You mentioned Callisto a little while back and I think drew some art of her too? I just wanted to say I thought it was awesome! I’d love to know more about her if you’d be willing to share!
Awah thank youu! And yes! I'd love to share more!! I always love sharing more about her :333!!!
So she's my character from a Beam Saber game I'm in, called UNITYxEclipse. The basic pitch that I used for her goes as follows:
my character is essentially (or at least started as) Kobeni but in a mech, or Char Aznable if he had panic attacks. (I have some vignettes about her that I've written so I'll just put it there)
She is someone who has been running from the war her entire life but the war has finally caught up to her. She is a desperate and cornered with a knife in her hands And for some terrifying reason she is very good at using that knife
But like yeah, I have this idea of her running from the war her entire life but eventually being unable to escape from it, being forced into it and becoming a rifleman in a botched assault (like the veery first mission of titanfall 2), the assult goes horribly, people die, a mech falls, and she finds shelter in its bloodied cockpit. The next time she opens her eyes she is the only mech standing in a quiet battlefield. And her hands are gripping the controls
In essence, the mech is something she is terrified of. It is the very representation, the very manifestation of the destruction and domination under empire that the war has wrought. It's something she's been running from for her entire life, and for some strange reason, she's bonded with it.
I also have ideas about her inhibiting the facade of the last pilot. I have ideas about the faction that made her a rifleman, the faction that mech and the previous faction are from is some kind of fascist faction, and they likely have very fascist ideas about what a pilot is in their propaganda, in their mythology. Whatever that idealized pilot is, is not her, her existence that she bonded with this mech, that the previous pilot died, is a refutation of that ideology, an error, and that is an error that must be hidden. She is forced to operate under a callsign that is not her own, the callsign of terror, of domination, of that previous pilot. The death of the previous pilot is covered up, it is believed that he is still alive and my character has been completely forced to play the part
Some other interesting details that this pitch neglects to mention is she uses the Ace playbook, which mechanically is super interesting for callisto's themes. I've talked about it elsewhere but it's a playbook all about being able to do more with your vehicle than others, being able to push it more, doing more stuff with it, and most of all, becoming more connected with it. Which to me is REALLY interesting for Callisto because she is VERY much afraid of the Wraith of Deimos (her mech) so having her be in a system where she will inevitably get MORE connected with her mech is really really interesting. Among the many many themes I want to play with for Callisto (Identity, agency of the self, violence, etc.) intimacy is one I REALLY want to explore.
That's like.... the most straight forward pitch of Callisto I probably have on hand and that doesn't even begin to do look at how Callisto has begun to change and transform throughout the game (Which makes her really interesting to talk about!!! And is also something I want to do a write up about). I have a bunch of other info/asks on Callisto through my #oc: calisto noa tag (big shoutouts Ella for sending me a bunch of Callisto asks :3) but yeah!!! That's the basic pitch of her! I love love love love looove infodumping about her so if you have any more questions feel free to send em my way!!! :333
