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Religion in Role Plays

Religion is important motivation in peoples' lives.It's an important aspect of culture. It would kinda blow to have a restriction on it when it comes to characters.

Though, personally, I don't really have any characters highly influenced by religion one way or another unless they're in a fantasy setting. It, like, never comes up for my characters in RPs. And I rarely see it in other peoples' characters, so I can't really give any experimental input.

So... How Do OC Characters Work...?

I personally don't have any fan characters (FCs). I only have OCs. However, not all my OCs can fit in every RP, so yes, I do change my characters as needed to fit a RP. So, you could do the same with your FCs. Like if you have a Pokemon trainer, you could take away his Pokemon and put him in a modern day setting. Ask yourself, "What would he be like in a different universe?"

As for animals, I rarely see role plays about animals, but they do exist. So you could probably find / make something for animal RP. Although rare, when I do see animal RP it's usually wolves or horses. Sometimes lions.

I have a premise, but need some help developing a plot

Heehee, I'm a lady. And thanks :D

Anyways, here it is. Again, if anyone thinks something needs to be changed content-wise, let me know. Then once we finalize the what, I can fix the writing as suggested, haha. I'm not the best at writing out plots.

Tentative plot

City X's (to be determined, taking suggestions--can be fictional or otherwise) crime rates have always been scary high. Almost no one walks the streets after dark, much less alone. Those who do have been lucky to get away missing only a wallet. Parks and playgrounds are always empty save for suspicious thugs. The city is poor and underfunded, so there aren't enough police officers to push back the criminals. Hell, with so little money being made, even much of the law enforcement is crooked.

However, over the last couple years, that crime rate has slowly been declining. First, it was just one paladin. But, boy, s/he couldn't do it alone. Eventually it was two...then three...And now, there's a budding community of paladins within City X and they're slowly--but surely--working together to protect the people. It's easier to keep their abilities hidden than it is in most other places, as well, since the locals find it safer to stay inside while they do business. Safer streets, though, are incentive for the normals--curious and otherwise--to begin exploring their city...

While most people look upon a decline in crime with gratitude, a darker force sees a problem: shades. Many have seen these miracle-like patterns before--some over multiple life spans. And, quite frankly, they've been targeted by the do-gooders far too long--and very rarely actually killed. More like subdued and imprisoned, forced to rot away so their evil can't start again for at least another generation.

Well, paladins aren't the only ones who can band together for a common goal. Outside of City X, it took just one shade to counter that single paladin. S/he sought out other shades, offering revenge and safety: if shades could ban together and kill this growing nest of paladins, the world would would become increasingly easier to "discipline."

Now that many shades are in on the action, they're ready to strike. However, unlike paladins, shades have a harder time working together. So, an organized attack just won't happen--but shades will still go about the destruction of paladins. Some might blend into the city as paladins at first, only to stab friends made in the back. Others might try to persuade paladins to "switch sides;" the life of a paladin isn't an easy one, after all. Many will simply prey on the weak to draw out the paladins or find the target themselves.

Crime rates in City X will be on the rise yet again. Will the paladins persevere and stop the evil? Or will shades come out on top?

(I left the paladin and shade taking initiative's gender open in case anyone wants to make either of those characters. uwu I think I good motivation for the paladin could be that maybe s/he was born there, so of course s/he wants to make it right. Or maybe just passing through, up to anyone who would like to take it, haha.)

(And now I really need to sleep. I'm usually in bed an hour ago, haha. I'll be on tomorrow, though.}

I have a premise, but need some help developing a plot

Okay, I'm back. Had a family thing to attend that I thought was tomorrow, haha.

Using the ideas presented, I'll throw together a basic plot line, then we can figure out what we'd like to change, add, and/or remove. If anyone still has questions or would like some more clarification, let me know.

I have a premise, but need some help developing a plot

OH an emergency came up--I won't be on for a few hours (nothing bad, don't worry)

I have a premise, but need some help developing a plot

El_Tigre said
What type of act qualifies as bad enough to be reincarnated? Would it be based off of breaking laws like murder and crime? Or Biblical sinning; Adultrey, lies, gluttony, greed, pride, wrath, et cetera?

It would be anything that puts another human or humans in serious harm. For example, someone like Jack the Ripper or Hitler would be reincarnated. Or even maybe someone who murdered their spouse. A serial rapist. Really, anything that you find cringe worthy. Motivation can be accounted for, too. Maybe whatever the person did wasn't terribly evil, but if the intentions were particularly sadistic, they might be reincarnated.

El_Tigre said
Through reincarnation to they keep their same personality? Maybe even their same appearance? Though I think it would be cool to show a stream of how your appearance changed between the different lifetimes? Even the possibility of changing genders through the reincarnation. As your soul would be attached to the new body but the chromosomes through the process of pregnancy might change, though has a strong biased towards the original gender of the host? And the only thing that remains the same is the personality of the person?

Their appearance and even gender changes. The body they get is decided by genetics of their birth parents in terms of appearance and such even though they remain surprisingly healthy. So, if your character was a big, muscular, bear like guy in his first life, there's a chance he'll be a dainty little girl in his next life. I am playing with and drawn to the idea that if the person died a violent death, killing blows might appear as birthmarks, haha. On top of this, sexuality is often linked to your first life, leading many paladins/shades being homo- or bi- sexual or anything, really.

Personality is a little harder to explain: since personality is slightly affected by genetics and very much affected by upbringing (I think, haha), any influence of their previous life can be hindered by this. Plus, how well a paladin or shade really remembers and is aware of their past life is different between individuals. Paladins, for example, tend to remember their lives through dreams if at all. Shades tend to be most affected by their past lives, and many are fully aware of their previous memories. But again, they vary as much as humans do, so you have a lot of creative freedom in terms of personality.

I probably didn't explain that very well....

El_Tigre said
Having returned as a reincarnation you have been given the opportunity to right the wrongs of your past life. Though the degree of the sin/crime determines the atonement one must do to break free of your worldly chains. The greater of sinners/criminals have only one option. Join a secret task force of paladins that aid the world through the shadows. Mostly against the Shades, capturing them and bringing them to a secure facility for detainment; knowing killing the shades would only offer them a chance of reincarnation. CAN EXPAND IF YOU LIKE THE IDEA

That is actually a really awesome idea. :D That would make sense, not killing shades. Otherwise, they'll just be reborn and continue their evil. So we could totally use that as a plot point.

VarionusNW said
I would like to expand on your Idea, El_Tigre. Lets say the RP takes place in a city (I will refer to this city as city X) City X happens to be a sort of hub for paladins, containing a large number of them, while the shades are spread thin. Over time, though, the shades began to group up, eventually forming a sort of reincarnating gang within City X, which is a problem for Paladins.So the bulk of the RP would be the shabbily structured gang of shades against the tight-knit community of paladins within City X. Of course, the goal of the shades is to rid themselves of the paladins, so they can live their eternities of crime and chaos in "Peace"also, it would be cool if we could play as the reincarnated forms of real criminals. (OBVIOUS THING IS OBVIOUS)

Ohhh, I like this a lot! Both these ideas provide plenty of conflict.

And yeah, I'm totally okay with y'all using known criminals as your previous incarnations.

Sylverblu said
I have the interest. Stupid idea time: it's being discovered that within City X there are several shades under the guise of paladins killing them off, putting the paladins at risk of extinction within City X and forcing them to either kill their comrades hoping that they're shades after interrogation or something OR leave what you describe as a "tight-knit" group and live in solitude to save themselves.Terrible I know, sorry.

It's not terrible. It's not like you can tell the difference between a shade and a paladin at a glance--much less a paladin/shade and a normal human, haha. So that could definitely be a strategy shades use to kill off the paladins.

I'm glad y'all have shown interest. :D These are awesome ideas!! I'll be frequenting the thread and I'll try putting together a coherent plot explanation while we work out the details.

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