CR With Me | January 2015

[ironwood]

Welcome to the first CR meme of 2015, and of the new game arc! For players who've joined us since our last meme, these ~bimonthly memes are our opportunity to help establish an idea of what sort of CR you're looking for your characters. Because of this, we do ask that you be as specific as you can when replying to this meme! 'Our characters should team up to moon Tu Yunxu' is more useful than 'omg tag me.'

We have two helpful 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 got a section for indicating what kinds of CR you're especially looking for, as well as types of threads you're not interested in.

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 canon blind 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">ADDITIONAL:</font></b> Anything else you might want to add that doesn't fit into the above goes here.

Comments

[gistful]

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CHARACTER: Anton Shudder
CANON: Skulduggery Pleasant
PERSONALITY: Anton has a demon-thing inside him which makes it necessary for him not to ever get angry ever. Luckily he's pretty good at that, with a result that he ... never gets angry ever. In spite of being a living weapon, though, he's extremely maternal. Seriously. The bloke gave all the Foreigners socks for Christmas. He's everybody's mother. He's also five hundred years old, and owns the Midnight Hotel.

CURRENT STATUS: Thanks to the portable lanterns Anton can now go back to living at the Hotel full-time, and has. He welcomes Foreigners and kedan alike, and is aiming to reforge some of his contacts with the gangs. He's also managed to trade some of the Hotel's old electrical goods for a public console. He's not at this time involving himself in active plans regarding the kedan, however, preferring to take a longer route of letting familiarity breed some trust.
CR GOALS: I love playing Anton's maternal side, so I'd always love more of that, but I'd also like to develop some/more CR that's equal, people who get Anton to open up about himself and can approach him less as people that need to be mothered.

CHARACTER: Solomon Wreath
CANON: Skulduggery Pleasant
PERSONALITY: Solomon is a man of faith who originally put that faith is some less than ethical plans and is now struggling with putting it elsewhere. He's a necromancer and his magic is addictive in nature, which is a problem because since arriving in Keeliai he's gotten rocks-fall-everybody-dies powerful. That said Solomon values control and choice over power, so he's actively trying to avoid that 'rocks fall' eventuality.

CURRENT STATUS: His magical has pretty wildly destabilised so he's taken to wearing magic-binding restraints 24/7 so he doesn't go insane and use death-magic to kill everybody. So he's going to be focussing on that. He's also going to be focussing on patching Bakura's soul back together and figuring out this long-term relationship thing with Raine.
CR GOALS: I don't have any particular CR I'd like with Sol that I don't already have started, so for him I'm working on consolidating the CR he has now. Because of his own current problems he's going to be fairly insular anyway, and not tend to reach out much.

SCENE-DOS: I'm pretty open with everything. I prefer prose over actionspam but I'm not opposed to actionspam in the least, particularly if that's how a thread starts. I do especially love character-driving threads, though; not necessarily the ones that are overly emotional so much as the ones that let me discover things about the characters, their worlds and how they mesh. Also, I really love finishing threads to an IC conclusion, and I don't mind waiting for long periods if I have to and my thread-partners are really busy.

And a new one: I prefer letting things develop organically rather than with planning, because I like surprises, so aside from fight-scenes I will generally go 'let's throw these two together in this place and see what happens' more than anything else.
SCENE-DON'TS: Random small-talk, unless it's part of a larger conversation that will likely turn back to other topics, doesn't tend to grab my attention. Otherwise, the only 'don't' I have is that Anton and Solomon can't meet, being from the same canon. They've heard of each other so they can easily talk about one another, but I'd like to keep them apart as much as possible barring handwavable 'passing in the hall' type interactions.

ADDITIONAL:

[i_speak_softly]

*drops this and ninja-vanishes*

[gistful]

ITT: Anton is already mothering the newcomer.

ty!

[theideaguy]

Moar Anton/Sokka shenanigans. Anton is actually being a generally good mentor to Anton.

[gistful]

Anton is a good role-model for himself. /shot

But no really I would love that. Anton's the mothering type but it's been a long time since he actively guided kids and teens, as opposed to idiotic adults. Is there anything specifically you wanted for Sokka to have an adult opinion on?

[theideaguy]

Okay, good. :) So far, I'm digging their CR, and Sokka could always have a father figure in his life since Sokka practically hero-worships his dad. If you're up for it, me too!

I don't have a specific plan or any idea yet, but really, I think it'll get figured out in RP and over future CR. These two seem to work well off of one another as it is.

[gistful]

Definitely up for it.

They do! Anton will be keeping an eye on Sokka with his errands and things, because boys his age generally aren't interested in the whole housecleaning-and-paperwork thing, but if Sokka shows himself generally responsible and reliable he might start putting him on the desk for check-ins and things like that. So maybe we can have some kind of orientation thang.

[theideaguy]

He won't love it, but he'll do it. After all, things gotta get done, he supposes. If he gets upgraded to check-ins though, he will have a BALL of a time. He's definitely happiest as an extrovert.

Oh god I can see this now. And it's scary wonderful.

[gistful]

The Official Midnight Hotel Meeter and Greeter and Checker-Inner!

And then all the Hotel's paperwork made the shift into Chinese. Assuming that's the analogous language for ATLA.

[theideaguy]

That's how I'm RPing it, yes.

Thank you Google Translate.

Job security, there. ;)

[gistful]

Yeah it'd be terrible if anyone got hold of them boring patron records. /snrk/

It won't be a big shift, anyway, since Anton is absurdly well-travelled and half his paperwork is probably already in a smattering of different languages.

[walkthedarkpath]

I would very much like to do more with Anton! I am sometimes guilty of the small talk stuff, so if that happens please don't hesitate to poke me on plurk and I can fix it right up! I have enjoyed the scene with you and Line thus far and am very excited about learning more about Anton.

and possibly reading this awesome series I had never heard of before.

[gistful]

Cheers. :D I'm interested in the dynamic too, since Dante works for Anton and Nelo has a definite chip on his shoulder regarding all things Dante-related. XD Anton doesn't have any experience in mental control but if he finds out more about Nelo's circumstances he may still be able to help--he's basically got a demon inside him he keeps under tight control at all times, so he might be able to help in terms of meditation/willpower/maintaining self.

Do iiiiiiiiiiit join uuuus

[walkthedarkpath]

Oh that sounds very fun! We are going to have lots of fun I do beleive!

Maybe once I finish Good Omens~

[gistful]

Eeexcellent.

Also a good choice.