If you have a quick look through the kiths you might have an idea what you can play, but seriously almost any idea is do-able in Changeling.
After you have a squiz through there and give me an idea we can work with whatever you choose.
Sounds good.
I'm thinking a halloween costume party went wierd, he stepped into a room that didn't exist, unknowingly drank and ate faery food he should not have, danced with a beautiful faery partner and got swept into horrific servitude under rules he did not understand in a reality turned inside out.
I was thinking of building off the american college party animal motif. At the halloween party he ingested things he should not have, scarfed down a lot of food, alcohol, and drugs, crossed over unknowingly to Arcadia, engaged in games and contests, acted crudely with the women, and attracted the attention of a True Fey with his behavior. She seduced him and bound him into contracts he did not understand, condemning him as a pig of a man.
Trapped in fey courts he then was twisted into ever more of a boarish brute. His boorish ways were encouraged and demanded, he experienced delights and degradations he had never experienced before. He was used to provoke others, as a means of entertaining others, and as a method of degrading others who fell into her power by making them cavort with him. He became adversarial with her pack of "hounds", changelings twisted into dog forms who would hunt down prey "animals" for the sport of the fey. A boar is a dangerous animal, strong with sharp tusks, but still a single prey animal vulnerable to a pack of hunters and he was hunted down many times and brought back to be roasted over an open fire as a suckling pig with an apple in his mouth.
Now that he is free and half way around the world in Australia he is torn between the two desires represented by two of the Changeling courts. First is the desire for the unearthly delights of Arcadia, represented by the spring court. Second is his wrath, a simmering desire to rage against what has been done to him and what he has become. For now he is going with the first, but there is a fear that he will fall into rage and be swallowed by the summer court.
I was thinking the beast aspect one with boar specifics and tieing into the spring court.
If there are any powers of strength and tusks to represent his fighting beligerint boar aspects that would be great as would regeneration and heat resistance for his roast suckling pig aspects. A discerning nose for finding truffles would work well for a pig sense power and glamor type masks to cover himself and party social powers would work well for the spring court.
I have not yet read the powers stuff so I'm not sure what there is but these seem to work with the themes of Changeling?
While keeping the 'beast' motif, you could actually go with Ogre as a seeming with Cyclopean as a kith. You are a big, 'boor' of a pig after all. The cyclopean merit gives you a 'smell the blood' ability which lets you use your nose to smell things.. lies, Englishman, truffles and so on.
The easier way to do powers would be to have (remember you have 5 points maximum, 2 points must be in a seeming or court, though can be spread 1 and 1 or just 2 in 1.
1 or 2 stone (1 gives bonus strength)
1 or 2 in a court contract of your choice
3 in Control (fire). This allows you protection from fire, the use of fire as a weapon, and to control it in a direct fashion.
My idea is of a psychologist, one who studies sleep disorders and dreams. One of the cases she's working with has a True Fae riding his dreams...and when she begins to probe and pry with various scans and equipment, she earns the Fae's attention. One night while working alone she simply vanishes from the lab. Ironically, the subject she'd been working with awoke from the first sound night of sleep he'd had in years, and seemed to be cured.
In Arcadia the Fae took her face, changing her into a creature who could be shaped into whatever character was needed for whatever dream was being shaped...a creature with no identity of its own, but that retained some measure of will and sentience so that it could play the parts put before it.
Opportunity came when, in an apparently careless moment, the Fae left the cabinet of faces a little ajar. The faceless, formless being that she had become was attracted by some vestige of curiosity...and found her face. With the face came identity, and memory...solidity, and the will to act. She fled the great playhouse of dreams, through the thorns of the Hedge until she realized that the trees no longer whispered and giggled, and the grass no longer clutched at her feet. The stars were not diamonds or moving or cracks in the sky. She was home.
While keeping the 'beast' motif, you could actually go with Ogre as a seeming with Cyclopean as a kith. You are a big, 'boor' of a pig after all. The cyclopean merit gives you a 'smell the blood' ability which lets you use your nose to smell things.. lies, Englishman, truffles and so on.
The easier way to do powers would be to have (remember you have 5 points maximum, 2 points must be in a seeming or court, though can be spread 1 and 1 or just 2 in 1.
1 or 2 stone (1 gives bonus strength)
1 or 2 in a court contract of your choice
3 in Control (fire). This allows you protection from fire, the use of fire as a weapon, and to control it in a direct fashion.
Hows that feel for you?
I'm flexible on the mechanics, I like the bestial boar idea and want to run with it but I don't care if its technically classified as an ogre seeming. Maybe he'd look like a 1e pig faced orc.
How do changelings heal, in general? Is there a regeneration type power?
Heal like humans for the most part. They can eat goblin fruit to heal more quickly, and there are certain.. expensive contracts that allow other forms of healing.
"I am the Shadowling. I am what exits between the action and the response, between the conception and the creation. I will show you fear in a handful of dust. I seek to discover who I am. You may aid me or hinder me - but inconvenience me, and I will destroy you"
Seeming: Darkling
Living for one hundred years and a day locked in a room scribing things that should not be, the Shadowling returns from the hedge unsure of who he is. Friend to fear, solace in darkness, he holds loyalty to his friends and unrelenting oblivion to his enemies.
Carrying around a talking pumpkin for companionship, and sheltering with a human who showed him early kindness, the Shadowling is driven to discover his own name and nature - and deliver to his foes the same fear that broke him until it was naught but a comfort.
Think of a gentlemen in a three piece suit from the 1900s, who can disappear when you swore he was there, show you fear in a handful of dust, and remorselesly kill anything in the way of his goal.
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