Trivia / We Are Our Avatars

• Creator Breakdown:
  • The 'Great Schism': wherein Gloom Rage Quit, Lemurian threatened to, and Katsuun went off the deep end.^note To elaborate, it happened when the topic of whether or not the group are heroes was brought up. Gloom insisted that they were Designated Heroes, to the point of posting a webcomic strip that firmly sums up his opinions—that they need to die for the good of everyone else. Eventually, angry over them not being heroes in his eyes, he quit the game. Lemurian threatened to quit because he also believed that the group should be heroes. As for Katsuun? This was the trigger to all his resets and using alts for said resets. To sum it all up: it was a bad time during a transitional period where the RP grew the beard.
  • Later, there was the Midna problem, where the titular Troper was called out for being so obsessive towards Mana, leading up to the in-game ending of Osaka and Hilarity's marriage, everybody snapping at everybody about a plan that was initially proposed to make Midna leave, and finally Midna's banning. Needless to say, no one was happy with the outcome.
  • Hydronix is a bit of a different case. A huge amount of factors led to it, most notably his mediocre (or so he says) roleplaying skills, the game feeling stale, and nearly all the jokes coming from a series he didn't enjoy, leaving the whole RP boring overall. Multiple other factors were apparent, like the lack of really good newbies who actually showed promise (three in total at the time, the rest... not so much). None of these factors have changed, making his at-first temporary leave a more permanent one.
• Development Hell: The "War Against Terumi" Arc, repeatedly touted as the first "serious" / "dark"/"over-arching" arc since the Incarnates Arc, is mired in this due to real-life business with its creator. Eventually became Vapor Ware.
• What Could Have Been: The discussion thread is where arc concepts are plotted out; some of them eventually come to fruition, others... don't.
  • At some point, it was decided Andros and Enker would be in the Revenge of the Spark arc; however, they ultimately didn't end up becoming part of Lucrezia's army. Probably wasn't bad due to the fact that Enker got some Character Development; and with the exclusion of Andros, Arcadiarika decided to show off more of her knowledge of Power Rangers and Super Sentai by introducing the Lunara Knight, whom she stated to be the game's counterpart to Rescue Sentai GoGoFive's Beast Demon-Hunter Sieg.
  • The Incarnates Arc:
    • Silver was planned to appear as a personification of Lust, possibly going to levels of heinousness that would almost rival Apos. Daionus decided he did not want to play as that sort of character, and declined.
    • Catherine was planned to appear as a personification of Gluttony, and the present Catherine had to be killed in order to defeat her (it was another plan to get out of playing Catherine due to certain circumstances). It didn't happen, ultimately proving that Tropes Are Not Bad.
  • Etheru states that he planned on Joey and Catherine acting as foils for one another, but arcadiarika's then-decision to refuse developing the character any longer shot this possibility down.
  • At one point, unhappy with the fact that nothing was happening, Lemurian thought up the "Ghost Town arc", where the characters would be dropped in a desolate town without food, water, or their powers for a week. The arc was discarded when a player pointed out that the arc wasn't proving anything, because it was almost exactly like what Lemurian was complaining about: Nothing happening.
  • Midna, at one point, took a break, to try and get his mind off the game for a while, but was banned during the break. It makes one wonder if he really would have improved or would have just kept his bad habits. He recently has returned to the role play (for real).
  • And yet another arcadiarika one: in both the Him and Terumi arcs, Catherine would have been the peacemaker of the group, trying to keep them from killing themselves. Unfortunately, it didn't happen. It gets worse—it would have been one of the moments where her character would be positively developed.
  • Meta Application: Sometimes people tend to bring concepts that weren't used in the source in the game.
  • "The New Homunculi arc", in which a Composite Character version of Father and Hohenheim creates Homunculi, but forcibly puts Homunculi into members of the group. They would be representing a particular sin (Mega Man, in particular, was planned to be Pride, due to the fact that he's very proud of his achievements). Etheru discarded it, due to having no idea what to do with the arc in question, but he gave it to someone else.
  • A Rescue Arc where the group had to rescue Catherine from Golomois was planned at one point, but Arcadiarika discarded it, due to a lack of interest on her part. A few ideas from that planned arc did survive and made their way in her finale arc, "Sins of the Past".
  • In "Sins of the Past", there was originally a subplot with Michael, Rika, and Ryan searching for a way to cure Michael's curse. It was cut out entirely due to pacing problems and the arc-maker not really sure what to do with it.
  • Yasmin originally would have been an Anti-Villainous Counterpart for Ajb's Yuri.
• Schedule Slip:
  • The Impel Down Rescue Arc. Egregiously so.
  • Happens a lot in general with arcs, either because a troper is going through real-life issues, or they're too lazy to finish their own ideas.
• Throw It In!: Yasmin's concept was more or less complete, except for her backstory. Certain concepts suggested by other players may make it into her.