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From: Job Tracker <JOB> (#35, owner: CodeWiz)
Date: Mon Jun 20 04:21:56 2022 Folder: 0 Message: 1
Status: Read
Subject: Job 6398: Miss Sinister Review
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Submitted by Claudine Renko.
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(Added: +request/apps Miss Sinister Review=This is Claudine Renko, AKA, Miss Sinister, an X-Men villain somebody clearly planned a bunch of stuff for that never happened. She's a sort-of clone of Sinister, his memories and powers manifesting in someone who was 'infected' with him and whose personality has been altered but not overwritten by him%r%rShe was featured in maybe 5 arcs, and - like a LOT villains who aren't prime, ongoing antagonists - presented with wildly different abilities in every one of them. I've borrowed from Marjorie Liu's writing the idea (hinted at by Carey) that Claudine existed as a person before she became Miss Sinister, but I've leaned more on X-Men Blue's presentation of her as someone on Sinister's level as a scientist, planner, and manipulator. Her powers are so inconsistent that, frankly, I just went with her being able to do the same things Essex can but with the caveat that she doesn't have the same instinctive, autonomic mastery of those powers that he does. She can DO these things, but isn't used to being ABLE to do them, so sometimes it's totally possible to just straight up stab her because she still thinks of being stabbed as a bad thing whereas Sinister sometimes didn't even mind his head exploding. To put it another way - she knows the password to Mister Sinister's email account, but, sometimes, she still has to think about it, her hands don't just automatically start typing it without her thinking.%r%rI've left things in her timeline incredibly vague, the assumption being that this is simply one of Sinister's endless backup plans that, after decades sitting there, 'went off' on its own rather than being something that happened upon one of his deaths, since I'm sure people will want to keep using him as a villain in plots and since, even if it were an option, I'd feel it unethical abruptly declaring a popular character dead off-screen. I didn't include Sinister's personality being a stow-away in her head for the same reason - I assume he's still out there, and that was never mentioned again after Liu's story anyway.%r%rShe's powerful, but she's nothing exceptional for a game with gods, demigods, and Phoenix running around, especially with combat stuff being very rare outside of plot scenes - and Claudine isn't exactly going to be picking fights and robbing banks, anyway. (I do, however, have every intent of setting up a Hellions team for the HFC where everyone has to be goth, which is arguably just as bad.)%r%rI spoke with Shaw and got his okay to include him finding Claudine and recruiting her for the Hellfire Club.)
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From: Job Tracker <JOB> (#35, owner: CodeWiz)
Date: Mon Jun 20 04:27:13 2022 Folder: 0 Message: 2
Status: Read
Subject: Job 6398: Miss Sinister Review
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Has been marked Approved by Chaucer
Consider my interest piqued. I think this would be a cool villain concept for people and it sounds like it has a lot of mobility that isn't dependent on established canon or other events.
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From: Job Tracker <JOB> (#35, owner: CodeWiz)
Date: Mon Jun 20 14:51:19 2022 Folder: 0 Message: 3
Status: Read
Subject: Job 6398: Miss Sinister Review
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Has been marked Revived by Chaucer
Approved Prematurely
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From: Job Tracker <JOB> (#35, owner: CodeWiz)
Date: Mon Jun 20 14:54:23 2022 Folder: 0 Message: 4
Status: Read
Subject: Job 6398: Miss Sinister Review
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Chaucer sent a reply.
Give me a day or two on this one? Sinister himself is a major villain in the plot here and as written, Claudine's +Sheet is extremely formidable. We are going to need a plot pitch with a TPC-level villain, an arc or a story you're telling with this character. If you want to make her a more full-time RP option, something you can use for regular RP, we may need to bring the poewr levels down a bit for game balance. The DC and Marvel wikis are pretty useless IMO, the power crawl for most characters in comics is insane.
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From: Job Tracker <JOB> (#35, owner: CodeWiz)
Date: Mon Jun 20 15:36:38 2022 Folder: 0 Message: 5
Status: Read
Subject: Job 6398: Miss Sinister Review
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Claudine Renko sent a reply.
As regards to Sinister, I've been careful to avoid anything that would interfere with anyone else using him for literally anything. Something he did triggered, very possibly without him even realizing it because he's been setting up contingencies for 150 years.
In terms of power -- Selene is a full-time RP character. *Merlin* is a full-time RP character. Lucifer was originally one, not a TP character. Jean Grey, with the full Phoenix Force - including mention of the White Phoenix, which is universe-scale wholesale reality rewriting - is a full-time RP character. Dr. Strange, Superman, Power Girl, Loki, Hellstrom, Blue Marvel. Doom! Even if approved with no changes whatsoever, Claudine wouldn't be in even the top ten of powerful characters. Especially given that I've written this with some actual guidelines and limitations where there are approved, god-level characters whose abilities are written so broadly, so vaguely, and so passingly that they're able to do literally anything whatsoever. (And as an aside, even that still isn't actually unbalancing, because power is ultimately a meaningless thing on a game that has no systems and is entirely consent-based. Approve someone as the Judeo-Christian God, all-being and all-knowing, and the reaction of anyone to "I'm unwriting your entire existence from the timeline" is going to be "Uh, no, you aren't.")%
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From: Job Tracker <JOB> (#35, owner: CodeWiz)
Date: Mon Jun 20 18:25:28 2022 Folder: 0 Message: 6
Status: Read
Subject: Job 6398: Miss Sinister Review
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Has been marked Denied by Chaucer
Claudine's not gonna be a good fit for us. We have been making a concerted effort to keep the game balanced whether or not you agree with the necessity of it. Frankly a sociopathic monster of her stripe as a primary FC would be a hard sell under any circumstance. There is no social play that's a good fit for her.
Your activity level is a factor here as well. You played for just about a week in 2020, came back briefly, then dipped for most of two years. You've had one scene with Mary in three months. This is a pattern of a player not interested in sustaining the game through RP and Claudine's too much of an investment of time and energy on our part. Thank you for your submission.
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