by Insidious » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:51 am
- Motto: "Clarity of thought before rashness of action."
- Weapon: Oxidating Laser
No one is going to be disqualified automatically.
The trick with Screamer is, he's a character that's up there, in terms of visibility, recognition and importance to the Transformers lore almost as much as Optimus Prime and Megatron himself. Everybody knows who he is and in a game like this, people want to see him doing what he does best--which the player's muse will decide. So, in judging the prospective applications, the mods are going to be even more strict than normal.
Getting all the bio stuff right is a given, since there's already a pre-approved profile. It's the sample post that starts to tell us whether a person can play the character. Screamer, particularly G1, just has a certain way about him. If someone can show us they can capture that, they're halfway there.
Just half, though.
Being able to portray Starscream well is fine and dandy, but if the next player can't commit to doing it all that much, then that does the game no good. Ember said as much a little earlier. That's where a player's history comes in and why "big" characters aren't given to untested players. This is a character who should be a viable contender to be the next one to sit on the Decepticon throne, but that can't happen if he's not in the thick of everything going on, Earth-wise. If a person's muse is engaged enough, it will flow naturally, especially with a character like that. It's kind of an unspoken thing, like how we approach the character limits--if someone's going for Starscream, they will be expected to use him more than if they had gone for, say, Cosmos.
If we're convinced someone can step up to that plate, Screamer will be handed over to them. It might sound kinda daunting, but I think it's incredibly fun being in the "thick of it", especially on a game like this where there's so many layers of stuff happening.
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