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The Depths of the Mind: Character Creation Topic; First we must meet our dreamers
Topic Started: January 30, 2013, 4:11 pm (663 Views)
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Hello and welcome to the Depths of the Mind: Character Creation Topic, the first step into the realms of the unconscious. In order to help you create your island, the one sanctuary for the waking mind amid the swirling seas of the human spirit, you must first tell the world about yourself. Hold nothing back, no secrets and no lies... give unto yourself all that you represent and perhaps you shall have your shadow awaken and take hold of you. Then and only then can you face the darkness beneath the waves and come to your sense instead of being forever lost out to sea.

What our dreamer's truly are:

Essential Information:
Name:
Age: Ideally between 18-25
Gender:
Race:

Basic Statistics and Information:
Physical Characteristics:
What does your character look like?
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Attitudes and Temperament:
How does your character act?
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Emotional Characteristics:
What is this character’s way of expressing his/herself and why?
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Spiritual Characteristics:
What role does spirituality play in this character’s life?
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Personal History:
How and where did this character exist before the plot began?
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Meaningful Experiences:
What important happened to this character before the plot began?
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Relationships with Others:
What relationships already exist?
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Educational Background:
What has this character learned and how do they feel about learning?
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Demographic Information:
What kind of a family is your character from?
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Persona Information:
Name: Obvious
Tier: 1-5 (all must start at tier 1)
Arcana: Fool, Magician, Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant, Lovers, Chariot, Strength, Hermit, Fortune, Justice, Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon, Sun, Judgment, World.

Lore:
Honestly, a link to Wikipedia or a quick one to two-paragraph version would work just fine here. Whatever version you would prefer is fine here.

Appearance:
A picture, text description or anything else is fine

Attributes:
StrikeSlashPierceAgiZioAquasBufuMagnesGaruDarkLightAlmightyMindNerveCurse
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Abilities:
1. Name of Ability: Type of Ability (physical, elemental, mystic, ailment, status): Element (Agi, Dark, Almighty, Nerve, Healing etc): Description of ability.
2. Name of Ability: Type of Ability (physical, elemental, mystic, ailment, status): Element (Agi, Dark, Almighty, Nerve, Healing etc): Description of ability.


Explanation:
Note: Remove this from your CC sheet once you are done
How attributes work. Each persona possesses a certain set of attributes that determine their ‘rock, paper, scissors’ like elements that make them superior or inferior to certain types of attacks. The following are the definitions for each:

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Persona Tiers:
As a character overcomes their shadow, they have the opportunity to gain a persona or to increase their persona’s level. They also gain levels by helping another person overcome their shadows. When a persona reaches a ‘max’ level, they can be fused resulting in their persona becoming dormant (returning to the sea of soul) and a new one emerging in its place possessing the previous abilities. Each tier also possesses a certain about of HP. If a persona is struck by an attack, it loses HP. The “attribute” of the attack influences what and how much HP is lost as stated by the frail, weak, normal, strong, null etc associated with that attribute. How this works:

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What are the attributes and what they mean?
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What our readers truly see:
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Edited by NTNP, February 3, 2013, 5:42 am.
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Onime No Ryu
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Essential Information:
Name: Kyle Roberts
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian

Basic Statistics and Information:
Physical Characteristics:
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Attitudes and Temperament:
Aggressive, angry, quick to cause or respond with violence.
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Emotional Characteristics:
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Spiritual Characteristics:
He's never been an official member of any church, and aside from what he's picked up via school and other sources he's never learned much about religion.
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Personal History:
How and where did this character exist before the plot began?
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Meaningful Experiences:
What important happened to this character before the plot began?
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Relationships with Others:
What relationships already exist?
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Educational Background:
What has this character learned and how do they feel about learning?
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Demographic Information:
What kind of a family is your character from?
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Persona Information:
Name: Asura
Tier: 1
Arcana: Sun

Lore:
http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Asura#History

Appearance:
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Attributes:
StrikeSlashPierceAgiZioAquasBufuMagnesGaruDarkLightAlmightyMindNerveCurse
StrongStrongNormalStrongStrongWeakNormalNormalWeakNormalNormalNormalNormalNormalNormal


Abilities:
1. Anger Hit: Physical: Strike: Guaranteed Critical Hit (triple damage) on one enemy, but 50% accuracy. Cause about 1-2 (3-6) damage, when it hits.
2. Berserk: Physical: Strike: Inflicts Physical damage based on HP (3HP/3=1) on random targets. Hits 2-5 times total. Causes about 1 damage per attack.
Edited by NTNP, February 3, 2013, 5:47 am.
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Onime No Ryu
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I did my best NTNP but that shit is WAAAAAAYYYYY too long.
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Oh shut up Onime, you and I both know this is the most well developed character you ever created and that you've improved as a writer for doing it this way. As far as any changes go, I went in and fixed it (mostly a few changes to coding that got off somewhere) and made the very SMT styled moves reflect the less numerical based gameplay and simplified the process a little bit.
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Onime No Ryu
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February 3, 2013, 5:46 am
Oh shut up Onime, you and I both know this is the most well developed character you ever created and that you've improved as a writer for doing it this way. As far as any changes go, I went in and fixed it (mostly a few changes to coding that got off somewhere) and made the very SMT styled moves reflect the less numerical based gameplay and simplified the process a little bit.
Doing the extended backstory part was good, yeah, but filling out some of the other stuff just seemed like tedious busywork. Most of the height weight eye color stuff could be compressed into an Appearance section, and some of the "get to know your character" questions seemed repetitive.
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If you would like to suggest which items could be removed I will happily do so. I'm always willing to get the help on making things like this a little easier to endure.
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Height:
Weight:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Eye Color:
Hair Color:
Glasses or contact lenses?
Skin color:
Shape of Face:
Hair Length:
Physical Build:
Distinguishing features:
How does he/she dress?
Style of Dress (Elegant, shabby etc.):
Physical Disabilities or Impairments:
Overall Health:


This entire section could be condensed to an Appearance section, as most of it doesn't have anything to do with character development. The only things I can see casting any kind of light on what kind of character they are is how they dress and what distinguishing features they have, but I don't think most people will look that far into it when they build a character.

In the next section, Mannerisms and Habits could probably be merged into one section, as I feel that they're pretty much the same thing.

Everything from Personal History to Demographic information seems like it could be compressed into a Backstory. If they have a meaningful relationship with someone, or had something important happen at an early age, or were poor/rich enough for it to matter, they'll mention that. However, some of the stuff from Educational Background I would keep--mostly the stuff about a character's early life, midlife, and so-on goals.
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The main reason why I put it in that format was so people could actually sit down and consider what each of these aspects actually look like rather than just saying that so and so has an "athletic build, brown eyes, short blond hair and a light tan" but actually considering if they have a rounded jaw or a glass chin, slender features etc. After all, how often do we see just a single line detailing what most people would require like 2-3 pages to accurately describe of a real person? However on the mannerism and habits, those could be the same things but function a little differently but I can see where you are coming from.

However I disagree about the 'could be covered in the backstory' thing on most of the areas. Think about how few people would actually even think 'hey I wonder what so-so's cousins are like', hell most of the time I'm proud if they even consider if a character has a cousin. But I can imagine putting things together to make it a little shorter.
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But how do those things impact the story or the character? In the grand scheme of things they don't really change anything--who cares how rounded his jaw is or how many cousins he has? They don't really affect development and thus they come off as busy work that makes other people less likely to join. I've already had two people complaining of how long the CC is.
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