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I got a question about subspace storage! Are star seeds removable to that space, since not all Negaversers and very few senshi have pockets?

Shazari: Nope! Your subspace pocket is, well, your subspace pocket -- it doesn't take well to you putting things in it that aren't yours. Having it be possible to store starseeds in your subspace storage would be an absolute brute to try and RP around -- once a starseed was taken, no one would ever, ever be able to get it back, which would mean we'd constantly be having to come up with strained and agonizing plot contrivances for how to continuously avoid characters' starseeds being stolen. As it is, every senshi and Negaverser has a shirt -- if you don't have pockets, stick the starseed in your glove or your shirt or your shoe or so forth.

It just occurred to me and I figured it was a pretty important thing to think about and perhaps even have added to the raffle info depending on the answer.

The metaplot characters available through the raffle obviously come with plot BUT should people considering said characters have to worry about their character having to 'possibly' die at some point for plot reasons? Is there the possibility 6 months or a year down the line staff is going to pm the owner and say "alright time for ___ to kick the bucket" or are all these characters safe from death (unless of course the owner suggests/asks for it)?

It wouldn't affect my decision on going for a metaplot character but I think it's something that might affect other people's decision. I figured better to ask now beforehand as opposed to later if/when it came up as a problem.

codalion: None of the metaplot characters in the raffle are slated to die! <3 We definitely would never raffle off such a character without clear warning, and we would never give someone a doomed metaplot character in general without making it absolutely clear to them from the outset that they were doomed.

Ok, I must begin by saying what a fabulous shop you have here. The artist(s?) is amazing and the characters are rendered so wonderfully. Next, I've been lurking for a while and have finally decided to try my hand at a character. While I would love to win one through the raffle going on, I am absolutely baffled by the amount of information and am completely confused as to where to start and what exactly is required in a form for a custom character, human or otherwise. Please tell me where to start.

Question on youma-- I know youma are supposed to be obedient (even if it's reluctantly so! : D) to their captains, but can they act pet-like, almost friendly to their bonded captains? Could Serandite chill with her youma for example, after a starseed stealing mission? For example, sleeping against it or petting it?

Shazari: Yes, though this is not consistently the case. I also would caution a Negaverser against getting too attached to any one youma!

I also know they have more than the standard youma intelligence (I've seen obsidian's one talking <3) so their intelligence may be on the level of a basic human, in terms of very basic knowledge of talking/comprehending?

Shazari: Not necessarily, but sometimes! Some youma may speak a human language, but that doesn't necessarily mean they possess a normal human intelligence level. Your mileage may vary. <3

So... I have some curiosity questions. Will there be a whole spill when the the rest of the faction/details/info is put up on corrupted senshi?? I mean right now I know we know things like.

Charonite/the negaverse corrupts them
They're I think slightly more powerful in this stage(? unsure on this feel free to correct me)
They're VERY rare.
They can become super through the negaverse
The only one we know of to have been cleansed is Nova.
Who died.

rosemilk: We'll be having some more info up very soon.

Will there be more details on how to turn them back to good?

Like will Chronos, Selene or Moon be able to cleanse them back to being good?

rosemilk: Currently, the only thing that could do this, unfortunately, would be the power of the Silver Crystal. Sailor Nova died, was resurrected using the power of Ancient Lady's crystal, and therefore was saved -- and now suffers the ill-effects of postcorruption like Kunzite (can't heal properly).

Will they be able to become Eternal too or is that too much as far as a senshi is concerned?

Will they have the same requirements as a normal senshi or will theirs be on a case by case basis as far as upgrading?

rosemilk: Corrupted senshi levelups are going to be addressed soon. Most likely they'll have normal senshi reqs.

What abilities do senshi loose after being corrupted? Do they loose anything like the cavaliers that were corrupted no longer can heal as fast? Do the senshi gain the ability to teleport?

rosemilk: They gain the ability to teleport, and their healing is normal as it's fuelled by dark energy. It's only AFTER they're cleansed that they lose the ability to heal as fast. Their attacks tend to warp but they don't lose anything specific. Their inability to henshin down can now be corrected by Queen Beryl through magic. Most often they have amnesia -- but only if they've spent time as a senshi before being corrupted. Vivianite suffered no such memory loss.

Also, despite the fact this probably(?) won't happen, can Cavaliers become corrupted? What happens if they are corrupted? Do they stay cavaliers or do they become regular Negaverse LTs?

rosemilk: This will be addressed more, but: so far, the only known corrupted cavaliers were the Shitennou (Kunzite, Nephrite, Zoisite, Jadeite, Mortalitas) who were specifically corrupted by Beryl. When a cavalier is bonded to a senshi, the cavalier's starseed wraps around the senshi starseed -- and if a Negaverser were to reach in to try to putz with their starseed, they wouldn't actually be able to find it -- it resides in the sailor senshi's chest. For a sailor senshi who's bonded to a cavalier, their starseed is now figuratively Teflon-coated, and cannot be corrupted so long as they're bonded to a living cavalier. Note that no cavalier-senshi bond is maintained with reincarnation: Dylan and Cora, for example, weren't reborn bonded to each other, but had to bond to each other anew once they awakened, as did Hector and Aphrodite. A comprehensive explanation of the senshi-cavalier bond will be available in the upcoming Meet the White Earth Court page.

Cavaliers would become regular Lieutenants. However, Charonite actually has no interest in corrupting Cavaliers -- any more, that is. smile The only one he'd attempt to gain is Kunzite, and that would require beating Kunzite one-on-one.

1.)Should have been more specific. Would the shop approve of more humanoid or more animal/bug/etc. -like youma when it comes to being the youma for a Negaverse Captain?

Shazari: We don't really have an objective preference here -- this is because your youma is most likely going to die. And you'll get another one, and that one will die too! And so forth. As a result, we don't have a strong preference either way; youma are another form of killable 'character.' What we'll actually be giving you more information on soon is Where Youma Come From and so forth. <3

2.) What is the password?

Shazari: The same one I use on my luggage. biggrin


Spaceballs! Is it 1-2-3-4-5?

Shazari: How did you know?! That's uncanny!!!

Cuter: She actually paid me $5 to get it. Sorry Shaz, a gal has to be able to eat. sad

Regarding Cavaliers and Senshi, in LP's post you said:

This will be addressed more, but: so far, the only known corrupted cavaliers were the Shitennou (Kunzite, Nephrite, Zoisite, Jadeite, Mortalitas) who were specifically corrupted by Beryl during the 1980s. When a cavalier is bonded to a senshi, their starseed wraps around theirs -- more info on this to come -- and if a Negaverser were to reach in to try to putz with their starseed, they wouldn't actually be able to find it. Another bonus is that your starseed as a senshi is now Teflon-coated, and nobody will be able to corrupt you as long as you are in a bond.

Does that mean those cavaliers were bonded with Beryl as well? Or was it just Beryl controlling them? And a cavalier/senshi can only bond with one senshi/cavalier at a time correct?

Shazari: I've poked in above and edited Rose's answer a bit to help clarify things a bit there, but in answer to your question, no, none of the cavaliers were or are bonded to Beryl. Because of the nature of the cavalier-senshi bond, which is a symbiotic exchange, cavaliers can only bond to sailor senshi. Further, since this involves displacing their whole starseed, they cannot bond to more than one individual at the same time. None of the corrupted cavaliers would have been bonded to any sailor senshi at the time of their corruption -- since they'd have needed to have their starseeds available in order to corrupt them.

Couple questions, just for the sake of curiosity.

There is a chibi sailor in the raffle prize list. Does that mean that there can be a regular sailor of the same sphere? And otherwise, can there be chibi sailors of current spheres, i.e. chibi sailor of rainbows? (Even if so, I suspect these would be very rare and special, right?)

Shazari: I'm going to put a firm "no" on this one, personally. The fun thing about being the sailor senshi of drumsticks is that YOU are the sailor senshi of drumsticks -- you, more than anyone else in the world, are the culmination of all that is drumsticky in the universe. It's all about you. If we allow chibi senshi to reuse spheres other people are already playing, that takes away what makes each senshi's sphere so special and great. For example, Proxima's sphere is the Nexus, which I think is a really cool sphere and I'm glad I came up with it. I put a lot of thought into exemplifying that sphere and how to play it. It wouldn't be fair to, say, Sailor Virgo's player if someone else came along, thought, "wow, Sailor Virgo's so neat! I want to play that!" and created a Chibi Sailor of Innocence. That wouldn't be a very nice thing to do. So out of respect for the characters that already exist, all spheres are protectedly unique. <3

How young chibi sailors can be?

rosemilk: Twelve and under, and we'd ask no younger than 10 currently.

Metachars (like Diana and Eyes and so on) should be marked, right? Do they get marks faster because they are metas? (The answer doesn't affect to my methods of choosing should I win something from the raffle.)

Shazari: All characters will need to have a profile that's been marked accepted by our stampers before they can start roleplaying. Stampers will work with raffle winners to help them get their profiles to an RP-ready state, but particularly given how many people will be doing this at the same time, it's unlikely any fast-tracking will be particularly fast. Our stampers are human, and we try not to break them! <3


How active should we be to own/RP meta characters? Like if one is slow because of real life and not able to post every day or even every week, could that kind of person own the meta character? (Got already an answer in main thread but thought that someone else might wonder this as well.)

rosemilk: We're still putting this into a formal activity rule. The thing is, there's no hard and fast rule able to be made, and we have to take each player case by case -- if you owned a character and posted only once every two weeks for your entire career, not being around at events relevant to your character, you wouldn't be making activity requests. However, we're going to do up some stopgap "this is how active you should be."

Thank you for your answers. Just the way I thought.