Curious how people would model this character idea…it’s a rather bizarre concept.
The basic concept is a shapeshifter that can take on various forms from pop-culture. Basically, power by cosplay. (I had eight forms in addition to the original guy’s). He got it by walking into one of those magic costume shops you see in some TV shows on Halloween specials or in some internet fiction, but instead of buying a costume, he disrupted the magic accidentally and absorbed it.
This sounds like basic thematic shapeshifting but the twist is that each form has its own mind and soul (4 male and 4 female). Either a soul trapped in the costume was moved to him or his own soul split into eight separate new identities. Regardless, they mostly view each other as siblings that have to share one body….I envisioned a peanut gallery going on constantly for whoever was in control at the moment.
Eventual aim for them was to each get their own body to live in.
I later did a variation of this where there was only the main character’s soul and personality but it would be filtered through whatever character she was channeling…for example, channeling a villainous and seductive werewolf from an anime caused her to become somewhat of a bastard with wolf like powers and somewhat more charisma…channeling a reckless loose cannon cop gave her some martial arts skills and a loose temper…the third persona she started with was a pre-teen magical girl…she got very childish and idealistic….some hair color and body shape changed, but age and gender did not….her basic moral character was the same so she stayed good, though the werewolf persona was much more willing to manipulate people to get what she wanted
The second one is rather easy to do….it’s the one with nine fully separate souls and minds trapped in one body that is difficult to model….
Can I ask where this comes from? Because my first impression is that this is a very specific character, or even, a very specific story already. That kind of thing is always difficult to bring into a PbtA game.
Then, what do you want to do with this? Do you want to play this character in a game of Masks? Do you want to write a playbook based on it?
This actually sounds exactly like one of the stretch goal playbooks; the Joined by Jenn Martin.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1277034820/masks-a-new-generation/posts/1373820
It was something I came up with while bored for HERO System using the multiform rules….and I just like running thought exercises and making characters. And cool, let me look at that playbook.
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