A looooooong time ago, my friend and I were joking about our world's pantheon, and decided, "If we really wanted to ******** things up, Zarr would be the Supreme God."
That lived on for awhile -- whenever something screwed up happened, we'd go, "Well, Zarr IS god, after all!"
His character seems to have molded himself along those lines. xD He has access to our "canon" god (just randomly went to intercede on his cousin's behalf), and can apparently "just do things". Not in a god-mod, "I KILL YOU--" *Person drops dead* kind of way, but in more of a "previously undiscovered talents have a tendency of just popping up" way. Minor talents, though. Nothing overpowered in any way. xd
He's also matured, sort of. He's still moodswingy as ever, just not as extreme -- he doesn't go from *flounces around in a Playboy bunny outfit* to *slitwrists* at the drop of a hat anymore.
...so I was thinking of a possible solution to take all this into account. Be forewarned, it's not very "wow!creative" or anything, but...we'll see how it's received. sweatdrop
Basically, at the beginning of the world, there were gods, many-many-many, most minor, and my friends' god-characters (the God and Satan figures -- our pantheon and world are sort of a chaotic mashup of all of our stories XD). There was Zarr, a sort of in-between, "wildcard" god.
You know, the kind who was quite a bit self-absorbed, and you'd never know if you'd catch him in a benevolent mood, or a, "YOU ALL GO TO HELL *SOBSOB*" mood.
Basically, it was decided that since the God and Satan positions were already filled, there was already a balance and the world would be MUCH better off without a Wildcard ******** up the mix. xd So they decided to get rid of Zarr.
As you can't totally kill a god, however (unoriginality coming up! biggrin ), Zarr was split into God-Part and Physical-Part (all of them have bodies of a sort), and Physical-Part is what all the characters thus far have been interacting with -- moodswingy and whiny, apparently the only character in our world who's capable of reincarnation (Physical-Part has to stay intact, lest it reform with God-Part XD).
God-Part can no longer affect anything. At all. He's useless.
Physical-Part is pretty much in the "gifted" region, in terms of magical talent for our world. But by gifted, it's still normal range -- think kid with 3.8 GPA -- impressive, but not REALLYSUPAROMGWOW.
...in the end, chances are that neither part will EVER meet, much less reform, so this really means nothing for Zarr, other than to explain his random, "I HAS A TALENT" moments, personal magic, and why-in-the-bleeding-hells he's the only one who ever reincarnates. Also gives a little background to him.
And means there's another chunk of Zarr out there if we ever get bored and decide to explore Possible Story Branches. rofl
I'm looking to develop this further, if anyone sees holes, is left with a question, or sees ways I can improve it. biggrin I'm especially looking to talk it out with someone, as I find I do better development that way. whee
That lived on for awhile -- whenever something screwed up happened, we'd go, "Well, Zarr IS god, after all!"
His character seems to have molded himself along those lines. xD He has access to our "canon" god (just randomly went to intercede on his cousin's behalf), and can apparently "just do things". Not in a god-mod, "I KILL YOU--" *Person drops dead* kind of way, but in more of a "previously undiscovered talents have a tendency of just popping up" way. Minor talents, though. Nothing overpowered in any way. xd
He's also matured, sort of. He's still moodswingy as ever, just not as extreme -- he doesn't go from *flounces around in a Playboy bunny outfit* to *slitwrists* at the drop of a hat anymore.
...so I was thinking of a possible solution to take all this into account. Be forewarned, it's not very "wow!creative" or anything, but...we'll see how it's received. sweatdrop
Basically, at the beginning of the world, there were gods, many-many-many, most minor, and my friends' god-characters (the God and Satan figures -- our pantheon and world are sort of a chaotic mashup of all of our stories XD). There was Zarr, a sort of in-between, "wildcard" god.
You know, the kind who was quite a bit self-absorbed, and you'd never know if you'd catch him in a benevolent mood, or a, "YOU ALL GO TO HELL *SOBSOB*" mood.
Basically, it was decided that since the God and Satan positions were already filled, there was already a balance and the world would be MUCH better off without a Wildcard ******** up the mix. xd So they decided to get rid of Zarr.
As you can't totally kill a god, however (unoriginality coming up! biggrin ), Zarr was split into God-Part and Physical-Part (all of them have bodies of a sort), and Physical-Part is what all the characters thus far have been interacting with -- moodswingy and whiny, apparently the only character in our world who's capable of reincarnation (Physical-Part has to stay intact, lest it reform with God-Part XD).
God-Part can no longer affect anything. At all. He's useless.
Physical-Part is pretty much in the "gifted" region, in terms of magical talent for our world. But by gifted, it's still normal range -- think kid with 3.8 GPA -- impressive, but not REALLYSUPAROMGWOW.
...in the end, chances are that neither part will EVER meet, much less reform, so this really means nothing for Zarr, other than to explain his random, "I HAS A TALENT" moments, personal magic, and why-in-the-bleeding-hells he's the only one who ever reincarnates. Also gives a little background to him.
And means there's another chunk of Zarr out there if we ever get bored and decide to explore Possible Story Branches. rofl
I'm looking to develop this further, if anyone sees holes, is left with a question, or sees ways I can improve it. biggrin I'm especially looking to talk it out with someone, as I find I do better development that way. whee
