CR With Me | March 2013

[ironwood]

Hello, chelonauts! This marks the start of our six-week interval for CR With Me memes!

As usual, when plotting out any CR potential, please be as specific as you can! 'Our characters should go for coffee next week' is going to help establish an idea of what sort of CR you're looking for better than 'omg tag me.'

Mind that the form is still a bit different, including the two recently added sections titled "Current Status" for a summary of what your character's been up to and "CR Goals" for the plotting and discussion of gaps in your character's CR spectrum that you would like to fill! We've also added a bit for plotting regarding the upcoming Decay of Tu Vishan event and longterm impact (rationing).

CR With Me Form:
<div style="font-family: Impact;font-size: 30px;color: #bf0206;padding-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;">PLAYER NAME HERE</div> <font face="georgia"><b>CHARACTER:</font></b> <b><font face="georgia">CANON:</font></b> <b><font face="georgia">PERSONALITY:</b></font> Please give us a brief description of your character, to give anyone canonblind an idea of where the CR might go! <b><font face="georgia">CURRENT STATUS:</font></b> Optionally, you can give a quick rundown of what your character's been up to in the game and their short-term goals. <b><font face="georgia">CR GOALS:</font></b> What's your dream CR to obtain this month? Do you want to work on developing current CR or splash into something new? <b><font face="georgia">SCENE-DOS:</font></b> What sort of things are you looking to write with this character? Are you a prose sort of person or action spam all the way? Do you prefer network interactions to face-to-face? Do you like angst, fluff, drama, plot-based scenes, all of the above? <b><font face="georgia">SCENE-DON'TS:</font></b> What sort of things are you a little more lukewarm about in regards to this character, or would rather flat-out avoid? Do you absolutely hate writing negative CR? Would you sooner chuck you laptop out a window before you write one more slice-of-life thread? All those considerations can go here. <b><font face="georgia">THE DECAY OF TU VISHAN/RATIONING:</font></b> Do you have any particular reactions to the upcoming event in mind? Plotting directions? How will your character adapt? <b><font face="georgia">ADDITIONAL:</font></b> Anything else you might want to add that doesn't fit into the above goes here.

A reminder that the main portion of the Decay event will kick off March 19th, but there will be longterm effects felt all over Keeliai -- so feel free to plot into the future!

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spencer reid

[polyhistor]

CHARACTER: Spencer Reid
CANON: Criminal Minds
PERSONALITY: Reid is a genius with an eidetic memory. He's a sweetheart that likes halping people but isn't afraid to stand up for himself when/where it's necessary. He's got some issues of his own he deals with from time to time, the primary one being 'abandonment'. He's hit pretty hard without his team, which is something he's come to rely on a lot over almost a decade of working with them. :c
CURRENT STATUS: Reid has spent most of his time so far trying to learn anything he can about the turtle, while ignoring the fact that the husband of his BFF was here and he lost him. (No really, he blames himself for that like you wouldn't believe). He's keeping to himself a little not because it's in his nature but because he's used to having people who tug him out to do things and he lacks that safety net here. I'm pretty sure at some point he'll pop up and be like 'oh my god it's March how did this happen'.
CR GOALS: Honestly, Reid just needs friends. People who are outgoing and non-threatening are a big plus. Reid also gets protective of people younger than him that he can relate to or see himself in, since he was a Child Prodigy Genius and he knows the specific difficulties of growing up like that.
SCENE-DOS: Reid will ask questions about anything he's unfamiliar with, and if your characters are willing to sit down with him and talk about their worlds/magic/nature/etc he will absorb everything he can and come back with a doctorate in the subject love every minute of it. However, that stuff can be a little tedious to write, so is probably best partially handwaved? Reid is my more slice-of-lifey character so anything that's kind of adorable or fluffy would be a-okay, but he can also do Action Reid things if necessary. (HE HAS A GUN. SOMETIMES HE EVEN KNOWS WHICH END TO HOLD)
SCENE-DON'TS: As above, I'll try anything once.
THE DECAY OF TU VISHAN/RATIONING: Reid is going to be in the thick of everything trying to Solve Things. If your character needs a genius, give him a shout! He will absolutely be doing everything he can to help and he knows things like chemistry/engineering/etc.

[flawedgoods]

Also if you want friends we could try shoving Bryn at him again? Your call <3

[cowled]

Cutest frands. They can maybe hang out during the decay and she can be his go-fer while he's doing science to the turtle? :3

[flawedgoods]

She would be happy to help :3 She could gopher for Bruce, help in the fields, and then help Reid?

For someone raised with servants she's surprisingly content to help others/serve others :|a

[depicted]

ALSO I am pretty sure I need to give Reid a heartattack at one point. The possibility of being flirted with by Dorian Gray is in his future!

[cowled]

I think I just need to start referring to my characters as 'Dorian's Harem + Brandon' unless Dorian would go for an almost-eighteen year old.


...


Not sure if want answer to that.

[depicted]

that's fair because they are or will be. though hey I want your Brandon CR too!!!!!







but yeah no the writers of the series totally vetoed the idea of writing something with Dorian sleeping with someone underage and I ALSO WISH TO NOT GO THERE EVER so Brandon is save from his seducing ways

[cowled]

tbh Brandon would probably end up with a crush on Dorian tho. :c Since Dorian is in a lot of ways what he'd like to grow up to be and there's a lot of self-hating narcissism in this boy's repertoire.

Ergo.

[depicted]

Brandon that's adorable but also no don't have a crush on him

Dorian would think it is cute though! He just would avoid taking advantage of it. and also perhaps he might attempt teach by example the amazing power of embracing your nonheteronormative sexuality!!!!

[cowled]

oh my god can we do this.


FUCK IT, I'M MONOPOLIZING YOU INDEFINITELY. I do what I want. (nottalking)

[depicted]

I am okay with this. UHMM not sure when you want to do any of these things! possibly I could do a catch-all log post and demand you all up in them (I know you are on hiatusish + INJURED IN THE TYPING LIMBS so we can do it whenever and I'm not worried about AC this month or anything)

[cowled]

I'm off hiatus on the 25th and I'm trying not to tag around too much until then just to give my damn arm a break. Of course I'm the Best Hiatuser so we'll see how that sticks...

[depicted]

I've got the usual end-of-term-piles-of-papers thing going on so I say we hold out until later, doing whatever as they come, and then when we emerge from our bogs we can sort out doing what we have yet to do. But at some point within the next six weeks, I will monopolize your time by threading:

1) BRUCEMAN BATWAYNE of some sort
2) Reid getting to meet another literary character who will probably engage him in discussion sorry
3) Brandon meeting the worst person ever to look up to

?

[littlecousin]

hi dr. reid you're drafted

ignore mr. stark he's always like that

[cowled]

Reid actually likes Tony so far. SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS HIS LANGUAGE (yay)(yay)(yay)

He's like Replacement Non-Comic Sciencebro at this point.

[controlledvariable]

Do I even need to say anything?

also fucking cackling about "SOMETIMES HE EVEN KNOWS WHICH END TO HOLD" did you see the picture I posted of Matthew holding his gun the wrong way around?

[cowled]

you need

to say everything

obviously.


AND YES THAT'S WHY I SAID IT ACTUALLY because omg he is such a cutie I can't.

[controlledvariable]

but that's so many words

and i'm so lazy

but really okay brandon and steph need to sort shit out, i miss bruce in my rp life, more spencer and steph being adorable. maybe i should try to throw steph at aisha again because clearly i need all your cr

okay omg good because yes he really is the cutest

[traumatizing]

people younger than him he can relate to you say

I always come to you like "these two should interact BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW" I'm sorry I just want them to be friends so badly

[cowled]

can they just strike up a random conversation and spend ten hours talking about something without realizing it


and then they come out feeling like they need a cigarette.

Re: spencer reid

[wintershepherd]

Jack thought Reid was cool but someone that smart is intimidating as hell. IDK what we can do with that, if anything.

[cowled]

I can't remember, could Reid see Jack or was that an audio-only conversation? :|a

[wintershepherd]

It was a video conversation based on the subject header lol, but I don't think any reference was mentioned to whether Reid took any visual note of Jack on the feed, so we could probably go either way with it.