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Workshop #6: September 2020
Workshop #6: September 2020—
§ instructions.
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. REMINDER: We are NOT a memloss or AU game! The only things that are being altered are the character's abilities and maybe gain a small personality quirk, but that's all.
Here are some things to keep in mind:
If you have any further questions about this or anything in general, comment to the Mod Thread. We also have a Discord to temporarily meet current members and get further help!
§ form.
If you're ready, just fill out the following form and discuss away! One character per comment.
Post away and go buzz about everyone else!
§ instructions.
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. REMINDER: We are NOT a memloss or AU game! The only things that are being altered are the character's abilities and maybe gain a small personality quirk, but that's all.
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 is closed until further notice, but anyone with an invite and current players can register at any time.
If you have any further questions about this or anything in general, comment to the Mod Thread. We also have a Discord to temporarily meet current members and get further help!
§ form.
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.
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!
Bigby Wolf | The Wolf Among Us
Character: Bigby Wolf
Canon: The Wolf Among Us; end of season 1, episode 5
Age: Several centuries old, but he physically looks like he’s in his mid to late thirties.
Bio Blurb: Wiki.
Essentially: fairy tales are real and they live among us. Hundreds of years ago, the inhabitants of a collection of magical worlds known as the Homelands were forced from their homes by a mysterious tyrant known as the Adversary, who launched a world-conquering campaign over the Homelands and laid waste to anyone who opposed him. The survivors who were lucky enough to escape took refuge in the real world, concealing their magical identities and creating a community for themselves in what would eventually become New York City. Calling themselves Fables and their town Fabletown (yeah, they aren't very creative), these former heroes, villains, monsters and talking animals have to balance the pressures of living in a world without magic while trying to keep their existence secret from the rest of the world and the Adversary.
Bigby is Fabletown's appointed sheriff in charge of making sure they can do the latter while protecting them from each other due to the former. He's also the Big Bad Wolf. In the past, Bigby was infamous throughout the Homelands for being a malicious, murderous beast that ate hundreds — possibly thousands — of Fables, harassed little girls in red hoods, and generally made life a living hell for countless people before the Adversary showed up. This changed once the Adversary began his takeover, and over the centuries, Bigby has gone from a monster to a responsible and genuinely remorseful man determined to prove that he's changed.
Unfortunately, he's also the protagonist of a Telltale game, which means that everyone hates him regardless and nothing he does seems to matter in the long run. Oops.
Personality Blurb:
The short story: Bigby has Issues™
The long story: Bigby is a good but flawed person with a myriad of personal and interpersonal issues that keep him from fully obtaining the redemption he's chasing. Being a reformed villain and a wolf, he often struggles to rein in his animal instincts, and being the sole law enforcement official in a town full of dysfunctional and desperate magical creatures hasn't really made that easy. As a result, he can come across as temperamental, jaded and distant, capable of being callous and using aggressive language and behavior out of spite just as often as necessity. There's a sense that he's hardened himself to be tough on the job, which can give the impression that he's unsympathetic and doesn't particularly care about other people's feelings.
However, every so often the cracks show and reveal a person who's far kinder than he lets on. Living as a human for centuries has taught him empathy, but it's also given him a guilt complex the size of a small mountain. Often, he struggles with feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing, both of which are implicitly the reason why he's thrown all of his will and energy towards doing his job. However, they've also led to him developing genuine compassion for others and a responsibility to do right by them. As moody as Bigby can be, he can also be understanding, thoughtful, teasing and supportive, and when he's not letting his temper get the best of him, he's an otherwise pretty professional and even easygoing guy. While his self-worth is abysmal, at the very least it hasn't given him an ego. Even though his self-control over his emotions has a bad tendency of wavering when he's frustrated, which in turn can lead to him spiraling deeper, he never really loses sight of the kind of person he wants to be and remains driven and determined to help others and do the right thing, even if he has to put himself through hell to do it.
Preferred Essence(s): The North Wind, Snow White or Cinderella
Looking For: Ideas for his abilities, his appearance while using his Essence, heck, any other kind of Essence that you think would fit him. If you know his canon, Snow White and Cinderella seem like natural fits for him because they're his besties, but so does the North Wind, who's his dad. If you haven't already figured it out, this is a really weird series.
Appearance: Like this. Bigby's actually a pretty smol guy at 5'8 who's on the leaner side of muscled. He has dark brown neck-length hair, big ol' brown Disney eyes, and perpetual five o'clock shadow.
Abilities:
I don't have a clue. Of his canon powers, I would like to see him regain his ability to transform into a wolf and all the wacky in-between forms around that, or at least get his animal senses like his superhuman sense of smell back, but everything else is up in the air. He also has a healing factor and partial immortality, but I could take it or leave it tbh.
Also, since he's canonically the son of the North Wind, he has some minor wind manipulation abilities as a wolf (basically, the huff and puff thing you read about in The Three Little Pigs) and the weirdly specific ability to indefinitely hold his breath. If I go with the North Wind for his Essence, I'd like those abilities to carry over along with giving him general wind manipulation, cold resistance, and maybe flight. As far as changes to his appearance, I'd like to give him white hair; maybe as a Quirk if I can get away with it.
For Cinderella, having a midnight clause to his powers would be neat. Maybe he can only use them before midnight and after that they enter into a cooldown period until daybreak? I also want his clothing to completely change to something elegant but practical that puts a more gender neutral spin on the Cinderella aesthetic; maybe something akin to Utena's duelist uniforms to go with the faux-magical girl vibe he’s got going on here. As far as other abilities go, I'd like him to gain some kind of glass weapon (a rapier, probably) and the ability to talk to animals.
For Snow White, definitely some kind of poison resistance and animal communication, but idk other than that. Give me whatever ideas you have.
Quirks:
For Cinderella: He has the compulsion to constantly tidy up. This is great for him because he's such a slob. It's not so great whenever he's finding himself doing it for other people. I feel like I could do more with this, so I def have to think about it.
For the North Wind and Snow White: I'm not sure yet, but again, ideas are great.
Goal: Make new friends. Throw him up against familiar settings and themes. Make him hate his life even more.
Extra: I'd throw a gif here but this is already turning into a tl;dr fest LMAO
Questions: If I think of anything, I'll let you guys know!
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It's late but perhaps a quirk for if you went with the North Wind could be an urge to be boastful, even if after he's just "Really?" at himself.
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ANYWAY that's def a good one. this dude's so repressed he'd say something and IMMEDIATELY feel awkward about it. having his dad's worst aspects would be...interesting to play with.
ALSO YOOOOOOOO shout-out to you and your character. i'm a huge alice fan, she's great and very valid, and it's always awesome to see people playing her.
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A whole new meaning to I'm Becoming My Father right there. Braggart windy man, awkward and cringing every time it happens if you do end up going with North Wind.
HELL YEAH. Finally felt up to trying my hand at playing her after enjoying the games so much for a while. I've been having fun with her! Been here for a little while and ended up giving her the Essence of Dorothy Gale. The other character I've got here is an old grump of a jaded soldier.
Re: Bigby Wolf | The Wolf Among Us
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i've actually narrowed it down to the north wind and cinderella, but thank you for the interest all the same! i love persona 4 so if i app i'm sure we'll throw these two against each other at some point. adachi needs more detectives that'll yell at him in his life.
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I'm not familiar with this character/canon, but the ideas you have sound interesting.
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i noticed that the sailor moon further down was really interested in doing snow white, so i think i'd rather let her take a crack at that essence, but thank you for the idea anyway!