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Old 10-11-2014, 12:22 PM   #1
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Default Unearthly Beauty: as a bad thing.

The White Wolf game Aberrant had a disadvantage called Unearthly Beauty. Your character was truely beautiful but in a creepy "Uncanny Valley" sort of way.

In their game it would cover something like the superguy who is so perfect that he seems totally unreal. I could see the same thing in a horror or Unban fantasy game. Picture a little girl who has a doll-like beauty. A beauty so flawless you wonder if a real living child could be so flawless. In fantasy the cold beauty of the varrious "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" types stands out as an example. In science fiction the android or transhuman who is so perfect in the beauty they unnerve people around them. The idea of a kind of beauty, compelling and unnerving is common in a lot of fantastic literature. So...how would this work mechanically?

Thank you for your help.
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