I can with confidence say that ALL of FEP's RPs have been clique-y. Ever since the very beginning (Svael Albendroth, Tyler Hitori, Evandele, Kuru, Vallistrix, Uber-Denning(SaS's orange-flavored Denning rip-off), Stanley de Carmona, etc.) It's something that I'm not sure we'll ever be able to fix, really.
Now, with RL, I loved it so much, though I hated that stupid rule about not being related to characters from FE9 and FE10, though through ambiguous wording I managed to get two profiles approved that broke that rule. I think TextOnlySword caught my first one, though. First character, Lysis Melanasil (yay for recycled DoN names!), was personally trained by Soanvalke (Stefan in the English translation, but TOS didn't remember that off the top of his head). And my second character, Aerandir (Tolkien Elvish. Yes, I am that big of a nerd) was a guard in Tauroneo's (descendants') household.
Lysis was one of the only characters I ever wrote so well that I think it actually built on the setting (Most of the time, anyways). I remember in each of her gradings (except the first, because that one took forever and IB didn't leave any comments) that either they commented 'she broke a little, it was good to see a character react differently from the rest of the ragey bunch' or 'kudos for giving me a stark reminder about the consequences of life' or sommat. See, she never saw 'opponents' when she fought. She saw people. And in her first RP, she, along with a Vulture Laguz, threw a Red Dragon off a cliff and heard the crunch. Thus began her long arc about how to deal with the killing. She was just getting over it when RL ended.
Aerandir was different. He was taught how to kill, should he ever need to, and my plan with him was to get him to become the next Black Knight and help liberate Daein from King Tomislav. He had a Zweihander that was black as night and vampiric, and could project that life-sucking ability for a ranged attack, but it was random (planned to remove that modifier as he leveled up).
I think it was mid-Sky1 that I started experimenting with character arcs. I can't say whether or not I've gotten any better at it, but I'm gonna keep on doing it.
Now, with RL, I loved it so much, though I hated that stupid rule about not being related to characters from FE9 and FE10, though through ambiguous wording I managed to get two profiles approved that broke that rule. I think TextOnlySword caught my first one, though. First character, Lysis Melanasil (yay for recycled DoN names!), was personally trained by Soanvalke (Stefan in the English translation, but TOS didn't remember that off the top of his head). And my second character, Aerandir (Tolkien Elvish. Yes, I am that big of a nerd) was a guard in Tauroneo's (descendants') household.
Lysis was one of the only characters I ever wrote so well that I think it actually built on the setting (Most of the time, anyways). I remember in each of her gradings (except the first, because that one took forever and IB didn't leave any comments) that either they commented 'she broke a little, it was good to see a character react differently from the rest of the ragey bunch' or 'kudos for giving me a stark reminder about the consequences of life' or sommat. See, she never saw 'opponents' when she fought. She saw people. And in her first RP, she, along with a Vulture Laguz, threw a Red Dragon off a cliff and heard the crunch. Thus began her long arc about how to deal with the killing. She was just getting over it when RL ended.
Aerandir was different. He was taught how to kill, should he ever need to, and my plan with him was to get him to become the next Black Knight and help liberate Daein from King Tomislav. He had a Zweihander that was black as night and vampiric, and could project that life-sucking ability for a ranged attack, but it was random (planned to remove that modifier as he leveled up).
I think it was mid-Sky1 that I started experimenting with character arcs. I can't say whether or not I've gotten any better at it, but I'm gonna keep on doing it.
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Thank you Destin, for the awesome mug of Ambrose.