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resetbutton) wrote2012-02-01 03:00 pm
resetbutton) wrote2012-02-01 03:00 pm
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♢ POTENTIAL APP DISCUSSION
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| While the worldbuilding post is an excellent place to try and figure out City history CR, this page is more to help you to decide who you should apply for in the first place. Give us a good idea of what kind of character you're thinking of and let others comment in on how they might see it working! Think of it as a thought experiment for yourself and other players. As a reminder, this is completely optional. You are totally free to reserve or apply someone without commenting to this post first. ♢ Reception to your idea will have no effect on how the mods process your app. This is only a tool to help you decide who to put the effort into. ♢ Don't spam or flame any potential character comments. While just going "OMG YES!!" can be encouraging, it doesn't really give anyone a whole lot to work with, and neither does shooting someone down. Be constructive. ♢ Give your honest opinion. If you think a character really wouldn't fit in the setting, express your concerns. Maybe the potential applicant didn't think of it from a certain point of view. Paired with the above, please don't just go "I don't think this will work". Provide some reasoning! ♢ Don't take anything personal. Anyone who comments back to you on this post is only trying to help — even if it isn't outright encouragement. | |||
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I think so long as you've got a perfectly plausible headcanon and backstory for her, given how little about her we're given, you should probably be fine. (Naturally that's up to mods, but.)
As far as powers, the truth thing could work... Or if you wanted to get a lot more literal, some kind of light-based power? She could simply be the kind of person who can naturally see the truth of things (not as a power, but the kind of person who thinks they know a lie when they hear one)? She always struck me as the kind of person who could bluntly see right to the heart of people. If you did want to have some kind of musical quality to her, I don't see why being some kind of siren should be out of the question, but you'd have to have a good reason for her to have that kind of ability or what that ability would do.
Now, I don't know the other two canons, but RE: Mado, it sounds like you do know what you want to do with her about her backstory, which is good, and I like the idea of the illusionary appearances. RE: Digger, personally she sounds like a lot of fun and like she might be the strongest (no pun intended) or at least easiest in terms of apping muse of the three here? And regarding icons, you could find a PB for her if that's easier than drawing out icons. Or I'm pretty sure you don't absolutely even need human icons since we already know everyone's human in the game anyway? Unless you really want to draw them, that's always cool. :P
But that's just from what I read here; obviously I'm way more familiar with Emily, so take the rest of my opinions with tiny tiny grains of salt. XD
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god, I only know a handful of protobros on tumblr and elsewhere.
The problem with a music-based power is that it's a rock opera, so everyone sings. It'd be like apping Misto from CATS and giving him a dance-related ability. Which, yes, he does get an impressive dance solo, but... everyone dances. It's more part of the medium than anything.
I could swing with a literal light-related power... I'm a big fan of The Deed of Paksenarrion, where creating light is one of the classic signs of a paladin, so the allusion to that would make me happy. I-- oh god, I'd be turning Emily into Jubilee.
/dweeb
You're correct that Digger would be the easiest sell, so to speak. She has the benefit of having the canon be from her POV and so has the most defined voice out of all three. :| But yes, in terms of having her integrate with the existing characters and the plot, she comes out on top. I know that icons are ultimately not a big issue, but it really is jarring to have a cartoon wombat appear next to human PBs and anime/manga faces.
Much thanks for the input!