Pumpkin Hollow Pages Opt-In
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restingslasherfaceDo you like Kirby, Mega-Man, and Metroid? Would you like them if they were a traumatized corporate soldier raised in a hellscape that boggles the imagination? Then welcome to the Pages Opt-In!
What are Pages?
The short answer is: they're the light behind your eyes that makes you who you are. Jean's canon is one in which they received power by extracting it from victims of the Library, enabling Jean to cosplay as said victims and adopt their strengths, weaknesses, and combat techniques. Here in Pumpkin Hollow, the strange intersection of Jean's magic and the island's has altered how they do this and what it might mean, but the core ideas remain the same: Jean can pillage looks, weapons, combat techniques, and inherent strengths and weaknesses from those they can extract a Page from, altering their look, generating clothes and weapons from the Light, and also adopting your gender.
How does Jean get Pages?
Per discussion with the mods before apping, Jean can extract Pages in two ways with some distinct differences. The first is that they might get them from your corpse, either by finding your body or, y'know, by killing you. Highly emotional deaths (in terror and rage, at the height of your triumph, if you somehow died in the middle of that good sex) are more likely to produce Pages; surprise attacks, deaths in your sleep, getting hypnotized into walking into something's mouth, etc are less likely.
The second way is by developing close and meaningful CR, for weal or for woe. This idea is new to Jean, and the resulting Page would be more about the relationship itself, embodying it like some manner of murderous Care Bear and resulting in strange new combat techniques that reify the CR rather than being pillaged from you directly.
What does your character lose if a Page is extracted?
Nothing directly! This is not the Library, you don't need to be turned into a book and become functionally dead. However, it does mean someone is out here using some of your power set, and maybe combining it with others. This is part of the reason for the opt-in! If you'd prefer your character remain strictly unique, or don't like the idea of someone being able to, say, frame you by using your powers, well, here we are.
If you're open to, or actively interested in, getting Pages extracted from your character please Opt-In here by replying! Questions, comments, and such are extremely welcome, as are expressions of specific interest if you've got 'em!
What are Pages?
The short answer is: they're the light behind your eyes that makes you who you are. Jean's canon is one in which they received power by extracting it from victims of the Library, enabling Jean to cosplay as said victims and adopt their strengths, weaknesses, and combat techniques. Here in Pumpkin Hollow, the strange intersection of Jean's magic and the island's has altered how they do this and what it might mean, but the core ideas remain the same: Jean can pillage looks, weapons, combat techniques, and inherent strengths and weaknesses from those they can extract a Page from, altering their look, generating clothes and weapons from the Light, and also adopting your gender.
How does Jean get Pages?
Per discussion with the mods before apping, Jean can extract Pages in two ways with some distinct differences. The first is that they might get them from your corpse, either by finding your body or, y'know, by killing you. Highly emotional deaths (in terror and rage, at the height of your triumph, if you somehow died in the middle of that good sex) are more likely to produce Pages; surprise attacks, deaths in your sleep, getting hypnotized into walking into something's mouth, etc are less likely.
The second way is by developing close and meaningful CR, for weal or for woe. This idea is new to Jean, and the resulting Page would be more about the relationship itself, embodying it like some manner of murderous Care Bear and resulting in strange new combat techniques that reify the CR rather than being pillaged from you directly.
What does your character lose if a Page is extracted?
Nothing directly! This is not the Library, you don't need to be turned into a book and become functionally dead. However, it does mean someone is out here using some of your power set, and maybe combining it with others. This is part of the reason for the opt-in! If you'd prefer your character remain strictly unique, or don't like the idea of someone being able to, say, frame you by using your powers, well, here we are.
If you're open to, or actively interested in, getting Pages extracted from your character please Opt-In here by replying! Questions, comments, and such are extremely welcome, as are expressions of specific interest if you've got 'em!
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Date: 2023-08-24 12:41 am (UTC)Besides the, yanno, being made of metal and having armor and all that (I can get a bit more into physiology if it's important!), Nightshade can also transform into a big robotic owl, as well as doing more mild semi-transformations to pull out a battle mask and/or "feathers" along their arms, and can bring out or hide their wings at will (like so). Their "weaponry" is oddly almost instinctual; their wings/feathers and talons are sharp, obviously, but they can also make their wings/feathers glow green and fling/shoot that energy (like so). They can also turn their eyes/lights red instead of green, which I'm pretty sure comes with some sort of night vision since a)owl and b)they only do it the once at night.
Jury is out on whether they can make their head do a full 180-degree rotation.They can, of course, also fly, both in owl mode and in their regular form; they seem to need to have their wings out to fly but who knows if that'd be a thing for Jean. They can pick up and carry more than one might think they can pretty easily. Finally, they can take a LOT of punishment, as can all Transformers in their universe; they take a few missiles in the final fight and just kinda shrug it off.
Nightshade is also, as an individual, incredibly smart, inclined towards science and inventing (and also science fiction novels). Also loves cute animals.
If and when Nightshade dies, Jean is free to get a Page from their corpse, but I'd also be super happy to form meaningful CR and give them a Page that way!