Well, I don't really know what's too much and don't really want to be annoying. So, is there a certain type of character that is just over used and has become annoying? For instance, I don't want to come in like:

"So-and-so has just moved into town and doesn't know anyone" blah blah blah

I mean, that'd be annoying if everyone did it, then no one would get anywhere!

Right, so that's one thing. Another is what about species? Is there any one that would be distinct from all the rest and another that would just get the "oh no, not another one" reaction?

Oh-no-not-another-one: an orphan, of any age. A pyro. A pyrokinetic orphan.

Other than that... do you like mythology? Take a look at mythological ideas you like and think about how they would work, translated to modern life. That's usually a good start for Once.

yeah, sure, It's interesting enough

the thing with mythology though is that it's been so messed up and messed around with so often that you don't know what to do and I get confused.

Well...on that account, are things like Chimeara(not really, but as an example) allowed? I mean, if they keep themselves relatively hidden? I know that nagas are fine, but are mixtures of different creatures ok?

Mmm... the issue is: if your character has to stay hidden all the time, how much play are you really going to be able to do with them?

That's why characters who can disguise themselves relatively are encouraged.

Well yeah, I'm just curious about the whole idea in general. So there's basically not a limit to what you can be as long as you can fit in well enough with the community?

Well, within reason. No stealing from books or being absuirdly all-powerful, but in general-- yeah! We encourage flexibility because, let's be honest, there are a lot of people with good imaginations out there and we'll never find out who they are if we make everyone fall in line. ^^

ok, coolness, thanks a lot! Anything else I should know before I start off?

Neh, I'm sure you'll pick it up as you go along.

K, thanks!

Ha ... I have a character who's a chimera ... Though I don't use it on Once.

Well, probably not my place to say, but my biggest oh-no-not-another-one would have to be the werewolf or the vampire. I love them and all, but too much is just too much.

We don't actually have that many vampires... active, anyhow. Ditts to weres.

It doesn't seem to me that really much of anything is active, really.

In total, though, we have a decent amount of weres and vampires. More weres than vampires, I think.

*snickers* *has both a were and a pyro*

*is cliché!* *does a little dance*

But Poe plays them well, and Lorre isn't like, orphaned and seventeen.

<---killed his werewolf....well, actually. The wolfy killed himself.

I like werewolves...

Arr. Can't say I do too well on the 'doesn't own a teenage werewolf' scale. *shifty eyes*

Hee. :D Conan's a teenager. I guess. But, er, I dig cliches because they can be done in a really fun way at times. w00t and all.

I'm not saying I don't like werewolves, just saying we have quite a bit of them.

Because I have one. And he's teenage. So, yeah, lable me cliche or summat.

Hey, I have an idea. let's all create pyrokenetic orphans for Jack. -grins.-

:eyebrow:

Nah. Not labeling you. Labeling is for CDs, not humans!

*kills off Lorre's parents and makes him an orphan?!* *kids*

Or soup cans. ^^

I deleted my pyrokenetic orphan. Before I knew that he was an oh-no-not-another-one. He was irredeemable anywho.

Labels are for humans, too.

"Hi, I'm Amy and this is Bob."

"LABELLER! OMG!"

True.

I label things....

And I said unto the object,
You! Yes you, platform that is raised on four strong legs and used for the eating of the food... I shall call you "table".
And it was good.

I love you.

Though it seems to me that one of the -underused- types of characters are the ones that as of yet actually have -no- idea about magic existing. Not "I'm unnish but here's my absurd magical power" Just....unnish. Normal, mundane people that haven't yet been exposed to things like magic, vampires, werewolves and telepaths.

They tend to get cursed.

Hey, I have a plain, ordinary Unnish...

Um. Oh yeah. Az kinda got rid of that, didn't he. *chuckles*

He didn't curse her though. Just scared the hell out of her.

*Pokes at Vincent.* He's plain, mundane, ordinary, unnish, and a father. Can't ask for more plain than that, really.

Jeff is plain, ordinary and certainly wants to be Unnish. But then he spends a lot of time running away from things. So that doesn't work out so well.

Very belatedly!

Those are titles, not labels. >:\

So NYAH.

*cough*

la·bel
n.

1. An item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination.
2. A descriptive term; an epithet.
3. A distinctive name or trademark identifying a product or manufacturer, especially a recording company.

Hm. I still don't see my name, gender, or the fact that I'm human as a label. I see things like, "heterosexual" or "emo" or "punk" as a label.

At times I am shy, at times I am not.

I am, however, always female.

...thus, something about one being a label and one being a title....

Aaaand I'd still say that labels get a bad rap, considering the fact that they're part of how the human brain deals with the world, and also considering that they're only a bad thing when a person refuses to accept that a label, while it can be convenient, can never actually describe a person in totality.

I'm not saying I can't accept labels, I'm saying that I see it differently than you do. I also don't see them as only a bad thing, I just don't think names and titles are labels. "Bob" and "Amy" are names and therefore titles to me, not a label. "Punk rocker" or "Catholic" are labels.

In my opinion there's a difference, and I don't disavow labels, and I'm not trying to give it a bad rap or anything of the like.

...but anyway, I think I'm done with this debate. No, I really am, considering it started as a joke and I'm starting to feel attacked for an opinion.