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[Lyonize]

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Three Royal Cubs

First born: Leor - Khari
Second born: Zulu - Nuha
Third born: Leto - Tarajii

Lion Guard

Fiercest: Zulu - Nuha
Strongest: ABB - Feroz
Fastest: Lyonize - Alari
Bravest: Leto - Tarajii
Keenest of Sight: Cheezeegriff - Jono

NPCs

Tiifu:
Alari's mother. Leader of the hunting party at the beginning.

Moyo:
Nuha's bird companion.

Yuraha:
Jono's mother. Lives in a separate den.

Kivani:
Young lioness in the pride. Zuri's daughter.

Noki:
Young lioness.

Tegra:
Young lioness.

Notes
I was originally going to play both the 2nd born and the fastest but since this got so much attention, I don't want to be greedy and take two characters unless everyone is ok with that.

I've also left the canon characters out since it might be easier if everyone can control them as needed. 

[cheezeegriff]

Put jono down as keenest o sight:).

[Leorgathar]

Still working on his profile, but I'll play as Khari, the first born

[Leto]

I take dibs on the 3rd cub, here's the profile. I am still working on it but it should be finished sometime tomorrow. She's also Bravest(tho I prefer to call it Courage) if that's alright?

[abalancedbreakfast]

I'm sending in Feroz as the strongest. Still working on his bio, will include the link when finished

[Tamber]

I'll be playing the second-born, Nuha. Profile still in progress

Are we including any canon characters in here? People could also play Kiara, Kovu, Kion, or any of the members of Kion's Guard.

[Lyonize]

Dec 1, 2015 0:54:26 GMT Tamber said:

Are we including any canon characters in here? People could also play Kiara, Kovu, Kion, or any of the members of Kion's Guard.

I was about to but I thought it might be easier to just have people control the canon characters whenever they're needed. What do you all think?

[Leto]

I think that's the best. It would leave the spotlighted interaction to our characters.

[Lyonize]

I just don't want to make an excuse for the guard to drag the entire original cast around so nobody feels left out. =P

[Tamber]

Dec 1, 2015 1:13:34 GMT Lyonize said:

Dec 1, 2015 0:54:26 GMT Tamber said:

Are we including any canon characters in here? People could also play Kiara, Kovu, Kion, or any of the members of Kion's Guard.

I was about to but I thought it might be easier to just have people control the canon characters whenever they're needed. What do you all think?

I'm fine with that

[abalancedbreakfast]

tlkgoeson.proboards.com/thread/5022/feroz

All right, the full bio for Feroz is here

[Zorayda]

ah, dang. A lot of the slots got taken up while I was streaming... I want to join, but I'll have to figure out who to join as now.

[Leorgathar]

Yeah, it all happened too fast xP
But I think we're still up for the idea of having more than 5 members in the Guard, and more virtues than the 5 already stated. Right?

[Lyonize]

Dec 1, 2015 3:28:38 GMT Zorayda said:

ah, dang. A lot of the slots got taken up while I was streaming... I want to join, but I'll have to figure out who to join as now.

Sorry, Zor.

I did have an idea though. You'd have to take it up with Cheezeegriff though. Your eagle character and his lion character could be like a duo that hang out together and together, they both become the "keenest of sight" as a single unit. Like, they work together and have this synergy. 

[Tamber]

Would anyone mind if I played Kion in this? I think his character is interesting, and I'd like to give it a shot.

[cheezeegriff]

I have mixed feelings about someone playing as Kion. Especially if you're already playing as his successor. But I'm happy to bow to the majority in this.

Edit: actually, definitely mixed feelings, but I'm warming up to the idea. It could be an interesting dynamic for someone to take control of the old leader of the lion guard, but I still have some reservations. It would give you a lot of control over the relationship between Kion and his successor. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I'm sure you'd do the story well but it could make the other players feel a little sidelined, which is going to happen anyway if you're the Chosen One:). So I dunno.

[Lyonize]

I agree. It's probably best that we make the canon characters NPCs in this one. If you need to control one at any given point, you can.

[Leto]

I am with Cheezegriff on that as I see merit to his conserns. But it's not like Kion is going to be a major character in this as we sort of put the idea that Kion is in fact absent most of the time; away on Lion Guard buisness or spending time with his spouse/potential kids that live in an adjacent Prideland. As such he'd be more an NPC that could act as a mentor for Nuha he has afterall passed the torch of Lion Guard leadership to her pretty early after she finds her powers; so he'd mostly be acting as a potential mentor to Nuha and since you already play her. It's way easier for you to play the Nuha-Kion dynamic as long as you don't have him be around in every post.

So in terms of making things easier I have no objections about you taking on Kion, should there be a need for his presence in the story. Like Rafiki's gonna show up a few times if necessary as he is Tarajii's mentor, and there will be showing a relationship dynamic.

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What concerns me the most tho, is that we need something for this new Lion Guard to sink its claws into, some sort of threat or issue that the old Lion Guard cannot deal with. That is tasked to our characters. Not to say we have to have something to work with off the bat.. but it would be nice to at least brainstorm about it, so the RP doesn't run aground in stagnation by the time it hits page 3.

[Tamber]

Since people have such mixed feelings I'll just leave Kion as an NPC. I was originally under the impression this was going to be a more canon-style roleplay, so I guess I was working under different assumptions than you guys. Canon/mixed RPS I've played in the past incorporated canon characters without "distracting" from the OCs. But we couldn't play as NPCs back then, anyway. I also didn't catch on to the idea of Kion being mostly absent. Don't remember reading anything about that.

And I certainly don't want to sideline anyone, especially just by playing the second born...

[cheezeegriff]

Sorry, Zulu. I should reiterate: it COULD happen anyway. I didn't mean to imply that it definitely would happen. And hey, you can kinda play Kion anyway, seeing as anyone can jump in and take control of him.

But yeah. I had assumed Kion would still be around too.

As for the "bad guy," what about some sort of mystery to solve? A phantom menace, so to speak:). Somebody unseen, pulling the strings, causing little problems here and there? The poisoning of a waterhole. Disappearance of herds. Long tracts of dead grass. And of course, more hyenas lurking in the shadows.

[Leto]

Hrm I like that idea Cheeze.. could be really interesting actually. And would give us something to chase around and fix.

[abalancedbreakfast]

Mhm, the idea of a less tangible enemy seems like a good way to mix things up. I sanction it.

[Zorayda]

I think I know what I'll do. I would like to play as Nashira (obviously minus superpowers etc.), my striped hyena character, as a sort of antagonist in a way, but perhaps comes to understand the Lion Guard and eventually bridges hyena and Pridelander relations? Unless y'all already have a solid plot and don't want another plotline like this idea.

[Leto]

Hrm i like that idea actually, would be interesting to see something other than spotted hyenas. Although striped hyenas are behaviorally very different from spotted hyenas; they live in societies more similar wolves. Than the strictly matriarchal society of their spotted cousins. Also they're nocturnal in nature. But anyways...

Perhaps she could play on the fact that she's not a spotted hyena (as they were the only hyena kind employed by Scar), yet as such wants to try and bridge relations with the Pridelands to better the situation for striped hyenas in general? Just a suggestion ^^'

Regardless I do see a lot of potential here So it's got my support at least. PS: Striped Hyenas are the most beautiful of the hyena species' imo, all that floof

[Lyonize]

I agree with Leto. That sounds like a great idea! I also agree that striped hyenas are beautiful.

[cheezeegriff]

So I posted this yesterday, but in the wrong thread. Silly me:

If there's going to be some sort-of overarching evil plot our Lion Guard needs to deal with, as mentioned in the sign-up thread, how are we going to do it? If we all contribute to the plot and everyone knows exactly what's going on, it's not going to be a very engaging mystery for us to solve because we'll know all the twists and turns. We COULD all try to just play along and make it up as we go, but that sounds like it'll be less coherent in the long run.

So my suggestion is this: someone be put in charge of what the 'phantom menace,' so to speak.

This gives this person quite a bit of power, which means more responsibility than other players. But because it's all controlled through NPCs at least power can be removed at any time, as NPCs are controllable by anyone.

This might be quite egotistical of me but I'd quite like to take this role. I don't think it breaks any rules as it's just controlling NPCs. I can't take direct control of anyone's character. I'm in a really good position to do this right now because as a teacher I don't have work until the 20th of January, so plenty of time to get things established. Plus I'm pretty good at the whole strife thing anyway;).

Zorayda, your character would fit right in, I think:).

I would suggest this as an opening scene: the lion guard has been tasked by Kovu to hunt down its own food for the first time, rather than relying on the lionesses. But when they catch their prey there's something not quite right with it...

I'm happy to consider any alternative arrangements too. I've just got some ideas floating around in my head, mostly based on what you guys have generated via your OCs. So thank you for the ideas:).

[Leorgathar]

Great idea, Zor, I like it

As for me, well, I'm writing Khari in a way that he's too afraid of becoming King in the future, since he's really clumsy and everyone seems to think of him as incompetent, and he feels he has no escape from that pressure. But I was thinking maybe he would want to leave the Pridelands and become rogue, and one day he actually finds a chance to escape.

Maybe he could stumble across with Nashira on his way somewhere in the Outlands? Or maybe other hyenas capture him creating a big conflict between them and the Pridelands?


EDIT: I posted this before reading Cheez's post. But I think his idea is pretty good.

[Leto]

Dec 2, 2015 23:23:39 GMT cheezeegriff said:

So I posted this yesterday, but in the wrong thread. Silly me:

If there's going to be some sort-of overarching evil plot our Lion Guard needs to deal with, as mentioned in the sign-up thread, how are we going to do it? If we all contribute to the plot and everyone knows exactly what's going on, it's not going to be a very engaging mystery for us to solve because we'll know all the twists and turns. We COULD all try to just play along and make it up as we go, but that sounds like it'll be less coherent in the long run.

So my suggestion is this: someone be put in charge of what the 'phantom menace,' so to speak.

This gives this person quite a bit of power, which means more responsibility than other players. But because it's all controlled through NPCs at least power can be removed at any time, as NPCs are controllable by anyone.

This might be quite egotistical of me but I'd quite like to take this role. I don't think it breaks any rules as it's just controlling NPCs. I can't take direct control of anyone's character. I'm in a really good position to do this right now because as a teacher I don't have work until the 20th of January, so plenty of time to get things established. Plus I'm pretty good at the whole strife thing anyway;).

Zorayda, your character would fit right in, I think:).

I would suggest this as an opening scene: the lion guard has been tasked by Kovu to hunt down its own food for the first time, rather than relying on the lionesses. But when they catch their prey there's something not quite right with it...

I'm happy to consider any alternative arrangements too. I've just got some ideas floating around in my head, mostly based on what you guys have generated via your OCs. So thank you for the ideas:).

I like that idea actually. So I see no problem with it. I wouldn't mind you playing NPC's and maybe just nudge the plot in instances were it's needed.

I'm cool with this, except the whole Opening scene with them finding their own prey being ordered by Kovu. He has no legistrative authority and that order made more sense if it came from Kiara. She's Queen afterall its her lands she decides who hunts on it or not, Kovu's just Queen's Consort, he's not a king or anything. And I am not sure if such an opening scene would make sense as I was under the impression that the New Lion Guard would be formed more or less through RP. That Nuha would get the mantle from Kion when her Powers manifest and then go about assembling her team as it were.

As they're not established as a proper Lion Guard straight off the bat.

[cheezeegriff]

Fair enough. If the Lion Guard needs to be established first, then yes: that wouldn't work. Kiara giving the order instead doesn't make much of a difference so I'm ok with that, but I'm sure Kovu would eventually get some authority in his own right. With his sort of training, chances are he'd be given some sort of military role, or body guard. He might even be in charge of the lion guard (without actually being a part of it). He would be expected to do something aside from just hunt anyway. This is a moot point in this instance, but should probably be brought up later. Anyway, he will be an elder and the father of three of our OCs, so there's authority just in that, really.

[Lyonize]

I did intend for us to play out the formation of the new guard. We'll start with Nuha discovering the Roar and Kion passing the title down to her.

Also, I made a discussion thread so why don't we move this conversation over there.