Halo around the head, above the head, or behind the head?inb4 depends on the setting
Yes.
>>46626261
How do you play haibane Renmei game, anywa? Refluffed Golden Sky Stories? FATE?I just want cute angels doing cute things
>>46626273
>Refluffed Golden Sky Stories
probably steal their resolution and replace henge with toga or something. I'm pretty sure they don't have powers, though, so have something else which uses wonder. also a meter which tics toward the day of flight, based off the total amount of feelings the PCs recieved. everything else is the same, aside from setting, of course.
![361px-Gandhara_Buddha_(tnm)[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/p9tf879.jpg "361px-Gandhara_Buddha_(tnm)[1].jpg")
>>46626261
>Halo around the head, above the head, or behind the head?
Behind the head/back.
>>46626261
>inb4 depends on the setting
Why ask a question when you already know the answer?
>>46626261
Dots
>>46626488
>steal their resolution
mechanic. I meant to say resolution mechanic
>>46626508
It's superfluous and unnecessary to precede a question like OP's with "In your opinion."
Anons who respond with "Depends on the setting." knowing full well that they're being asked their opinion are just being smartasses.
>>46626261
Behind is the only true answer
d) Over the eyes
>>46626745
But what my opinion changes depending on the context, ie. the setting.
If the being represents different tasks or themes, the halo should be somewhere to match.
>>46626261
The origin of the "halo" was a representation of the divine light emanating from one's countenance. Eventually the circle of gold mover over top of the head, and evolved through the years into the modern day halo in angel art.
In other words, fuck halos.
Over the head, suspended by wire.
Angels don't ACTUALLY look like sexy women in cheap halloween costumes, they just appear that way because it's the only way your mortal mind can comprehend their appearance.
>>46626500
Agreed.
>>46626261
Neither.
The halo isn't constrained by a mere floating toroid. It is not a mere object.
The halo is the essence of an angel.
It is a field, a wave that is entangled with the angel itself.
Its divine nature ripples throughout the angel's body, its radiance oozes from the rifts of the reality, its light destroys the concept of darkness itself.
>>46626261
Behind the head. Halo is not a hat, it's a depiction of your head glowing with holy thing.
>>46627599
angels are psions
>>46627500
That's good, because if they appeared as spinning wheels of fire with eyes and wings everywhere and heads of a man, a goat and a lion I'd probably get an erection and it would be awkward.
>Haibane Renmei: The Game
Please make this a thing. Please.
>>46626261
I reckon the Halo's are how the angels are depicted in glass, but in real life their just glowing with the intensity of the sun.
>>46627622
>"Nothing ever happens and everyone is constantly in the state of ennui": The Game
Literally why?
>>46627622
In that case, God forbid a cherubim comes down to earth, and Saint Peter beat the shit out of him if he sends one.
Above is the classic, but around is good too. Behind is more for messiahs
>>46626261
>>46626745
DOTS
Stop being a cuntwaffle.
>>46626261
I prefer the look of behind the head.
>>46626500
>>46626763
>>46627526
>>46627929
Based opinions
>>46626261
Crying redhead girl has devil-horn hair.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
>>46626261
OP cannot inb4. Also, it depends on the setting.
>>46628383
Reverse classic blunder in action!
>>46628012
The person who made her halo also decided to use the sacred halo-casting mold to make donuts. As a side effect, her halo tends to accumulate static electricity, making her hair attracted to it.
>>46626261
I like behind
>>46626261
The head is as a font of golden light, and to behold it is to know such majesties that the misery of no longer witnessing it drives mortal men to madness.
Step your game up.
>>46626261
Above the head. Can't beat the classic.
I can't think of a single game where anything with a halo was anywhere near the party
Either way behind is the right answer, though for something really light hearted I think above might be best
Behind is best.
>>46630290
>Mastema
[jewish Angel handrubbing intensifies]
![0RCMx5B[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/7iz8ISZ.gif "0RCMx5B[1].gif")
Above the head, but slightly to the side is fine too.
We had an angel in a Delta Green game once. When the halo first showed up it was over the head, then went to around/behind. After a certain point the angel stopped bothering to look humanoid, and then things went to shit.
>>46630667
>After a certain point the angel stopped bothering to look humanoid, and then things went to shit.
The fucking story of my fucking life.
I still get flashbacks.
around the head makes the most sense
>>46626261
Man, I haven't cracked into my Angels folder in forever!
... Wow, very few of these ladies HAVE Halos...
>>46626261
Shining light around the head. Not a distinct thing, just light radiating as if from behind.
Behind the head and either actual solid objects or laser-beam like.
Hmm, it appears I only have "Eldritch" angels and "Sexy Lady" Angels.
>>46630692
OK, I'll bite. Story?
>>46630969
What's the difference?
>>46626273
Regardless of how it plays, it has to be comfy.
>>46626261
Above the head and behind the head are both great.
I think I would have found behind the head odd, had I not been born Orthodox Christian.
>>46630969
>lady
Any angel should be assumed to just be a really femenine looking guy until told otherwise.
>>46626261
Around theotherhead
>>46630994
One type has fewer boobs.
>>46631019
Yeah, maybe if any of them were in any way androgynous, but I haven't seemed to save any like that.
>>46627644
Because we like that.
>>46631074
>Because we are like that.
Fixed that for you.
Out of Halo'd Angels... well Blueboard Safe ones anyway.
Have a few with divine light, but I have some errands I need to run today so I'm not going to be able to post them right now.
>>46631036
It's not fewer, it's less. If they had fewer, they would either have one boob, or 0 boobs. What you want is less or smaller boobs, not a partial lack of them.
>>46631199
I was referring to the number of breasts actually.
The joke being that, due to the unknowable nature of Eldritch beings, Old Testement style Angels included, my statement could refer to either type of angels.
>>46630987
There's not much to tell.
>be me, working as a medical engineer in a clinic
>servicing the CT and MRI equipment, preparing radiopharmaceuticals for PET, servicing other assorted equipment, that kind of shit
>having an ordinary day on my job
>see someone run into the X-Ray room
>check the room
>no one's there
>pay no mind to it
>a few days later, get drunk with coworkers
>like, outright fucking smashed
>decide to walk home on foot despite being drunk
>fall on my ass half-way through the path
>someone picks me up and helps me walk me home
>in my drunken haze, i realize it's the same person that i saw entering the X-ray room a few days ago
>she has a pretty girl face
>get back home, thank her, fall asleep
>in the next couple days, I see the her entering the X-ray room a few times
>every time I walk in, there is no one there, even if I call out
>suspect that I'm hallucinating
>ask one of my coworkers to do an EEG scan on me
>check the activity timechart
>the brain activity is going fucking nuts
>welp, guess I'm mentally unstable then
>decide to get smashed with coworkers and walk back on foot again
>meet her again
>she's smiling, offers to walk me home
>i'm trying to memorize what she looks like as hard as I can despite my drunken state
>long story short, this continues for a few weeks
>each time she looks less and less human
>one day, she isn't there
>oh, okay
>guess that's that
>get home carefully, fall asleep
>wake up the next day
>go to work
>the medical staff is having an emergency meeting
>attend it
>apparently, the X-ray equipment has been under constant current for the last few weeks and leaking radiation
>the staff is having a mandatory checkup for the symptoms of neoplasms and radiation sickness
>I feel perfectly fine
>go back home in the evening
>sudden realization as I'm standing in front of the fridge, grabbing a beer
>i've been drenched with alcohol most of the times after I entered the X-ray room, which mitigated the rads influence
>mfw
>>46631613
Shieeeeeeeeet.
A sphere around the head, which somehow doesn't obscure the head in any way no matter what angle you look at it from.
In my setting I've gone with a reality inspired technique.
True "saints" (beings blessed by a cosmic power, which could include deities or angels) have an aura of beneficence and glory radiating from their heads; so visually it's around.
The cosmic powers were weakened at the end of a great war about 800 years ago, so saints are almost unheard of now. However, as a kind of visual call back to this, many people in positions of spiritual authority (lesser gods and angels generally, but some very powerful mortals) create floating rings (sometimes glamour, often enchanted objects); trusting that the people they want to impress don't really know or care about the distinction.
Though now that you mention it, I'd forgotten completely about the history of portraying it as discs behind the head. Since my players haven't actually gone to the southern countries yet, maybe I'll retcon that the gods of that country do behind the head fake halos.
>>46631012
>>46631795
My man.
>>46626790
Agreed
>>46627644
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Iyashikei
>>46632456
>Haibane Reimei
>Iyashikei
Only if you are completely oblivious to all the ennui and how depressing the setting really is. If you call that "healing", you might as well call Texhnolyze "healing" too while you are at it.
>>46626273
Ryuutama would work well.
>>46627644
because then instead of escapism i get a power trip
>>46631613
Congratulations anon, your life was rescued by the Angel of Booze. May your Lovecraftian Guardian Angel forever shield your body and soul with her gentle veil of degraded carbohydrates.
>>46631613
I gotta know what you mean by "less and less human"
>>46633001
>escapism
>Haibane Renmei
Again, I would've agreed if it was literally any other show, like Natsume Yuujinchou or something.
Haibane Renmei is just plain depressing.
You appear out of nowhere, you don't know who you are, you disappear just as abruptly and there's no way out of the cycle.
You are judged for the things you don't know you did, and the only thing you can do is live out your days without being able to change anything until the time comes.
Haibane Renmei is as dead-end and depressing as it gets.
>>46630947
>Laser beam like
My nigga.
>>46633167
Like, I dunno, man, I was drunk at the time, so don't take my words at the face value, but each time she felt more and more wrong.
It was like she was a doll, like someone who is unused to being a human or some shit.
She felt like a fake, and her skin was cold. Her face was gentle, but stiff.
I dunno, man, the whole affair was pretty fucking weird in hindsight.
She always dragged me home, but she never stepped beyond my doorstep, and, naturally, there were no witnesses, even when I asked people around.
And why the fuck did she try to lure me into the X-ray room in the first place? More questions than answers even today.
>>46633232
Sounds almost like Dark Souls. Just less monsters and more social interaction.
>>46634195
In Dark Souls, you are at least fighting for something, even if you don't know what it is. You survive in the face of adversity, and progress somewhere, anywhere.
In Haibane Renmei, there is no progress. There is just you and the eternity in an empty purgatory of a town. Every day is just like any other, and nothing happens, ever. You don't even feel the progress of time. There is nothing to fight for, and there is nothing to strive to. You don't even need to fight to survive. The only way it could be more ennui is if the town was replaced by an endless blank void plane.
>>46634362
Just because Haibane Renmei doesn't have an obvious external conflict doesn't mean that there isn't any whatsoever. Consider also that the girls in the show are only a small selection of those who became gray feathered; other more mature girls may have had a more active role in trying to change the way the human characters interacted with the haibane, trying to leave the town, etc.
Individual days being different is what sets the core of recovering from their trauma. It happens internally and as a direct result from interacting with the others stuck in purgatory. Day of Flight IS by its definition progress, even if it's not a fight for survival. It's a fight for your very self which can be written as intimately as possible.
>>46634094
>angel trying to attract attention to the fact that the xray machine is fucking up so people stop getting irradiated
>which causes you to think you are going crazy and get into said xray machine
whoops
>>46634362
>Nothing happens, ever
No, things happen. It's not grand things, just worries and pleasures of everyday life. Sure, it's not
epic showdowns of epic destiny, but it's very much a thing, and it's not like characters are standing around all the time, moping. Everyone has their own hobby, the way to make impact on the world even after they left the city. And conflict still happens, as evidenced by a rift between old home and factory haibane. It's just it wasn't the main focus of the anime.And considering what the city is very heavily hinted to be, it's just the right place for the haibane.
>>46634603
In any case, HR is as far away from "escapism" and "healing" as it can be. It's like calling "treating a wound" the act of digging deeper into it with a blunt spoon and dumping a bunch of salt inside the open wound.
If you wish for that kind of a game, I won't judge, but I get enough bad shit and internal conflict IRL to deal with that I don't need to play pretend it in my free time.
>>46634827
That's an opinion anon. Call me a faggot if you like but I watched HR shortly after it aired in a bad time of my life. Watching the girls cope with a situation that normally would be called the definition of ennui, but forging friendships and trying to make the most out of their situation truly spoke to me.
Consider a game in which a simple d20 roll to spot say a critter would be passed over and have no influence. In a HR inspired game the entire session could be devoted on trying to get that critter, coax it with treats and love, befriend it - all for a bittersweet resolution in which it will follow its fate and depart. It leaves a message about coping with loss without shoving melodramatic angst in your face.
Not the game for everyone, I would agree, but it interests me on an emotional level.
tl;dr its escapism and healing for some people, be openminded anon
>>46635011
It's just that I feel exactly the opposite to the main message of HR, which is acceptance.
I feel that a struggle, no matter how pointless it is, is more meaningful than accepting your own powerlessness.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be a hero. I don't want to struggle just for the sake of it, without a definite goal or direction, blindly funnelling anger into action. That isn't right either.
But the worst thing for me is living out my life without something to strive for, just drifting day to day without, well, a goal or direction.
I don't give a shit how miniscule the odds are, or whether my actions will leave a lasting impact, but as long as I can actively make myself a better human being, as long as I can do something to make those close to me happy, as long as I cannot accept the existence of a certain injustice, as long as there is something I can do to make myself useful to the people I respect, I will fight, even if I'm fighting against the windmills and wasting my effort.
>>46635314
Anon, I think you need to reconcile the concepts of struggling and acceptance in your mind. They are not mutually exclusive and although severely less flashy and dazzling, very much also a conflict.
Struggling to accept yourself, your flaws, or accept responsibility are very much an active fight. One that does have a possible end result of being a better human, or more specifically, more aware. Look at the The Brothers Karamazov. The man v. man struggle is a minor portion of the story, it's all about the emotional, mental, and moral dissonance and its resolution. Which, yes, ends up in a rather bleak ending of acceptance without reconciliation, but god what a struggle it took to get to that point.
I respect your point of view but I think you are being dismissive of acceptance as an ending, disregarding what it takes to get to that point.
>>46634094
>pretty girl face, but stiff and uncanny valley as well
>She always dragged me home, but she never stepped beyond my doorstep
sounds like a Fey, buddy boy.
More awesome please
>>46626500
Anon, that's a mantra, not a halo.
>>46637664
Isn't a mantra supposed to be a chanting sort of thing?
>>46626261
I'm not sure "around the head" is anything but being a super tall angel, but above the head is a halo and behind the head/body is called a glory not a halo.
>>46634362
You don't need to stab hobos to roleplay.
You can take the elements of both settings. You got this walled of safe haven where you work, but to find answers you need to venture out. You can make it a very narratively focused game where every players makes a character, but no backstory. Then the GM can look over the characters and figure out their "crimes", so to speak, their "sins", that they must atone for. And as the party ventures out, they encounter challenges that are themed on these backstories that the members have to figure out about themselves, as well as to whom each of the sins is attached. So, if someone was a liar, the party would encounter things themes around lies. In the process they'd have to solve them as well as figure out who of them was guilty in life.
>>46627599
>It is a field, a wave that is entangled with the angel itself.
>Its divine nature ripples throughout the angel's body, its radiance oozes from the rifts of the reality, its light destroys the concept of darkness itself.
>>46627644
Because /tg/ is populated by many, many people who have yet to realize that things usually sound better in their head than what will actually happen at the table.
>>46636490
am fey, can confirm
>MacDolmen clan want x-rays from a human healing temple's box of rarefied light
>get an acolyte and have him open the magic chest for us
>trade him dream memory and fey wine and the attention of a changeling
>they won't even notice the missing x-rays, the chest is overflowing anyways
>always make sure to get the acolyte back to his homestead safely, in case we need more rarefied light later
>changeling tries to open the chest of light herself and spills its contents
>now we have to find a new one, the temple masters were clearly upset we touched their treasure
>>46638502
10/10 I kek'd.
>>46638502
Maximum lols
>>46626261
On top for purity and/or innocence
Behind the head for holy authority or might
>>46633232
>You appear out of nowhere, you don't know who you are, you disappear just as abruptly and there's no way out of the cycle.
>You are judged for the things you don't know you did, and the only thing you can do is live out your days without being able to change anything until the time comes.
It's relateable.
>>46630599
This sort of.
In my setting, halos and personal things and are different being to being. Some are wide, some narrow, varying tilts and shapes however the more powerful entity's with halos tend to have a wider halo that is tilted towards the back of the head.
It's also unclear what halos mean in in my setting. There seems to be the general correlation between halos = good and horns = evil but that only seems to be correct 70% of the time and some beings posses both or have the opposite to what would be imagined.
>>46631613
Reminds me of that one guy from /v/ who was a prophet.
>>46634734
It's really the story of an outside force trying to get anon to do his job but he just keeps fucking up
I've never actually thought if it before, but I'll think I'll go with behind. Seems more fitting to my setting that way.
Halos of light or fire are always behind/around the head, but rings of pseudophysical objects like burning eyes hovering over the head may occasionally substitute or augment.
>>46626261
I reject all of those and choose the Hindu style of a massive halo behind the entire body.
>>46626261
I prefer Halos as flames
>>46641844
>Not Allah Inch Allah
still, it makes me smile everytime
Holy shit this thread is still alive
>>46642941
op here, I KNOW, RIGHT?
>>46638405
>AT field is just angel's halo
MIND BLOWN
>>46634094
I had what I would call an angelic encounter in a dream once. Its skin appeared to be made of solid gold, it had four faces around its head and it had a crown that looked like a Tibetan building. It was tall as a house, and even though it had several wings(at least four) it didn't flap them - it had a gigantic vertically oriented wheel behind it that seemed to hold it in place as if by gyroscopic motion. I couldn't tell whether its eyes were just blank gold or if they were closed, but I knew it was looking directly at me. It pointed at me and told me that I should not be doing what I was doing. I remember the immense volume it spoke with rather than the exact words, but I knew what it was referring to as well because I was doing it in my dream. When it spoke, waves of heat pulsed from it and went right through me.
I was definitely terrified, but I also knew somehow that it was only appearing to relay that message and was not going to hurt me. That's just what it looked like, and obviously the sender wanted the message to stick out in my mind, so perhaps the situation called for the angel to look like that.
And you're darned right, I stopped what I had been doing immediately.
>>46640182
Not bad! I never realized the pattern before, but that is consistent with what I've seen in characterizations of angels in media.
>he doesn't utilize giant flaming halos BEHIND the character
Do you even dharma?
What if the halo is a solid circle of lift and there are eyes embedded in the wings
And when the angel opens its maw to speak, a rapturous roar and a great light is emitted
And your ears and eyes will bleed as you its glory and your body feels a great heat
>>46644816
"do not be afraid"
>>46635314
You make acceptance sound like giving up, when true acceptance is sometimes very difficult, and something that you can lose after gaining it. You have to really strive to accept some things, and you have to struggle to avoid second guessing it. Acceptance can be the proper objective in a situation, and it can be incredibly liberating. The struggle comes in with trying not to doubt that acceptance really is the proper course of action.
>>46644996
Solid circle of light*
>>46638405
>the AT field was the halo all along
FUCK I am dense.
>>46644816
What the fuck were you doing?
>>46626800
then precede the question with your choice of "in your favorate setting" or "in your homebrew setting"
>>46628899
.... I can't tell if that's seriously the anwser or if you're making a joke....
>>46645246
absolutely serious.
>>46645262
and as borderline weeb I absolutely believe that.... goddamnit Japan
>>46640675
?
>>46633232
It was depressing, sure, but I also found Haibane Renmei strangely hopeful. Life is abrupt and unknowable, yes, but maybe it's not all entirely pointless. We are born and we die, and the things we do in between don't make much difference on the grand scale. But the little things we do everyday still matter, even if it's only to the people around us, all of whom are dealing with the same things we are.
At least, that's the impression I got from the series.
>>46645344
grimbright
>>46644816
But what the fuck were you DOING?
ffff
>>46637664
you're thinking of mandala you dipshit, a mantra is a friggin' sacred utterance.
>>46642941
>>46642997
yeah, it's incredible...
>meanwhile on /i/ there's a thread still up from 2012, and it's getting bump spammed off the board as we speak
>>46647758
holy shit i checked and it is true. Also another from 2013, some from 2014 and a shitload from last year
>>46647758
I am just starting my surprise at making a topic worth anything
>>46626261
Archangels behind, rest above.
>>46637664
Alright, here's a better example.
>>46647758
That's nothing, there was a thread on /po/Yes it's a real boardfrom 2008 that survived several purges until last winter
The aesthetic the divine beings have in Asura's Wrath is pretty based. The halos start as a floating metal circle that hovers behind your head and glows when you power up. Then they mutate and get bigger, until they look like gif related. Chakravartin's halo-mandala is literally a hundred metal arms that are all making sacred hand-signs in a circle behind him.
>>46647758
>yeah, it's incredible...
Writefag Tuesday threads live usually up to week and a half around here, though they might be a very special kind of exception.
>>46633232
>>46645344
Haibane (which I coincidentally just started watching again) was above all, incredibly poorly directed and write from the half point. Seriously, everything that leads up to the moment where Rakka falls into the well is absolutely amazing, virtually everything that follows (with the exception of the weird-ass job she gets) is utter tripe.
With regards to the theme and atmosphere though, that is actually something very typically japanese, often described as "mono-no-aware" (sadness of things /passing/).
If you like this kind of stuff, I really, REALLY recommend finding a Manga called "Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou", which is technically a post apocalyptic story, but in reality much more in line with the tone of Haibane Renmei, except the situation is reversed: the main character is immortal with a perfect memory, watching everything ELSE fade away.
>>46631613
>There's not much to tell.
>Longest post in the thread
>>46650974It's also exactly 2000 characters.
I'm more of a fan of the Diablo or K6BD style halos. Incomplete circles with pointy bits.
>>46651386
Solomon David, as an example.
