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by Joanna Larken Shosmyth
Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:05 am
Forum: Site-Wide Rules/Guides (Please Read!)
Topic: General Tips (Including Tips for Character Creation!)
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Re: General Tips (Including Tips for Character Creation!)

Oh, also, don't answer any of the questions about abilities. This is sorta' covered in the instructions, which state that you shouldn't answer something that's common in your universe, i.e. uncommonly colored hair/eyes in a universe with a ton of variety (like Houcm), wings in a universe in which unaided flight is normal (like Houcm), and such. What I'm saying is that this also applies to questions about whether or not your character can heal or take out a bunch of military units at once, 'cause those are standard procedure for normal Houcm chars. Well, not so much the latter once they get here, 'cause Houcm has no real military to speak of, but you get my drift. I think that I marked a couple of these questions just for the argument's sake, and my score was still not bad. I win. (By the way, since Noah didn't qualify for any of the sexual questions, which tends to be the hallmark of Mary Sues/Marty Stus, that tells you how much the test is harshly scored.)

When you get to questions like these, though, give them some thought for excess. A question about saving the world more than others or such doesn't much apply to Houcm chars, but, if your backstory involves a lot of your char being a superhero of sorts, you may as well mark it, which can also apply to questions about rebellion against authority. If you spend a significantly sized paragraph or more describing how pretty the char's hair/eyes are, mark away. As a general rule, look heavily upon your backstory, not just what's gone on here, 'cause that's the part that you wrote alone and the part that defines your char. If it asks if your char is supposed to be able to sleep with whoever xe wants, even if the other is normally chaste, don't look at Learpabru and say, "I'm pretty sure that she'd kill me twice if I even hinted at it," but look at the stuff that you have written as a backstory. Basically, just use your head.

If you're thinking of making a succubus/incubus/similar character, first, I'd advise against it, because there is almost no good way to make and operate such a char. If you still want to go ahead with it, it does not exempt you from the sexual questions. It's a well-known fact that such chars are often Mary Sues/Marty Stus, and the sleep-with-whoever-I-want-ness plays a major contribution to that, as it does with most Mary Sues/Marty Stus.

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