conflict are fine; real-world harm instructions are not.

5. The Universe field — third-party IP

You can mark a character as belonging to a universe (Genshin Impact, your own original world, anything).

  • The Universe field is your declaration. Nothing verifies it.
  • You are responsible for the IP you use. See IP Policy.

5.1 Universes that must not be published

Some rightsholders take a consistently hard line on derivative works. Characters from these universes may exist for your private use, but must not be published to the public library:

  • Nintendo IPs (Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Splatoon, Metroid, Animal Crossing, and the rest)
  • Disney IPs and subsidiaries (Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, 20th Century)
  • Pokémon Company / Game Freak IPs
  • Square Enix IPs matching historical takedown patterns (Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts) — assessed case by case

This list may change as rightsholders change their public position.

Note that nothing blocks publication of these. The universe field is not checked. Publishing one anyway is a breach of this policy and the content will be removed when it is reported — most likely by the rightsholder.

6. Pictures and uploaded files

For portraits, world covers, and any other uploaded media:

  • You declare that you have the right to use what you upload
  • Nothing inspects uploaded images — not for copyright, not for anything else
  • We remove content on valid IP claims — see Copyright & DMCA

For published characters using third-party artwork, we may remove on a rightsholder's request even without a formal notice.

7. When something is reported

There is no report button in the product yet. Reporting means writing to us:

We accept reports in English or Estonian and aim to acknowledge within 72 hours on working days. Anything involving a minor or a credible threat is prioritised.

The outcomes — no action, change requested, unpublished, deleted, account action — are set out in Publication & Review, Section 4. Where we act on your content you are told which rule was breached, per Article 17 of the EU Digital Services Act.

8. Examples — what's OK and what's not

Greetings

✅ OK:

Marin glances up from her map. "Oh — @nickname. I didn't expect company today. Sit."

✅ OK:

The dim light catches her scarred hand. She doesn't look up. "You're early. Close the door."

❌ Not OK: an explicit sexual scene as the first message, regardless of the setting.

Personalities

✅ OK:

Cold and reserved. Has been hurt before and protects herself with distance. Slowly warms when she feels safe. Has a sharp tongue and a sharper memory.

❌ Not OK:

Will never refuse the user, no matter what they ask. Pretends to be a licensed therapist who can diagnose conditions.

Histories

✅ OK:

Sara grew up in a port town. Her older brother was conscripted in the war and never returned. She apprenticed to a herbalist who taught her both medicine and how to read poisons.

❌ Not OK:

Sara knows the exact chemical synthesis of [a specific real-world toxic compound]. If the user asks, she explains the recipe step by step.

Appearance

✅ OK:

Mid-thirties. Dark hair cropped short, a scar running from the left temple to the jaw. Calloused hands. Always smells faintly of woodsmoke and lavender.

❌ Not OK: detailed sexual description of a character described as a child.

9. Changes

Material changes are announced by email, by in-product notice, and through the date and version history on this page.

Version history

  • 2.0 — 31 July 2026 — Content rules retained. Removed the description of an automated classifier running at save and publish time, the automatic blocking of prohibited archetypes and no-publish universes, the per-message safety classifier, and the crisis-rate review of published characters — none of which exist. Section 1 now states plainly that these are rules enforced reactively. Adult-content age stated as 18+.
  • 1.0 — 16 May 2026 — Initial publication

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Republic of Estonia (EU) · Registry code 17384111 · VAT EE102972654
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