[UA] Group Archetypes and the True Lover

[Chris Cooper]

--- Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> wrote:

> This gives you the
> coolness of avatars creating constructive feedback,
> without the weird
> hairiness of a group ascending together.  All the
> buzz, none of the
> aftertaste.

In other words: spit, don't swallow.

But here's my True Lover archetype. Make merry and
suggest improvements. Maybe with that synergy/syzergy
effect, or how the True Lover has different affects
with different archetypes.

Cheers,

Chris.


The True Lover

Attributes: 
The True Lover is the organizing catalyst in the
universe; when the True Lover was guiding the
spontaneous formation of carbohydrate molecules, she
was the electrical valence flickering between the
atoms.

In the wild prehistoric jungles, the lone wolf that
left the fold to seek out a new mate in a that was
different and over the mountain, ensuring genetic
strength through heterotic diversification, pouring
new vitality into the germ line, giving a little extra
to the general adaptability of the species as a
whole..

The True Lover’s purpose is to bring disparate people
together to establish propagation, diversifying the
gene pool, removing the dams of xenophobia. 

The True Love is why we find foreigners so sexually
appealing, why people suddenly find an enthusiasm when
the stumble onto something that’s been missing all
there lives. It’s what makes us not leave our buddies
behind when the going gets tough. True Love is there
to hold our hand when we stand to face the worst
ahead.

True Love is hardly synonymous with happiness. In fact
True Love is often linked with misery, gruelling
trials, and inevitable, bitter disappointment. When
True Love ends it is usually acrimonious. The Coming
of the True Lover is often seen as one with strife,
discord, and broken relationships.

The negative aspects represent unhealthy psychological
tropes and genetic retardation of the community
through incest, narcissism, and social isolationism –
the very things the True Lover should discourage.

Taboo:
The True Lover can never sever a relationship without
breaking taboo. If the partner has taboos (mystical or
cultural), the True Love has to adopt her partner’s
taboos as well.

The True Lover need not go back into a relationship
once it has been broken off. In fact this may be seen
as sidling up to the bad side of the True Love.

Once the True Lover accepts a relationship, she cannot
end it.
 
Masks: 
The True Lover is one of a pair – Life and Death: The
Lovers of the Tarot arcana; Castor and Pollex: the
Gemini Twins; Erzulie and Friday (voudun); Romeo and
Juliet or Westside Story; Comedy and Tragedy; Lancelot
and Guinevere, and many other examples, both good and
bad. 

Suspected Avatars in History: 
There are a great many examples Dante (and Beatrice);
Edgar Allen Poe (and Virginia); Richard Feynman (and
the Unsolvable Quantum Equation); and Electrons and
Positrons.

Special: The powers of the True Lover focus on soul
mates. A soul mate is a single pair of matched soul
mates that are in a cohered relationship. The soul
mates do not have to be in a sexual relationship, they
could be the best of friends, and ardent companions.
There must be openness and love between the two,
however.

Channels:
	01% – 50%:  

The True Lover is a maelstrom of quirkiness as soul
mates are forcefully collided with each other in the
True Lover’s wake

The True Lover finds his or her soul mate too. The
soul mate need not, but can be an avatar of the True
Lover.

The True Lover and soul mate gain a +10% synergetic
shift to skill and stat checks, stress rolls, and
magic abilities that play off, reinforce or
re-establish the union and bond between the Soul
Mates.

If the True Lover's soul mate is an avatar of the True
Lover, they both share a +20% shift. 

However this represents encroachment on the dark,
unviable interpretation of the True Lover - one of
isolationism and incest.

	51% – 70%
The True Love can instantly know where someone's soul
mate is in the world, and that person's name.

The True Lover can sacrifice three points off Body and
raise a soul mate's Wound score by a die roll. They
can do this once per day.

The True Lover’s soul mate can do the same and heal
the True Lover. But they cannot use this ability to
heal themselves.


	71% – 90%
The definition of soul mate changes; a soul mate can
also be an abstract concept like a specific
employment, classic cars, absorbing hobbies, etc.

The True Love can change someone’s Obsession or Noble
Passion (but not both) regarding their potential soul
mate, person or occupation. A person who has an
Obsession or Noble Passion shift loses one off every
hard and failed notch.

A character who wishes to keep his Obsession or Noble
Passion must take both a failed and hard notch in
Self. 

The True Love can also end a soul mates bond
instantly, unless both of the two can successfully
roll a Soul check that exceeds the True Lover’s avatar
skill. 

	91%+
Just like the second channel, but the sacrificed Body
points can raise a soul mate from the dead if the body
hasn't been dead for longer than an hour.

The body revives as if it merely fell unconscious and
is raised without any normal decomposition hassles. 

What you hear: When you’re born, and are about to
enter the second hour of your life, an angel whispers
into your ear: you can leave the world now or you can
meet your true love later on.

When you first know your true love as your true love,
you stop being a child. When you fall out of love with
your first love, you’re no longer an adult.

And when the Godwalker of the True Lover moves,
nations fall out of and into favour with one another
and the long dead rise out of their graves uncorrupted
to meet their lost loves one last time.

Wherever she goes, Sleeper assassins shoot whoever she
speaks to. They would like to shoot her, but no one
knows anything other than she’s female – they can’t
even tell you what species she is.

Her lover is a powerful Martyr that rises from death
every three days.

This has gotten way too Biblical for the Sleepers;
even the Cecilites are locking and loading this yo-yo
resurrectionist.

 



=====
The little bird that is the song in my heart
is too tired to be carried
by its battered wings.

It falls, crashes...
... and is still in its bone cage...

Dead Inside from Atomic Sock Monkey press.


                                      www.atomicsockmonkey.com

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