SO, I was thinking of this RP idea last night while at work. (It's amazing how much you can come up with while you're just doing menial tasks all night.
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The basic idea of it takes place sometime around Rhombus' 'Songs of the Hunters' fanfic. The Pact is just living in their territory, raising their little hunters, when one night, all of the sharptooth kids mysteriously turn into leaf eaters! I'd imagine this would be an extremely tough pill for the entire pact to swallow.
I'm thinking the kids would possibly be more skittish and paranoid of everything for awhile, seeing as they just lost their advanced sharptooth senses. They can no longer tell when another sharptooth is around by the smell, so are now easily startled, and they can't use smell to easily tell others emotions, so they'll have to learn to rely completely on the tone of voice and body language. This might make them cautious of trusting others at first.(I'd think they'd have a basic idea of these already, but they never really developed them all that much, since it's so much easier to listen to what your sharptooth sniffer is telling you.) How would this affect their perspective on everything? If they have killed before, will they be able to live amongst what used to be their food?
Also, just them knowing that they are 'food' now, and knowing how sharpteeth hunt, since they used to do it themselves, They'd probably have a constant sense of some sharptooth watching them, observing them, almost judging them in a way, looking for the weakest link, who to exploit, deciding who should die. I'd imagine that being horrifying, especially for a kid.
We saw how much Littlefoot and the gang had to go through when they became sharpteeth. How a little of themselves died when they first killed another dinosaur for food. How Littlefoot basically asked Chomper to give him a new name because he's not Littlefoot anymore, not the same littlefoot, that longneck had died when he made his first kill. How different would this be the other way around? How could a dinosaur who spend it's whole life as a meateater, deal with becoming a leaf eater? I don't think I've seen this before, not to my knowledge, anyway, and I'd really like to find out.
And the adults would suddenly have to think of what to do with their poor kids now. They would probably be in super mother bear mode all of the sudden, ready to tear a foreign sharptooth to little red pieces just for having the nerve to even enter their territory. I'd think the first option would be to send their kids to the Great Valley, so they could all be raised and live their lives in safety, but what would the valley think of this? Would the valley be open to letting in kids who used to kill for their food being with their own kids? Would they be poisoning their own young's minds? It would open up a big argument in the valley at the very least.
So, the basic plot of this RP would be Littlefoot's pact trying to get their kids to a new home, whether that be the Great Valley, or what.
I'm interested in what others think of this idea, and if anyone would be interested in playing out this story or not. Also, I hope I'm not going out of line or something, Rhombus, trying to come up with an RP based on your fanfic. I know his original story was inspired by a RP Ducky123 started (That sadly hasn't gone anywhere in a long time
) So it just seems fair that his fanfic spawn an RP of it's own,
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Here is the list of characters to play in this RP. I recommend everyone only pick a few characters right now, as I still wanna wait at least another week to see if anyone else wants to join this, and 3 players doesn't seem like enough to me.
(Note, I'm grouping the kids with their parents here, to make it easier to read through.
Littlefoot
Ruby
Biter (son)
Swipe (daughter)
Cera
Taunt
Ambush (daughter)
Pouncer (son)
Sprint (son)
Spike
Breeze
Sniffer (son)
Nibble (son)
Ducky
Leap
Fisher (son)
Verok (son) [named after Leap's brother]
Tranquil (daughter) [named after Ducky's mother's aunt]
Dodger (daughter)
Aqua (daughter)
Petrie
Soar
Dive (son)
Lift (daughter)
Valaria (daughter) [named after Petrie's fallen sister]
Chomper: Vonboy
Male Rainbowface
Female Rainbowface
Datum (son)
Axiom (daughter)
*The leaf-eater gang:*
Bron
Ali's Mother
Sauria (Ali's mother and Bron's daughter - Littlefoot's sister)
Charger (Savine's son - mother was killed by Chomper's parents)
Flip (a flyer)
Malka (a swimmer)
Tricia (Cera's sister)
We can bring in other characters, if any players think they would be a good fit for this RP. Also, I'm not expecting all of these characters to be played per se. That's a ton of kids, for example, and I don't think it'd be the end of the world if some were not played, and just 'assumed' to be going along with the rest of the kids, to make it much simpler.
Also, We'll probably have different leafeaters that will be hunted in this RP, and anybody can play some of those from time to time. They won't be around for long in the RP, since they're meant to be eaten.
