Question 20

[Edgedancer he/him]

3 minutes ago, winter devotion said:

Well, it depends on what exact brand of possession/body sharing/general shenaniganery Tayahound turns out to be and how long she's been with Quietus by then. Approximately when, in roleplay time, will it start?

That is a good question. If the Tayahound bit is what we're going with that would depend a good deal on @Drake Marshall . And that's assuming he wouldn't prefer to keep Taya Nighthound free after all.

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

2 minutes ago, Drake Marshall said:

Although, psychologically speaking, Red is most similar to Crawler.

You could make a case for Shatterbird as well, based on her weakness and Shatterbird's insecurity.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

9 minutes ago, Edgedancer said:

That is a good question. If the Tayahound bit is what we're going with that would depend a good deal on @Drake Marshall. And that's assuming he wouldn't prefer to keep Taya Nighthound free after all.

Nah, Taya was already fated to have something kind of similar happen to her. She was going to snap and become an epic at some point (I even had a rather interesting powerset in mind). And I don't mean one that could particularly control it; there would have been a full-force rending. Sharing a body with Nighthound is in a sense a more intense version of what I was already planning.

Edited August 12, 2018 by Drake Marshall

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

Are we going with the dual-personality idea or just total take-over?

[Kidpen he/him]

100 pages. Time for new question, or should we just stick with this one for a while?

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

Personally I think dual-personality with Nighthound as one of the personalities sounds incredibly entertaining, but I'm open to other ideas.

Note that to keep things interesting, this means that Nighthound will modify the motivator so that Taya can't remove it when she is in control. Which Nighthound would totally do. He would probably have it made into a collar of some kind.

EDIT: Also, Bloodlight = Grey Boy? 

(also, if you plan on reading Worm, don't look up too many of those names, because the wiki has spoilers)

Edited August 12, 2018 by Drake Marshall

[Edgedancer he/him]

3 minutes ago, winter devotion said:

Are we thinking a flash back and forth, with vague memories of what's going on, or directly fighting over the control with each action? 

EDIT: What does Taya look like?

Pretty much what I was about to ask.

Is it weird that Nighthound is the guy that's definetly going to vote for growing their hair out? Using super powers at that.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Just now, Drake Marshall said:

Personally I think dual-personality with Nighthound as one of the personalities sounds incredibly entertaining, but I'm open to other ideas.

Note that to keep things interesting, this means that Nighthound will modify the motivator so that Taya can't remove it when she is in control. Which Nighthound would totally do. He would probably have it made into a collar of some kind.

Really, the big question is how we'll handle tossing the control back and forth between each other.

Eh, open chest, put motivator into important organ, make removing it straight up fatal without the healing factor. Problem solved.

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

I think at first it should be battling, but maybe they figure out they need to cooperate and so have a character arc.

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

Maybe.  I figure that they might work out an agreement where like they each get X amount of time before they switch.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

2 minutes ago, Edgedancer said:

Really, the big question is how we'll handle tossing the control back and forth between each other.

Eh, open chest, put motivator into important organ, make removing it straight up fatal without the healing factor. Problem solved.

*starts looking desperately for a different healing motivator, only to discover that there are none*

3 minutes ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

I think at first it should be battling, but maybe they figure out they need to cooperate and so have a character arc.

Hmmm... Edgedancer what do you think?

This sounds viable.

[Edgedancer he/him]

5 minutes ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

I think at first it should be battling, but maybe they figure out they need to cooperate and so have a character arc.

Nighthound... character arc... cooperate. I don't think these words work the way you ant them to work.

13 minutes ago, winter devotion said:

Taya being all "WE ARE NOT GROWING OUR HAIR OUT, but i guess you can kill that guy if you really want to," would be kinda funny. 

Also fashion. Nighthound is going to be a stickler about dressing properly, so she doesn't emberass him in front of all the other Epics.

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

1 minute ago, Edgedancer said:

Nighthound... character arc... cooperate. I don't think these words work the way you ant them to work.

But he is forced to in this scenario or else he will not be able to do anything.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Just now, Drake Marshall said:

*starts looking desperately for a different healing motivator, only to discover that there are none*

Hmmm... Edgedancer what do you think?

This sounds viable.

I don't think cooperate would be quite the right word, but they'd need to arrive at some arrangement somehow, so the general idea works. Which leaves the question of how much control Nighthound gets over their physical actions. Like, he'd probably be in charge of the fighting and at least able to leverage his powers some but is the proposed motivator implant for example something he could force or something he'd need to blackmail her into by refusing to heal her otherwise.

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

Are you asking me?

[Ataraxian Wist she/her]

I say new thread. This was the first that wasn't a teenager (read the tags) so the next could be a responsible adult at 21.

Also, Tayahound in a dress is the best idea ever.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

12 minutes ago, Edgedancer said:

I don't think cooperate would be quite the right word, but they'd need to arrive at some arrangement somehow, so the general idea works. Which leaves the question of how much control Nighthound gets over their physical actions. Like, he'd probably be in charge of the fighting and at least able to leverage his powers some but is the proposed motivator implant for example something he could force or something he'd need to blackmail her into by refusing to heal her otherwise.

The way I see it, at first one of them is fully in control at a time, and that switches unpredictably. They might hear the other person's voice in their heads, but not much more than that. When she first activated the motivator, Nighthound would be in control for a while, so he would be able to do the surgery thing.

Later on, they might start to unwillingly compromise with each other on some things, so that one of them isn't undoing what the other was just doing once they gain control. They may also occasionally benefit from the other's particular skills, though I don't think Nighthound or Taya would admit that under anything but the most dire circumstances (ie Taya doesn't currently know how to fight, and might willingly cede Nighthound total control in a sufficiently threatening encounter).

Would Nighthound in fact be able to regulate Taya's access to power from the motivator when she is in control, though?

EDIT: We just hit 101 pages, time for question 21?

Edited August 12, 2018 by Drake Marshall

[Ataraxian Wist she/her]

7 minutes ago, Drake Marshall said:

The way I see it, at first one of them is fully in control at a time, and that switches unpredictably. They might hear the other person's voice in their heads, but not much more than that. When she first activated the motivator, Nighthound would be in control for a while, so he would be able to do the surgery thing.

Later on, they might start to unwillingly compromise with each other on some things, so that one of them isn't undoing what the other was just doing once they gain control. They may also occasionally benefit from the other's particular skills, though I don't think Nighthound or Taya would admit that under anything but the most dire circumstances (ie Taya doesn't currently know how to fight, and might willingly cede Nighthound total control in a sufficiently threatening encounter).

Would Nighthound in fact be able to regulate Taya's access to power from the motivator when she is in control, though?

EDIT: We just hit 101 pages, time for question 21?

Yes it is. Who makes it?

[Kidpen he/him]

12 minutes ago, Sazedezas said:

I say new thread. This was the first that wasn't a teenager (read the tags) so the next could be a responsible adult at 21.

Also, Tayahound in a dress is the best idea ever.

I don't think this community will ever be a responsible adult.

[Edgedancer he/him]

10 minutes ago, Drake Marshall said:

The way I see it, at first one of them is fully in control at a time, and that switches unpredictably. They might hear the other person's voice in their heads, but not much more than that. When she first activated the motivator, Nighthound would be in control for a while, so he would be able to do the surgery thing.

Later on, they might start to unwillingly compromise with each other on some things, so that one of them isn't undoing what the other was just doing once they gain control. They may also occasionally benefit from the other's particular skills, though I don't think Nighthound or Taya would admit that under anything but the most dire circumstances (ie Taya doesn't currently know how to fight, and might willingly cede Nighthound total control in a sufficiently threatening encounter).

Would Nighthound in fact be able to regulate Taya's access to power from the motivator when she is in control, though?

EDIT: We just hit 101 pages, time for question 21?

Works for me. There's a lot of fun potential to play around there.

On the power control bit, that's the tricky part. The samer power the hounds are based on also allows Nighthound to fine tune his power in his own body and things like that, so it depends if it'd recognize the Nighthound personality as the original in charge or default to whoever is controling the body right now.

Well, we do have somebody with a Talent for making new pages.

Edit: Or we leave it to Winter. That works.

Edited August 12, 2018 by Edgedancer

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

9 minutes ago, Drake Marshall said:

Would Nighthound in fact be able to regulate Taya's access to power from the motivator when she is in control, though?

Probably not, or if so, only slightly.  And remember, Taya wouldn't be corrupted, as it is motivators.  Wait, does that mean Nighthound would be uncorrupted? 

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

Just now, The Young Pyromancer said:

Probably not, or if so, only slightly.  And remember, Taya wouldn't be corrupted, as it is motivators.  Wait, does that mean Nighthound would be uncorrupted? 

Nighthound would probably still be corrupted, because Nighthound's consciousness would presumably still reside in the tissue sample that powers the motivator.

Taya would not be corrupted, no. Or at least, more or less as uncorrupted as you can be when you hear Nighthound's voice in your head constantly.