Just felt like bringing this up. 😛
It's only relevant to the thread's purpose.
Originally posted by The Big O
i just want to get something across to [b]everyone:Scenario has stated it. the school is designed to be a training center. most people that come to the school are not in control of their powers and the are at their most basic forms. if not, why are you at the school? ive stated countless times that i am a firm believer in Character Development and progression.
you guys signed up for this RP and i created it because i as well as you all wanted this. i made rules and if you want to be a part of this, you have to follow them. i can accept that some of you dont agree with the rules but that is your problem. i made te rules based off of how i want this RP ran. if you do not agree with them, you are more than free to leave. if that is something that you do not wish to do, PM me and we can see if we can come to some kind of compromise. i think that is being very fair and generous.
ive done the school thing. i graduated high school and i have a Bacholers Degree in Psychology. those school years were great and i had a lot of fun and made all kinds of friends. i done things i never thought i would do and gone places i never thought i would go. i met people i never thought i would meet. and for us to be in the same setting, learning the same things, but doing it our own ways, that is what its all about. at least it is to me.
so i had this thought. what if there was a story with a similar tone. various people of various ages and backgrounds going through various things. you know, real life stuff. but what if they all had a superpower. corny, i know, but never the less interesting. tv shows did it. comic books did it. graphic novels did it. that was all cool and dandy and i liked most of what i saw, but everything was somebody elses ideas. that's when i found this place.
somewhere in the world, other people were thinking like me. a school with all kinds of teens who had superpowers. i found the first Hero High and joined because that was as close to what i wanted in a story as possible. i had my own ideas and preferrences, of course, but i could hold off on those because it was cool and i was a small but significant part of something that i thought was great. the second HH was made and i joined that one as well.
but it still wasn't good enough for me. im about to get all kinds of cliche-y but i wanted angst, rebellion, love, hate, judgement, moral delimmas, etc... but i also wanted super heroes and mega villians and destruction and threats and all that jazz. thats why i created HH3. i wanted to incorporate all of that into one story. im not saying that the first two didnt have all that but i wanted to be in charge so i could make sure that things happend the way i intended. i wanted something that had a feel of realness but also some fantasy or sci-fi. i also wanted honesty and genuiness. that was completely up to who ever signed on to this. but my role was to make sure that it rolled the way i intended it to.
Character Development/Progression is very important to me. in my honest opinion, it is one of the most crucial roles in any good continuing story with distinct and prominent characters. as i said, this is a school that is designed to help the sutdents learn how to control and grow in the use of their powers. the students, as assumed, come to the school because they are not able to control their powers. most students are youngsters and teens but there are now adults in the mix, but all of them have the same issue; they are untrained and inexperience.
that in itself could be interesting. a school that was formerly kept secret and for young people with powers is now publicly known and full of just as many adults with underdeveloped powers. there are so many possibilities with this and so many realistic things are capable of happening. if you are unable to think of anything, just imagine if you were in the position of one of the teen students who was use to only having to deal with the adult teachers or if you were a newly attending adult that has to be surrounded by a bunch of hormone-ravaged, super powered kids.
but i digress. a team of supers, most of which have been active since 2005, are as experienced as they come. or at least more experienced than the students. they have been using their powers, gaining experience and gone through various situations for 5 years in real time (longer in the game itself), and have rightly deserved to have gained multiple abilities as well as become vastly powerful. that is what developed characters do. they grow and learn from the experiences they had.
that is what i want this RP to be about. i fail to understand why it is so hard for some to see that the purpose of this RP is that of Character Development. yeah, you want to show off what your character is capable of doing. that's understandable and even i want to do it. the difference is, some of my characters are at the level where they can show off because they worked hard to get to where they are.
the new students that were registered, most of which are between the ages of 16-20, should only be just now discovering what they can do. there shouldn't be a student present at the school who is in complete and utter control of their abilities. hell, im being gracious with the fact that most students are black belts and the such seeing as it takes years and years of practice to achieve something like that.
and for the sake of realisim, (regardless of what the story entails), every new character registered WILL have only one power. it is close to impossible for someone to learn more than power at a time. especially if they are in no way related. also, there will be no more characters with weapons. it is a school for crying out loud. bad things tend to happen when someone brings a weapon to school. it doesn't matter that most people would barely be bothered by a weapon.
so forgive me if i dont want to accept a character who has 10 different powers and carries all kinds of weapons. i have made the rules and they are expected to be followed. if you dont like them or dont agree with me, thats just tough cookies. i often try to work with you all but i will not be ran over in my own RP. get with the program of get out. its harsh but its true.
Thank You. [/B]
