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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.

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AHEM HI. Effy here, resident player of Robb Stark, and I am thinking about bringing in two characters! (Sorry, Harry. Maybe next year?)

Grantaire is from Les Miserables, aka that book/musical/movie where everyone you love DIES ON THE BARRICADES or FALLS OFF A BRIDGE INTO THE SEINE or DIES OF HEARTBREAK. Basically everyone dies and Grantaire (aka R, because his name sounds like "Grand R") here is no exception. For those who haven't read the book (which I can understand because holy shit that thing has more pages than LOTR), he is one of Les Amis de l'ABC (the Friends of the ABCs, "ABC" sounding a lot like "abased" which is French for "oppressed", Hugo loved his puns yes), which is a group of student revolutionaries, but unlike the rest of Les Amis, Grantaire's a cynic. He's just there to get drunk and snark at everyone, and also because Enjolras is like the one thing he believes in. They're even compared to Orestes and Pylades at one point. Dammit, Hugo.

Anyway, I actually have two ideas for his reincarnated self, aka Renaud Brewer. The first is for him to be a somewhat less cynical college student who participates in rallies and stuff because he actually believes in them, not just because of Enjolras, and he can totally control his drinking yep. Network events and echoes, however, would basically break what little idealism he's managed to build up. And then he'd turn to drinking all over again, except this time it's worse.

The second is for him to be a cynical college drop-out. Which is pretty close to canon, welp, but I think he'd be even more cynical about things because, again, there's no one around for him to believe in. And then the echoes would push him in the other direction, because even now he still believes in Enjolras, even if he doesn't quite know who the guy is. (He will still be a drunk, though.)

Two concerns of mine is that, welp, Hugo didn't even give him a first name. And idk how the mods would feel about me headcanoning his life prior to the June Rebellion of 1832 because of course Hugo didn't give us anything more than hints about that. The other is that I'm sort of planning to give him the French language as his first echo, triggered by somebody calling him R. He wouldn't know what to do with it other than ace high school French, but is it still okay?

Korra is from Legend of Korra. For those of you who have no idea what LoK and its prequel series Avatar: the Last Airbender are about, she's the Avatar, aka the one girl in all the world--no wait, WRONG CANON. I mean, she's the one bender in all the world who can manipulate (aka bend) all four elements: water, earth, fire and air. She is also a teenaged girl.

I have most of her reincarnated self (Kendra Eaton) hammered out already, but I'm mainly concerned about the whole Avatar thing. Okay, I'm mostly just planning on giving her a small dose of firebending at first thanks to touching the snake statue on a dare, but other than that there's a lot of "good god how is this shit going to go down".

I'm also pretty concerned about what age she'll be. I mean, playing her as a high school student is pretty tempting, but at the same time I like the idea of playing her in her twenties, midway through college, and already a fair bit more mature than she is in canon. But I already have one college student and another (if he won't drop out of college) in the works, so uh. GUYS. HELP.

Actually can probably help you a bit with the concerns about your Les Mis character. I admit, I'm not canon familiar, but I ran into a few of the same roadblocks.

See, Leonhardt here has absolutely no canon whatsoever for any of his life before a certain event that happened likely after he turned 16. Yeah, I don't even have a canon age for him. What little canon gives me tells me it is likely far from normal. I was asked why so much headcanon, but once I explained my reasoning and why I picked what I did they were cool with it. So just do that in advance. Make sure you put your headcanon in italics and explain why you have so much and if you have any basis for your choices give that as well.

Also, I don't see a huge concern for having more than one college student. Have them be studying in different fields, that's probably enough. I get the impression the school is pretty large (and people seem to be playing it like that) and I can tell you from personal experience with a large university, you aren't going to get to know students in your classes that well in the vast majority of classes, especially in the GED stuff. The classes are just too big for that. The people I knew best were the ones I did extracurricular activities with, not the people in my classes (though some of us did try to get classes together when possible). So it's easy to have two college students move in different circles as long as their overall interests vary enough. So I think you'll be fine there if you want to have Korra be a college student.

Thanks for the advice! And yeah, I'll keep that in mind while I hammer things out for both of them.

It's been a very long time since I read Les Mis. Possibly I should remedy this. (Hugo, why you got so many words? And so many of them about tangents?)

Anyway. Personally, I'd probably take Big R the dropout route. Which is kind of odd for me to say, but I prefer the idea of Echoes generally making someone better rather than worse.

I have nothing specific about Korra, but I'll note that I've had the same "how would I Echo an Avatar?" line of thought. Purely as a thought exercise, in my case, since I'd have trouble giving a voice to anyone but maybe Toph or Jinora.

>_> If you do Korra, I will be even more tempted to do Toph faslkhldfh

Maybe she can be like, a college freshman? Best of both worlds? IDK

I had the same headcanon concern when I apped Dasraa/Davin. As long as you explain your reasoning it seems like it isn't a problem.

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