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Hey people. Rowan and Sha here.

 

Before we get into why this post exists, we wanted to thank Xing for allowing us to use Templars to get this post out there. Ever since initially accepting Sha and SupremeP0wer into Templars back in 2020, Xing and Templars have done a great deal to support former members of RFCP and we are so grateful to you all for your unconditional support on these matters.

 

Right, with that being said, let’s talk RFCP. We’ve been vaguely intending on writing this post for some time and felt a recent post from Prior Bumble (titled “The Psychology of Hatred”) was sufficient occasion. I won’t link it here because Prior would love the attention.

 

Let’s cut straight to the chase. Prior claimed that those of us who wrote open letters did so because we wanted acceptance, accolades and status within CPA. He goes on to state that “immediate back-thumping, offers of enlistment and thumbs-up are given to those authors”.

 

Prior’s mention of “offers of enlistment” is undoubtedly a reference to Sha and SupremeP0wer, who as previously mentioned took positions in Templars high command immediately after departing from RFCP back in 2020. Based on Prior’s logic, Sha and Supreme only wrote their website because they were hoping to get enlistment offers after leaving RFCP. Of course, this is outright false.

 

What’s hilarious is that Sha and Supreme were offered these roles and took them before the website went live. Sha and Supreme weren’t offered those high positions because of their website, they got those offers because Xing was involved in conversations behind closed doors and understood just how terribly Sha in particular had been treated by Prior. Ask any of the involved parties [Sha, Supreme, Rowan, Xing] and they can verify this. 

 

All in all, like everything put out by RFCP that attempts to refute the claims against them, the post falls apart the second you apply any sort of contradictory evidence to it.

Since we’re on the topic, let’s overview some former members of RFCP and what happened to them afterwards:

 

• • RFCP Kailey: Went to RPF, transferred to ACP and was briefly leader there before resigning [this is admittedly quite impressive for someone new to armies, it’s reasonable to suggest Kailey was treated with a little bias because of her history. It’s not reasonable to suggest Kailey knowingly exploited this to become powerful seeing as Kailey was the first. No one could have foresaw the community response to the RFCP controversy.

• Cabin: Left RFCP in 2019 and was a vocal opponent of the army from that day on. Joined Romans briefly in 2020 several months after leaving RFCP, eventually joined PIC in 2021 as HICOM and then moved to Templars and became leader, all moves that had nothing to do with RFCP.

• Jemma/Sidie9: Is an OG veteran and an S/M army legend, server as Director in Chief of CPAHQ,  which easily trumps any sort of status or relevancy being Prior’s ex-wife ever could have given her, and it still does trump her brief RFCP affiliation to this day.

• Shallissa: Led Templars and PIC, was successful in many wars and was even nominated for S/M Legend. Now holds a hicom rank in ACP. None of this has anything to do with RFCP.

• Rowan Alden: Was a CPA Wiki editor before ever joining RFCP. Never received offers to join other armies because of his open letter or ProSect posts. Involved with PIC on and off throughout 2020 and 2021 as a friend of many of its now-past members. Go figure, PIC’s HICOM featured many former members of RFCP.

 

All in all, a past in RFCP did nothing for these five former members, and the same applies to the many others who went into the army community following their departure from RFCP, such as Dawnables, Phoebe, Ratlord/Oli, Raider/RaiRai and so on. With the exception of RFCP Kailey, everyone listed here contributed in some way to the RFCP grand finale posts written by me last year. None of them received acclaim, credit, validation, offers of enlistment, etc. for their actions. To infer any of us tried to profit from our traumatic experiences in RFCP is absurd and has no basis in facts or what actually happened.

 

With this very obvious falsehood debunked, we’d like to take the chance to repeat a warning first made by Rowan last year.

The more we all talk about RFCP and Prior Bumble, the more attention they get and we all know just how much Prior enjoys being talked about. I bet he’ll love the fact the two of us still cared enough to dedicate time to writing this post. I bet he’ll go crazy knowing he still has that amount of power over us. 

 

In some ways, this post is a questionable decision for exactly those reasons. Do we really need to encourage RFCP and Prior? But at the same time, we felt the subject of RFCP had become so commonplace given recent events that this post will do more good than harm.

 

Essentially, we all need to drop the RFCP conversation. It’s a done deal. RFCP are outside of the community and despite their strange attempts to address the community they will never actually try anything. They know they aren’t welcome here. 

 

At this stage, the drama that was ongoing regarding LGA is now more-or-less dealt with. There’s nothing else to say. At this point, all we’re doing is giving RFCP attention and, therefore, power. 

 

I hope we’re all on the same page with this. 

 

Finally, Sha and Rowan wanted to write more personal statements. First, here’s Rowan’s:

 

“When I was writing my original open letter at the start of 2020, I put it on the CPA Wiki so that it could always be found by anyone looking, but wouldn’t also become some major spectacle for the whole community to see. I had no interest in attention or praise or validation, I just wanted the truth to be heard about what RFCP was like on the inside.

 

When I wrote my ProSect posts in 2021, it was at a time where I wanted nothing more than to get the hell out of the CPA community. I was sick and tired of this place and wanted out. But, I wanted to make sure RFCP could never come back to the community and was sitting on a lot of stuff that I knew needed to become public [such as Beta Fox 20, direct proof of Prior’s hypocrisy on various issues, etc.]. When it came to writing the second part of my finale posts, I even considered abandoning this final post and just putting RFCP behind me for good. I chose to finish what I started in the end in the hopes it would finally bring an end to all this.

 

Evidently, that didn’t stick and I’m still here. So much for good intentions.

 

Ultimately, none of my posts got a huge amount of attention, let alone “thousands of views” and frankly, I couldn’t care less. All I wanted was to ensure that future generations of the CPA community had reference points for why RFCP were banned and why they should stay banned.

 

Are these the actions of someone after attention or status or power? I don’t think so. I wrote an open letter on a largely dead wiki and a blog post series just before leaving CPA behind [albeit temporarily]. And this is all without saying that there’s no power to gain by condemning RFCP as is discussed above. 

 

Frankly, I was personally very insulted by Prior’s post. I had no interest in power or acceptance or status or favour. I just wanted them someplace where they couldn’t hurt anyone else. We succeeded in that eventually.

 

Does that mean I condone everything that’s happened to RFCP and its members over the years? Absolutely not. Lines have been crossed at several points. But, nothing will ever change the choices Prior has made over the past 3 years. Prior can bleat on all he likes about how he has friends, officers and soldiers who’ll back him up, I’ve got just as many friends who suffered at his hands and nothing any member of RFCP says will EVER change that. 

 

The past is written.”

 

Not one of us wanted power or status or accolades. Fame. Influence. Offers for positions in armies. None of it. It was never about that for any of us. We wrote our letters because we wanted to make sure no one else would ever have to go through what we went through because of RFCP and Prior Bumble. 

 

Here’s Sha’s statement:

 

“This is a message for Prior Bumble.

 

When I first joined RFCP in 2019, I was in a very vulnerable position as I’m sure you remember. I clung to you and RFCP in desperation because after what I had been through I needed someone to accept me and love me for me. That’s exactly what you and RFCP did, you were always there to comfort me in my moments of panic and distress, and the family I had there always made me feel loved and important. I slowly started to “heal” but I turned into someone I didn’t recognize.

 

I thought this new version of myself was authentic, I thought that who I was in RFCP was who I was meant to be all the time. I thought I was finally finding myself. However this new version of me was absolutely not okay. I had grown into a vicious and mean person, someone who was quick to verbally attack someone simply because they spoke to you in a mean tone.

 

Instead of growing into a healthy version of myself, I grew into a monster, and this was encouraged by you. I became an outright bully, someone who hurt many people I currently love with absolutely no hesitation or regret. I excused my behavior because at the time my only goal was to please you, someone who I believed had saved me. You encouraged my aggression, even officially naming me your “Bodyguard” and making me head of the Priortorian Guard.

 

I saw similar behaviors in others who were close to you. I noticed how many of the women you were good friends with let their life and friendships crumble before them just to make you happy. I lost a lot of friends, you pinned us against each other. It’s as if you wanted every girl in RFCP to fight for you, waiting for the most loyal one of us to come out on top to be your ultimate supporter. I was miserable, and many of the other girls were too. 

 

We fought all of the time. Our mental health was in shambles, our friendships completely disintegrated right before our eyes, all because of you. I watched myself change into an aggressive bully but that was okay, because behind the scenes you had me wrapped around your finger. You were romantic towards me, you were very affectionate, you told me how I was the only person in the world who made you feel safe in CPA.

You told me you couldn’t live without me, how RFCP was only still standing because I was there to protect you. For once I felt important, and every girl in RFCP was fighting for you so they could feel that same sense of importance. You somehow made me dependent on you. Before I knew it, I realized that our friendship was abusive. I realized that you got off on our dynamic and how far I would go to protect you. You encouraged my outrageous behavior.

 

I started to distance myself, I started to say no to the things you asked from me. I was met with insults, server bans, you started to shun me from my friends even more. I would panic and react, I had completely lost all sense of who I was without RFCP. I was being banned and allowed back in multiple times a week. I was mentally a complete disaster because of the mind games and abuse. I was hospitalized twice, at one point you told me I wouldn’t be allowed back in RFCP unless I was heavily medicated. The meds helped tbh and that’s when I stopped returning after the bans. After you yelled at me or mistreated me I would leave the server. For weeks it was an endless cycle of abuse until I finally left for good. 

 

I’ve had nearly two years to think about my time in RFCP, our friendship, and the many mistakes I made while I was there. Prior Bumble, RFCP brought out the worst of you the same way it did to me. I hate what armies have done to you. I spent so much time feeling angry at you for what you did to me, and rightfully so. I didn’t realize how you couldn’t see your mistakes and how much pain you’ve caused people.

 

You probably think to yourself that RFCP is the best thing that ever happened to you, and that may be true. However armies have also been one of the worst things to ever happen to you. You became a controlling, aggressive, authoritative figure because you believed that was the only way people could accept you. If you were scary to outsiders they wouldn’t mess with you. You began using the community to compensate for things lacking in your real life. In more ways than one, you pretended to be someone you aren’t.

 

You became overly sexual, a womanizer, combative, and kinda weird ngl. You started playing the game too seriously and no one in other armies could relate to that. Your behavior made you stand out, and maybe that was your goal. But it put you in the spotlight, you weren’t careful. Your sexual behavior was around minors contantly, and instead of fixing that you would feel challenged by people who called you out and you’d just get pissy at them. 

 

You made yourself the villain by the way you handled yourself in fall of 2019. If you had done things differently you’d be in an entirely different position. RFCP’s entire existence is based around controversy and excuses. The issue is that you are blind to your mistakes and the people around you are enabling your behaviors. Things could be so different Prior. If you had apologized and accepted the consequences that came your way then people would have forgiven you.

 

But no, you refused to take accountability for anything. You immediately began blaming everything on mob mentality and 3 years later you are doing the exact same thing. You refuse to grow and change, you are insistent on maintaining your role as a loving father and army leader who has done nothing wrong despite the mountains of evidence that prove otherwise. You are in this position because of your actions.

 

You’ve turned into a monster and you are completely different from the man you claim to be. I don’t doubt that people in RFCP love you, I don’t doubt that they see good in you. I can only pray that you don’t make the same mistakes with them that you did with me and so many other people. As far as the community goes, You may not see where things went wrong but we do, and that isn’t gonna change on our end. If you want change it needs to start with you.

 

Accept your mistakes, accept the pain you’ve caused people. Accept that you aren’t a part of our community because of the choices you made, not because of anything we did. We aren’t worried about you having more supporters, the only people in your corner are CANC and that’s not something to brag about. Stop pretending that people hate you for attention when RFCP’s whole existence stems from you seeking authoritative attention to make up for what you’re missing in your real life. We are fine without you, if anyone wants attention it’s you. You speak of how you think CPA is awful but you are constantly trying to get our attention and affiliate with us, there is only one attention whore and it’s you. If you dislike us so much and think we are against you then that’s on you. We don’t owe you anything, we don’t have to let you back in or accept you and your friends. If this is hurting you so bad then maybe it’s time to turn off the computer. Cope, ratio, go outside and touch grass.“

 

To give a TLDR to this post:

 

• The open letter writers had no interest in power, status or fame when they wrote their letters.
• The RFCP conversation needs to end, all we’re doing now is stroking Prior’s ego and giving RFCP attention.

 

We’re sure this won’t be the last time one of us has to write a post like this regarding RFCP, but hopefully this will put an end to any conversations about RFCP and Prior Bumble for the time being.

 

We appreciate the community’s support and co-operation in this matter, and once again would like to thank Xing and Templars for posting this on our behalf, along with everyone else who has supported ex-members of RFCP over the years. 

 

Shallissa and Rowan Alden