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Thread: Evil Mysterious Waif
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2011-03-30, 07:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Evil Mysterious Waif
Was just musing over a character concept for the hero's rival to have as an ally.
Given that so many mysterious waifs seem to be good and of the 'staff chick' variety, anyone got some ideas for alternative traits to give them?
Here's what I'm thinking for mine so far:
Former member of a magical research facility who went off (amicable departure from said facility) to do her own thing, she takes interest in the hero's rival and agrees to help him, though it may or may not be in a way the rival wants.
She may or may not end up being something like a Dragon With An Agenda.I do, however, wonder what the poor strawman ever did to you. - Kish
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2011-03-30, 10:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
A mysterious waif is only mysterious because the characters know nothing about her. You just need a reason.
Can't fix the "waif" bit unless you like shapeshifting magic.
Eg.
The waif is from the future and here to make her parents get married (and thereby ensuring she gets born and completes the loop)
She doesn't explain anything about herself to avoid giving away too much information (hence mysterious, and to maintain free will for the characters), and she knows for certain that she will succeed. (since she exists in the first place)
Unfortunately, she doesn't know the exact history of her parents and only that her father went on some kind of quest against an evil *insert name here*.
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SpoilerSo in order to have better influence on events, she's assasinated the evil guy and took his name. Now she's going to let her father succeed while making it hard enough that her mother will have time to get to know him.
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She joins his 'party' and aims to create "moments". As well as adding firepower so her parents don't die.
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2011-03-30, 10:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-03-30, 10:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
Wait doesn't always mean child.
I do, however, wonder what the poor strawman ever did to you. - Kish
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2011-03-30, 12:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
Me: I'd get the paladin to help, but we might end up with a kid that believes in fairy tales.
DM: aye, and it's not like she's been saved by a mysterious little girl and a band of real live puppets from a bad man and worse step-sister to go live with the faries in the happy land.
Me: Yeah, a knight in shining armour might just bring her over the edge.
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2011-03-30, 12:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
Quest time:
Your mysterious waif is a sorceress with a demonic bloodline. For unknown reasons, she’s growing more and more powerful, and her powers are getting more and more uncontrollable. The hero has to find out what’s causing this flux in power and put a stop to it before she causes more destruction or hurts herself, or unwittingly lets a greater daemon into the mortal realm.
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2011-03-30, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
As noted before, 'mysterious' comes from the PC's not knowing her motivations, or sometimes even her actions. Other waifs whose personae or story arcs you might steal from:
River Tam
Dorothy
Lizzie Bordon
Jean Grey
and of course
Wednesday Addams"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." Kurt Vonnegut
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2011-03-30, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-03-30, 07:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
Someone being a waif basically means it looks like a stiff breeze could carry them off a few hundred feet.
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2011-03-31, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
I've been working day and night on the character design and here's what I have so far:
SpoilerNo certain name yet, for now I'm just calling her 'Shinobu-chan'
Race: Newman (basically a space elf)
Age: 19
Alignment: Neutral Evil, formerly Chaotic Neutral
Class: Former soldier/magic researcher
Hair: Pink
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'3"
Other features: Eyepatch, along with a scar near the eye, and her left arm is replaced with a clearly mechanical bionic prosthetic.
Outfit: Normal outfit is a long ragnarok online nun type outfit.
Disposition: Regards herself as a normal girl who might be a bit selfish, occasionally taking it too far (through Kick The Dog and basically screwing with people/trolling) but otherwise not a bad person. If she likes someone she will be friendly but still keep them at a distance and not allow them to see too much of her true self, will be enigmatic even when out to do what they ask of her, and might well do things her own way if she feels it's the better way. If she dislikes them she will either ignore them or bully them with mind games, hannibal lectures, and general trolling. If she's neutral, it depends on her whim.
History: Lived a normal childhood until at age 10 she lost her left eye and left arm in a hovercar wreck. After that, became bitter because those who weren't looking down on her and bullying her were going the opposite direction and pitying her. Those few rare friends she did made, she swore her life to. One of her friends, through no fault of their own, ended up betraying and abandoning her, thus leading to depression and putting the edge on Shinobu's personality. At 17 a family friend who was a high ranking commander in the armed forces convinced her to illegally join and she took to the work of researching magic. After 2 years of training she felt competent to stand on her own two feet both magically and physically. She was discharged and she wandered her own way, taking life as it came. One day, she met the hero's rival and they became friends, almost as good as the one that left her.
I would certainly welcome input on how to make her more in line with the trope.I do, however, wonder what the poor strawman ever did to you. - Kish
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2011-04-01, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
Well, if you're playing 3.5, and want a little freakishness to her (as well as giving her combat capabilities without compromising the waifishness), there's always Ozodrin.
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2011-04-01, 02:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
There's always Pekkle no Oni. Which is pretty much a shapeshifting demon in a childlike form. It might be in OA, Creatures of Rokugan or one of the various Legend of the Five Rings dual stat books.
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2011-04-01, 05:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
Hmm...
Maybe some of her angst comes from one of the ideas I neglected to include, that she had a mishap with an experiment in forbidden magic, perhaps it gave her Lovecraftian Superpowers i.e. the Ozodrin thing.
Not that I'll incorporate everything there but it certainly helps.I do, however, wonder what the poor strawman ever did to you. - Kish
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2011-04-01, 11:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
You could also apply the tainted-template from Heroes of Horror.
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2011-04-02, 01:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
I think part of the mysterious waif package is a great power that is for the most part uncontrolled. I'd make the character considerably more powerful than other characters, but don't have them act to the best of their ability. Just make sure they have the defensive power to be hard to kill.
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2011-04-02, 07:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
I'm not sure if I agree with that entirely, though I have done that with one mysterious waif in the past...they basically got a bargain basement version of Dragon of the Darkness Flame from Yu Yu Hakusho, but they would lose the use of the arm that cast it for an entire day, and on top of that she was a good person so she feared its fell power, as well as those who were trying to turn her into their own weapon.
In this case, though, I could see her having some secret powers that play into a sort of absolute defense without making her overpowered offensively.I do, however, wonder what the poor strawman ever did to you. - Kish
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2011-04-04, 02:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Evil Mysterious Waif
I would suggest
copying"borrowing heavily" from the image of Sadako/Samara as your mysterious evil waif prototype.
She can kill with psychic projections.To see the world in a grain of sand
and Heaven in a wild flower
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence