Emergancy DE: Just out of true

[bjornwilde]

How far do you feel comfortable taking your character away from established canon within Milliways?*

*And just to be safe, as far as I'm concerned, there is no wrong answer here, just player comfort.

Comments

[anewhero]

I mean, I like seeing what things Marcus's living changes just by being in Millways.

[childofrebellion]

For me, the point that feels too far always seems to be putting my character in a position where they can never return to their canon. With the kinds of characters I choose that doesn't really come up. None of them would ever willingly leave their worlds. So the Allpocalypse provided some fascinating strains as William wasn't sure if he'd ever get back home. Also I almost always choose to play characters through canon when I can as I love missing moments and seeing how Milliways changes their journey. I don't know if I could ever manage playing a dead character, its not the way I think about characters. Some don't have that as much but Demeter still has her land and daughter to return to.

I've found that some of the crackier plots usually help me get a better sense on who the character as its a way to figure out their essence. I also love cross-world romances and crossovers, because again there's something about the other world that actually helps me understand the character better.

[aberration]

lol extremely. Milliways I my mind is inherently an AU, and a form of fanfiction. I feel an obligation to playing as the same character in essentially the canon world- the specific events of canon are optional and can be messed with, which again, I think inherently happens when you introduce "magic bar"

[varadia]

The only parts of canon that are hard-stop inviolate are the ones I've decided happened before the character gets brought in. Everything after that is up for grabs as a function of how the character, their strategy, their situation, and their ideas changes as a result of Milliways and meeting people there.

See: X-23, who entered right at the beginning of the New X-men issues she was in.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

So long as what happens remains kind of tonally and logically consistent with canon, I don't have a problem with deviating from it too much, although how much I deviate from it depends on how I feel about the canon -- all of the stuff 01 Yamato goes through, for example, is canon to at least one of the mediums Digimon Adventure 01 comes in, whether that be the television show, the novels, or the video game.

Tri Yamato, meanwhile, is going through a somewhat overhauled version of Tri that expands some parts (like the entirety of the horribly rushed Chapter 4, and actually having the 02 kids rescued as a plot instead of an afterthought at the end), and simplifies others (Jesmon's role can be quite adequately fulfilled by Alphamon, who was already there, so he's been cut) -- but he's going to hit all of the events in canon sooner or later, and it's going to end the same way.

But tone is the big one for me: Digimon can get quite bleak and dark at times, but it's never grimdark or gritty, and it always ends on at least a somewhat optimistic note, even if that note is bittersweet. Even if Yams moves into entirely non-canon stuff, it's still going to match up with that tone.

[childofrebellion]

That's a really good point, keeping to the tone of canon in Milliways is a big part of feeling like I'm being true to the character in Milliways.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yeah, I think hewing close to the basic themes and tone of canon is important, especially because it's likely that the character's personality and boundaries will fit fairly closely with that tone.

Which raises an interesting question of what I'm going to do with that one five-second moment when Tri itself briefly forgets its own tone, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

[bjornwilde]

I'm pretty good with wild adventures. And character change/growth happens with the introduction of a magic bar, but at the same time I try to keep the character feeling like the source material. This is totally subjective of course, but I do feel a certain responsibility to canon, otherwise the character can become something completely different.

Or at least that's how I've felt in the past.

I think Eric makes a very good point about canon/character tone. If you change the tone too much, it doesn't feel like the character any longer, imho.

[mnt_raph]

...uh....weeeeeell, you see it's funny about that.
*cough*

With Mike, Raph, and Splinter? I kind of don't feel like there's much I haven't tried.
At least once.

I'm much more canon-centric with Aang and Bumi.

And the Loompas?
Yeah, I'm sorry about the Loompas.