Subject: These weird things...
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Posted on: 2013-07-27 03:51:00 UTC
Seem a fair bit too edgy and weird to be interacted with in the PPC setting.
Then again I wouldn't really know, considering who I am.
Subject: These weird things...
Author:
Posted on: 2013-07-27 03:51:00 UTC
Seem a fair bit too edgy and weird to be interacted with in the PPC setting.
Then again I wouldn't really know, considering who I am.
Let's get this rolling.
-Y'know, if the OFUR ever returns to life, I half want to enroll as a mole. Nobody seems to like the digger folk, and Axtel Sturnclaw and Egburt are two of my favorite characters.
-How would Yorick be disguised in OFU's? He's an urple bloody skeletal champion sorcerer (yes, I finally decided on a class), but what would he turn into in, say, OFUR?
-On the subject of Yorick, what would the typical response of most agents be to seeing him? Besides, ya know, screaming. He's friendly enough, just blast-happy and lacking in self-preservation. Not that he needs that latter one. Bloody skeleton.
-So, I have a full set of ten near-godlike beings as original characters, though they stand outside the main conflict in their story of origin. All pf them violate some law of physics, whether a real-world one or an in-setting one. In addition, all but two of them are resurrected members of a certain in-setting race. How would one go about writing their interactions with the PPC? They are:
-- White, the Law of Life. The most powerful of the group, able to create souls (a true impossibility in the story)
-- Red, the Guardian of Power. He's a dragon, although his exact appearance constantly changes. His violation of physics is the ability to destroy matter. He's violently protective of Blue, but we'll get to that one later. He used to be one of the dragon people.
-- Orange is not fully defined, but my friend and I figure he does weird crap with gravity. He used to be a Librarian, a demonic-but-neutral keeper of universal knowledge.
-- Yellow, the Mentalist. A yellow humanoid with no arms, and no features on its head other than seven eyes. Its violation of science is an in-setting one, namely that it can completely bypass any opposing willpower for mind-reading. He used to be Kyouki-jin, an alien race of shapeshifters and bloody psychos, two of whom are central protagonists and one of which is the big bad.
-- Green, the Crafter of Plagues. A 300-foot centipede who is actually a very friendly and social person. It's just that he generates a disease that afflicts all life and kills in minutes, and thanks to Gray, he hasn't had a chance to learn to control it. He hates Gray. He used to be Karthenl, an alien race of arsenic-based insectoids.
-- Gray, the Renegade. He fancies himself a cop that goes about punishing criminals in the universe with his timehax and mind-rape cigars. The problem is that he typically considers anyone a criminal, and was soundly dealt with by White. The only evil one of the bunch, he can manipulate time (another in-setting impossibility) and he used to be human. Specifically, Al Capone.
-- Blue, the Generator. Like Orange, he isn't fully defined, but he's at least more defined than Orange. He's a childish entity, protected by Red and who can create energy of all kinds. He's very friendly, and likely more suited to the Nursery, but there you have it.
-- Indigo, the Living Mountain. Exactly what it says on the tin, except the tin doesn't say that it's COMPLETELY solid, and I mean completely. Yes, down to the subatomic level. Yes, it's a physical impossibility, but we've established by this point that the Strange don't care about such things. It's the last of the Ganda, a semi-sapient form of silicon-based life.
-- Violet, the Rampant. The largest and most monstrous of the strange, whose physical problem is being a living thing that moves faster than light without bending space. He/she/it/they used to be a member of an unnamed and mostly-extinct race of psychotic alien giants. It's bigger than most stars, so, uh, yeah, no PPC for this one.
-- Black, the Law of Death. Basically, the Grim Reaper, and it possesses the ability to destroy souls. It can speak, but you can only hear it if you're either Strange or if it really hates you and wants you afraid of it. Don't worry, he's mostly doing his job. He hates those that get off on making others suffer, though.
1) That'd be up to whoever runs it - Laburnum, IIRC.
2) Why would he be in an OFU? I mean, occasionally PPC Agents visit OFU, but I don't think there's a reason to enter one. If you wanted to have him visit, then he'd be in his own form.
3) That depends entirely on the agent. They're used to seeing strange things, remember - most would probably demand that he put some clothing on, because ye gods the blindness. And yes, self-preservation would be a plus, considering that in the multiverse, there's a way to kill anything. An agent who literally cannot be killed or destroyed in any way would be a bit dull, don't you think? More fun to read about something when there's an actual risk involved.
4) Don't. Just... don't. I would not be a fan of a bunch of godlike, immense, physics-violating beings just... randomly tossed into the PPC. I am especially concerned with Green, who could apparently destroy all life, and Grey, because any character with the word "rape" or "mind rape" in their one line description sends up flashing alarm bells. The last time I remember seeing something this powerful and massive in the PPC was the Mysterious Somebody, and that was a long, multi-year story arc done by an experienced writer.
I am very, very wary of just tossing a bunch of massively overpowered godlike beings into the PPC just for the hell of it. Stick to agents. Normal, everyday, realistic agents with character depth. Then, when you know you can convincingly write characters in this setting, we can talk about the interesting things.
What is their opinion on one giving up entirely? It just popped up in HFA while I was reading, but doesn't appear to go anywhere. What do the canons and coordinators think of students who just resign to a lack of skill and give up on writing entirely?
Something tells me that even OFUs wouldn't be cruel enough to encourage this course of action. Or inaction. Whatever.
...and you'd be surprised how cruel we can be. *evil laugh*
But seriously, a lot of canon characters would probably be pleased. Imagine if your life was a canon, and people wrote stories about you and your friends and enemies. Wouldn't you just be against the concept of fanfiction entirely? Well, maybe you wouldn't (I don't know you), but some people would be, and that's how the canons would react. Maybe the course coordinators or some of the minor characters who don't get touched in fanfic wouldn't want fanstudents to give up on writing, but a large portion of the staff might not mind.
However, out of universe, when the PPC and OFUs encounter badfic authors they try to encourage them to improve, not to give up. So an OFU will try to convey that. Although the exchange might go:
Canon character: A student in my class has decided to give up fanfic entirely! Yay! One less badfic writer to deal with!
Course coordinator: Yes, but we believe everyone has the potential to improve, and we're trying to help them do that. Try to teach them that, okay? I know it's hard, but then we'll have more goodfic writers in the long run.
Canon character: Well, okay. That doesn't mean I have to like it, though.
That's my experience, anyway...it really depends on what canon you're talking about. Me, I write for Star Trek, and that continuum was one of the first to get fanfiction and therefore the characters don't want to deal with the growing fanbase of writers, but those in an underappreciated fandom might value every writer they get.
I hope that makes sense...
Seem a fair bit too edgy and weird to be interacted with in the PPC setting.
Then again I wouldn't really know, considering who I am.
They're the Strange. Sounds uncreative, but then I tell you that the being that (accidentally and obliviously) created them, which is so heavily implied to be God that it's like a ten-ton weight, is called the Stranger.
Who is most certainly unsuited to PPC work, since it's a force of pure power, chaos and universal laws gone mad, packed and compressed into a twelve-foot-tall, godlike entity with an aura of pure and unbridled chaos.
Yup, I made a truly omnipotent being. It is truly a god. We're doomed.
Excuse me while I bang my head against the wall.
...why do you feel the need to concuss yourself over this? Voyd is only explaining his/her idea...
Mucking with this sort of metaphysical mystery usually results in multiple human-shaped puddles on the floor. What purpose would these Strange serve in the PPC, again? And... why? O.e