Hi, mods! I just wanted to be clear about how apping characters with... weird nonhuman age stuff going on would work for this game. I know you mentioned "adulthood, if nonhuman" and that 5000 years old but in the body of a kid was absolutely not allowed (and the way the latter was phrased made me laugh) but I wanted to ask about specific characters just to make really sure I wouldn't make anyone uncomfortable!
#1 is Nightshade here. They're a Transformer from the new EarthSpark series, a Terran specifically, and the show is I believe purposefully vague about how old the Terrans are meant to be Transformers-maturity-wise. It's pretty clear that Transformers don't have anything really equivalent to a human child life stage. Their human parents and a few much, much older Cybertronians (like, millions of years old, apparently) casually refer to them as "kids" sometimes. Optimus Prime wants them to be trained for battle and like 2/3 of the way through the series their teacher Bumblebee clears them for battle. Them being involved in combat is definitely treated differently than the human kids getting caught up in combat.
The biggest thing I can sort of think of that implies that Nightshade is in an adult life stage at least shortly after their introduction is that all of the Terrans are created as "protoforms," and that's definitely treated as a life stage all its own; the moment they choose and scan an alt mode is ssssort of treated as a coming-of-age thing? I don't think it's meant to be a 1-to-1 thing, but it might be the closest Transformers actually have to the concept.
Anyway, to get to the point, I tend to play Nightshade as the equivalent of about 21 years old when it comes to actual developmental age rather than experiential, despite that they're probably about 6 months old. Would that be reasonable for this game?
#2 will be a much shorter question: I play Robert the doll (yes, that Robert the doll) from the webcomic The Last Halloween. He's over 100 years old definitely, and he's not "in the body of a child." The thing that trips me up is that at one point in the comic he explains that since it's Halloween, any humans they run into will just assume that he and his friends are children in costumes. ("It's Halloween, no one's going to look twice at a bunch of child-sized creatures...") But he doesn't look like an actual child, because he looks like a (kinda horrifying) living doll (what he usually looks like and what the main character sees when she realizes she's talking to real monsters). But there's just enough "appears like a child, ish" there that I wanted check to see if apping him would be kosher before trying to do so, because I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable with him if it is a bit too close to the line.
Thank you for your time, mods, whatever you decide!
Apping Nonhuman Adults
#1 is Nightshade here. They're a Transformer from the new EarthSpark series, a Terran specifically, and the show is I believe purposefully vague about how old the Terrans are meant to be Transformers-maturity-wise. It's pretty clear that Transformers don't have anything really equivalent to a human child life stage. Their human parents and a few much, much older Cybertronians (like, millions of years old, apparently) casually refer to them as "kids" sometimes. Optimus Prime wants them to be trained for battle and like 2/3 of the way through the series their teacher Bumblebee clears them for battle. Them being involved in combat is definitely treated differently than the human kids getting caught up in combat.
The biggest thing I can sort of think of that implies that Nightshade is in an adult life stage at least shortly after their introduction is that all of the Terrans are created as "protoforms," and that's definitely treated as a life stage all its own; the moment they choose and scan an alt mode is ssssort of treated as a coming-of-age thing? I don't think it's meant to be a 1-to-1 thing, but it might be the closest Transformers actually have to the concept.
Anyway, to get to the point, I tend to play Nightshade as the equivalent of about 21 years old when it comes to actual developmental age rather than experiential, despite that they're probably about 6 months old. Would that be reasonable for this game?
#2 will be a much shorter question: I play Robert the doll (yes, that Robert the doll) from the webcomic The Last Halloween. He's over 100 years old definitely, and he's not "in the body of a child." The thing that trips me up is that at one point in the comic he explains that since it's Halloween, any humans they run into will just assume that he and his friends are children in costumes. ("It's Halloween, no one's going to look twice at a bunch of child-sized creatures...") But he doesn't look like an actual child, because he looks like a (kinda horrifying) living doll (what he usually looks like and what the main character sees when she realizes she's talking to real monsters). But there's just enough "appears like a child, ish" there that I wanted check to see if apping him would be kosher before trying to do so, because I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable with him if it is a bit too close to the line.
Thank you for your time, mods, whatever you decide!