The State of Bleach Gotei

Fact of the matter is that just like in canonical Bleach, the amount of mortals on BG that actually—well, put at its bluntest—matter is vanishingly small.

MORTALS

• We're steering people to Shinigami, Arrancar/Hollow, and Quincy

 

First off, I am super concerned about the mechanics because, frankly, they seem largely unnecessary as it stands, but also provide someone like me a lot of weight of knowing who my character is in the world.

Mechanics are not gone. They haven't been scrubbed from the site entirely. They're still there for you to use and the community is still free to work together to improve and patch them like normal. The only thing changing is that you're no longer required to do them.

The second big thing, minor race.

Once again, Mortals are not gone. The Mortal class has always been used as a catch all class on BG. While many people do use it just for a spiritually aware person, others used it for demons, bounts, or anything that wasn't a Shinigami/Hollow/Quincy. Now we're just being open with the class by saying "Hey. Don't want to be one of the main races? That's okay, use this template."

 

I'll recount my meanings because the above was a little ranty and I'm sure I lost my point. (Afterword: Yeah another rambly rant XD, okay I'll get my point across properly someday)

The mechanic changes, if they accomplish very little, seem like they're irrelevant when you could just say "You don't need to do them so don't worry" a little more clearly instead of overhauling it. Since I assume that's not the extent, the change worries me because I like what's being doing. So either A) The change is literally nothing so what's the point or B) The change is significant, and people who like mechanics will be this weird sub-class of people. I guess let me ask this

Can I still say here's the technique I'd like, it does this and have someone go, yes it does, or no that's too big a bonus? 'the elimination of staff-supported Mechanics,' makes me think otherwise, and I loved that.

The second, it's the use of language. It's minor races instead of misc, it's implying we're trying to snowflake, it's the weird reactivation rule that makes me feel like mortals are trying to be killed off, it's 

'we will not be accepting Mortal reactivations.'

'It takes only a moment’s extra effort to turn your special snowflake Mortal'

'Mortals are part of the Bleach world, yes; but they’re the tiniest, most insignificant part.'

and then the weird sort of sidestepping after you've made the point.

Lemme know if I'm wrong, but basically it seems like 'mortals are weird and don't fit in with bleach so we kinda want em gone but don't worry we won't punish people who already are'

The problem is, as Tokiyo put it so pointedly with Chad and Inoue I now feel like the admins, people of power think of me like that. Or my fellow mortals who I've had a blast participating in a very human story of what it means to exist in a world where the rest of Bleach has.

So it's not the wording really, it's because despite it being one of the more popular player classes and telling, I think, some of the more interesting and compelling stories that it doesn't seem to fit the image of what you guys think Bleach should be about and that stinks

it's also kind of silly you couldn't just be up front if that's the case haha.

I accept that mortals kind of break the bounds of good taste when it comes to what is fitting in this universe and not. You can take some and be, how does this fit in the world and be right to say maybe it doesn't and that hurts the feel of the universe canon we're trying to make here. I agree that this is a problem that can be addressed and should be. So extra oversite on human apps is cool, maybe rename minor to misc, because I'm a big girl.

My drive to mortal isn't to make a snowflake. It's to take a relatively normal person, throw him into the unknown world of bleach and tell a really human fish out of water story in that guise. And now I'm left wondering if people are looking at that and going ugh that's not bleach. 

i mean we've literally got a quincy in show who wrestles people, and another who imagines reality. It's taking the idea of fullbring and running with it to see what cool stories come out of it. The logic behind this seems to boil down to people not liking what we've done with mortals more than anything else and I'm left wondering what I did wrong :S

also we'll see kyou.

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Obligatory everybody love everybody, i ain't mad disclaimer etc etc

MORTALS

• We're steering people to Shinigami, Arrancar/Hollow, and Quincy

This is the problem I have with the change.

If you feel you have to change some wording about and fit everything into a miscellaneous file just to try and draw more appeal to one of the three "different" races in the Bleach settting, there's a problem and it's not with the player base.

I would suggest seeing why people are choosing to go Eevee (Mortals) instead of going for, y'know, Reshiram (Shinigami), Zekrom (Hollow), or Kyurem (Quincy) they way you'd like.

also we'll see kyou.

I worked hard on those pips. To everyone who got canned, I expect you to use them in your signature.

because I'm a big girl.

>Big Girl.

Wait, WHAT?!

EDIT:

I can see your point, but since Fullbringers/spiritual aware humans are part of Bleach, and thus so badly underutilized much like Quincy used to be (fuck you, Kubo, just... fuck you.), it also leaves a lot of room for people to actually play in a very large, very open sandbox where you actually have to show your skills and work harder to make a story line, to progress your character up the echelons of power, and, ultimately yes, become "relevant" to the world as a whole in comparison to how structured the Quincy, Shinigami, and Arrancar paths are.

It's, to me anyway, basically playing Dante Must Die Mode rather than playing Normal or Hard Mode. 

No, not everyone's going to make it. No, not everyone's going to ever match up to what "relevant" means in an individual's eyes because that definition varies from person to person and thus doesn't actually matter in a roleplay forum.

What are they doing to harm you other than being a rather gigantic eyesore, apparently? Nothing. That's about the gist of it. 

They're playing out characters, and who knows?

Some of them may be playing the long haul tale; from cradle to grave and what lies beyond it.

 

 

>Big Girl.

 

Wait, WHAT?!

 

sry.

to clarify. I write jian as a I've got weird powers and I fight hollows and am learning about the world around me kind of story. he's gonna grow, he's gonna try to stop conflict, he's gonna try to fix the rukongai and bring peace to the spiritual world. and I should not feel guilty because he's a human telling a human story in a universe that was conceived as dbz but with swords. :I telling me how to play make belief in my universe that's basically dbz with swords, why I oughtta.

edit: it's not that you picked the wrong words, you just think the wrong things.

humans for life

human domination.

(jk)

I don't think that's what mentally flipped dear sekai Jian.