Schrödinger's Player Character: Difference between revisions

* Averted in ''[[Nethack]]''. You in fact see many characters in the Astral Plane. However, they all have cheap plastic copies of the [[MacGuffin|Amulet of Yendor]], whereas you have the real thing (hopefully).

 

* Averted in ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]''. It establishes that all other player origins actually happened (presumably including the potential player characters) but without Duncan in the right place at the right time, it's almost certain that most, if not all, ended up dead. Entirely certain, for some origins. Players familiar with alternate origins who are willing to poke around a bit can generally find a nod to the other origins somewhere—usually where a character of that origin would get extra dialogue. Such moments include:

** If you rescue the Dwarven Commoner's friend from prison and you're not a Dwarven Noble, his friend is a rotted skeleton in the next cell over. Sorry, alterna-me.

* Averted in the ''[[Threads of Fate]]'' game which allows you to play as either Rue or Mint. Whoever does not get chosen still shows up in the game and goes on similar missions.

** But also played straight to the effect that {{spoiler|playing as Mint completely ruins Rue's goal by the ending.}}

* Played straight in both ''[[Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance]]'' games.

* Variation: in the original ''[[Persona]]'', there are five possible party members - Brown, Ayase, Yukino, Elly, and [[Guide Dang It|(if you jump through the right hoops)]] Reiji. You get to recruit one of them. (Possibly two if you take the Snow Queen path, if you replace Ayase with Nanjo, the latter of which is prerequisite for the SEBEC story.) The rest? Well, who knows what happens to them?