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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, Val, Salvio, Matthias (who I just switched to my 4th full character), Nikos (other side character). all boys that's why I need 1 girl.
Name: Yevdokiya an Waslyna O Bearhold
Race: Human
Nationality: Avvar
Mage?: No
Age: 20something
Affiliation: Herself (and Alek)
Occupation: petty criminal
Goal: voice testing, playing with shard powers
About:
Doki is culturally Avvar, and holds many of their traditions and belief sacred--but like, childhood scared. Having spent years of her life outside of her clan, she has lived the high life of a petty criminal, never staying too long in one place or taking anything too seriously. She does love her clan, and her parents, and her brother. She worships the old gods, casually, and she’s fully with Aleksei when it comes to sending back supplies and provisions to their clan, and extravagant gifts to their parents--but the longer she spends away from her clan, the more she comes to love the life she’s made for herself.
Doki likes chaos. She likes to be the last woman standing after a fight or a wild drinking game. She likes devising a scheme that will waylay some posh boy’s gold or pretty girl’s jeweled necklace. She is in it for herself (and Aleksei, natch), and she’s a little greedy, in that she likes having the most coins or gems to herself. She can’t turn down a bet or a chance to make some gold, especially if she’s given free reign on how it’s made.
And she likes the life that she’s made with Alek: just the two of them, watching out for each other. He is the only person she’s ever really needed and there is pride in that, too. They have been able to make it alone, together, and who’s to say that can’t go on forever? She does like making his life a little difficult, and worming them into scrapes that he has to help get them out of. It’s all worth it for that aha moment, where their way comes clear.
She possesses a loyal streak, but it runs deep and narrow. Mostly she is loyal to Alek and Alek only. For him, she would do almost anything. Maybe anything. Depending on what that “anything” is.
Doki is clever and cunning and quick-witted. She has (on a good day) (among the right company) a kind of rough charm, and can either bull or bullshit her way both into and out of things. She lacks finesse, and much prefers direct confrontation to circling delicately around a problem. Sharp, opinionated, and unafraid to speak her mind, Doki still likes to have a good time. When she stops having a good time, she’ll tell you.
Getting the shard stuck in her hand has added a new and desperate levity to their circumstances, one Doki is not excited about. She has never had to be responsible in her life. This will be a new challenge. But she did get to bring her big brother with her, so it’ll probably be all right.
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.