New Characters Say Hello

[PlainDealingVillain]

Most every time someone has made a new character they have given them a new thread to be introduced in. I'm guessing a central place to put them would make people a little more likely to talk about their new characters.

Speaking of which, I have a new character. His name is Theo. He is a very loyal person who has strong pseudo-moral intuitions about fairness. Magic (or mutants, or other very-unevenly-distributed very advanced technology) almost always runs against these, and so he can usually be found trying to give everyone magic or take it away from everyone, normally in a fairly polite and nondestructive but direct manner. He also sometimes finds himself 'broken', where his anger, fear, or pain sublimates into a sharp elitist contempt, though he hates this feeling. (In sortinghatchats terms, he's a Slytherin/Gryffindor who Petrifies easily but can come out of it more easily than most; he also has a strong Gryffindor/Ravenclaw model/persona that comes out when his aggressive fairness intuitions.)

[Bluelantern]

Most every time someone has made a new character they have given them a new thread to be introduced in. I'm guessing a central place to put them would make people a little more likely to talk about their new characters.

Speaking of which, I have a new character. His name is Theo. He is a very loyal person who has strong pseudo-moral intuitions about fairness. Magic (or mutants, or other very-unevenly-distributed very advanced technology) almost always runs against these, and so he can usually be found trying to give everyone magic or take it away from everyone, normally in a fairly polite and nondestructive but direct manner. He also sometimes finds himself 'broken', where his anger, fear, or pain sublimates into a sharp elitist contempt, though he hates this feeling. (In sortinghatchats terms, he's a Slytherin/Gryffindor who Petrifies easily but can come out of it more easily than most; he also has a strong Gryffindor/Ravenclaw model/persona that comes out when his aggressive fairness intuitions.)

Hello to Theo

Does he originates from a specific setting? What are your plans for him?

[PlainDealingVillain]

He originates from nowhere in particular except my desire to make a character who was more likely to incite plot than my previous attempts. He is available for sandboxes or whatever.

[anthusiasm]

How do Theo's strong pseudo-moral intuitions about fairness generally manifest in non-magical settings?

[PlainDealingVillain]

It depends on how egregious inequality is. If it's about Earthfic-standard, he'll usually end up being an ACLU lawyer or a rough equivalent. If it's something totally egregious like Panem, he ends up a rebel, or dead, pretty quickly, unless there are people relying on him for support enough that he can't risk it. This might happen even if there is magic; Facet magic annoys him, but Facet government pretty much enrages him.

[DanielH]

What would he do in Origin or Eos? Would the existence of unturnable part-vampires annoy him about Aurum? What about cloudpine witches, where it’s fairly obvious that no person controls the distribution of that magic?

Would his opinion of Facet magic change if the ritual were public knowledge, or would he still not like it because different people get different amounts?

[MaggieoftheOwls]

So what I'm getting from the initial post is that in an X-Men universe he would probably be a scientist working on the mutant "cure"?

[Moriwen]

Ooh, I'll toss in mine! (All new, by virtue of me being new myself. :P)



Faith: world's friendliest antichrist. Comes with ethically dubious mind-control powers that are basically a reverse-Allirea: everyone magically thinks she is Very Important. So if someone is trying to think of who to invite to a party, or who to vote for for president, or who to blame for global warming, she's the first person who springs to mind. Faith is mildly freaked out by this but also definitely wants to keep the powers and use them to remake the world in her own new-and-improved image. And the powers are ramping up.

Faith's extroverted and friendly but her powers don't work well with normal human interactions. A definite Ravenclaw: she's come up for clever ways to make the world be, she just happens to have the power to make it so. She forms close friendships, and is very offended when they disapprove of her antichrist-ing.



Jean: originally comes from a dark!Star Trek AU, where the world's in the process of being remade into Roddenberry's Happy Communist Atheist Future, but there's a lot of casualties happening along the way. (He's happy to crop up anywhere there's a rebellion for him to take part in, though.) Originally a gifted and aspiring actor, he joins a secret resistance and uses his Super Acting Skills to work against the new Federation. Does that for a while until the Federation decides to destroy his entire planet, at which point he manages to duck into Milliways with 2.6 seconds left until the bomb goes off, but doesn't have time to rescue anyone else. So now he's hanging out in Milliways trying to find someone sufficiently powerful to stop a planet-destroying bomb in less than 2.6 seconds.

Jean's introverted but has Super Acting Skills that make him quite socially adept. He doesn't have much in the way of inherent moral instincts, but once he's had time to think through something he'll usually come to a reasonably ethical conclusion and stick to it. Does have a tendency to reach a breaking point and solve his problems by Running Away Very Fast. Slytherin by virtue of both ambition and cunning. Not a very happy person, first from sacrificing his promising acting career and then from having everyone he cares about indefinitely 2.6 seconds from obliteration.



Sapphire: literally the shiny blue rock. Member of a group of "Elements" who go about fixing time anomalies. Has a variety of time-related powers: can cause time loops (as in "Swaps and Loops"), turn time back, sense the age and history of things, age or de-age stuff, etc. Does not think much of humans. Is actually quite friendly, as long as you qualify as "not human" in her mind (having sufficient powers of some sort will do). Very Weird, mostly by virtue of being from a completely different society. Cares a lot about fixing Time (which, to be fair, does prevent the end of her world) and not very much about such trivialities as human life. Considered a diplomat among Elements; this mostly says a lot and how terrible Elements are at interacting with humans.

[PlainDealingVillain]

So what I'm getting from the initial post is that in an X-Men universe he would probably be a scientist working on the mutant "cure"?

He might try to give everyone the X-gene instead. But yeah, he'd be doing one of those things, and unless he'd encountered some good arguments for keeping mutants around he'd lean toward 'no more mutants'.

[Bluelantern]

So what I'm getting from the initial post is that in an X-Men universe he would probably be a scientist working on the mutant "cure"?

He might try to give everyone the X-gene instead. But yeah, he'd be doing one of those things, and unless he'd encountered some good arguments for keeping mutants around he'd lean toward 'no more mutants'.

Not that crossover event again!!!

What he says about bodily autonomy?