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Workshop #3: May 2019
Workshop #3: May 2019—
§ 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.
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.
§ 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.
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.
- Registration will open May 25. Claims will open May 18.
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: 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!
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Hm... so when you say "heroic and cunning," there are plenty of protagonists in fairy tales and myths that would fit her. (Seriously, I don't know why "damsel in distress" is such a common idea when it's not nearly as prominent in tales as you might think.) Just looking over her relationships, there a few that come to mind: Snow White for the connection to apples, similarly Hera or Eris or Heracles (for his quest to get the Golden Apples) if you want that mostly good, fruit-connected character but with dark sides she'd need to control.
Her connections to her father and to Edgar intrigue me, though, and there are actually a few Beauty and the Beast-like stories that also feature a quest to save their husband: there's a really good list here, but the Singing, Springing Lark in particular might fit Rosella especially well. Not only does she have to quest to follow her husband, she gets to whack a dragon and espionage her way into a palace to save him after he's been kidnapped.
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Her relationship with Edgar is only very vaguely Beauty and the Beast, because she's pretty much distracted from the whole idea of romance, until the very end of KQ4, where he's suddenly hot, and she considers it for a minute, before turning him down. It has elements, but Rosella is more on a mission to save lives, than there to fall in love. She actually doesn't even think about Edgar for years later... When he kidnaps her again.
So while I see it, I don't think she's quite close enough to give her that story.
I do like the Singing, Springing Lark. It's basically another version of The True Bride, which is a favorite story of mine.
The Brave Little Tailor is on the table, because there's a lot of out-witting and puzzle solving, rather than direct fighting.
Actually, thinking about it, Perseus might be a really good fit?? Rosella actually does have to deal with the Greae in the exact same manner as the myth.
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As for quirks... this is a hard one hard since Perseus is one of the handful of Greek heroes that DON'T have a flaw of some kind, not even by our standards.
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What if Atalanta? A defiant streak, and competing on the same level (and above) as other male heroes. Uninterested in getting married because there's more in live than getting married. Magic fruit comes into her story. Also Atalanta is an archer, rather than a swordsman, and Rosella mostly uses a bow.
Quirks maybe still recklessness, since Atalanta joined a boar hunt to prove her prowess, and also issued a challenge of a foot race for anyone that wanted to marry her. Also she gets distracted by the the shiny apples. Maybe also becoming competitive.
Abilities: Very fast runner, excellent archer. Maybe eventually can turn into a lion? that happens in the myth.
A lot of men do foolish things and die for her sake because she's very attractive (and unavailable tbh), but idk how well that would work to play with as a quirk or power.
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As for quirks... yeah, that one might not work out so well. Maybe wanting to spend more time outdoors and making her manners a bit rougher, just a bit less civilized overall? She did spend most of her life being raised by a she-bear and then by rural hunters. You could also make her more of an animal lover, if she wasn't one already, since even as a hunter Atalanta had a much deeper connection to nature than many Greek heroes, probably second only to Artemis herself. Especially with bears and like essences or monsters, since they raised her.
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PS. The extra competitiveness or being distracted by shiny things are both really good quirks as well; you'll have to pick one, but either those two or becoming more rustic in demeanor would be very fitting.
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I kinda think the distracted by shinies is the best one, because it gives her something she'll need to work against, rather than something she might not even notice.