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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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Character name: The Brucolac
Fandom: The Scar by China Mieville
City life: A politician or lawyer on track to becoming a judge!
Powers: The Brucolac is a VAMPIRE and he has a fairly standard Ooky Vampire set of powers that includes being really fast, flicky tongue super scent senses, healing quickly, sort of hopping between shadows, and being REALLY INTIMIDATING without necessarily really meaning to be. NOT having these powers at first will be kind of a relief / extremely alarming, in that hey it's nice to be able to talk to people, but it is NOT nice to be a weak squishy thing with a heartbeat. I'm open to the end power set being heavily nerfed. I would like for him to appear far younger than he should from the get-go, at least.
Do you think they'll be active? YES. Yes. This character is nosy as heck, and is NOT content just sitting around by any means. He is a mover and a shaker. However, he is also heavily adaptive, and is as likely to integrate himself into the current power structure if he thinks it will benefit him as he is to fight against it.
Do you think they'll participate in plot? Sure! It may depend on what kind of plots, he'll be conservative until he's confident he's not as squishy as he will initially fear that he is.
Why this character interests you here: The Brucolac is always a fun character for me to play: he's sly, sharp and morally grey, and he both embodies and defies the stereotypical vampire overlord villain trope in ways I find fascinating. Also, I enjoy playing him off of Takh's Doul.
Potential concerns: Possibly too pushy/meddlesome, I will have to find a good balance with him where he's satisfyingly active without requiring more time than I can devote to him.
Character name: Sirius Black
Fandom: Harry Potter, specifically from the Shoebox AU. (Marauder-era)
City life: Student! Sirius would not be old enough to have a job.
Powers: Lord, Potterverse magic is janky. I'd pick one or two types of "magic" that he can still do, probably transfiguration and enchanting objects. It'd be nice to have some spells but that opens up a big can of worms powers wise. As long as he can make a flying motorbike, I'll be happy.
Do you think they'll be active? YES. Sirius is incapable of shutting up, ever.
Do you think they'll participate in plot? Yes! He is fiercely and helplessly social, he needs attention.
Why this character interests you here: Sirius always interests me, but this is a much darker genre than he hails from, so it will be interesting to see how he adapts. I think a character who is so fiercely, merrily reckless may also be fun in the game? Idk guys, tell me what you think.
Potential concerns: Genre clash and overpowered-ness? I'm not sure what the game's stance is on underaged characters (though I could take him from the end of the AU when he's 18)
Character name: F1R3W@LL, or F13 for short
Fandom: OC from Changeling: the Lost
City life: Computer programmer / hacker
Powers: Control over lightening, ability to see & interact with supernatural stuff, ability to sense people's fears.
Do you think they'll be active? F13's a bit of a shut in but is big on electronic communication and spreading information. This is someone who's not seen but who is heard.
Do you think they'll participate in plot? I'm comfortable shoving my characters into things that I think would be interesting, though unless it involved investigating stuff via the computertubes or obviously ooky supernatural things, F13's natural inclination will be to stay home.
Why this character interests you here: I love this character. F13 is snarky and delightful to play, the sort of person who can't help but be helpful, even while ragging on everyone. Also, Changeling: the Lost is basically fairytale PTSD: the game, and its characters already experienced physical warping and identity theft. I think it would be a lot of fun to see what a Changeling would do if they woke up Lost all over again.
Potential concerns: So F13 spent their time with the horrible fey god creature as an actual computer churning data in a metropolis-like nightmare city. Their original human body (and the human body most people will see) is physically female but looks like an androgynously skinny youth. F13's true form / mental image of is a completely genderless computer with wire limbs dressed in sweats and a hoodie, and that's how they'll look to anyone with True Sight. F13 tends to let people assume that they're male and just generally won't correct pronoun usage because they haven't figured out a pronoun preference. So in general there might be some gender identity triggery stuff. The character is absolutely not going to become a platform from which I talk about this issue (F13 is certainly going to avoid making it a Thing, ICly) it's just worth mentioning because it is part of the character's story.
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How do you mean, far younger than he should? As for his meddlesomeness, that shouldn't be much of a problem on our end! Those kinds of characters are awesome for the setting.
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Narrowing down his powers like that should be acceptable, although we'd ask that you define what you mean by "enchanting" and explain the limitations on transfiguration. I don't know about making a flying motorcycle, but he'd certainly be welcome to try! Underaged characters are perfectly all right; we don't mind having people under 18. The game is only PG-13, after all!
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They definitely sound like they could be an interesting character, too! Ability to see/interact with supernatural beings would likely not be very useful in the case of the only possibly-supernatural occurrence in the game are ghosts, who don't exactly function as most fiction portrays them as functioning. We would like to point out that F13's "true form" would still be that of their human self, although their mental perception of themselves could certainly be as you described.
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Brucolac: Hm, yes that ended up being confusing, sorry. I had two thoughts in mind for how to deal with nosy vampire's canon self and the need to establish a city identity. I'd batted the idea around of him being an older brother to Doul's city identity (although I now see that there are a lot of sibling pairs in the cast already) To do so, he'd need to be an older dude, but canonically he does not look more than 30. One thought on how to play with that would be for the body that clambers out of the pod to be physically younger than the city identity applied to it. Another thought would be fore him to kinda de-age as he gets his powers back? At the end of the day it's all flavor stuff.
Sirius: In the books, Sirius makes/is involved with making a number of enchanted objects: the Marauder's Map, a two-way communication mirror and of course the motorbike, so to me it follows that he has a particular skill for making magic items. He may not be a good fit if I have to restrict his powers too much, as then I'd end up with a very depressed former wizard and he's more fun as a bright spot in a game cast.
F13: I definitely understand that this game will be very low on the supernatural stuff, and that's totally fine. (Perhaps F13 could see the "true selves" of other players, based on a permissions post?) I really like that the F13 everyone sees and the F13 that is in F13's head would be very different - this is an aspect of Changeling that all part and parcel of what the characters have to deal with. They might NOT have been kidnapped by evil fairy gods. They might just be crazy.
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For Sirius, that is a side-effect of the setting and switching from "magic" to "power", and we're sorry to hear that. We aren't saying that you would need to totally restrict them, but there would likely need to be limits in place lest he accidentally becomes too powerful with it, you know?
Seeing the "true selves" of characters is a tricky proposition considering the mystery of the game and any NPCs that the PCs might encounter. Not to say that it would be outright disallowed, but we would definitely need to talk something like that over first if you were willing to.