Companion Thread - The Protagonist Discussion Group

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OmnipresentMicroorganism #1 · Jul 18th, 2019 · 1 · ·

This is where development of companions should go. These are characters who will stick with our protagonists as many steps of the way as they can, and are essentially protagonists themselves.

Current Concrete Information:

Jennifer Glasglow/Sigrún: A human woman who is the apprentice of a master wizard named Alex. She has a sense of wonder that causes her to hesitate at crucial moments, a crush on her mentor that she can’t fully acknowledge and doesn’t know how to deal with, a desire for recognition, and a fear of spiders. She knows of Stands because her mentor has one, and knows of and fears True Name magic. On her world, magic is rare, and she only knows a few basic spells as she doesn’t have the predisposition for it. Her mentor sends her on a quest to an ancient ruin to recover an artifact. When she gets there, she finds a pony-shaped idol. Upon touching it, her soul is sucked into it, turning her into a modular lich skeleton capable of swapping out and adding bones, with the idol as her phylactery/soul jar. This transformation into a lich also awakens her own Stand, Serket, unbeknownst to her. Serket has the ability to cure diseases and poisons, and can make things less dangerous, such as making a sword floppy and soft. The idol is sent to another world, where it merges with the bones of a long-dead unicorn named Sigrún. The unicorn’s old friend, another unicorn named Flowing Forge (more on him below) senses the life in her bones while mourning her. He takes them to his home, an abandoned bunker in the icy wastes, and sets them on a bed to recover. Upon her waking, he explains a bit of this to Jennifer and she takes the name Sigrún to both show respect for her new form, and to avoid True Name magic.

Her base form has the bones of a unicorn, and there are tiny pinpricks of flame in her eye sockets to represent pupils. The pony idol, which is about the size of a roll of toilet paper, sits in her ribcage where a heart would be, invisible to everyone but herself. Her Stand, Serket, resembles a mechanical cobalt blue scorpion, about the size of a human head. Despite being a scorpion, it is mostly smooth and lacks sharp bits like claws or a stinger.

Flowing Forge: A unicorn with a worn set of bulky power armor. The suit has metallic wings built in, so he’s often mistaken for an alicorn. He is incredibly lonely and afraid of loss, and gets a bit excited over unique or new mechanical things. He comes from a far-future, technologically advanced Equestria. His talent is to tinker with machinery, and he was also the bearer of Generosity on his world. A tragedy struck his nation as a violent and militaristic race on his planet declared war, leading to the deaths of many including the rest of the Element Bearers, and eventual mutual destruction by doomsday weapons. While in great emotional turmoil and fearing for his life, he escaped into the wilderness, and used a wishing amulet made by the late Sigrún, who was the Element of Magic, to escape his universe with her body before the weapons went off. At this point, he buries Sigrún and just goes about his business while trying desperately to forget the past, and survives without living for some time. He eventually realizes there may something to hope for when he encounters Jennifer. His ruined, custom made armor is all he has left of home, with an empty socket to contain his Element. He hid the Element of Generosity to avoid thinking about his home and friends. It was originally a work suit, but was modified to be more combat-capable once he became a Bearer. It feels like a second skin to him, and grants him the protection he needs to survive in the icy wastes.

Under his armor, he has a steel gray coat, with flecks of black by his hooves. His mane and tail are short, and as orange as the flames of a forge. His cutie mark is a clockwork forge, and his magic color is a rusty red.

Alex (last name undefined): The mentor of Jennifer. She’s kind and bubbly but absent-minded, and has a habit of assuming things that are obvious to her are obvious to everyone. She has great magical talent, and a Stand of her own (yet to be defined.) She sent Jennifer to recover the artifact assuming it’s history was obvious enough for her to know not to touch it, and was shocked to find this was not the case. She is now determined to find a way to follow her student and rescue her (won’t come in until far later in the story.)

She is a human, with unusually pale skin, long ginger hair, and piercing blue eyes.

Unnamed Flora Machina: A Flora Machina that fused with the crashed Merodi ship that Pinkie and her crew arrived in. After merging with the computing systems and databanks of the ship, it gained sapience and decided to take on a plant-pony form when split from the ship. They are childlike and naive, due to having literally been born very recently. They can detach and reattach from the ship at will, and when they’re detached they have a plant-pony body.

The ship itself looks like a normal Merodi ship overgrown with plant matter. The plant matter, however, is grown in very strategic places. Hard wood covers the parts of the hull that had blown out, thin vines and roots specially engineered to be capable of conducting electricity take the place of lost wiring, leaves cover the surface of the ship to give energy to the biological parts of the ship that can’t be sustained from what remains of the reactor, and much more.

Zeta Wing: A mecha-plane pony. She’s a gritty survivor of the wastes. She comes from a Sentient colony that survived the war that destroyed the world, and she’s been raised on the tales of that war. She’s heard of the Flora Machina, though she only knows that they’re dangerous. She’s rather impulsive, though capable of being talked down.

She can shift between two states, a pony-sized fighter jet and a pony-shaped transformer mecha.

New Proposed Ideas:

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MazingerZ #2 · Jul 18th, 2019 · · ·

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