It does intentionally invite one to really let lose with the personality changes, because the idea is that they are going to be regaining their canon personality in sharp contrast to the way they've been changed. Sure, regaining powers and horns and wings is cool and all, but the most important part of the game - the part that happens no matter what - is regaining the person you used to be. This is about loss of identity even more than it is about loss of one's physical self, or even one's memories. It's about struggling against a kind of corruption that tries to destroy what you are at your core.
You don't have to take it that far, of course, if altering your character's personality isn't really your thing. But the option is there, because as mods, we're comfortable with that as an aspect of how the game will play out. There's a point to playing that character instead of someone else because their canon self is who they are changing back into. That end result is more important than how they are at the beginning.
As for the app, the wording of it asks for it to give a thorough understanding of what the character is about, and that is more or less what we need from it. How many words it takes you to do that is entirely subjective. If you can do it in 200 words, that's fine, but if you do it in 500 that's okay too. What we don't want is a 2000 word dissertation because, past a certain point, no amount of explaining can prove you play a character well. That's what the sample is for.
You'll note that the samples ask for the character as their normal self, as does the personality description. The initial transformation into a "rockstar" persona is meant to be silly and over the top, because that's what makes remembering that "whoa maybe I wasn't always a total, flanderized douche?" is a big part of the fun. As long as the initial changes are thematically appropriate to the character, there are no super specific restrictions to what you can and can't do with that.
Though, thinking on it, I may bump up the required number of responses in the sample thread, to be sure to get a thorough reading.
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You don't have to take it that far, of course, if altering your character's personality isn't really your thing. But the option is there, because as mods, we're comfortable with that as an aspect of how the game will play out. There's a point to playing that character instead of someone else because their canon self is who they are changing back into. That end result is more important than how they are at the beginning.
As for the app, the wording of it asks for it to give a thorough understanding of what the character is about, and that is more or less what we need from it. How many words it takes you to do that is entirely subjective. If you can do it in 200 words, that's fine, but if you do it in 500 that's okay too. What we don't want is a 2000 word dissertation because, past a certain point, no amount of explaining can prove you play a character well. That's what the sample is for.
You'll note that the samples ask for the character as their normal self, as does the personality description. The initial transformation into a "rockstar" persona is meant to be silly and over the top, because that's what makes remembering that "whoa maybe I wasn't always a total, flanderized douche?" is a big part of the fun. As long as the initial changes are thematically appropriate to the character, there are no super specific restrictions to what you can and can't do with that.
Though, thinking on it, I may bump up the required number of responses in the sample thread, to be sure to get a thorough reading.