I see that we can make a choice as to which form we want our characters to take, but, er, the character I'm thinking of apping is a complicated case.../
The character in question is Starscream from the Transformers G1 Cartoon, and the game I played him in was Cape and Cowl. The issue is what form this version of Starscream would take upon arriving in the city. In Starscream's native canon, he is normally a Giant Space Robot, but from the point I had originally apped him in from (post the episode Possession in Beast Wars, if that means anything to you) he existed only as a disembodied ball of nearly indestructible energy, called a Spark.
In Cape and Cowl, he was initially given a human body with superpowers (as all nonhumans in that game are), but starting early this past year, he upgraded himself into a new technorganic Pretender shell (see this post (http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/9088.html#cutid2) and also this one (http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/8648.html#cutid1) for details; you can ignore the bits about him having extras on hand because he obviously wouldn't have that in Singularity, at least not for a VERY long time). By the time I dropped him, this shell had lost most of its organic parts, and was a fully robotic though non-transforming body (and a... somewhat terrifying one).
When I dropped Starscream there, his last thread involved him being permanently killed. Due to the method of his death, his body vaporized, and according to CnC rules, he would have been sent back to his own home dimension... which in his case means floating in between the stars as a disembodied orb of energy.
So, my question boils down to: What the hell body would Starscream have on arrival to the station? Would he remain a disembodied Spark (as he is now?)? Would he have his somewhat terrifying robot body from just before he died? The entirely human-looking robot body he used shortly before that? His fully human body from earlier in CnC? His original Transformer body?
As a spark, he has the following abilities: he can only be destroyed by high-level energy beings (ie, supernatural beings or creatures like the Q from Star Trek or Vorlons/Shadows from B5 otherwise Sufficiently Advanced life forms) or by a shard of unstable crystaline energon shoved through the center of his spark. He is insubstantial and has no physical presence or ability to move things He can speak He can posses machinery (including sentient robots) in much the same way a ghost possesses people If a machine he is possessing is severely damaged or destroyed, or indeed simply rendered temporarily nonfunctional, he is ejected from it. In Cape and Cowl only, he also had the ability to posses organic life forms, with the limitation that he could only leave those bodies if the body died, was rendered unconscious (not asleep, but actually unconscious) or if a spark extractor was used on him.
A spark consists of some sort of highly ordered energy matrix of positrons and positive-spin tachyons composed in such a manner that it can contain and convey data and energy. Most sparks are instantly destroyed when removed from being housed in a Transformer without special equipment; Starscream's has some (unspecified by canon) crazy mutant quality that lets him do this stuff. If he's stuck as a spark, would he have any of these abilities?
If he has the human body he had in CnC, would he have his superpowers at all (they're not THAT powerful, honestly, you can read about them in that same post with the stuff about his robot body (http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/9088.html#cutid1) and I do have a technobabble explanation for how they work [mostly blah blah electromagnetism]) or would he be 100% human?
I'm sorry for how long this is. I have this LJ name for a reason. 1/2
The character in question is Starscream from the Transformers G1 Cartoon, and the game I played him in was Cape and Cowl. The issue is what form this version of Starscream would take upon arriving in the city. In Starscream's native canon, he is normally a Giant Space Robot, but from the point I had originally apped him in from (post the episode Possession in Beast Wars, if that means anything to you) he existed only as a disembodied ball of nearly indestructible energy, called a Spark.
In Cape and Cowl, he was initially given a human body with superpowers (as all nonhumans in that game are), but starting early this past year, he upgraded himself into a new technorganic Pretender shell (see this post (http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/9088.html#cutid2) and also this one (http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/8648.html#cutid1) for details; you can ignore the bits about him having extras on hand because he obviously wouldn't have that in Singularity, at least not for a VERY long time). By the time I dropped him, this shell had lost most of its organic parts, and was a fully robotic though non-transforming body (and a... somewhat terrifying one).
When I dropped Starscream there, his last thread involved him being permanently killed. Due to the method of his death, his body vaporized, and according to CnC rules, he would have been sent back to his own home dimension... which in his case means floating in between the stars as a disembodied orb of energy.
So, my question boils down to: What the hell body would Starscream have on arrival to the station? Would he remain a disembodied Spark (as he is now?)? Would he have his somewhat terrifying robot body from just before he died? The entirely human-looking robot body he used shortly before that? His fully human body from earlier in CnC? His original Transformer body?
As a spark, he has the following abilities:
he can only be destroyed by high-level energy beings (ie, supernatural beings or creatures like the Q from Star Trek or Vorlons/Shadows from B5 otherwise Sufficiently Advanced life forms) or by a shard of unstable crystaline energon shoved through the center of his spark.
He is insubstantial and has no physical presence or ability to move things
He can speak
He can posses machinery (including sentient robots) in much the same way a ghost possesses people
If a machine he is possessing is severely damaged or destroyed, or indeed simply rendered temporarily nonfunctional, he is ejected from it.
In Cape and Cowl only, he also had the ability to posses organic life forms, with the limitation that he could only leave those bodies if the body died, was rendered unconscious (not asleep, but actually unconscious) or if a spark extractor was used on him.
A spark consists of some sort of highly ordered energy matrix of positrons and positive-spin tachyons composed in such a manner that it can contain and convey data and energy. Most sparks are instantly destroyed when removed from being housed in a Transformer without special equipment; Starscream's has some (unspecified by canon) crazy mutant quality that lets him do this stuff. If he's stuck as a spark, would he have any of these abilities?
If he has the human body he had in CnC, would he have his superpowers at all (they're not THAT powerful, honestly, you can read about them in that same post with the stuff about his robot body (http://loltraitorlol.livejournal.com/9088.html#cutid1) and I do have a technobabble explanation for how they work [mostly blah blah electromagnetism]) or would he be 100% human?