forgottentales_ooc | Workshop #5: April 2020

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Workshop #5: April 2020

Workshop #5: April 2020—

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Welcome to Forgotten Tales storybook character essence workshop! Here players can come together and discuss what storybook characters they are considering for their character's essence, their new potential abilities, and even ask for help if you can't think of anything on your own.

Here are some things to keep in mind:

Workshop participation is required for Registration as this basically takes the place of the traditional application form, as well as posting to the Test Drive. You don't have to post together at the same time (you can do one first and then the other), but they are needed eventually.
Participation in the Workshop does not guarantee a spot on either Claims or Registration, but you will need it to keep a Claim so there's no harm in trying early. Feel free to look over previous Workshops.
Make sure to check the Character Roster and Essence List to see if your choices are not already taken.
The character and essence don't necessarily have to perfectly match, and all characters will inherit characteristics and themes from that particular storybook character. You are free to be creative and take elements from related works and variations (like Disney), but try to keep it central to the original version. Refer to the Character section of the Game Info as a refresher on how essences and their abilities work.
Storybook characters can be from any work of literary fiction such as fairy tales, folklore, fables, nursery rhymes, classics, plays, mythos, legends, etc. They can be well-known or obscure, and origins must pre-date the 1950s.
Because the game currently doesn't allow duplicate essences, list your top preference and any others you're considering, but also be open for other suggestions. And if you see someone else list one you are considering, list it, anyway! Anyone could change their mind. Just don't be salty or badger anyone about their choice, otherwise it's an automatic boot out the door. The goal is to try to not only match the best essence to the character, but also one that people can have fun with.
Although you can only register one character, you can workshop multiple in case you are having difficulties in deciding who to pick.
Public Registration will open May 3, but anyone with an invite and current players can register at any time. Claims will open April 26.

If you have any further questions about this or anything in general, comment to the Mod Thread.

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If you're ready, just fill out the following form and discuss away! One character per comment.

Player: Player ID w/ contact
Character: Character looking to bring in
Canon: (and canon point)
Age: (of the character)
Bio Blurb: Instead of a full written history, please link a wiki page AND provide a 1-2 paragraph summary of the character's backstory. If no wiki page is available, that's okay; you're free to link a write-up if you have one or feel like making one. The summary is more of an "at a glance" to help those not familiar to get a basic idea of who the character is and what they were doing in their canon. If it helps, pretend you're writing a blurb for a CR Meme. What key important things about your character's history would you want to point out to others?

Personality Blurb: You are free to link to anything pre-written such as an app for another game, but for our purposes you must include a 1-2 paragraph blurb highlighting the main elements of the character's personality. If it helps, pick out up to 5 vices and 5 virtues that you'd associate with them and just toss in a few sentences about it. Again, you can pretend you're writing a blurb for a CR Meme.

Preferred Essence(s): Have one or a couple already in mind? List them here! Include reasons why you are thinking about that particular essence and how you would work it with the character.
Looking For: Open to other ideas? What kind of storybook character would you be interested in? Things you're not interested in should also be mentioned.

Appearance: Any notable features both for the character in general and any appearance or style changes you may be considering to match their essence.

Abilities: Whether you have an essence in mind or not, talk about what kind of abilities you're hoping to recreate or gain while in game. Any weapons that are going to be regained or explored? What abilities or weapons are lost? Skills?

Quirks: Are you interested in gaining any quirks of the storybook character? Or do you already have one already in mind? Need suggestions from your list? A reminder that the current limit is one.

Goal: What do you hope to do while in game? This could range from just having fun with the setting to exploring new aspects of the character because of the setting.
Extra: Anything else you'd like to ask or talk about. Can be about the essences or just general ideas of what you'd like to hopefully play out.
Questions: Any other questions you might have.

Post away and go buzz about everyone else!

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Player: AL |

sasageyo
Character: Kou Ichijo
Canon: Persona 4 / After Rank 7 of his side of the Social Link
Age: 16
Bio Blurb: (Wiki) Captain of the Basketball team the Protagonist goes to, Kou is a very cheerful guy who is devoted to his sports. He's best friends with the captain of the Soccer Team, Daisuke and they quickly befriend the Protagonist who joins the Basketball team. Kou, however, suffers from some family drama both Daisuke and the protag try to help him process. He's the (adopted) son of a very wealthy family, adopted to originally to inherit the Ichijo name. Despite not being the actual heir to the family anymore (his younger sister was born after he was adopted) he feels conflicted at being 'happy' about the freedom he held in his hands. He has just recently decided to find out what he can about his actual parents.

Personality Blurb: Carefree and happy, the kind of guy who will try to lighten the mood around him with jokes. He's social and many seem to be drawn to him. He, however, has his more serious sides, but he tends to bottle them up as well as he can and would rather not show everyone when he's feeling down. He hates losing and gets easily flustered when the topic of crushes and such get into play.

Preferred Essence(s): Cinderella
Looking For: Mostly help with finalizing his skills and stuff. Also open for any other Cinderella-like essences.

Appearance: His essence doesn't really change the way he looks like all that much, except he does have a more ~charming~ and ~beautiful~ atmosphere about him for some reason he's not even sure about.

Abilities: Kou is a man of no actual supernatural abilities, but he's pretty good at basketball.

As Cinderella he owns a pair of glass/golden slippers that only fit him, and whenever he puts the shoes on his outfit turns into a sparkling dress and he acquires the ability to turn whatever is suitable around him into a carriage (like a pumpkin). He can maintain this appearance until the next stroke of midnight or until he takes the shoes off.

Later on he will gain the ability to actually control what kind of an outfit he gets from the shoes - but it will always be a dress.

In addition he's able to talk with different animals - mostly birds and mice and he has a beautiful singing voice that he used to not have.

Quirks: He spends a lot of time dreaming away about things that could be - and sings variations of how his dreams might come true one day when he gets too into dreaming.

Goal: Mostly to have fun playing him and see what kind of shenanigans he gets into outside his own world. Also to embarrass him.
Extra: tl;dr He's a sport idiot but a good sports idiot.
Questions: nah

Edited 2020-05-28 21:48 (UTC)

I AM ABSOLUTELY LIVING FOR THIS, JUST SO YOU KNOW.

For some ideas, he could gain the ability to cook and clean well, considering Cinderella was forced to do them all.

Also when he transform back at the stroke of midnight, he always finds himself covered in cinders and soot.

Junpei's gonna be keen to meet another sports fan, even if it's one he's not super into! And Dojima...

Dojima's just gonna be confused... Kou why are you here.

Don't worry Dojima, he's as confused as you are.

Oh, that's a good one. Cinder and soot and very good at house chores. His house probably smaller than it was in some adaptations, but his room still looks like he sleeps in an attic or a basement....

Ooooh these look really nice! (Also, you know the ability to talk to animals is already cracking me up.)

Anyway, we had a Marinette interested in apping about a year ago, and back then we workshopped a bit of a superhero theme, with a few different power sets since in a few of the original versions Cinderella actually goes out to three different balls. So here are some options for you to pick and choose from for Kou's ability, either now or further down the line for campaign rewards.

Oh yeah, those sound awesome. It might be fun to have him gain more abilities with different shoes and such later on.

Player: Ami |

MechaPony
Character: Rei Ryugazaki
Canon: Free!, end of S2
Age: 16
Bio Blurb: (Fandom wikis are all incomplete, so here's summaries.)

A newly-established high school swim team comprised of old elementary school pals needs a fourth member to truly begin. They take on a reluctant Rei, who is on the track team, merely because he has a feminine name like the other members. When it's discovered he can't swim, he is brushed up on newfound swimming skills and put to the test in upcoming tournaments, where Rei discovers that logic, calculations and beauty aren't the end-all be-all but the connections you make with others and the impact you in turn make. He learns this through the team, and puts it to practice by helping them to reconnect with an estranged member, Rin, who despite his cold demeanor and confrontational behavior simply wanted to swim with his friends again. Though it cost the Iwatobi Swim Club the tournament via disqualification, because Rin swam for a rival school and technically wasn't allowed to participate in another school's relay, the friendship that was rekindled was worth so much more than a championship.

With the team reconnected, each respective member turns their attention to their respective dreams and more importantly their futures: As they each graduate and move on to adulthood, will they stay connected? How hard will they fight for their futures and that of the swim club itself, bearing only four members? There's some promise as Rei sneaks off to improve, take some lessons on other swimming styles from Rin himself for starters.

Personality Blurb: It's said that many girls have the same opinion of Rei: He looks cool and he acts cool... but then he opens his mouth. When he isn't happy to express his knowledge of a topic in an attempt to be impressive to others, he's crunching numbers and calculations in his head and under his breath to fully grasp, well, everything. The right way to pole vault? There's math for that. Swimming? Surely there's theory that he could absorb and he would simply master it. The problem is that he's too "left-brained" in a lifestyle that's more on the "right". When he inevitably fails in a task despite the math being right, he's puzzled as to why and openly voices his frustation. He can never mask his emotions; he's like an open book. He's unafraid to be joyful, afraid, angry or point out a flaw.

Over the course of the story, he learns that sometimes he needs to use his heart and shut off that brain of his; he needs to learn to be free. The moment he does, he finds that he is more successful in the grand scheme of things. Though he'll still hit the books and continue to exercise his mind, Rei is growing every day when it comes to following his heart, doing what's right. Overall he can be exasperating, but it comes from a vulnerable place. A patient ear and a kind voice will see through the eccentricity and find a young man that's still learning how to become the man he wants to be, and isn't above a moment of softness, of reaching out or comforting others.

Preferred Essence(s): "The Butterfly" from the Hans Christian Andersen tale of the same name, or Odette from "Swan Lake"

Looking For: Anything that fits him, but would challenge him in some sense, lending to helping him grow as a person. I always enjoy taking a character- especially a slice of life-based one- as far out of their element as possible.

Appearance: Tall with an athletic build, purple eyes, red glasses, blue hair. He's a looker but again, he's a walking dictionary.

With the Butterfly essence he would sport a lovely pair of functioning wings, patches of colored spots down his body (color undecided), and a handy set of antennae.

With the Odette essence, he will bear a black domino mask-shaped mark around his eyes and be adorned in a crown and princely garb, the coat tails bearing the appearance of wings with long flight feathers.

Abilities: Rei was on the track team and is presently on the swim team. He can run for miles quite comfortably and sprint with little wind-up, and he can swim effectively (so long as he sticks to butterfly stroke. Other styles, and he sinks).

With the Butterfly essence, he will lose his ability to swim. Square one, baby. But he'll gain flight and the ability to speak with plants and insects... maybe plant conjuration? I'm looking to build on the concept of a plant mage-type.

With the Odette essence he can speak to birds, and sprout wings to allow for flight? Maybe some water manipulation, or maybe something moon-based. Again, looking to workshop.

Quirks: The Butterfly essence comes with the quirk that he must delve deeply into learning all there is to know about flowers and perhaps become a green thumb. ~~He just has to try not to marry the flowers. No, seriously, read the story.~~

The Odette essence comes with a taste of Rothbart's curse: If he does not bathe in outdoor, open waters (fountains, lakes, ponds) while the moon is reflected on the water at least once every three nights, he will be turned into a (very handsome, bespectacled) talking swan.

Goal: Character growth, and feed my urges as a faerie tale ho.
Extra: He has a character song sung by his voice actor. Bless him.
Questions: honk honk honk

You know already I love both these essence choices. God, I can't decide between bespectacled honk or loving flowers too much...

Look as much as the butterfly is great--

the idea of Rei's indignant honks give me life. I'm voting Odette.

Be the fairytale ho u wanna be and lmao you're making me wanna try again with Makoto here. I put him up on the last workshop but I didn't go for it.

In any case, both work really well! Butterfly would be more fitting because Butterfly lol Also plant-mage would be cool! A bespectacled swan tho... a bespectacled water-bender swan tho!

HONKS IN EQUATIONS

I think there's a middle to be met because he'd love him some flowers yet still be a terrible honking boy. It seems Odette's the slight winner of the two, and who am I to argue when I chose both the essences?

Hmm, but I feel like things can be beefier. I don't know how far I could take the concept ability-wise and wouldn't mind feedback.

I'mma ho it up okay

What'd you pick for Makoto before, out of curiosity?

Lastly, YEAH it's tough choices and both have opportunities for comedy and growth. He wouldn't be fond of the idea of running away from a curse by drowning with someone, nor would be like being pinned and put in a case in a lonely cabin.

But in seriousness, I wouldn't mind workshopping the abilities. I really like the quirk and it seems to be pretty spot on to what folks tend to have in mind for a quirk.

Repun Kamuy was what we came up with! I actually didn’t have any initial ideas but the players helped me out. He’s an Ainu god of the sea and he is most often depicted as an orca :) It was either that or a sea dragon of some kind. I didn’t want to saddle him with anything that involved death by ocean because of his phobia.

Yeah, both have their downsides but in general, they don’t have to worry about those parts of the story at least! They get to live pretty normally aside from whatever their stories gives them physically at least!

That is fair, poor orca mom.

Yeah, if anything he'd want to change things. Tragedies have to be done right to be beautiful, but this is reality!! Water-bending swan though... hmmm... I don't wanna 100% stick him as a swan, but I will have him interacting with folks potentially AS one and wanna work in a mechanic for that. The curse is inconvenient and a way to keep Odette from being 'free', which fits a lot into the ol' swimboys story, and I wanna play with that aspect rather than let him freely go bird.

Yeah, I understand that. Having read the Butterfly story, I do think Odette would actually be more fitting, imo. You could always modify the curse so that it’s once a month rather than every three days. The transformation itself could also be temporary rather than permanent or maybe work in a solution so he doesn’t have to be 100% swan! I have to reread the story again but you can take things from the movie as well, it doesn’t strictly have to come from the OG story.

We got a Rapunzel with Bayonetta hair because of Tangled so hahah

Rapunzenetta sounds badass.

My idea wasn't permanent, actually! But now that I think about it, bathing to keep swan-ness away and bathing to cure swan-ness would be kind of redundant. So the monthly idea sounds pretty good, maybe based on the moon phases since he has to dabble in moon-touched water (totally an idea grabbed by Swan Princess) but perhaps he can be drawn by those bodies of water, too... so he gets bits of Haru in there too.

Must strip. Must be in water. At least he doesn't crave mackerel.

Do I need to app Makoto to stop him from diving into bird baths....

But yeah, I didn’t think it’d be permanent but every three days is a lot too haha. Of course a lot of it could be handwaved in the background so it’s not really that intrusive. But having it tied to moon phases would be pretty neat! Maybe depending in which phase is also how much swanness he gets lol instead of going full swan he goes halfway and gets wings or something.

BUT THE BIRD BATH WAS MADE FOR ME! HAAAAH HA HA HA HA splash, angry birds scatter

Ooh, I like that idea. And later on it can sort of... develop? Like he can call wings by his own will and stuff. And then we get...!! A fail-flight montage! So much flapping and he's sinking back to earth.

Minato has experience with wings!! He can help Rei learn to fly!! He used to be Thanatos but I changed him to Fox from the Little Prince but he learned to fly so if Rei needs help, I can toss a purse owner at him :3

Yeeee, sure! I'll ponder the moon phase stuff some more, but for now I'll pin it with full moon stuff only.

I'll make this geek a wereswan.

You know, when I had Kokichi here as Lampwick I did give him the power to transform back and forth between donkey and human at will... But with a cooldown time between transformations that lasted an hour.

In case you wanted to do something similar for Rei's Odette.

Wereswan yaaasss!!

That's something else I can consider! Thank you so much. I think I'll have him slowly come to master it a bit and strengthen the essence and then he can start doing stuff at will rather than having it be at Rothbart's mercy.

And now, oh no, I think I need to make some swan icons. I could photoshop glasses on a swan but I want a posing swan

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