Or /coc/ thread if that's what you look for in the catalog.
Wiki:
http://the-conservatory.wikia.com/wiki/The_/co/nservatory_Wiki
Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b_kW_QkFSAeCjGVP51kVG6J10gR8YLStcNpzPh-ARC0/edit
Last weekend's thread:
https://desustorage.org/co/thread/80677886/
Last time:
-Talked about thieves and what they'd compete over
-Talked about Nicky Two-Vests and some other older creations
-Lots of Melting Point discussion
-"My Cat Girl goes to the Mall" was brought up
-Some talk about Mighty Goliath and his Goliath's Girls task force
-More about Alpha, the boy robot (pic related)
>>80888282
Pages that came before it.
So it's going to be another super slow thread it seems.
Not much I can do about that.
And there is a Splatfest going on right now so... good luck, thread.
>>80891800
For the sake of some sort of conversation, I wonder which sides different /coc/ characters would pick.
>>80893292
I can hazard a guess.
I wonder if she's ever built a sand castle, then shrunk down and camped inside of it.
Why doesn't Psu draw butts for us any more?
WHERE'S THE BUTTS, PSU!?
>>80893716
Like this? They still happen every so often.
Could we get more life in these threads by having more characters based on modern conventions rather than older ones?
I mean, I think we've pretty much exhausted silver age superheroes.
>>80894277
The thread depends on people actually posting in it, usually people with ideas who want to share them, or people who want to do something in the setting, or people who want to suggest an independent setting.
What do you mean by modern conventions? Because what comes to mind when I think of that is nothing but black kevlar, all black, no color, face cutting, the universe has been rebooted... again, and "let's just dump this whole story line and resolve it in-a cheap cop out way because this huge mega clusterfuck crossover just isn't working like how we hoped".
In all honesty, I like being able to keep our distance from the crap the big two pull on the regular these days.
Or do you mean something else since most of what I listed probably counts as aesthetics and not conventions.
>80894562
>let's just dump this whole story line and resolve it in-a cheap cop out way
Wasn't this a huge complaint in the Silver Age too? That's why they tried to put those disclaimers about NOT A HOAX! NOT AN IMAGINARY STORY! on the covers, because people were getting sick of the cop-out dream endings and other asspulls.
>>80894562
I was talking more in the cartoon realm, which, at the moment is dominated by brightly coloured action-adventures.
>>80894636
I was thinking of Red Lantern Power Girl specifically (among other stuff in the red lantern series) when I said that, but yeah, I guess they've always been doing that.
>>80894660
There's not a lot of action-adventure cartoons on-going right now, most are straight up comedy.
I haven't seen any of the more recent Marvel cartoons, so I have no idea about them.
How about we start putting in-universe stories together?
Like, what kind of books, movies, shows and comics are about in the /coc/ world?
>>80895454
I remember when we were discussing a possible Breast Wars II a while back, someone had the idea that Ladybug grew up reading old Golden Girl/Golden Guardian comics.
>>80895454
I see them as having magical stories taking place through (to us) mundane happenings. Exchanging letters with a pen pal turns in to a story wherein the letters give birth to the version of the writer that comes across from their words. A road work diversion on the journey to work leads someone down a road they have never been to, and they end up in a different version of their own world.
When everything in your world is outlandish and strange (to us) and so many things start from this, the idea of having a mundane cause would probably be fantastical to inhabitants of the /coc/verse.
I gots this character, who I'm not doing anything with at the moment and don't have any ideas for just yet. (Sprite on the left and the larger drawing are both someone else's work; sprite on the right is my work.)
>>80896056
Go to bed, Freehaven.
>>80896077
Already got in my sleep this morning.
>>80895682
Maybe BQ is like some Barbarella-esque Flash Gordon serial in GG's universe.
>>80895808
>Exchanging letters with a pen pal turns in to a story wherein the letters give birth to the version of the writer that comes across from their words.
Is this the new book by Murakami?
>>80896056
So she has a scythe.
Is she a reaper, a harvester (farm worker), bounty under, or is the scythe magic?
Could be just a farmer who has to deal with those big monsters that go through tornado ally (in the /coc/verse tornadoes might be replaced with giant monsters there).
So she could be an armature monster buster.
>>80896673
I've considered the "reaper" and "magic scythe" angles before, but never got any solid ideas. And someone actually brought up the "farmer/harvester" idea the last time I tried to get some ideas for her in a thread like this.
I'm horrible at brainstorming these sorts of things; haven't had much practice in creating characters.
>>80895808
I approve of a separate meta setting with stories like this. I think we've really gone as far as can be gone with super heroes in these threads.
>>80896800
Well what do you want to do with her? Is there a type of story you like?
>>80896893
That might explain why Erin has had staying power.
>>80897250
I want to write a story with her. That was actually sort of the impetus for her creation: the original sprite of her was a gift, and the only prompt I gave the artist who made it for me was to design an OC about whom I could write a story.
As for the type of stories I like: eh, can't really say off the top of my head.
>>80897250
Erin is a total waste of a character. By that I mean she's like many others with a nebulous canon that aimlessly gets brought up and forgotten again. Nothing really solid to work off which can make it frustrating to tell a story with her.
>>80897386
OK, so lets start with the girl.
What's she like? Is she the energetic fun thrill seeking type or the morbid reclusive shy type?
>>80897541
Given the color choices of her clothing (and the fact that she carries around a fucking scythe), I'd go with the former more than the latter.
>>80897522
It's actually pretty solid.
Erin works for Boss Imp and does jobs, the over arching plot is some of these jobs lead to Boss Imp regaining his kingdom.
Between her and her jobs are sometimes the other demon kings.
By doing these jobs she learns what she needs to know to help fix the portal to the /coc/ Earth.
She's actually very easy to come up with stories for, it's just committing to writing those stories is where everyone gets hung up at since hardly anyone wants to commit to something like this.
>>80897647
I think they were saying that her "story" is wasted on her non-character.
>>80897647
I think some people want more characters/settings to have what BQ has, which is a collected encyclopedia of characters, places, and themes associated with them. The wiki is alright for some of that but a lot of the material is sort of spread out and some stuff doesn't have complete entries. Of course that would require a motivated person to sort all of that out and organize the data for whatever character/setting their interested in.
Bump to save.
>>80898161
There's already a page for both the Erin stories and the 12 demon kings.
I've been thinking about making a characters page for the Humming bird setting, but I haven't gotten around to it.
Wasn't there a guy last weekend trying to push his history fetishism?
Seriously, spear walls dont work with superheroes.
>>80896252
I kind of like the idea that various universes have comics of the other ones. But then what does the BQverse get?
>>80899796
I don't know, I rather like the idea. It just needs refinement.
>>80899798
How about some pre-cataclysm Colette action figures? Laying around in debris piles, maybe some lucky kids have them.
>>80895682
What would Breast Wars II be about? BWI has a pretty robust story, BWII needs the same. Maybe GG would be involved with this one.
>>80900669
GG's involvement is what got the discussion started.
https://desustorage.org/co/thread/77946716/#77987842
>>80901128
The only part I really remember is Ladybug showing GG some old comics of when she becomes the Golden Guardian to cheer her up.
>>80888259
Did someone say CoC? Did Fen finally finish that shit?
>>80902273
So who would be the big bad for BW2? Plana was for BW1.
>>80903104
Someone from the Supermoms universe who got a hold of some of the dimensional portal tech left behind?
Breast Wars wasn't even the first time the /coc/verse crossed over with the Super Moms-verse.
There was the proto-Breast Wars of the Super Moms vs. the Sageworthy Society, then there was Breast Wars, then there's BW2.
>>80903226
Will there be a coalition of baddies or just one Supermom villain running the show?
>>80903541
Which do you think makes for a better story?
The problem with bad guys in an alliance is they all try to back stab each other and one of them always ends up looking like a chump even if they've been shown before to be strong enough to go toe-to-toe with a group of heroes before.
>>80903619
Well Plana is an empress with an entire nation and military to back her up, so she didn't need anyone else. If we're gonna use a Supermom's villain, they're a LOT more small time than that so I assume there'd need to be a few of them working together to pull off something.
>>80904012
Well there are a lot to choose from.
http://the-conservatory.wikia.com/wiki/Supermoms_Villains
One more saving bump
>>80905447
Was it really that far down so quickly?
Anyone remember /co/nnie, the /co/lette fangirl and wannabe sidekick? Has rocket boots that match /co/lette's gauntlets.
I feel like she has more potential than we give her credit for.
>>80893321
Queen of the beaches.
>>80906346
They sleep in it over night before the tides come in.
I bet that size changing power comes in handy when your away from home and need to find places to sleep.
Last save-the-thread bump.
>>80908788
Seriously, how fast are threads sinking tonight?
Is /co/ really moving so fast tonight that I can't leave this thread unattended for an hour with it about to drip off?
>>80909235
I haven't noticed.
>>80909235
Seems that way, yeah.
>>80898005
As someone who was heavily involved with the Erin/Demon lore development and world building, Erin is a full fledged character to me. It's difficult sometimes to remember that not everyone is as invested in the characters as everyone else, and so there's an iceberg scenario where there's so much more thought and potential surrounding the characters that's basically underwater and only the very tip has made it visibly into the thread.
>>80909357
>>80909653
Looking at the catalogue it seems it only takes about one and a half hours for a thread to reach the bottom of the thread listings.
>>80910446
Was kinda hopin' to get a little more help out of this thread. Damn. :\
>>80912349
>>80897590
Well you gotta give some input yourself.
You want to do something with her and I'm trying to help you figure out what, so you gotta consider what YOU enjoy and how this character can bring you that enjoyment.
>>80912962
I've never given it much thought.And I'm ashamed to admit that I'm woefully, horribly, painfully underread when it comes to fiction.
>>80913056
But if it helps, the first part of this screencapped post was in reply to my waifu/crushes chart - http://i.imgur.com/SeljsB4.jpg
>>80913056
You do know you have the capacity to just make shit up, right?
Make something up, sleep on it, see if you still like it when you wake up, revise it, start over, keep going till you end up with something you like.
That's how most greentext stories evolve anyway.
>>80913624
I'm not exactly an idea guy. And as I said, I haven't had much practice in actually crafting characters.
>>80913669
So, what do you actually want this character for? If you're not an idea guy, I imagine you're not writing her story, and if you got someone else to draw her, I'm guessing you're not going to be drawing her comic.
What exactly are you expecting to happen here?
>>80888259
>Ladybug-themed superheroine.
What the fuck, I came up with that first.
>>80914127
>If you're not an idea guy, I imagine you're not writing her story
I'm gonna try to once I figure out her character. When I say I'm not an idea guy, I meant that I'm not the kind of person who can just create a fleshed-out character in ten minutes - mainly because I've never had to (and never tried otherwise). I need practice, and a little collaboration never hurts.
>>80914187
Define "first", providing a date.
>>80914187
>Ladybugs
What the fuck, I came up with that first.
>>80914314
You're going about it wrong. You don't need your character fully defined before the story begins. Determine what kind of story you want to tell and let that help you decide what kind of character she needs to be for you to tell that story.
The story should shape the character as much as the reverse.
>>80914478
sure, but a themed hero?
come on God, you can't say you did THAT!
>>80890708
Huh, who is this cutie?
>>80914545
And THAT is why I need to read more fiction.
>>80914768
looks like the st patties day fairy?
>>80914578
I call dibs. What now, huh? Are perhaps frustrated, hmmmm?
>>80914768
Hummingbird.
>>80915033
shit, shoulda called dibs!
you win this one, old man!
>>80914545
Coming back to this: I think that if I can figure out a baseline character for her, I could more easily figure out a setting and plot to drop her in.
>>80915033
And dubs.
>>80916056
Try starting from a single word.
Mischievous
Harsh
Kind
Strict
Bold
Something that speaks to you.
>>80916391
Looking down a list of adjectives while considering the images I have of her, "flashy", "sporty", "bold", and "fit" all speak to me.
>>80915051
Is she small or something?
>>80916610
Well now I picture a scythe being used like a hockey stick, and I know I've seen that somewhere before.
And here's hoping this thread actually survives through tomorrow.
>>80916934
She's a half-fae. She can shrink down to the size of a fairy at will.
The pics of her are split between her childhood and when she's 30 something, but it's not like her age shows since again, half-fae.
>>80917091
>now I picture a scythe being used like a hockey stick
Not to worry - that idea didn't cross my mind, and I think it sounds a bit dumb besides, so I won't be using it.
>>80899960
I think the /coc/verse is too based on superheroes to allow for a lot of other kinds of settings and stories. The in-universe fiction idea would be a way to get around that.
>>80917296
America in the /co/verse is superhero central. England has a heavier magic bias. The history guy wanted to set the story in Canada, so the option exists to change it up a little.
>>80917522
>England has a heavier magic bias
I thought it was established that there was no magic in the /coc/verse?
I remember someone trying to put forward some magical and fantastical Brit characters, only for people to say that there is no magic?
Besides, we still bump in to the problem of cross contamination. A "what if Spider-Man went to Hogwarts?" issue.
>>80917585
There's a sort of turnaround. Magic was in a heavy decline until recently in-universe. The same event that ravaged the British equivalent of Containment, and got Erin trapped in the demon planes caused a notable resurgence.
There was always some amount of magic though. One of the earliest characters was Doctor Corson, master occultist.
>>80917810
I always imagine the /coc/verse being a series of 'walled cities,' with each genre being totally independent of others.
But I still imagine /coc/ taking place in a world where common technology is at an early 90s/late 80s level. This makes various story points make more sense since people can't just pull a camcorder out their pocket and film that tiny second a masked hero lost their mask, upload it to Youtube, and now everyone knows Bruce Wayne is Batman.
I see magic as being something that anyone can do to an extent (using reagents or a wand), but only some can do naturally.
>>80918232
Learning Magic in the /co/verse is a deeply personal experience and different for everyone. It was overtaken by science and technology because they work the same way every time for everyone. You could spend a year trying to learn how to produce flames from your fingertips and possibly not ever be able to do it, or you could pick up a lighter from the convenience store.
>>80918445
I want to imagine that /coc/ Britain has an open culture of magic. Like there's ancient magical schools and shit like that. To have it so magic is so sidelined just seems really unimaginative to me, or that we're still trying to fit a totally different setting in to the American modern superhero world.
>>80918837
It's probably seen as very antiquated and inefficient, but its existence is acknowledged, just forgotten. Most people who know magic are probably hobbyists.
>"Who has time for all that?"
There are ways around it though. Incantations and rituals are mostly for conjuring spirits or demons and basically making them do your job for you. You can also get a sponsor of a sort, like the Seasonal girls. Artifacts and tools can be enchanted to hold magic for different purposes as well. There are drawbacks to each, since either you've got to strike a deal with a powerful entity, bind demons, or have prepared artifacts with exactly what you need, and true wizards aren't likely to lend much respect to conjurers and spiritual hosts.
>>80917522
Europe in general in the /coc/ setting is less superheroes, more whatever Euro comics are focused on.
So anyone have a request for a character sketch or something?
>>80923594
How about a beesknees and venus flytrap ?
>>80923594
Erin?
>>80923594
Well we were talking about Europe just a bit ago, so how about D'Lahlah, the hobo dark elf from the Wandering Country?
>>80923954
It'd be nice if I could come up with a story set in the Wandering Country. The scenery is always changing there save for the Wandering City.
>>80923796
Every time.
>>80923594
>>80925751
I've actually tried drawing her a couple times in the past given she comes up every time I ask, but I've never come up with anything I liked. Maybe this time will be different.
>>80925965
I have to wonder what a space emperor's end game is because space is big, really big, inconceivably big, and no one individual could ever hope to see much less conquer all of it.
>>80920665
That seems like a real cop-out, and takes away what could make a particular setting unique. Having magic be an openly common thing, amongst "modern" technology, is a setting that hasn't really been explored all that much.
>>80926966
The issue with that is if you give everyone magic it takes a lot away from magic as a whole. The idea is that magic is rare and special, and that the characters who do have access to it are unique and valuable. Lesser magic characters like the Bearded Skeleton become exceptionally useless if literally everyone can cast spells like it's nothing.
It'd be like saying everyone in the USA is a metahuman. Diving Belle struggles to be useful with her weak powers- if everyone has powers, she really won't have much to do, will she?
>>80927054
I meant it more in that not everyone is a wizard in D&D, but magic is still an observable and widespread fact.
>>80927402
>>80926966
Okay, what part of >>80920665 is copping out, then?
Magic exists, but it's largely impractical. It's what keeps it from being just another technology.
Magic was in decline for a long time in the /coc/verse and the current magical resurgence I like to think of as an economic bubble, and that's why most of the magical creatures are staying in their safe havens since they know it won't last too long (comparatively, they're all mostly very long lived).
>>80928560
And the current levels of magic in /coc/ U.K. probably plae in comparison to what they once were about a thousand or more years ago.
Working on something. I will try to work on it more with dialogues later. It seems I must pick one thing to do or accomplish nothing at all, because there are not enough time in a day for me to do more than that.
>>80929767
Will probably be neat.
I am going to assume those people think Marley is a prepubescent boy.
I wonder if she's ever snapped and said she was a 20(?) year old woman when treated like that.
>trying to think of a story set in a normal school as magic begins resurfacing
>it keeps turning in to an anime
>>80930390
Well anime has done the school setting to death and beyond, so it's pretty hard coming up with something original there.
I've never really gotten the appeal of a school setting when the theme is just "mundane BUT THEN A TWIST" since it could work with almost anything else just as well, like a normal office building, or a bus driving company, or window washer, or a repair guy.
>>80930628
The idea with the school setting is it's something (almost) everyone can relate with. Not everyone has been a window washer or a repair guy but just about everyone has been to school. There's a certain level of self-insertion meant to go on with your typical high school hijinx setting, a certain feeling of "that could have been me!"
>>80930628
Probably because high school is a really relatable setting. Everyone's been there, and everyone wanted something interesting to happen while they were. Then after spending your day at a boring place you go home to a boring place.
Even Harry Potter is set in a high-school.
>>80930860
>>80930873
This, but also, kids are required to be at school, so it solves the problem of "why do these people keep running into this shit." On top of that, you can use classes and field trips to introduce new things very easily. It's not only relatable, but has an easy, built-in structure that's very adaptable for making ongoing stories.
>>80930873
When I was in high school four hurricanes blew over it in rapid succession.
Having something interesting happen while in high school is overrated if you ask me.
You fantasize about something, ANYTHING to break up the monotony of school life, but then the reality is when something finally does happen you wish that it wouldn't have.
You could incorporate that into the "normal school as magic begins resurfacing" plot idea.
>>80930390
>>80931772
Maybe this would be set sometime after what we consider the "modern day" in the /co/verse, hinting at some sort of major event that brought magic back to the forefront that hasn't occurred yet as of Cosmic Crusaders' storyline. That gives a lot of leeway to work around the low-magic setting.
Now I'm just trying to think of a way to have a major female character with unnaturally coloured hair.
Also wouldn't this all take place before modern/coc/?
>>80931772
Opening of story confirmed for magical hurricane.
>Miss. Morris, there's a hurricane coming.
>Don't be silly, we don't have hurricanes in Engla- Oh...
>>80932605
Assuming modern /coc/ is 2010-2012 and whatever the fuck thing that happened in Britbongland takes place before then, then yes.
The time line is all kinds of screwy. Some people want everything to have been established for ages, some want things that are meant to be new to stay new forever despite time still marching on.
I'd say /co/ntainment officially formed during 2009, became competent during 2010 (Rookie's promotion to captain), bought out the Queen's Queers during 2010, the Alpha business happens in 2010 - 2011, and the Ladybug comic story takes place over 2011 - whenever, just to start to begin to try and attempt at placing events together.
>>80932605
Her light blue hair is what draws her to the boy looking out thr window from near the back.
>>80932605
I thought you were trying to make this concept ~less~ anime.
>>80932605
>>80933414
Alright, so, an average black-haired black-eyed ethnically Japanese boy meets a cute exchange student girl with unnaturally colored hair and eyes, who seems to have an undue interest in him. Soon she drags him into a world of magic, mystery and midair sword battles, meeting several other wackily-coiffed girls who all fall in love with him at first sight as he discovers his hidden true potential.
>>80933414
It's going to end up as either HP or anime no matter how hard we try.
>>80933625
So we go the opposite route and end up with Magical Girl Neil?
>>80933615
>implying he doesn't take her on the adventure as she tries to see the non-magic reason for it.
>"Are you telling me you don't believe in magic?"
>"Of course I don't."
>"But...Your hair..."
>"My uncle is Sicilian."
>>80933888
Better yet, give the boy the wacky hair and make the girl super normal and boring.
>>80933923
Makes his hair into a bird that flies around bringing him along with it or some other self aware being as he goes on a quest to become bald.
>>80933923
I was trying to get the idea across that she didn't believe that magic could really be a thing, let alone be something that happened to her. Less not wanting, more not accepting.
>>80904371
Ok how about this, the Sinister Sorceress happens upon a magical artifact that magnifies her powers enough to where she can tear open portals to other dimensions. Gathering the assorted rogues gallery of Supermoms (some of which by force), she intends to steal other powerful items from other universes and use it to take over Supermoms-verse. The Supermoms gather a band of heroes from across the dimensions to battle the Sinister Sorceress and win the day.
>>80934349
It's as good as any plot device.
How do the Supermoms get allies from the other dimensions though?
Why oh why are we brainstorming "Breast Wars 2"
We never even got the first one made
And this one doesn't even seem to center on Breast Quest so it'd be, like, Mom Wars or something
Jesus fuck
>>80935262
Why not?
This is different than write/draw.threads?
>>80935523
Read >>80935262
>>80935806
Breast Wars 1 has a pretty solid outline. There's only a few details to be ironed out.
>>80936008
Where is the doc for Breast Wars?
>>80925965
>>80926914
So are there any other pictures of this character out there?
>>80936008
There are scripts to be written, art to be done and heaps of details to be worked out
It is far too early to be planning a sequel
>>80936686
He was just drawn a couple threads ago, before that he was just a name in the background bio of Captain Stocking Arms.
Those are the only two pics of him so far, if you have a twist on his design, or a new one for him, then feel free to act on it.
>>80899074
It's actually been a while since I've added a page to the wiki.
The things I'm thinking about are:
-Tir Tairngire/Characters
-Some other Youth Coalition members (don't know which)
-Breast Wars (I'd probably just dump what was in the google doc for it onto the page since I did save a copy of the doc)
There's probably some newer stuff I can add, but I don't remember what it might be.
>>80938428
Not to mention both Super Moms and BreastQuest would need at least some form of establishing comic each beforehand.
>>80942984
>Not to mention both Super Moms and BreastQuest would need at least some form of establishing comic each beforehand.
Very funny, 90% of the shit that gets talked about in these threads doesn't have a comic or anything close to it. That is definitely not a requirement or the topics of conversation in /coc/ would evaporate instantly.
>>80943891
It's kind of silly to have a crossover before you have the things it's crossing over. Obviously planning the crossover is doable but focus for Supermoms and Breast Quest should be on addressing the hangups in their own project before committing to a joint one.
At least, that's my thought on the matter.
>>80943972
What about every crossover that has ever happened ever? Was Avengers and Justice League "done" when they had their crossover? This is a fundamentally stupid argument.
>>80945488
Doing a crossover before you do Issue #1 of the actual comic is fundamentally stupid.
>>80945488
It is a fundamentally stupid argument, but not for the reasons you think it is.
>>80923796
>>80925965
Finally finished a sketch of Erin. Space guy not so much, I needed to give him a much more dynamic pose and probably fill in his armor. Really like the design, though.
>>80947695
Nice.
I think we're going with making Nyxiontus a classical villain where he doesn't do the same thing twice and values presentation.
>>80934209
Sounds like they'd mesh together well. She arrives to a new school, and ends up with this boy who's sure that magic is coming back, and that she's all part of it (not responsible or anything, just a single event). Which is now making me think of there being a high-school secret club where a small group of kids talk about conspiracy theories about why magic is starting to resurface.
>>80947695
Cool Erin.
>>80948347
Do they meet behind the gym during lunch hour to talk about the latest magical events in the local tabloids?
Is that actually a viable meeting place at a school in the U.K.? I really only have open school concepts to pull from and I think theirs would be more indoors and built up instead of built out.
>>80948455
A lot of countryside schools have all sorts of shit.
Especially those that are converted religious buildings. My school had one class that used to be a church, so there was a doored off belltower on the back wall.
Even modern buildings can have forgotten parts, probably even more in a British south-coast city, since they probably stuck a bomb shelter under it then forgot about it after the war.
>>80948623
Also a lot of buildings from the reformation have priest holes that people are still only now finding during renovations.
Bump to save and possibly get more advice going from >>80916610
Dying so soon?
>>80947695
Excellent!
>>80948623
Secret underground club room.
>>80949530
Try exploring options that aren't magical.
>>80948662
Sounds like a place that would be haunted.
>>80955088
And on that thought, would the ghost of a priest be more powerful than just a regular ghost?
>>80956778
Depends on if their religion is real in-universe.
>>80956976
I think the way it works in-universe is if you can get enough people to believe in something, a god will be created for it, or some entity will fill the position of god for it.
Pratchett's Small Gods seems to be the primary inspiration.
That volcano goddess Skathi fights way back when might've found a new position unrelated to volcanoes if she needs believers for power.
>>80955088
I think having ghosts takes away the concept of the place.
A secret club about the resurgence of magic is a bit pointless is a place with ghosts.
Also, I see this idea being before the Bad Thing. Sort of like a fun and light adventure that's got a sinister undercurrent since we know what's coming.
>>80958038
So it's before huh?
So is it just a bullshit club and then they accidentally fuck things up?
Or is it just coincidence that a big magical hurricane shows up later?
>>80958809
I think a bit of both.
>>80958038
>>80958809
Isn't this just this?
>>80959987
I don't know what this is.
>>80958948
So right when magic is just starting to surge up again?
So little things like coins with occult symbols in them falling at different rates of speed than they should be?
>>80888282
>Talked about Nicky Two-Vests and some other older creations
And from that note, at least Coelasquid is taking all the shit that happened to her in stride.
>>80933963
If there was ever a Civil War type of story, it would be split between those who go to Split-End's boutique and this guy's traditional barber shop.
Bump I guess.
So is there a difference in where psychic power comes from in humans and aliens?
>>80968727
With aliens it's localized in the butt.
All aliens. Even the ones without butts. Makes finding the psychics real easy.
>>80969246
So all aliens with psychic power believe humans talk out of their asses?
>>80969300
They're generally right, though not in the way they suspect.
>>80969340
Actually, I think only two of the alien races we have in the setting have any sort of psychic power, so it might be uncommon.
Where does she fall on the scale of psychic power users?
>>80971693
Medium-High
>>80971917
I guess Captain Rookie would be pretty low on the power scale since she can only see ghosts.
Psychic power can be really diverse.
>>80972081
I wonder what the guy who uploads the /coc/ pics to the /co/ booru thinks of us who have some damn many that aren't on there.
>>80972081
So is this the definitive Rookie design? I recall another drawing where she was more Asian.
>>80974118
It really just depends on who is drawing her.
>>80974253
Yep, that's the drawing I was thinking of.
>>80974543
MC, Longyear, and I think Imagined Shadow are the ones who have drawn her the most often.
Cosmic Crusaders anon's design for her seems to most resemble Longyear's >>80973935 take on her.
>>80974879
There's also Psu's version here.
>>80975752
This isn't a drawing of Rookie, it's just a warm up drawing.
>>80975797
It was a joke based on the version on the CC cover.
>>80975860
You don't really get a good look at Rookie on the current WIP cover for Cosmic Crusaders.
>>80975946
Shit. Just realised I meant Amazing Coventures.
I guess AC sort of just half-vanished from my brain.
>>80975979
I still don't see the resemblance.
She has the helmet on, and the hair style is really what makes the Major look.
>>80933888
She dyes her eyebrows black to make people think that she's just changing her hair color.
>>80961675
Probably a slow burn, some time before. Like 20 years or so. Could serve to show that magic is a more timeless thing than what people consider. Sort of a "every 1,000" years prophecy being really fast for magic, even if it's an impossible time for a human to really wrap their heads around when you start thinking of all the changes that happen in such a time. So this being 20 years before everything goes fugazi is a long time for us, but for magic it's instant.
>>80976517
Now I'm totally imagining one of the group being part of a Geocities webring about magic.
>>80976517
20 years might be too much, maybe. The fairy invasion happened because the fae were convinced magic was dying and something had to be done, after all.
>>80976944
Man, now I remember MS-DOS.
It's funny that even elementary schools in the early-mid 90s had computers.
>>80977390
That was around 1979 or maybe a little earlier. Could be later if Hummingbird's mom stuck around after the invasion was defeated to have a further romance with Hummingbird's dad.
Assuming the Youth Coalition was formed around 1989 at the latest (which is probably about the time Diving Belle and Ladybug were born), and Hummingbird is in her 30s by the 2010s, then the mid 90s would work for this.
I think about 1991 is about the time the Youth Coalition would be disbanded.
And the magical resurgence I think really should be like an economic bubble where it's going to collapse soon from a relative standpoint. Of course that could be a few decades of low/medium levels of magic since it's still not a high enough concentration to support the fae before it drops back down again.
>>80977529
In the UK they literally had a computer and OS that was made for schools. First the BBC Micro, then the RISC OS.
>>80977529
>>80977390
Why not just ignore the DEEPEST LORE stuff and do what makes sense for this setting?
