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Post by Pieter Wolfbane on Oct 30, 2014 21:49:22 GMT
I'll get right to it and not dodge around it, as this can be very important. Zarenia, a member of our forum who's been in our past forum lives, has made a character that, story-wise, is a royal Brenchian. However, the actual character race is actually that of Zarbon's race <--(Click here for info.) So, here's my question about this canon race: How do we want to apply the race? Do we want Zarbon's people being Elite Brenchians, with a unique ability transform into something crocodilian, or do we want it as a separate character race altogether? Post your opinions, lads and lasses!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 22:14:38 GMT
I would lean towards two distinctive races based off what we have seen.
They have different names puns. Zarbon is a pun of a fruit, the brench-seijin are all punned after salad dressings. Also this is a bad reference to make but the dubs give the brench Australian accents. Zarbon sounds more like a Yu Gi Oh villain.
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Post by Zarenia on Oct 31, 2014 21:07:12 GMT
Sorry I couldn't get to this sooner, but I rather PM you the details of what I planned first and then present them.
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Post by Pieter Wolfbane on Nov 1, 2014 2:38:28 GMT
Well, considering it's a canon race with everyone here, everyone needs to come into accord with the information. So, what I'll do is send the information here that you just pm'd me, so we can have an open discussion on it.
This is what Zarenia's got so far. So, in personal opinion, considering that the Brenchians don't have much background, as well as Zarbon's, it'd be better to have them be unique strains of Brenchian. Actually, as with humans and Zoanthrope earthlings, so would it be with these Brenchian types. Brenchian power evolves in different fashions in people of the race. Some get a 'Hyde'-esque form, some get 'speed,' etc. and so forth. So, it'd be a flavoring of the character's forms.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2014 3:11:59 GMT
Do eet. I don't really think it is going to hurt anyone's feelings or cause a dispute. If it is a worry then just leave it ambiguous with something like this...
"The current rulers of Planet #98 are known as Royal Brenchians. Although Royal Brenchians have been found in other systems under different names, they are most commonly found on Planet Brench. Fully compatible with Brench-seijin DNA, the Royal Brench have ruled the planet since before recorded history. The ruling class of Royal Brench claim to be evolved versions of the Brench-seijin (although it isn't known if this is true or not). "
Something like that, but better written lol
The idea being that whether or not it is canonically correct, the "royal" strain could have been passed on from generation to generation and shared with the gene pool to form a recessive trait. The royalty of it could even be because they need two Brenchian's with the recessive trait to ensure that the bloodline is passed down. (and it could have all started with a Zarbon party on Brench, or it could have been his ancestry- with this being left open it doesn't really matter.) The "found in other systems" bit leaves it open so that if another player doesn't want their Zarbon based character to be from Brench they can be from elsewhere.
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Post by President Bao on Nov 1, 2014 12:22:53 GMT
I was actually the one who first brought up this idea of zarbon-as-brenchian back on Resurrection. My comments at the time were: Nothing in canon actually supports the notion so this is pure fanon embellishment, but Zarbon and Salza shared a few similar traits - both are orange eyed - cool and pale skin toned - 'pretty boys' - who worked for the world trade in senior ranks(read: both have high power levels). In terms of canon info Zarbon we have absolutely nothing on(well, one game said he was a prince, but take that as you will since it was game-only), and Brenchians we have Salza is from the brenchian home world(aka Coola 98), which is a binary system with two suns and 10x the gravity of earth (and are known for being quite fast due to this on lower gravity worlds). Jiece is from a planet in the same system and is also a brenchian in race. So the fanon concept was that perhaps Zarbon was a 'monster caste' brenchian(from Salza's world) to tie together the two races. Perhaps a mystic curse, or some genetic affliction, or rare sub-species, or maybe he's just an outright monster from their world*. Of course, this whole 'monsters as royal class' is something Zarenia has come up with separately. I did actually dig up 1 other possible candidate for Zarbon's race. One of Kold's soldiers bears some resemblance to Zarbon's monster form, and has the same skin tone and hair colour. Honestly it could go either way, if you want to go strictly by canon then Zarbon would be separate race as there's not enough to specifically support his inclusion as a brenchian(not even supplimentary material), but if you like the idea of making the connection then it's there as an option. I've actually made several such connections when randomly musing on some of the races shown under frieza's employ. (eg. Recoome and Amond) *((Bit of a side note, but personally I've been recently digging the idea that perhaps Zarbon powerful (but not exactly good/endearing)'prince' who was cursed for his hubris and vile deeds by an old crone or some such - he would look on the outside as hideous as he was on the inside, a punishment befitting a vain and heartless 'monster' like himself. Eventually he got picked up by frieza when his planet was targeted, and utilising his unusually high battle power powers and embittered resentment he proved a valuable asset. It was only much later that he found he could suppress his powers and the beastly appearance along with it.))
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Post by Zarenia on Nov 4, 2014 0:32:01 GMT
Well what is the plan? I would love to get this settled so I can know what to deem myself though I would still keep Zarenia being the Princess of Planet Brench in he history. I may just have to find another reason as to why.(Plus I need to get my BP underway)
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Post by Pieter Wolfbane on Nov 4, 2014 1:24:43 GMT
To help you get onto the forum's rping ASAP, I'd say we just make it so that Zarbon's Race is a different type of Brenchian, much like the Humans and Zooanthrope Earthlings being the same thing, in mechanics. Anyone else agree with this thought?
By the way, go ahead and make your BP, so you got something to do and by all means, you may be a Princess!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2014 1:31:55 GMT
I agree. It isn't something worth holding someones RP experience up on.
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