If you’re unsure whether a fandom is appropriate or not for Pandora, first stop by our
Restricted Canons thread to see if said fandom falls under one of our categories. If it doesn't and you’re still unsure whether the fandom is appropriate for the board, please post in our
Questions & Suggestions forum so that Staff can look into it and come to a decision.
We're fine with you taking bits and pieces of other versions to further flesh out your character or contribute to headcanon. However, your character must be specifically one version at its core. For example, you can't take a character's personality from one version and their powers from a different version. Essentially, pick one version and stick with it. Blank spots can be filled with headcanon (which may or may not be inspired by another version), but otherwise, no mix and matching.
While you can take a character from any point in their canon you want to, if you are taking a character after their last appearance in canon, you can only take them up to two weeks maximum after that point.
Actually, it depends. A rule of thumb is that, if the character has not come back after death in some form or other in their canon, they cannot be brought to Pandora after they died.
However, some exceptions to this are if the character is already dead in their canon, such as Annie Sawyer in Being Human, who is a ghost since the beginning of the series. Or, if they die at some point in their canon and make more than a few appearances after their death, one such example being Bobby Singer in Supernatural, who lingered on as a ghost for several episodes before he moved on.
Only stick to what is portrayed in canon, however. If your character remained dead, they cannot be brought into Pandora past that point. If you are unsure whether you can apply for a character after their death, feel free to ask us in our
Questions & Suggestions forum.
Re-apps serve many purposes, the most common of them being that you want to update your application after you realized you left something out, or there are sections of it that you want to improve on.
Another common reason for re-apps is to add to or detract from your character’s skills. We require that any changes in skills, such as a character changing into a vampire, undergo a re-app before you continue posting with the updated skills so that we can gauge the power level of the character.
You might even want to re-app your character if you want to take them from a different canon point entirely. While this only requires updating the history to match, your character will be reset. This means that they will re-enter Pandora and be given a fresh start, and that you cannot continue any past threads.
Unfortunately, this is a difficult question to answer. We have no defined limits as there are so many different characters with different capabilities and powers. We don’t base things purely on a character’s power level, but what they’re capable of doing with their abilities. Practice discretion when applying for a powerful character and power them down where you see fit. If you're still unsure about a character's ability, feel free to add it in your app and Staff will determine whether it is acceptable for Pandora or not.
Yes! However, we ask that you run them by Staff before writing the items into the world, as any such item may require a re-app of the character before it can be used in threads. If you're still unsure whether your item qualifies, just ask us in the
Questions & Suggestions forum.
Yes and no. Since Pandora pulls in characters from the same world but different canon points, sometimes there are duplicates of items. Just as long as these items are not world-breaking, or have some sort of consciousness that makes them NPCs, they should be good to go!
Your character would remain whatever their canon size is. For example, if you applied for Thumbelina, then she would only be an inch or two.
Yes, but only if it's within the same season and there hasn't been a season change in the meantime. It will be like your character never left, so they will still have all their Pandora memories and abilities intact.
Don't forget to consult your roleplay partners just in case they have already threaded out your character's disappearance, though.
Yes, but this isn't automatic the way regaining memories is. If your character was, for example, turned into a werewolf last time they were in Pandora, they wouldn't be one on arrival even if they got their memories back.
The only way to regain an ability you learned the last time you were in Pandora would be to relearn it, or to travel to the Fountain of Truth located in the Dread Wastes and drink from its waters. While the Fountain isn't widespread knowledge, rumors have been circulating for decades of its magic properties that can easily prompt your character to go there to regain something they have lost.
Newly arrived characters with high-profile criminal activity will still be held accountable for past deeds in Pandora. Due to the nature of Pandora, trials are often held in such circumstances to prove the criminal has no memory of their past crimes and are cleared of all charges. Players resetting a character should play out this trial in either a thread, or a current event article. If picking up a character you have never played before, you can assume this IC trial took place behind-the-scenes and don't have to explicitly write it out. Bear in mind that your character's history may still impact how other characters react to them.
Characters can arrive on any date as long as it occurs during the site's current season.
Nope! You can take them from whenever you'd like to take them from. Canon timelines stay 100% intact regardless of whether or not canonmates are or ever have been here, so it doesn't mess around with the continuity at all.
No. To be fair to future players who may be interested in playing these characters, we will not be allowing the use of canon NPCs in threads. All NPCs used in threads should be original. Exceptions are made for pets, companion creatures and young children that may have been pulled in with the character, but these should be included in the application prior to roleplay.
Yes, if you wrote the character. They can remember as much or as little of their past time (or times) on Pandora as you want. But if another player wrote them at some point, they won't be able to remember that time.
No, not if you didn't once write the character yourself.
