john egbert! (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
greenghost) wrote2012-05-12 12:38 am
greenghost) wrote2012-05-12 12:38 am
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hmd and permissions. :B
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All right, so. I'm putting this here because I know Homestuck and its characters can be a real eyesore! So this is proving as a Permissions Post, so that you and any of your characters can opt out of any and all things John might do that would be offensive or otherwise problematic to you or your characters, for any reason or for no reason at all. :>
You can opt out, firstly, of his typing quirk! john types with no capitalization, but otherwise uses perfect syntax and punctuation, in this lovely shade of blue courier. he sometimes gets A LITTLE EXCITED and types in caps, and sometimes he'll /sigh use backslash action brackets to denote he's doing something. he will use emoticons every so often, too! :B As was brought to my attention by a few people (thank you, guys!), John can't actually type in Luceti-- I knew this, but for some reason didn't make the correlation properly, so! His writing is just probably gonna be in blue and he's not gonna use any caps. This changes the opting out just a little, but I'm still willing to work with anybody that isn't okay with any aspect of it. The ways to opt out are a.) opting out of written responses entirely, as John has shown in canon that he doesn't capitalize hand-written things, either, or b.) just opting out of the blue color. Just let me know!
Secondly, John is basically going to fourth wall the entire game if he's not told to stop. He has, in canon, watched Doctor Who and played The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, and has an endless tome of pop culture references from movies and television shows. He's a huge nerd that loves comics, games, cinema, and everything else media-related. So it is safe to assume that anything, game/movie/television series or otherwise that came out before April 13, 2009, is something he will be familiar with. Example; he will know that Draco Malfoy is the slimy ferret git from the book series Harry Potter. This is your chance to let me know if you are not comfortable with John knowing this! He will have a convenient memory lapse of your character being from their respective canon if this is the case. Just let me know here!
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I would prefer to opt out of the typing quirks entirely. I'm actually fine with the blue and courier, but it's hard for me to read all caps and no caps and I have to do enough of that at work (I do chat based support).
As far as fourth walling, does this count if the canon was not released in English before then? Leonhardt's canon is multiple games and only the first part has gotten an English release and that was in 2011, but he's from the ending of the second game. Both parts that apply to him were released in Japanese in 2004 and 2006. Let me know if this one applies or not so I can give further info as it includes numerous spoilers for his canon for me to do so.
Hartia is fine, just not saying he's fictional and all. But feel free to abuse John's knowledge to call him Shrimp Man all you want. He'll just assume John has met Orphen already.
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I doubt John would be familiar with a game that wasn't Americanized before 2009, so you're scot-free on that one!
As far as Hartia, he very well may! Orphen strikes me as an oldschool enough anime that John might know enough about it, at least from Dave and his irony. :)