@ Zekai
You can't leave things until the IC to explain things. It'll throw everyone for a loop and cause the rest of us grief. It's not fun for the rest of us when you go do things like that. We actively try to make sure everything is accounted for. When you introduce something that could throw everything into a tailspin, like that "I sense a disturbance in the Mana" trick that seems to have Metagaming capabilities, it causes us to worry that you could go and use it when it's least convenient for others.
As an example: I've had cases where others seem to know exactly where my characters are, when my characters are supposed to be hiding.
The point of the rule: If it's not written down before hand, you don't have it.
Minor things are one thing, but abilities that have Metagaming potential, that's another story.
And yours is not the only one that gets questioned. You're the only one that makes it seem like it's the end of the world if it can't be as is.
Let me bring up Alvis's app. when I brought him in, I didn't have a really solid way of explaining him.
His app was...bare...really bare...
In a way, it still is.
NPC Character of Choice: AlvisSpoiler
Game of Origin: Xenoblade Chronicles
Power: Foresight and the ability to communicate with and control Telethia.I would mention he's actually like the central operating system of the universe as that would put him in a tier above Yukari and all the reality benders...
His only known in game combat abilities are two mediocre physical skills
Art List
◾Cross Ray - Deals physical damage
◾Lost Ray - Deals a large amount of physical damage
Weapons: It's called "Claymore" but this is what it looks likeSpoiler
Weaknesses: He displays no apparent weaknesses. At all... Ever.
Appearance:Spoiler
Personality: He's that mysterious person that almost speaks somewhat in a monotone voice. He portrays emotions but...He's a computer
Morality: Neutral
Biography:Straight from the wiki
Colony 6
Alvis' first appearance is at Colony 6, when the group is fighting Metal Face and other Mechon, a Telethia appears and destroys most of the Mechon, distracting Metal Face long enough for Shulk to damage him with the Monado. After this, Metal Face flees with the rest of the Mechon and the Telethia flies away to a distant cliff edge, where Alvis meets and communicates with it.
The Water Crystals
Shulk first meets Alvis in Makna Forest while he was collecting some pure water Ether crystals to heal Melia. They are attacked by a group of Telethia, then Alvis teaches Shulk to use the Purge ability, while demonstrating he can use the Monado with great proficiency. For a single fight, he joins Shulk's party. After the fight, Reyn comes looking for Shulk. Before Shulk can introduce Reyn, he looks back to find that Alvis has disappeared. Reyn jokingly dismisses Shulk's insistence that someone was there and the two head back with the water crystals, while Alvis watches them from afar.
The Seer
Alvis is revealed to be the "Divine Seer" of Sorean Antiqua, the High Entia Emperor. He explains that, since all of the actions in the universe are ruled by the ether, and that ether is calculable in its changes, then all of the actions in the universe can be predicted.
Eryth Sea
Alvis follows the party into the High Entia Tomb, and acts as an adviser.
After a cutscene, it is revealed that Alvis had a vision of the events on Prison Island and the eventual death of the Emperor. He reveals this to the Emperor, who chooses to accept his fate.
After the death of the Emperor, he is seen talking to Zanza, who apparently survived despite his body being destroyed.
When the party leaves Alcamoth for Valak Mountain, Alvis leaves with them, as he is familiar with the region, though he does not say why at the moment.
The Second War
Alvis continues to advise and follow the party through their trek to Valak Mountains. He states that is best to search refuge in the Ose Tower, now called the Sealed Tower. Inside, he reveals that this is where the High Entia locked the Monado. The party realises that this is where the Monado and Shulk were found. Alvis states that all seers must touch the Monado in order to receive their powers, in a ceremony of seers, which is the ritual performed by Alvis's family. He talks with Shulk about the reason of their visions, and how they are a fluctuation that are apart of the future. He also speaks that the Monado exists to disrupt the ether, and hence change the future.
After the party reaches Sword Valley, Alvis leaves to Alcamoth with Dickson, to help Kallian with the assembly of the allied front, and to resume his duties as seer.
He is seen advising Kallian in the Battle of Sword Valley, riding in Kallian's Havres. He warns Kallian of Mechonis' reawakening and leaves with Dickson to join the group. He stays behind with Dickson before the final battle with Egil.
The Rebirth of Shulk
After Shulk is shot by Dickson and Zanza left his body, he is in the passage of fate or in space if you look at the background. Alvis tells Shulk that he can choose his fate and Shulk comes back to save the others from a group of Telethia attacking Colony 6.
Relationship with Zanza
After Shulk defeats Dickson's Telethia, Dickson calls Alvis for help. Alvis is then revealed to be one of Zanza's disciples. He has his own Telethia, just like Dickson. It is called Sani Telethia. When you kill it, he and Dickson escapes with a Telethia.
In Space
After Shulk's final battle with Dickson, the group find themselves in outer space. Shulk hears Alvis saying that soon he must make a choice. Shulk recognizes the voice, but he cannot see him.
The "Computer" Alvis
"I am Monado. I was here at the beginning. And I will proclaim the end." —Alvis
Once the Monado III was created and after beating Zanza for the last time, a light unites the three Monados (Zanza's Monado, Meyneth's Monado and Shulk's Monado). Alvis begins to talk and says that he is the Monado and that Shulk must make a decision; a world with gods or without them. For this decision, Alvis shows Shulk the past, to see what started it all. In this scene, Alvis reveals that he is "the administrative computer of a phase transition experiment facility A.I" that destroyed the universe for Zanza and Meyneth when they were still humans. Shulk chooses a world without gods. Alvis is last seen in a flashback scene, where he says his final words to the group; that this is an endless new world, and there are many forms of life, and that they will walk towards the future together, hand in hand.
Traumas: N/A
Notes:
Alvis has a symbol, a triangle with circles at each corner, on the back of his clothes that seems to be closely related to Meyneth and her Monado. It is the same symbol found on the triangular chest plate that goes over Fiora's robot body, which seemed to house Meyneth and power Fiora. When Meyneth's double sword Monados combine into one larger sword, the symbol on the hilt of the sword is again this same symbol. When looking at Meyneth herself in her Machina form, she has three large circles in a triangular fashion, which seem to resemble this same symbol and perhaps be the source of it. It is unknown if this symbol is to represent Meyneth, or Meyneth's Monado. However, before at Zanza's death, not only does Alvis speak from both Zanza's Monado and Meyneth's Monado (while both are being held by Zanza), but later on Alvis does state that he is Monado among other things.
But you know what happened when I first had the app?
It got questioned...
Through those questions I went through everything I could think of. What abilities does he have? [Insert some other questions, and so on]
Eventually, it took a few days, but I managed to go through what he really was.
Recently I had to ask if it would be fine if I gave him the abilities of the Monado (using the fact that he IS the Monado) and crank up those abilities so that he has the perfect defense.
And you know what happened to that? It was green-lighted because the fact that earlier I had explained here what he was and capable of to the point where any additional things like that (that fell within reason of what he is) made sense.
@ Wriggs
aye, I just have a tough time choosing time to get on.
