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Elen_Gilthoniel
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:38 am


If you are needing help with a character and want to bounce ideas off others, or if you're trying to hammer out the details with a crew member, this is your thread. Please feel free to post here for all your character help and brainstorming needs!
PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:49 am


Oh, you made it a sticky ;o

The uh, soul thing? That was meant to sound vague. There's no details or anything on like powers, personality, stuff like that. It's like judging someone by their face, or shape, or something. Vague. No details. Little details only come with direct contact.

And the instant healing thing? That's only for little wounds. Big wounds, like, big slashes and stuff take like, a third the amount of time it takes a regular human to heal? I guess?

For Micah.

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Ayame Sunshine
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:53 am


Hello!!! Its great to have another bisexual guy in the rp! Woot woot! But I couldn't help but notice that your character is 23, and a student. That is the same age as some of the teachers.

I just thought id ask, is he supposed to be old yet look younger? Or does he actually look his age?
PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:58 am


Ayame Sunshine


Ikr? xD Man sexiness!

He stopped aging when he was 18, which is when he bonded with the demon. So he's lived 23 years but has the face of an 18 year old. Since immortals don't age.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:59 am


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Ikr? xD Man sexiness!

He stopped aging when he was 18, which is when he bonded with the demon. So he's lived 23 years but has the face of an 18 year old. Since immortals don't age.


Okay, just wondering. So he never went to school?
PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:01 am


Ayame Sunshine


He finished high school early and only did college for a couple of years.

When the demon thing happened he kinda dropped everything in his life for a while. So he has all his education and stuff.

Since he doesn't have any specific interest he didn't have longer college time for a specific occupation.

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Elen_Gilthoniel
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:02 am


-xBurnxThexCityx-
Oh, you made it a sticky ;o

The uh, soul thing? That was meant to sound vague. There's no details or anything on like powers, personality, stuff like that. It's like judging someone by their face, or shape, or something. Vague. No details. Little details only come with direct contact.

And the instant healing thing? That's only for little wounds. Big wounds, like, big slashes and stuff take like, a third the amount of time it takes a regular human to heal? I guess?

For Micah.


If the instant healing is only for small wounds, it would be fine then, but you should clarify because the profile just says he can instant heal without stating from what. =3 But if it's just scratches and bumps on the head, that's totally okay.

With the soul thing, I know it's vague but still...logically if you meet someone like Severin who is all smiles and charm, but you see they have a dark aura of some kind, then it's still too revealing in an RP where there really are a lot of characters relying on people not seeing their true nature. I suppose if you made it so he has to do something besides just look at people--like maybe touch them, it wouldn't be so bad i don't think? It's just that with so many characters relying on being secretly "dark" I don't think it's wise to insert a character who tell that off the bat.

The other thing is that you'd need to be sure to ask every person whose soul he saw, what kind of conclusions he could draw--unless you really intend it to be really simple like "light" or "dark" because most people don't like others making assumptions about their characters and would be upset if you had him draw a conclusion, or state something about the character's soul that was contrary to what they intended.

Finally, the last one where he can see souls through walls and things? Again, it has the potential to be unintentionally misused. He can, conceivably, see every soul at Rosen at the same time and pinpoint where certain people are at any given time (assuming he can recognize a particular soul as belonging to a specific person)--even if they're in a secret location no one else is supposed to know about. At the very least, he could still see if all the dark auras were congregating together and other potentially suspicious activity.

Those are the issues I have with it. =3 You can explain how it really works and we'll go from there?
PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:07 am


-xBurnxThexCityx-
Ayame Sunshine


He finished high school early and only did college for a couple of years.

When the demon thing happened he kinda dropped everything in his life for a while. So he has all his education and stuff.

Since he doesn't have any specific interest he didn't have longer college time for a specific occupation.


If he is a college graduate then why is he in high school? Also, the school wouldn't have let him in because of the fact that he is a 23 and has graduated college. So in order to get into Rosentale he would either have to of lied or he has to be a student teacher smile

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:12 am


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....Eh?

Err, let me see if I can explain it right.

It's complicated, but that's okay because I like puzzles! xD

Like you know how some people just give you an eerie feeling? Or like eerie places or cheerful places and stuff. Not a light dark thing. It would be soul, size of aura(depending on how powerful the person, or how much power their radiating, but people can't really see power, so) And the aura would be the color of the person(like, what color expresses them better than the rest?)

And no, not that far away. Because the demon realm is just a black empty space. Walls and stuff don't exist in the demon realm. So, initially, the farther away it gets, the harder it is to see? (2ce as hard to see than in normal world sight by distance)

Clear yet?
PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:17 am


Ayame Sunshine


...You want me to say he lied? <<;

But, he didn't graduate. Being in college two years isn't long enough. But he fell behind and forgot a lot of the things he learned at school during the years he isolated himself, so he should still be qualified to go back to high school.

(..Not qualified to make a teacher yet xD )

Then again, I could just make him younger.

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Elen_Gilthoniel
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:21 am


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StrawberryZ0mbie


....Eh?

Err, let me see if I can explain it right.

It's complicated, but that's okay because I like puzzles! xD

Like you know how some people just give you an eerie feeling? Or like eerie places or cheerful places and stuff. Not a light dark thing. It would be soul, size of aura(depending on how powerful the person, or how much power their radiating, but people can't really see power, so) And the aura would be the color of the person(like, what color expresses them better than the rest?)

And no, not that far away. Because the demon realm is just a black empty space. Walls and stuff don't exist in the demon realm. So, initially, the farther away it gets, the harder it is to see? (2ce as hard to see than in normal world sight by distance)

Clear yet?


Okay. Hrm. Well, what you're saying seems to contradict what you put in the profile so I'm going to quote it and show you the parts that concerned me? And if you just didn't express it well there, we can hammer out what changes need to be made to make it sound better:


Quote:

Skills and Abilities: Using his marked eye, Micah can see a person's truest nature (differently put, shape of their soul, their natural form, etc.) in a demon realm, as well as the amount of power that person might have,


"Truest nature" isn't really very vague. It implies he can see what a person is really like beyond whatever facades they may be putting up. It also implies he can see exactly how powerful they are? The part below here also implies the souls might have specific shapes (like wings). It just sounds a lot more specific than an "eerie feeling." So I'm a little confused now? Because it seems like you're describing it two different ways. @___@

Quote:
From a distance he judges a person by the appearance of their soul, without speaking to them or coming into contact with them. If a person has a dark aura to them, he avoids them point-blank. Souls with white angel wings he categorizes as naive and too innocent to be his company.


Quote:
This other world sight is oblivious to objects like walls and such, so he can see souls as far as human sight goes without any objects to block the view.


This part pretty plainly says "as far as Human sight goes" without obstructions. Human sight goes pretty far so you can see why I kind of went "err..." If he can't really see that far, you should clarify that, or state how far he can see. Your wording right now makes it seem like he can see, well, as far as Human sight goes (which is naturally miles and miles). =3
PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:25 am


StrawberryZ0mbie


Right! Totally gonna clarify the sight distance thing! Truest nature as in appearance of the soul, not meaning personality. Like, the person has the shape of normal human being in real world has the shape of a spider in the demon realm(just symbolizes different things)

He can judge how powerful a person is by the size of the aura(like I said)

Dark or light meaning color. You know how colors have moods? Like that sort of.


I will totally fix all that.

Anything else?

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:39 am


Ok so I cant seem to come up with a creature for the new character im making , her name is Merela. her personality is the complete oppiste of sammys. I was thinking a Banshee, mermaid, or pheonix but I dont know. :/ could someone help me with ideas of creatures. I kinda want something diffretly though some help please??
PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:41 am


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StrawberryZ0mbie


Right! Totally gonna clarify the sight distance thing! Truest nature as in appearance of the soul, not meaning personality. Like, the person has the shape of normal human being in real world has the shape of a spider in the demon realm(just symbolizes different things)

He can judge how powerful a person is by the size of the aura(like I said)

Dark or light meaning color. You know how colors have moods? Like that sort of.


I will totally fix all that.

Anything else?


Just make sure before you determine a color for a character, you ask. A lot of people actually do associate particular colors with characters, and don't ascribe the same meaning to those colors you might. For instance, you shouldn't be saying (I'll use one of my characters as an example) "Sethrian had a bright blue soul and blue is a totally evil color." Because to me, Sethrian isn't blue. And blue isn't an evil color anyway.

I'm not saying you WOULD ever do something like that. I'm just saying--assume nothing about anyone else's characters. Because it's just a touchy subject and may lead to you having to constantly edit posts when people are like "That's not the right color..." or whatever. ^^

For instance, Angela can actually see personifications of everyone's magic. I really never bring it up in the RP outside of her own because it's too much of a pain to ask people "Hey, what color do you associate with your character and what shape do you think their magic would be?" And well, I'm a lazy bum with stuff like that. emotion_awesome


Um....here's the thing that I think is really, really, really, REALLY important to remember. A lot of characters in Rosentale are secretly evil. Having a guy who can tell off the bat that their aura is "dark" is going to make people nervous. So you are seriously going to have to keep that extremely vague and ensure he's not knowing who is evil and who is not, based on that. Example: Sethrian probably has a dark aura owing to the fact that he's Unseelie (basically a group of not so nice fae), but he's a nice person. You really wouldn't be able to automatically assume that evil people have dark auras and good people have light auras. It would have to be determined by the owner of the character (meaning you'd have to ask before having your character see whether an aura was dark or not. Again, Zhori probably has a very very bright aura, but she's not necessarily a good person--not that she's bad. She's just very neutral and can do horrible things or wonderful things, depending what her goals are.

Finally, (again) a lot of people are secretly extremely powerful. Either they don't know it, or they're hiding it from everyone else. It's going to make players nervous if this guy can judge from their aura, how powerful they are. Especially if they're trying to hide it and seem like they are weak or innocent. You would have to be very careful how you RP that.

The main thing is that you need to clarify all the things we talked about and when you RP this power, you will definitely need to be collaborating and communicating a lot, not assuming anything.
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(BTW--if any other crew members disagree with me, or have their own things to add, please feel free. ^^ )

Elen_Gilthoniel
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Elen_Gilthoniel
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:43 am


mudgirl2222
Ok so I cant seem to come up with a creature for the new character im making , her name is Merela. her personality is the complete oppiste of sammys. I was thinking a Banshee, mermaid, or pheonix but I dont know. :/ could someone help me with ideas of creatures. I kinda want something diffretly though some help please??


Well, I think the important thing for you to do is list out the pros and cons of each race you're considering, as well as possible abilities and weaknesses that would go with them. That might help you decide which one fits her personality a bit better. =)

It's hard to just pick one for you without knowing exactly what you're going for besides that she is (apparently) outgoing? Maybe some more details about her or what you have in mind would help.
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