Subject: Thought experiment/game/character creation thing
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Posted on: 2015-02-26 14:44:00 UTC

So, I like a lot of works of fiction. The list on my wiki page is very far from complete, and the list is bloody long as it is.

I also like creating characters. Sometimes, when I have nothing better to do, I'll start generating the flavor of a Pathfinder character. I've also spontaneously thought up several PPC agents who will likely never see the light of day.

What that brings me to is this: how would YOU write non-human agents from some of the continua I like?

Note that you need not think of a character for every item on the list, since odds are good you won't know all of them. To save you guys searching, I'll drop some continua right here.

-Monster Musume: I know, one of my agents is from this continuum, but if you combine this with Kenkou Cross's original Monster Girl Encyclopedia, there is just tons of variety. I tried to follow Okayado's example, giving the monster girls many biological traits of the animals they resemble and also not making them not depend on naughty fun times. If you want to make a MonMusu character, expect to be doing a lot of zoology research.

-Pikmin: I love Pikmin, but it comes with a huge barrier for agents: very few creatures in the series are sapient, and also most are bug-sized. If you can figure a workaround for it, I'd very much like to see a Pikmin agent.

-Prototype: This kinda goes in the opposite direction. The Evolved are significantly watered down compared to Alex and James, but I still feel that even with just one of Alex/James's powers, Evolved are unfortunately way too powerful to be used as agents. I could maybe accept an agent that was Evolved in his duties, but even that is iffy, since Alex Mercer personally creates Evolved, and he's so powerful that I worry about him having neuralysis immunity.

-Mega Man: This is one that would encourage creativity. Robot Masters, Mavericks and NetNavis are all incredibly varied, but we again run into the problem of the setting's rather high power level. X, Zero, MegaMan.EXE and Bass.EXE are near to robot/computer program gods, but they're just the elite members of already-OP races. There's also the conundrum of NetNavis not possessing physical bodies, being computer programs.

These are far from the only continua that I'd be interested in seeing PPC reps for. Go forth, and brainstorm!

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