He's got his eye on this thread ;)
I wanna see a martial-artist! If 6 hours pass, any kind of fighter is fine
Welcome to the hottest new forum game on the block, my buddy chum pals!! How does it work? Simple! Someone posts asking to see a certain kind of character, and the next poster posts IC with/links to a character of theirs who fits that description! So, for example:
User A: I want to see a character who has black hair!
User B: My OC, Dicro, has black hair! Isn't it fluffy? Don't you just want to ruffle it? Okay, I want to see a character who made a deal with the devil!
User C:
Lysis did that once. It was a terrible idea. I want to see a character who's a baker!
Need more examples? No problem! Here's some examples of good and bad questions! Essentially, try not to get so specific or tricky that it's unlikely anyone will have an applicable story - you're not trying to stump people, you're trying to see cool OCs!:
Design-Based:
✔️ I want to see a character with heterochromia! / with a blue and yellow color scheme! / with a fancy hat! / with a ponytail!
❌ ...with one red eye and one blue eye! / who has yellow hair and blue skin! / who always wears a fez! / who has a big pink ponytail bigger than they are!
Species-Based:
✔️ I want to see a character who's a mermaid! / a feral character! / is a taur of some kind! / is from a(n open/closed) species!
❌ ...who's a goldfish-based mermaid! / a Mustela erminea character! / an onager taur! / is a (insert specific open/closed species here)!
Personality-Based:
✔️ I want to see a character who's snarky! / who likes puns! / who never gives up! / who's quick to fight!
❌ ...who literally only speaks to be snarky! / who always makes puns about weather! / who's so stubborn that they've died and don't even know it! / greets others by drop-kicking them!
Abilities-Based:
✔️ I want to see a character who controls fire! / with super strength! / who can fly! / who used to have powers but no longer does!
❌ ...who can control candlelight but that's it! / who gets their strength from artichokes! / who can shapeshift into a fly and ONLY a fly! / who lost their powers in a wacky boating accident!
Relationship-Based:
✔️ I want to see a character who's in love with another user's OC! / with a tight-knit family! / who has a rival!
❌ ...who's in love with one of my OCs! / with a family where the cousins are all close but the grandkids hate each other! / who has a skateboarding rival!
Backstory-Based:
✔️ I want to see a character who's been abducted before! / whose past involved illness! / who's died at least once!
❌ ...who was abducted by aliens from Neptune! / who had (really specific illness goes here) / who's been killed by a devious kitten before!
Setting-Based:
✔️ I want to see a character from the future! / who lives on an island! / who's involved with the mafia! / who was transported to another world!
❌ ...from the year 2046! / who lives on an island that no longer exists! / who watched The Godfather like twice! / who was transported from Earth to Mercury!
Meta-Based:
✔️ I want to see a character who doesn't have a name yet! / who has over 20 images! / with a lot of links! / who doesn't have any favs yet!
❌ ...whose name starts with F and ends with W! / who has over 200 images! / who has 38 links! / who has over 100 favs!
Now, some people do have characters like this, and many of these "bad" requests are cool concepts! But they're kinda specific. If you have questions on whether your question is too specific/difficult or not, feel free to send me a PM and I'll let you know!
If you're worried, you can include a 6-hour conditional so that you can post your request without holding the thread up for too long if it ends up being too obscure! For example:
In fact, some of those "bad" requests above would be acceptable as long as a 6-hour conditional was included! It's a useful tool, so if you're even a little unsure about your request it's a good thing to include!
You can make your conditional shorter if you'd like, but not longer; if you say someone say something along the lines of "if 12 hours pass, then x works" then disregard that and apply that conditional at 6 hours as per the rules. Remember: the rules of the thread overrule a participant's post! If they get upset about it, it's on them for not having read/followed the rules.
If this thread goes on without any posts for 12 hours, anyone can go ahead and move the thread along with an entirely new request!
Rules:
If you see someone violating the rules or frequently issuing requests that seem designed to trip the thread up, contact me so I can send them a warning and/or update the rules if necessary! If they continue to violate the rules, I'll block them so they can't access the thread. If you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to PM me or leave a comment on my profile!
Alright, now let's get this thing started!
I want to see a character who has horns!
got a couple (*casts firebolt* and also a metaphor for soul or rage or whatever, bullied with fire imagery until their corpse gets made into a bonfire, and responsible for the bonfire), but Chris's small pervasive fire associations are my fav of them :] cigarettes to matches to burning paper to nothing left but ashes
Can I see a power-hungry character? bonus for telling me the worst thing they did for it x
v can't go wrong with power hunger and hubris !! FUCK YAA
Ah, Elryc, Elryc, Elryc... what ever will I do with you.
As the Sin of Lust in the Pantheon, Elryc does not ONLY encompass the more... adult aspects... of lust. He is everything to DO with it. Lust for knowledge, lust for wealth, lust for blood, and most importantly, lust for POWER. At one point in time, Elryc was IMMENSELY powerful. The Sins took on dragon forms and ravaged the world, eventually chained down by Queen at the behest of Judgement. Elryc put up a HELL of a fight to keep himself in power, including birthing Succubus and Incubus SWARMS with Gluttony. After the people largely stopped seeing the sins as. Well. Sins, their power was lost and they were allowed to rejoin the Pantheon as gods.
Elryc is not having that. Currently, he is actively plotting with his Divine Servants to kill and overthrow Judgement as the Pantheon's head. Part of this includes subtle backwards manipulation of Reine's ego and empathy to release Hallow (the eye of the long-executed God of Anarchy) from his prison, recapture of former escaped Bloodlust-representative Servants Mori and Naile, and attempts to get his hands on Clover to try to regain his power the "easy" way. He also made a trip to visit his largest cult's leader, Alex, and had a child with him to bond them further and siphon more of the power their activity gives him. (Elryc is very much not a present parent to ANY of the THOUSANDS of damn kids he's had...)
Can I see a character consumed by hubris? Whatever that means to you!
My character Eliza is based on the cottagecore aesthetic!! As a bonus, I consider my character Edgar to fall under the goblincore umbrella ^^
I want to see a dragon rider or someone who rides some kind of flying mythical creature!
oceans is a rider!! bonus here's her ghost mecha dragon too <3
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lets see another cybernetic organism!
his somewhat general demeanor, as well as looks/color palette are supposed to represent orcas! he’s a default orca too
show me a character who is popular on the internet/an internet celebrity, or otherwise basically has a huge portion of their life related to the internet in some way
Dior's essentially a really fucked up version of Mr. Beast because life threatening pranks to him = funny, but he's SUPER popular because of this! He practically lives in the internet limelight, can't go far without hearing about WHT0UT i can tell you
Show me a character who likes cars! Luxury cars, has a garage full of em, or has a real big connection to ONE car that their grandmother gave them or whatever is fine!
She loves fast cars! She's a big fan of shiny new exotics, and loves driving them around high-end shopping districts or taking them on long scenic drives! Unfortunately her Dad mostly owns rare classics so she doesn't get to drive as many cars as she wants.
Show me a character who's net worth is over a billion dollars! (can be any currency) After 6 hours a millionaire is fine