PRE-APPLICATION DISCUSSION POST!

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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!

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dirk strider | homestuck -- mod questions :O

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ok in canon dirk programmed a sentient AI (referred to as AR) whom i would very much like to involve in his story here. so my questions are:

1. if dirk keeps AR a secret (and AR WOULD want to remain relatively secret) he can avoid being subjected to any governmental regulations, correct?
2. dirk also has two other sentient robots, though their inclusion in this AU isn't as essential. but unlike AR (who resides in dirk's computerized sunglasses) they have physical robot bodies, and one of them likes to travel, so there's not much chance they'd be kept secret. what exactly would happen to them?
3. as i said, i really want to do things with AR, and i COULD just app him myself separately, but it'd be way easier and more intuitive for me to play him as an extension of dirk's character (which is pretty much his canon role, both textually and metatextually, as he is presented to us as a person not entirely separate from dirk), if that's allowed. so basically i'm wondering if i could play him the way some other character might play an animal companion or whatever. technically not the character they apped, but still under their control. of course, if anyone did want to app him in the future, i'd let him go. there's not much potential for backstory conflict here, as it would be very very difficult to write AR as separate from dirk and i don't think anyone would try, so they'd have to mold their backstory to mine regardless of what i do - unless dirk only invents AR when someone starts playing him, which i'd like to avoid in case it never happens. but if the answer to all this is "no" then like i said i could app AR separately, although i'd like to keep that as a last resort.
4. completely non-robot related: can i give dirk a few powers that he won't have at the start of the game, but gains later?

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and now that that's over with: i am DETERMINED to play AR one way or another after seeing all the robots/AIs in this setting (GLADOS!!!) so hi everyone i hope we can cause lots of cyber mayhem together :)

on top of that, i want to see if there's anyone planning on apping roxy lalonde? if so i'd like to discuss backstory options with them! i'm also up for planning things with jane or dave, but there's some stuff i want to do with roxy specifically and it would be great if i had someone to work out details with.

Re: dirk strider | homestuck -- mod questions :O

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Hi! (PUTS ON MOD HAT)

1. Yep! in fact –
2. if they're just hanging around and doing their own thing there probably wouldn't be much to-do about their relative sentience because he isn't, like, a corporation building them for a specific purpose which would probably be ethically dubious, and also because he's from the future
3. That is also totally OK. We'd want to list AR as a character separate from Dirk on the wiki and stuff, but there's no reason to submit separate apps since, obviously, their backstories are heavily intertwined and they are in many ways the same person. Just make sure to cover AR in your personality and powers sections.
4. As long as they are related to his existing powerset and/or there's an in game reason for him acquiring them – you'd also have to tell us about it when you wanted to do that, to make sure! This is one we probably ought to have put on the FAQ actually, whoops, I will amend that!

lookin forward to all these robot shenanigans!

Re: dirk strider | homestuck -- mod questions :O

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awesome! robots all around :D i had already gone off on a tangent about AR in dirk's personality section so i'm good there haha

i was thinking of incorporating some of my headcanon god tier powers for him, but i'm not totally sure about there being an actual reason for acquiring them and i don't really want to have them at the start of the game. so i'll probably pass them up. thanks anyways!