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Prime at 00:24, 4 October 2024

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	As a final note, we want to be clear that staff will not tolerate seeing trans men on the game treated in any way as fetish objects. There are plenty of other games where that kind of thing is accepted, but that is not the purpose of this game.		As a final note, we want to be clear that staff will not tolerate seeing trans men on the game treated in any way as fetish objects. There are plenty of other games where that kind of thing is accepted, but that is not the purpose of this game.
			[[Image:Meme - My Parents Are Dead.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|In this case, kids, ''don't'' be like Batman.]]
	===Banned Concepts===		===Banned Concepts===
	Banned concepts may not be played on the game.		Banned concepts may not be played on the game.
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	* [[Angels]], [[Demons]]		* [[Angels]], [[Demons]]

	~~[[Image:Meme - My Parents Are Dead.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|In this case, kids, ''don't'' be like Batman.]]~~
	===Overused Concepts===		===Overused Concepts===
	Overused concepts are subject to somewhat more scrutiny than others.		Overused concepts are subject to somewhat more scrutiny than others.

Prime: /* Overused Concepts */

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Overused Concepts

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	* [[Angels]], [[Demons]]		* [[Angels]], [[Demons]]

			[[Image:Meme - My Parents Are Dead.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|In this case, kids, ''don't'' be like Batman.]]
	===Overused Concepts===		===Overused Concepts===
	Overused concepts are subject to somewhat more scrutiny than others.		Overused concepts are subject to somewhat more scrutiny than others.

	* ~~None~~		* Tragic, especially arbitrarily tragic, character backstories.

	==Canon==		==Canon==

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Character Applications and Updates

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	==Character Applications and Updates==		==Character Applications and Updates==
	Character applications may be completed via the character generation rooms (or "chargen"), located in the game's OOC area. Just follow the steps, be sure to complete all sections, and ask staff if you have any questions.		Character applications may be completed via the character generation rooms (or "chargen"), located in the game's OOC area. Just follow the steps, be sure to complete all sections, and ask staff if you have any questions. For character updates, just do the same.

	~~For~~ character updates, ~~just do~~ the same. ~~However~~, ~~please note that~~ any major character updates should be spaced a minimum of 30 days apart, starting after the player initially enters role-play with a character.		However, please note that staff asks not to be flooded with character applications and updates. The more character applications you submit in a short span of time (say, within the same week or month) the longer staff is likely to take in responding to those apps. Similarly, any major character updates should be spaced a minimum of 30 days apart, starting after the player initially enters role-play with a character.

	== Companion Characters ==		== Companion Characters ==

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Concept Limits

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	Restricted concepts are usually more difficult to get approved on the game without being outright banned. Staff strongly urges players not to attempt a restricted concept as their first character, as this tends to be much more difficult until you better know the lay of the land on the game. While we will do our best to work with players on their restricted concepts, staff certainly does not guarantee that they will be approved.		Restricted concepts are usually more difficult to get approved on the game without being outright banned. Staff strongly urges players not to attempt a restricted concept as their first character, as this tends to be much more difficult until you better know the lay of the land on the game. While we will do our best to work with players on their restricted concepts, staff certainly does not guarantee that they will be approved.

	* ~~None~~		* [[Angels]], [[Demons]]

	===Overused Concepts===		===Overused Concepts===

Prime: /* Companion Characters */

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Companion Characters

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	* Companion Characters must be run in a way that leaves them essentially intact and easily accessible for future appers. Outside of approved plots, they should not undergo any lasting changes so that they will remain as accessible as possible to future potential players.		* Companion Characters must be run in a way that leaves them essentially intact and easily accessible for future appers. Outside of approved plots, they should not undergo any lasting changes so that they will remain as accessible as possible to future potential players.

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	==Concept Limits==		==Concept Limits==

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Character Applications and Updates

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	For character updates, just do the same. However, please note that any major character updates should be spaced a minimum of 30 days apart, starting after the player initially enters role-play with a character.		For character updates, just do the same. However, please note that any major character updates should be spaced a minimum of 30 days apart, starting after the player initially enters role-play with a character.

			== Companion Characters ==
			In some cases, there may be unplayed characters connected to your own who are highly important to your character's life. In these cases, it may be appropriate for you to emit those characters as NPCs when they are needed. To do so, you must have specific staff permission (such as a +request or as part of an approved plot), and one way to have that in an ongoing manner is to submit the NPC as a "Companion Character" for your character. (Check out the final chargen room on the game for instructions.) When another character is approved as a Companion Character for your character, you may emit that character freely within the following guidelines:

			* All Companion Characters must have approved character objects and +sheets on the game. If one does not yet exist, you can work with staff to get one created. (You may need to write the app if staff lacks the knowledge or ability to do so.)

			* All Companion Characters must be ''unplayed'' characters. If someone picks up the character, then you lose the privilege of running the character as a Companion Character for as long as that character is being played.

			* Companion Characters must be run in a way that leaves them essentially intact and easily accessible for future appers. Outside of approved plots, they should not undergo any lasting changes so that they will remain as accessible as possible to future potential players.

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	==Concept Limits==		==Concept Limits==

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Feature Characters

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	Note that since our game features a multiverse of worlds, when appropriate we will allow alternate versions of characters. For example, if Barry Allen is being played on the game but you also want to play him, then you can play Barry Allen from "Earth 2" and do your own take on the character. (This is not necessarily the specific Earth 2 from any DC canon, just a label to indicate the character is from a second version of Earth.) This works well for comic book characters, but it may be allowed for other FCs on a case-by-case basis.		Note that since our game features a multiverse of worlds, when appropriate we will allow alternate versions of characters. For example, if Barry Allen is being played on the game but you also want to play him, then you can play Barry Allen from "Earth 2" and do your own take on the character. (This is not necessarily the specific Earth 2 from any DC canon, just a label to indicate the character is from a second version of Earth.) This works well for comic book characters, but it may be allowed for other FCs on a case-by-case basis.

			While we understand that playing an FC is often an act of love for characters we already know, we need to place some limits on how they are played in order to maintain the game's [[Theme]]. As such, please note that all Feature Characters, even FCs from "approved" sources but especially those from outside them, must adapt to fit the game rather than expecting the game to reimagine itself to allow them to exist in a holistically canonical form. In other words, FCs should not attempt to carry the full weight of their setting and continuity from canon onto the game. This means that FCs should be apped minimalistically, only drawing on what is essential from their canonical In Character history to establish their IC history on the game.

			For instance, it is essential for the character of Superman to have been born on the planet Krypton, found by Martha and Jonathan Kent, raised to be a moral and upstanding young man, and then to have gotten a job at the Daily Planet and become well-known as a superhero. However, it is not necessary to pre-establish his history with members of his supporting cast, even characters as closely tied to him as Lex Luthor or Lois Lane, because they aren't absolutely essential to his origin. Superman has had no end of canonical adventures in his history, and trying to act as though every one of those events, or even a significant portion of them, had all happened in Superia would create an impossible glut of history that no one can be expected to sort out.

			Think of it like this: FCs on the game should be telling their story here, on the game, not trying to continue the story that has already been told elsewhere. The only exception to this is [[Visitors\|Visitor Characters]], who may have continuity from our sister games, but even then, that continuity exists as approved on those games, not as imported from a completely exterior canon. Importing an excess of canon is not only unwieldy, but it also tends to define too much about other characters and aspects of the world, which may conflict with what is established by the game's theme and by other characters, so keeping a narrow focus on the essentials of the FC, rather than trying to pull everything in, is what we ask of all FC appers.

	===Original Characters===		===Original Characters===

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