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Sky of Diamonds Moderators ([personal profile] resetbutton) wrote2012-02-01 03:00 pm

♢ POTENTIAL APP DISCUSSION


POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS
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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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[personal profile] fustercluck 2012-04-01 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
Your name: Flag yes weird i know

i'm actually undecided between two characters, both of which are super overpowered and of the angelic variety! you obviously need more of those right

Character name: Lucifel
Fandom: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
City life: This is the part I'm most stuck on with this character. Lucifel, who is just essentially Lucifer pre-fall, is basically a background character in the game he comes from. Sure, he's important because he's the one talking directly to God and all, but

that's all he does.

He saves your game, makes thinly-veiled jokes about your character, and just chats with God all day on a cellphone. I wouldn't be entirely sure what kind of job to give him.... Otherwise he would fit in fine, because he's very social and has a need to know things.

Powers: While he IS the highest angel, Lucifel is never shown in game whooping anybody's ass. In fact, when the protag is given the chance to learn a SUPER ULTRA ATTACK, Lucifel just kind of shoves the main guy off on his brother Uriel, who teaches him instead. It's implied he's pretty formidable, but seems to be kind of lazy in that regard.

Otherwise, his powers include freely moving through the timestream, stopping (rewinding and fastforwarding) time with the snap of his fingers, and generally not giving a shit about dividing by zero.

Do you think they'll be active? Lucifel is very sociable, he likes to listen, to know things, and generally be annoying. He usually makes subtle jabs at people, even his friends and friends. He loves to interact with the world around him, so I think he'd be pretty active.

Do you think they'll participate in plot? Probably. While Lucifel does like to move things along, he usually leaves it up to others or helps others out, instead of him pushing anything himself.

Why this character interests you here: Because it's always interesting to play a non-human character as human, and I think Lucifel would eventually just start looking at it as a mini-vacation, thinking he can just zap himself to whatever timeline he needs to be in later.

Potential concerns: Besides not knowing what kind of job to give him initially, there's also all these whacky worldbreaking powers to consider. And yeah, I can dumb them way down, but it's also kind of fun to have time be your playground. I just wouldn't want to make him annoyingly powerful, so others inputs on what to do with him would help.


AND THE SECOND ONE i know tl;dr

Character name: Balthazar
Fandom: Supernatural
City life: Balthazar's thing is pretty much hedonism, so anything to do with sex, alcohol, and drugs. party hard party hard

Powers: Since Balthazar's not an archangel, he's not as powerful as Gabriel up there, but he's still got all the world-breaking powers of angels in the Supernatural verse. also i think he likes time-traveling way more than he should

Do you think they'll be active? He'll be active, he'll just be a complete snot about it. Balthazar knows how to talk to people, he's good at it, too, but he's much better at being an absolute asshole. And drinking. Balthazar likes to use people, though, so I think he'd be active enough to get buddy-buddy with people that are useful, and then move on to rubs elbows with more useful people. He's not very nice.

Do you think they'll participate in plot? If it involves him potentially getting killed or destroying whatever plans he has for himself, yes. Otherwise, he'd rather stay out of your stupid squabbles thank you very much.

Why this character interests you here: Because torturing Balthazar and making him live a human life amongst humans without most of his powers is hilarious and I enjoy that. also playing with other supernatural people is always cool

Potential concerns: first time really playing him in a game, and being overpowered
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[personal profile] fustercluck 2012-04-03 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks much for the reply! I've gone ahead and scanned the app and it helped a lot. I think I'll be able to figure out how to dumb down the powers for either of them enough to where they won't be an issue.
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[personal profile] trickntreats 2012-04-02 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Balthazaaaaaaar! /grabbyhands/ C'mere and let Gabriel troll you, little brother!

Seriously though, Gabriel and Balthazar interactions are something I crave in canon/rp/anywhere I can get it. I would seriously love to have him in the game, and if you need any help figuring out powers etc, feel free to hit me up! PM would be easiest because I'm travelling atm so AIM's not reliable, but I have a plurk at [plurk.com profile] purple_drake if that's better.
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[personal profile] fustercluck 2012-04-03 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
They would be like very two annoying peas in a pod! Except I'm not how sure Balthazar would be amused by some of Gabriel's crazier pranks and if you start singing My Heart Will Go On so help you.

I've never really bounced him off of a Gabriel before so it would definitely be an experience if I brought him in! I may PM you once I've actually picked, so thank you so much for being helpful 'v'
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[personal profile] trickntreats 2012-04-03 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
They would indeed, and it would be fun to find out, I think. oh you know he will. possibly. he's got this thing against singing. maybe just a looped tape instead.

Neither have I in reverse; this is my first game for Gabriel too, so we'll both be in the same boat. :3 Good luck deciding!