Post by RenaRoo121 on Apr 9, 2010 23:27:36 GMT -5
The characterization of Mutant Melee is complicated but this is where I will do my best to help everyone understand what's going on. Since Mutant Melee is the merger of all the TMNT universes, a huge amount of characters, popular and unpopular, well known and unknown, are available for people to play as.
Some of these characters, most notably the TMNT themselves, are found in most if not all of the different universes and, likewise, have a huge range of interpretation. Theses characters will, in large, be determined by their players how exactly they will act. Most likely this will be either a specific version of the turtles (Original Comics, Old Cartoon, New Cartoon, Movies, Next Mutation, CGI Movie, Archie Comics, etc.) or a meshing of several versions. As said, all will be determined by their player.
This means that the characterization of certain characters, say LeatherHead, may not be the way you like them the most. You may like the respectable but challenged character croc in the 2003 4Kids cartoon but the player of LeatherHead will choose to use the Cajun Archie version or the near-psychotic Original Comics version. You may not like these interpretations but please do not cause drama over this.
Characters of multiple origins may also bring about the question of Alternate Universe versions: allowing one character to play the Archie Raph while another plays the CGI Raph. For the time being this is not allowed. We're trying to keep it simple and if let too far, there could be about 40 AU turtles running around the sewers and it makes for no fun in the game play. Exceptions to these rules would be the Super Turtles themselves which we have decided are their own characters.
There will be no original or fan characters. We are attempting to encourage the use of minor characters over original characters. Let's have some fun investigating the fandom
Do NOT play a character if its application has not yet been approved by a moderator or administrator. We will tell you when you can play your character. We have to have people apply else we cannot keep up with the characters.
The current character limit is five. It's the magic number. No more and no less. ... Maybe less. You get the point.
Until further notice you cannot be a villain unless the moderators or administrators ask you to be. This is to keep the mayhem at a sustainable level and because the villains hold very important positions in the development of plots. If you want to ask to be a villain, you can private message a mod or admin but keep in mind that spamming us with requests will probably not help your case any. Villains will not affect your character limit if you are chosen to be one.
Villains fall into the same questions of interpretations.
No romance without the consent of the other player. Imagine the poor turtles if every fling they've ever had in any universe was suddenly at their beck and call without any restraint. While I'm sure four teenage boys would not see that as a problem it is distracting to play. Try to not use characters (the female variety in general) as ways to catalyst your favorite fantasy love triangles.
How your character reacts to the new "One-Verse" environment is up to you. Whether they remember their past life, mesh into the new world entirely, or don't find any interest in it is entirely up to you. That being said, do not completely erase their history up until that point. One of my pet peeves is sporadic amnesia.
Emoness for the sake of emoness is frowned upon.
Please, for the sake of peace, avoid slash, turtle-cest for the comfort levels of the other players. I believe strongly that this falls under the same rules as the romance category but I figured I'd go ahead and point this out, too.
**Rules can be and most likely will be changed as needed. Keep tuned in to the announcements.
Some of these characters, most notably the TMNT themselves, are found in most if not all of the different universes and, likewise, have a huge range of interpretation. Theses characters will, in large, be determined by their players how exactly they will act. Most likely this will be either a specific version of the turtles (Original Comics, Old Cartoon, New Cartoon, Movies, Next Mutation, CGI Movie, Archie Comics, etc.) or a meshing of several versions. As said, all will be determined by their player.
This means that the characterization of certain characters, say LeatherHead, may not be the way you like them the most. You may like the respectable but challenged character croc in the 2003 4Kids cartoon but the player of LeatherHead will choose to use the Cajun Archie version or the near-psychotic Original Comics version. You may not like these interpretations but please do not cause drama over this.
Characters of multiple origins may also bring about the question of Alternate Universe versions: allowing one character to play the Archie Raph while another plays the CGI Raph. For the time being this is not allowed. We're trying to keep it simple and if let too far, there could be about 40 AU turtles running around the sewers and it makes for no fun in the game play. Exceptions to these rules would be the Super Turtles themselves which we have decided are their own characters.
There will be no original or fan characters. We are attempting to encourage the use of minor characters over original characters. Let's have some fun investigating the fandom
Do NOT play a character if its application has not yet been approved by a moderator or administrator. We will tell you when you can play your character. We have to have people apply else we cannot keep up with the characters.
The current character limit is five. It's the magic number. No more and no less. ... Maybe less. You get the point.
Until further notice you cannot be a villain unless the moderators or administrators ask you to be. This is to keep the mayhem at a sustainable level and because the villains hold very important positions in the development of plots. If you want to ask to be a villain, you can private message a mod or admin but keep in mind that spamming us with requests will probably not help your case any. Villains will not affect your character limit if you are chosen to be one.
Villains fall into the same questions of interpretations.
No romance without the consent of the other player. Imagine the poor turtles if every fling they've ever had in any universe was suddenly at their beck and call without any restraint. While I'm sure four teenage boys would not see that as a problem it is distracting to play. Try to not use characters (the female variety in general) as ways to catalyst your favorite fantasy love triangles.
How your character reacts to the new "One-Verse" environment is up to you. Whether they remember their past life, mesh into the new world entirely, or don't find any interest in it is entirely up to you. That being said, do not completely erase their history up until that point. One of my pet peeves is sporadic amnesia.
Emoness for the sake of emoness is frowned upon.
Please, for the sake of peace, avoid slash, turtle-cest for the comfort levels of the other players. I believe strongly that this falls under the same rules as the romance category but I figured I'd go ahead and point this out, too.
**Rules can be and most likely will be changed as needed. Keep tuned in to the announcements.