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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Grif
That brings an interesting plot point to my mind. Why not have Icy's condition explained away as part of the shadowy group (Dark Forces, whatever) plan to poison Luna the same way? The effects are the same after all, just accelerated. :smalltongue:
That would be a cool plot point. My thought though is that they're testing it on Icy because it's not yet 100% reliable, as in the personality created isn't reliably evil, just immensely uninhibited.
It's kind of my personal theory regarding Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You can't truly split a personality into 'good' and 'evil', but you can split a personality into 'Id' and 'Super-Ego'.
The Id is all the wants and desires a person has, good or bad. The Super-Ego is what regulates those desires and decides which ones are okay to act upon. The Ego is essentially the combined result of both.
A pure Id personality would essentially have no morals or self-control, good or evil. They do what they want, good or bad, without regard for the consequences. A pure Super-Ego personality would have few desires to regulate and be objective about everything and thus be almost completely unemotional.
Icy's current condition strikes me as:
Icy - 75% Super-Ego, 25% Id
Esmerelda - 25% Super-Ego, 75% Id
As far as Evil goes, that's a separate operation entirely and involves methods of corrupting or removing morals (magical or otherwise).
So, the perpetrators of this plot have a Mr. Hyde concoction that can cause a significant personality split along Id and Super-Ego lines and a spell that should corrupt the morals of the Id personality at the same time. Their problem is they can't seem to get the two working together properly, which is because they're mixing magics that don't like being mixed, and are not getting consistent results. So they keep arranging 'test subjects' like Icy.
"Yeah, mixing magics is like writin' the universe a blank check for the mystery box. Ya don't know what yer gettin' or what it's costin' ya."
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Crisis21
That would be a cool plot point. My thought though is that they're testing it on Icy because it's not yet 100% reliable, as in the personality created isn't reliably evil, just immensely uninhibited.
It's kind of my personal theory regarding Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You can't truly split a personality into 'good' and 'evil', but you can split a personality into 'Id' and 'Super-Ego'.
The Id is all the wants and desires a person has, good or bad. The Super-Ego is what regulates those desires and decides which ones are okay to act upon. The Ego is essentially the combined result of both.
A pure Id personality would essentially have no morals or self-control, good or evil. They do what they want, good or bad, without regard for the consequences. A pure Super-Ego personality would have few desires to regulate and be objective about everything and thus be almost completely unemotional.
Icy's current condition strikes me as:
Icy - 75% Super-Ego, 25% Id
Esmerelda - 25% Super-Ego, 75% Id
As far as Evil goes, that's a separate operation entirely and involves methods of corrupting or removing morals (magical or otherwise).
So, the perpetrators of this plot have a Mr. Hyde concoction that can cause a significant personality split along Id and Super-Ego lines and a spell that should corrupt the morals of the Id personality at the same time. Their problem is they can't seem to get the two working together properly, which is because they're mixing magics that don't like being mixed, and are not getting consistent results. So they keep arranging 'test subjects' like Icy.
"Yeah, mixing magics is like writin' the universe a blank check for the mystery box. Ya don't know what yer gettin' or what it's costin' ya."
Exactly what I had in mind, only more wordy and descriptive.
Esmeralda Touch isn't necessarily evil, but she IS being driven to do evil acts by magical compulsion. (removing morals and whatnot.)
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
Grif did you want to drop the 'only one room tonight for comedic shenanigans' thing?
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
MCerberus
Grif did you want to drop the 'only one room tonight for comedic shenanigans' thing?
Wait, it was only one room? :smallannoyed:
Ninja-edit to the rescue.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Grif
Exactly what I had in mind, only more wordy and descriptive.
Esmeralda Touch isn't necessarily evil, but she IS being driven to do evil acts by magical compulsion. (removing morals and whatnot.)
Kind of what I thought, and what Issun's trying to aggravate her into revealing.
Yeah, Issun knows how annoying he is. He just doesn't care to change that for most ponies.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
The whole possession/MC/insanity thing is based on Flashfire and Wildfire partially escaping their self imprisonment.
After a duel, Flashfire and Wildfire were imprisoned in Mt Trotia (Flashfire forced it on Wildfire and grief stricken has it done to himself). When Luna banished Celestia, the spell weakened and the siblings woke up. They could not move but they could speak to each other. Eventually they go crazy.
Due to having a whole decade to train and being strong unicorns already, the pair learned to astral project.
So now there are two powerful psionic spirits floating around and searching for bodies to control some way.
Grills and Flowier know this and fear the information coming out. Evil ponies would love to abuse the power of two insane psychic spirits. It could part of the dark forces plot as the Fire Siblings are just a notch or two under Luna.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
My original intent was that Celestia was evilified by the same thing that Luna was when she was Nightmare Moon. It's entirely possible that it took hold and twisted her normal form, but AFAIKnew, she was still locked up/exiled/exiled and locked up in the place she was exiled to.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
Hey Blaze, and don't forget kissing her cheek, the nuzzling, and the prodding her flank :smalltongue:
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
I think I'm going to need a list of pony-mobster names to throw around soon enough >.>
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
MCerberus
I think I'm going to need a list of pony-mobster names to throw around soon enough >.>
Al Copony, Lucky Laminae-o ? :smallbiggrin:
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Benson
Hey Blaze, and don't forget kissing her cheek, the nuzzling, and the prodding her flank :smalltongue:
He doesn't remember everything.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Benson
Al Copony
New official name for the family boss we're after. Also, would you be opposed to a completely obvious "hey if you want in on these shenanigans" opportunity after Jimmy's been taken care of? Something like 'chief is bringing in the rest of the task force', and these could be NPCs, PC ponies, whatever.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
MCerberus
New official name for the family boss we're after. Also, would you be opposed to a completely obvious "hey if you want in on these shenanigans" opportunity after Jimmy's been taken care of? Something like 'chief is bringing in the rest of the task force', and these could be NPCs, PC ponies, whatever.
Elaborate por favor. My head's not currently wrapping around your phrasing here, that and I possibly have the derps from running out of steam from my nap.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
MCerberus
I think I'm going to need a list of pony-mobster names to throw around soon enough >.>
I went and googled a list of **** Tracey villains and a few jumped out at me.
Pinkie the Stabber (unchanged) <- A mobster Pinkie Pie?! :smalleek:
The Blank Flank (from The Blank)
Stud Bronzen (unchanged)
Jojo Bridle (from Jojo Nidle)
Whip Chute (unchanged)
Jerome Trots & Mamma (from Jerome Trohs & Mamma)
Tiger Filly (from Tiger Lily)
Mrs. Colts (from Mrs. Volts)
Brier Colts (from Brier Volts)
3-D Magee, Pony (unchanged)
Feel free to peruse the list if you want more. There's some good ones there.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Benson
Elaborate por favor. My head's not currently wrapping around your phrasing here, that and I possibly have the derps from running out of steam from my nap.
After the current situation Fox and O'm is dealt with, do you want to see if anyone wants to come in as a cop/mafia/caught up in the crossfire? I know we have one person wanting to be on the mafia side of things.
edit- back to class meep
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
It just occured to me that he could've told E-Icy to turn HERSELF back into Icy-E...
lolz :smalltongue:
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
MCerberus
After the current situation Fox and O'm is dealt with, do you want to see if anyone wants to come in as a cop/mafia/caught up in the crossfire? I know we have one person wanting to be on the mafia side of things.
edit- back to class meep
I shuppose if anyone wants to partake in some extra side quests and make a pony exclusive for that :smallsmile::smallsmile:
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Also poor Fox, he's gonna have a helluva of a hard time for his turn in bonding with Icy :smalltongue:
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
Deadtime for a few days, I'll be back late sunday afternoon.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Benson
Also poor Fox, he's gonna have a helluva of a hard time for his turn in bonding with Icy :smalltongue:
Ouch. :smalltongue: Don't worry, I suppose it was Esmeralda doing all the interacting frankly.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Grif
Ouch. :smalltongue: Don't worry, I suppose it was Esmeralda doing all the interacting frankly.
Well I was mostly referring to the interesting bits where he would have also tried helping Icy with her scenario were already being blown through in a single morning :smalltongue:
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Benson
Well I was mostly referring to the interesting bits where he would have also tried helping Icy with her scenario were already being blown through in a single morning :smalltongue:
I'm sure we could have shenanigans later. :smallbiggrin:
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
Considering we live in Lunar's world... this is perfect. And seems to fit our epicness well.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Lix Lorn
Considering we live in Lunar's world...
this is perfect. And seems to fit our epicness well.
If we were a TV series, this would either be our opening or ending theme.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
Seeing how the pony day is drawing to a close...Benson? It seems only fair that you decide how Sandy wakes up, seeing how I did the same to lite-RP Gearstride. Actually, as I think about it, it was also after a night of heavy drinking. That's...oddly coordinated of us.
Oh well, have fun! :smallbiggrin:
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
TheAmishPirate
Seeing how the pony day is drawing to a close...Benson? It seems only fair that you decide how Sandy wakes up, seeing how I did the same to lite-RP Gearstride. Actually, as I think about it, it was also after a night of heavy drinking. That's...oddly coordinated of us.
Oh well, have fun! :smallbiggrin:
....Oh ho ho ho...leaving it up to me eh? *Gearstride TM Grin*
Very well.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
I do need to call nighttime shenanigans before we begin next pony day.
Thief is starting to go to work after all.
Edit: Nighttime interlude posted. Thief plot starts in earnest 'tomorrow' (pony time).
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
Mindfreak, later we can have Undead Backlash return as Blaze's rival.
Zombie, ghoul or vampire is up to whoever plays him.
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Orzel
Mindfreak, later we can have Undead Backlash return as Blaze's rival.
Zombie, ghoul or vampire is up to whoever plays him.
Zombie goast, obviously. :smalltongue:
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
So I'm considering making a pony who happens to be a Follower of Celestia. Will probably be mistaken for the Rebels of Celestia as per usual. Probably not liked even though he's not evil, though he is rough around the edges.
They would have been from a fallen ex-Noble house, whose family were devout followers of Celestia. His family and the family servants were executed by The Purists of Luna, but he was able to escape death with the help of his servant boy/girl (haven't decided) who he travels with today constantly trying to evade death.
Marked for death by The Purists, they have placed a bounty on his head for those willing to take it up, dead or alive, more for dead.
Comments, thoughts? Hooks to connect him to someone's pony in some way? :smalltongue:
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Re: [FwM] Recruitment/OOC/Character Thread
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Originally Posted by
Orzel
Mindfreak, later we can have Undead Backlash return as Blaze's rival.
Zombie, ghoul or vampire is up to whoever plays him.
That is a good idea! It will be fun to see Backlash coming back.
I wonder what Hover's reaction to him would be....