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Faith is cool, I already like her a lot :P

Does she have Antichrist powers other than the charisma thing? What are some of her eventual goals?

anthusiasm wrote:Faith is cool, I already like her a lot :P

Does she have Antichrist powers other than the charisma thing? What are some of her eventual goals?

Thank you! :)

Mostly charisma -- at some ramp-up point she gets the ability to order people around (with a metaphorical Will save and shortish duration) and the power to strike people dead (ditto save). Also, in her native world, resistance to some of the more inconvenient apocalypse effects, and personal (stormy) weather.

Moriwen: These are good character blurbs! When Mehitabel has exceeded age 6 it might be fun to have her run into the Antichrist one, but it would have to be in some weird context where Mehitabel wouldn't be immediately distracted by access to Milliways and I'm not sure how to finagle it. T'Mir and Jean might be interesting and could be more straightforwardly Milliwaysed.

Isra (Potential Template name Isaac) - Newish character that debuted on Inlustrem's Elos-six

Isra (and his brethren) is the product of an apocalyptical cult. They desired to make a better world by killing the previous population and replacing them with modified humans. The cult built the Above-Zenith Station as both a weapon and a house for their future modified humans. The main modification would be changing several basic impulses, emotions, etc. As such, Isra is veeeeery hard to anger, and doesn't get this whole business called "want to be mean to others" and is just plain nice and good-hearted. He also has a very snuggly tail and aptitude with air and plant magic.

The cult got infiltred by Lord, who is a extreme expert on life magic, but then betrayed them. Using the very modified humans the cult wanted, by simple alerting the super-nice modified humans about the cult's plan. The modified humans went "nope" and kicked the cult out of the station. Lord then became the station's leader, ruling his little paradise and manipulating his creations so they wouldn't leave.

Except that Isra really wanted to leave, being made to purify the atmosphere after the apocalypse. After many years, he finally managed it. Now he is at the universe at large.

I mean, I have a couple I might as well introduce because they haven't threaded much.

Tessa: Profoundly amoral, blonde. Scientific mindset, though she's more about results than process; she could make it in Materia fine. (Better than fine, really. She'd fucking love it.) Her mother generally dies in childbirth even when this is hilariously implausible, and she kills her father around age 13 because he's neglectful and depressive and unworthy of her existence. Actually gets along pretty well with Ari a lot of the time, even though she kind of reminds him of his mom; often willing to do productive things and become a perfectly functional member of society; feels an incredibly intense lust/hate towards Zanns, or just hate if it's a Xan. (She's a demisexual lesbian with obsessive tendencies, label-wise.) Account can be found here.

Anya: Anya from Buffy. Intensely awkward, with no native moral compass but a moderate desire to make a subset of people happy; tendency to be nonhuman. Thoroughly metacausally linked to Harry, for reasons unknown to anyone including myself. Terrifying in combat, well-versed in any magics locally available, and extraordinarily plucky. Account can be found [url=http://strangely_literal.dreamwidth.org]here[/url].

Sky, Hakim, Rowan: Trio of protagonists from original novel in progress and not slated to be completed at any point in the foreseeable or for that matter unforeseen future. Sky is agender (they/it), Hakim is a dude, Rowan is a chick to whatever degree Rowan can be classified as anything. Sky has a tendency to grow wings and heal people; Hakim is irritable and makes mad science/magic trinkets and he's kind of in love with Sky; Rowan has a disconcerting habit of shapeshifting while talking to you and is cheerfully morally ambiguous. They have misadventures in the B-plot of everything.

Zafira: A skeletally thin and generally discomfiting young woman with a heart of gold... probably. She believes thoroughly in the power of friendship, love, and all that anime shit. She's also got a knack for saying exactly what she needs to say, and for playing everyone it takes to get the job done. She's not on any side but her own, but if you're on her side she'll move heaven and earth to help you out. Just make sure not to get in her way. (Or that of any of her seven significant others.)

Alain: A beautiful young man, apart from the fact that approximately every inch of his body is covered in scars. He's intensely paranoid and fatalistic due to what could be termed an "unstable home environment," and definitely does not believe in the power of friendship, love, or any other such anime shit. What he does believe is that he can save the world from whatever it needs saving from, and he's the only one who can do it right. Him and his substantial collection of knives. He's got some immediately obvious problems with intimacy, but if he and Zafira coexist in a universe, they're extremely close friends despite the fact that there's absolutely no way they should even be able to tolerate each other. Such is the magic of friendship, in which, to reiterate, Alain does not believe.

Elisha: Distinctly underdeveloped template-cousin and/or uncomfortably flirtatious brother of Ari. Strongly resembles Ari, but with a little more Belinda and a little less Golden Retriever. He's still happy, and he's still more or less a good person, but Ari's cheerful ignorance of conventional morality is replaced with a disdain towards it. Devoted to personal freedoms over maximal utility, which isn't a sin in moderation, but in excess starts to get a little bit uncomfortable. Bears the face of Kevin Warhol, as I am weak.

Roughly 76 other totally unrelated OCs: See here for details. There are so many. Someone please help me.

@Bluelantern I really like the entire concept of Isra (personality-wise he's actually pretty similar to one of my characters). What sorts of things does he like to do one he's in the universe at large? (Haven't read the thread yet, apologies if this was answered there).

Eeeeee Anya <333333

This might come as news, but I freaking love Anya.

anthusiasm wrote:@Bluelantern I really like the entire concept of Isra (personality-wise he's actually pretty similar to one of my characters). What sorts of things does he like to do one he's in the universe at large? (Haven't read the thread yet, apologies if this was answered there).

Thanks! Isra is from a RPG campaign that didn't happen (yet), my main goal idea is that he would sort of wander around aimless, but eventually he would come back and liberate his brethren from Lord's rule and allow them interaction with the rest of the galaxy. While I lack any settled alts for him, I would imagine he is the type that might join a cause purely because it is right, if one doesn't present itself. Aimless wandering before he settles down somewhere on the border of civilization to live a quiet life with a few close friends, or run a charity like an orphanage.

What would you describe as the main differences between Tessa and Addy?

Leonard: Is fixated on having things near be sensibly structured / meeting his standards for neatness and efficiency. He will poke and prod at anything that breaks the mold if he's in a position to do anything about it, or just refuse to acknowledge its existence. Thinks that personal freedom is all well and good but perhaps some kinds of freedom could be had far far away from me, thank you. He has a distaste for owing favors and attempts to repay them as soon as possible. He likes the cold. He likes the color white. He's prone to conflict with people who irritate him, but thinks violence is messy and counterproductive and so tries to avoid that too. He rarely apologizes because he rarely considers anything he does a mistake. Even if he learns something later that changes the best path, he blames insufficient information and not himself. He can be very effective at learning rules and systems, making a thing brutally efficient, or doing a well-defined task. He prefers to delegate if significant amounts of creativity or lateral thinking are called for.

Trying to think of worlds where he would fit in.