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Character name and journal: Kirby

alldevouringabomination
What they've been up to: Getting into fights and general shenanigans
Current plans for them: Waiting for Lamadetla to get back to me about a plot! Also, Kirby will be fighting the Rider monsters.
What you're looking for: Battles, friends, foes, hijinks, crack!
What you're not looking for: Dark, horror, adult stuff.

Character name and journal: Stanley

twobloomsup
What they've been up to: Making a deal with Greed, the consequences of which haven't yet come home to roost.
Current plans for them: For him to get out and about and play tourist.
What you're looking for: The above, plus slice of life and for continuation of plot with Greed
What you're not looking for: See Kirby

More Roze+Stanley. Interested in trying someone with Kirby? Edgar would like to be able to use his abilities.

I am interested in more deception involving possible fighting and shenanigans and would like to hear more

It will most likely be a "have them on hand" kind of thing but Edgar will use a lot of different means to have power on his side.

Ah, so Kirby would be a ~~hitman~~ contract worker for Edgar?

xD Contract worker in waiting.

So after the Rider plot, if Lambadelta doesn't interrupt ~~I don't expect her to, haven't heard back from her at all~~ what dangerous task will Edgar have in mind for Kirby? Keep in mind that while he isn't brain-dead he can be mislead if the task is draped in a noble cause.

^_^ I haven't talked to Tay so I'm not sure if their world is going to be in it.

It doesn't matter now because the Rider plot is already over.

Sorry! I read your comment wrong. :) Edgar will need to see Kirby's strength first.

He had the chance during the Rider plot, but since he's not exactly a fighter...

Tell you what. I'll try to whip up an "incident" and show it on the comms. How would that fare?

Sounds good to me :)

Hello!

Greetings, I happen to be a troll who likes to make friends, see the world, and grow flowers.

Kefka's a god of magic who is veering dangerously close to self-destruction! ...I don't know if that's too dark for you or not x_x

Stanley isn't the sharpest knife in the armoury. Kefka can keep him in the dark about the really dark stuff (even unintentionally), Stanley won't know better. I mean, he's been living in Troll Kingdom for most of his life, and the Bad Trolls don't bother with subtlety or deception.

On the bright side, he can turn the World of Ruin into the World of Flowers!... at least for the area around him. Lower limit of his Green Thumb's range is New York City.

Kefka could, too, he tends to bumble into meeting people and forgets to mention he's a god of evil for a few months.

OH NO! (OH YES!) Kefka leaves for a few minutes and comes back to find that the blight and destruction he's worked so hard to make has disappeared! Why are there flowers? What???

(and maybe kefka gets enthusiastic talking about poisonous plants as well?)

(and maybe kefka gets enthusiastic talking about poisonous plants as well?)

Funny you should mention that. That plot Stanley has going on with Greed involves making plants of dubious use. I can see Kefka mentioning sudden flowers everywhere and Greed taking notice. It's all about who you know. :)

On that note, you ought to read about Stanley's Green Thumb. It's full of delicious plot device potential.

Yep ;D Kefka has some living plant monsters on his world as well, so Stanley might have fun with them! Or Kefka could attempt to make more.

That is a really cool power! Kefka getting it could end really badly. But he'd want it anyway because he is ridiculous.

...Stanley taming Malboros is a terrifying yet hilarious thought.

And such a power is not out of reach for Kefka - all he has to do is gain Stanley's trust. It's not hard to get!

Plus there are vine monsters running around that have really ridiculously high defense and low hp, if I recall correctly, and some killer tumbleweeds. AND CACTUARS. IMAGINE STANLEY WITH CACTUARS.

I'm torn between the hilarity of Kefka with the power of creation, the potential character development of him getting creation powers or him failing to get them and sulking off for a week. And the potential talks they could have!

Cactuars in FF6 pay out a lot of Gil, right? Oh man! It's win/win for Stanley; if an allied Cactuar lives, he's an evasive little bastard with an attack that always hits and always does the same amount of damage to everybody, no exceptions. If said Cactuar dies, Stanley gets lots of Gil. He's not going to know what to do with all that money (or Needles).

I see no reason why Kefka could not get the Green Thumb. I mean, Gus could do it and he's like five years old. Kefka already has incredible power at his disposal and is very good at destroying, but I doubt he's had much experience at building things. It's be a relatively new experience for him, testing out the Thumb and finding out that as he was going nuts with it he managed to bring the world back to life, or unwittingly (re)built towns, or made plant critters that are helpful instead of the terrors that he'd prefer.

I would think that Kefka building CR with Stanley to the point where Stanley teaches him the way of the Thumb, Kefka playing with his new toy, and only when its too late realizes that he made things instead of destroying them and it was so easy.

How's that for a revelation?

FF6 Cactuars are full of gil! Stanley will profit either way, either in money or in allies.

I was thinking more 'does kefka need more powers, he's already ridiculous' rather than 'can he handle it' |D He built the Tower but that's pretty much it, I think, and even that was pretty haphazard. It's just chunks of destroyed city and rock mashed together! Doing some real creation would capture his interest and help him pull back from his highly self destructive mindset of 'if we're all going to die, what's the point in living?'

He's been helping people out for so long already because 'it will derail the plot and help me find the world square enid is from that will let me destroy all iterations of my universe,' which has slowly turned into him helping people he likes because he likes them. This can start him on realizing that he's actually doing good things! And - he'd probably have trouble with how Good and Kind Stanley was if they had met a year ago, but two and a half years of concentrated goodwill from the community are starting to get under his skin.

Which gives him a nice shove into the revelation zone! Which is a really awesome idea!! 8D

To be honest, Stanley needs resources and allies because right now he's a hippie living in a cave under a bridge (har har) in Central Park. He could be living like a king with proper use of the Thumb, but like I've said, Stanley is stunted in more ways than one. He would just need someone to show him how to use his newfound cash and ~~minions~~ friends.

Yes, Kefka is ridiculous. But I'd say that making someone or something that is already overpowered even more overpowered would be acceptable if the result is bound to be entertaining. >:) And I'd like to jump at the chance to have Stanley do the influencing for once, even if he doesn't realize he's doing it.

It's what happens when you think in terms of "If I do this, what is likely to happen?" rather than "how overpowered is too overpowered?" But things like that are why we have planning posts. :)

And Kefka, he of the ambition and living the hedonist's life, could give him a hand with that! I head canon that Kefka took on a mentor/big brother role with Celes and he's been trying to relive that on the community by giving advice to Celes-like people - so taking in someone with fantastic powers and teaching them how to live in society would be up his alley. We'd also have Kefka's very cynical worldview, where he assumes almost everyone has malice or betrayal up their sleeve, crashing against Stanley's optemistic and loving worldview!

Indeed >8D And he could definitely do a lot of influencing! Especially since he's not intending anything - Kefka hates people purposefully trying to manipulate him, but earnest trust that he can't see any malice at all in? Pfff he has nothing to worry about there, no sir.

Yeah! And so now it can commence! Is there anything else you want to do with Stanley and Kefka?