almondblight
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Bascially, there are two option here (if the accident did happen): either she's legally incompetent, and then she shouldn't have had internet access in the first place; or she's legally competent and then I'm pretty sure it's illegal for him to disclose such information.
Eh, huh? You don't deny people internet access just because they have mental problems (pretty much any online forum can attest to that). You can institutionalize people if you can show the courts that they're a serious danger to themselves or others, but "they've become paranoid and think that everyone is scamming them" doesn't nearly reach that level.
There are a few scenarios:
1. She's telling the truth. The mages initiation people decided to spend more on two artists alone than their entire KS budget (keep in mind that their original goal only had 54% of KS money going to development because of fees, reward fulfillment and marketing). They listed multiple artists and animators on their page (4 artist and 4 animators), and didn't list the sister (only the brother). If this is what they're paying artists, then you're looking at over a million dollars on artists and animators alone for a KS with a goal of $65,000. And looking at her numbers, what was the agreement? "We'll give you 5% upfront, 95% upon completion"?
With such a large team it should also be easy to see if they're screwing over people or not (we'd probably hear from the other animators/artists if they were).
2. Her brother took the money. Not really sure how this is supposed to have happened - he tells the MI guys that instead of sending his sister the check for $38,000, send it to him instead because...? And when his sister doesn't get the money, she doesn't bother asking the MI guys if they sent it and just goes on the KS comments page instead? This one doesn't make any sense.
3. The brother is telling the truth. The MI guys were spending a reasonable amount on art given their budget, so you have the background artist (the brother) getting $10,000 and not $125,000, and an outside art contractor getting $2,000 not $40,000 (when they already have 4 other artists on the team). The sister suffered a head injury that drastically changed her personality (which happens sometimes), and became convinced MI guys were ripping her off. She goes on the comment section to tell people, and her brother comes on to explain to people why she's saying these things.
Scenario #3 seems reasonable, the others don't make sense.