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rubilykskoye mods ([personal profile] rubimods) wrote in [community profile] rubiooc2023-05-24 04:20 pm
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MONSTER WORKSHOP

MONSTER WORKSHOP
This post is designed to help players workshop ideas for characters' monster forms while writing their applications, based on a small Plurk survey that suggested it might be helpful. If you don't need it, there's no obligation to post here, but we wanted to give players a space to pick each other's brains.

This would be a great time to review our FAQ information on curses. Consider how different stages of transformation might look on your character, or whether you want a monster that's more horrifying or more horny (or both!). Remember: violent and sexual urges influence monster transformations (and detransformations!) — failure to vent both will cause a person to transform, but either committing an act of violence or engaging in some monsterfucking is enough to transform someone back to their human(oid) state.

Below, we've paraphrased some helpful advice that players were already prepared to provide via Plurk (thank you to Kait, Pink, and Seph!):

  • The 400-word limit on the application is a suggested upwards limit on length! However, for those struggling to write much, bear in mind we expect you to stick to what's on your app, so try to cover everything regarding physical attributes, natural weapons, powers, and behaviors.

  • If you're writing a monster that feels common, consider variations between different lores, and specify the version that you feel might better fit your character. Try not to leave out what feels "obvious" or "standard."

  • Your application might answer the questions: can it fuck, and if so, how?

  • If you want to make a monster unique, aim for unusual morphology (this werewolf has SPINES!) or build off your character's specific interests/associations (this faerie collects musicians!) to flesh out a more generalized monster type.

  • When in doubt, pinterest vibes. This TUMBLR might also help.

BRAINSTORMING

In case it helps facilitate your brainstorming, we've provided the form below!

This optional form is intended to help, not hinder, so feel free to toss the form out the window if it's not useful. It just gives some ideas of what types of information you might include in that section of the application.

Alternatively, modify at your leisure! If you're caught between two monster ideas, you can include two versions of the monster section, etc.


Player Name & Pronouns:
Contact: [plurk.com profile] username or otherwise
Aversions:

Character Name:
Canon:
Curse Type:

MONSTER


appearance
POSSIBLE_PHYSICAL_DESCRIPTIONS




POWERS
POWER_1 | DESCRIPTION

POWER_2 | DESCRIPTION

POWER_3 | DESCRIPTION


behavior
BEHAVIOR_DESCRIPTION


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pigeonblood: insane, uninteresting and irrelevant (i've never heard anything as insipid)

genya safin | shadow & bone | niez

[personal profile] pigeonblood 2023-05-24 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Pink (she/her)
Contact: [plurk.com profile] verhoeven
Aversions: parental death kinda? and trypophobia for sure

Character Name: Genya Safin
Canon: Shadow & Bone
Curse Type: niez

MONSTER


appearance
A living doll whose porcelain plates open up to reveal either: an amorphous mass of toxic sludge and exposed organs (in reference to her poisoning the king with her own skin), or the steel machinery of a 20th century sewing machine (in reference to "your beauty is your armor; what's under that is steel"). Having trouble deciding between these two!

Image inspo:


POWER_LIST
ALTERATIONS | Similar to her normal ability to tailor, just a lot more painful. Removing things, adding them, sewing things to other things, kinda just messing around until she gets to the feature presentation, which is:

FACE STEALING | If through toxin, then any touch will begin to gradually erase your features: ears, then eyes, then nose, then mouth, leading to death by suffocation. If through "tailoring," then with scissors, stitch rippers, and elbow grease, leading to death by blood loss or shock.

TRANCE | To get close enough for any of the above, her initial appearance as a pretty life-size doll lures in transfixed prey. The effect ceases once what's within her is exposed.

BONDAGE? | If I go the sewing machine route, she could ensnare people and wrap them up in thread.


behavior
Will not bother you if you don't bother her. However, even the slightest glimpse will relieve you of any choice in the matter. She'll be pleasant at first, then progressively more vicious. The more faces she takes, the quicker she is to anger, and the more volatile and cruel that anger becomes, until she eventually seeks out prey of her own volition. In that state, even her doll form will be monstrous, crawling around similar to the Spider Mannequin from Silent Hill: Revelations (cw: human cocoons, mannequin horror, spideriness).
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[personal profile] unorthodoc 2023-05-24 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Possible third option: you could combine the two and have the steel machinery beneath the porcelain and the toxic sludge as the sort of.. oil that keeps the gears running, that she can also use for shenanigans. There's something gross and fun about seeing machine parts covered in goo/blood. I really like all of these ideas and it would give you a lot of flexibility on how to explore her monstery side.
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[personal profile] pigeonblood 2023-05-26 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
This helped out a lot, legit. I've decided she'll use blood for oil, then she can defend it as a necessary evil. And keep people alive for longer.

Thanks it's terrible I love it!
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