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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.
To request a canon character, original character, or character of limited canon, please comment here using the form below, under the appropriate header comment.
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Revisions / Questions
Re: Content Opt-out - the part of this post that is your content opt out should stand out a bit more. It kind of gets lost in the paragraph above, since the majority of your post is more unofficial personal preferences.
My suggestion would be one of the following:
- Create a new heading clearly stating "Arda Marred Content-Opt out" or something of that nature, with the Content info separate from the "IC Permissions" section.
- OR create a separate comment on the same post (unscreened) with the relevant information. You could link directly to the comment from your info post too if you like.
- OR create a separate post for it.
Whatever your choice there, make sure you include what kind of content might be upsetting / opt-out-able.
Re: TV world
I'm canon blind, so I'm having a hard time picturing this. How do you think this might function in this game setting? (The other mods and I will also have to discuss how it might fit as well)
If we can find a way to make that power work in Arda, we'll have a discussion about the re-gaining of personas once you're in game, since that's a separate issue from processing the claim.
TV and alternate dimensions don't play well with Tolkien metaphysics, so it may be a challenge. If we can't find a way to get your persona side plot working in this setting, would you still be interested in playing in AM or would that be a dealbreaker?
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I went ahead and made a new, separate opt-out post here, and updated the info post with this link. I hope that's clearer and more detailed!
As far as the TV World thing goes, it's absolutely not a dealbreaker for me; I realize the high-tech concept might be kind of gamebreaky in a low-powered Tolkien setting, and honestly, my original concept for this sideplot would be heavily dependent on having castmates from the True Ending plotline in the game as well, which doesn't seem highly likely to happen. (Souji would need to be told that his poor life choices, i.e. murdering Namatame, were wrong and if he hadn't done this, his cousin Nanako would have miraculously revived and recovered after her death. That info would either have to come from someone in the True End line, or some kind of truth-revealing event in-game, if something like that were to come up.) I just figured it would be better to have a discussion about it upfront, like we are!
This YouTube gameplay video of Souji and his friends discovering the TV World for the first time may be more helpful than/in addition to a written description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXB9v8ZVsVQ
Basically, the TV World is a fog-covered side/pocket universe created by the goddess Izanami (one of the game's antagonist characters), and it is informed by human thoughts and desires, mostly the negative ones. Persona 4's overarching theme is about capital-T Truth, and along with that, secrecy, lies, the voyeurism/exhibitionism that comes from technology/social media, and "facing your true self," i.e., recognizing who you are, flaws and all. The way to "face your true self" is done by battling a Shadow Self, which is a manifestation of a person's negative thoughts/traits/desires, and once the Shadow Self has been defeated in combat and accepted as part of one's true self, it morphs into a Persona, which is an entity or "facade" that can be summoned in order to face and overcome life's hardships.
An example video of one of Souji's friends encountering his Shadow Self, denying that it is part of him (which is what drives them to attack), the ensuing battle, and eventual acceptance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02I47U2p5x4
Souji is unique in that he never faced a Shadow Self - originally, his Persona powers spontaneously manifested on their own. But he basically shut down after his cousin's death, has been bottling up a lot of negative emotions, and quit searching out Truth, which is what I've written as having sealed his Personas away from use. In other words, he pretty much quit the game.
Another potential option that I have seen played out elsewhere in DWRP is that Persona users will sometimes have a re-emergence of their Shadow Selves - basically, a regression - if they've been suppressing negative thoughts/desires/etc. While Shadows stick to the TV World in most of Persona 4, only "crossing over" to the real world toward the conclusion of the Bad End, that's not necessarily the case in the previous Persona games, and I've seen the argument for this happening outside of the TV World in DWRP due to "vague hand wavey gestures and the game setting is a different reality anyway so therefore it works." If that's a more acceptable method in line with AM's setting, I could definitely work with that instead! But again, I wouldn't imagine that would happen for quite some time, and I'd obviously work with the mods to plot it out.
If the whole thing is just too much, I'm totally fine playing Souji with no Personas, because this seems like a really cool setting that he would do well in, independent of what powers he possesses.
I hope that helps clarify things! If not, please let me know what I can do to better explain and I will do my best. c:
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Okay, I think I'm starting to get a better picture of the TV world. So far it looks like it would be a challenge to get to work with this particular setting.
Since you're happy to play without it for the time being, What I'd like to do is get you into game so you can start having fun. The TV world issue seems like a conversation for another time. Right now we're one mod short, and I'd like to take more time to do some research on the subject.
For now (and this might possibly be all we can do) I think you should look towards any events we have going on, and look for ways you could include re-gaining personas as something you could "piggy back" onto those plots. That way, something special is already messing up the world, and it might happen to affect Souji in a way personal to him.
TL;DR - Let's get you in game first, then we can start thinking about what to do about the TV world.
Sound good?
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Approved!
Your character is considered a CRAU and will take a AU spot
Your character tag will be (Choice Below)
Your character's starter location is Deepwood
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Your tag is tricky to fit with both our format and DW's rules, so I've got a couple of options:
shin megami tensei: crau: souji seta
persona 4: crau: souji seta
If the true top canon is SMT it should probably be that, but iirc Persona is separate? :|a
Basically - MAIN CANON: CRAU: CHARACTER - is the format. Sub-canons are skipped for CRAUs.
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And I thiiiiink persona 4: crau: souji seta would be the best tag? Persona is its own series but loosely/broadly included in the overall SMT-verse, which is pretty huge, from what I understand, and there's a lot of differences among the various spin-offs.
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Now go have fun! :3
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