(05-20-2017, 08:13 PM)Kismet Wrote: Ellmida and Kerrath already beat me to half of what I would've said, so I won't reiterate those points. Instead, I'm going to touch on something else. My main question after reading the whole thing is... Why?
What do you feel you'd specifically be achieving with this character concept that you'd be unable to do without all of the Voidsent headcanon? If the reason isn't much more robust than "I really liked Parasyte and wanted to do something equally cool in the same vein", that's fine and you're welcome to it... but I'd be worried about a potential lack of depth.
Whenever I see stuff like this, I'm always more curious about the motivations behind the decisions rather than the specifics of what they consist of. Perhaps you have a partner you'd be engaging in this with who shares your though process, so you could get it off the ground and it'd allow you both to explore something you couldn't otherwise. That's swell. However, if you were planning on engaging randoms with this... it might be a hard pill for most to swallow.
All that being said, I do have a fondness for Blue/Orange Morality in characters. It's one of my favorite components of anything Lovecraftian. And the almost nonchalant gruesomeness of the body snatching process, while perhaps somewhat unnecessary, gives me some slight Junji Ito vibes which could be fun to explore in the FF14 setting. (It wouldn't even be entirely out of place, either. Given things like Edda and Avere's lovely little story...) With the right partner and/or group, maybe you've got the start of something worth refining and expanding upon here.
I am part of a RP Linkshell that's already pretty liberal with lore with their characters so I created this character only thinking about the people in that Linkshell and the people they RP with the most. But I also wanted to consider trying to make the character work outside of that Linkshell, too. Which, as you and Kerrath have pointed out, is not going to be easy, hence why I decided to try throwing it out there for feedback.
I will admit in being a fan of Lovecraftian and Junji Ito stuff that influenced this character's creation. Parasyte is an inspiration only in how I want to model the character's personality: something who tries to exist in a world where the very fabric of it is hostile to her existence.
The idea was to have a creature that, while it doesn't quite entirely defy its instincts of surviving at any cost, isn't inherently hostile to people that live on Hydaleyn and tries to struggle with this alien nature to try to connect with the inhabitants of a world that's at least somewhat familiar (since the Void is the ruin of one of the mirror worlds after all) but also different than what she's used to. This is a character that has a mutable concept of physical identity, basically.
One other thing is that I could try going down the succubus route. That would still be a challenge to write well in of itself because succubi just aren't really known for being anything other than malicious and manipulative, but at least that's a creature that exists. If I could still get away with the Ito/body horror aspects then all the better, but it's not strictly necessary.
I dunno if I actually answered your question, still kind of throwing out unprocessed thoughts at this point!
