♢ POTENTIAL APP DISCUSSION

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POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

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While the worldbuilding post is an excellent place to try and figure out City history CR, this page is more to help you to decide who you should apply for in the first place. Give us a good idea of what kind of character you're thinking of and let others comment in on how they might see it working! Think of it as a thought experiment for yourself and other players. As a reminder, this is completely optional. You are totally free to reserve or apply someone without commenting to this post first. ♢ Reception to your idea will have no effect on how the mods process your app. This is only a tool to help you decide who to put the effort into. ♢ Don't spam or flame any potential character comments. While just going "OMG YES!!" can be encouraging, it doesn't really give anyone a whole lot to work with, and neither does shooting someone down. Be constructive. ♢ Give your honest opinion. If you think a character really wouldn't fit in the setting, express your concerns. Maybe the potential applicant didn't think of it from a certain point of view. Paired with the above, please don't just go "I don't think this will work". Provide some reasoning! ♢ Don't take anything personal. Anyone who comments back to you on this post is only trying to help — even if it isn't outright encouragement. <b>Your name</b>: <b>Character name</b>: <b>Fandom</b>: <b>City life</b>: What do you think would suit them? <b>Powers</b>: How can you see converting their abilities to the setting? (Will a powerless character gain something?) <b>Do you think they'll be active?</b> <b>Do you think they'll participate in plot?</b> <b>Why this character interests you here</b>: <b>Potential concerns</b>:

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Your name: Jay

Character name: Jane Crocker

Fandom: Homestuck
City life: I imagine she would have worked in a bakery of some sort? Making cakes and the like.
Powers: Jane has no innate powers, but I'd love for her to gain some small abilities that might be useful to detective work: the ability to recognize lies, for instance, or to "find" objects.
Do you think they'll be active? Oh yes. Jane's a bright, social person, probably too much for her own good.
Do you think they'll participate in plot? For sure! I think that Jane will be very interested in figuring out what's going on.
Why this character interests you here: Jane's been told for some time now that her life is a lie and that she's been mindcontrolled by the batterwitch and I think it would be really interesting for her to wake up in a setting and be confronted with the the fact that hey, maybe they were right. She is also optimistic, plucky, and dreams of being a detective: three traits that I think would make for a super-interesting combination in a setting like this.
Potential concerns: First and foremost being, I'm not sure if Jane would be allowed? I know that some games want people to hold off applying for the Alpha kids until they've been in-comic for longer. Secondly, she's pretty young (16)! I'm not sure how much difference this would make, but the setting seems like one that would be more accommodating to older characters.

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Character name: Aang

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
City life: I'm not sure, to be honest. Aang is too young to hold a real job, but I can imagine him as helping out/participating in/being a disciple in some sort of church or temple?
Powers: Aang already has a good deal of canonical power. I imagine it would be very useful, for a lot of reasons?
Do you think they'll be active? Yup! Like Jane, he's a cheerful, social fellow.
Do you think they'll participate in plot? Yeah.
Why this character interests you here: Aang is, well, a very context-driven character: he's the avatar, he has a mission to accomplish, and I'm interested in how he would react when he's yanked out and placed in an entirely different context, especially grappling with the fact that being the Avatar itself might be a lie.
Potential concerns: He's even younger! Which, again, I'm not sure if it's a real thing to worry about or not. I can't think of anything else at the moment, really.

(alternately, I could play a number of other characters from either of these canons, these are just the first two that come to mind, and i'm not particularly committed to either. i'm also wracking my brain for other potential character ideas, so hm. i might try this again in the future.)

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Unfortunately, we would have to ask that you do not apply for Jane right now for the reason you mentioned. We don't feel there is enough canon about the Alpha kids yet to really make a judgment call on what they are like, and what their actual history is.

Aside from that, however, age is not an issue for characters! We have a few "under 18s" who are generally sent to study in the Library when they're in the Cave, but there is an option of them being given some sort of part-time job if they had one back in the City.

As for Aang, his bending would fit in well as a power to regain in the game with minimal tweaking necessary. Mostly we would be concerned about how much power he would have with those abilities. Otherwise, he sounds like quite an interesting choice!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's reasonable re: Jane. Perhaps in the future, after we do have enough background/pagetime with her, I might consider trying to app her... or not, who knows.

And yeah, Aang does have quite a lot of power, and I'm totally cool with scaling it down. I'm also thinking of apping him from a canon point where he has imperfect control of some of the elements, so there's that too! I'll sit on him for a couple days and see if I come up with any other ideas, but good to know you think he'd be welcome! :]