> Well, I'm mostly concerned about having this fear (it seemed like each lantern had a specific phobia that it was connected to) be a driving force in the character's actions, and not being able to choose what it is. It's limiting. I'm attempting to mitigate how limiting it is by making a character that would be driven by that fear anyway, especially now that she's plunged down the rabbit hole...
That's a good question-- no, the lanterns don't randomly give the person a phobia, they have already had that phobia beforehand.
As with how they were chosen, we picked powers that would somehow correspond with your phobia. (At least for some, since a few powers have been changed now they seem oddly thrown together) I.e person with rainbow flame can idk.. turn into a sparkles and their phobia is never being beautiful enough or something. Some are ridiculously ironic, but I won't say what they are because secrets. :)
If you're really concerned, I'll pm you what the phobia is.
Also, phobias aren't quite the driving force of your characters personality-- the fear really only comes into play at the end of the roleplay, when shit goes _down_. But that's pretty far away. We didn't pick phobias that the character would constantly be exposed to like.. girls or something.
As for you, OS, it was a lucky coincidence.