Choark Litmus Test

The Original Roleplay
CHOARK Litmus Test

SO YOU WANT TO KNOW IF YOU'RE A CHOARK, EH?

THE NAME

• Is the character named after you (this includes your first, middle, and last names, and any nicknames or online names you use)?
  • Is your name Choark?

• Is the character named after a famous RPer?
  • Is that RPer Choark?

APPEARANCE

• Does your character's appearance into an RP strike fear into the souls of brave warriors?
  • Before they know who your character is or what he or she is capable of?

• Are one or more other characters attracted to him/her?
  • Even though around him/her, they fear for their lives?
  • Because he or she is so damn manly?

• Does your character have blue hair?

• Does your character have blue eyes?

• Does your character carry around a hammer?
  • Is that hammer ludicrously huge?
  • No, really, we're talking ridiculous.

• Does your character bathe?
  • In lakes?
  • Once a year or so?

CHARACTER

• Is the character highly destructive without having to work at it?

• Is the character highly destructive through her/his concerted effort?
  • Is the character highly destructive only through her/his concerted effort?

• Compared to other characters, does the character get a disproportionate amount of description accorded to the destruction they cause?

• Is the character of below average intelligence?
  • Is he/she dumb?
  • As a rock?
  • Named peabrains?

• Has the character been introduced to the local royalty?
  • Through friendly dueling?

• Was the character ever forcibly banished from her/his family/tribe/country/etc.?
  • Because he/she single-handedly destroyed one of the few permanent buildings of his/her hometown?
  • Which was a temple?
  • Which had just finished being built?
  • After some several generations of construction?

• Does the character have an angsty childhood, or an angsty past?
  • Does he/she never angst about it, not once?

• Does the character ever freely, willingly, and knowingly worked for the villain/evil regime?
  • Because it allowed him/her a chance to get in some good fights?

• Does the character share more than one of your hobbies or interests?
  • Are you Choark?

• Does the character ever describe him- or herself as "the number one spaz!", where this is intended as to be a boast?

• Does your character like mice?
  • To eat?

MORE ON CHARACTER

• Is the character consistently irreverent or radical, without repercussions?
  • Because people are afraid of the repercussions of trying to implement the repercussions?

• Is the character unusually accomplished for her/his age/species/etc.?
  • By magical prowess?
  • By intelligence or knowledge?
  • By raw physical power?
    • Is he/she known for this?
    • Feared?

• Has the character ever fairly lost in any kind of duel, fight, or competition against someone of equal or lesser ability, where the winner was not the character's rival?

• Has the character traveled extensively?
  • For no particular reason?
  • Except maybe having gotten lost?

• Is the character significantly mentally handicapped?
  • Is he/she dumb?
  • As a rock?
  • Named peabrains?

• Do animals or children instinctively like the character?
  • Because they have similar intelligence levels?

• Does the character have a significant personality flaw (e.g. she/he is a spoiled brat, is horribly judgmental or biased, is irrationally violent, is naive and easily manipulated, etc.)?
  • Is this flaw stupidity?
  • And/or gullibility?

• Does this flaw persist throughout RPs, start to finish?

• Does this flaw get the character in serious trouble (e.g. she/he gets fired, gets killed, gets someone else hurt, etc.)?

• Does the character manage to avoid learning from major mistakes?

• Does the character have a faithful pet or animal familiar?
  • That isn't a dog, cat, horse, or bird?
  • That's pink and yellow and fluffy?
  • And grumpy?

WORK AND PLAY

Is the character, or was she/he ever...
____ A tailor?
____ A general?
____ A mercenary?
____ A paladin?
____ A dancer?
____ A waiter at an inn?
____ A barbarian?
____ A ninja?
____ A barbarian ninja?
____ A pirate?
____ A mage?
____ A bounty hunter?
____ An avatar?
____ An assassin?
____ A thief or pickpocket?
____ An outlaw or member of organized crime?
____ A diviner?
____ A hero?
____ A mouse-catcher?
____ A Doman guard?
____ A journalist?
____ An explorer?
____ An innkeep?
____ A king?
____ A queen?

Does the character possesses the following skills, with or without the aid of charms, spells, etc.):
____ Teleportation and/or telepathy
____ Sharp-shooting
____ Sleight of hand
____ Connections to the local guard/law enforcers
____ Connections to royalty
____ The ability to see auras
____ Strong lungs and an exceptionally loud mouth
____ Regular communication with deities
____ Great knowledge of tea
____ Animal communication
____ Fluffy magic
____ Shapeshifting abilities
____ Invisibility
____ The ability to shrug off minor wounds
____ The ability to kill people with her/his bare hands
____ The ability to crush through most matter
____ General magic or sorcery
____ Extraordinary stamina
____ A terrifying smile
____ Photographic memory
____ Summoning the guard with his/her mere presence
____ Power of seduction
____ Super strength or speed
____ Skill in martial arts or hand-to-hand combat
____ Flight (for more than SDMD, "short distances, mostly downward")
____ Knowledge of world geography
____ Wall hacking
Are these skills considered normal in your universe?
Or just for your character?

• Is the character astonishingly good at something that is not her/his profession?
  • And is she/he widely known for this?
  • Is it mouse-catching?

• Does the character have any particular area of study/information/etc. in which she/he is the most knowledgeable or among the most knowledgeable?
  • And is she/he widely known for having this knowledge?

• Does the character excel in a field you wish you excelled in, or hold your job or dream job?
  • Are you Choark?

THE PLOT

• Has everyone significant heard of the character?

• Is the character repeatedly rivalled by the same person?
  • Is that person Tareen?

• Is your character a member of The Resistance or a band of freedom fighters?
  • Because it lets him/her get to fight a lot?

• Does the character reform a villainous character?
  • WITH THEIR FISTS?

• Is the character someone you would like to fall in love with or have sex with?
  • Because he/she's so damn manly?

• Has the character ever been nursed back to health from serious injuries by a warm, kind, and loving person?
  • And then unintentionally destroyed a large amount of that person's property?

• Have you ever written a fight scene in which you described with extravagence everything your character did?
  • Was the extravagence needless?
  • How many pages did it take before getting into the "needless"ness? (fill in blank) [______]

YOUR CHARACTER AND YOU

• Do you draw the character, or ask other people to draw her/him for you, more often than any of your other characters?
  • Do you do so well and amusingly?
    • Are you Choark?

• Is the character someone you would want to be friends with, assuming she/he would be receptive to friendship with you?
  • If not, is it because you value your possessions?
  • And your life?

• Would you be pretty unsurprised if someone did not like the character?

• Do you ever wish you could be like the character?

• Are you Choark?