Character Creation and Discussion

Trying to catch up here.
Lots of names and relationships going on that it is getting hard to keep track.
I assume this is meant for Alloy Angel (Transformed), not Michelle (Legacy), due to the Transformed tag?



In which case:
You trust ______________ and told them an important secret of your legacy.

Could be Nightfly
I can imagine that Michelle really respects how Nightfly keeps her normal life and hero life strictly seperated by not even showing the team her mundane identity. For that is quite opposite to Michelle's life, always being in the picture and pressure of her family.

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That could set my relationships as I understand them:

You once got caught doing something that shames your legacy with Leo.
You trust Nightfly and told them an important secret of your legacy.


With incoming relationships:

From Leo:
You and Michelle pulled an awesome (if illegal) stunt together.



Not entirely sure if this is confirmed? @bowlofspinach ?
From Alloy:
Michelle knew you before you changed. ??

Ah thought we were going for that one as both used to be on wrong side of tracks :p (Though realised now I may not have directly said yes whoops) No worries if Michelle fits better :p

Maybe it would be good to update? I am not entirely sure any more what is set and what is not.

I think I was going with Lex for that, with the connection being Alloy having bullied Lex' friend in school

Oh, yeah! Sorry. Not keeping up with everything, apparently. But let's do that: Lex and Leo pulled an awesome stunt. Leo has gotten 2 team members in potential trouble, and the game hasn't even started yet. WOO-HOO.

I'll get caught up and post about Solstice/Aria's relationships tomorrow, but in the meantime, I'm having trouble keeping track of all our characters appearance and key facts. Maybe we could have a list with something like this for each of our characters?

SOLSTICE / ARIA KING (Outsider). Abilities: Can fly, pretty tough, radical shapeshifting, heliokinesis. Appearance: Female with neon blue skin and glowing pearl-white eyes; shapeshifts into blonde girl as an alias.

Good idea. Maybe Aegis can also paste those descriptions into the opening post.

ALLOY ANGEL / [Undecided] (Transformed). Abilities: Impenetrable Armor, Technopathy. Appearance: Female, with metallic flesh and unsettling white eyes.

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I hate coming up with names, but I will decide on one today, I promise.

So I guess no one has set their relationships with Michelle then.

Sorry, it's difficult to keep track of who has how many connections already. I think Lex is more connected than Michelle, so I'm happy to have the relation with Michelle.
What would the details of that be? I think you said Michelle's family is fairly rich, so maybe she was also circling in the popular spheres at school. Would they have been friends or would Michelle have had a problem with Alloy's mean streak?
Also, in that case, I guess Alloy would probably know Michelle's secret identity, right? Otherwise, she wouldn't be aware of this relationship.

No, don't feel pressured to set a relatioship now.
Just noting that no one has set it yet. If anyone still has open relationships, I am available ! ;)

And yes, it's very difficult to keep track.

Sorry Chloe for some reason in my mind you had more connections. So yeah makes sense for you to have the connection with Alloy.

As I understand it here we are with connections? -

Lex Thompson (Bull, - LightOfMidnight) 18 years old
Jerry is your love. You’ve opened up to them about the worst parts of your past.
_______________ is your rival. They tried to control you at a crucial moment.

Captain Teleport/Leonard "Leo" Winston (Delinquent, - timplausible) 16/17 years old
You keep trying to impress _________________ with your antics.
You and Lex pulled an awesome (if illegal) stunt together.

Mirage/Avery Vance (Doomed, - amymist) 16 years old
You told Leo all about your doom and the danger you’re in.

You’d love to kiss Aria before your doom comes.

Nightfly/Jerry Steinbeck (Janus - BeardHare) 18/19 years old

1. Lex knew you from your civilian life first.
2. You refused to tell Alloy your secret identity when they asked

Second Phase/Michelle Hayafu (Legacy, - chloe)
You once got caught doing something that shames your legacy with Leo
You trust Nightfly and told them an important secret of your legacy.

Solstice/Aria King (Outsider, - Dreamweaver)
You have a crush on ________________ but you keep it under wraps.
You’ve been learning about Earth by spending time with ____.

Alloy Angel (Transformed, - bowlofspinach) 18/19 years old
___________________ comforted you when you were at your lowest.
Michelle knew you before you changed.

No, let's do this connection. Just let me know your thoughts on the questions above.

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And thanks for posting the summary, Light! (Though Michelle's and Alloy's names are pretty much unreadable in Dark Mode)

Huh would have thought pink would be readable, whoops. It's really early in the morning my brain is not generation colors right now. If anyone wants to suggest ones readable for dark mode let me know.

Could be Lex comforted Alloy as they both didn't necessarily wants powers (and also artifacts)

@chloe If Michelle cares about the family image and joined the team because of it perhaps she's annoyed at Lex's tendancy to wreck stuff while fighting/not care for collateral. So can see her working for' tried to control you in a certain moment'. Maybe Lex was going to break sonething/shift to save some and Michelle tried to stop her as could have been disastrous from an image perspective. Which would start Michelle off as Lex's rival.

Which I can see from Lex's perspective as well as she likely sees Michelle as having a perfect family and having life easy etc (even if that's not the case)

No worries if not/if misinterpreted Michelle there

This looks good to me, @chloe - I'll note this on my sheet. If you have thoughts on what the important secret might be, just let me know.

If Michelle shares this with Nightfly, ze will really appreciate the trust shown in zir despite not sharing zir identity with the team, and feel very strongly about keeping this secret.

That could also work! I'll wait for Dreamweaver's thoughts first because I kind of like that idea I suggested and I think Lex is more connected than Aria right now, but I would be up for this idea as well if DW isn't for the other.
Even if it's not a formal relationship, I think Alloy and Lex would have something to bond over with them both being artifact-merged.

(With this number of characters I am also finding it hard to keep track of what's going on. At the same time, I think we're doing a great job or working together to sort this out, and I'm already enjoying a lot "playing" with y'all, and how our stories are already developing. Yay us!)

Ah missed you had suggested one. Yeah absolutely Aria needs connections :p

Also fair on the colours, looks like dark mode alters the as its just Pink fir Michelle, not the dark megnta thi g you've got. Will have a fiddle when I have a moment.

And yep. I was planning to write a little thing if how Lex likely percieves/interacts with each person in the team, especially those without connections.

It does, which can be helpful if people pick their colors solely based on how they look in their preferred mode, but can make things illegible if people try to pick a color that might work in either but that then gets unexpectedly shifted. You could attach a transparent background to the color, in that case, it won't get shifted: [color="pink;background-color: transparent;"]
That's a good idea. I'll do the same!

Right hopefully colours are easier to read now.

Will drop this here as well -

WILD CLAW / ALEXIS 'LEX' THOMPSON (Bull).
Abilities: Heightened Sense, can transform, or partially transform, into a large horned beast.
Appearance:18, Female with shortish black hair, brown eyes, tends to wear 'punkish' clothes

My character summary:

NIGHTFLY / JERRY STEINBECK (ze/zir/zirs; Janus)
Abilities: control invertebrates, mimic substances
Appearance: 18, white, femme-presenting, grunge/skater look in secret/mundane identity, fully-body black suit including head with goggles as hero
Summary: No one else in the world knows about zir two identities i.e. mundane English undergraduate and stealthy infiltrating hero.