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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?
aenor dinadhal
Name: Dove
Other Characters: Laura Kint
Name: Aenor Dinadhal (born Aenor Ethghilas)
Race: Dalish Elf
Nationality: Ander
Mage?: No
Age: 44
Affiliation: Currently Riftwatch, has worked with/alongside Grey Wardens in the past
Occupation: Before this, mail carrier
Goal: Voice testing, faffing about with the idea of playing A Real Grownup.
About:
• Clan Ethghilas travels along the Lattenfluss and Aenor grows up happy enough. At sixteen, while they're camped somewhere near north of Kassel, she meets a handsome farmboy named Raffen and has a swoony little secret fling.
• When she realizes she's pregnant, she lets everyone think she slept with another Dalish elf, which works right up until baby Raban comes out with round ears. Whoops. A few days after his birth, members of the clan leave him on a random doorstep in Kassel proper and Aenor's parents forbid her from speaking of her son. The clan regards this incident as something over and done with, to be forgotten.
• Aenor, for the rest of her seventeenth year and part of her eighteenth, tries to move on the way her clan expects and takes on the vallaslin of Falon'din. Eventually, she realizes that she can't and leaves in the night, changing her name (sometimes spelled Dinadhal, sometimes Din'adhal, she's barely literate and doesn't particularly care) and heading south to Hossberg.
• Turns out living in an alienage is confining, ugly, and segregated, and humans don't love it when you try to live in the nice parts of the city. Not a good time for her.
• Eventually finds work carrying packages, messages, and favours, first between Hossberg and Nordbotten, and then across the deserts between Nordbotten and Laysh (or between Nordbotten and Weisshaupt if the deserts would be too hard to cross). She lives on the border of civilization and never stays anywhere long enough to be rejected. The person who brings the mail is providing a popular service without wearing out her welcome. She has friends among the people she works with, but the relationships are fairly shallow--dinner companions, the occasional one-night stand. She also does mail-carrying work with/for the Grey Wardens, though she doesn't have any desire to join.
• Many years later, her son finds her! Answers to Caric, not Raban, but otherwise, he's clearly the perfect child. Joy and regret and much love, the first meaningful longterm connection she's made outside work in years--and when he says that they take all comers in Riftwatch, it's not hard to convince her to leave the Anderfels.
• And maybe this time, she'll find herself in a society that doesn't tell her who she, as an elf, can and can't forge connections with.
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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.