Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-30530552-20170831211428/@comment-25936766-20170924232021

PisceanWaterbender wrote:

Congrats to SYUTK, and good effort, runners up. SYUTK, time for you to pick the new theme. Alright, let me copy paste this from my conversation with Weecy:

I got 2 ideas that kind of break the mold, but they would need more time than the average OC

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The first one is to make an Oscar. 2 people sharing a body, Ozpin and Oscar style. The idea would be focused less on How could it happen and more on How it would be like. How do they interact, and what effects would having 2 Souls have on them, and how it affects their lives.

The 2nd idea is to write 2 OCs, which must be related to each other and their character must orbit a bit around the other. Rivals, close siblings, close friends, partners, nemesis, lovers, all of the previous stuff, things like that.

I've tried the former idea myself, and believe me, it's not a huge change from the usual. The first 2 sections only gain a couple of sentences more, not really a big change. And the backstory for both characters can be compressed into a single backstory with no real change from the usual in terms of length.

Meanwhile, things like Weapons, Semblances and Fighting Styles would need twice the thinking. Though on the other hand one could make comparisons between both characters, and in the latter's case, one could explain attack combinations between them, or how they fight together (if they do), which is less relevant when only making 1 OC.

Of course, both ideas require more thinking than the average OC, so I'm only going to use one of those 2 if most people aren't going to be busy in October.

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Of course, if most people are going to be busy, I got 2, more conventional ideas.

-The 1st, is the idea I mentioned before the current contest; basically, an OC based on a Legendary Weapon, like Excalibur or Durandal. Not on their owner, but on the weapon. Of course, while I expect an Excalibur OC to use a sword, their creator still has freedom to design that sword (1Handed? 2Handed? Flamberge? Double-Bladed? Uses Dust? Is also a gun?).

-The 2nd, is basically the same idea but with vehicles instead of legendary weapons, inspired by Ark and his love for Tsundere Tanks in Sailor Fukus. It shouldn't be too hard, it's been done before (looks at KanColle).

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In any case, I'm planning on the contest having a bigger deadline: Up to the 24-25 of October.