dungeonmasters ([personal profile] dungeonmasters) wrote2014-03-03 10:13 pm

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[personal profile] chequeyourprivilege 2014-03-04 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
ok so I think one of my characters should probably be Worst Demon Tamaki Suoh who doesn't quite realize he's supposed to be evil and instead just hangs out being rich and marveling about how clever humans are. Also he'll make contracts with attractive teenagers with terms like "MUST PLAY HOPSCOTCH WITH ME WHENEVER I ASK"

For my human I want an OC but I can't decide between:

1. Passive-aggressive yandere witch girl who will probably end up wigging out and killing her allies tbh
2. Really lame goth kid who pretended to be a vampire until he was actually a vampire, also runs around shipping everyone he knows
3. Worst Human Cassius Cumberbatch
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[personal profile] acquest 2014-03-06 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
I AM HERE TO OFFER MY SCARLET expy's gang to idk cassius or witch girl unless she's too chaotic evil in which case fair enough.
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[personal profile] worlddomination 2014-03-07 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
+1 demon Tamaki, that is def the best choice

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[personal profile] deadofknight 2014-03-07 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Worst Demon Tamaki Suoh sounds amazing. :3c

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[personal profile] deadofknight 2014-03-04 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
1) Demon OC, maybe sort of low-level, Very Loyal to her master, super invested in getting humans to make contracts. Will generally try to get contracts BUT ALSO takes care of the people who make contracts because of her. They're ~her people~ and she'll make sure they're happy. Pretty open about being sort of manipulative really. Makes a point of not lying--which is not to say that she tells the truth all the time. Personality-wise, kind of a partier, likes a good brawl. So...kind of focused on expanding her/her master's forces but at the same time happy to enjoy all the pleasures the mortal world has to offer.

But mostly her approach to life and being a demon is I'M GONNA LEAD YOU DOWN THE PATH THAT ROCKS ;D C'MON YOU DON'T NEED THAT SOUL ANYWAY ;D and a side of HUMANS ARE SO WEIRD AND WEAK, WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO STAY??? HUMAN??? SRSLY.

2) ETA based on my comment in the Demons section of the post, a second quick idea. A pacted human who was sorta tricked into making a pact by a demon who took their desire!! for justice!!!! and heroism!!!!!! by pretending to be an angel (or at least less-bad demon) and lied flat-out about the pact they offered and pretty much tricked this person into bad-decision-dinosauring into a demon pact, at which point the demon laughed in her face and she realized her idealistic impulsive attempts at heroism fucked her over but good. And now she's kinda Batman I guess? Mild-mannered human by day, self-loathing fuck-up who struggles to use her pact for good by night.

Potentially cool ready-made CR for anyone interested: the demon who tricked her inexplicably keeps poking about her life. Imagine the frenemy funtimes of poking at the precarious card house of morality that keeps this person from doing an acrobatic fucking pirouette off the handle eh eh.
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[personal profile] acquest 2014-03-06 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
I DON'T THINK EITHER OF MINE WOULD HAVE AN IN WITH THE FIRST REALLY.

But for the human :|a want to be flatmates with my Liar girl? She could be the demon that tricked her, or they could be keeping each other's secrets.

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[personal profile] deadofknight 2014-03-15 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD NO fuck you browser for deleting my longass comment now to retype it huff huff.

Probably going to swap out my demon girl character for a human character who is the sister of [personal profile] hunting's human girl (and probably app demon girl later). I was thinking that either she'd a) be one of the few with defensive holy powers (mimicking the fact that in canon purebloods are ~exceptional~) or b) after her sister pacted she also made a pact and they're gonna bad decision dinosaur to hell together while still trying to serve the Amabilis Sanctum's goals because truly they are AU Zero's children.

She is the elegant and calm type, but tends to have a bit of a temper and also loves sweets a little too much. Tends to put others first and has a terrible self-sacrificing streak. In a lot of ways she seems very stereotypically "good" always working herself to the bone for other people etc. etc. but she is incredibly ruthless, can be pretty calculating, and is very yan for her sister. The kind of person who could wield politeness like a knife. Has unfortunately inherited the Kuran Self-Sacrifice Streak.
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[personal profile] foreveralawn 2014-03-18 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Finished making/setting up icons for my human girl! My...non-Amabilis human girl...

I'M SO PLEASED WITH HOW THE ICONS CAME OUT and I just wanted to show off. u///u
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[personal profile] hunting 2014-03-05 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Since I've never really made an OC before, I'm going to just tweak some of my original fiction concepts.

For the demon, I'm thinking a guy who used to be human but was tricked into becoming a demon as part of a "save your life and your sister's life" deal. He's pretty bitter about the whole thing and does contracts as more of a "something he's expected to do" than something he has an active interest in. He's also a former prince so he's a bit refined and has a lot of pride. His contracts are a means of his connecting with the outside world and exist purely for his entertainment, for lack of a better word. He's usually looking for desperate people (like he was) so he can show them the price of that desperation. He's more a teaching type all around. He doesn't treat his contractors cruelly but he's very detached and he very much thinks he deserves more than this. He is also very much the fallen angel type of demon in appearance: black wings, claws, horns and the like.

Human: Man, do I play humans? Um... my pacted human would probably be some danger-loving freak who contracted because hells yeah KICK ASS ABILITIES. He also had a past of being viewed as an outcast because he has naturally red eyes or some shit and has prophetic dreams. To counter his self-hating feelings, he developed an addiction to testing the limits of life. He's a very "I do what I want" type, but he's also quite social and loves being around people (as long as they don't find out about his quirks).
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[personal profile] acquest 2014-03-06 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
:|a Should your demon and my Liar be cynicism buddies?

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[personal profile] deadofknight 2014-03-07 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Your demon and my demon should know each other!! Demons who treat their contracted people well high five.

Or at least she can poke him about being all bitter and cynical. :3 Come on, live a little!

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[personal profile] hunting 2014-03-09 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, for my human, I might go with Zero's daughter, Kiryuu Kairi. I'd have her be a demon hunter (maybe a militant branch of Amabilis Sanctum?) or such who contracted with a Devastator demon after Zero died since Zero was the hunters' leader and Kairi has confidence issues over whether she's strong enough to protect the group and her older sister, who is her most important person.

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[personal profile] malignstar 2014-03-18 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
I am back and now with newly completed journals. (Well, completed in the sense that they have icons so yay?)

Anyway, still going with Tavores for my demon. Backstory is the same. I think the main thing I'm going to tweak is that while his usual reaction to life is to be sullen and bitter about what happened to him, he'll also have a secretly playful side. It's doubtful those making pacts with him will see this, but others might. I also want to emphasize his proper manner and that he is a killjoy who is too serious for life. But as he's also a former royal, he is very respectful of women and can be a gentleman around them. He also has one hell of a temper when set off and is not shy about using his powers during those times.
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[personal profile] acquest 2014-03-06 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
OKAY I'MMA PROBABLY AU THE FUCK OUT OF SCARLET BRIAR. LET'S BE REAL THE SECOND I HAVE A PB THIS IS A DONE DEAL. or maybe not straight AU but expy close enough. she will be scarlet themed.

So, being a little less ridiculous and more concrete.

Human woman works for Pandaemonium, but hates the limits on her freedom she's has placed upon her, even if she's working in one of the relatively safer areas, she does basic maintenance on the Trangressor's lab she works in but wants to be able to do things herself, have her fate be her own rather than a cog in someone else's system. Demons are free to do what they like rather than toiling away on repetitive task because they have power and literally no one can stop them. SHE'S GOING TO TAKE HER FATE INTO HER OWN HANDS!!

So of course, our lady takes a pact. it's swearing to use another's power, but if she takes down the demons, then there will be no one left in her way.

Fast forward four or five years: she has a gang in Scrag's End, more terrorist cell than anything else. They cause chaos, interrupting demonic investigations, human events, and Gehenna's business as usual. She's manic in her determination and a slave to her cause— whatever it is— if it's even her own. At this point, who knows what she's thinking. The power she's used has come with massive corruption, and what drove her then and now might not be at all the same. In her efforts to sever herself from those who are pulling the strings, she might be now the least in control she's ever been.

I'M KINDA TORN IF I WANT HER TO ALSO BE A TRANSGRESSOR that's forgotten morals and norms and has confused all people around her to be the same, the puppets and the puppeteers all on the same level, she just wants to clear the stage. OR. Have her be an Idolator that's just hella knight templar ALL THINGS FOR THE CAUSE EVEN IF THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT I CARED ABOUT AND MADE ME WANT TO DO THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

But if anyone needs to be part of a chaotic faction, this lady here is a good person to be in league with. Conversely, if you want an enemy, someone who's wronged you in the past that you've sworn VENGEANCE on, also a good candidate.
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[personal profile] ashesashesweallfall 2014-03-16 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
She sounds really fun, belatedly. Meant to mentioned it the other day but forgot, derp derp.

What is her canon?

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[personal profile] acquest 2014-03-06 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
But I might not find a PB for her and also I can have a second character, so I'm thinking about a girl that's ambiguous if she's human or demon-- her powers are that of a Liar. She maintains two different forms, each for different occasions, and it's not clear which is the real one. To anyone, or anything. She either shares a house (if someone wants to be in on her secret??) in Antenora or has a flat to herself downtown. In Silverside she takes the form of a bookish girl, commonly seen researching demons, and in other places, she takes either her demonic guise or human as the seems necessary for the situation. She's hard to trust, because no one's quite certain about her, but she seems to always have good information, if you're willing to pay up. For a liar, especially one that uses her powers as often as she does, she seems quite reliable. . . But for a demon, she really doesn't seem to hold much loyalty to them, either.
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[personal profile] deadofknight 2014-03-07 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
This sounds really cool. :3c
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[personal profile] direstnews 2014-03-10 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
So! After changing my mind about twenty-five times, I think I've decided that one of my characters is going to be an AU version of Journey Into Mystery's kid!Loki. Backstory will be something like this, if permissible:

Once, there was a demon named Loki. He was a Liar of the very worst variety, a resentful, seething pit of jealousy and ambition. He schemed, and he manipulated, and he did terrible things to humans to pay for the assistance of his demon allies, then turned around and stabbed those allies in the back. He had something of a reputation for telling lies every time his lips moved, and another for setting into motion with small nudges unpleasantly catastrophic events.

Case in point: the scheme that goaded a powerful Devastator into nearly destroying a sizable portion of Downtown and the surrounding districts. But perhaps that had not been his intention at all, for in the midst of the chaos, Loki took on the Devastator, incidentally preventing a much greater loss of life, and died as the result.

...perhaps. For like so much else, Loki's death, too, was false.

In the place where the demon Loki had died, there awakened a boy — a human boy, for all intents and purposes, powerless, though unquestionably still Loki, for those able to sense such things. And he was a good boy (was he?), much less inclined to destructive tendencies (truly?), doing his very best to make it by on quick deals and quicker words in a world full of enemies he did not make and remembered only in snatches of dreams. (Unless that, too, was a lie.) In his own convoluted and dissembling way, he even did his best to help those that might have need of it — except, of course, when his plans went terribly long. (Although perhaps that was the plan.)

Also!

I am absolutely up for knowing anyone for any reason! THIS MEANS YOU. :)

Demons, if you want to have been stabbed in the proverbial back, Loki's your guy.

Humans, if you want kid!Loki as a gopher/sometimes-conspirator, he is currently scraping by and taking odd jobs.
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[personal profile] direstnews 2014-03-10 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Note for me: He'll be starting the game shacking up in out-of-the-way places in Viath Docks, trying to stay under the radar.

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WANT TO BE OCCASIONALLY HIT UP BY SCARLET?

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[personal profile] direstnews 2014-03-10 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Possible second character, though I'm not sure I'll play two to start, since I'm out of practice:

Sadistic Plague-Carrier demon lady with a manor in Judecca Heights. She treats the people she contracts with civilly, bribing them with luxuries humans in the poorer sections don't often see, but in return she asks them to do some awful things, no questions asked. There's a rumor that one of her contracted humans once turned on her. Only once, ever.

There's a related rumor that the screams could be heard nonstop for the next three weeks throughout most of the district.

She sometimes provides entertainment for the high-class patrons of Judecca Heights' club, and the results are rarely fun for the unhappy human participants.

It's unclear what her end goal is, or if she even has one; mostly, she enjoys toying with people to entertain herself and seems uninterested in politics insofar as she can keep doing what she's doing and living her life in her own way.
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[personal profile] unexpectedboner 2014-03-10 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
IF YOU DO PLAY TWO
hhhhow much does she parley with the other side
I mean you say she is uninterested in politics, but is that just DEMON politics? What about the machinations required to keep the particular balance of the world in check

you probably have an idea of where I'm going here since you know just as much about the human character I'm crafting as I do but would they chat is what I'm asking

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[personal profile] icantblieveitsnotdeadpool 2014-03-14 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello! So I was thinking about playing AU Deadpool for this game, but I had some questions before putting down a solid app/description.

1) I haven't been able to figure out if he should be human or a demon. I feel like he should be human, but then his powers seem to be definitely super-human. One possible explanation for his abilities would be that maybe an alternate version of his backstory where instead of Weapon X, he gets his powers from the Church. Like they have some secret division where they try to come up with weapons to use against demons. One thought I had was they they infused him with demon blood, so now he has powers not quite on par with full-blooded demons, but certainly more power than the average human does. Also, these experiments would be what drove him insane and made him so ugly.

Your mama's ugly. And I'm not that insane, just...non-linear-minded.

Quiet you. Another thought would be that he is a demon, but for whatever reason (again, church experiment gone awry) he doesn't remember that he is a demon and thinks he is a human. That could be another way of explaining why he has his powers and looks the way he does under the mask. Either way though it definitely looks like the devastator path is ideal for him and his style.

2) I was planning to have kind of meta/4th wall breaking commentary (like in the comics). I was going to place them in yellow text, and it would be something that only Deadpool can hear. Which would mean that if anyone else is interacting with him and he is talking to the yellow text, it essentially looks like he talking to himself.

3) What kind of magical weaponry is there to fight demons? Is there any at all? I noticed you mentioned in the setting section that there are shops advertising weapons and magical devices, so is that a real thing, or just marketing? Because I kind of think that Deadpool would be fighting the demons, so he would need to have a way to hurt them. Which sounds kind of difficult unless he is a demon himself.

If I am doing anything wrong, or posted to the wrong area, let me know! I'm kind of new to all this, but super excited to be playing!
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[personal profile] acquest 2014-03-15 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
1. ALL THOSE THINGS SOUND LEGIT TO ME. Go with whichever thing your heart tells you to do.

2. Rad but yellow is hard to read. DOES ANYONE HAVE THE CODE FOR YELLOW TEXT ON A BLACK BACKGROUND?? that might make that easier. I guess highlighting is always a thing.

3. Since the main reason the Church goes to lengths to get outsiders in, which is gonna be the plot point that marks the end of the Beta arc and starts the game proper, is so there's a way to FIGHT DEMONS!! without pacting with them, since holy magic is woefully not offensively based.

That said, there are some gray areas. Things that have been cursed by Vengeful are usually effective against demons, since demonic power had to be used for the cursing. So a lot of the things sold as ANTI-DEMONIC might be cursed-- but you know, cursed weaponry, also a bit of a gamble there because if you're unlucky it might be cursed to harm the wielder or something.

Also, while humans can't really HURT or KILL demons without power, they can totally inconvenience them by doing things like blowing up buildings they are currently inside, trapping them places, dropping large heavy objects on them-- things that mean they discorperate so they need to "respawn" again, even if they can't truly kill them or hurt them. They can totally take them out of the picture for a few hours, it's just ultimately annoying for demons. ugh time to commute back up from hell AGAIN

Also holy power DOES work on demons, but unfortunately holy power is just, like, not offensively based. But they can like, trap a demon in a barrier for a while, ect.

Also nope you're A-okay, welcome and glad to have you!

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