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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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So...I've never really done this AU thing before, but I was thinking Tony here from Toward the Terra might be really interesting in a setting like this!

In a nutshell, his canon is focused around a society that exists in colonized worlds and space stations after having to abandon Earth due to pollution and war making it unlivable. They've installed a computer-run system that keeps them firmly in check so they can't do more damage while they wait for Earth (Terra) to be terraformed so they can return. A group of people called the Mu with genetic mutations that cause them to be varying levels of telepathic/telekinetic/etc. but with weaker yet long-lived bodies start to be born and are hunted down and systematically destroyed by the people controlled by the computer system. The series plot involves the struggle of the Mu to survive and find their way home to Terra, which they desperately long for.

Tony is one of the few naturally-born children in existence, and an extremely powerful Mu, and is essentially a child who went through self-imposed accelerated growth/maturation by necessity. He's a soldier who does terrible things for the good of the Mu despite being considered a monster for it, and while he has no personal concern regarding Terra either way, he wants to find it because his people, who he loves, all want to find it. Throughout his life, he's lost multiple people he loves, including both parents, and is extremely attached to Jomy, leader of the Mu and whom he calls "grandpa" due to his powerful bond with Tony's mother when she was a child.

I was thinking of making his AU history be that of a child orphaned when he was quite young, raised by a grandfather on a sort of hippie co-op commune just outside the city. It would be a relatively peaceful place that is full of well-meaning but emotionally high-strung people convinced they're being oppressed by the outside world for their simple, peaceful way of life. They'd do farming and stuff, and I imagine Tony would be the slightly rebellious angry kid who gets sent into town for supplies a lot and doesn't know if he wants to leave the commune or stay, because he dislikes outsiders and loves his grandfather, but at the same time is having a nasty generational clash with the older people in the commune.

I'm mostly just torn on whether this is plausible, or if I should change it around to something more different from his canon upbringing...he'll have a lot of powers and other memories of a completely different world to have for Echoes, but I'm not sure if the lack of major personality changes (besides his bloodlust) would be boring to people I'm playing with or not!

Any feedback is much appreciated, I kind of came up with this over the course of today and am not sure whether it's preposterous or not!

Edited 2013-05-12 06:08 (UTC)

Possibly if the commune idea doesn't quite work (since putting on in a city can be hard) is have it that his mother is a major hippy who truly believes that she was an indigo child and is trying to raise her child to be as psychic as he can be, only she has it all wrong, so when Tony does get his abilities back, finding out that his mother is a fake can trigger all sorts of anger/canon parallels. (Bonus points if his dad looks like Keith ;) )

And for contrast, his grandfather can be the only sane man in his life who lives in reality so there can still be that very strong attachment.

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