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@Laser Kiwi Hmm, questions. Never been good at thinking them up but I do have one.

So, as I was looking at this the character that popped into my head was a girl who is almost entirely mute. Maybe on an extremely good day she could say a word or two to family or very close friend. Tends to use an app on her phone or writing to communicate (does know ASL) with others. First question is if a character that has troubles communicating with others is fine?

As for her knack it’d be art related. Since she can’t talk she kind of secluded herself for her formative years and took to drawing, painting, and etc. So, I was thinking her knack would be something along those lines maybe a little similar to how your character is with cooking. As for gift though I am completely stumped. I kind of want something that can tie in to who she is or maybe her art? But I only just saw this today so I may come up with something in my sleep. Dunno. But wanted to make sure that a mute character was fine before continuing down that road first.
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@Laser Kiwi Hmm, questions. Never been good at thinking them up but I do have one.

So, as I was looking at this the character that popped into my head was a girl who is almost entirely mute. Maybe on an extremely good day she could say a word or two to family or very close friend. Tends to use an app on her phone or writing to communicate (does know ASL) with others. First question is if a character that has troubles communicating with others is fine?
As for her knack it’d be art related. Since she can’t talk she kind of secluded herself for her formative years and took to drawing, painting, and etc. So, I was thinking her knack would be something along those lines maybe a little similar to how your character is with cooking. As for gift though I am completely stumped. I kind of want something that can tie in to who she is or maybe her art? But I only just saw this today so I may come up with something in my sleep. Dunno. But wanted to make sure that a mute character was fine before continuing down that road first.


You should check out my character, he is not a talker much, so imo i don't think it will be a problem, but I've been wrong before lol.
As for gift? Hmmmm, some type of ear shattering scream like a Banshee ?
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@Laser Kiwi Hmm, questions. Never been good at thinking them up but I do have one.

So, as I was looking at this the character that popped into my head was a girl who is almost entirely mute. Maybe on an extremely good day she could say a word or two to family or very close friend. Tends to use an app on her phone or writing to communicate (does know ASL) with others. First question is if a character that has troubles communicating with others is fine?

As for her knack it’d be art related. Since she can’t talk she kind of secluded herself for her formative years and took to drawing, painting, and etc. So, I was thinking her knack would be something along those lines maybe a little similar to how your character is with cooking. As for gift though I am completely stumped. I kind of want something that can tie in to who she is or maybe her art? But I only just saw this today so I may come up with something in my sleep. Dunno. But wanted to make sure that a mute character was fine before continuing down that road first.


I think a mute character is just fine as long as you can keep her actively involved with the plot - her actions and nonverbal communication can be fine to push things forward and let her influence events.

A knack for art similar to Kal's or Val's would be really neat. Kal's deals more with how people perceive it, but a knack for picking up techniques or copying things exactly as she sees them could also be very cool.

Kenshi's idea for a banshee scream is really neat - you could do a couple of things with her voice, actually. Maybe something like a Siren, where she can hypnotise or suggest ideas but has to actually speak to use it? Or the ability to speak to certain animals? If her Gift ties in with her art she could be an Oracle of sorts, capable of drawing scenes from the future? Or maybe something like the cursed camera from Goosebumps, where she can draw cursed images that will cause bad things to happen to those depicted? I think there's a lot of potential with both voice and art related Gifts.
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Just finished an evening shift and its 12 am here. Will post in morning should still be within 24 hr zone
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Another gift idea if you wanted it to focus on art instead of voice: She can make anything she draws come to life. Draw a bunny? Little hoppy friend. Draw a pitcher? You can pull that bad boy right out and use it. If she's nefarious, draw money and go commit some fraud. Maybe with the drawback that it can't be used for food (everything tastes like ink/paint/etc), and that the creations will dissolve in water.
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Another gift idea if you wanted it to focus on art instead of voice: She can make anything she draws come to life. Draw a bunny? Little hoppy friend. Draw a pitcher? You can pull that bad boy right out and use it. If she's nefarious, draw money and go commit some fraud. Maybe with the drawback that it can't be used for food (everything tastes like ink/paint/etc), and that the creations will dissolve in water.


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What do y'all think of her gift being similar to the artist dude from Heroes but instead of drugs it's when she sleeps. Still subconsciously draws things and it basically destroys her sleep schedule causing her to almost always be really tired?
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@alexfangtalon I like it! I imagine a lot of the future drawings are not terribly useful, but occasionally they predict major incidents. Lots of nights of "the pasta salad in the cafeteria will give everyone food poisoning tomorrow" type predictions, with the occasional "there will be a fatal accident tomorrow afternoon involving a black truck and a red minivan at the intersection of Jones Drive and Cherry Street". Do you imagine her drawings will show one possible future (giving our characters a chance to change it), or are they inevitably true in one way or another?
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I imagine that for the small unimportant things that's just how they are. Not to big of an impact so the gift only puts a small amount of power into the drawing so for example with the bad food maybe the drawing is just of the whole thing sitting in the garbage. Slightly confusing to interpret but you can get there.

Then there are the big occurrences. in their case it is maybe like a Schrodinger's Cat sort of deal where it may not even be a part of the future but it is a possible one that the actions of she or others she interacts with either cause it or could keep it from happening. These ones would be much harder to predict and the drawings could be over different nights and she'd have to guess at which drawings match the others like a puzzle without the corner or edge pieces. So, for that car crash example. Taking inspiration from what just happened in IC. Maybe there was a drawing of Ben standing in the road, then three days later she may wake up with a drawing of a totaled vehicle with a rat looking at it. She wouldn't know of Ben's connections to rats so she'd almost have no way of connecting the dots. These kinds would take a lot of her energy which is why everything is spaced out so much.

Then another type of drawing would be the only kind where she is actually visible in the drawing. Like something is guiding her to go somewhere or do something. Because I was thinking that since I wasn't here at the start could easily open with her waking up late to see a new drawing showing her back and the surrounding scene is at Poor Yorick's with something somewhere indicating that date and a table with the other PC's sitting at and she's walking towards them.
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I imagine that for the small unimportant things that's just how they are. Not to big of an impact so the gift only puts a small amount of power into the drawing so for example with the bad food maybe the drawing is just of the whole thing sitting in the garbage. Slightly confusing to interpret but you can get there.

Then there are the big occurrences. in their case it is maybe like a Schrodinger's Cat sort of deal where it may not even be a part of the future but it is a possible one that the actions of she or others she interacts with either cause it or could keep it from happening. These ones would be much harder to predict and the drawings could be over different nights and she'd have to guess at which drawings match the others like a puzzle without the corner or edge pieces. So, for that car crash example. Taking inspiration from what just happened in IC. Maybe there was a drawing of Ben standing in the road, then three days later she may wake up with a drawing of a totaled vehicle with a rat looking at it. She wouldn't know of Ben's connections to rats so she'd almost have no way of connecting the dots. These kinds would take a lot of her energy which is why everything is spaced out so much.

Then another type of drawing would be the only kind where she is actually visible in the drawing. Like something is guiding her to go somewhere or do something. Because I was thinking that since I wasn't here at the start could easily open with her waking up late to see a new drawing showing her back and the surrounding scene is at Poor Yorick's with something somewhere indicating that date and a table with the other PC's sitting at and she's walking towards them.


That sounds very thoughtful and well balanced :) could be useful for finding other characters if we have late joiners too
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Whoops, I didn't realize I had just been permanently changed to be after Double E. I'll whip something up before I head to sleep!
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Whoops, I didn't realize I had just been permanently changed to be after Double E. I'll whip something up before I head to sleep!


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Val has approximate knowledge of many names.
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Val is just too cute. My gay lil heart is melting. :D
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WIP

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sounds interesting, is it still open? I'll have my CS if it is
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Val is just too cute. My gay lil heart is melting. :D


At this point, I don't think I could write Caleb being mean to Val even if I tried! Let us form the Val Protection Force and prevent anyone from suddenly vomiting on her shoes!
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@dabombjk Thanks for the CS! I'll go over it with you in our PM :)

@VeyrinDay Yup, still open for the time being. Feel free to post your CS here or PM it to me so we can work through the details :)
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@Laser Kiwi I finished my first version of the CS. Sorry for how it gets long-winded at certain parts.
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