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singing_arda) wrote2014-11-13 12:08 am
singing_arda) wrote2014-11-13 12:08 am
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Claim requests
Arda Marred does not require an application, but rather a character claim that still needs to be approved by the mods. This is a bit like the little sibling of an application: It is shorter and more aimed towards making it easier for other players to get the gist of your character. The audience of your info post is primarily other players. We do reserve the right to decline claims or request revisions before the claim is approved. To place a claim, the following is needed:
✦ The character may be neither held for someone else nor already claimed.
✦ They must have an info post on their journal that uses the info post form and seems acceptable to the mods.
✦ Be one of the allowed character types as listed on the FAQs.
Format
✦ In the subject line, please write: Character Type | Character Name | Canon | Held/Not Held
✦ Please use one comment for each character.
✦ If this is a re-claim of a dropped or idled character, please also write "re-claim" in the subject line.
✦ If you run out of subject line space, just continue the rest of the info underneath the in reply.
✦ To request a character with an animal companion co-claim please add a note in your reply, and whether or not that companion is essential or non-essential.
Please note the following:
While you are allowed to place a claim at any time, claims are only processed from the 8th to the 15th of any given month. Please try not to post on the very last day, because claims can take several days to process.
We have a hard max of three AUs of the same character. That means that there should be one canon spot always available, and three AU spots. These AUs must also be different from each other. We will be using time stamps to determine processing order during claims.
Due to the nature of highly varied character types, some claims may take longer than others because more than one mod has to look at them for whatever reason. If you are "skipped" please understand that you are not forgotten, we simply need to take more time with your claim.
Due to the nature of allowing so many different character types and duplicates, many times "judgement calls" have to be made in terms of what characters are allowed, not allowed, or need to be AU. Some situations are going to be tricky! Power adjustment, questions, and revision requests won't be uncommon. But never fear! We're here to help you get in, rather than keep you out.
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Canon | Velsper | Aa Megamisama | Not held
Name: Chicklet
Player who referred you: Self
Full Canon Title: Aa megamisama/Ah! My Goddess/Oh! My Goddess (depending on which translation you are using)
Character Name: Velsper (Also Welsper in some translations)
Info post: Here
Revisions / Questions / Power Adjustments
As you say on your opt-in, his powers are “broad and ill defined” which does not play well with Arda Marred. We have to do some revising to clear up what he can do.
Re: Flight - He can fly a max of 10-12 "days-by-foot" per day unburdened, and under ideal conditions. How you split that up into resting or gliding or whatnot is up to you. With a passenger or carrying a something heavy, keep it down to 5-7.
Re: Collecting Souls – the equiv of a soul in Tolkien works can be considered the Fëa. Souls/ Fëar are kind of protected by Eru as part of the game premise. Because of this, he’ll be unable to collect souls, but should he attempt it there will be a severe backlash from the music.
Re: Altering individual time – we’re going to have to nix this, unfortunately. It interferes with the music too much, and conflicts with our AU guidelines regarding aged up/down characters.
Re: Magic – this covers a broad area, but I think you mean conjuring objects. If so, we’d like to put a limit on this. He’ll only be able to conjure inanimate objects, and no larger than something that a normal human can carry.
Re: Hacking the base code of the universe – in the event that Velsper gets his hand on any electronic device that would allow him to attempt this, he will not be able to change the universe/Arda. There would also be severe backlash from the music.
Re: familiar – we’re going to need to hear a lot more about that as we may have to consider them an animal companion.
- What do you mean by “lives inside him?”
- Does this familiar take form outside his body? What does it look like?
- Does the familiar have sentience or a grasp of language / commands?
Re: Curses – it’s unclear what a curse is in this universe. How do you intend to use this in AM?
Re: “Anything Else” – if you come upon a possible opportunity (an IC reason/event) to change his form / switch between forms, please check with us so we can both help you and keep things reasonable.
Re: Revisions / Questions / Power Adjustments
Flight: I can accept that limitation. He is a racer in his world and FAST at flying, Peorth comments that he is the first person to ever out fly her, and that was without a broom. Should he ever get his broom back, I would like to request that his flight speeds would be revisited at that time.
Collecting souls: I would love for him to try, fail, and face consequences. 99% of what he does in canon is tries to do something illicit, getting caught, cursing himself to avoid punishment, and through the curse making things worse for himself in comical ways. (example, he was supposed to have his memories wiped of Belldandy, to avoid that, he cursed himself to stay stuck as a child instead, the curse blocking the "punishment" of forgetting. But that meant his powers were limited, and as they grew, they were destroying his body. When they were getting too much to handle, he built a virus to stop time because if Belldandy didn't remember him - the condition he foolishly built into the curse - he and she would both die. As punishment for hacking the main computer of the universe and trying to stop time, he was punished to live out the next 200 years as a cat. To again escape the "wiping his memory" part of the curse, he cursed himself to be female while he is a cat. This... let him keep his memories and powers, but his powers don't always work the way he expects. So if the mods are willing, I would find it a tremendous amount of fun to plot what he would ultimately get as a punishment and work back to the most hilarious way to make it his own stupid fault.
Altering individual time - Sure. He hasn't tried that ability much since being turned into a cat, so we can just say that it is part of what is going wonky and it wont work. When/if he regains his child form or his adult form, it still won't work, much to his frustration, which can be fun to play with.
Magic: it is broad because in the series... it is broad. We see conjuring small items, so I can accept the limitations placed on conjuring without a problem. Cursing (as I will elaborate on, below), levitation of items and self. We see him specifically change the weight/ density on a set of rather large balls to keep Keichii hostage. We know his magic for larger spells is wind based, and that he has a weakness to water when keeping a large spell running. But the spell we see this with is the spell he used as a stop gap to try and squelch his own growing powers. I know there is at least one demon that can make people unlucky, and the Goddesses (who are supposed to be the light side of the same coin as his people, so roughly equivalent) can be pretty creative with their magic. Belldandy can shrink herself, Urd can split herself. The Goddesses all can travel through a specific type of item though it is never said that demons can, as far as I have read, so I can say that he cannot as of now and discuss if the canon says otherwise later. But for example, one Goddess made a badge that changed expression to show how happy someone is when they wore it. The problem with Velsper, magically, is that in canon... we see him do a number of BIG spells, but they are all situationally specific and not things he would do elsewhere, except the time thing which has been understandable nerfed into nothingness in AM. We know that when he has his broom, he was one of the fastest racers in all the dimensions, but that was in boy form, with his broom... so... unless he gets that in game AND retakes a human looking form, he'll be as slow as anyone else, even with another broom. The only broom ever to beat his was Stringfellow, and that was as much beacuse Belldandy was flying that and Hild was flying
(Quoted from http://goddess-project.net/board/topic/7685-brooms-and-power-usage-of-goddess/)
"This seems to be one of those "however Mr. Fujishima feels about it at this time" powers. His use and application of transport mediums, gates, and basic teleportation have varied throughout the series without any real logic to their use. Once a concept is introduced into a story he uses it for a while, then sort of forgets about it from time to time if it would interfere with the story or add un-needed complications."
This was from me trying to look up the name of Velsper's broom, since I do not have access to my manga at this time, but it is a good example of why I am having trouble pointing to things and saying "Demons can do this this this and this". We know that Velsper is less powerful than Hild (the CEO of the Demons) but he seems to be more powerful by far than Mara, who herself is more powerful than Senbei.... So Anything beyond a Cantrip, I would ask the other player before doing, anything BIG, I could poke a mod, if you want me to.
Hacking: Again, I would be happy to see him try and fail and be punished for it. It suits the way his life works and can be fun to play with. I do doubt that this setting would ever provide him with the chance to try, however.
Familiar: Okay. This one is going to be nearly as hard to explain as magic.... Goddesses can have angels, which they get by swallowing an angel egg. The Egg bonds to their soul and becomes part of their very essence. The angels lay dormant inside the Goddess until they are needed/wanted.
http://lunarcels.rubberslug.com/gallery/img_b.aspx?ImageID=273207&Pass= (Belldandy and her angel, as you can see, the angel is coming out of her back.)
Angels are a reflection of the Goddess' soul, and act as they would act. They cannot disobey their goddess and must follow the letter of what is said, over the spirit. They act as protectors, they help a Goddess tap into more magic, they help a Goddess with tasks that need doing. Belldandy has sent her Angel to create an air barrier to keep someone from crashing their bike. Peorth's Angel - Le Rose Magnifique came out when Velsper threw an energy bolt of some sort (it was left unclear because the author did not want us to know it was Velsper she was fighting) at her to knock her from the sky.
The fight between Velsper and Peorth of the Roses
After Velsper said that he understood, she used her angel to shield her from his attack.
Angels can sing with their goddesses, but seem unable to talk. We have heard them scream, if I recall correctly, during the angel eater incident.
Presumably much is the same with a Demon's familiar, though we rarely see Die Wespe der Blauen Lanze (Blue Lance for short) once she fully bonds with Velsper. He got her through a rather unusual situation - Hild was trying to experiment on the Goddesses by devouring their angels and replacing them with Familiars. So Blue has picked up aspects of Belldandy who hosted her first, and KEiichi who managed to sustain her for a short time (depsite being mortal) before Velsper took her into himself. She does seem to be as much of a little snot as he is, however, using her wing to push Urd's face into the ground when Velsper was feeling smug and snippy.
So she comes directly from his back, no matter his form. She lives inside him because she is part of him, she is now a part of his very soul.
Curses: Demons and Goddesses grant wishes to mortals. It is how they vie for market share. Goddesses (Urd being an excpetion for so many reasons, including being half demon...) tend towards constructive and helpful spells and grant wiahes to good people. Demons tend towards the darker souls, and grant wishes of distruction and misfortune to others. (Mara makes a contract with Sayoko, to have Sayoko obey her, rather than taking her soul, so that everyone on Campus thinks Sayoko is their queen and is absolutly obediant. In exchnage, she has to use that power to order Belldandy to go "Home")
Velsper specifically, seems to spcialize in curses. These are spells that can be broken once a seemingly impossible condition is met - Like Belldandy breaking the spell that made her forget him, or his no longer being a cat - that alter someone in some negitive way. There can be a spositive aspect, but the negative one has to be worse, even if it does not seem worse at first. Example: when he first cuyrsed hismelf to stay a child, it seemed to be no big deal. Fast forwerd a few hundred years, and that curse was going to not only kill him, but the one being other than his broom that he admired, the only being he loved. So while we do not YET know what is so bad about his being female, other than the fact that Hild will laugh at him through eternity... something will probably come up in the anime, or in the issues of the manga I have not yet been able to read but are already out. So in AM, all curses will be discussed with the other player(s) in question ooc before anything happens and agreed to on all sides. There will always be an end condition, even if that isn't shared IC, and there will always be a negative effect. But it is a curse, all curses can be broken, and some curses can have positive outcomes - look at OUAT and all the friendships that might never have been, without the various curses there.
I would love to communicate with you about his form change if/when he can manage it. I would love to play him having spent time making connections as a cat, suddenly showing up as a boy or as a man to yank tails and mess with people's heads. Again... he is a little snot.
I am sorry this was so long, and took so long to get to you. I typed it on a bus, so hopefully it all makes sense and is coherant. Thank you again!
-Chicklet
Re: Revisions / Questions / Power Adjustments
Please try reply in yes/no's, or bullet points of a few sentences each.
Because his abilities still seem to be very ill defined, he’s going to have to be very limited in what he can do. You must stick to abilities that he has either A) displayed in canon B) it can be inferred that he has the ability from canon information.
You are going to need to specifically list each type of curse he can do on your info post based upon what we talk about here. Stick to YOUR character, not others in the series.
I am going to try to pick out the relevant info, please confirm the limitations that you are okay with.
Re: Flight – yes you are okay with the limitation.
Re: Collecting Souls – yes you are okay with the limitation
Re: Altering individual time – yes you are okay with this limitation
Re: Magic : It is unclear how much of this applies to your character, since you keep mentioning what OTHER characters have done.
- Levitation OK.
- Weight and density okay within reason, don’t affect the landscape in a large way.
- IF (this was unclear) you are saying he can shrink himself / make larger, this is okay, as long as it’s within the range of our size guidelines
- IF you are saying he can make people unlucky – this is nerfed.
- IF you are saying he can split himself (assuming you mean making a copy of himself) this is allowed for one copy.
- “Big spells” are nerfed.
Re: Hacking – yes you are okay with this limitation
Re: Familiar – nerfed, too badly defined in canon, from what you have written. It can remain in his soul or whatever, but he cannot summon it/use it.
Re: Curses – I agree on the condition that curses are discussed OOCly, so that the affects of the curse, the break condition, and the aftereffects of the curse breaking are discussed on a case by case basis. You MUST discuss the break condition with the other player(s) so that they are both know what it is ahead of time, and are comfortable with it. Any curses must stick within our power guidelines that are game-wide, and those we have given to you as a specific limitation.
Re: Form Change – Once you have an IC reason, AND are close to possibly making it happen, then contact us to discuss if it can be done within AM’s guidelines.
Any attempt that is made to use magic here that we’ve nerfed will result in backlash from the music.
Re: Revisions / Questions / Power Adjustments