| What kind of abilities should the Knights have? |
| Physical attacks (Skilled in actual marital arts/weapons) |
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18% |
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| Magical attacks (Similar to the Senshis' powers) |
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27% |
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| Magical items (weapons imbued with magical powers) |
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45% |
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| None of these! |
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9% |
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 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:39 am
Hello Loves~
It's inevitable that we will start looking for knight characters at some point, so we're ahead of the pack in developing a place for them in our story. Never fear, though! the lads aren't intended to be a main draw to the gemstone storyline.
I'd like your help in thinking of things to incorporate into the gemstone knight experience.
Before making your suggestions in the thread below, keep the following things in mind:
* The knights are metallic based rather than gemstone based to provide another level of separation between the gems and the knights associated with our AU
* Their story may intertwine with the main RP in places, but it will NOT follow the same plot. The knights and gems will be separate stories and the knights are not going to be swooping in and 'saving' our independent lady warriors!
* If you already have a gemstone character, you will NOT be allowed to play a knight until we decide that we can't get enough outside interest to play them. If you have friends who want to be a part of this, get them excited! (I am an exception as I'm coordinating the knights with the gems)
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 3:43 pm
(Poo, I like having a knight/sailor ratio.. oh well. Pity they can't be just generals or something. It's always knights..)
Maybe the Knights operate like the Outers do? Since all the gemstones seem to be concentrated inside of the inner system, the knights could be around the outside of it. That way the knights could have their own adventure.
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Dazzling Citrine Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 3:57 pm
Rei Torano (Poo, I like having a knight/sailor ratio.. oh well. Pity they can't be just generals or something. It's always knights..)Maybe the Knights operate like the Outers do? Since all the gemstones seem to be concentrated inside of the inner system, the knights could be around the outside of it. That way the knights could have their own adventure. 
Don't worry! From what I've seen, Gleesh has every intention of giving them their own adventure o3o
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:26 pm
Ah yes! they do indeed have their own entire plot. They have their own villain and all that good jazz. On occasion, they may meet up and work with the gemstones but really their stories are separate entirely!
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:59 am
Will the knights have powers? Or will they be more like specialized civilians?
And will there be female knights?
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:46 am
Good Questions!
I'm ambivalent about the powers thing. On one hand, I could see the appeal to have each knight use powers like the senshi do, but I also think that having them as normal people with some fancy skills would make for great RP.
On this issue, I'm all for letting everyone come to a consensus.
As for female knights....Well, I'd like to keep all the knights male, HOWEVER I don't think there will be restrictions about it.
My personal oppinions are that since we have an all girl senshi group, it would be only fair to have an all lad knight group. If someone wanted a male gemstone senshi, would we let them make one? We all know the answer is "yes" but that we might have reservations about how the RP will go.
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Dazzling Citrine Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:48 pm
I prefer the idea of fancy skills over straight up powers like the senshi. Maybe they could have weapons imbued with magical energy instead? That way there is some element of unique powers but the fighting would rely on their skill with said weapon instead of the weapon itself.
I personally don't mind an all male cast for the knights but I'm wondering if we can get that many dudes interested in the positions.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:32 pm
What if they have weapons like what the Specialists did in Winx Club? ninja video
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 5:08 pm
Probably not many actual guys really. Though I don't see why they can't have powers though. Considering how the SM world works- they could have powers similar to the Shitennou. Which would mean, they would possess special starseeds.
Unless the only way for them to access their powers is via their weapons, which is kinda..flawed in the sense that if their weapons get broken or taken away they're kinda powerless as a whole?
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 5:13 pm
I'll add some sort of poll feature on the top post so we can see how people are voting even if they don't want to comment.
KEEP PUTTING UP SUGGESTIONS THOUGH!
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 5:16 pm
Also adding:
Can they have Psychic powers? After all, if they're all metals, they could take on the properties that represents those metals- much like the gemstones do, which I think could be fair too.
Since not everyone would want to rp non-powered characters.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:29 pm
I've taken a look at some of the mystical properties for metals we'd planned on using, and they're all very....vague. We would have to base a metal knight's properties off of what that metal would seem to represent and get creative.
For example, Platinum could be some sort of frost power. Steel could be physical strength, Silver could be healing, etc.etc.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 6:37 pm
Probably because some metals mean different things in different cultures (not unlike the gemstones) and some weren't discovered until more recently ( 17th century and on. ) so meanings could be meh.
But that sounds pretty good, though.
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Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 8:29 pm
When all that's decided I'll add a tweaked version of the senshi profile skeleton we have up in the Character Profiles subforum for the knights.
Personally I think they should either be specially skilled (with weaponry/fighting) or what Citrine said with the item that gives them the powers.
Perhaps said item could be an imbued piece of metal from King Helios that makes them the 'Metal Knight' It would in theory be similar to a senshi's Star Seed but in this case they would be able to have them taken away without resulting in death?
If you wanted added protection so someone can't just snatch em away to depower the knight maybe King Helios uses some form of magic to embed the metal within them? (it would be even more like a star seed in this case, but an artificial one per say? Similar to the Sailor Animamates but less evil)
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 5:54 am
I like the idea Peridot mentioned with Helios giving the knights special metals. I know there are a lot of phrases that mention metals (they may be a little cliche, but they are cute)
For example:
Heart of Gold
Nerves of Steel
Silver Tongued
Tough as nails (I'm thinking iron nails)
Bronze has the meaning of judgement in the Bible, platinum is seen as a symbol of determination, and copper is seen as a symbol for youthfulness
Also, each metal is associated with a celestial body (Gold and Sun, Silver and Moon, Iron and Mars, etc)
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