A Not So Easy or Quick Question: Characters

[Jack Darby]

The question I am about to ask is one that is too big for the Quick and Easy Questions thread. You see, I've had an idea that I'll be using for Veritas's replacement in about thirty days (give or take a few) but I want to make sure the idea would be feasibly sound, and well within the rules of the site. The idea is a character who will sort have the personalities/memories/minds of many characters from many different series/shows inside of his brain. I am not sure if such an idea would be allowed,  so I will pose the question now about the character idea. 

Would he be allowed?

[Ebonywood Hellscythe]

That depends.

If you want Mario, Spock, and Harry Potter all sharing the same body, that's probably not going to fly.

If they're all OCs, then yes, you can (see Summer).

Maybe elaborate more on your intentions?

[Lambert]

Renji is another good example of having multiple personalities or memories. I highly recommend checking his (and Summer's, like Ebony said) profile out.

[Jack Darby]

It would be more of the character having the consciousnesses of several different individuals from various comics/movies/animes/what have you inside of his head, or rather, copies of their minds inside his head. See, here's an example. The character will sorta be an OC, but he'll have the minds/memories/personalities of a lot of canons from DC (And many other things) inside of his head, and they'll constantly be at war within his brain. Wanted to make sure the idea was okay, before I did it next month, as I'm trying to avoid any and all Lorebreaking, or anything like that. In short, the individual himself will be an OC, but he'll have the memories/personalities of many canons inside his head, fighting it out for control of him. .

Tl;DR:  The character's sorta got digital copies of a lot of canon characters inside his head, but is an OC.  They will be fighting for control of his body, and causing him no small amount of irritation. The character will, as a result of this, be able to learn how to use their moves/equipment though.

[Lambert]

It would be more of the character having the consciousnesses of several different individuals from various comics/movies/animes/what have you inside of his head, or rather, copies of their minds inside his head. See, here's an example. The character will sorta be an OC, but he'll have the minds/memories/personalities of a lot of canons from DC (And many other things) inside of his head, and they'll constantly be at war within his brain. Wanted to make sure the idea was okay, before I did it next month, as I'm trying to avoid any and all Lorebreaking, or anything like that.

No, you can't have a bunch of personalities from non-OC canons in your head.

You could, however, come up with a bunch of original personalities and come up with a creative way to have them in your head. Again, Renji is a good example (he has all these souls trapped in a sword). Your original characters can be similar to those non-originals as long as they aren't straight rip-offs.

For example, I have an NPC who is pretty much Max Payne. But I changed his name and his appearance and now he's just your run-of-the-mill washed up police officer. You can totally have some made-up version of whoever you want and put their personality inside someone's head. This also gives you so much more creative freedom when it's YOUR character and not a comic book character.

[Jack Darby]

I am not sure where in the rules it says that, but I am looking to be absolutely certain on that. If what you say is true, the idea won't fly which means I will need to decide upon a different character for December, to replace Veritas with.

[Lambert]

[Today 12:42 AM] [PM] Matthew Mcginnis : How is my idea against the rules?
[Today 12:43 AM] [PM] Matthew Mcginnis : For my future character?

You can only pick one character. You are effectively asking to be able to use multiple non-original characters, albeit in a non-traditional way. I don't think it'd be cool for you to be able to just cherry-pick awesome characters - like, let's say Vision and Goku - and have their memories in your head, but then we also have a guy running around named Goku who has all the same memories.

I think letting you make up a bunch of ORIGINAL characters and use their memories is a pretty good compromise. In fact, in my opinion, it's the superior choice.

I don't know if it says anywhere specifically in the rules, which is something we'll need Greg or Alex to fix (I also couldn't find it), but I'm pretty certain that this is the standard for character creation in regards to non-originals.


Also, side note:

Bro, stop switchin so much.

[Jack Darby]

Technically the whole point of the new character was to allow me to take the best aspects from the canons I liked,  though to answer your quote. 

You can only pick one character. You are effectively asking to be able to use multiple non-original characters, albeit in a non-traditional way. I don't think it'd be cool for you to be able to just cherry-pick awesome characters - like, let's say Vision and Goku - and have their memories in your head, but then we also have a guy running around named Goku who has all the same memories.

The characters will not be Goku, nor the Vision, nor any who have been played for the most part by anyone besides me in the past, well except for a few of them. The reason I thought of this idea was that it would limit my incessant swapping of characters, because it would be something I've never done before. However if it is truly against the rules, I shall think of something else. This idea was inspired by the DC Comics "Amazo" and the Marvel "Super Adaptoid" but I put my own modifications on the idea, to hopefully make it work. 

Also, side note:

Bro, stop switchin so much.

As to this, I have a lot of muse, for a LOT of different characters. This new idea was to hopefully try and manage some of that muse, and force it down to more manageable levels.  Also on a related note, I will not be swapping Matthew.

[Lambert]

Technically the whole point of the new character was to allow me to take the best aspects from the canons I liked

Yea, I feel like this quote pretty well sums up the thread.

I appreciate ya asking, though.

[Handsome Jack]

It's not against the rules, verbatim. It's against the spirit of the Switching rules, however.

If you really wanna do something similar to this, take Mordin up on his idea. Alternatively, do something like this: http://omniverse-rpg.com/showthread.php?tid=9264

While it's not quite a "I can be whatever canon character I want," it's as close as you can get while still falling within the rules as intended.

[Jack Darby]

See, as there are MANY canons I like, but I can't decide, I decided on a new idea of sorts. What if copies of their minds were in the same body? What if the character could use their abilities, though had to learn how to use them? From that, it was how I got the idea for the potential new character. However, if the staff members are against the concept of the character, I shall think of someone else to replace Veritas with.

[Schwi Dola]

You could use a Cell style clone of the characters in question, fusion soup, or just do what you are saying without 'actually' having canons but expy OCs of them.

[Dane Regan]

@Matt: Given that A-listers are highly limited for NPCs, you playing as someone that's effectively two (or more) non-original characters is not going to fly. I can guarantee that. Since, by effectively playing multiple people at once, you are stopping someone else from playing all of those characters. That is one of the main reasons for the character limit.

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What you could do, which will need someone else to be playing the characters you want, and telepathy (+ insight if you want to copy moves) and OOC permission is as follows:

Make someone that 'absorbs' aspects or parts of the personalities. And then use insight and buy their moves. As in, if your character absorbs and replicated the people around him, you might be able to pull something like that off. 

As for making NPC primes/secondaries for him to replicate, you might be able to - but remember the usual rules about characters from outside your canon.

But, remember, you can't just magic someone up and keep shoving more non-original characters into them.

[Jack Darby]

Technically not. As my character would just have copies of the memories/personalities/what have you inside his head, warring for control. They'd be free to take the ACTUAL canon. My guy would sorta be a database qwith digitized copies of the personality information inside him. If it is against the rules, I'll think of something else.

[Blink]

I feel the question has been answered so I'm gonna lock the thread. But if you want to post a thread in Omniverse Discussion to bring the creative conversation back, go for it Matt.