Examples can be found below the form! Though... they're not done yet. X_X
Persona Makers (For people who want to play with the nitty-gritty and pick out legit moves for your character's Persona.)
Arcana List and Notes (As it says, it's a list of Arcanas with descriptions. It will be quite helpful, I'm sure.)
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[b]Character:[/b] [Name of the character (powered and unpowered), and a link to their journal.]
[b]History Summary:[/b] [Please summarize your character's history here.]
[b]Arcana Ideas?:[/b] [If you have any ideas for what the character's arcana might be, let me know here and explain why you think the arcana fits. If you need help picking an arcana, you can check the list above. Alternately, you can leave it to me, and when I finish your character's Persona and/or Shadow, I'll give you an explanation of why I chose it.]
[b]Persona Ideas?:[/b] [You can rattle off any ideas you have for your character's Persona- the mythological being it might be, what elements it might specialize in, its strengths and weaknesses (elemental or statistical), its appearance, so on and so forth. Of course, I can make the Persona for you if you'd like. Remember that a Persona is sort of an embodiment of a character's personality and mindset; those aspects will show up in its design and in its stats/attacks.]
[b]Shadow Ideas?:[/b] [Explain any ideas you have for your character's Shadow (appearance, elements, stats, etc.). Remember that a Shadow represents the negative, hidden aspects of a character's personality (emphasis on the hidden- things that your character would not want the world hearing about), and it will reflect those aspects in both design and combat style. Shadows often look like a twisted version of the Persona with some physical aspects of the character added in (hair, clothes, etc). Of course, I can make the shadow for you if you would like.]
[b]Shadow Speech:[/b] [This is important! Shadows give speeches to their human selves about the aspects that they represent- the thoughts that are hidden away that the person denies. What will a Shadow spill about your character? How will they taunt them into saying the dreaded words "You're not me!" and provoking the transformation into their battle forms? This will help me determine some aspects about your character's Shadow, and I may write a full speech for your character's Shadow based on what you give me.]
[b]Character:[/b] [Name of the character (powered and unpowered), and a link to their journal.]
[b]History Summary:[/b] [Please summarize your character's history here.]
[b]Arcana Ideas?:[/b] [If you have any ideas for what the character's arcana might be, let me know here and explain why you think the arcana fits. If you need help picking an arcana, you can check the list above. Alternately, you can leave it to me, and when I finish your character's Persona and/or Shadow, I'll give you an explanation of why I chose it.]
[b]Persona Ideas?:[/b] [You can rattle off any ideas you have for your character's Persona- the mythological being it might be, what elements it might specialize in, its strengths and weaknesses (elemental or statistical), its appearance, so on and so forth. Of course, I can make the Persona for you if you'd like. Remember that a Persona is sort of an embodiment of a character's personality and mindset; those aspects will show up in its design and in its stats/attacks.]
[b]Shadow Ideas?:[/b] [Explain any ideas you have for your character's Shadow (appearance, elements, stats, etc.). Remember that a Shadow represents the negative, hidden aspects of a character's personality (emphasis on the hidden- things that your character would not want the world hearing about), and it will reflect those aspects in both design and combat style. Shadows often look like a twisted version of the Persona with some physical aspects of the character added in (hair, clothes, etc). Of course, I can make the shadow for you if you would like.]
[b]Shadow Speech:[/b] [This is important! Shadows give speeches to their human selves about the aspects that they represent- the thoughts that are hidden away that the person denies. What will a Shadow spill about your character? How will they taunt them into saying the dreaded words "You're not me!" and provoking the transformation into their battle forms? This will help me determine some aspects about your character's Shadow, and I may write a full speech for your character's Shadow based on what you give me.]
Examples
Welcome to the Velvet Room...
Character: Luca Krantz // Super Sailor Megrez, Senshi of Eggs
Arcana: Magician. The mentions of creative ability and recognition of potential ring true for Megrez, as do the keywords of energy, action, and movement. The reversed meanings also fit well, especially the inability to make decisive choices, given Megrez's wrestling with moral dilemmas.
Persona: Garuda. I was looking for particularly destructive mythological birds, and Garuda seemed to fit the bill. I feel Garuda reflects Megrez's choice to fight in the war against the Negaverse. In a way, it also reflects her sphere, since birds hatch from eggs. In terms of stats and attacks, I'm thinking it would be a chiefly offensive Persona, with Fire magic in Magician arcana tradition. However, it would have high physical power along with the magical power, and poor defenses as a balance. Appearance-wise, it looks like a giant orange bird with a white stomach, holding an egg in its talons.
Shadow: Megrez's Shadow is a giant, black, vulture-like bird sitting on an egg roughly as tall as it is. It has a few orange feathers mixed in its plumage. It has Megrez's typical hairstyle (her ponytail in the signature hairbands), and a yellow smear on its chest that looks like her bow and brooch. It attacks by shooting razor-sharp feathers at the party and by casting fire magic. At half health, the egg explodes, dealing heavy damage to the party and revealing a pile of bones. At this point, it will use an attack called "One Dead is a Hundred Saved," which will deal heavy damage to the party and summon one or two bone creatures to defend it. If there are two, one will attack the party while the other defends and heals the shadow on occasion; if there is one, it will be more defensive.
Shadow Speech: Megrez's Shadow will taunt her about her "getting over" her murder of a certain lieutenant, then move on to how she maintains a black-and-white view of the war and refuses to let anything change it because she couldn't cope with the strain ("I only hang out with people who reinforce my ideals, and when someone comes along who doesn't fit that, it throws me completely out of whack!"). Actual speech pending, probably.
