forgottentales_ooc | Workshop #1: October 2018

Workshop #1: October 2018—

§ about.
Greetings, everyone! This is Forgotten Tales first ever 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. This is also doubling as an official interest check, so don't be shy!

Here are some reminders about how essences work in-game:

All characters will inherit characteristics and themes from a particular storybook character.
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.
The essence doesn't necessarily have to match the character, just make sure you pick one that you can work with.
Refer to the Abilities section to see how abilities work.
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.
For a complete refresher, refer to the Character section of the Game Info.
Feel free to hop into the Discord server.

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

TDM will be up October 12th. Registration opens October 19th.
Game starts October 21st.

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

Player:
Character:
Canon: (and canon point)
Age: (of the character)
Bio Blurb: Just a quick blurb about the character so everyone can get a basic idea. Feel free to link a wiki and mention canon abilities in here.

Preferred Essence(s): Have one already in mind? List it here!
Looking For: 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 for 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?

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?

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Player: Callie
Character: Lacie Baskerville
Canon: Pandora Hearts, some while after being adopted by the Baskervilles
Age: Like. 8, or something. Smol.
Bio Blurb: In PH canon, every generation or so a Child of Misfortune is born -- that is to say, a child with red eyes. On the surface this individual is just an oddity who is said to bring bad luck, and is thus often subjected to things like stones thrown in the marketplace or getting kidnapped and sold to aristocrats. The truth of the matter is that the Child of Misfortune has the ability to move in and out of the Abyss as they please and even reach down to the Core of it, where they could conceivably warp reality as they like, something which only Glen Baskerville -- the guardian of the Abyss -- is permitted to do.

After she and her brother are taken in at Baskerville, Lacie, at a young and tender age, is informed that someday her brother will become the next Glen, and at that time she will be chucked into the Abyss as a sacrifice and erased from the world entirely. This is because her power is dangerous. Rules are rules! However, the current Glen is bored and an asshole and offers her a chance to help him shake things up on her way out. In a way that I'm not going to describe here because it's a massive icky content warning and quite frankly I don't feel like having her bring it up in game anyway. Suffice it to say that Lacie is going to die when she grows up and she knows and has accepted this even as a child.

So, one would think she'd become bitter and cynical and all that, aware that her life is so easily thrown away by others. Nope. The young woman Lacie grows up to be will be capricious and gleefully violent when provoked, yes, unflinching from the harsh realities of the world and switching from cheerful and friendly to whacking people with scissors in seconds flat. But despite that, she loves the world dearly, makes friends with the Core of the Abyss itself despite being frequently told to quit freaking going there, talks to whoever she pleases without hesitation, and so on. Her acknowledgement of the cruelty in the world, and its cruelty towards herself, only deepens her love for it, and as an adult she'll go to her death believing she's changing the system for the better. Any world that seems in need of help would earn her attention, too.

Preferred Essence(s): Baba Yaga. No, look, hear me out --
Looking For: I want something that fits both extremes of Lacie's nature and a witch like Baba Yaga fits the bill. If you get tossed into her house and she tells you to do the chores while she's out and you are a kind person who makes friends with the local mice and they help you and you get it all done, she'll give you riches and food. If you march into her house and she tells you to do the chores and you go EW ICK CHORES FUCK OFF, she'll eat you and then send your bones home to your mom in a basket.

Appearance: You'd think that a kid who gets into things as unrepentantly as Lacie does would scream about trousers, but no, she loves her giant ruffle dresses, thanks. Probably she'd be entertained about giant ruffle dresses with skulls on them, especially if they freaked out all the adults.

Abilities: Again, Lacie is a reactive character. If you are friendly to her, you will become Her Person. If you try to hurt her or someone she loves, she might just. Straight up kill you. I like the idea of her developing some sort of magic in game that works that way, only when provoked by other characters. Those who prove themselves good and helpful, she'll find some way to help. Those who are jackasses, well. Not sure exactly how to go about this without making her overpowered. Perhaps it should manifest as some sort of guardian, to mirror her Chain in canon and Baba Yaga's various helpers.

Quirks: I'm going to give her iron shark teeth because that shit is hilarious.

Extra: One of the first things I did when I picked this character up years ago was have her scold Glen Baskerville for literally rotting away and tell him in absolute seriouness that if his toes started falling off she wasn't going to be the one to pick up after him, so that's what we're dealing with here.

Questions: Why do I have no impulse control.

Edited 2018-10-06 04:54 (UTC)

Oooh Baba Yaga! Hm, Hecate might be another good fit for her too, unless you think it's too on the nose. Goddess of witchcraft, psychopomp so she travels freely to and from a place of death, fearsome but actually kind, especially to anyone cursed with transformation. That last bit could be especially helpful for connecting any baleful polymorphs like the Beast or the Frog Prince.

The long answer here is that I feel like myths and fairy tales have a different atmosphere about them and the fairy tale side of things suit Lacie best at this age. A grown Lacie who had had some time away from her canon to accept that she had a chance to live after all might eventually become a goddess figure, but this version is a child, and part of her arc would be reclaiming the idea that when she doesn't have a connection to the Abyss she can be anything she wants. She has a lot to learn, and Baba Yaga stories are very much teaching tales.

The short answer is that as a practicing witch I am really not keen on tossing that particular name around in casual online funtimes.

Ah, both answers fair, sorry.

I am imagining this child with iron shark teeth and I am terrified.

She is a delightful butterball if no one gives her a reason to make with the shanky-shanky! 8D

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Lacie Baskerville | Pandora Hearts

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