Playerplot Planning for April(?)! (When You Made Wishes)

[deuteranope]

Hey, guys! It's me, Goblin, your resident, uh...goblin, really, and today I'm finally getting off my butt and getting an ooc announcement up for the event I want to run, which I've called "When You Made Wishes"! But for the times I don't feel like being pretentious, I've also been going with kidplot and inner child thing!

For this event, OOCly:
Due to a magical spell, a childhood version of your character will manifest in the world alongside their usual self, should you choose to have them affected! They will both exist, and so when all this is over, there's potential for your character to remember what not only they experienced, but what their kidself experienced while they were separated as well.
The fey that caused this mess will also have to be dealt with in some way. Exactly how will be left up to you! A preliminary interest check for who would like to be on a team that confronts Wist can be found HERE! Once decided, that group will get the final say of what will happen to our tricksy npc.

For this event, ICly:
A fey by the name of Wist wants everyone to take a break and remember what having fun is really all about -- because being an adult doing adult stuff, stuck inside boring walls all day every day, sure isn't working out great for anyone! They're casting this spell to do everyone at Daybreak a huge favor. Dig down deep, confront your real feelings, and let loose! Be a kid again, because everything was better when you were a kid, back when you made wishes.
Does it make you mad? Terrified? Maybe you wish it could last a little longer. After all, yours isn't the only memory manifested -- your best friend you've grown apart from is there, same as ever, the roommate you've been struggling to get to know, is suddenly small and demanding your attention... Well, a version of them, anyway. For some, there are benefits to this tiny magic quirk that might outweigh the much more obvious detriments. For others...it may not only be their public image at stake, as fey magic is known to come with chaotic consequences, and this particular spell is tampering with something delicate and precious. Thanks for the memories...!

And now for a Q&A, but I'll get the all-encompassing answer out of the way right now: I want you to have fun. If there's a way you can interpret the effects of the event to maximize your fun, go for it! If you're still unsure, feel free to ask me anything UNDER THIS COMMENT or through direct communication (PM, goblinhood, or giveupgoblin#1469 on discord). Outside of that, feel free to toplevel to discuss potential plans or show off how cute your character was as a kid on this post!

Q: But I had plans! Does my character have to do them as a kid, now?
A: Not at all! If you choose to participate in this event, you will not be stuck playing a kid version for its duration. Both the inner child/copy and your character at present will be up and around, independent of one another. If you don't wish to play one or the other, that's okay, too! But know that this is not a typical ageswap event that alters the existing character, it is a spell to bring out someone's inner child for a reminder.

Q: How does the spell work?
A: Over on the plot submission post, I have a rundown about its stages, written from a basic pseudoscientist perspective.
To sum things up, the affected characters will begin to feel odd, like they're beginning to get sick, maybe, until the magic has built up enough inside them to completely copy their memories up to a point. The copy splits off from the original with that memory point deciding their age, causing a younger version of the character to be free to do as they will separate from the character. At some point, it is intended for the magic to burn out or concluded and for the copy to return to the character's soul, new memories (of all that fun!) being added when the two parts are joined together.

Q: Do characters know they'll be getting the inner children's experiences as new memories when it ends?*
A: Probably not, but conjecture about the possibility is of course welcome. If your character is particularly well-versed in fey magic, they might come to the conclusion it sooner.
*unless decided otherwise, due to fey complications or inner child death.

Q: How accurate is the copy? What all do they know?
A: Usually, very accurate! This is a being created from the soul's memory, so people that have memory issues are more likely to stray from the norm, but typically it would be visually and mentally indistinguishable from what the character was like from the point at which the memories stopped duplicating. It will, however, have a different magical resonance, however you want to interpret that. A ten-year-old copy of Professor Jill, who is 34, would have memories up to some day when she was still ten, have her ten-year-old looks, and act as if she was waking up like any other day. In most cases, the copy wouldn't remember that thing that happened when Jill was sixteen or who one of Jill's students is, and wouldn't act out of the ordinary for the projected age.

Q: In most cases...? Typically?
A: Fey Magic sure is a whacky thing sometimes! Almost anything goes, but feel free to ask about your plans or potential complications if you're still not sure!

Q: What age should I consider valid for an "inner child"?
A: hey man, if you can argue that it falls under some weird fey's idea of what counts as a past self from a simpler time that would have possibly been more likely to make wishes, go for it, my dude. Fey magic!!!

Q: What if my character is already a kid?
A: Up to you! You could have their inner child be a younger version of them, duplicate them as they are, or simply have the spell not take effect.

Q: Can the copy be injured? Killed?
A: bruh you can't kill a kid..........
But more seriously, yes. Copies will regenerate faster than their original selves if harmed, at the cost of causing ill effects (fatigue, in most cases) to the original when the two parts rejoin. The more severely the copy is injured, the greater the effect, with death of the copy even resulting in those copied memories becoming corrupted or lost.

Q: Goblin, WHEN WILL THIS BEEEE?
A: I...don't quite know! I'm putting this up to help figure that out! I know things are getting going with some other player plots and I don't want things to get too crammed. Feel free to let me know if there's a time that's no good for you, and I can try to pick something that works best for as many people as possible.
***EDIT: Potential thoughts atm are having it all throughout April and concluding at the start of May. (note: inner children would not have to be around for the entire event.)

Comments

QUESTIONS

[deuteranope]

ask 'em here!

Also available for reporting timing conflicts or suggestions!

Re: QUESTIONS

[unpocoloco]

HEYO SO do life-statuses affecting the adult character affect the younger version? Or is it entirely and exactly reflective of the time when they were that age? :V

MISSION INTEREST

[deuteranope]

if you wanna have a say in how to deal with Wist, come n' get 'em.

[suddenlybees]

hello, me
mostly so I can have a thread where Kano's just like "hey, can't you let the fake kids live? so at least one of us can have a good life" while little!Kano runs up to him and shanks him in the back because THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE

[heromedal]

Did y'all know kiddo Rex was an unstoppable force of optimism, used 'i love you' as a synonym for hello and goodbye, used simple magic irresponsibly constantly and promised to marry basically everyone?

Well y'all gonna find out.

[deuteranope]

Maverick will agree to marry babyRex (seal it with a pinkie promise) and then question why normalRex has no taste... He made the best decisions as a child, clearly.

Maverick Taylor

[deuteranope]

There he is! That's our dumb jerkface that can't go five three minutes without saying a swear of some kind! That's the boy!!!

If you thought Maverick was cute then HA HA YOU WERE RIGHT, but unfortunately you're even more right while dealing with his child self. Bitty Mav answers to the name Ricky, is six years old, does not speak, and will be very stressed out looking for Ramona, his adoptive mother. He's meek, but if you can get him to smile, oh boy is it worth it.

I don't have too many concrete plans right now, but Ricky will be going back to Maverick's soul without a problem, with all his new experiences added to Mav's memories, unless discussed otherwise.

[foolishjustice]

Akechi has a soft spot for children, so he'll be trying to help calm Ricky down maybe he'll let him have one of the mythology/folklore gatchapon figures he has hidden in his 'do not open' boxes.

[bejustorbedead]

Ky never had chill, not even as a kid. So he's going to be a high-energy kid that gets into places he shouldn't, pick fights, and generally being a very energetic little kid with very particular ideas of right and wrong.

Half-tempted for kid version to understand only Old French for language barrier shenanigans.

[yokeye]

High-energy shenanigans with kid Ky sounds tempting.

[yokeye]

This spell isn't going to work on Toki because he doesn't really have a separation from his inner child. He still is that child. There would be barely any difference in personality or emotions; maybe kid Toki would cry more and talk less. He was still panicky and afraid as a kid and had the same nihilistic issues with whether or not the world (or he) was even real. No one wants two of them running around at the same time... or do you?

So, up for "babysitting" and possibly hunting the fey.

[deuteranope]

I will say that if you decided to bring kid Toki and he doesn't have two different eye colors..........boy you got some splainin

but yeah he'd probably give Ricky a panic attack tbh

[foolishjustice]

Akechi is polite, soft spoken, authority respecting...and one great, big lie. A lie his younger self didn't bother with.

Kid!Akechi was a goblin child. Foul mouthed, rebellious, and full of anger at the world, he takes orders from nobody but himself. He's likely to pick fights, climb into places he shouldn't be, and steal food, drinks, and other things necessary for a child's health when he thinks nobody is looking. He's likely to be very wary of authority figures, so adults should approach with caution.

[suddenlybees]

slides over Kano's kid character design sheet from the novels, he is still this same kid, he hasn't grown up at all

I plan to take him from when he was six years old, and, because I am a terrible human being, he will be taken at the moment where he gets stabbed in the gut after watching his mother die, "blacking out" and "waking up" to find himself at Daybreak (:

Things to note:
- he will not have any illusion magic at all, nor the memory of making the Contract
- one of the "rules" he used to live by was to not speak or interact with strangers, and he's very avoidant, so just a head's up threads will be him distrusting people in general and not being very engaged unless people are persistent
- in the same train of thought, interacting with little!Kano would be a great jumping point for if you want your character to talk to him about his mother or his self-esteem issues at a later date, but talking will be more likely with people who act kindly towards him or otherwise he'll walk away
- he wears long sleeves and pants at all times to hide the cuts and bruises on his body, but at the point where he's taken from, he has a large swelling bruise on his face, skinned palms and knees, a sprained ankle, and a knife wound in his gut. he was not having a good time
- mostly I just want people to show little!Kano a good time so he can rejoin with Kano and give him a warmer childhood

[deuteranope]

silent kid buddies going on an adventure...........but also I have no idea how Mav will get this kid to trust him, but GOSH DANGIT HE WILL TRY.

...PROBABLY WITH FOOD.

[spelleton]

boy oh boy do you want to see Ekkehardt as a tiny baby still alive child? WELL GUESS WHAT YOU'LL GET TO.

Ekkehardt Gehring aged eight is a soft-spoken, quiet kid who has a tendency to hide from or get inexplicably nervous around anyone who looks human and trail behind the people who clearly are not human. He's still having a lot of difficulty dealing with what happened to him like not even a year ago, and so he'd much rather be left to his own devices, but he'll tolerate people bothering him with a kind of nervous politeness because he doesn't know any other way to be. You can drag him into things pretty easily if you're precocious enough.

Meanwhile Ekkehardt Gehring aged 40 will be stressing even more about all these tiny children, oh my god, why are there so many of you. He might worry more about his eight year old self if he wasn't busy dealing with everyone else's kid selves, but luckily his kid self is actually fairly well behaved and is more likely to be a little shadow if left to his own devices, so he'll go back to his original with no trouble and experiences intact.

[hattersgonnahat]

HEY. TINY EKKE HEY.

LET'S PLAY TOGETHER. 8DDD

Just don't let your older self know.

[subconmodo]

Congratulations, Daybreak. You will get to deal with this terror (minus crown and braces):



This little brat of about 10 is every bit the terror that his older counterpart is and will be wearing the hell out of the Moon Jumper mask shown in the art there. He's still very much a kid, however, and has his moments of sweetness and kindness.

Please put a child leash on him.

Older Avery, on the other hand, is going to be torn between keeping an eye on his younger self and denying the very idea that he exists, especially since that child is very, very human.

[deuteranope]

consider: Burger King crown when the kids go on a field trip

[sleepybitch]

I'm just going to make one comment for all my characters and hope I can keep track of plans.

Noctis will be experiencing this as one of his introductions to Daybreak! Congratulations. Tiny Noctis will be curious, imaginative, adorable, and unable to walk. Childhood injuries ain't nothing to fuck with. If asked, he'll have a hard time explaining what happened to him, and he won't like talking about his injury very much at all.

(It was daemons. Of course it was daemons.)

Hieke won't be exactly getting a "child"-self. He's old, you see, so he's going to end up in his 20s. He's going to look very clearly daemonic, be much more outgoing than current Hieke, and also much less serious. This whole thing is going to be a fantastic joke to him, and he's going to try to trick people into contracts and be kind of a horrible gremlin.

Adelaide will be on kid wrangling duty, probably. I'M NOT SURE IF I WANT TO GO FOR THE TRIFECTA OF KIDS...But if I do decide that, bitty Adelaide will be quiet, shy, and afraid of most people. She's another one of those kids, I'm sorry.

EDIT: I forgot to say what their adult selves would be doing, gg. ESSENTIALLY, ALL OF THEM WILL TRY TO WRANGLE THE KIDS - Hieke especially, considering his young self is going around trying to do things he does not want to be doing.

[subconmodo]

I feel like younger Hieke and Adult Avery need to meet.

[hattersgonnahat]

Puella is going to be completely unaffected by the spell, however she will be enjoying there is more kids around than usual. She had been feeling a little bit lonely in that regard...

So yeah, anyone that wants to get into some dumb shenanigans, I'm all for it.

[subconmodo]

So. Goblin pointed out the possibility of acquiring Burger King crowns.

Battle over who can wear the most at one time?

[infestedcouncilpresident]

Kohaku will be showing up as a 12 year old who recently (like a few months ago) suffered some pretty major trauma including getting trapped under a big pile of rubble for hours during which she listened to a daemon kill most of her class and also had a second smaller daemon fuse with her spine (it hurt). She's been going to therapy and is also just a naturally responsible kid who's hitting the age where you want to start being seen as more of an adult, so if there are any smaller bittys around she will do her best to look after them while also furiously pretending to not be super jumpy all the time.

Isabel I'm content to not have a second version of her running around so she'll just be on "trying to figure out what is going on" duty. With maybe a side of kid wrangling though she's honestly young enough already that she won't be MUCH older than a lot of these kids.

[eudaimonikos]

Michael was never a child, but he will be showing up as a significantly younger Lovecraftian abomination. If you thought he was amoral now, just you wait! Eldritch Michael is very curious and will mostly spend time noodling around campus, investigating things and people that catch his interest.

He's maybe a little more powerful than the current Michael, but he also doesn't have much experience with other lifeforms and as a result isn't actively malicious. Just with zero boundaries and not a great understanding of how not to crush people. Have fun with that!

(Michael will be trying to keep tabs on this.)

[thedevilwearsgucci]

Yes but one question remains: Was he a cute abomination?

Because I'm imagining this beach-ball-sized ball of tentacles (merely a cross-section of the full unknowable mass, of course) squirming around and getting into everything and it's hard to not think of it as kind of cute.

[unpocoloco]

WHOOOO'S READY TO MEET SOME GRUBBY LITTLE HOMELESS KID



Héctor "it's just Héctor" No-last-name shall be making an appearance. He's here to cause abject chaos, steal your guitars, and steal your hearts??? (Probably not that last one.) Someone please get this kid some shoes.

Real details now, Héctor as a kid is a toss-around foster whose only real manner of settling was to mostly stay in one singular town, whether by good luck or by literally running away to get back there. He's well-intentioned but very much a wild-child prone to antics. He usually only seems to really calm down when he's got a working guitar in his hands or some paper and pen to write with. He's going to transition through ages a bit from around seven to twelve or thirteen (maybe even a love-struck sixteen year old). He'll have a lot to say about his Best Friend Ernesto and, in his later age, his other really good friend Imelda, the coolest girl in Santa Cecelia and maybe the world.

Initially, he'll be running around rampant in the day hours 100% alive and absolutely needing parental guidance while his adult self isn't conscious to do it. Later that... may change...

Adult Héctor meanwhile will be running around in a panic every night trying to find and contain this kid, mostly for everyone's safety here and maybe a little out of not wanting to annoy people. He's got no problem with his kid self until the Ernesto talk starts happening which he doesn't love. For that matter, he won't have a problem with most inner kids and will be very casually collecting and looking after whoever he can wherever he can. Come at him with whatever you got.

[deuteranope]

okay but...maverick getting bitty héc to admit that he's super cool...deal with THAT

Seiji Date and Sarona Gayle

[heartofasamurai]

So Seiji is going to be his rebellious, trouble-making, overly formal 8-year old self. He make speak like an old man, but a grumpy old man who judges adults as Dumb and Mean. He also has a kind of habit of checking to make sure one of his eyes is covered at all times because he thinks people won't be his friend otherwise. Seiji would try to look after his child self, but really, Kid!Seiji doesn't care and will do his own thing. He'll also be very distrustful of older girls because his older sister teases and torments him on the regular (she thinks its funny but kid is growing a complex).

Sarona is going to be her gangly, sickly child self who has huge glasses, an extra strength inhaler, looks like a breeze could blow her over and is very awkward. She will be obsessed in researching how this all happened. Sarona is going to do her best to watch over her kid self while also like avoiding her So Much. Little Sarona has a very negative view of herself, will die to please people and prove herself as being useful and worth paying attention to, and also is a bit of a snob at the same time because she's a rich kid.

I WANT TO GET THEM INTO SHIT. Kid!Seiji is still an empath, can sense auras, and is a natural at magic. Sarona is gullible and can be dragged into a lot of things if you twist it the right way.

[deuteranope]

but would little Sarona be impressed by color-changing tattoos...............Mav is weak to kids who just want to have a purpose and be loved

[nor_iron_bars]

So, you know how Jail is an unmitigated human disaster? How she's gleefully leaning into her dumpster fire status and showing no shame whatsoever, basically all the time?

Yeah, this is going to be the exact opposite of that.

This is going to be Jail at eleven years old, a tiny baby seer who is trying her very hardest to be A Good Girl and not cause trouble, so that maybe all the adults around her won't get mad or ask her to leave. Utterly, desperately starved for literally any kind of positive attention at all. Might collapse of shock if someone is actually nice to her.

She'll be lowkey terrified of upsetting anyone or doing anything wrong at all times, and would probably toss herself off a cliff if someone told her she was supposed to. Please just put her somewhere quiet before she expires of sheer anxiety.

[foolishjustice]

Meanwhile, the guy who tries his very hardest to be A Good Boy and not get into trouble so that maybe all the adults around him will want him to stay, and is utterly starved for literally any kind of positive attention, will be spawning an unmitigated child disaster who gleefully leans into his rebellious brat status and will only want to do something harder the more people tell him not to.

Dare we cross the streams?

[marmoron]

gosh, this event sounds so cute! I'm definitely throwing Keith into this because look at this face!



Anyway, his inner child will be around 9 years old before his dad died and he ended up getting shuffled around from orphanage to orphanage. Notably, he'll be missing the scar on his right cheek and will be a whole lot warmer and friendlier to people. If anyone wants to make some positive CR out of this event and/or just go 'wtf' over how Keith's personality seemingly did a 180, I'm so down. Otherwise, I'm here to throw cute kiddos at people, haha.

[hippocarnival]

Yuya won't be having an inner kid going around, which means he'll be on full time babysitter duty. Presumably not because anyone's going to make him, he's just going to see these sad children roaming around and want to look after them.

He'll attempt to get any children reunited with the original if asked, but otherwise he's going to focus on just making sure they're accounted for, injuries taken care of, playing with them, and bringing them treats to placate them. He's pretty natural big brother material.

[lastexit]

Maya

Child Maya is a super energetic tomboy, about ten. She should be wearing her glasses but she doesn't most of the time. (I haven't decided how I'm doing icons for tiny Maya yet, probably a temporary account for kid her.) She's happy, energetic, super friendly and, bonus, she makes noise. Overall a well behaved but rambunctious sort.

She's also an obnoxious diva when it comes to her music but she doesn't know how to play guitar yet, just piano and cello.

Grown-up Maya will probably be a mess all through this? In large part because oh god so much magic going on. But if your kid wants to have a run in with a bitter jaded emotionally damaged teenager she can be around.

Claire

Tiny Claire is a perfect angel of doing what she's told, is really against fighting or getting in trouble. And is unfortunately well behaved and freaked out cause she's so far from home and where are her mom and dad. And Oh God don't tell her they're dead.

Her older self is so not going to have time for all these kids they could either be a threat or get hurt, and she doesn't like either option. She will be a terrible babysitter until someone assures her they are not dangerous changelings or something.

Mal

Not getting hit by this curse, but if you want surly chaos fae involved in either trying to gather children or research fae magic she's around.

[thedevilwearsgucci]

Look at this image. Just. Look at it.

Little Cereza was, by all measurements and metrics, fucking adorable. Her Roald Dahl-esque childhood of deprivation meant that she was also much easier to please back then. She was just this little, giggling, scurrying thing that liked flowers and fields and picture books and pretty things and always held onto her unfortunate-looking kitty doll, Cheshire.

Oddly, this wouldn't be the first time Bayonetta has met her. Due to bullshit time magic, she tagged along behind her for two-thirds of the first game. (Calling Bayonetta "mummy" the whole time because she actually does look like her mother, Rosa, and also because something something Parent Issues.) Big Cereza protected Little Cereza from nefarious purposes on the part of the Sages, and also taught her to not cry when things got scary, before returning her back to her own time. Little Cereza will likely remember this, too.

What Little Cereza never really had were other children to play with. Even in her isolated home, she was something of an outcast, and while the Sisters deigned to keep her alive, they didn't really want to associate with her because of what she represented. tl;dr: GIVE THIS CHILD SOME FRIENDS, FOR GOD'S SAKE. ;_;

As for Big Cereza, she's more of a protector than a nurturer, to put it mildly. She'll be completely awkward around all these kids, going as far as to pick them up by their overalls like sacks of flour and drop them out of her way if need be, but she won't abide any of them getting bullied or hurt. She's also not exactly the type to investigate why this is happening on her own accord, since in her experience, these things tend to sort themselves out anyway, but she can be convinced to help out if your character asks.

[onebetter]

I LOVE this event idea, I'm unspeakably excited for it.

Tiny James will be around 9 years old and be... actually pretty similar to his current self, only less pretentious and way more outwardly enthusiastic. He wears his heart on his sleeve, is super expressive, super supportive and open and... well, the perfect teacher's pet in the making. He loves rules and praise already, help him.
He's pretty good at dealing with things and can probably take care of himself pretty well, hurray. So mostly he'd be out here befriending other kiddos his age.

Big James is going to be concerned about all these kiddos, but he'll primarily focus on taking care of his own kid self and the child versions of the people he already knows. That doesn't say he won't interact with other children if they approach him or if they are in need, of course.

[playitagain]

Tiny Nana will be impossibly cute. However, she will also be painfully shy because she is from before she got into theater and music, and she was this poor awkward girl whose parents worked a lot and she didn't get to socialize. She will be hiding behind things and looking nervously at people. And wanting to talk to them but not knowing how.

I am sad there is not, that I have found yet, art of a little banana.

She will also be scared of Big Nana because she did not hit a growth spurt yet, and that's a giant version of her. Regular Nana's going to be a little sad for her past self, grateful if people help, and a little embarrassed if it becomes obvious that her outgoing, cheerful nature is really a thing she had to work at.

She'll also be mothering EVERYONE because aaaah cute kids!!

[missleading]

SO LATE TO THIS hello! Minako won't be taking part in the takedown, but there will be a pint-sized purseowner running around campus living her best life.

Minako will be roughly seven or eight years old, and will be relatively unchanged in terms of personality. Appearance-wise, she's a tiny gremlin with scraped knees and short hair. She will be doing her best at getting into places she shouldn't, befriending every kid she meets without hesitation, and generally acting as a ringleader when it comes to mischief.

I won't be putting up a specific log for this, but I'll definitely be tagging around!

[littledevildarling]

*Waves* Late because I only just got in, but Bendy's not going to be affected because I don't think Daybreak needs two of him so he will be on babysitting duty, by which I mean he'll be having the time of his life playing with all these kids. And also keeping them out of trouble when necessary of course. Though if any kidlets wanna cause harmless mischief he'll totally help with that too. :P