Now, regarding setting, should we use a fantasy-type landscape? (Even something simple such as a haunted forest) or should we use some time period in our own world? (Going into urban fantasy I guess)
Or just combine the two for a fantasy setting BASED off a particular time period (e.g. a personal favourite of mine - the 1920’s)
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Here’s the description for my character, I hope it’s clear enough
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Name: Neophytos (17, he/him)
Appearance: Skin is a dark olive from his hours out in the sun and hair is dark as oak wood.
Brief rundown: Not exactly the most outgoing soul in the world, prefers to be left by himself in his garden tending plants. His father is a potter in the region of Arcadia, Ancient Greece, and his mother is rumoured to be a flower nymph thus the reason why he is so good with plants, though he has never met her. Uses the broken and discarded pots to grow his plants in and cares for them more than anything else in the world. Doesn’t really have any powers or particular fighting ability, though if a situation was to get dire, his plants would be inclined to help him.
Appearance: Wears a silky black coat that flares our from the waist and has an attached cowl. His features are completely hidden by an ivory-white mask he has on at all times. He fights with a quarterstaff, which he's excellent with, and a rapid-fire crossbow (I based this off Leonardo Da Vinci's model) when in ranged combat.
Other skills: He can cook very well, and carries a small pouch of aromatic herbs beneath his coat. He also knows embroidery.
Occupation: Bounty hunter. He made a name for himself in the field, and while not very well-known, those who hear of him know his worth.
Personality: He prefers not to talk, but secretly takes great interest in what he calls the Game; he loves plotting and manoeuvring with just about anyone except those he truly cares about. Dropping hints, carefully weighing information, reading people; he tries his best to attach strings to everyone. And he's pretty good. As a person, he's hard to get close to, but he has no qualms with working alongside others. He can be perfectly respectful and cordial when he wants to.
"I believe a man does what he can until his destiny is revealed to him."
Nice! I remember this guy from the Odin storybook (I wonder what will happen with that?) but anyway... what’s next? I suppose we should probably figure out if these characters of ours are friends or not and what exactly is going on
Yep, he's from there. As for Odin; I think a couple of members are a bit inactive and everyone's just waiting for [i]something[/s] to happen. Might have to kickstart it again soon.
Okay, so combing your ideas; dark fantasy set in the 1920s, right? I don't know much about how the West was during that time period, so can we have this on a different world?
"I believe a man does what he can until his destiny is revealed to him."
Well I used 1920’s as an example because it’s so jazzy, but if there are any other cool historical settings you can think of that’s cool, I’m open to whatever we end up with.
Picking up on your other world suggestion though (as well as from this play I read in school) perhaps the setting could be some kind of mysterious otherworld like Hades in Greek mythology or The Upside Down in stranger things. I feel that would definitely help to add in the unsettling side of things and could open up some interesting ways of how our characters got there in the first place as well as how they’re going to get out.
Yeah, perhaps it’s a kind of between space ‘in the cracks sort thing’ and lots of parts of history and realities get washed up in it e.g. Along one street you’ve got some knights strolling down to a jazz club while around the corner you have some ancient Egyptians testing out steampunk devices
Does that make sense? I’m just tossing around ideas
Yes that sounds awesome! So we can have our characters from their respective times and it will all make sense. How should they meet? Do they frequent taverns or cafe’s?
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