forgottentales_ooc | Workshop #2: January 2019

Workshop #2: January 2019—

§ about.
Welcome to Forgotten Tales story 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 reminders about how this all works:

Although not required, participation in the Workshop is highly recommended.
Make sure to check the Character Roster and Essence List to see if your choices are not already taken.
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.
We have an accompanying Test Drive and Registration is always open.
Feel free to hop into the Discord server for help and questions.

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

§ 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: Kyio |

kyio
Character: Miyamoto Musashi
Canon: Fate/Grand Order, right after her trial quest
Age: 20
Bio Blurb: Wiki. A version of the historical Miyamoto Musashi that was born female instead of male. Her timeline no longer exists, but she was spared during it's deletion and just bounces from timeline to timeline. Dual-wielding samurai, carries four katanas. Laid-back and just Here To Have Fun, wants to try every timeline's udon and fight strong opponents while perfecting her fighting style. Has a special ability known as the Heavenly Eye, which can make certain sword strikes she makes "inevitable" if she's decided she wants to strike in a specific way. ~~only will be used in non-PC situations if it's even bothered to be kept at all, no worries~~

Preferred Essence(s): God I honestly don't know. I'm considering Gulliver from Gulliver's Travels, but I'm not quite sure how to make it work in terms of abilities. Issun-boshi from The Inch-High Samurai is another idea I've got.
Looking For: Trying to think of tales that focus on travel, magical swordplay, or maybe tales involving freakishly good luck in reference to her ~~cheating nonsense~~ eye ability. She also falls for others easily, but I'm trying to avoid a princess-y role. It's honestly been very long since I last looked at fairy tales and my scope of them is more limited than I first realized.

Appearance: Nothing super notable, but if I do go with Gulliver, then her samurai-esque outfit will be changed to an outfit more fitting for a traveler from 1700s England. For Issun-boshi, she'll keep her usual outfit but will not be 3 cm tall at all times, so no real change there.

Abilities: She'll still fight with her dual-katanas as she normally does canonically, but her Heavenly Eye ability will be removed unless an Essence with some kind of crazy good luck ability is what she ends up with. As for in-game specific things ... Gulliver didn't exactly have any sort of magical abilities, he just bumbled into crazy lands and got in trouble a lot before going home. Issun-boshi has the magic mallet, which can be used to change her height from her normal size (167 cm) to 3cm and back again, as well as create other basic objects with it, like food or small treasures she can sell for money. In the case of Issun-boshi, her Heavenly Eye ability will be removed, while for Gulliver it'll apply to situations to "send her home/to a safe place" instead of her sword strikes, which would make it easier for her to escape crazy situations her bad luck foists on her. ... But that might be a bit OP in some scenarios, so hrm.

Quirks: Maybe if it's Gulliver, she'll have bizarrely bad luck around her (getting accused of things constantly, trouble just kind of springing up around her, etc) that she always somehow gets out of anyway. For Issun, she'll have to try harder than normal to get other people's attention if she doesn't already have it, whether she's tiny or not at the time. Open to other ideas though!

Extra: Not much to say, but since Musashi is from Fate and that whole franchise can be a nightmarish spinning hellpit, I'm totally fine with clarifying anything that might need clarification. As far as Musashi herself goes, as long as she has food, booze, and strong opponents to fight, she'll be totally okay with whatever she gets thrown at. After typing everything out though, I'm leaning heavily toward Issun-boshi.

Questions: Nnnnnnot that I can think of offhand, no.

> Dual-wielding samurai, carries four katanas
> fight strong opponents while perfecting her fighting style
> booze

k let's date.

/so helpful

Edited 2019-01-06 06:58 (UTC)

i love that you edited this to add in the booze part but lmfao good lord

but hey based on that list it's obviously Meant To Be or w/e so

I DIDN'T SEE THE BOOZE UNTIL AFTER I COMMENTED i was like "man almost had the perfect trifecta." ALSO THEY BOTH HAVE AN EYE THING. ....Although his isn't really that special, but he does have a better tracking ability with it in-game thanks to essence. Daemon Eye. Heavenly Eye. Yeah? Yeah?? I COULDN'T GET THE REPLOID TIME TO ROMANCE SOMEONE—

lol I'm just kidding but I would be interested in seeing their CR o3o AS FOR STORIES... I also am kind of blanking (LWP is usually good with coming up with these things), but hmmm. Could consider any of the knights from the Arthurian legends. But her as a tiny samurai would be kind of hilarious.

Edited 2019-01-06 21:49 (UTC)

AND FAMILY ISSUES RELATED TO SKILL TOO but rip musashi 'cause she'll never get to resolve that on her end whoops. These two are gonna need to make a venn diagram after a while depending on how much babbling they do at each other--- ~~and hey man, I keep all things on the table until I see how interactions go~~

But yeah, CR between these two sure would be something with how "lol w/e" they both are. The idea of knights from Arthurian legends is hilarious to me because lol Fate but that is something I didn't consider so I'll take a look and see. If not, tiny samurai girl time.

Good lord is she hell bent on revenge, too because they seriously should make a chart. They even have journals to help make a list and scratch through things lmao. ~~so do i but my table is bigger than King Arthur's.~~

—Guess we'll be sparring partners in this game, too, huh... lmao. AND I MAY HAVE THOUGHT OF ARTHURIAN LEGENDS BECAUSE LOL FATE but you can't go wrong with tiny samurai girl. I'm kind of partial to it because lol tiny. She's still trying to figure out how it works, at first it happens at random, OH NO A BIRD IS TRYING TO EAT HER.

Also I just noticed you chose a giant essence and a tiny essence.

More or less, she's not as bad about it as Rokurou (since her world's gone so she can't do anything about it anyway) but boy is she not her dad's biggest fan. Clearly listing things out is needed here. And probably a bingo card.

But YEAH she's definitely going to want to spar with him, then probably laugh off whatever the result is and go out for drinks because what better way is there to end a low stakes fight etc etc. AND YEAH HONESTLY tiny samurai girl is super tempting because she'd definitely mess with it for funsies until she gets birdnapped or dragged off by mice or something.

----and i honestly didn't even notice one being a giant essence and the other being tiny fajkl i just kind of went "WELL SHE TRAVELS TO OTHER WORLDS AND ALSO SWORDS SO THESE TWO I GUESS" whoops

I look forward to this giant list. Be all "it's like you're my genderbent version this is weird."

/deliberately sets up some kind of thing that requires little people.

LMAO you just wanted her to shift sizes admit it.

Even better, she'd find it hilarious because she knows she's the genderbent version of the real Musashi lmao.

also wow i feel targeted how dare

sob I REALLY DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE LIKE it was 1am and these were the only things i could come up with

#stopbullyingkyio2019

They're all Musashi. THAT'S THE REAL SECRET.

when are you never not targeted i mean

#bullykyio4ever

good to know i already spoiled the plot before i even hit the tdm

but wow. WOW.

(Popcorns this.)

And good gravy, give Musashi black hair and this would be a straight up Rule 63 instead of just a crack ship.

Workshop #2: January 2019

Miyamoto Musashi | Fate/Grand Order

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