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AFK: The Webseries
Age, Race, Gender | | |
AFK is a web series that follows the misadventures of a group of gamers who mysteriously wake up in the bodies of their online characters. Gender swapped, confused and out of their element, they must work together to survive in a hostile new world.
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From: cj
, 100 months, post #1 |
In the new entry for the webvideo AFK: The Series
, the major element is listed as a body swap. I'm not sure what I
would consider it, to be quite honest... but body swap didn't sound
quite right to me from the impressions that I was getting from the
other thread here.
Does anyone have a better category, or do you all feel that "body
swap" is best for this one?
And now my ignorance begins to wear through (again)... are Gnomes
and Elves a different race or different species than us? I would
think that perhaps Mythical would be most appropriate, and thus my
question moot. ~shrug~
I still haven't had a chance to watch the series myself, so I'm
just wanting to make sure that we are as accurate as we can be with
the categories... and the entry here.
Thanks.
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From: guest (TheSaint)
, 100 months, post #2 |
It's not really a swap. It's more like Tron.
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From: cj
, 100 months, post #3 |
Okay, that's easier for me to grasp.
Something like, "they were sucked into the game and transformed
into their avatars / characters." So more like a transformation
than a swap.
Thank you TheSaint. We'll see if this is something that others
agree with, and then we'll make the appropriate change(s).
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From: guest
, 100 months, post #4 |
Tron is a good comparison. I'm not sure "transformation" is quite
right, though. The characters have their consciousnesses places in
the bodies of their characters rather than entering the game and
then transforming into their characters. But we haven't seen
anything to make us think that it's a two-way transfer, with the
characters in the players' bodies, so I wouldn't call it a body
swap. Possession, maybe? I can't really think of a category that
perfectly fits.
I agree that "mythical" is a better fit than "race". Gnomes, elves,
and orcs are races in the D&D sense of the word, but I wouldn't
consider them races in the real-world sense of the word. "Mythical"
works, though. I've seen similar transformations described as
mythical.
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From: guest (guest)
, 100 months, post #5 |
I agree that Tron is a better comparison than a body swap. The
characters became their game avatars. They didn't swap with a
particular person. The comic Double Jumpers featured an actual swap
with the characters inhabiting the bodies of the players and vice
versa. That doesn't seem to be what is happening here.
I also like mythical over species. I'd keep gender, age and race in
the list.
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From: Greg
, 100 months, post #6 |
We could compare it to the entry Dara III in the database. The
situation is quite similar and though only gender was written as a
category, the text clearly says transformation.
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From: guest (Saint)
, 100 months, post #7 |
I'd also amend the entry to include AGE. There are a couple of
characters that are just kids in adult bodies.
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From: cj
, 100 months, post #8 |
Age is already listed.
I think this calls for a "new" category, perhaps. Maybe "Real to
Fictional Character" or perhaps "Videogame" or "Created" or
"User-Created" or "Avatar" would work better than "Fictional".
Let me know what you guys & gals think.
And I think we could then apply the same or similar TF category to
the Dara III and any other entries where appropriate. That's the
beauty of this flexible category thing Paul gave us.
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From: Holly Dunn
, 100 months, post #9 |
They seem to be real in that world. I'm not sure I would call it
fictional, because they seem to be in a different reality and there
aren't a lot of video game or VR effects and such.
It seems to me like a couple of gender transformations, some
mythical and monster transformations, and some age transformations.
Seems the straight up transformation categories on this site will
work. Definitely not body swap. That would imply the game
characters are in their bodies in the real world. I don't think
that happened. there was no swap.
Just a transformation.
If avatar isn't a category, maybe that could be added. But not a
swap. If they do a second season and the game characters are in the
real world with human intelligence in the characters' former
bodies, then it would be a swap.
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From: cj
, 100 months, post #10 |
I have no problem with Avatar as a category, for sure. We probably
do want to work on defining what we mean when it is used, though.
I like your thinking about just listing the regular TF categories,
Holly. That was something I've been thinking of myself. It seems to
be how the Dara III
entry is listed too.
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From: guest (Saint)
, 100 months, post #11 |
Whoops. I must have been looking at
Shadowhunters episode "The Mortal Cup"
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From: guest (Saint)
, 100 months, post #12 |
"Avatar" or "Mind Transfer" would be good additional categories
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From: cj
, 100 months, post #13 |
"Whoops. I must have been looking at
Shadowhunters episode "The Mortal Cup"
Ah. I would remind you that you could submit that change
yourself... But I'm pretty sure that you already know and have done
so previously. In any case, thanks for the catch, and I've made the
change to that entry.
Now... back to the topic.
I've added a quick description for the Avatar TF category / type. I
hope that it looks okay.
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From: cj
, 100 months, post #14 |
You can see how it looks if you search by:
Category
Avatar
or... I think this link
will work.
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