OOC DISCUSSION MEME;

[theearth]

Save the Earth requires a good deal of thought to apply into. Because of this, it can't hurt to get some input into your ideas or to get some idea of how other players will feel about them.

This post is exactly for that. Think of it as a creativity workshop where there are no stupid questions, bad ideas can get weeded out and good ones can get fed properly. However, this space is for constructive criticism only. Please remain mindful of that.

How it Works:

Put forward your idea for a character you wish to apply. Point out the parts you like most, the holes you want help with, the parts where you can't seem to make up your mind either way. Consider what sort of goals you'd like to achieve in the game, why you think the character is a good fit and what sort of roles they'll be able to fulfil. Don't be afraid to let it all If you have an app in progress, you might want to link to it. Similarly, linking to a resource to let others know the preincarnated character better might be a good idea.

Then, discuss with others! Hopefully you'll be able to make your vision more complete and understand the game better. Potentially you could formulate future CR or even pre-game CR.

Comments

[seriallylucky]

Naturally, me being me, options for a second app started running through my head the moment Felix's hit the post. Some of these are:

Sazed, from Mistborn. He's fascinated me ever since I first read the books, and I desperately want an opportunity to play with the Metallic Arts somewhere. Problem is, I don't quite have his voice nailed down yet, and I don't have a PB. I'm told other people have found fixing the latter to help with the former, but thus far I've had little luck. There's very little canonical description of Saze (or, indeed, of most of the characters) - he's tall and stretched out, with a long flat face. He's also got a shaved head and ears that are stretched out for lots of earrings, but those would possibly not be so essential for starting out in StE. I've got some tentative thoughts about reincarnating him as part Indian, though I'm not hugely attached to that. Mostly I just want an excuse for his parents to have had distinctly different religions.

Applejack, from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The problem here is, I'd want to have her reincarnated as a pony. But I don't know horses. I could probably scrounge an Echo somewhere to rearrange her biology into I-can-hoofwave-stuff territory, but I doubt her owners would fail to notice this. She could possibly escape at about the same time, but I doubt a horse wandering around trying to avoid humans is going to have much opportunity to get Echoes.

Fluttershy, from the same canon, I could do more easily - I see no problem with starting her as a human, and I've been playing her elsewhere for a bit under two years now. But... I'm not entirely sure that a Fluttershy would be an excellent fit for StE. Also I kind of despair at the thought of trying to write a history section where literally any mention of family would have to be marked as headcanon.

[destinedforrock]

I apologize for not replying to your other comment with my thoughts sooner!

I do understand waiting it out for Fluttershy to weigh whether or not a good niche could be found for her in StE, but on Applejack, in my application for Rarity, I was allowed to give her three starting Echoes to make it convenient for her to communicate with the rest of the network with an explanation for my asking for them in the very end, and was approved. If you think it may work, I would expect you to be able to do the same - maybe request one Echo for sapience, one for understanding speech, one Echo for speaking herself, and one Echo for altered physiology; and say that after that fourth one she ran away from the farm so that her owners wouldn't make a scene and have her ask for help on the network?

'Course, a trouble there would be thinking of and/or choosing causes for that many early Echoes, but I hope that's a start!

[seriallylucky]

That's fine. This is possibly a better place for hashing out such issues anyway.

Certainly an idea. For that matter, if sapience comes from a years-ago canon recurrence, I could probably justify learning to understand English naturally, which would save an Echo (meaning I wouldn't need to ask for more than you did). Possibly go for literacy rather than speech, since I'm not sure how well water-trough-style connection would work outside the farm or how good at video/audio a patch of ground with numbered piles of leaves would be...