Bans and Encouraged and Discouraged
Aug 11, 2013 22:58:19 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2013 22:58:19 GMT -5
BANS | ENCOURAGED | DISCOURAGED
BANNED WITHOUT STAFF APPROVAL
The items below are banned. This means you cannot make them under any circumstances, unless you have our express permission to do so. If you wish to make one of the banned items below, present your argument for why to one of the staff members and we will discuss it. Otherwise, you may have to wait until the ban is lifted.
- Spliced Pokemorphs [This process is extremely dangerous to undergo; anyone who comes out of it comes out with deformations or disabilities. It's also a very difficult and very rare process. It's unlikely for it to happen.]
- Anti-Pravus Pokemorphs [Pravus spends a lot of money in making Pokemorphs. They're not just picking random children off the streets or disloyal members for this process. Any member that does abandon them, morph or not, is at risk for revealing company secrets, and are quickly hunted down.]
- Assassins [Pravus ranks are full with this, plus it's a tiny island with one fully occupied city. We only need so many assassins.]
- Mental Illnesses [This means DID, PTSD, ADHD, schizophrenia, etc. This is something we need to watch by carefully as staff, because we don't want to offend anyone.]
- Immortal Humans [Legendary Pokemon are meant to be the immortal ones. No human can truly reach this level.]
ENCOURAGED
These items are the the things we really want you to make, mostly because they're low in number and we need more of them. This is definitely bound to change, especially if people start making everything on this list.
- Ghosts [We don't have many of these, and we really want more.]
- Site Canons [Game canons and legendary Pokemon are fun and all, but we have important site canons that need taking.]
- Pokemon [Non-legendary Pokemon characters. Keep in mind that you can make them infected, too.]
- Realistic Histories [If it seems too happy or sad to be believable, then it likely is. We also have a shortage of housing in the city; remember that pretty much the whole country lives in one city.]
- "Evil" Characters [Or any character that likes to cause conflict, really. The lack of genuinely hateful characters, or rather the lack of conflicts with other people, isn't very fun. We need more conflict going on in this site, as it leads to big plots that are tons of fun.]
- Body Diversity [Just because a faceclaim has a perfect figure doesn't mean your characters have to. Vary it up with different weights, proportions, ethnicities, and even weird deformities, whether born with them or not.]
- Gender Variation [Did you know there are more than two genders? And people don't always stick with what they're born with. Transgender, genderqueer, agender, bigender, genderfliod, and other such terms exist and are waiting to be used.]
- Anti-Pravus [This is a slight encouragement, and goes hand in hand with the conflict causing character encouragement, but Pravus is double the size, and Neutral characters are even greater than that.]
DISCOURAGED
These items are merely discouraged, not banned. This simply means that we don't want you to make characters that meet any of these criteria, but you can if you really want to. We're not going to stop you from doing so, but we would prefer if you wouldn't so it doesn't end up on the banned list too soon.
- Unaltered Pokemorphs [They are changed into more than just ears and a tail. Keep in mind that every Pokemorph is stuck with a feature from the Pokemon.]
- Exclusive Plotting [Don't plot with just one other character or ignore all other plots. This also applies to wanted characters. They exist beyond their relations.]
- Legendary Capture [Legendary Pokemon are this world's gods. Do not treat them like pushovers, because they hold the power to make the world stay the way it does. There's a reason there's so few of them compared to the rest of the Pokemon species.]
- Neutral Characters [They outnumber both Pravus and Anti-Pravus. While yes, most people are neutral, a plot cannot be expected to be followed if everyone is just tottering about and ignoring the conflicts.]
- "Special" Jobs [Slight discouragement. Not only is gaining a super special unique title rare even in the Pokemon world, but we'd also like you to check out the already existing positions in Pravus too. We have higher up positions that need filling.]
- No Involvement in the War [Whether you were actually in the war or not, it affected you. Many people lost their homes and towns, and others were taken by the clones for various purposes. Just no, "Oh, yeah, the war happened."]
- Making Characters Too Similar to Faceclaims [There's already a rule about this, but we don't know every series ever. It's one thing to use a cheerful faceclaim for a cheerful character, but it's another to borrow multiple history points from that faceclaim. Keep in mind that we are not a crossover site.]
- "Typical" Careers [Slight discouragement and reminder, because people seem to do this a lot, but there are a million plus jobs out there and before you can't think of any for your character and put unemployed or bartender, try searching around.]