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faderifting) wrote2018-02-28 08:35 pm
faderifting) wrote2018-02-28 08:35 pm
Side Characters
SIDE CHARACTERS
Side characters are a middle ground between PCs and NPCs, with short apps and no AC. Our hope is to allow players to flesh out the environment with character types that are underrepresented in Fade Rift—commoners, Andrastians, people with more mundane skills or boring jobs or OOCly unpopular opinions, etc.—but who wouldn't necessarily be as fun to play with the same level of commitment as more unusual or sympathetic characters. If you think it would be fun to sometimes write a put-upon diplomat telling other characters to behave themselves or a haughty Chantry Sister judging heathens, that’s what this is for!
Alternatively, you can use side characters to test or develop vague concepts that you might be interested in apping as full characters later, or to play characters with a specific short-term arc, such as temporary allies or citizens that cross paths with Riftwatch somehow.
Side characters are not required to be Riftwatch members. You can play a Kirkwall local or an openly hostile antagonist. However, please keep in mind that unaffiliated characters won’t have access to sending crystals, and it’s your responsibility to keep them playable. We won’t provide plots or mechanisms to keep them from wandering away forever if that’s what they would do. And if you decide to app one as a normal PC later, they’ll have to join up.
This is not meant to allow anyone to indefinitely RP six full-fledged permanent characters, and especially not six strange egalitarian poster children with lots of special skills, so please use it in the intended spirit. Characters who have more unusual qualities than side characters warrant may be given time restrictions on how long they can be voice tested as side characters before becoming standard characters.
RULES
Character Limits
- You must be a current player who made full AC the prior month.
- You can have two side characters at a time, but you can only add one per month.
- You can app a side character as a full character at any time, as long as you have open slots. You can also change main characters to side characters if you want to put them on the back burner without dropping them. But you can’t use it just to dodge AC for a month or constantly rotate.
- Side characters must be native OCs.
- They can’t be from any character category we limit to one-per-player.
- Side characters do not submit AC and are also not eligible to earn AC reward points.
- Other PCs can earn reward points by playing off of other people’s side characters.
- Side characters can be members of projects, but they aren’t eligible for any IC leadership roles.
- Side characters are allowed to participate in plots, but must be given lowest priority in sign-ups for any closed plot, including player plots. It’s fine for them to fill out a group that has empty slots, just not to take a slot that could otherwise go to a willing PC.
- You can propose your own player plots for your side characters, and obviously in that case the 'lowest priority' rule doesn't apply.
APPLICATION
Side character “apps” are very short and meant to encompass just the broad strokes of the character concept, to allow people time to figure details out in play. However, you can’t add big things like mod plot-relevant events or connections that were not included in the initial proposal. E.g., it’s fine not to tell us the details of a character's childhood if that childhood was pretty normal, but you can't then say that the character spent their childhood learning shapeshifting from the Chasind or is Corypheus' secret love child.
Please post your app in the body of the comment rather than linking it.
PLAYER
Name:
Other Characters:
CHARACTER
Name:
Race:
Nationality:
Mage?:
Age:
Affiliation:
Occupation:
Goal: Briefly, in one or two sentences, are you planning for this character to stick around indefinitely? Voice testing a potential full PC? Apping a temporary character for a specific plot arc? (It’s fine for your plans to change later; we just want to know what you're up to now.)
About: In 100-500 words, tell us generally who this character is—key background facts or personality traits, opinions, skills or connections, etc. You don’t have to have every detail worked out, but you do have to tell us anything that’s hugely important, controversial, rare, or plot-relevant in advance. Otherwise, think of this like the elevator pitch section of a CR meme: what are the essentials that make your character who they are and set them apart?
no subject
Name: Cee!
Other Characters: Darras, Salvio, Jester, Val, Nikos
Name: Matthias
Race: Human
Nationality: Free Marcher
Mage?: Yah
Age: 16
Affiliation: Rebellllllllls
Occupation: REBEL MAGE
Goal: Voice testing AND semi maybe kind of sort of apping for a specific plot arc
About:
Matthias is a scrappy survivor and try-hard rebel. He was taught to be obedient and kind and generally moral, a simple peasant boy of the Free Marches, but also not to put up with too much shit or waste time crying over spilled milk. There was little time for coddling in Matthias' childhood. Born one of seven kids, raised by hard-working parents, Matthias knows how to get by without much. He craves attention and praise, having had very little of it in his life. A few words of kindness from the right person can send him spiraling into a paroxysm of loyalty.
He is deeply loyal, easily encouraged to a cause, and difficult to disillusion from issues or people he cares about. He has always developed crushes easily, and even after he’s fallen out of them, retains deep loyalty to his former beloveds--man, woman, or cause. He often fixates on the aloof, determined to win their praise and approval.
He has seen injustice, which has made him want to fight injustices. Compromise frustrates him. Being underestimated frustrates him more. Matthias might be young, but he has seen shit. There are few people in the world who understand where he's come from, and what growing up in a warcamp has meant.
He craves approval and acknowledgement, but resents pity. While it’s true that his life in the Tantervale Circle and war was hard, Matthias considers it to have been a trial by fire. He’s proved that he can take it, whatever it might be.
He is impulsive and acts before he thinks. His rebel streak was fanned to a flame during the height of the mage rebellion. Matthias and his fellow baby mages were reared in battle and trained on the fly. Without any deep study or tutelage, Matthias' magicwork has developed inconsistently, and he rushes through any spell or enchantment in his eagerness to deploy them. He's more guts than brains, and he reacts quickly. His lack of formal education is a source of embarrassment to him, and he will get defensive if anyone calls him on it. He’s young enough that he hasn’t been Harrowed yet, which he’ll also try to talk his way around.
Matthias makes friends with ease, and enemies with equal ease, especially if mutual hate of someone will get him a fast friend. His principals and ideals are often what block friendship. He can't get his head around putting up with someone who might be at odds with what he believes, and he refuses to try to understand anyone who would compromise their beliefs for friendship. The latter is somewhat hypocritical, because in truth, Matthias' own belief could soften for friendship. He wants badly to be liked, to have a solid group of people he can call his own. Among the rebel mages of Tantervale, Matthias had camaraderie, and he misses it badly.
Matthias wants to be a hero, and to find a cause worthy of him. Are you the one, Inquisition?
APPROVED
Your side character has been approved! Before you start playing, please:
You're then welcome to begin RPing!
If you decide to drop this side character, please do so via the drop page. If you decide to app the character as a main character, you can do so without letting us know here—we'll remove the side character profile for you on acceptance of the full character application. Please remember that this character cannot earn AC points and must be given last priority in plot sign-ups.
If you have any questions, let us know.