The Truth
1,195DECEMBER 2 UPDATE: my ex has rescinded her allegation of sexual assault (again).
https://twitter.com/rivalerose/status/1466563098936889350
Original post with all articles & screencaps below:
I am Thomas LeBlanc, the developer of Fight Knight. Many awful things have been alleged about me & my character. Every single one of them is false. If you care about the truth, please watch this video.
Thank you to everyone in the comments for your words of support. It really means a lot to me
please see links to all articles & all screencaps from the video below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CpvnVfNZzLYfqeRQuCg8ZFse3WeRrmzRvUiSAc1v9RE/
Addendum
I really do not like to talk about my relationship with this person because I refuse to let what I went through define me, but the truth is that it was an abusive relationship and I was the victim. My ex was demanding and controlling and repeatedly berated, humiliated, and isolated me. It got to the point that shortly before she left me, I was unable to even select a youtube video to watch together without bursting into tears from the stress of having to make a decision and the worry that she would judge me for it. I would spend hours in the bathroom just crying and trying to put myself together to face her in a positive way. she repeatedly manipulated and controlled my behavior with threats of breaking up, self harm or even suicide if I didn’t conform to what she demanded of me.
I moved to a country where I knew nobody and didn’t speak the language for half a year just to be with her and keep her safe. I took care of her cats for two years. I spent hours thoroughly cleaning our apartment every day at her request. I have a skin condition that makes me break out in hives in response to humidity and she was convinced that I was actually covered in an invisible fungus and was spreading it over the apartment despite a total lack of evidence of this, and to combat this for months alongside cleaning she required me to take multiple daily showers and spray myself all over with hydrogen peroxide, which is a mild bleaching agent. I think the period where I was doing this has caused permanent damage to my skin, but I went along with it because I wanted her to feel safe. She was convinced that everyone in our friend circle was one step away from “betraying” her at every turn, and nothing I could say or show would convince her otherwise, and she did her best to preemptively destroy any friendship I had because of this. I could fill pages and pages with anecdotes but it’s pointless. At this point people will believe what they believe.
I loved her and tried to do everything I could to be what she wanted but I just wasn’t able to do it. I wasn’t able to quit my career as a game developer as she demanded. I wasn’t able to abandon all of my friends & family as she demanded. These were all things that she saw as a requirement for us to continue our relationship, and ultimately they were why she left me. And, as best I can discern, because I have still not abandoned these aspects of myself, they are why she continues to try to quite literally ruin my life. She wanted to ensure that fight knight never came out, she wanted all of my years of work to amount to nothing to prove to me that I was nothing without her.
It’s been over a year since we separated. What she has attempted to do to me once again unfortunately opens a lot of old wounds that had only just begun to heal. I know her to be someone who never lets go of a grudge to anyone who she believes wronged her, and in her mind, truth doesn’t seem to matter, as long as people “get what they deserve”. And she’s surrounded herself with people who enable that behaviour and never push back on it in any way. I can identify this easily because I used to be one of the people in her circle doing just that. I don’t hate those people. I understand the situation they’re in. They want to believe that she is a good person, that she’s just had three decades of incredible bad luck and all she needs are some real friends to turn her life around. I wanted to believe that too, more than anything. I put my life on hold for almost three years and gave her everything I had to try to prove that to the world.
I genuinely don’t want anything bad to come her way. I hope she gets the help and support she truly needs to move on from this and I hope she finds happiness. But this is not that. This is pure vindictive malice. It’s completely unjust and wrong. I am a flawed human being like anyone else on the planet but I did not do the things she’s accusing me of, and she knows this. I have proven that she’s lied repeatedly about everything she claims about me. And she knows she’s lying, but she doesn’t care, she thinks I deserve this anyways.
Well, I don’t deserve it. I refuse to bend a single degree to the pressure of people with nothing better to do with their lives than to try to ruin mine. I am innocent.
Thank you for reading.