Shadowgirls

Post edited 6:32 am – November 22, 2010 by Random Wanderer

Well, Lindsay, I think you can safely let the feral Shadowchild handle Cuddles there while you take the Die and remove yourself from the equation. Or at least find a marginally safer place to hide.

Since those claws could slice the tongue apart like that, I'd say Charon's definitely got the upper hand in this one. Although I wonder if her going Shadowchild will affect Madison somehow…

Post edited 11:21 pm – November 22, 2010 by Random Wanderer

Well, as far as I can tell, Becca was the one who was supposed to be the Shadowchild. Certainly everyone who had any reason to know anything about it was surprised that Charon had some of the powers. So it makes sense to me that the Shadowchild spirit, Madison, would have more of a bond to Becca. But there is probably still some connection to Charon, else Charon wouldn't have the powers. Now, Madison is busy spying on a creepy spirit-bridge-thing with Becca at the moment, and I was wondering if Charon's powers awakening again might somehow pull Madison away from there at what is probably an inopportune moment.

As for Cuddles (as I've decided to call this demon for some reason), I'm thinking Charon's got some suppressed anger and feelings of helplessness that she needs to take out on something. She couldn't solve Becca's problem by beating the heck out of something, but now she's got a perfect target to work out some anxiety-fueled anger on. Assuming she's sane enough in this form for it to matter…

Post edited 6:34 pm – November 23, 2010 by Random Wanderer

The Shadowchild has become a merging of the three of them, true. What I meant is that I believe Madison is the consciousness that was supposed to take control whenever the human host fully transformed into the Shadowchild. That got a little messed up by there turning out to be TWO humans who combined to form the host, one of whom was perfectly willing to give Madison a smack upside the head when she tried dominating things.

Well anyway, if Charon's transformation does affect Madison, we'll probably find out soon enough.

To change the subject, it's interesting how simply giving her a name changes my perception of Madison from "a dangerious and possibly untrustworthy spirit" to almost a member of their family. It's an interesting example of the effectiveness of names.

Dave Reynolds said:

I'm not saying D.Rod was wrong. Hell, I completely agree with using the name Madison. It IS a much better and more thought out name, as opposed to some pet nickname. I have a loooong history of naming characters… Well… Stupid names.

For example, some years ago, I was helping out with some Beast Wars Transformers forum RPG and we were making a team of aquatic characters. While everyone else on the team had named their characters something cool and threatening, like Maelstrom, Kraken and even Devilfish. My character turned into a bottlenose dolphin and I called him Dolphinnegan. To make it worse, he spoke in an Irish Baroque accent and his tail split off to form an energon shillelagh.

Thus, I'm not allowed to name characters.

"Dolphinnegan"?  Cheesey as that is, you could have done far, FAR worse. In the Deathwatch game I'm playing in, several characters (including one of mine) were blatantly named for the principal characters in action movies. As long as everyone at the table has fun, it's all good.