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Update: Since Media Controls is getting an update in story and development, I have thought about the fan character making. I have had pretty bad situations with people stealing and copying, and plagiarizing my work during these years which have been stressful for me. And since I originally didn't even plan to make this concept open for just anyone to use (but people started making them anyway and broke the design rules)I request if you didn't make fan characters for my personal project.
I made this guide for clarification how the designs work in this world, but it just brought more light onto my project and brought more people in to make characters based on my project. Obviously I can't stop anyone from making fan characters, but it would be my wish if people didn't. And I hope you understand and respect that.
I hate how selfish this sounds, i just want to protect my work. I just want to stop this before it gets out of hand, even though it might be too late.
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Cleaned up the information with the help of Sycopomp . Hopefully this is clearer now!
Controls belong exclusively to the story they were made for: Media Controls. They are not an adoptable species, meaning you cannot sell designs of them, use them in your own stories, or claim ownership over their conception. The following guide is to help you through the creation process of an accurate-to-canon Fan Character (FC)!
"Media Controls" is the title of the story. The main cast of characters in the story are a species called controls. There are other species in the story (Loadings, Data, Viruses, Glitches, Bugs) that have different design rules than controls. This guide will focus on controls.
There are three subspecies of controls: Media Controls, Commands, and Functions. Fundamentally there are no real differences between each subspecies, but in real life a control is something on your computer that performs a certain task. An arrow key is a command, your saving is a function, etc.
This is a comprehensive list of all of the canonically accepted controls:Media Controls: Eject, Loop, Mute, Pause, Play, Record, Repeat, Rewind, Shuffle, Stop, Volume.
Commands: Alt, Arrow Keys (Up, Down, Left, Right), Backspace, Caps, Copy, Ctrl, Cut, Delete, End, Esc, Paste, Print Screen, Space.
Functions: Brightness, Cursor, Download, History, Info, Power, Refresh, Reset, Save, Search, Zoom.
(If it's not on the list, it's not in the canon!
Character Creation Notes:
- A control chooses their appearance when they are created, and can modify it slightly when they respawn. Their mass must remain the same; ie. a control cannot develop four new arms without first taking that mass away from another part of their body.
- Similarly, controls choose their pronouns. Physically they are genderless.
- A control gains a new eye upon respawn. The number of eyes a control has equates to the number of times they have died.
- When they die, controls lose a portion of their memories. These memories can be absorbed by anyone, so long as both of them have at least one eye, and the control hasn't respawned yet. (Viruses and bugs can also pick up memories; Loadings are capable of it, but typically don't.)
- If a control loses a limb, they lose a portion of their memories.
- Every control has at least one colour in their design; their eyes, saliva, tears, and blood are all the same colour, and cannot be black/white/gray. Controls can have up to three colours in their design, including their eye colour. They can also have black, white, and gray accents on their design. (A control with no eyes or scars can appear monochrome [black/white/gray], but their blood/tears would have colour.)
- A control's pupils can be a colour other than black. (Eye and pupil colours cannot change in different eyes, however; ex. one black pupil and one red pupil, or one blue eye and one green eye.)
- Controls don't sleep, though they do need to rest if they expend a lot of energy.
- Controls are able to summon a floating screen which connects them to the System's equivalent of the "internet," allowing them to store items, change outfits, contact other controls, etc.
- Because of the way they are created, controls do not have physical genders, nor the capacity for romantic love. Likewise they do not have families; parents, siblings, cousins, etc. are concepts that do not exist in the Media Controls world.
World Notes:
- Every System is different from each other. Laws, culture, technology, etc. all vary from one System to the next. Each System has different roles for their controls as well. (Ex. Power and Delete are the leaders in the Media Controls story, but another System might have Reset as the leader. Some Systems may not even have a leader.)
- Each System can only create one of each control. If that control leaves, becomes a bug, or is eaten by a virus, then the System cannot replace it. The only way to get a new version of that control is for one to come from a different System.
- A System can only register one of each control at a time; if a visiting control is not part of the System, it cannot respawn in that System. A new control must register themselves at the Heart of the System to become a part of it, and to be able to respawn there.
- Shortcuts are the name for the windows/portals that lead to different worlds in the System. The USB port is a doorway that leads to the Void, which is populated with Systems. The Void is also home to viruses, glitches, bugs, and the occasional lost control.
- Bytes are the currency in Systems.
- Since controls don't need to sleep, nighttime is meant for relaxation and fun.
Viruses, DATA and Glitches:
More info may be added later!
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If it stays as a media control fan character, then yes. But it can't be used as a separate oc.
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Lol when I just showed my sister this she said it reminded her of Steven Universe
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I CANT DO THE FRICKING HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Just to ask is "ShutDown" a thing I could use?
Because isn't it on like every device?
I never saw anyone do Shutdown.
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That would just be Power.
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Idk how Shut down would be power if it’s the opposite of Power like black is Shut Down and White is Power like On and Off
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You press power to shut it down. That's why.
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Cause I have a great design for it
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But is it ok if I make shut down and power two different people?
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I have two questions about the media controls,
"What media controls are on the canon list?
And
"Is there a possibility that there can be more than one kind of media control, like, can there be two Stop's but with different designs?"
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It's the list marked with the
There can be more than one Stop, but they can't be born from the same system.
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would "open" or "print" be acceptable?
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They're not in the canon list, but you can do them if you want.
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*heavy breathing* it's perfect
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Quick question, lore-wise, how is a control made? Do they just pop into existence, or is it more complicated than that?
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Basically just pops into existence yeah.
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Are we allowed to make Virus/Glitch FCs? Or are they still a work in progress?
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Virus guide is in the description.
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Please call it a FC (Fan Character).
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Okay. When I submitit, I'll send it here.
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I'ma try mah best to make one >:3
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So this smol boi is Anti-Virus, or AV for short. He may be small, but don't mess with him. He's friends w/ the very tall Firewall (Who is a wip).
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Hello! I merely wondered what you thought of the characters I made based off yours ^^
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Hey UnknownSpy ! I was wondering if my Finder oc would fall into the commands or the functions.
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Well, "Finder" is mac only, if I remember right. And it's not part of the canon control list. You can keep it, however, it's the same thing as Search. So if you want it to be closer to canon, you can change them to "Search".
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There's something about how strict you are about fan characters that always confuses me, is it going for a closed species thing? Otherwise why can't people interpret the canon themselves. These reads less as a 'guide to the lore' and more of a 'you will be shunned for going off canon' thing. If it's not being sold and run as a closed species type community where traits are managed, why CAN'T people make animal versions of the world and such? I can't figure out if these are arpg rules (in which case sure, enforce whatever rules you want for participation) or which fan characters you'll show any love for (in which case, dude, lighten up - this is overkill. You don't need to publically control how people express love and interest in your stuff?)
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Everyone else got them though.
As long as they are called fan characters and are not used in any other worlds than the media controls world, then everything is fine.
That's exactly why I try to loosen up. I used to want to be sure that everyone followed the rules, but because this thing became more popular than expected I needed to give more creative freedom. And this wasn’t supposed to be something people were allowed to create characters for in the first place, but since people started creating them without knowing what rules I set for myself, I had to create these rules for others.
It's a mess which I am trying to clean up and simplify.
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That's 100% legit, I was just very confused by a lot of the wording in this post. Like vocalizing your 'fondness' over people following these rules or putting hard stops on things you don't deem in your parameters. I was trying to find out if there was a like 'Approval Only' group that would merit this level of moderation in the first place - if that makes sense
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The Media Controls fan characters is an idea that isn't allowed outside, you can't call them your oc's (they are after all fan characters) or use them as if they are fully your own and the concept has it's rules and guidelines, after all it wouldn't be a fan character if it didn't actually fit into the world. I get it if you are confused about certain things but in that case you could just ask the creator, this comment of yours seems rather rude.
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Thanks for answering I was hoping people would chime in
But like, what enforces that? I don't understand the motivation or incentive to control fan content to this extent. It's not being monetized, so it's not one of those pay-to-join things, other people aren't breaching copyright by breaking these rules and making their own characters - so why put so much pressure on how to worldbuild in this setting? Plenty of people make fan characters of different franchises and call them ocs. You would, for instance, see people arguing that the characters 'don't follow canon' if someone made like... a neon green my little pony character - but no one would argue it ISN'T a my little pony character, just that the person au'd it differently
Put it this way actually - if this post was framed as 'here are the rules I set for myself in designing media controls' I'd see no issue. making your own lore and world is fun and you can throw as many rules at it as you want.
But this comments section is FULL of people going like 'I have x/y idea!' and it being shut down. I don't think these people should need permission or guidance in interpreting someone else's lore their own way.
Why, for instance, can't people just go 'hey I loved the concept but wanted to try it with all animal shaped designs'. Why can't people try out making their own interpretations of how viruses could work since there's no lore YET? why CAN'T people interpret the media controls as they'd look under different operating systems? What's stopping people from interpreting what counts as a 'control' differently?
Unless of course, it was to gain entry into some kind of community with those rules?? In which case it's up to their discretion of course - I just can't figure out if there IS a community here with a bar for entry, or if ALL fan characters are being moderated. Which seems... unnecessary?
I was concerned it'd come off as rude but aspects of this post have been bothering the back of my mind off and on for a while.
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Im going to use my already existing OCs and turn them into a system! This is going to be so much fun!
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is click or double-click an available control/ control name?
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I said clearly which controls are acceptable. However, I'm not stopping you if you want to create your own controls.
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Click on him to see his backstory
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i have a quick question are we allowed to make a character with an x or star shaped head ?
or is it not allowed as its rare?
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You can make that, yeah. That would be a rare head shape. So don't make every character of yours have that shape haha
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Damn the Media’s are very well thought out! Great job on them! You put some seriously amazing thought into them!
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