Voice Your Opinion: OC Captains

I vote Hidane for captain of all divisions from this point forward

THE FUTURE IS HERE

ALL SHALL FEAR THE MIGHT OF THE GOTI

This. Also keep the IC conditions and require a RP sample.

Oh-ho-ho... it seems the time has come...


Raise your banners for the leader of the Hueco Mundo division... CAPTAIN GARRO KARRA, THE ETERNAL GOD KING AND DEFENDER OF INNOCENCE!

I didn't actually read what this thread is about, but I read OC Captain, so why not offer and existing OC Captain :^)

#Raiden5Captain

But in all seriousness, I am excited to see OC captains finally becoming a thing. And the named requirements here are good ideas which will certainly be discussed in staff channels. But to throw in some of my own ideas as well.

Substitute Shinigami as captains? I'd personally be against it. Certainly if they are Crisis Core. Crisis Core is a branch of the Gotei with mainly a touch in the human world, agents that have been taught in both. So that duty alone, of a life in the human world and the life of a captain seems impossible to combine due to the duties both possess.

Does that lock subshini and CC from captainhood? Also no. Seireitei might be able to take measures to 'kill' the human or fullbringer form. Leading to their race being converted to shinigami, rather than substitute shinigami. Shikai and bankai transfer. And human/fullbring release may become normal techs. The details of the transition are just that. While I just want to present the scenario of a subshini becoming a captain with all sanctioned trials and requirements in place. And ontop of that losing one of their releases.

Does this mean Mist is putting up candidacy on Raiden? Not at all, the man's a convicted murderer. He's not eligeble.

Other measures, surely, a minimum rank measure would be in place. And granted, some form of activity requirement. Though with the site's design and the spotty activity of nearly everyone here, it'd have to be a more refined measure than a weekly post count.

Only dead people should get it. That doesn't preclude current subshini; they'd just have to die before they take the slot. No trial. Fuck running trials.

As for activity, just have people PM staff for every time they have to wait more than a week for a response from an OC captain, and if staff get lots of complaints about a person, they give them a warning, then remove them from the position.

Obviously a HL-A rank requirement. HL-A is the new HL; AL is the new "strong captain" rank, and AL-A is for powerhouses.

They should also have to run a plot showing how/why their character is chosen.

And death would mean a complete lock-out from human and fb status. Which is a heavy trade off. But perhaps a deterrent to not flood the ranks with subshini captains, so it might do as the way it is. That being said, death of a subshini, in human form, with the shinigami form uncorrupted and free of taint seems tough.

Which is again, a good deterrent.

Rank requirement, relatively solid fit for zan (although short of 4th and 11th division, I suspect this shouldn't be TOO important), decent activity, all sound good. No substitutes feels...I don't know, maybe there should be some potential for them. Maybe severing their human side entirely? I mean, you want to run one of them, you should be present, and that's hard to do if you spend too much time on Earth.

REALLY liking the idea of OC captains though. Reathin, Chakra and Mana will never hold the position, but it's exciting to have our creations running the show.

My only questions (not criticisms, just clarification) would be what happens to the canon captains? Does this only apply to the seats opened by the deaths in the canon plot (sucks to be a canon, if that's the case)? Or are we going all out and just letting any of them be opened? Maybe a change in the war plot such that any of the captains not currently controlled will either be killed or MIA until someone claims them?

I feel like there has to be some IC interactions with other captains during this process, hence why I suggested a trial. It could just be a level 1 Difficulty and maybe make it optional to increase if they want. I don't know, I just feel it would work better story wise in terms of what that person had to overcome to become a captain.

Mandatory CORE difficulty imo. Would be unfair for someone to hold a spot and hide behind their title all because of a difficulty