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Emma Barnes, Princess (Worm/Princess the Hopeful Quest)

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racnor said:
First, it explicitly states that "Pulling back from a foe for tactical advantage is acceptable" so yes it does allow such retreat.
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Yes, I derped. See edit.
racnor said:
The tattered ghost thing (that might be outdated now, since the PDF just mentions transcending the reincarnation cycle) isn't taking about the people we kill. Tempesta has a lot of "cast from hit points" tricks, and if we die from those, we become one with the storm instead of reincarnating.
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Another derp then. Thanks.
racnor said:
Finally, we can indeed use other invocations too, and probably should unless we want to become the stereotypical crazy storms princess.
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Embrace the crazy! No compromise! :p
 
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I don't really agree with the idea that Emma would be drawn to the philosophy of Storms right now.

She's already seen the purest embodiment of that philosophy (even if Sophia isn't a Champion of Storms, she's certainly acting like one here), which is "Victims? I ain't got time for that shit, too many badguys to kill." Shadow Stalker may have saved Emma's life, but now there's no one to tell her how to move forward.

But what about Graces, you may ask. Isn't it their job, along with the other Callings, to handle the Victims left behind by the Champions' Crusade, to remotivate and inspire them into joining the Crusade of Storms like they should have been doing all along?

Yes, but:

1) There's not a Grace of Storms here to talk to Emma.

2) The Champion may best embody the philosophy of the Queen of Storms, but the Grace best embodies her folly. As a Grace of Storms your followers become your victims, because you've raised them as a violent gang hellbent on ousting all the other gangs through any means necessary. Violence? Sure, kill as many as you can. Unwritten rules, Endbringer Truce, Due Process? Why should the villains gain the protection of rules and law when they're the ones who break them in the first place? Maybe you've even meaningfully harmed the gangs, but in the process you've made yourself and your followers the enemies of literally every other faction in the city, hero, villain, and civilian.

But you don't care. You have to kill the Bad Guys. By any means necessary.
 
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Pehaps as a compromise for maximum appeal, we could go for Hearts and then just pick up two dots in tempesta and one into terra? The result would then be something like ES's vigilante, but believing that ultimately, the people of Brockton can put the city back together and that it's worth the time to make that happen.
 
I'm going for this:
Menders of Spades have an unusual focus, but a vital one. They heal the ills people inflict upon themselves. Closer to a teacher than a psychiatrist the Menders seek out those who've internalised harmful views of themselves; whether it's a cruel parent's insults or a demeaning cultural stereotype. They subtly and deftly force their patients to confront their opinion again and again until they realise at last that it was no more solid than a dark cloud before the sun and it vanishes in a puff of wind.
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Let's see if Emma can mend herself with a little encouragement.
 
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Remember to put everything into a vote, or make a new vote if you've changed your mind.
 
I went with a witty seeker of spades on SB. No real character logic behind it, it just seems like an appealing idea to me.
 
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[X] Grace (Choose Presence or Manipulation for one Transformed Attribute dot)
No. of votes: 15
wingstrike96, Anasurimbor, Yun, Salbazier, DualFront, Dirk93, massdefect76, LordPanther14, WanderingEye, Fabulous Bob, Jiven, veekie, 1986ctcel, SometimesMaybe, Dogooderxi

-[X] Presence
No. of votes: 28
wingstrike96, Anasurimbor, Yun, Salbazier, DualFront, Dirk93, massdefect76, LordPanther14, WanderingEye, Fabulous Bob, Jiven, EarthScorpion, notmi, mr_stibbons, Amorous Intent, Scia, Jefepato, Bondo, veekie, BunnyLord, Omegahugger, 1986ctcel, King Prussia, Broken25, SometimesMaybe, Forestalld, Dogooderxi, Undead-Spaceman

[X] Hearts
No. of votes: 15
wingstrike96, Anasurimbor, Yun, Salbazier, DualFront, Dirk93, massdefect76, LordPanther14, WanderingEye, Fabulous Bob, Jiven, veekie, Broken25, SometimesMaybe, Dogooderxi

[X] Champion
No. of votes: 4
D King Hecht, MrLZRS, Wawv, jean5

-[X] Strength
No. of votes: 4
D King Hecht, AZATHOTHoth, Wawv, jean5

[X] Storms
No. of votes: 16
D King Hecht, Murderhobo of Nod, Wawv, jean5, EarthScorpion, notmi, mr_stibbons, Amorous Intent, Scia, Jefepato, Bondo, BunnyLord, Omegahugger, King Prussia, Forestalld, Undead-Spaceman

[X] Seeker
No. of votes: 2
CatScannerDarkly, Edkose

-[X] Intelligence
No. of votes: 2
CatScannerDarkly, Edkose

[X] Tears
No. of votes: 2
CatScannerDarkly, Edkose

[X] Champion (Choose Strength or Resolve for one Transformed Attribute dot)
No. of votes: 1
AZATHOTHoth

[X]Spades
No. of votes: 1
AZATHOTHoth

-[X] Resolve
No. of votes: 1
MrLZRS

[X] Swords
No. of votes: 2
MrLZRS, 1986ctcel

[X] Grace
No. of votes: 12
EarthScorpion, notmi, mr_stibbons, Amorous Intent, Jefepato, Bondo, BunnyLord, Omegahugger, King Prussia, Broken25, Forestalld, Undead-Spaceman

[X] Grac
No. of votes: 1
Scia

Not sure how it goes on other sides, but here it is a close race.
 
Can we change court later on?

Locking Emma into self-righteously destroying the people around her regardless of character growth seems pretty awful.
 
I'm fairly sure that you can take shit from other courts, dude. s'prolly that you got a knack for ones in your court moreso.
 
See, the thing about being Storms is...

... yes. You're a dark magical girl. You're an extremist. Storms is perhaps the most understandable Twilight Queen - she's just taking "fighting the enemy" too far. Emma would be starting in a bad place - and probably she'd see the Storm in her dreams and cling to the new ideology the Queen offers with the strength of a convert. Because Storms tells you that you just need to act, and you can beat the bad guys - and she's now stronger than she was before.

(Incidentally, I would point out that the unwritten rules aren't worth the paper they're written on. Coil just went and clean out ignored them, and there wasn't the fanon response of "oh no, he's the worst ever!" to him pulling what he pulled on the E88.)

But there's nothing that says a redemption arc isn't a possibility later on. There's nothing about having Tempesta that means you're irrevocably damned. Indeed, arguably Nanoha has some Tempesta that she uses for NEVER GIVE UP, CAST FROM HP, FULL POWER DESTROY EVERYTHING. There's nothing about it that means you're forced to do bad things. Tempesta just hands you a set of tools which is really good at breaking things. And even before a redemption arc happens, Princess of Storms is perfectly capable of being a fairly light antihero, especially tempered by other Invocations.

To put it another way, Storms opens the option of following the opposite path to canon Taylor. Rather than spirally downwards, it opens the choice of starting at a low point - as she is from the initial character sheet and from canon - and building yourself up, as Sensitivity means it's hard to turn a blind eye to the damage you're doing and you find new things to value.
 
[] Grace
-[] Presence
[] Storms

And my faith in storms is rekindled. Very convenient, having one of the game's creators hanging around the thread to explain themes.
 
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