Since someone else did it before me I hope this is okay?

[technomaturgist]

Hi! I'm Noka, and I'm definitely applying to this game but I sort of want to figure out where my guy would best be liked, haha. So I'm sort of showing up to ask if you guys'll help me decide which scenario would be better?

I'm currently working on apping in Ferrus here, an original character, as Trahern Davies. I'm kind of staring at him and trying to figure out where I want to go with him in terms of his reincarnation! I have two options, which'll lead into his echo cause a bit differently.

Gonna slide them under the cut...


He's got two options, as I said:
OPTION ONE: He could theoretically work as a teacher. He'd probably be an engineering teacher - who's jumped around jobs up until holding a steady teaching job and kind of struggles to be the best kind of teacher he can. His initial echo would be from an accident due to a student - a superficial explosion and burn would sort of... echowarp to mimic his preincarnate's scarring on his face. He's been on sick leave for a while - mainly due to the incident putting him in the hospital while the burns healed, and he'd be returning/fresh out of the hospital when he starts getting on the network. It'd probably be one of those things where something big happens on a school campus, is the talk of the week, and then slowly kind of boils off except for with those people who knew him before it happened and etc. Before all this, Trahern would probably have been pretty avid about being a good teacher - anyone who even dabbled in the engineering area (even in just the club) would probably know him. I don't have a specific school in mind here, but I'm just saying "the one people are in" right now. If you'd like to lay claim to him assuming there's separate schools (I looked about and can't quite tell), sure why not, let me know.

OPTION TWO: Trahern could work in a military/police job. He's always been suited for grunt work, so he'd probably be more of someone who's a willful overachiever instead of anyone too high up, to mimic his canon position. He probably got wounded in the face for his first echo; not quite sure how, but it'd definitely be in the line of work. Maybe explosion, maybe some criminal turned a homemade flamethrower on him - there's possibilities there I'll pick if this option's preferred. Like option one, it'd be on the news one day and then off it the next, and he'd spend a month or so in the hospital. And yeah. I'm pretty sure there's still only one cop (lookin at you Kotetsu) but he could be military as well, and that'd add more plausibility to his wound.

But yeah. I kind of wanted an opinion from you guys before I picked, because from what I've seen you all are super awesome about helping out newbies with potential CR. It's super great to meet all of you, and I can be caught at rinonoka or on AIM at supnamesnoka.

Thank you for the help! :D

Comments

[formermagicalgirl]

I don't really have an opinion since both could be neat in their own way, but since I saw the echo was causing you some trouble, don't forget that he can regain the scarring itself. I know at least two characters have regained scars. So if you go with option two, he doesn't have to be outright wounded, the scar could be the echo (or the scar and the memory of getting it).

[technomaturgist]

Fair! What I'm thinking with it is trying to figure out his options, too, and who all likes what option. And where he has potential CR for what option. Bbbecause I've done a thing where I put myself in a position I couldn't nab good past CR in a game like this before, so.

And re:scarring, that was kind of what I was thinking! The wound method and the scar don't have to match up. Trahern would be getting the memory and the scar; Ferrus got dealt his in a severe explosion from fiddling with arms-grade equipment. It's not likely Trahern could have that done to him in an engineering class on such a broad scale.

[formermagicalgirl]

I think you'd have a potential for CR either way. There's such a broad range of characters out there that it's very unlikely to not have met anyone. Teacher is likely to get more with all the students and other teachers around. There's characters at about every level of school in the public system and a lot in college as well. Plus there's always the potential for past classmates, meeting people at random, etc. It's really impossible to have lived in Locke City for a time and not run into someone unless a character is a complete hermit.

[technomaturgist]

One of those situations where you can't shift an elbow without possibly finding a new connection, huh?

To be fair, the last character I made was a hermit, and this guy's preincarnate is predisposed to be one. Still, that's true! It's all about how I play Trahern and find people to have preexisting CR with him, in the end. My only thing is that plus worrying about CR, I honestly couldn't pick. Both are interesting and fit with his preincarnate, both have a potential CR area - what I'm kind of wanting to find out is where he'd be preferred to go, like I said. It's not just worrying about CR, though - I'm interested in hearing what people would prefer. It's still my character and my decision in the end, I just kind of wanted a group opinion on it.

[fatherssins]

Yo! :D I'm Helen, local Alucard (from Castlevania) rper and general geek child.

I think both options sound cool, but if I had to pick one then I'd go with two. It's a gut feeling!

Hope to see you here soon!

[technomaturgist]

Heya, Helen!

I've got everything finished for both options, so it's mainly me waiting for either going with the mass consensus (which is tied right now, haha) or just doing what I want. I'm just waiting on a commission to finish so I have unmasked icons, too. |D

In other words, once I have the commission, I'll be hopping in immediately. :D I'll definitely see you soon!