The Savant

How high can we count before a mod gets involved?

100 and you almost got me in the first half + 3.

How high can we count before a mod gets involved?

100

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Thank you.

How high can we count before a mod gets involved?

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Can someone please remove the post created by me in the character tab to keep that tab clean, thank you.

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Saint Valerius Academy - A Knight/Noble Fantasy

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Hmmm, fair points! I admit that I may have read his character wrong. I'm scrapping the idea.

Also, you brought up good points about his personality and motivations, which points us to what we want to experience as their writer. I'm just saying that if you think that there's little potential to explore from pairing them, we may as well nip it in the bud and cancel the (OOC) arrangement. For example: if they work better as foes, then it's better to not pair them.

Related, if it helps to know, I already have a contingency plan if somehow, there's no other PC that can foster interesting plots with mine, that is, I'll just pair up Millie with Max, "Fine, I'll do it myself" Thanos style. 😎

@Izurich

All of the above here, states that if Illa and Millie cannot be paired in a romantic way that you're uninterested. I don't believe I'm misunderstanding.

You have pointed out that if there is no romantic interest that we need to cancel our prior arrangement. Our only arrangement was him being her knight, in my mind that was our only standing arrangement.

You state that if there is the possibility of them being foes, you have no interest in pairing them. Which they honestly could be foes. I've never written Illa and have no idea how he will work with Millie.

And then you confirm that you rather pair with yourself in that case to make a "you'll do it yourself" plot which cancels any potential growth for these two characters before anything has happened between them at all.

I'm going to say this, Illa can work with social plots without an issue though those plots can have consequences. Trying to make a romantic social plot with a character who is uninterested in romantic ships along with naturally being distant and self isolating and hoping he magically blossoms into a romantic man under the toxicity of rumors and high school life is similar to asking Alpheus not to participate in rumors, not go to any social events, and not having friends so he is isolated and assuming that he wouldn't get depressed.

Saint Valerius Academy - A Knight/Noble Fantasy

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Hmmm, fair points! I admit that I may have read his character wrong. I'm scrapping the idea.

It was just an idea and I'm not married to it either. Also, you brought up good points about his character, which points me to what we want to experience as their writer. I'm just saying that if you think that there's little potential to explore from pairing them, we may as well nip it in the bud and cancel the (OOC) arrangement.

Related, if it helps to know, I already have a contingency plan if somehow, there's no other PC that can foster interesting plots with mine, that is, I'll just pair up Millie with Max, "Fine, I'll do it myself" Thanos style. 😎

@Izurich

I'm not one to pre-arrange romantic relationships in character or interest. I tend to have a habit of letting my characters write themselves but I have no solid foundation to say that Illa would get with anyone at all. Alpheus is the more romantic type and I doubt that he won't have little crushes on others or maybe show an actual interest in someone.

Though neither of these characters will be pre-arrange with anyone else's characters. I enjoy the discovering of that in IC instead of forcing it from OOC discussions. In my experience, those have never worked for me because characters are written differently then how I expected they would write out, they change, etc.

I'm completely fine with you wanting to cut off the OOC arrangement of having Illa as Mille's knight. I'm not tied to anything when it comes to having my characters paired with anyone. I'll enjoy the writing nonetheless.

Saint Valerius Academy - A Knight/Noble Fantasy

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Oh, good point, Rose Boss! Actually I have been musing plot ideas for my PCs and characters that may be involved with them. Several are in drafts, but two of them are solid enough for me to present to you:

1. Tagging @The Savant since this idea centers around Prince Illa. Okay, since this world's Russia is also invading Ukraine (but being more successful in the endeavor), I imagine that the slavic empire is currently Public Enemy#1 in the political playground. With this context in mind, I think we can have play around with court intrigue surrounding Illa's partnership with Millie. I'm predicting speculations and rumors would arise regarding their relationship, such as: Russia is trying to secure its western borders by gaining an alliance with the Holy Roman Empire via marrying its crown prince with the HRE's princess.

Of course, the notion of two powerful empires (both with warmongering history) united in a royal alliance will be quite worrying, not just for Ukraine but for the entire world as well. As such, even though the truth may be that they're just two students who just so happened to be paired, there'll be... several parties that believe it's in their best interest to sabotage their relationship.

2. Tagging @Animal because this idea was inspired by Esme's CS. Reading Esme's childhood history and the Underground organization gave me an idea that due to her unique spellcasting power, Millie is in their watch list of potential abductees. Her social position and HRE's terrifying might may have put her in the backburner as they'd rather go after 'safer' options such as a low-class orphan (e.g: Esme). However, now that they know The Iron Princess will be attending a private school in an isolated remote region for the foreseeable future, they may try to make their move, especially if they can use someone else as a scapegoat, it can be Illa, or Alfi, or even the headmaster or one of the teachers.

@Izurich

I have a hard time envisioning rumors being spread about Russia and the Holy Roman Empire at first because from past discussion. I have it in my head that the school is going to randomly pair knights with nobles. Meaning there was no way to setup an arranged/pre-conclusion teaming.

And I do believe if rumors about Illa and Millie form. Lilia will become extremely distant and uninterested with her. He has no ambition to court anyone at the moment and sees no need. His current goal is to be approved by his father and achieve the requirements given to him to take over the throne in the future.

Rumors can spread though they will be as hallow as this man. Illa isn't a romantic character, he's not built for it, and if he does court anyone it'll be a long burn to even then. Courting and relationships are not on his mind.

And if the rumors get bad enough along with questions, Illa would go out of his way to go to the headmaster of the school to see if he can change nobles. He won't feed into people's entertainment and he's not there for friendships.

Edit: I'm at work and on mobile so I might not be explaining this well. We will have to discuss this more later.

Saint Valerius Academy - A Knight/Noble Fantasy

Unisex could be...

Jamie, Cameron, River, Sage, Kai, Pat/Patti, Blair, Rowan, Jael, and Taylor.

Saint Valerius Academy - A Knight/Noble Fantasy

I've sketched a knight character but I am struggling with a good name. I feel like the name kind of sets up everything else... Maybe we can crowdsource ideas based on what I came up with?

The Knight In Question

@Crowvette

Juniper.