Board 8 > Johnbobb, like so many before him, ranks 52 characters from Scarlet's DCTTRPG

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I'm not fully convinced Zor died

the first time I thought he did he came back with a violent vengeance almost immediately

This one could be Waller!

I thought Libra took Zor into the Hall of Doom?

Johnbobb posted...

into the wedding dress of the ever-recurring source of our terror, Gloriana Tenebrae

Ooh interesting.

18. Romalthi the Shaper

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/2/AAS3NhAAEAsU.jpg

Yep, couple of you called it, so here she is.

I have had no fucking idea where to rank Romalthi. At one point I had her in the 50 range. At one point she was in the top 10. At various times I've considered both ranking her 1st for the memes and leaving her off the list entirely (ok probably not so much the last one, she had to land somewhere).

Romalthi was a one-off character appearing in the Bewitched bar that we met way, way back when. Now, I say one-off, but I don't know for sure if that's the case, because she can appear again, it would just assumedly require meeting up with the remnants of Bewitched again. The bar itself has been abandoned, and the patrons of the magical bar are on the run out in the world (I believe they're in Salt Lake City right now).

During our time at the Bewitched bar, Bloodfruit leaves to go to the bathroom, only to find Romalthi there, a floating being that we're still not entirely sure the identity of. Is she a meta? A vengeful spirit? Who knows! (edit: I think Romalthi was called a wraith but I don't remember for sure.) But something about her just had Bloodfruit smitten.

She approached, immediately wanting to befriend the being, though Romalthi is not so easily swayed. See, Romalthi is a touch on the devious side (possibly just straight up evil, since, y'know, villainous magic bar), and has the just really fucking cool power of transforming others into whatever she chooses. She alters her face/mask, touches someone, and that someone takes on physical state of whatever it was that she chose to inflict on them, taking on visual attributes of her chosen victim. An anti-Rozetta, you might say.

In Bloodfruit's case, she took Bloodfruit's glowing rainbow skin, and left her literally falling apart as she slowly began to dissolve into a liquid. She made her way back out to the bar before even realizing what was happening, and the others were able to convince Romalthi to change her back into a solid form. For a character that literally doesn't have a face of her own, Romalthi is a bit obsessed with her appearance, and traded back the rainbow glow in exchange for the appearance of... Brad Pitt? This was literally like 2 years ago at this point so my memory is a little fuzzy. In fairness, I was also water at that point.

After all this, it didn't actually lessen Bloodfruit's absolute fascination with Romalthi; if anything, it only sparked it further, as the combination of the mystery around Romalthi and the limitless potential of her abilities left Bloodfruit somewhere between starstruck and infatuated. And yeah, a big part of that is just me, as the very concept of this character just fascinates me to no end. She definitely gets boosted up as being one of the earliest definitive examples of a "JB character," someone who appeals to me very specifically despite having very little interaction with anyone else.

Does Romalthi's appearance of maybe 1 hour several years ago really warrant this high of a ranking? Probably not. But Romalthi is also the best and I won't hear otherwise.

Hint for #17: This is a much more reasonable and predictable character to have ranked this high

Romalthi turned Lush into Brad Pitt first to make sure she liked the look and then we were square

All in chorus now:

really JB?

HanOfTheNekos posted...

All in chorus now:

really JB?

consider yourself lucky she only got one spot in the ranking

I think JB's hint is somewhat in jest
My guess is L-Ron

Arion

Also, Romalthi sounds really crazy and fun/terrifying. And I can certainly understand a Fae character finding her interesting/appealing.

Maniac64 posted...

Arion

Also, Romalthi sounds really crazy and fun/terrifying. And I can certainly understand a Fae character finding her interesting/appealing.

THANK YOU

But did you get Brad Pitt's number?

A missing detail to this story that makes it more wild is that the reason we were able to bargain that she could look like Brad PItt to begin with was because Saoirse has the belt of the Beard Hunter. It includes beards like Santa Claus and other high value beards

I just assumed Rozetta was there and made herself look like Brad Pitt.

That is a much weirder explanation

I had to give up Brad Pitt's beard because somebody took a mischievous wraith taking advantage of her and turning her into water as a "kind gesture, possibly flirtatious".

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I had to give up Brad Pitt's beard because somebody took a mischievous wraith taking advantage of her and turning her into water as a "kind gesture, possibly flirtatious".

Saoirse could never understand gestures on such a level

HanOfTheNekos posted...

a mischievous wraith taking advantage of her and turning her into water as a "kind gesture, possibly flirtatious".

I mean we are talking about fae here, Titania famously flirts with a dude whose head was turned into a donkey.

Mischievous and often mean magical shenanigans are kind of their thing. And at the very least taking her colorful skin could be seen as a compliment lol

I am permitted to have angst over our fae party member almost dying because she's clueless ok

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I am permitted to have angst over our fae party member almost dying because she's clueless ok

pssshhhhh it was fiiiiiine I had in under controoooool

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I am permitted to have angst over our fae party member almost dying because she's clueless ok

This...This could be applied In a few places...

17. John Constantine

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/0/3/AAOJ0pAADcMP.png

John Constantine is yet another character that comes into the campaigns with a lot of pre-existing bias toward them, but nobody holds more bias toward the character than Scarlet himself, who held him as one of his own favorite characters throughout all of the first campaign, which inevitably made him a favorite of everyone else too. Everyone was excited to see him appear immediately within Z'onn Z'orr as one of the preeminent residents of the Oblivion Bar.

But you know who else had pre-existing bias regarding John Constantine? Bloodfruit. And unlike the players, Bloodfruit did not particularly care for him. See, Bloodfruit's knowledge of the world outside Faerie is particularly limited, and she mostly knows what's told to her by Tim (he was #26!). Tim was drawn into the world of magic forcefully and against his will by the trenchcoat brigade, a group of powerful magicians made up of Constantine, along with Phantom Stranger (pre-mouse form), Mister E, and Doctor Occult. The event nearly cost him his life and left the relationship between Tim and John strained at best and volatile at worst. Add on the fact that Constantine, general ass that he can tend to be, doesn't like or trust the fae.

Almost immediately upon meeting, Bloodfruit and Constantine were at each others' throats, not trusting each other. They were forced to work close to each other within Oblivion, but rarely ever had a good word to say about the other.

All of this culminated in an eventual sit down with the two of them (and Alice, who was also there). Bloodfruit set up the meeting secretly as an attempt to try to trigger some of her other hidden powers (which, as mentioned before, are triggered by emotion, and if anyone could bring out negative emotion in Bloodfruit, it was John and Alice). Unwilling to ever led Bloodfruit get the upper hand, Constantine instead flipped the conversation on its head. Instead of enraging her, he... recognized her for how she's distinguished herself from other fae and made herself a true member of the magical community, ultimately inviting her to join the Shadowpact. This shock still manage to spark emotion though, triggering a concussive blast that flipped their table and left Alice with a concussion that made her think she herself was Constantine.

John's been one of the most consistently great characters across both campaigns and has been one of the more complex relationships formed with Bloodfruit so far.

Hint for #16: This is the highest ranked one-off character in this ranking

Mantle Feeder

Constantine is an interesting one, given his large role among the players and yet, when you think about it, a completely secondary role in the Final Crisis world. Hell, he's certainly taking backseat to Chimp in all manners magic.

Better not be Mantle-Feeder - he showed up twice!

I'll guess Willoughby Kipling

scarletspeed7 posted...

Better not be Mantle-Feeder - he showed up twice!

Polar Bear that escaped with one of Bloodfruit's javelins then

Javelin

Hmm, the current composite highest ranked one-off character is...

Actually Romalthi.

I'm going to swing for the fences and say this is the Tengu

Okay now I'm going Grimm

Actually change my guess to Juliet because I would have guessed more Kid summons would make this list, and she's absolutely the best one.

Oooh. Juliet. Also a good guess

Actually

change my prediction to Dove

Did you guys meet Hawk and Dove or just Dove?

Maniac64 posted...

Did you guys meet Hawk and Dove or just Dove?

So we have someone named Kid Eternity that allows us to summon in dead people for a short time. Dove was one of these summons, helping us in Hawaii.

Oh so this is Don not Dawn. Got it.

I do vaguely remember Kid Eternity.

He is assuredly top 10, if not 5

16. Pasiphae

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/3/5/AAS3NhAAEA93.jpg

well this is good timing. Several Kid summon guesses and nobody got the right one somehow

Nobody pointed out that it was suspicious I neglected to mention Pasiphae in Ferdinand's write-up. Does that mean you knew she was coming? Or did you really think I would somehow forget to talk about one of this campaign's most tragic figures?

I think Kid Eternity has been talked about before, but just in case anyone doesn't know, he has the ability to bring back anyone who has died for a limited period of time (I don't think an exact figure was ever given but it seems to be roughly in the few hour range most of the time). He initially was able to control this, but his powers, like many others' after A-Day, are a little on the fritz. His summons are often random, and with little idea what to expect, we do what we can to try and make their brief time back on Earth valuable, whether that be giving them closure, passing on a message to a loved one, giving them one more chance to flex their skills, etc.

Quite a few of these are deserving of HMs; a couple crucial ones that come to mind are Juliet Capulet (ie Romeo & Juliet), who wanted the chance to properly tell her story, and Little Miss Hollywood, a gone-too-soon starlet, who spent her few hours recanting the loss of her bright future and getting high in the shade.

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But none hit me nearly as hard as Pasiphae. Pasiphae was the wife and victim of King Minos, and son of the original bastard Minotaur, a monster that killed her as she birthed it, leaving her to die in horrifying agony and to spend her afterlife grief-strucken at the vicious slaughtering beast she brought into the world against her will. It's a story that tore violently on Bloodfruit's heartstrings, and mine as well.

Bloodfruit, often particularly drawn to these lost souls, wants to do whatever she can for those who have suffered so terribly, so against the advice of everyone around her, she tried to reassure Pasiphae that she shouldn't exist in shame and grief, spinning a story of how incredible and esteemed the race of minotaurs she created had become in the time she was gone. And I went to Ferdinand, who had become a close friend, thinking that his hatred for being associated with The Minotaur wouldn't outweigh his inherent desire to do good for someone who needed it. And holy shit was I/she wrong. He lashed out at her in a way he never had, leaving her equal parts terrified and angered by his stubbornness.

So she takes it upon herself to go with another idea, using a glamour she had made to transform herself into a (shorter) copy of Ferdinand, in order to help her find closure directly. This backfired too, and upon seeing the Faetaur, was overwhelmed by her grief and left worse for it. For everything she did, every path she took to try and make things just a little bit better for a woman that desperately needed and deserved it, she failed. It's sort of become a recurring theme for Bloodfruit, and again, we'll get to that more later.

In the end, Ferdinand and Pasiphae met for real, behind close doors, and when they opened she was gone back to wherever she had come from. Bloodfruit (and I) don't know what was said, or if Pasiphae ever really got that closure, and she's yet to go back to Ferdinand to address what she did or what ultimately happened. It was a story of desperation and loss, and what that legitimately brought me to tears.

Hint for #15: Not technically a one-off character, but we almost never get to see them

Bloodfruit has never gaslit anyone as hard as she did Pasiphae.

Cheshire ranking

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Bloodfruit has never gaslit anyone as hard as she did Pasiphae.

is it still gaslighting if it's for a good cause

Brother Eye maybe?

And I'm so glad Pasiphae meant so much to you! The Kid summons are always such an amazing experience to share with the PCs.

scarletspeed7 posted...

Brother Eye maybe?

Brother Eye ranked!

I'll get an update here in a second

16. Pasiphae
17. John Constantine
18. Romalthi the Shaper
19. Zor
20. Starsa
21. Canary
22. Ferdinand
23. Thinker
24. etta
25. MORFIUS
26. Tim Hunter & Molly
27. Johnny Warlock
28. Multi-Man
29. Sasha
30. Susie
31. Damn-All, Darling-Come-Home, the Inner Child & Scott
32. Lady Luck
33. laura penn
34. Manitou Dawn/Manitou Raven
35. ragdoll
36. Fiddler
37. Demon of the Poster
38. Brother Eye
39. Flippy
40. Lord Death Man
41. blue devil
42. Harley Quinn
43. Leroy
44. Freddy Freeman
45. Antithesis
46. Squire
47. dewormer
48. Parademon
49. Misty
50. Atrocitus
51. Mockingbird
52. Lady Spellbinder

An as a fan of Greek myth that's a cool character to have appear.

Definitely tragic.

I'm going to go with Wanderstram

15. Snapper Carr

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/3/5/AAOJ0pAADYj7.jpg

Scare specifically commented on the hints being too straightforward so this is what you get

Snapper is the character that, more than anyone else, is benefitted primarily by just how much the players interact with him. Starsa's a close second, but no NPC has accumulated nearly as much in-session screentime as Snapper, the character who, by necessity, is present at the start and finish of nearly every mission.

With that much exposure to a character, it becomes easy to begin to see them as a part of your life within the campaign. Everyone has some sort of relationship with him, some much stronger than others, but at the end of the day he's just an interesting guy. He's simulatenously sweet while also being a dick, and you never know exactly what you're going to get. I feel like almost every player has been complimented and insulted by him at some point in the campaign by now.

Even in writing this, I'm wondering if perhaps I ranked him too high. Unlike most of the cahracters in the top 20ish, I don't have much in the way of specific stories about him, definitely not as strong as Scare might have, because the interactions, while never-ending, are almost always brief. But somehow I just can't think to justify putting him any lower. He's the character, more than any other except maybe like Alice or Patch, that would devastate the playerbase the most if we were to lose him.

He and Bloodfruit aren't particularly close, and he'll poke fun at her expense, but he'll also do things like help keep iron away from her and make sure that she stays safe and prepared. Ultimately Snapper is likely the best symbol of a true hero within the campaign, never halting, never tiring, and saving everyone time and time and time again. I legitimately cannot imagine the campaign without him.

Hint for #14: This character is not a white person. Probably.

Probably

That's throwing me for a loop. I'll guess Fire?

Brother Eye

At first I was thinking who is masked or body fully hidden that JB might like and the closest thing I got was Bane

HOWEVER

I started thinking about characters who may change appearances and I found a good JB character that fits

going with our dear lady Death

Sasha Bordeaux

Speaking of War being baited
14 up

14. Thom Kallor

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/5/0/AAOJ0pAADZyS.jpg

I am absolutely not the Deadpool of the campaign. The very idea is absurd, I have nothing in common with that Campain 3 Marvel garbage.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/3/AAS3NhAAEBW_.jpg

See? He's red! I'm blue! Completely distinct.

This placement has been a long time coming. A LONG time. Remember War and MI having their entire rankings up and posted in like a month? I think it was a month, damned if I'm actually going to go back and check the you-know-what site to see. Also can't really ask Saoirse about it because BATGIRLS but I'm sure shae's gaut eet wraeten da'hwn sohmwearere.

If you're going to take this long to get these posted they should at least be Pepper Spray-length write-ups, should they not? I'm not looking for a powerpoint presentation but 4000 words would be nice; I've certainly given you all more than that in my time, and I'm only an NPC! Meanwhile I'm sitting here, starry ass on the bleachers, waiting for my chance to shine, thinking of how I should've gotten the role as Dr. Manhattan instead. I sent Zack Snyder my headshot and my HEADshot, and still not a call back.
#RestoreTheKallorCut

I've been reading along though, and honestly, some of these choices are questionable. First off, where the hell is Patch? Every single person ranked Patch, but what, Bloodfruit's too good to talk to a mouse? Bloodfruit hangs out with a literal Banshee that just screeches and eats penguin corpses, like get over yourself. You probably just left him off to screw with Shearshah's stats, didn't you? Wouldn't be the first time!

And Vostok, where is she? You like Vostok! Everyone likes Vostok, she has mean things to say about everyone and everything AND is part of the Doom Patrol. Screw it, this ranking is Thom and Vostok now.

14. Thom Kallor & Valentina Vostok

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I mean, if you're gonna screw with the format of a very strictly formatted system, at least do it for the sake of someone worthwhile and not... is that a baby with an eye for a face? Really, JB?

Look, I get it, joke characters are likeable, but they need substance. I mean, look at me! I'm funny AND have major story beats. There has to be a balance. I mean, remember Tokyo? Remember my rehabilitation from the holding facility? What would you even know about that, huh? Nothing.

I shouldn't complain too much. 14 is a solid ranking. Three spots higher than Brennus put me and way higher than Saoirse did, the traitor. At least I'm above Romalthi.

Hint for #13: Am I even supposed to know who this guy is?

Post Script: I know this isn't fully accurate and is a touch more meta than I might be in discord, but what, am I supposed to mix the 3rd person omniscient with the 1st person in a single write-up? That's just sloppy.

we... we've seen Thom's face. He's white

Not only is Thom white, but his face has been shown multiple times.

Guessing Four Corners?