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[carnality.livejournal.com]

Basically, we've been allowing doubles of characters on a case by case basis. It's come to our attention how difficult and sensitive this can be, and it'd really help us know what you think.

Feel free to be completely honest but be tactful of it. Do not call people out, do not make examples of people who are not comfortable being made examples of and if you get into a discussion with someone, keep it civil or take it to IM. I will freeze threads if I see people are getting too personal or heated (and you can happily IM me and tell me I was wrong if I mistake your passion for anger, consent would be needed from both in the discussion.)

Basically, double characters, yay or nay? How do you feel about it? What are the pros and cons of it, in your mind? Should we allow instances of it, or should we just ban it all together? Should it not be so black and white?

There was some discussion on this post here about it earlier, if you'd like to expand on ideas or whatever you like.


We are not going to force anyone with doubles to drop their characters, this is in no way going to affect any of you so please don't feel the need to get defensive! We just want to know, for the future, what we should consider. ♥ thank you, in advance. :D

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[createdpower.livejournal.com]

Well, alrighty, here are my thoughts.

If it is only later or earlier in the timeline, then no go. If it's from an alternate universe, then yes! So, we couldn't have the Link who was in Majora's Mask and the Link from Ocarina of Time because Majora's Mask is a direct sequel, but we could have the Link from OoT and the Link from Twilight Princess because the games are unconnected.
(Did that make sense? It's kinda a tricky thing to say properly...)

Only downside here is that we could end up with like 50 versions of each of the X-Men, and other characters from hugely branched franchises like that. So maybe set a limit? No more than three or four of the same character, regardless of the number of canons.

If it's iffy, then talk it out with the player of the character who is already around.

[death-chopper.livejournal.com]

One thing to bear in mind with the issues of hugely branched branched franchises is that, honestly, how many different Wolverines or whoever are people going to want to play? While yes, there is potential for abuse of the system here, is it really going to happen in our specific game?

Not to say this isn't a valid issue, but I feel like specifically limiting multiples to certain number is sort of silly. If people want to play another copy of the same character and can prove sufficiently that he's different from the one(s) already in the game, I think s/he should be allowed, regardless of how many we have already.

[jagan-glare.livejournal.com]

Your Link spiel makes perfect sense, *thumbs up* and it makes me wonder if we'll ever have a cartoon!Link, because that would be hilariously epic, XD though it does make me ask the "what-if" question, as in "what if someone apped as Kid Link from OoT/MM and then another person wanted to pick up Adult Link from OoT?" Adult Link would have no memories of Majora's Mask events, since MM occurred AFTER Zelda sent Link back to their childhoods.

...my apologies if that's confusing at all, but it was something I thought of. ^^;

Also, I should've asked this in my Nabooru journal, *LOL*

[createdpower.livejournal.com]

TIME PARADOX! DDD:

Man, I have no idea! XD That's one for the mods and the player of the character, I guess!