Hmm.
Well, I'd offer, say, three bits of reassurance.
First, regardless of how much self-confidence you may or may not have in your character writing, I've never found it to be an issue. If it is, indeed, a weak point, then it's one that your strengths - your ability to find an idea and concept that's just pure fun, and your talent for comic writing - carry before them without noticeable effort.
Second, one of the strengths of the RP format for storytelling is that it doesn't rely entirely on the skills, inspiration, or aptitudes of just one person. Often, what one player or GM finds to be a weak point, others can pick up on their own. Acyl once ran a game I was in that had forty-one pages of PC interaction before he had to make a single post.
Third, we've got a divergence 22 years in the past and near-human aliens and psychic powers and giant humanoid robots. We're obviously in Deep Pulp territory no matter what happens, and the strong, early divergence can be spun to allow pretty much any change you like.
Or, heck, go the Strike Witches route (no, Razor, not that route. put your pants back on.) and just say it's a completely original world that's Just Coincidentally (andbythatwemeansuspiciously) Similar To Our Own Of The Period.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Well, I'd offer, say, three bits of reassurance.
First, regardless of how much self-confidence you may or may not have in your character writing, I've never found it to be an issue. If it is, indeed, a weak point, then it's one that your strengths - your ability to find an idea and concept that's just pure fun, and your talent for comic writing - carry before them without noticeable effort.
Second, one of the strengths of the RP format for storytelling is that it doesn't rely entirely on the skills, inspiration, or aptitudes of just one person. Often, what one player or GM finds to be a weak point, others can pick up on their own. Acyl once ran a game I was in that had forty-one pages of PC interaction before he had to make a single post.
Third, we've got a divergence 22 years in the past and near-human aliens and psychic powers and giant humanoid robots. We're obviously in Deep Pulp territory no matter what happens, and the strong, early divergence can be spun to allow pretty much any change you like.
Or, heck, go the Strike Witches route (no, Razor, not that route. put your pants back on.) and just say it's a completely original world that's Just Coincidentally (andbythatwemeansuspiciously) Similar To Our Own Of The Period.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."