Keksalot

Intrigue in the Fifth City - A Fallen London RP

@Hekazu
Tenatively interested. I assume a devil character would be off-limits as the characters oughta be the up-and-coming street-level gentlemen of no renown and with but a few particularly distinguishing qualities?

Would you allow one to play as a highly hopeful and irresponsible Benthic student that yearns hotly for knowledge of a more esoteric and forbidden nature but whose competence is currently not quite enough to mark him as a true scholar of correspondence?

If that's a no, what about simply a dangerous and ambitious person posessing a nigh-on preternatural potential for violence and looking to quite literally carve out a legacy of fame and wealth out of the streets and citizens of London?

Living In Paradise: Redwall/Zootopia Inspired Rp

@The One
Kind of interested. Are reptilian, amphibian, avian, various aquatic creatures allowed? The setup reminds me of Blacksad more than of Redwall.

Καμπ ἉλφΒλοοδ (Percy Jackson Roleplay)

@OldSouledHippie
Sort of interested.
Are these eleven gods the only ones who produce demigod offspring in this game or could a guy here be a descendant of another greek deity/mythological figure? Helios, Eros, Achlys, Hekate, these sort of guys. Primordial deities as opposed to olympians, titans like Themys and Hyperion, personified concepts, centimanes, stuff like that.

Revamping a Supernatural Medieval Roleplay

Sorta interested.

A Tale of Seven Children

@Kuroakuma
Tenatively interested to try and get a role as one of the Seven.

The Seven Deadly Sins [Recruiting Storyweavers! LF Lust and Sloth]

@Holy Soldier
So there's still a possibility I'll be able to play this character, even if i'll have to edit some bits?

The Seven Deadly Sins [Recruiting Storyweavers! LF Lust and Sloth]

@Holy Soldier
I mean, can you at least tell me what parts exactly need changing or editing? I'd like to remain Lust one way or the other instead of changing everything right away.

The Seven Deadly Sins [Recruiting Storyweavers! LF Lust and Sloth]

@Holy Soldier
Why would god brand a sinner with a mark that is tiny and easy to hide as opposed to one that is a clear and obvious and hard to conceal?

As for lust, I do not quite understand what you consider a theme for lust. Lust, as I understand it, is a powerful, visceral and carnal desire, an intense want for something, a passion that is unwholesome and perverse in its strength and is capable of driving a man to unspeakable acts in pursuit of fulfillment.

My guy, as i have already explained previously, currently embodies and expresses lust by being self-centered and egoistical and narcissistic to the extreme. Everything he does, he ultimately does for his personal fulfillment and pleasure. He can never force himself to extend more than a simple token effort to help someone else in a meaningful way if it is in any way difficult or hard, but he will go to any lengths to make himself feel good, or to chase an object of his passion - it's just that due to his history and memories being shrouded he is yet to remember the sheer perversity and depravity he can be capable of, and so for now his lust is mostly internalized and expressed heavily in being a self-centered bastard that thinks he is a nice person but is too hypocritical to admit that in reality he cares only about the praise he receives and not about whatever goodness he does. If and when something in his situation changes, if he begins to hunger for something greater and more intense, his true and utterly villainous colours would show.

But if lust here is supposed to be purely some sort of carnal lecherous desire for material wealth and sexual conquest i can do that too.

The Seven Deadly Sins [Recruiting Storyweavers! LF Lust and Sloth]

@Holy Soldier
Ah, sorry. I think I understand. How about this: Absalom's curse manifests in form of an nigh-on irresistible longing and want for corruption and violation of innocent and beautiful things and things that are complete by themselves? To explain - when witnessing a beautiful work of art, such as a painting or a statue that is complete and beautiful and finished and requires no additions, he would feel a terrible compulsion to somehow hurt and ruin it in a way that'd make it incomplete. Similarly, when witnessing dispalys of purity and spiritual integrity in people, such as helping someone purely out of goodness of your heart, he feels a burning need to make them stop, and make them abandon any pretension of goodness.

Alternate ideas: First - in a classic biblical Lust fashion, any woman he copulates with will guaranteedly become pregnant and give birth to two or more children who will grow up to become either evil and villainous men, or become destined to confront him later.

Second - no matter how much he himself takes from the world, no matter what of his own lusts he fulfills, he is cursed to never be complete and whole. No matter how much he eats, he remains emaciated, no matter how kind he is to his men they never trust him completely and never become TRULY dedicated, no matter how lavishly he dresses and how much makeup he applies, there is still a fatal ugly flaw in his apperance, no matter what remedies he seeks the mark on his back still weeps and hurts.

The Seven Deadly Sins [Recruiting Storyweavers! LF Lust and Sloth]

@Holy Soldier
Is the character supposed to specifically represent his sin in his personality overtly and distinctly? I kind of sort of assumed that since we've don't really have our memories we can be the sort of people society molded us into after we've regained our bearings as opposed to the people that we were when we got cursed - that is, until our past catches up to us.

As of now, as i see it, this guy's lust is expressed in the fact that despite all things said and done he is supremely self-centered and almost incapable of commiting to anything except something that he himself wants, narcissistic to the extreme, even if in a sort of passive, internalized way. His ability's nature especially helps him to extend almost no effort towards dealing with the outside world as opposed to working towards his own desires - but at the same time, torturously, he can't just materialize his own wishes in a way that he can do with the wishes of others.

And nah, he isn't specifically modeled after Beelzebub, nor as a demon nor as a philistine god. The festering fly-shaped mark symbolizes the infectiousness and the insidious nature of sin overall and lust specifically as the most carnal and visceral sins - closest to the flesh, pestilent and incredibly hard to scrub out. A fly in christianity is a symbol of sin and decay, both physical and spiritual, even in detachment from Beelzebub specifically. Especially considering that "lord of the flies" is just one of his interpretations, other being "lord of those who dwell in heaven/lord of the heavenly/lord of those who fly" from Baal Zəbûl as opposed to Zebub, both originating not in the christian writings but among israelites and philistines.