Event plotting, discussion, and consolidation

[no_longer_a_king]

So, The Tower is Forever is coming up in three days and while I've seen a lot of discussion on plurk! But I figured having one big post for us to talk about our different ideas and the plans we came up with. This should make it easier to discuss and plot things out for future reference as we go and figure out who would be the more morbid to toss our characters at.

Basically post here with whatever you decided to do with your character for the event, link to any notes or discussions you've started for your character's timeline, and try to work out the kinks with one another. This way we can easily reference what everyone is up to during the event without too much worry for losing stuff.

Again, the original mod post about the event is HERE if anyone wants to look at it or ask questions of the mods. Not that won't stop them from chiming in here if they want to. 8P

Comments

[no_longer_a_king]

For Saber Lily, she's going to be from a timeline where things were actually pretty uneventful. Yes, there were events and such going on during the interim, but during that time Saber Lily just drifted. Enough time has passed that she has lost track (so probably closer to a hundred) and stopped questioning the tower.

At some point, a weekly poker game got established. I plan on putting the log up on the 14th, but does anyone want to be in the poker game? I got a few takers HERE, but would anyone else be interested in it? It will be an open log people can screw around in, but I'm mostly asking for people who would have been considered 'regulars' regardless of timeline.

[colonial]

America will have been in the tower for 250 years, which is long enough that he's been in the Tower longer than he's been at home. Obviously, this brings about personality changes. I'm going to probably keep any specific history stuff kind of vague because of fear of accidental spoilers/using a cool idea for something that happened here and then not being able to use it as a real event but he has been going through the standard Tower stuff.

America's morals will have warped significantly, having spent his formative years in the Tower. Death has basically no meaning to him except as a temporary punishment for someone when he's mad at them (and, since he can't age in the Tower, he's still emotionally a young child). He also seeks entertainment in a very messed up way--he'll push someone down the stairs or sit at the top of the stairs above where they collapse into the monster room and watch to see if the person dies or not (helping or hindering progress as the mood strikes him). He likes amusement and distractions of all sorts, and he doesn't like talking about things that happened in the past in the Tower because it's easier to just forget about the really bad stuff.

Basically he's gotten himself some fairy morals. Please see England if you need help wrangling the child. If you would like to join in his "games" feel free--he loves playmates and if someone could help him tip someone over so they literally go head over heels down the stairs that would be super awesome.

[myblueskies]

Romeo will have been in the tower a further eight years so he is now 20. He is still in a lot of ways kind and enthusiastic but he no longer speaks of beating the bad people or going home. He knows that there is no where to go to and this is his life now.

Instead he concentrates on helping others survive. Having spent his entire tween and teenage years in a horror tower where awful things happened constantly Romeo didn't really grow up, or at least not normally. He can fight, he is independent but emotionally he is still quite immature. His mantra of keeping his spirits up developed into him ignoring the bad that was happening to him, concentrating only on helping others get through things. Never dealing with negative emotions and thus in many ways he seems very childish even at twenty.

Even now in the present day death means little to Romeo and at 20 its not even a slap on the wrist (I hate to think what his death count will be by then...) He will throw himself into danger without a second thought, and he doesn't even need to know your name to die for you.

With help from those around him and the library Romeo managed to educate himself and now helps teach the children of the tower.

He still has hope, but it is hope that they can keep going, they can keep fighting, they can make sure people recover from the next experiment. Though if new people children or otherwise speak about leaving and escaping he doesn't contradict them he personally has given up any chance of living anywhere but here.

I'm also totally assuming he has been turned into every other animal with antlers or horns by now.

So anyone want to handwave some CR?

[vermicompost]

As Kariya only expects to live a few more days weeks at home, he will believe he's been in the tower for only a year or so. (Though he won't always be too clear on the length of time, due to not thinking clearly because of his condition.) In spite of efforts made to heal him, his physical and mental states will have slowly but steadily grown worse, and his health will have deteriorated to the point where he can't walk or stand, as he is quite literally worm-eaten.

He is going to be cared for by Rin, but any other character is welcome to have ongoing CR with him, if they'd like to give him some help or just stop by to visit. He'll have a wheelchair, so he won't be immobile.

He'll be especially fond of and look out for any children, as he'll see himself as Rin's father and a parental figure in general. In spite of being in such bad shape, he'll still want to care for the younger people.

[great_king_of_evil]

The King of Evil will have spent a couple hundreds years in the tower. He'll be wiser, more grumpy and eviler. A lot more annoyed and bored overall. At this point he won't try to take over the tower but rather try to get out, since he'll consider his imprisonment in the tower to be similar to his sealed time in the Dark World and Flooded Hyrule. Overall the tower won't affect him much, that's a lot like home, except here he has to deal with people. Unfortunately.

Physically he's not going to change much, probably look a couple years older. Oh and he will also use the title "Dark Lord of Animus" on a regular basis yes he is very vain and narcissistic. He probably would have kept handling the evil reunions and regularly would have attempted takeover / escape attempts. Speaking of which his yearly attempt is coming soon.

Also as by this time it's a secret to no one who and what he is so... He'll still be in the evil with (loose) standards territory but won't have to contain himself and pretend he's good. Basically, he's even worse than he is today, if that was possible.

[miseris_socios]

Ken will have been in the tower for about ten years, making him about 21 - 22. He doesn't talk about going home anymore, but he does his best to help keep people comfortable. He's learned how to hunt and survive on his own even more than before. His personality is essentially the same but he's actually learned how to take a joke better, even through all the stuff the tower makes them go through. He acts like a big brother to the younger kids in the tower.

That's all that I can think of off the top of my head.

[miseris_socios]

I'm thinking Ken and Romeo's relationship evolved into them basically being like brothers... :|a

[boxingemperor]

Akihiko will be ten years older (28). He's not going to change much in personality, aside from his views on life in the Tower. Instead of fearing experiments, he sees them as a test of strength. He'll get mad if he's left out of one, no matter how horrible it is, because he knows nobody in the Tower seems to die real deaths. This has also made him more lax in jumping to the rescue of others.

I imagine he's taken the initiative to train people as well, so they'll be better prepared mentally and physically for tower life. Aside from that, I'm open to discuss possible relationships and fake memories. If anybody wants to say they trained Akihiko or trained from him, that's cool too :3

[calculatedfire]

Ryuho will have been in the tower ten years. By this time, a particularly bloody event involving kidnapping of residents (details fuzzy) caused him enough stress to recover his memories and access his third form alter.

He had the use of the alter for about a year, however as the power draws from his strength and slowly kills him (And will have killed him multiple times), the tower placed a limiter on him to prevent him using the third form. He can still use forms one and two.

Finally, after seeing a number of people come and go, and even die. He's become completely emotionally repressed. (Basically like he is at the beginning of S-Cry-Ed)

I am toying with the idea that he developed a romantic relationship with someone who was killed of changed by the events in the tower.

Physically, his hair has grown out, and he has symmetrical scars on his cheeks and arms from summoning Zetsuei at third form before he was limited.

He will have recovered his memories after the event, so if anyone wants a final shot at amnesiac Ryuho, just let me know.

[notagiraffe]

For Taiki he will have been in the tower about 50 years. Yet he will not have changed that much physically at all. He will be perhaps an inch or two taller, look about twelve instead of ten and his hair will be down past his knees (his mane, so he wont cut it)

Gyousou never came back, Taiki will believe there to be a grave in the graveyard with his name on it. 50 years without his king has been very hard on him, he is very sick from blood sickness to the point that he has days where he can't even walk. This lessens when/if he dies and he is able to be well again for a few days.

The strain of being in a tower of evil has its toll on a holy creature and without his king Taiki never really grew past what he is now. If anything he got worse, he barely speaks and when he does it's in a whisper. Since he can't fight and he is often rendered helpless if powers (and therefore Sanshi and Gohran) are taken away from him he feels himself a burden on everyone.

He tries when he can, to heal and to help others but most of the fifty years is a blur of pain and sickness.

He has grown up though, he no longer calls on Sanshi and Gohran unless its in a fight, the childish games stopped, for a while he took up painting seriously (and anyone with CR with him probably has at least one portrait of themselves), he also took an interest in research and still does such when he can.

He hasn't given up on going home, despite everything. And he hasn't given up on the hope that Gyousou is alive and he will see him again.

[myblueskies]

Pretty much yes. I imagine they are now very close and help keep an eye on the newest batch of kids in the tower together

[crouching_sin]

Naoya will have spent at least a hundred years in the tower. Possibly more, but his physical body wouldn't have changed much. (Otherwise he would have reincarnated several times by now.)

He's probably snapped completely at least a few times by now - if you want to say your character got caught in the middle of that let me know. He goes through cycles of relative sanity - where he's willing to allow himself to be a bit of an 'older brother'/'father' figure to others - and times where he's gone completely nuts.

When not actively engaging people he pretty much hermits in the library. It doesn't matter if he's reread the books a hundred times, he'll read them again for lack of better things to do. He's probably reproduced a bunch of texts for the library - mostly philosophy.

... He also probably plays poker a bunch with whomever's playing that week.

[colonial]

can America watch Romeo teach kids stuff if he promises not to hurt anyone while he is there

[miseris_socios]

Yep. And Ken's probably trained Romeo in how to use a spear if you wanna say that. \o/

[clumsyjesus]

Colette's my only character who will be affected. She will have been in the tower for three years. I haven't got anything set in stone yet but she might not age physically, due to her Cruxis Crystal? (just like Mithos, Yuan and Kratos in canon) So people might notice that.

I am thinking her change might be positive. She would be more open about her problems and maybe have a higher self-esteem. I'm also thinking of her having a few people whom she is very close to - people whom she's confided to about her role as the Chosen, her guilt issues over the role, her being different from everyone else and the fact that she's supposed to die to save the world.

So, I was thinking. Who would like to be 'close friends' with Colette?

[culbutiri]

Nesir will have been in the tower about ten years making her 25. Physically shes grown a bit, finally finishing her growth spurt. Within a year she had pretty much accepted her world was gone and so were the people in it and focused on making a place for herself here.

Though she hates experiments she likes life in the tower, she is able to be freely who she is and in a way that curbs a lot of her brattish behavior, because she can openly hate and hurt and kill. The fact that death means nothing...

Well it only makes things more fun when they can try and get revenge. She has been in her fair share of events and hates the administrators a lot. She spends quite a bit of time plotting revenge if she can ever get near them.

She probably makes herself useful to any other evil/morally questioning people by spying, murdering etc.

But on the flip side shes gotten friendlier, gotten better at dealing with people. And though she still thinks good leaning people are idiots those that get through events without completely and utterly breaking she actually sort of respects.

[bloodyashes]

I already did a big long write up for Asch here a few days ago, so this is mostly a comment for CR plotting. TLDR, Luke vanished about a year before his towerpoint, so Asch is going to spend a lot of time following him around, and generally making everyone feel weird by being happy.

And then after the event he'll be like "What the hell, future me," so you can join in to plot that, too.

EDIT: Oh, and also, he'd have been throwing a mass replica birthday party on the first of August every year - if you're a replica or an original, assume you've been invited to them!

[myblueskies]

Yes as long as he promises

I can see Romeo tried to take America in hand at some point probably using bribery and spends a lot of time trying in vain to teach him to be good

[myblueskies]

Cool!

[colonial]

America probably tries to follow these lessons!

For a day or two. Then he's bored with them.

He accepts food as bribery though.

[culbutiri]

So America if Nesir gives you nice things will you cause some people accidents for her?

[culbutiri]

Nesir would have probably come along since she likes card games and so probably became a regular.

[colonial]

As long as the things are nice enough and the accidents amusing enough! So yes because America is easily won over by shiny things and toys and food and most accidents are funny just don't let England know.

[myblueskies]

Romeo likes him and probably comes to visit often and tells him stories

[bloodyashes]

Totes in on this, they can share Tales Protag Problems.