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I said I'd at least have a wip so here. I need to elaborate on some parts (and I'm sure there will be some questions that will make me realize I need to add in other places too), and I'm kinda vague on some appearance factors (and no portrait yet) because I want to sketch her myself, so bear with me on those as I work them out


If she fears being alone and doesn't like silence. She should love being around Alfi unless he annoys the hell out of her. Either way, if she ever brought up wanting a good hamburger, he would totally showoff his skills as a chef and make her one. With actual cheese because American cheese isn't actual cheese.
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I said I'd at least have a wip so here. I need to elaborate on some parts (and I'm sure there will be some questions that will make me realize I need to add in other places too), and I'm kinda vague on some appearance factors (and no portrait yet) because I want to sketch her myself, so bear with me on those as I work them out


"Current Events: Thinking about hamburgers."

I snorted so hard, I'm pretty sure my entire office heard me. LMAO.

Looks good so far! I love the power, I think that's a great use of a none-combat oriented character being able to support others. I would add in there that the enchantment is not permanent. Maybe it has a cooldown of like 5 minutes? And then she would need to enchant it again. Would offer up some difficulty in battle and make it more useful for her knight to protect her from harm while she's re-upping the enchantment on their weapon, etc.

I did skim a bit through the rest of it and nothing stuck out to me right now to give feedback on, but I can take a look again at some point when you're more confident in her being finished.

note: also, I will be mostly mia today. Big, big meeting this evening and I have to leave early to prep for it and bleh. Everyone is panicking trying to get everything ready, very stressful day for all involved. I'll be around but not as present as I usually am.
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Hello crew. I wished to read the room and establish some of these good old fashioned social contract boundaries before I got too much further with my character crafting.

I intend to depict capital D Depression with this divine royal princess I’m concocting. It is a subject I am personally close to and involved with and do not wish to discomfort or trigger anyone if I follow through with this. If there are particular boundaries people have with this subject feel free to say so or PM me if you’re not comfortable discussing it openly.
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Hello crew. I wished to read the room and establish some of these good old fashioned social contract boundaries before I got too much further with my character crafting.

I intend to depict capital D Depression with this divine royal princess I’m concocting. It is a subject I am personally close to and involved with and do not wish to discomfort or trigger anyone if I follow through with this. If there are particular boundaries people have with this subject feel free to say so or PM me if you’re not comfortable discussing it openly.


I cannot speak for anyone else, though I am unbothered with tenser/darker topics appearing in the RP or from characters in written-out stories. I know Alfi is going to struggle with his mental health in this story line as well. How much I touch on that? Depends on how the story goes.
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note: also, I will be mostly mia today. Big, big meeting this evening and I have to leave early to prep for it and bleh. Everyone is panicking trying to get everything ready, very stressful day for all involved. I'll be around but not as present as I usually am.


Noted, Boss!

Hello crew. I wished to read the room and establish some of these good old fashioned social contract boundaries before I got too much further with my character crafting.

I intend to depict capital D Depression with this divine royal princess I’m concocting. It is a subject I am personally close to and involved with and do not wish to discomfort or trigger anyone if I follow through with this. If there are particular boundaries people have with this subject feel free to say so or PM me if you’re not comfortable discussing it openly.


I don't mind depictions of depression personally. I also don't mind interacting with people with such conditions. On a group scale, as long as we adhere to the hard limits that Rose had set for the RP, I think we'll be fine.

And since we're on the topic, I suppose it's better to inform everyone that I'm on the spectrum, asperger to be specific, with mild OCD, but ICly, Millie is not. She doesn't have any particular conditions that's listed in the DSM I believe.
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I decided to think about Alfi's backstory. The mental illnesses that could appear in his current life would be anxiety, depression, PTSD, STPD, AvPD (possibly), and an echoist (the opposite of narcissism) problem. Which kind of aligns with his personality, fears, dislikes, and likes already, so all of those will pop up within time.
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I was chatting with Fading Memory a moment ago and remembered something. I attend LARPs, just one in the summer, and they sometimes deal with heavy topics since it's a weird west, horror setting. They have a mechanic built into the game where if a player ever needs to leave a scene, for whatever reason, all they need to do is cover their face with their hand and walk away. The rest of the characters will pretend as if that person was never there and continue on.

It's a great way for players to be able to leave if they are uncomfortable with the current scene (among other things). and I feel like we could implement something similar here where if a topic gets a bit too much for anyone player, they can let the crew know "Hey, I'm taking Character A out of that scene." No questions asked, no need to explain. Just.. I'm taking my character out.

Obviously it's not something to abuse. Trying to get out of a big fight you're losing, etc. But it's an option that we could use for those who don't want to participate in certain scenes/plots.
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I was chatting with Fading Memory a moment ago and remembered something. I attend LARPs, just one in the summer, and they sometimes deal with heavy topics since it's a weird west, horror setting. They have a mechanic built into the game where if a player ever needs to leave a scene, for whatever reason, all they need to do is cover their face with their hand and walk away. The rest of the characters will pretend as if that person was never there and continue on.

It's a great way for players to be able to leave if they are uncomfortable with the current scene (among other things). and I feel like we could implement something similar here where if a topic gets a bit too much for anyone player, they can let the crew know "Hey, I'm taking Character A out of that scene." No questions asked, no need to explain. Just.. I'm taking my character out.

Obviously it's not something to abuse. Trying to get out of a big fight you're losing, etc. But it's an option that we could use for those who don't want to participate in certain scenes/plots.


That is definitely a good idea. It allows people who want to participate in such a plot participate with letting others remove themselves or do something else. With a diverse group, it is always good to have diverse options.

On a side note, I doubt Alfi will expose his mental illnesses and his issues to anyone unless it's a possible one on one situation. He is too reserved in the sense of actually spitting that out to most and would rather not deal with his parents, specifically his father if word gets back to him.

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Looks good so far! I love the power, I think that's a great use of a none-combat oriented character being able to support others. I would add in there that the enchantment is not permanent. Maybe it has a cooldown of like 5 minutes? And then she would need to enchant it again. Would offer up some difficulty in battle and make it more useful for her knight to protect her from harm while she's re-upping the enchantment on their weapon, etc.


That actually was something I wasn't sure about. I wanted to have her not really be well practiced in her magic (which might stand out amongst other nobles) so it may not last very long at the start, or be a little complicated for her to do. I'll definitely throw in that her current level of enhancement is only for a short while.
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I was thinking that the Duke's daughter has learned a bit of the Laws of Sympathy Magic - like calling to like. Spinning straw (or blonde hair - I know what was really going on Rapunzel) into gold, or shaping bits of wax with hair and toenail clippings to make a voodoo doll. Just your plain, ordinary, journeyman level magic. Mind the pinch.
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I was thinking that the Duke's daughter has learned a bit of the Laws of Sympathy Magic - like calling to like. Spinning straw (or blonde hair - I know what was really going on Rapunzel) into gold, or shaping bits of wax with hair and toenail clippings to make a voodoo doll. Just your plain, ordinary, journeyman level magic. Mind the pinch.


That is a cool idea. Could be fun interacting with someone like that.
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Here, I'll share what I'm working on with everyone now that I've cleared some details with the boss and established that group boundary with the room. All I'm lacking at the moment is the background information, but I figured it'd be good to get some details out so everyone could think and scheme on what I'm working on. As an aside to that, if anyone wants to be her Knight or wants me to be their Knight feel free to hit me up.

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@Fading Memory Read the CS! Nice.

As for Knight stuff, I already have a CS prepared in case we do need to double up. So far though, as far as publicly-posted CS are considered (excluding my spare char), we have 3 Nobles and 1 Knight
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@Fading Memory Eyh, Himari and Alpheus share fears.

@Izurich I have a knight character ready for this RP, but I won't post him yet. I bet doubling won't be a bad idea for this RP though unless more people want to become knights.
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I hope everyone is having a wonderful night. It was getting a little quiet in here so I decided to be the one to disturb the peace. ~ <3
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I'm having a good night here! Work was busy today and I got off early and lounged for a bit. We've got some moving we need to do this weekend so I might not be around very much.

Still excited to see everyone's stuff! I'm loving what I've seen so far. As people have said above, we may end up doubling up since so many of us want to be Nobles.
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I'm glad your night is going so well and I hope the weekend moving goes smoothly! Moving is always a pain even if it's just rearranging a living room or whatnot.

*glances at my knight character* I guess I'll post his wip for funzies.

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The below might not be a WIP though I don't know if I am done with it or not.

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***Been digging a bit too much into history to try to think up something fun for a noble character with a backstory from Scandinavia, whether it be Sweden, a modern Kalmar Union type thing, or Norway or Denmark or otherwise. Maybe a bit too much digging into history and 'famous noble families' and such things thus far, but I can say the somewhat lengthy gist of what I'm working on for an idea for a noble at least:

"A young scion, a sickly prince or higher noble, with pale hair and pale skin. Often has to walk with a cane, or deals with a slight hunchback, or is just weak and sickly in general because that'd be easier to find a picture for 'maybe' (Note: It isn't, somehow, for me at least.).

He is either the bearer of a large number of curses, or a familial curse, and this all ties back to actions his ancestors took during the 'Christianization of Scandinavia' basically. Killed or did some notably bad things to worshippers of the 'Old Gods', and it led to a strange event where either an angry magic user of old blood (or strange man with one eye who was never seen or heard from again) placed a curse upon them for their actions in the end. A curse that bound the grudges, pain, ache, fury, and so forth of those slain and suffering due to those ancestors to the bloodline, and that it would afflict them every single generation.

Being nobles, the family can't just let themselves die off, but the curse does end up having certain conditions and a deceptive simplicity in its wording that means just 'adopting' isn't going to get around it either. Thus, of course, this character is born the latest in the bloodline to inherit the curse as the one of his parents' children to do so.

From here? It depends on how the family has handled it as to how his life might have been thus far. If they care about him, or have just been using him to 'contain' the curse in a cruel sense of self-preservation. Etc.

Personality-wise? He is intended to be a stoic, as well as generally polite and cordial and formal enough in social situations, person who has learned to handle a lot of pain and matured more in some sense at least due to the suffering of his own life. A sort who looked in the mirror at home, or wherever he was living at a family estate of sorts, and saw the 'visage of a corpse' due to his health struggles in life thus far, and became stoic and grim a bit pessimistic due to this and with regards to how he carries himself. At the same time, he is someone who values honesty and straightfowardness over flowery language, proper action and merit over mere empty words and flashy titles, and is a genuinely kind-hearted person who seeks to be genuinely considerate of those he cares about and for. As a student he is superb, noted as a 'young child genius' from a young age by his prior educators as his innatue sense of curiosity and superb personal diligence/industriousness were honed incredibly in compensation for his weak body and overall sickly health status. A young scholar and mage of a noble, one who gleaned some particular magical skill to the point of being a 'veritable savant' in this specific area by the time he goes to the Academy....and overall has better mental skills than physical ones for certain.

Certainly a fair share of weaknesses, physical mostly but also mental naturally, but still a standout student who could've gotten a scholarship there perhaps if the Academy had such a thing. "

***Meanwhile, for a knight character? Not as much research done into that as of yet, but I have some basic concepts in mind for one. In either case of the two concepts, though, it is a female knight of sorts. So with that in mind:

"The first of the concepts is a knight who is German, and her family is a wealthy and knightly-blooded family of lower nobility who became powerful over time. They became powerful by taking the folklore concept of a "Freishutz" of legend, and originally used to control the production of magical bullets for earlier firearms. Politically they tried to keep 'neutral' to maximize business, but always sought to be amicable with the ruling party of Germany/HRE as well. However, going into modern times, and as firearms and bullet changed to mass production, they had to water down their 'original product' to a mass-producible yet still-quality enchanted product. They also became more 'modern' in some ways, but the fact they've survived and become a 'quiality german producer' among the nobility I feel would be a cool background.

The second of the two concepts is someone who is either Portugese (maybe with tarot magic or something else), or is French (maybe knowing some cool alchemy or such? hmmm)."
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***Been digging a bit too much into history to try to think up something fun for a noble character with a backstory from Scandinavia, whether it be Sweden, a modern Kalmar Union type thing, or Norway or Denmark or otherwise. Maybe a bit too much digging into history and 'famous noble families' and such things thus far, but I can say the somewhat lengthy gist of what I'm working on for an idea for a noble at least:

"A young scion, a sickly prince or higher noble, with pale hair and pale skin. Often has to walk with a cane, or deals with a slight hunchback, or is just weak and sickly in general because that'd be easier to find a picture for 'maybe' (Note: It isn't, somehow, for me at least.).

He is either the bearer of a large number of curses, or a familial curse, and this all ties back to actions his ancestors took during the 'Christianization of Scandinavia' basically. Killed or did some notably bad things to worshippers of the 'Old Gods', and it led to a strange event where either an angry magic user of old blood (or strange man with one eye who was never seen or heard from again) placed a curse upon them for their actions in the end. A curse that bound the grudges, pain, ache, fury, and so forth of those slain and suffering due to those ancestors to the bloodline, and that it would afflict them every single generation.

Being nobles, the family can't just let themselves die off, but the curse does end up having certain conditions and a deceptive simplicity in its wording that means just 'adopting' isn't going to get around it either. Thus, of course, this character is born the latest in the bloodline to inherit the curse as the one of his parents' children to do so.

From here? It depends on how the family has handled it as to how his life might have been thus far. If they care about him, or have just been using him to 'contain' the curse in a cruel sense of self-preservation. Etc.

Personality-wise? He is intended to be a stoic, as well as generally polite and cordial and formal enough in social situations, person who has learned to handle a lot of pain and matured more in some sense at least due to the suffering of his own life. A sort who looked in the mirror at home, or wherever he was living at a family estate of sorts, and saw the 'visage of a corpse' due to his health struggles in life thus far, and became stoic and grim a bit pessimistic due to this and with regards to how he carries himself. At the same time, he is someone who values honesty and straightfowardness over flowery language, proper action and merit over mere empty words and flashy titles, and is a genuinely kind-hearted person who seeks to be genuinely considerate of those he cares about and for. As a student he is superb, noted as a 'young child genius' from a young age by his prior educators as his innatue sense of curiosity and superb personal diligence/industriousness were honed incredibly in compensation for his weak body and overall sickly health status. A young scholar and mage of a noble, one who gleaned some particular magical skill to the point of being a 'veritable savant' in this specific area by the time he goes to the Academy....and overall has better mental skills than physical ones for certain.

Certainly a fair share of weaknesses, physical mostly but also mental naturally, but still a standout student who could've gotten a scholarship there perhaps if the Academy had such a thing. "

***Meanwhile, for a knight character? Not as much research done into that as of yet, but I have some basic concepts in mind for one. In either case of the two concepts, though, it is a female knight of sorts. So with that in mind:

"The first of the concepts is a knight who is German, and her family is a wealthy and knightly-blooded family of lower nobility who became powerful over time. They became powerful by taking the folklore concept of a "Freishutz" of legend, and originally used to control the production of magical bullets for earlier firearms. Politically they tried to keep 'neutral' to maximize business, but always sought to be amicable with the ruling party of Germany/HRE as well. However, going into modern times, and as firearms and bullet changed to mass production, they had to water down their 'original product' to a mass-producible yet still-quality enchanted product. They also became more 'modern' in some ways, but the fact they've survived and become a 'quiality german producer' among the nobility I feel would be a cool background.

The second of the two concepts is someone who is either Portugese (maybe with tarot magic or something else), or is French (maybe knowing some cool alchemy or such? hmmm)."


I love the meme! And I love all the ideas you are spreading out here! I can say, I should not comment because I would be biased. I would say join the French Revolution with me, but I would say don't do that because I am biased. I cannot help you. Haha!

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I hope everyone is having a wonderful night. It was getting a little quiet in here so I decided to be the one to disturb the peace. ~ <3


Hello! Well, I myself am pretty much ready to start the RP upon Rose's signal, but let's see what everyone else come up with first. "Worst" case scenario, we'll have a few, but solid writers with each person doubling up.

And I read Illa's CS, nice. I think if we double up, Illa can have a fun dynamic with Millie, one's an adoptive prince who hides himself behind a mask and the other a blood-related princess who specializes in unraveling other people's masks, also both of them have something to prove to their respective families.

@Crusader Lord OOC going brrrrr!

Fun ideas, we don't have such a character concept so far either. A fragile savant, hehe... he's a (DnD) Wizard.

As for your knight, I'm biased too so pick the German Arms Manufacturer please. :3
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