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

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It can take literally any form and be fired onehanded. Using a conventional weapon for the appearance seems a waste, especially with our invocation loadout.
 
Omegahugger said:
We are going to to be carrying around a weapon no matter what. I don't think a rifle is going to give much more security than a deathlaser or being able to knock about people at a distance.
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I know that. Is about the connotations. A normal looking firearm feels much more real that a magic wand. Is why the same reason why Kid Win can go around with a Laser pistol when nobody would let him use a Glock.

(That said, if people prefer a more exotic atack, lighting fits Aria as much as wind)
 
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veekie said:
Blue would be nice, though you'd need a mix of shades. Darker blues for the core outfits to allow pastel blues to be accents.
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except that going on what information we have (her hair colour) and some cursory research, Emma is likely to be a warm Autumn(1) which means pastel anything would make her look tired/drained at best, with her good options for blues in general being rather limited. c'mon guys, know your fashion basics :p

having said that, please remember that transformed appearance is not limited to what your regalia looks like, you can emphasise/modify her appearance in other ways as well.

Also remember that her transformed apearance should reflect her ideal self "unfettered by this world of sorrows.". we should be designing around who she wants to be, who she could be at her best; keeping in mind her defining characteristics(2), the nature of troubadours (3), her court (4), and to a much lesser extent (if at all) her invocations(5); (I don't like any of the costumes proposed so far as they say nothing about Emma, let alone about Emma's ideal self)

Lord Ultimus said:
You stare at your new self. It looks like you, but at the same time, unfamiliar. No, that's not true, not entirely. This is the you that should have been, that should have been there at the alley, that should have found a way to beat back those gangers without having to see their corpses at your feet. This is the you that can take on the worst the world has to offer and win.
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(1) the likely runner up is warm spring(which has more slack with the blue) but the kind of hair that's called 'red' without qualification is generally an autumn hair colour. winter (black, deep purple and other darker colours) and summer(pastel be here) are right out
(2) specifically the ones she likes about herself and those that are intrinsic to her image of herself / her ideal self. her heroes, role models and the people in her life that she looks up to would offer clues to this
(3) going by my understanding this covers anybody with a passion for there art/works and its sharing, with some edge case examples being things like Phantom/Magician Thief(6), Cosplaying Wonder, Master Bladesmith and World's Best Barista. what vocation is she called to and how will she express it.
(4) Courtless; so this one feeds back on herself; specifically her ideals, the issues she thinks are most important and what reason she has for fighting the darkness (in whatever form she chooses to fight it in)
(5) Freedom, Craftiness, and laughter for Aria; Determination, Drive and an unrelenting rage against the Darkness for storms, both have countercultural symbolism as part of their theme and heraldry they also both have a tendency towards regalia that offer freedom of movement
(6) the kind that delights the audience with their daring performance as much as they frustrate the police

edit: for levinbolt; their is nothing that says it has to look like a practical weapon (their is even precedent for it not looking like a weapon at all), Emma has as much; if not more; reason to have an aversion to guns as to want one; she's neither inherently physical nor conventionally violent, and nothing about her character says that she associates guns with power or safety (you might have an argument for crossbows, but I don't think SS was using one in the alley); given that there is absolutely no mechanical advantage to using a gun we might as well use needles (the ornamental kind you use in hair), or weighted scarf bolas, or aerodynamic gemstones; they're less likely to get us tasered by the police(or foamed by the PRT) for carrying around a weapon
 
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Question! Apparently Levinbolt can take the form of a thrown item, such as a dagger? And does not have to specifically look like a weapon/ may look in fact completely innocuous?

Now, considering the following:
  • Emma is pretty, potentially even model-pretty
  • And she is literally a Princess now
  • She is averse to guns, has no reason to want anything lethal-looking (especially with threat of PRT foaming)
  • She enjoys fashion
  • And Levinbolt can apparently take any shape, but does Bashing damage regardless of appearance
...let her throw cake.
 
pantherasapiens said:
And Levinbolt can apparently take any shape, but does Bashing damage regardless of appearance
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Bashing or lethal, with her being able to switch with a 'transformation action'. unfortunately for your cake idea even with the 'multiple' upgrade taken twice she'll max out at thirty shots per clip; which is less than four tens, and that's terrible :p
 
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pantherasapiens said:
Question! Apparently Levinbolt can take the form of a thrown item, such as a dagger? And does not have to specifically look like a weapon/ may look in fact completely innocuous?

Now, considering the following:
  • Emma is pretty, potentially even model-pretty
  • And she is literally a Princess now
  • She is averse to guns, has no reason to want anything lethal-looking (especially with threat of PRT foaming)
  • She enjoys fashion
  • And Levinbolt can apparently take any shape, but does Bashing damage regardless of appearance
...let her throw cake.
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Well...it's not very stylish or fashiony.

There's always going Tuxedo Mask and firing flowers.
 
Also, it could be cool to have (sadly non-functionable for now) wings as part of the costumes and throw sharpened feathers at people.

Alternatively, create wings out of guillotines and shoot those at people.
 
We do not need wings. That way lies Simurgh-hood.

A marvelous idea: let's shoot little ♥-shaped chocolates! They're delicious, feminine, fashionable, and Bashing.
 
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You're right. Our regalia, weapons, and everything must be made as Simurgh-esque as we can. Except for the nudity, we are not having any of that.

We will be the decently dressed Simurgh, and bash people with feathers from our many wings.

This cannot go wrong at all.
 
Perhaps oversized thrown needles? I think we should avoid elemental themes for the basic weapon, because those come from the invocation upgrades.
 
racnor said:
Perhaps oversized thrown needles? I think we should avoid elemental themes for the basic weapon, because those come from the invocation upgrades.
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With the exception of Quaking and Burning, those upgrades seem more"elementally inspired" than actually elemental. Because I don't see a lot of Ice in the Freezing upgrade.
 
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It should be something nobody has a common x-kinesis ability for. Don't want metal because of Kaiser, Purity has light, Parian has cloth, Leviathan has water, Stormtiger has air.

...Maybe we should just shoot concentrated hope.
 
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