It's time for the announcement I've been looking forward to for days now!
Introducing....
I have seen people translating characters from popular culture into closed species "OCs" before, and it's a concept that makes me deeply uncomfortable. Something feels wrong about a person laying claim to something every fan of a franchise might enjoy just as much.
Inspired by conversations with Caldoric and Shiny, I had an idea that I hope can make everyone happy who would enjoy such characters! Calyptra characters translated from pop culture will from now on be Communal Characters!
Communal Characters belong to everyone, including people who do not otherwise own a Calyptra character yet. No one is allowed to claim any of them as exclusively their own or to profit off them. Everyone may draw and RP freely using them. The only way one such character can be revoked from use is if someone lands on the blacklist or the creator/owner of the character asks to put it out of use.
This way, every fan of a franchise can use characters who are part of it in their Calyptra form, and people who don't have their own Calyptra can still join events and prompts by using Communal Characters! C:
Of course there are a few limitations though! For starters:
Until further notice, I am the only one who can authorize a Communal Character Design. And I will appoint a few designated artists for this task.
This might change once it feels safe to distribute this power more evenly. You may make requests for characters you wish to see, or even suggestions for their traits - but I don't want you all to happily start drawing just to then have your heart broken as designs are rejected.
Secondly, no interactions with a Communal Character can become part of your character's canon history! All of these interactions exist in a sort of Alternate Universe! This is to avoid hangups with different people playing the same character differently, and to prevent Caluptra characters meeting each other and realising that they all happen to be Harry Potter's children or something.
Trying to force people into Communal Character RP or into any kind of relationship with/connection to your character is a quick path to the blacklist.
This should be self-explanatory under the harassment-rules, but better safe than sorry.
The Communal Characters still fall under the Species Rules, and they should be treated according to My Terms of Ownership minus the permission to sell them.
I also want to try and keep all of these character designs at 0 Lightbulbs if possible. This is another guideline that might change with time or will have exceptions made if it makes the most sense for a design. But I want to keep the Lightbulbs low - most adopts and MYO slots should be more valuable than Communal Characters by default.
Yes, some of that will probably feel super restrictive at first, but I would rather start out carefully and then loosen the rules as we go than have to pull the brakes while things already go downhill. X.x
I'll approach some people about the Communal Character Designs directly. The design above is not final by the way... I just wanted a recognisable babbu for the introduction of the idea. ;D So stay tuned for a hopefully slowly but steadily expanding number of characters that everyone can moff with!
Introducing....
I have seen people translating characters from popular culture into closed species "OCs" before, and it's a concept that makes me deeply uncomfortable. Something feels wrong about a person laying claim to something every fan of a franchise might enjoy just as much.
Inspired by conversations with Caldoric and Shiny, I had an idea that I hope can make everyone happy who would enjoy such characters! Calyptra characters translated from pop culture will from now on be Communal Characters!
Communal Characters belong to everyone, including people who do not otherwise own a Calyptra character yet. No one is allowed to claim any of them as exclusively their own or to profit off them. Everyone may draw and RP freely using them. The only way one such character can be revoked from use is if someone lands on the blacklist or the creator/owner of the character asks to put it out of use.
This way, every fan of a franchise can use characters who are part of it in their Calyptra form, and people who don't have their own Calyptra can still join events and prompts by using Communal Characters! C:
Of course there are a few limitations though! For starters:
Until further notice, I am the only one who can authorize a Communal Character Design. And I will appoint a few designated artists for this task.This might change once it feels safe to distribute this power more evenly. You may make requests for characters you wish to see, or even suggestions for their traits - but I don't want you all to happily start drawing just to then have your heart broken as designs are rejected.
Secondly, no interactions with a Communal Character can become part of your character's canon history! All of these interactions exist in a sort of Alternate Universe! This is to avoid hangups with different people playing the same character differently, and to prevent Caluptra characters meeting each other and realising that they all happen to be Harry Potter's children or something.
Trying to force people into Communal Character RP or into any kind of relationship with/connection to your character is a quick path to the blacklist.This should be self-explanatory under the harassment-rules, but better safe than sorry.
The Communal Characters still fall under the Species Rules, and they should be treated according to My Terms of Ownership minus the permission to sell them.
I also want to try and keep all of these character designs at 0 Lightbulbs if possible. This is another guideline that might change with time or will have exceptions made if it makes the most sense for a design. But I want to keep the Lightbulbs low - most adopts and MYO slots should be more valuable than Communal Characters by default.
Yes, some of that will probably feel super restrictive at first, but I would rather start out carefully and then loosen the rules as we go than have to pull the brakes while things already go downhill. X.x
I'll approach some people about the Communal Character Designs directly. The design above is not final by the way... I just wanted a recognisable babbu for the introduction of the idea. ;D So stay tuned for a hopefully slowly but steadily expanding number of characters that everyone can moff with!
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