PRE-APPLICATION DISCUSSION POST!

[capitalm]

Hey guys! I had some requests for a discussion post where people can shoot the shit about potential backstory and power ideas, so here it is!

For best results, make sure to check out the FAQ and other setting information for inspiration, such as superhero registration and power levels, as well as taking at peek at the game wiki to see what's already been started!

POST RULES:

Feel free to discuss any facet of the setting you like, and how they relate to your character ideas!

Please keep in mind though, that nothing can be set in stone until the related apps are accepted. Try to not rely completely on everything on this board being apped successfully.

If you would like to know whether something sounds good to the mods, just flag us down by giving a shout in the subject line or by pinging us on plurk! We'll hit you up as soon as we can.

Have fun!

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tarvek needs friends

[prettiestfroginthispond]

I have a post here: http://prettiestfroginthispond.dreamwidth.org/398.html with my app.

I'm also confused about writing samples, but hopefully my first one is okay.

I have a comment for folks upthread playing robots/cyborgs/ai/etc. in favor of their liberation and the acknowledgement of their sentience. I am (for once in my rp career) not playing a revolutionary in the marginalized class. Rather, I am playing a member of the oppressor class having conflicted feelings about the ways he has been complicit in injustice. Also, he's brilliant at repairs. I invite you to bother Tarvek.

Proper Nouns/Potential NPC’s summed up from backstory: These can be merged with existing entities or otherwise reorganized. I am not averse to linking the Other to the Condesce, for example, or ret-conning Sturmhalten into a corporation rather than a country. I am listing the ones I most badly want to be warped/tied into other people’s stories first, and I will retcon out the canon entities in favor of the Capital H-verse ones.

Agatha - a superhero who was captured in Sturmhalten while travelling with Zeetha, ideally someone registered / friendly to CONDOR, also someone who saved Tarvek's life when everything went pear-shaped in Sturmhalten, possibly possessed, definitely someone Tarvek has a crush on
Zeetha - a superhero who was travelling with Agatha, someone who helped when everything went badly in Sturmhalten
Gil - a nerdy childhood friend, someone else Tarvek has a crush on
the Other - some sort of horrible otherworldly entity that possesses people

Re: tarvek needs friends

[halfa_hero]

One of the other characters I'm thinking of playing, aside from this dork, is Atomic Robo, from the comic of the same name. One of the important parts of his backstory is that, from a legal standpoint, he's considered to be both human and a natural-born US Citizen.

So, possible shenanigans there if I get around to putting him in.