#rules stuff

Jenna's recent extensive overhaul of the CMWGE miraculous-arc-to-color-correspondence system brought up this idea. It was implicit in the overhaul, but I figured it might be worth making it even more explicit:

The correspondences of Arc to color and type are malleable and can be houseruled.

For example, it has been long bantered about in the CMWGE fanbase that maybe The Ace should be the Immortal Gold arc instead of the Frantic Gold arc.

(Historical tangent: The reason why The Ace isn't Immortal Gold is from how it was developed. At an early stage of development for CMWGE, back when it was still attached by umbilical cord to Nobilis, Frantic was supposed to be where Noble-and-comparable abilities went, Immortal for Imperator-shaped things, and Sickly for Excrucian-shaped things. This organization was thrown out the window once it became clear that Arcs did not align nearly that neatly to archetypes, but that's why The Ace is Frantic Gold - all the arcs that were directly repurposed from the four Nobilis stats were intended to be Frantic.)

Anyway. The 24 color-to-arc correspondences given are not the only ones that can exist. You can move them around, if you'd like - I'll note a few things about that, though:

Level 0 abilities are often attached to the arc color rather than the arc powerset. As such, you may get better results by leaving them in place. For example, I think Self-Made (Sickly Red) is taking the Desmene ability from Of A Certain Place (former Sickly Purple) when it becomes Impresario (Sickly Purple).

The flavor text of an arc can be changed very radically without changing the underlying technical structure. The Persona arc - the one called Knave of Hearts, which may or may not have the wrong name due to Deceiver shenanigans - stole the flavor off what was supposed to be a completely different Sickly Red arc (also named Knave of Hearts, because presumably the title of it is also a flavor text that you get to steal).

Don't be a dick

Don't be under 18

The usual "no godmodding"

I'm good with Interdimensional Shenanigans and misfired communications and the "interdimensional social feed", but unless you know the AU I write this character from, it might be difficult for you to pull off being a resident of that AU, so...you're probably not in his office.

One good thing to know is that I do not expect people who have had hostile canonical interventions to be friendly or not express anger about them. Because he's AU his response may be: "That wasn't me, but I'm sorry that happened to you."

On the other hand if you're IDW Beachcomber or Needlenose, he did that shit, even if he does regret it now.

I am sometimes a little weirded out by the expectation that people with good reasons to hate and distrust each other should automatically be willing to be friends and trust each other, although that kind of thing can certainly happen through character interrelations.

The AU he comes from has a lot of canon soup in it. He's not purple or silent but Raf Esquivel did in fact trap him in a shadowzone for a while and boy was Ravage mad about it.

Rules via ‘the laws of this land’ in my pinned post has been updated! Nothing too major tbh, if you have any questions, let me know!

Just a friendly update, because I've gotten a few anons lately of this nature.

I'm not really gonna answer anons along the lines of "what's up" or "how are you" because there's not really a lot to go off without any other context or a character attached. I really appreciate you taking the time to send Link something, but I want to write interesting replies that I would want to read.

I feel bad not answering them, especially without any notice, so there you go.