[OOC] Grimoiric Heart

[Lonewolf685]

I sense the game is afoot and I like it!

[Izurich]

I sense the game is afoot and I like it!

@Lonewolf685

Bring it on. Seraph trumps over Kitsune any time of the year.

These girls are Merlin's and no one else's.

[Lonewolf685]

But Sempai loses to bunny, for they are vigorous, prosperous, and many. And when the Sempai breaks down as her previous kouhai defect, Roma will be waiting for the French Saint to kiss the ring and worship a new lord and Master!

[BrokenPromise]

To Wendil’s dismay Olivia is untouchable cause even Roma won’t tarnish true love.

@Lonewolf685

I think you meant to say Roma doesn't want to win a Darwin award.

[Lewascan2]

@Lonewolf685
The main problem with going after Camelot is that she's this weird combination of almost bipolar in some ways, as described in her CS. Granted, I'm sure it'll be interesting to see the attempt, so I'll try and help you out, but Camelot will be a genuinely difficult target compared to the rest of the girls, probably as hard as Lumiere in her own way (though, this just might end up being more encouragement to go after her). Lumiere has experience, but Camelot had some of the most dogged and unrelenting paranoia around.

Gold:
You're right, her radiance is clear to see... too much so. She's at her core so self-sacrificing that she simply has no desire for gold. Even disregarding her paranoia, she just doesn't value it, not really. It doesn't help her, and it doesn't help her people. The closest you might be able to get is, yes, probably a coin from Camelot, but there are a couple problems with that: the first of which being that she'd likely near immediately sell it off, since money helps her people more. She's also something of a tomboy and doesn't value gold as jewelry and the like and would have no reason to keep it personally. She's just not greedy. In fact, it's easy to say that she is the opposite. She believes that she is so blessed that she has little right to recieve more than she has and will often insist wealth goes to others. The only way she's likely to keep it is if it has some kind of very practical use or is a source of knowledge; the gold part simply doesn't factor into her value of it at all... and in fact, in some ways makes her even less likely to take or retain it.

Paranoid:
While as Camelot and even in her civilian form, she can be quite amiable, most people would not for a second realize that she is one of the most paranoid magical girls alive under the surface. She considers being a magical girl to be very dangerous, and despite having pretty much literally no proof after a whole 2 years, she doesn't trust the Grand Ministry as far as she can throw them, which is to say, not far at all. She tolerates the arrangement because it is convenient, but she is a hardcore American at heart and doesn't trust anyone with the kind of power the Grand Ministry has while seemingly answering to no one. As an extension of this, her knowledge of the Grand Director's Merlin Grimoire has made her even more paranoid, as she has assumed (whether correct or not) that said person is a precognitive, which is all kinds of awful to Camelot's desire to choose her own destiny. Camelot's paranoia is absurdly touchy in regards to "things that seem too good to be true", so unless one is very careful about how they approach her, a combination of her paranoia and self-recriminating nature will likely make her reject spontaneous gifts or mysterious alliances as a matter of course. Though, to be fair, she is biased against the Ministry, so that could be an angle.

Honestly, one of the funnest parts about this might be the realization that Camelot really is as genuinely and stubbornly a paragon of justice as she seems. She has her temptations, but the core of real goodness is often such a firm rejection of such temptations as Camelot engages in at nearly all times.

[Ponn]

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Oh, very much so! A small portion of which appear to be part of her transformation, which will be... fun to explore going forward.
Camelot has a bit of an interesting perspective on Alter Magical Girls, since it seems like so many of them's Grimoires mess with their users mentally... or only go to people that are a little bit... off to begin with.

And after this post, I think I'm finally starting to understand what Olivia's CS means by "bizarre" interests. XD
On a somewhat related note, the "Beast" is fucking terrifyingly strong, which I understand is a little rich coming from the person that chose "King Arthur" for a grimoire, but damn. Eldritch entities don't screw around. No wonder she only (technically) has two powers as a Legend-tier Grimoire. XD

@Lewascan2

Actually, she was like this long before she became a Magical Girl. If anything, her transformation makes her slightly less annoying, due to her added charm and the pleasing sound of her voice in that form.

Think about the ramifications of that for a bit…

And yeah, I always intended for Xolys to be a little over the top. He’s the one with all the real power, after all. Olivia just stands around and looks pretty (and creeps the hell out of anyone in close proximity).

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I think you meant to say Roma doesn't want to win a Darwin award.

@BrokenPromise

I don't know whether to take that as an insult or a compliment...

[Izurich]

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@Lewascan2

I find the notion of a Seraph working for Merlin trying to convince Arthur that Merlin is good to be hilarious.

[Villamvihar]

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Actually, she was like this long before she became a Magical Girl. If anything, her transformation makes her slightly less annoying, due to her added charm and the pleasing sound of her voice in that form.

@Ponn

Fear not, for Magical Girl Captain Goodhope (That is a little weird to say, but whatever) will rescue her with the power of friendship! Even if she gets freaked out a couple times down the line. I am actually quite serious about this, because I think that Wilhelmina would try really hard to understand an outcast despite creepy hobbies or the like. After all, her whole shtick has somewhat of a no man left behind aspect to it.

Oh no no, you misunderstand. Roma has henchpeople. She can totes delegate.

And you seem to be assuming Roma would try and subvert anyone while either are Transformed. Why be on guard from the advice of a friendly face met at your favorite cafe~?

Coincidentally it’s a toss up between Good Hope’s optimism and Tabbi’s isolationist mindset that tie them for third most likely.

To Wendil’s dismay Olivia is untouchable cause even Roma won’t tarnish true love.

@Lonewolf685

Oh no! Sempai has noticed me!

[BrokenPromise]

I don't know whether to take that as an insult or a compliment...

@Ponn

It's the truth!

I'll admit I have a hard time parsing Roma's character sheet to find out exactly what their deal is, but Olivia is pretty content to just be with her man. She also seems to be a touch, well, "eccentric," and I don't think Roma could really offer her anything Xolys isn't already giving her. Which leaves the "take by force" option, which isn't too favorable. It's been a bit since I read her sheet, but I don't think it's clearly stated if Xolys would stop fighting if Olivia was incapacitated. Since killing Olivia goes against the goal of enslaving her mind, There are no ideal ways to put Olivia under anyone's control short of some very potent mind control magic, which I don't think Roma has access to. My 2 cents.

"The best way to take out this stand user is not to focus on the stand, but the user themselves!"

[TheWendil]

I'm pretty sure Roma's just hungry for other things. Whatever it is antagonist Magical Girls want.

[Izurich]

I'm pretty sure Roma's just hungry for other things. Whatever it is antagonist Magical Girls want.

@TheWendil

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

[Lewascan2]

I'm pretty sure Roma's just hungry for other things. Whatever it is antagonist Magical Girls want.

@TheWendil

Long as it's not deserts, maybe she can find it at the Round Table. XD

[Lonewolf685]

Yeah Roma isn’t here for Mind Control. She’s just looking to Talk No Jutsu people and convince them to take a more hedonistic approach to their powers so they don’t throw their lives away as empty headed drones of the ministry. She’s vague because you really shouldn’t know everything about an antagonist off the bat…. And she’s an artsy eccentric type with a dirty mind.

[Lewascan2]

@Lonewolf685
Well, the mind shenanigans implications seemed to be there, so I felt that I should clarify just in case, since Roma seems to have "meta knowledge: the power". And I definitely gathered that she's vague on purpose. That will be half the fun I'm sure.

But in any case, I'm sure this'll be quite entertaining!

[Lewascan2]

@Lonewolf685
Ah, now that I reread it, Roma's ability is less "personality/mind reading" and more desires/motivations specifically.

In that case, lol, I wrote too much again, and I'll just tuck some of that back away I think. The only thing you probably need is what motivates her, that being: saving people, personal freedom and a peaceful life, avoiding being corrupted by power, discovering what kind of life will make her truly happy, obtaining power(?) (she's pretty sure she wants it to help more people but worries that her intentions could be corrupted if she gets more than she already has), and finally, discovering if the Grand Ministry really is as good as they present themselves.
If I think of anything else, I can bring it up later, but those are the main things.

In terms of gold tokens, that's unfortunately not really any different? She just doesn't desire gold/trinkets/jewelry enough to have any reaction other than "oh, neat" or an uncomfortable "you sure you want to give that to me? It would help someone else far more." She's just too lacking in greed and too inversely possessing of generosity.

[BrokenPromise]

Mmm, I wouldn't feel too bad about misconstruing anything on Roma's sheet. Half the people I talked to thought she wanted to mind control people, while the other half thought she wanted to do the R-word to them. If the intent was to confuse people they did a pretty good job.

Also @TheWendil you still okay with people making secondary characters or nah?

[TheWendil]

Also @TheWendil you still okay with people making secondary characters or nah?

@BrokenPromise

Since we're no longer accepting new players, I'm fine with secondary characters from our pool, but no more than that for now.

[Lewascan2]

Mmm, I wouldn't feel too bad about misconstruing anything on Roma's sheet. Half the people I talked to thought she wanted to mind control people, while the other half thought she wanted to do the R-word to them. If the intent was to confuse people they did a pretty good job.

Also @TheWendil you still okay with people making secondary characters or nah?

@BrokenPromise

I gathered, lol! So much glorious speculation!

Honestly, I was halfway planning on making random magical girl NPC CSs to flesh out later scenes involving internal and possibly outward dialogue (especially at the school). I've been looking at a bunch of little fairy tales, like Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and Cinderella (the original version of which is actually ridiculously old and set in egypt).

[Lewascan2]

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Since we're no longer accepting new players, I'm fine with secondary characters from our pool, but no more than that for now.

@TheWendil

Ninjaed by the GM, LMAO! Noice.

[Lewascan2]

You know what? I think my secondary character is going to be a Russian that has Santa Claus for a Grimoire. That sounds hilarious. Just need to find a good specific book maybe.

Hol' up, originally I thought it might only be Legendary, but considering the literal worldwide influence in the form of a holiday and massive economic influence as well, is... is Santa Claus actually a Mythic Grimoire? I think it just might be.
On second thought, in terms of global influence, it looks Mythic, but it's far too recent a fairy tale to look like anything more than a Fable. Which means that it sort of averages out as a Legend-type?
Pretty much too young to be Mythic yet, but that has a lot of potential to change long down the line.