Ok, so I know there’s been a trend of making Q&A threads for specific characters. That’s great, and I know it's a great way to flesh out your characters, but the problem is that those threads are taking up a large part of the character forums and myself as well as a couple other users are getting a bit frustrated with those threads constantly drowning out other discussions (see this thread)
This thread is basically an attempt to clean things up a bit by confining all those Q&A threads into one. If you’ve already made a thread for your character, I have just as much authority as everyone else on this site (so basically I don't have any) and I can’t force you to stop using it. All I ask is that you just be considerate towards other users. This thread is just an attempt to tidy things up while also ensuring that you guys can still have fun. It's also meant to be inclusive to all users so anyone can jump in at any time.
How it will work:
- In this thread, there will be two types of question. An “open question” is a question that can be answered by any character belonging to any user. They can be answered by as many users and characters. The other type is one that is directed at a specific character (or characters). These questions can only be answered by that specific character.
- An open question should be something that can be answered by most characters, regardless of who they belong to. For example “what’s your favourite colour?” “What is your hometown like?” “When is your birthday?”
- Character specific questions should be… well, tailored to that character. Good example: “Hey Andor, why did you decide to dye your hair purple?” Bad example: “Hey Andor, what’s your favourite colour?”
- There is no limit as to how many characters you can use in this thread. If you have 180 characters that you want people to ask about then go for it. If you only want to use one, that’s also cool.
- For some extra fun, you can ask questions in character. This is optional, but if you do choose to do this please remember that this is not a role play thread, and any further interactions between characters should be kept to a minimum.
- All answers should be in character, but you can elaborate OOC if necessary.
But Starfast, I want people to ask about my characters specifically
I hear ya, and I've thought about that. If you want people to ask about your characters, then you can trade questions. This is pretty much what it sounds like— just make a post saying that you want to trade questions. When people start asking your characters questions, you ask theirs in return. If it’s been a while and no one has asked you anything, let me know and I’ll try to ask some questions so that no one gets ignored. I’d recommend keeping your character pages set to public so that if anyone wants to trade questions with you they have some material to work with.
Also, you don’t have to be trading questions in order to ask character specific questions. Those can be asked at any time.
Hopefully that all makes sense, but if you have any further questions feel free to ask.
I’ll kick things off with an open question:
“Welcome to the Universal Character Q&A. What’s your name? Why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself?”
My name is Zenith Zagami. I’m 17 years old, my favorite color is red, and I have a kill count in the thousands. What’s your name?
My name is Emeline DeRosier. What's your occupation?
The name's Darrian and I can fire plasma balls the size of my head. Oh and that thousands kill count? Nice but I've racked up millions. Mainly those who crossed me…
I’m Empirean. I don’t have too much in the kill count stuff, and I’d prefer to keep it that way - but my mother has wiped out several dimensions, so that counts, right? Of course, there’s been the unavoidable stuff, like falling on buildings, but we’ll ignore that. Uh.. I’m also one of the two surviving members of my species. At least the pure breed, there’s still other subspecies as far as I’m aware.
So for an open question.. what species are you? Like, what are you exactly?
Well, it's really a mix. My dad was a Crystalling, a creature of Nercozma's corruption.
Then there's my mom, she's a demon. Literally, part of the underworld kinda thing.
My uncle is Death. We've gone on road trips to other realities which is why I'm also part Octarian. That was a heck of a DNA test.
Erm, hi. I'm Verity. Verity Carter. I found a portal to an alternate dimension in the woods outside my house… and my crush found me there… and that's the story of how I met my girlfriend.
Hello! my name is Death! I'm a Celestial being! I have three kids and two grand-kids! Natt is the child i had with Space, and Tatius and Claudia I spontaneously spooted out of my cloak one day! I like my friends!
as an open question, how many friends you got?
Victor: Waves awkwardly
Victor: H-hi, everyone, my name's Victor and I'm a chemist. Kinda. I'm in college to do chemistry. And I do it at home, sometimes, but not as much because of insurance. Anyways, I have…three friends? Alice, Jackson, and I guess Martha and Geneva too, so four. And Claire, but she's my sister so she doesn't really count. And Henry, my boyfriend, if he counts too? I'm not very good at this. Anyways, what's your major, if you're in college?
S-sorry if I'm interrupting. I'm graduating next year, and I'm going to go to a school of magic in Polarus (the… other dimension… that I kindasorta discovered… awkward lesbian jazz hands)
Hey Darrian, what's your favorite method to kill with? Mine is venomized katanas.
Well, I think impaling with them my kagune, then plasma ball them into dust. (pansexual jazz hands) What's your favorite song?
Oh, I really like High High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco. It's just really upbeat and I (REALLY LOVE) like the music video for it too. (Hey if you wanna answer, I'm pretty sure like half of you have been in wars, is this true?)
I haven't been in a war. I'm just a mercenary.
Related to Death remember? But I don't just go around and kill. I only kill people like criminals, rapists, kidnappers. The worse they are, the worse they get. I can recall bringing someone back from Death just to beat him again. One of my favorites is Cake by The Ocean. What games do some of you play?
My name is Yamatsukami, I'm one of two Half-Dragons where I'm from. When I'm not working or training, I like playing card games and such. I'm usually alone, though, so I've gotten pretty good at Solitare. Where do you guys work? I'm a self-employed blacksmith taking commissions.
I guess if you count fighting creatures of similar size as wars, then yes, I have been in them. Of course, I've also been around for one Earth World War, so there's that. There was also the big kaiju war that I was kinda in when I was a child, but that didn't last too long. I tend to have different definitions of war compared to smaller beings.
I don't really play games too often. Mostly because I'm so large. But I did play games when I was young, like hide and seek, and simple strategy games.
I also don't really have a favourite song. I was told the natives of my home dimension would do drums, chanting in a theme of a certain kaiju, but they're extinct now, so I don't really have a theme. But I'm sure if I did have a theme, then that would be my favourite.
Well, I kinda work as an unofficial soul collector with Lucifer as my boss. He's a chill guy. Honestly he kind of works under me from a bet I won. I go hard at MarioKart…
I suppose you could consider me a ‘Defender of Earth’, and that speaks for itself. Though I have caused destruction of it a few times I was also not myself, so consider me a Defender, I suppose? And a Fighter.
I'm - I'm in high school, but… I saved a universe from an evil enchantress, so… does that count as an occupation? Hopefully I won't have to do it again, but I would if I had to, so… yeah.
Hi, I'm Juliette and I am a superhero of sorts. I basically fight the bad guy (they haven't told me their name and I don't want to assume anything) trying to take over peoples minds, but might only be in my mind. My top top secret superhero name is Miss Mastermind. Really cool right? Don't tell anyone though! I want to stay incognito for now…
Dang, that is cool. Being a superhero? Coolest. Thing. Ever. But what do you mean when you say it might only be in your mind?
I'm kind of like Deadpool on the hero spectrum. Right now I'm dealing with a person who tried to bluff Luci. He's actually quite powerful, but not for me.
What's your most powerful form, spell, or enchantment? Mine is in Override where I gain 8 kagunes, and a glowing streak of cyan from my right eye.
They have this thing in Polarus that they call Red Eyes. It's basically where you can't pay attention to anything other than killing the enemy, and you don't even really notice you're doing it until you've killed them all and you wake up again. It's kind of a scary disorder to have, but it helped with fighting those stupid tree people. The energy used in my brain to make this happen sort of - I don't know - radiates? And forms an illusion in people's brains where I look a LOT more intimidating than I actually am. I'm supposed to be able to do that WITHOUT killing people, but so far no such luck.
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