RoboCat

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

The idea I had for the nation my character idea was from took a lot of inspiration from world war 1 and 2 eras of nations like persia, japan and ofcourse the republic of china. With them having been pretty peaceful before the futile war kicked off, going through some internal strife as one of the few nations that wasn't swole enough to really stalemate the european invaders until they realized this massive stone deposit that they'd used for more peaceful things like purifying their lakes and defending against harsh weather could be used to basically glass massive areas. The realization was to be their idea of the nuke and the fear of it grew into an appreciation of raw power basically. The initial idea was that the character was gonna be adjusted to handle the stone better(i guessss it's still on the table with the egotism) and serve as a showcase for their power in combat, for the sake of restoring their clan's name. Like it'd be the country basically saying. 'We can make more, hire us to slay your enemies and we can be rich with an endless wartime economy' kinda deal. Kinda like some msg type beat.

Also @ERode, I did more research and got an even better idea that more simplistic scientifically. The stone magnifies sound that gets trapped in it with light. Basically I had no idea until now, but the more hertz sound has, the higher its decibels will be. Decibels is intensity and hertz is frequency(like how many waves are in that space), and when the decibels get past like 7000, they start vibrating enough to burn things. I was thinking of decibels when I had the idea for the polymathy through the stone. The stone would basically only be able to help someone trap and control dangerously loud sounds as it is now, so I'll probably scrap the sound idea since it was specific to the character's branch of the country's royal family, and not the country's weaponry as a whole. It would take an incredibly massive crystal(bigger than I'd initially assumed, like the top being the tip of a small mountain, while the shaft extends into the ground, past the base sized) for them to glass anything. And I think that's a cool idea, but beyond that, I'll be back to the drawing board on the individual character's polymathy.

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

Hey, so basically it was just tradition. they don't need it slotted into their bodies, I just figured that'd be super cool, and that it'd tie in with a thing I had in-mind. Also with the sound part, basically when light and sound are trapped in the same container the hertz of the sound increases by some crazy amount by like a hundred million hertz or something along those lines.

But yeah basically having them just use the stuff externally would be for the best. It'll give them a bit of a glass cannon vibe.

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

I was kind-of hoping you'd say it like that. I had the idea of a very old Dark Continent nation that basically lives off of their land's rare material that they'd call a pathway stone. It'd basically be the stone of Aja from jojo's bizarre adventure but for sound and light, and what you said made me realize, they'd only need technologism to do what I had in-mind. They'd have a system for surgically implanting these stones into their royal families via Egotism while the main polymathy of their royals would be various ways to use the stone. With the stone working as a optomechanical crystal, they'd use technologism to adjust it for trapping sound and light together before also using technologism to release it as a dangerous lazer.

I cooked up the background for the country before fully understanding how the power system worked and wrote that the reserve of the material was their country's bread and butter. Would something like that be possible?

Edit: To clarify, the egotism is basically a one-off thing for making them more resistant to the blatantly dangerous vibrations and heat and basically so that they don't die using their gemstones.

The abilities that would stem from using technologism on the stone would be things like amplifying sounds with the trapped light, magnifying light like a powerful magnifying glass, shooting the equivalent of a flashbang, etc. They'd be weakest in dark areas, and strongest in water.

Qualia: Steampunk Spies, School Life Scandals, and Eldritch Spice

Still reading, but it looks pretty interesting so-far

Edit: So would a character be able to start with two and perhaps use two of the different powers in tandem, like technologism and dynamicism used in conjunction to do something like use a daimond in making dangerous lazer attacks and stuff like that?

2nd Edit: Would using the various schools of polymathy in tandem via simplistic scripts be possible aswell? Like having their main and largest script be for the purpose of preventing their own abstraction, limiting what they can script but allowing the different kinds to be used in tandem? I was thinking like how megaman from the megaman battle network series has a program that can fit certain combinations of smaller, assisting programs in his code, like a picture puzzle or a collage.

3rd Edit: The questions helped me cook up another idea, dm me

Blighted Etherea: The Champions of Hope

Hey sorry for the late response, work really got me. I'll be working on the character sheet and the regiment tonight

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I was meaning to ask, are you okay with me using anime images? I can't find any realistic pictures/photos of what I have in-mind

Blighted Etherea: The Champions of Hope

I read over it and instantly got the idea of a displaced union comprised mostly of beast-kin and lead by ruling tribe of powerful kraken-type beast-kin that helped organize the nation into something of a massive nomadic fleet through the use of their floating capitol city. I'd have it to be where when they were still in their original lands, the union would hold a massive set of tournament games for the various champions to settle things in terms of who would lead politically. I'd have it to where the kraken beast-kin have won the games consistently enough to have a floating capitol city, and would have their regiment be comprised the failed would-be champion kings that got to a certain point in the competitions. They'd basically be a tremendous naval power and filled with formidable fighters of great variety, but with a structure that'd leave some things to be desired, as the glue keeping them together would be the shared loss of their homelands. It'd be lit. I'd probably have their place of origin be the area just at the tip of that great lake on the north-west end of the map, where it meets the ocean.

Blighted Etherea: The Champions of Hope

I like what I'm seeing

So I got a few RP ideas if any of you are willing to check these out.

I like the idea. The rushed development while having to step up to the plate in hopefully leading their classmates through the turmoil of war.

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Hey there. I couldn't help but notice this thread and have a pretty nice idea about a character if you'd be willing to have me around. I could manage a post a week type of style for a more neutral evil sort of character if that makes sense. The concept for their abilities is relatively simple.

The tldr; is that it's a bit similar to how ant man avoided the snap. Only he was a rather street-level exorcist at wits end facing an evil entity inside of its own realm when the snap swept across the universe, this however left his safeguards in the main dimension to be snapped, leaving him to be corrupted by a demon of corruption and in-turn surpass it, gaining the ability to corrupt the mentally vulnerable into doing horrible things, transform into a powerful demonic entity and eat other demonic entities to steal their abilities.

He's pretty evil and having gained his powers and returned just before the un-snapping, he's indulging in the faults of the new world order and the relatively crippled avengers who aim to protect it. He's mostly known to be a particularly nasty thorn in the side of Carol Danvers, whos worldly abilities tend to be laughed off and normally finds good reason to stay very far away from Valkyrie, who is generally prepared for the kind of madness he has to offer through their asgardian roots.

If something like that would be nice, lemme know!