Story Guidelines

The story guidelines are the unspoken/spoken rules that creators follow when making Ploys of Wrath. Unlike the (Arbitrary) Rules of Exa Reviva, these are actually rules that are good to follow.

General Rules

 * Motivation is a key thing to everything. When it comes to "why", there is always motivation. It should be behind almost everything.
 * No matter how happy you want your sweet li'l baby to be, you mustn't make them or others act out of character just to make them feel better.
 * AND no matter how sad you want your piece of garbage to be, you mustn't make them or others act out of character just to make them feel worse.
 * For some reason, a lot of the main goals behind the plot points are to make the Otamatone God's characters happy and the Butt's characters sad. Ironically, this is mainly the Butt's doing.
 * The exceptions to this are Paulen, Alyssa, Tony, and Katie.
 * This entire story is an A.U., so anything can happen.
 * Timeline resets and event erasing are relatively common.
 * If a character dies, it will probably be reset.

Characters

 * Your character should abide by any world rules, and preferably, also setting rules. (The Otamatone God thinks most rebel characters are trash, even his own.)
 * If your character DOES break setting rules, they will be punished. No whining or changing rules is allowed.
 * You REALLY should change any characters identified by the other writers as a Mary Sue.
 * The only exception to this is if your character is designed to be Mary Sue for whatever reason.
 * Your character can not be extremely similar to another character (either yours or other ones), because you might as well just use the pre-existing character.
 * Your character should have a determined sex (or lack thereof) and gender, because characters with "mystery" genders are garbage fire (and it distracts from their actual character).
 * Your character should have a determined skin tone, hair color, and eye color, even if they are wearing hair dye, tanner, or color contacts, unless there is some story reason why this is kept secret.
 * Your character's physical traits should make sense for their age, gender, species, etc.
 * If your character has an exaggerated trait (really big boobs, ankle-length hair, etc.), there should be ways they have to deal with it.
 * If your character has mental problems, they should be treated by other characters accordingly (this includes yandere characters, which are garbage anyway).
 * Make your character's name pronouncable.
 * Your character really shouldn't be terminal or suffering from a fatal injury, because that would be depressing.
 * No baddy-no-no things, this is family-friendly.