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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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[personal profile] madparade 2023-05-24 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Character Name: rikyo miyoshi
Canon: handead anthem
Curse Type: niez

Ideas:

01: fucked up inky benadryl hatman tentacle guy. ok so eldritch monsters like this are a lot more in my wheelhouse. i feel like with rikyo's own alluring and brainwash de-programming voice he could possibly make susceptible people feel insane and they'll act out on that however the player likes. i like ichor and slime so i'm thinking he'll excrete inky stuff and it'll be like an aphro-effect ... or maybe it'll make people go a lil batshit who knows.

i like monsters with a lot of mouths so i'm thinking during his midway point he'll be some kind of muzan kibutsuji-like creature and get more horrifying and twisted if he progresses further.


open to input for him too. i have to decide between him or ko. please help me lol it's so difficult
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