CR With Me | March 2015

[ironwood]

GUYS GUYS I REMEMBERED THE BIMONTHLY MEME IN THE CORRECT MONTH LOOK AT ME GO

hey! it's time for a cr with me meme! Welcome to the spring edition of the CR Meme! Now that we've gotten settled into the new storyline, it's time to start heating things up in the big turtle city. 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. ALSO this month, we have a special addition called "4th Wall Plans", in case you want to talk about or be enabled into some ideas you have for the upcoming April 4th wall event. Want to inflict extra chaos on Keeliai, but not sure who to bring? Link your muselist! 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">4TH WALL PLANS:</font></b> Anything else you might want to add that doesn't fit into the above goes here. <b><font face="georgia">ADDITIONAL:</font></b> Anything else you might want to add that doesn't fit into the above goes here.

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[backwordscompatible]

HINA

CHARACTER: Zatanna Zatara
CANON: Young Justice
PERSONALITY: Fun, flirty, and with an insatiable wunderlust for life...Zatanna's been a part of Keelai for longer than any other Foreigner, and it's shown. She's grown a lot. Possibly even matured (GASP). She's still managed to keep her sense of humor and positive way of distracting thinking, but she's also far more experienced and realistic than Day One
CURRENT STATUS: Living at the Welcome Center, Dating Jack Frost, Collaborating with a few like-minded individuals over this whole puzzle business, focusing on settling back into the City and helping newcomers in any way she can. Answering all the questions.
CR GOALS: She's easily the most social of the three, so I would love to get her out there and encountering some of the more recent additions. Her latest post was a good start, and I'm trying to think of some open posts that can offer her more opportunities. Maybe touching upon some of her Keelai past. Shops she'd visited, old NPCs and kedan locals especially bitties she'd known.


CHARACTER: Midii Une
CANON: Gundam Wing: Episode Zero
PERSONALITY: Severely Introverted, Midii is always willing to talk but difficult to trust. She's loved and lost...and loved again, and lost that too...in fact, a majority of her life (both canon & in-game) has been about having that fleeting glimpse of happiness before having that happiness taken away from her in some fashion. So she's regressed emotionally and quick to snap. But if treated with a decent amount of respect, she's open to intellectual conversations. They can even be pleasant.
CURRENT STATUS: Midii is one of the people who is actually pretty okay at the Hotel. Despite the slight craziness of people coming in and out all the time, she's taken on a more nocturnal schedule so she can wander around at night, when it's peaceful. Her current way of earning money is to do small odd jobs for businesses. It's not steady, but it's honest. And it gives her an excuse to wander the streets, trying to build up all the Intel she lost with a year's stay in the Dream realm.
CR GOALS: The girl needs more friends. Seriously. I'm perfectly okay with Negative CR, but it's almost too easy for her, so for once I'd like to focus on something a bit more positive. She's also 14 now, complete with teenage hormones and all sorts of growing pains she doesn't understand because there's nobody to explain it to her.


CHARACTER: Aya
CANON: Green Lantern: The Animated Series
PERSONALITY: Aya is young and far more rebellious than one might expect from an Artificial Intelligence. Her reactions are often surprisingly organic, and carry emotional ties behind it. That being said, she is still both highly intelligent and aware of this intelligence. Not to the point of bragging, but to the point where she has no need for false modesty and would rather get the job done than spend time allocating to someone of lesser knowledge. Oh, yeah, and anybody who questions her status as a real, living being? That's her one major sore spot.
CURRENT STATUS: Working for Zanru at Stark Industries. Being taught the meaning of Snowball Fights and their significance to certain Friendships by one Tony Stark. Current advocating for teaching more advanced computer classes and proposing theories to upgrade and improve Turtle-wide technologies. Also received a mysterious message, but baffled due to the fact that it is not any form of encryption code she would be familiar with.
CR GOALS: My favorite thing in the world is people teaching her about different customs and traditions. Holidays. Emotions. She has a lot of patience for stories.

SCENE-DOS: Networks are great for spontaneous interactions, though I am not above doing logs. If I have some pre-set plans; I find it a bit more difficult to tag into face-to-face interactions for some reason. Which isn't to say that I won't, just...Networks are definitely my preference for New CR.
SCENE-DON'TS: The only thing I ever ask to take into consideration are character ages. Zatanna is 17 going on 18, Midii is 14, and Aya is...complicated. Chronologically ~2, physically/emotionally ~17/18. Also, of the three, Aya is absolutely closed to anything romantic, though friendships are perfectly fine.

4TH WALL PLANS: I don't have any definitive plans, though possible considerations include Enzo Matrix, Phryne Fisher, and Hazel Levesque though I am also open to requests.

ADDITIONAL:

[merb]

Aya is that robot sass. are you robot sassing.

[ruinsprofessor]

We had a thread way back with Raine and Midii that I actually really enjoyed and thought was very sweet. I don't know if that's something you'd enjoy following up as well, but Raine can provide big sister and/or friend, and is almost guaranteed to come at the interactions with respect, so... maybe?

[valevectorian]

Numi

CHARACTER: Accelerator
CANON: Toaru Majutsu no Index
PERSONALITY: He's a rude, verbally abrasive, cynical, sarcastic, and apathetic guy who's spent most of his life being treated like an inhuman monster and a prized research subject because of the incredible value of his psychic ability. As a result he just generally does not like or trust people. He highly idolizes heroic types and hates to see bad things happen to good people, and his view on morality is still a little embarrassing despite all the progress he's made lately. Whee~ He will probably act like a jerk to most people just to keep up a distance, but for someone as antisocial as him he can appreciate, if warily, having personal connections of the friend or family type. He just thinks people are better off without him.

CURRENT STATUS: Currently living in the Midnight Hotel and paying for his room and board by doing accounting stuff. Also has a temporary job at the palace demolition site literally taking the place of the wrecking balls or explosives. He just got off of quarantine and will be back there soon. The things he's willing to suffer through for some goddamn juulan. Outside of that, he is either a recluse in the Hotel or out and about in the various sectors trying to learn this place some. Reluctantly. His motivation, it is largely not there.

CR GOALS: He's still new and a giant antisocial tsunbutt. I'll take anything that forces him to be remotely social. Most especially anyone who doesn't mind CR rife with bickering, snark, and Accel being an easily annoyed, argumentative stick in the mud. Especially if any of you friendlier types can put up with him. He could really use it.

He's from somewhere somewhat technologically advanced, and he built the mecha cane that he uses. Anything technologically or mechanically inclined would not be a bad starting point, if set up correctly.

SCENE-DOS: I like a good blend of In-Person Interactions and Network Interactions. The problem with relying too much on the network for him is the whole 'giving him a reason to reply to people's posts' thing, which is why he's been sparse there so far. As a result, in-person stuff may be better for the time being until he gets to know more people and can drum up the effort to be more active on the network. For scene types, I'm not too picky as long as it isn't too heavily plotty. I prefer mini, self-contained plots over larger ones. For tagging style, I love commentspam and am pretty quick at it. Prose is still awesome, but may be slower; my other game is faster than TS, log-heavy, and I do mostly prose for those.

SCENE-DON'TS: Just two things come to mind. The first is no romance please - he's not interested, likely never will be. As for the second, I am fine with negative CR—he's always likely to have some, by virtue of being himself. However, I do prefer it to actually lead somewhere instead of promptly giving my character zero reason to ever interact with the other party again. Which... has happened a few times, but oh well.

4TH WALL PLANS: Don't got nothin'.

ADDITIONAL: N/A

[denyamenti]

I really want Accel and Bakura to meet again here. Plus they can snark at each other equally acerbically. As for how to get that initiated... I guess, if Accelerator is looking to make some extra money, maybe Anton could point him in the direction of other Foreigner-owned business? The dojo is technically a business and while Bakura CAN do the bookkeeping, it's not high on his list of enjoyable things to waste time on.

idk I'm fishing here help

[akito]

Gonna get to my tags lateerrrr but ANY HOPES TO WHERE THIS CR WILL GO? +u+

[stonebird]

Riddle

CHARACTER: Sansa Stark "Alayne Stone"
CANON: A Song of Ice and Fire
PERSONALITY: Polite, proper (always a lady), kind and prone to anxiety/depression. She is also fragile, emotionally and physically. No matter how much she hides behind the identity of Alayne, what she has endured as Sansa cannot be forgotten (i.e. mental and physical abuse, severe loss and grief etc.).

She also has a sharp tongue at times - sometimes bordering on sarcastic and/or bratty. However, as Alayne, she is more reserved and careful about what she says. A bastard isn't a Stark; the pride of said noble family isn't hers to own.

CURRENT STATUS: She is sewing/repairing fabric as an occupation, learning self-defense from Anton Shudder (and maybe Valdis?) and trying to form a new life for herself.

CR GOALS: Everything/everyone is welcome. ♥ Good CR (friends etc.) and bad CR (enemies etc.) are loved.

SCENE-DOS: I'm slower with log tags. Network tags/action tags are easier for me to do quickly. However I am not against doing any of those.

I would adore fluff. Alayne has precious little happy scenes in her canon. It would be nice to see her cheer up occasionally.

SCENE-DON'TS: I am lukewarm about abuse threads. She has had too much of that and I'd like something different for her - so she can be stronger.

4TH WALL PLANS: I have a Daenerys muse. Dragons, anyone? :3

ADDITIONAL:

[akito]

JUST WANT TO SAY I LOVE YOUR SANSA AND OUR CURRENT THREAD IS CUTE because like. their lives are kind of flipped - akito's childhood was miserable but it got way better, and it was the opposite for sansa.

let him teach you about girl power! *u* rock makeup and cute skirts aww yeah

[gathersnomoss]

Stareyes

CHARACTER: Zelgadis Graywords
CANON: Slayers
PERSONALITY: Grumpy swordsman who alternates between slowly relaxing enough to give a damn, then having Terrible Things happen to him or people he cares about.

CURRENT STATUS: Zel is gathering general information and keeping connections as a healer, a turn he's taken since even his weak white magic is pretty impressive on Keelai.
CR GOALS: I don't really know. I guess to get Zel some closer friends form his circle of acquaintances. (Also, someone needs to get him to start dating. It would amuse me.)

CHARACTER: Iroh
CANON: Avatar: The Last Airbender
PERSONALITY: Cheerful old man who is a semi-retired badass and fully-retired warmongering crown prince.

CURRENT STATUS: Iroh's talked with Wan about re-opening his old tea shop. He's also going to chat with some of the ambassadors, and maybe some of the faction leaders. Just to get to know them.
CR GOALS: Iroh needs to meet more people outside the Avatar cast. Come let me Uncle at you. Also, older people who might be actual peers.

CHARACTER: Tazendra
CANON: Dragaera
PERSONALITY: Boisterous elf swordswoman/sorceress who is a bit too fight happy.

CURRENT STATUS: Tazendra has no clue why she's still here or what she should be doing. I need to find something for her.
CR GOALS: Meeting with other mages would be interesting, as well as other people to fight with. Also, I find negative CR with Tazendra hilarious, but I have to be careful as she will kill people (though it takes a lot more since she knows it is illegal here).

4TH WALL PLANS: My muselist! I'd also try anyone who is from those canons. (Note I won't play Slayers, Avatar or Dragaera characters because I couldn't find excuses to keep mine away.)

[merb]

Marla might be an interesting choice for 4th wall?

[needmetoo]

GORSE

CHARACTER: Xion
CANON: Kingdom Hearts
PERSONALITY: Less than a year old replica made from the memories of the series' main protagonist. Values her friends a lot (to the point of codependency if you're not careful) but has been gaslighted or outright called a failure by many of her colleagues. Consequently doesn't have enough self-confidence to fill an eggcup and will sometimes blatantly self-deprecate herself (be thankful she hasn't learned how much her existence is a detriment to Roxas and Sora yet). Can be painfully shy, but when she's more comfortable she can be highly curious, and in some rare cases even be happy to tease.

CURRENT STATUS: Xion should be accepting Aqua's offer to become an Apprentice in the short term (if not in their current thread, then hopefully not too long afterwards), which is a Big Deal in her universe. Beyond that though, she's kind of coasting. While she may have just come from a situation where she didn't have any kind of set mission, she really didn't know what to do with herself then either.
CR GOALS: Right now I really want and need CR that'll help... challenge a lot of her preconceptions. She has a very narrow view about life right now, mostly because the Organization has done their best to restrict that view. She's been poking at it a little herself, especially after finding out how much the lied about the nature of her existence, but she doesn't have enough outside perspective to really do so effectively. So people who can get her to question that, to question what they told her and how they'd been treating her in particular, would be stellar. This unfortunately does involve a character either needing to read between the lines of some of what Xion's saying, to needle her enough until she lets something slip, or to get close enough that she might outright admit what happened. Because unfortunately this is the kind of shit she is not generous about sharing. (Edit: just to clarify, this doesn't have to be positive CR! Neutral or even negative CR can do this just as easily - for example, Xion's CR with Bakura so far could easily head in this direction and has started to a little already)

Beyond that I - as always - would love for her to build up a support net. Really close friends, even pseudo-family. She's a Keyderp, keyderps thrive on friendship and she'll do a lot better for having them.

SCENE-DOS: I enjoy both log-based and network threads! Right now Xion's going to favor the latter because it makes it easier for her to communicate in general (hello shyness). But in my previous game it was almost all logs all the time, so I'm really comfortable with both!

I love to do threads where Xion has to face how basically life in the Organization has made her (in some ways) so poorly-adjusted and just really fucked her over. Or even just her circumstances in general (being less than a year old, for example). Just... situations where she has to deal with clash over stuff she's accepted/taken for granted that other people don't. I dunno. If I think of anything else I'll add a follow-up comment.
SCENE-DON'TS: The only thing I can really think of is situations that involve warping her personality/mind control type things. Smaller degrees I can give a whack at, but I used to play at Tower of Animus and we had a couple of personality/behavior warping events and whenever I'd sign up for those events, when the time came to actually play them out I just... could never get more than a few tags in. I just am not particularly good at it.

4TH WALL PLANS: I don't have any particular plans at the moment besides trying to enable a bunch of people, but my muselist is here if there's anyone that anybody in particular is interested in seeing! KH kids are off the table unfortunately because playercest is too high of a possibility

ADDITIONAL: ANYBODY REPLYING TO XION'S CURRENT NETWORK POST: certain replies are hinging on how a thread between Xion and Aqua on the 1st turns out, which is why I've been so slow on replies. I've been trying to gauge what is safe for me to reply to and what isn't, to try to prevent retconning. If I stop replying entirely, then chances are I'm waiting to see how that thread goes and will get back to you as soon as I can!

In any case...

[merb]

Stork should definitely give Xion some more accidentally terrible advice.

/sage nod

[ruinsprofessor]

Makari

CHARACTER: Raine Sage
CANON: Tales of Symphonia
PERSONALITY: A whole lot of logic, reason, and science, overlying an occasionally loud emotional core. Used to being the only responsible adult in the room, increasingly prone to longsuffering facepalms. Interests include archaeology, healing, metaphysical theory, and preventing everyone on this turtle from dying in new and interesting ways.

CURRENT STATUS: Running the Healer's Guild! That's taking a lot of her attention. What remains is given to her research project for Milyn, whatever Valdis thinks she's doing to Tu Yunxu, and attempting to look after the people who are the most important to her. (Brother, beau, Bakura, etc.) She's been fairly busy, and that's the way she likes it, but it does mean some things like casual social interaction have fallen off a bit.
CR GOALS: There's a general blanket 'always' for more with closer friends. Also I'd love to reconnect with less-deep CR-- if you've interacted with Raine before and I let it fall by the wayside please come love her. The woman needs friendship more than she'd like to admit.

I might also go for a bit of negative CR with her? Most of what she's got, save Valdis, is fairly positive, and I'd love another opportunity for her to butt heads with someone.

Also: the ongoing soap opera, yes please.

SCENE-DOS: I tend to lean to logs with Raine, which is half personal preference and half she really doesn't trust the consoles right now. With her I'm not too fussed about needing a concrete goal, because she's very good at asking questions.
SCENE-DON'TS: the person who tries to make her choose between the people who are important to her will really, really regret it.

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CHARACTER: China Sorrows
CANON: Skulduggery Pleasant
PERSONALITY: Gorgeous, manipulative, very used to getting what she wants. Generally pragmatic, in her own way, and good at owning the really quite awful things she did in her past. Occasionally has human feelings.

CURRENT STATUS: She's... she's kind of been lurking. Helping Skulduggery with a thing here, effectively prodding a bunch of new people with sticks to see how they react. Gathering information is generally her thing, and she has a fair grasp of the city by now probably. Her general goal is to resume her old occupation as information broker, because what else?
CR GOALS: Everything. No, seriously, everything. A few people have been beginning to tweak that weird part of her emotions that goes 'friend?' so, like with Raine, I'd especially love for her to touch base with people she's begun to get to know. That said, I'd also love her to meet new people! Especially those who can screw with that thing she does, because it's good for China to be taken off-balance every so often.

SCENE-DOS: I have a slightly easier time with China with network stuff -- the lack of formality helps -- but honestly anything's fair game and I love prose too much to not do it.
SCENE-DON'TS: Can't think of anything off the top of my head, if it's questionable just ask I guess?

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4TH WALL PLANS: Hahaha I have no clue. Attempt to enable me into something I guess? I have half a thought of importing Rikku temporarily, or an OC or something, but I just don't know yet.

ADDITIONAL:


Genis is helping.

[merb]

Raine, why are all your important people hardheaded idiot boys..........

[merb]

Li

CHARACTER: Jack Frost
CANON: Rise of the Guardians
PERSONALITY: Winter spirit dork, he loves kids, he's grown up a lot in the time he's been in Keeliai though. He has the a pretty big drive for helping others, and sometimes that gets him into trouble. Overall he's pretty mellow.
CURRENT STATUS: He's working full time at the Welcome Center now that it's up and running again, and figuring out how to use it for new arrivals with the changes in the city. He's dating Zatanna, and I want him to start reconnecting with his kedanese bitties now that relations between the kedan and the Foreigners is settling.
CR GOALS: Jack is my character who's good for talking to anyone, so I'm open for any kind of CR. He doesn't really have a lot of negative CR, and while I'm not actively looking for some, a little tension here and there is fun?

CHARACTER: Bakura
CANON: Yuugiou Duel Monsters
PERSONALITY: Cranky ancient thief, part-time evil villain, full-time ass. He's pretty cynical, especially lately given what's happened since the end of the Malicant, but he occasionally surprises by acting like a real person AKA a decent human being. Pretty much, it's a coin flip chance which attitude you get.
CURRENT STATUS: Bakura's been starting to find some footing in the city and hating everyone just a little bit less in the last two months. He's acquired Korra's old dojo in the Wood Sector, since it had been passed to Ryou and then Ryou disappeared, and reopened it for business; he's also living there as well. Pretty much that's occupying his days.
CR GOALS: He's kind of in a mental place where he's not actively seeking out interactions with people, so logically I want CR things that will MAKE him interact with new people! He's actually got about 50/50 mix of positive and negative CR at the moment, so I'm good with making either! The great thing about his current moods is that there's possibility for it to go anywhere.

CHARACTER: Stork
CANON: Storm Hawks
PERSONALITY: AHAHA WELL. Stork is a hyper-paranoid, very brilliant mechanical genius. He gets jumpy around everything that he thinks could be dangerous (which is almost everything) and very defensive of what he builds (even when he doesn't need to be). He is still very unhappy about being away from his ship and his squad, possibly in that order. Despite that, he's actually got a pretty snarky sense of humour, if a little morbid, and a not-entirely buried mother hen streak.
CURRENT STATUS: He's only been in Keeliai a few weeks, so everything is still new to him. He's living in the Midnight Hotel and looking for productive work, although he's been making little bits of juulan by starting to fix things, which is what makes him happiest anyway. When he gets enough funds, I think I'm going to have him pursue workshop space, whether in the Hotel's garage or somewhere in Metal -- I'm open to suggestions!
CR GOALS: ALL THE CR EVER. But really, I want him to meet other techie types. Stork runs more of the literal mechanics side and less so to computers, etc. So he'd be a good match-up for plotting for someone who wants to construct things but doesn't want to do it themselves. For non-tech types, he's a green alien thing-- there has to be SOMEONE who's curious about that! Basically anything that gives him (me) reason to talk about his background, because I shamelessly love writing worldbuilding and headcanon and such.

SCENE-DOS: I am equally good with prose or actionspam! Slightly preference for prose if it's a log scene, just because it flows better for me with descriptions, but I always match the starter.
SCENE-DON'TS: Can't think of anything in particular that I want to AVOID, but with my school schedule as it is, sometimes general chatter threads get dropped, so I prefer to have some kind of direction for the thread/log. Doesn't have to be SUPER SERIOUS PLOT!?! or anything, but if our chars are literally talking about handbag shopping or something, it's harder for me to prioritize when I start getting behind.

(That said, I'm going to try and manage my tagload better so that I'm NOT getting behind...)

4TH WALL PLANS: The 4th wall is happening during my exam week that wasn't planned at all nope ahem so I'm hesitant to make any kind of firm plans in case I'm busier than expected! However top contenders for dropping by would be Pitch Black (ROTG) whom I can't actually play here because I also play Jack, but still. And a possible reappearance of River Tam (Firefly). Maybe Eruka too, from Soul Eater, if I have time.

ADDITIONAL: Anything else you might want to add that doesn't fit into the above goes here.

Stork needs two hands to show five fingers silly Merb

[akito]

A mechanic, you say... /strokes chin

[aquanimity]

MADS

CHARACTER: Aqua
CANON: Kingdom Hearts
PERSONALITY: Aqua is polite, kind, patient, and overall just a good person. She's also tough as nails and holds very closely to her morals, and she will defend her friends to the last. A bit of a warning: she's slightly stuck on the light = good, darkness = bad thing due to her upbringing, but in a more 'nudge people who are leaning towards darkness back the other way' sense.

CURRENT STATUS: Currently Aqua's settling in quite well. She'll be taking Xion on as a pupil to the ways of the Keyblade at some point in the month (currently happening in an on-going thread), and she's also working at the Healer's Guild and will be helping as Anton's assistant at the Midnight Hotel (also an ongoing thread). Busy busy busy!
CR GOALS: Officially adopt take on Xion as an apprentice. Solidify existing CR, meet some new faces, wave a giant key around and get questions about it, the like. Also it's looking like Aqua's going to get tangled up at least a little in the soap opera thanks to Genis, so that'll be fun!

I would also love some negative CR, but with Aqua that may be tricky until she's more established and has a stronger network. She's not the kind of person to hold grudges, barring a few exceptions (re: Vanitas). Basically, if she doesn't like you she'll simply avoid you unless you've persistently and repeatedly antagonized her friends, family, or are attempting to pull something that would really mess with the universe as a whole.

SCENE-DOS: I can go for either prose or action, with no strong preference in one direction or another. I'd like to expand Aqua's network for one, solidifying the relations she's already established and forging new ones. Also I'd love any opportunity for actiony stuff, be it sparring or helping to clean up a mess some Foreigner started or what have you. I'm actually quite impressed that there hasn't been some kind of horrible robotic uprising yet in Keeliai
SCENE-DON'TS: It depends, really. For prose threads, I much prefer having some kind of vagueish goal to work towards, or at least some kind of action occurring. Slice-of-life where it's just aimless talking is likely to lose my interest, but heavier discussions that will leave impressions are fair game.

4TH WALL PLANS: I may or may not be toying with the idea of bringing a certain beanpole to the event to generally be confused and/or snarky, just for fun

ADDITIONAL:

[skeletonenigma]

OH MY GOD BEANPOLE DO IT

[pushtheboundaries]

MINDY

CHARACTER: Professor Robert Callaghan; aka Yokai
CANON: Big Hero 6
PERSONALITY: What a nice man. Super smart professor. Much concerned about the state of the turtle and lack of basic technologies.
...except he's still holding on to a murderous anger against another, and while he's kind of come off the murderhigh, there's still a keg of fury that's just waiting to be given reason to go off once again.

CURRENT STATUS: I've basically said that he's got himself up in the Metal Sector at this point, running a not-business which is half-trade, half-labor; mostly, the slow accumulation of supplies through improving local kedan things, and taking most of the saved materials as payment. (Ex; you don't need nearly that much copper in those pipes, this other thing will work just fine AND be more efficient. he'll take the copper, thanks.)
CR GOALS: MORE FRIENDS. Give this guy a support net, he needs it so badly. Give him people TO care about; alternatively, give him people to PRETEND he cares about, only to ignore once he gets high off his own anger once again.

SCENE-DOS: Everything, basically??
SCENE-DON'TS: The only thing I'm avoiding is him being 'outed' as a villain this early. I'd also prefer to avoid anyone else learning about the microbots, for now; he mostly keeps them hidden in his apartment, so I don't think that'll be a problem.

4TH WALL PLANS: Don't really have anything! /KANYE SHRUG

ADDITIONAL: /YOKAI SHRUG

[akito]

Metal Sector bros

[sonjaofyellowcomet]

DigitalSocrates

CHARACTER: Sonja
CANON: Advance Wars
PERSONALITY: Sonja is a bratty princess and a veteran military commander/tactician and a huge awkward nerd with sometimes questionable morality.

CURRENT STATUS: Currently volunteering at the Welcome Center, working with several other foreigners to try to solve the console glitch (which she's discovered is a literal virus), and spying on everyone maybe for Tu Yuxnu.
CR GOALS: Kind of at a crossroads right now. I've planted some seeds but I don't know how to water them. Sonja hasn't made a good impression on very many people so she needs to meet some more people or repair some of the relationships she has. Main CR Goal: get Sonja in on the bottom line of some storyline so she has something to report to Tu Yuxnu and she doesn't get fired.
Second Goal: probably try to get more of a network presence. That will take the edge off of AC requirements and also it might be easier for sonja to meet people from the security of her room.


SCENE-DOS: poke me on plurk or IM to help brainstorm a thread cuz or to get me to reply cuz sometimes my motivation or creativity take a nosedive
SCENE-DON'TS: none off the top of my head

4TH WALL PLANS: No clue its my first one

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source

[merb]

I like Sonja and Bakura's CR so far! He's less likely to be put off by her attitude and more likely to just call her on it. Maybe something regular at the dojo?

[skeletonenigma]

AMARAQ

CHARACTER: Skulduggery Pleasant
CANON: Skulduggery Pleasant
PERSONALITY: Genius, detective by trade, stubborn, persistent, dryly sarcastic most of the time and possessing a bit of a hypocritical inability to accept help where his own darkness is concerned. Though, to be fair, that's actually mellowed a bit in Tushan. He's also slightly less allergic to infringements on personal space (see: hugging Solomon), but... yeah.

CURRENT STATUS: He's working on the console symbols puzzle, and quite frankly I don't see him not solving it by the end of the month. Good opportunity for CR? He's also keeping an eye on the thing with the Dust at the Palace, and - oh yeah. HE HAS HIS BENTLEY BACK. Compliment him on the car currently parked outside the Central Sector entrance to the Hotel, and you'll instantly be in his good books.
CR GOALS: I'm always up for threading with new characters, but I would like to put more of a focus on developing existing CR as well. There are people Skulduggery should touch base with again. Other than that... I don't have anything specific planned anytime soon, but if you've been waiting for an opportunity to thread with Skul when he was more cheerful and spontaneous, now's the time to do it!

SCENE-DOS: Skulduggery's the sort of character who doesn't use the network/radios if he doesn't need to. It helps to be able to fly to whoever you need to speak to. >_> So by default I generally prefer face-to-face prose third-person stuff, but I also usually default to whatever style is already being used, so I'm not too picky. And he does watch the network, and he owns a radio, so it's always possible to contact him that way.
SCENE-DON'TS: Pure slice-of-life small-talk tends to bore both me and Skulduggery pretty quickly. I don't like having threads/interactions completely planned out, but neither do I like long drawn-out 'let's just see where this goes!' type conversations where nothing is happening.

4TH WALL PLANS: GARRUS. I was originally going to app him into the game, but I've since decided I don't have the drive to be able to handle him as a full-time character. STILL GOIN' TO TOSS HIM INTO 4TH WALL THOUGH. And if I can finagle it, I'm hoping to get some SP characters played by non-Tushan-players into the event, too...

ADDITIONAL:

[aquanimity]

DARKNESS YOU SAY

[highprofilerichkid]

Cinna

CHARACTER: Tony Stark
CANON: Iron Man: Armored Adventures
PERSONALITY: Arrogant, entitled, obnoxious, but trying to be a better, more mature person after getting knocked down a few pegs by a variety of circumstances. His level of success remains questionable. Still, he's outgoing and overenthusiastic, a loyal friend, and is usually nice to people when he doesn't have a stick up his ass about something.

CURRENT STATUS: Still digesting several large slices of humble pie. Dating an ex-supervillain who somehow has a better reputation in Keeliai than he does. Still living in the Hotel, but planning to move out to the Palace once construction is farther along. On a long-term contract with SI, but not otherwise steadily employed, which is driving him slightly nuts. Also he might have agreed to help depose Yunxu?
CR GOALS: I over-committed myself the last two months and I need a bit of a breather, so I'm not actively searching out big new plots for him. That said, I never turn down CR, so if there's anything YOU want to do with him, please don't hesitate to tell me! I just might need other people to take point on any major plot stuff.

SCENE-DOS: I love it all. He could especially use friendship fluff, I think, because he really needs some hobbies other than doing his boyfriend, brooding about not having a lab, and performing ungodly experiments on toasters. I'd enjoy having him put in more situations where he has to be supportive of someone else, because he has a tendency to 1) never shut up about his problems, and 2) make his problems everybody else's problems. It would be nice to see him start to grow out of that.
SCENE-DON'TS: Trying to maybe dial back the manpain for a while and give him a breather I say, as if I won't immediately jump on any opportunity to cause him more angst. Ditto with major plots. Again, though: if you come to me, I'll probably say yes to anything. I'm not taking anything off the table, I'm just trying not to get in over my head again.

4TH WALL PLANS: Sorry, guys, I'm a one-trick pony. I have no other muses to bring in.

ADDITIONAL:

[looksfine]

gdi Tony

[wrathfulkhan]

Zed

CHARACTER: Gene Khan
CANON: Iron Man: Armored Adventures
PERSONALITY: Scheming ex-supervillain currently QWOPing his way to the good side

CURRENT STATUS: Crying a lot about his relationship. Trying to figure out an angle on these NPC folks.
CR GOALS: ANYTHING I'm helpful as fuck Basically I want Gene to continue to develop his current CR but also to make new CR because he's trying to get to know everyone and their strengths.

SCENE-DOS: Also anything. I will drown this boy in manpain, so help me.
SCENE-DON'TS: Threads that don't have a point? Just random slice-of-life stuff won't work for me :V

4TH WALL PLANS: Got nothing for this guy but expect me to throw him at anyone who shows up! Here's my muselist, in case anyone's interested.

ADDITIONAL:

CHARACTER: Jackie Ma
CANON: Sleeping Dogs
PERSONALITY: Former Triad member. Current Snake. Actual puppy in human form.

CURRENT STATUS: Jackie's been in with the Snakes and is seeking out info on Heojin.
CR GOALS: I feel like I need to expand Jackie's CR. Any takers? He doesn't bite.

SCENE-DOS: Again, anything. I love this dumb pup and I hope everyone else does too.
SCENE-DON'TS: None?

4TH WALL PLANS: If someone could bring me a Wei Shen I'll love you forever

ADDITIONAL:

[looksfine]

I think we are long overdue for an indepth, emotional discussion.

[redlightgreenlight]

Kalineh

CHARACTER: Valdis
CANON: OC
PERSONALITY: Usually cold, manipulative and antagonistic, although she does have a gentler, kinder side. She is slow to trust, but fiercely loyal to her friends. She will often think one way and act another, so you can never really know what is going through her mind. She is generally pretty bold and is trying very hard to be honest and trustworthy.

CURRENT STATUS: Valdis is in flux. With the events of the last landfall and the disappearance of her lover, the barrier between her soul and the Void is deteriorating causing nightmares, mood swings and memory loss. In addition she has a vendetta against Tu Yunxu and is actively attempting to displace him from power. She is living in the Midnight Hotel and currently beginning to isolate herself.


CR GOALS: I want some new CR but would also love to develop current CR more. In particular I would love some more positive CR.

SCENE-DOS: Turtle Soap Opera is amazing. I enjoy drama, but could use a bit more fluff right now considering how much I am screwing with my poor character. My definition of fluff can be a bit screwy, but poor Valdis has had very little happy fluff lately. I like plotty things and tend to plan ahead. I also like prose...a lot, I prefer it to network and action spam.


SCENE-DON'TS: For the most part, I dislike slice-of-life, but otherwise I am pretty open to anything.


4TH WALL PLANS: I have a few OC's that I might throw at it, but otherwise no plans. And I'm pretty much a one-trick puppy, meaning most of my OC's are similar.

[wrathfulkhan]

I really love Jackie and Valdis' CR. I wish to cultivate more.

[theideaguy]

TML

CHARACTER: Sokka
CANON: Avatar: The Last Airbender
PERSONALITY: Half-warrior, half-scientist, half-comedian, half-lover of boomerangs. Loves meat and sarcasm.

CURRENT STATUS: Has been sticking his head into getting the foreigners organised politically. Working on Operation WAFFLE-O Get Our Stuff Back in tearing down the Palace. Also working for the Metalworkers as a gopher and collector of reports.
CR GOALS: Getting in touch with NPCs. Also getting deeper into the plotty plotty things. Also, horrible excuses to bring out Wang Fire.


CHARACTER: Genis
CANON: Tales of Symphonia
PERSONALITY: Bratty genius black mage and chef extraordinaire.

CURRENT STATUS: Still getting his feet wet. Currently not a fan of Solomon, and not as close to his sister as he should be.
CR GOALS: Patching things up with his sister and her beau. Also getting a job as a chef. Also just making good friends. And falling for Xion because that would be so totally cute.


4TH WALL PLANS: Rita Mordio from Tales of Vesperia; I will be voice-testing her completely live and without canon review, so wish me luck. I'd also consider bringing someone else in as well, either Tetra from Wind Waker or Mia from Golden Sun.

alex here, too lazy to switch accounts on mobile

[tarmairon]

Gene and Sokka need more CR because they're hilarious together. If you want to reuse last month's starter on this month's palace log I'd gladly hit it!

[peacefullywreathed]

PUR

CHARACTER: Anton Shudder
CANON: Skulduggery Pleasant
PERSONALITY: Quoted from last CR meme: 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.

Lately Anton has been more ... not exactly driven, but he's definitely settling and has no intention of leaving until he can figure out how to take his memories with him.

CURRENT STATUS: Pretty much just ... maternalling over everyone, owning the Midnight Hotel and managing interpersonal things and outerpersonal things. I should probably make him more active in that whole 'take memories home' thing.
CR GOALS: I actually have no idea. Anton kind of generates his own threads, which can be annoying when I need to keep an eye on my tag load. No specific plots, though I wouldn't mind the whole 'turn crazy and homicidal' thing coming up again.

CHARACTER: Solomon Wreath
CANON: Skulduggery Pleasant
PERSONALITY: Quoted from last CR meme: 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.

Lately Solomon literally bound his magic to keep it from becoming unmanagable, which has put him in a funk in which he does nothing. I'm planning to change that.

CURRENT STATUS: Funkitude. He had a couple days of uncertainty re: Raine and Genis but he's going to have spoken to Genis soon and he's already talked stuff out with Raine. Emotionally he's in a decent place, thanks to Raine, but he's also bumming around not doing much.
CR GOALS: I'm permablinding him this month to kick him up the ass and also experiment some more with his magic, control of it and ways it can manifest apart from the 'rocks-fall-everybody-dies' eventuality. Sol is the kind of guy who needs to be broken to make great things happen, so it should get him out of his languishing.

SCENE-DOS: Generally I like both prose and network, though I don't mind actionspam at all and will match it if that's your preference! 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. 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. Due to tagloads and workstuff I'm going to start wrapping small-talk threads up quickly unless you ping me to let me know you want it to go someplace. 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.

4TH WALL PLANS: I'm gonna throw Anton's bestie Rover Larrikin into the fourth-wall meme, so if you want the goodies on Tushan's resident stoicman, this is your opportunity! ... With the warning that Rover is highly invasive and flirtatious and loves shipping people and talks about sex all the time, so if you don't wanna be tagged by him that's fine, just let me know.

Also considering bringing in Jack from the Borderlands games, canonpoint Pre-Sequel.

ADDITIONAL:

[aquanimity]

why am I so amused by the idea of Jack's, ah, forwardness with regards to ladies and Aqua's NOPE-ing out of such interactions colliding

AHEM anyway Anton and Aqua should definitely interact more, with their combined maternalling they can mother the whole turtle

an unstoppable force of mom

[akito]

NETH

CHARACTER: Wanijima Akito
CANON: Air Gear
PERSONALITY: Very friendly, though somewhat closed off in Tu Shanshu due to... Well, it hurts to get close to someone and then have them disappear. He's peaceful but has learned that it's okay to fight and harm people if it's for the right reasons - it doesn't make you a bad person! He's all about protecting people, and trying to help! When he trusts someone he can be an impish little shit, and will act like the silly teenager he is.

CURRENT STATUS: WORKING HARD. HARD AT WORK. Making bonds with NPCs and the locals. Getting used to having his own apartment space and trying to top being so homesick. Since certain events (festivals, birthday, Gene, etc.) have made him think about home and family a lot more and misses his shitty Papa and Agito and his dumb friends and Tokyo and technology. q_q

Most recently he went around delivering cupcakes to celebrate his birthday so sneakily nobody suspected a thing, clearly.

CR GOALS: FRIENDS. Since he needs more friends than Big NPC's Assistants. Gosh. I mean. He does but he doesn't... Visit much. SO GET CLOSER WITH THE PEOPLE HE LIKES. If you got a cupcake he would likely enjoy getting to spend more time with you!

SCENE-DOS: 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?

SCENE-DON'TS: Negative CR is ehhhh it really stresses me out, but if it's IC it's IC! Sometimes it can be fun! It's just hard because Akito walks a fine line between biting comments and being a passive aggressive backhanded bitch +_+ THIS MONTH... no negative CR for sure if possible, since he needs more positive. ;_;

4TH WALL PLANS: IDK uhhh maybe might bring Garnet til Alexandros XVII from FFIX in? Or Xiao Pai from RF4. Only for 4th wall - no plans of apping anyone anytime soon.

ADDITIONAL:
Akito is too nice to do this, but...


The power of Air Trecks! 8Db

[needmetoo]

Oh my god Xiao Pai. Rune Factory 4 characters. I actually have an Amber account I have... done absolutely nothing with but it is always great to see love for this game and people playing from it...

Anyway that being said, Akito has found common ground with Xion which is a good simple way of overcoming the first big trust hurdle with her. So if you want to try to work on developing that in the future, then I'm game!

[michaeljangelo]

Bing

CHARACTER: Michaelangelo
CANON: TMNT (Mirage)
PERSONALITY: Ferris Bueller in a half-shell. No, seriously, that's pretty much the most succinct breakdown of Mike I can think of.

He's just...the everyman, if the everyman was a nearly five foot tall talking turtle trained to flip out of shadows to break necks.

CURRENT STATUS: Mike isn't doing so hot these days. He went from having an overabundance of other ninja turtles to pal around with to...being the cheese wot stands alone. He's never really been alone before, not like this, and when he's moody he tends to default to half-hearted jokes which mask violent outbursts.

SO Mike could really use some friends right now.
Also, there's the matter of finding his cousins' Leo sword, which was taken during the year-long nap everyone took post Malicant.

SCENE-DOS: I like it all, and so does Mike. Fluffy, dramatic, comedic, tragic...bring it. Slice-of-Life is my Bread-and-Butter.

SCENE-DON'TS: Don't have any.

CHARACTER: Aang
CANON: Avatar: the Last Airbender
PERSONALITY: Once a goofy and compassionate kid, now a goofy and compassionate teenager. It's his job to balance his phenomenal cosmic powers with being a goofy and compassionate teenager.

CURRENT STATUS: Reveling in the fact that while he's trapped far away from home in a strange place, at least he has his nearest and dearest friends with him.

CR GOALS: Adventure. Helping to bring the Turtle back to some semblance of balance.

SCENE-DOS: Yes. Good. Everything.

SCENE-DON'TS: I think heavy smut is out of the question for our boy, but aside from that it's all good.

4TH WALL PLANS: Anything else you might want to add that doesn't fit into the above goes here.

Part of me is genuinely curious how the game would fare against a colony of Oompa Loompas...

[stonebird]

She could be friends with both. Easily. She knows how it feels to be alone in a strange land and I get the feeling she'd see Aang as a little brother type. She misses Bran and Rickon okay?

[seismometrics]

K

CHARACTER: Toph Bei Fong
CANON: Avatar: The Last Airbender
PERSONALITY: Smart-mouthed, dry-witted, tiny 13 year old with the power to move mountains. Pretty much literally. Enjoys kicking butt and taking names. Also blind and enjoys picking her toes. May burp without remorse.

CURRENT STATUS: Toph had been present on the Turtle before, before things heated up too much with Malicant. She recently reappeared on the Turtle, only to realize that while for her, she'd only just fallen asleep, but for citizens of the Turtle, two years had passed. She's happy to be with friends, but she's suffering from a sense of disconnect. Under quarantine because she's tried to help take down the Palace and got infected by Dust.
CR GOALS: Honestly, I want more CR in general. Toph had great established CR in her previous go-round, but most of that is gone. I definitely want her interacting with new people and forging new relationships.

SCENE-DOS: Plotty things. I love plotty things so much. :/ And shenanigans. Also very fond of shenanigans.
SCENE-DON'TS: Slice of life is not really my forte. I usually need some kind of goal going on -- though goal can be defined pretty loosely. Negative CR is fine, but I usually do better with it if I have good ooc communication with the player.

4TH WALL PLANS: Not sure yet! Possibly Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke, or Howl from Howl's Moving Castle, if I can get their voices to behave.

ADDITIONAL:

[theideaguy]

Sokka will want all the things to do with Toph. I don't think I need to cover that here.

Flip side of the coin: Genis and Toph would get along like a bottle of alcohol on fire. Actually they might get along really well and blow up the entire town. Or they might blow up each other. It would actually be funny to have a contest between them. It would be hilarious. Let's do it. Seriously.

[walkthedarkpath]

Koko

CHARACTER: Vergil
CANON: Devil May Cry
PERSONALITY: A bit o an ice queen, he comes off as a cold hearted asshole at first. He has a sense of duty that makes him try and protect those weaker as long as it does not clash with his own goals. With the combination of Nelo Angelo added to the loss of his twin, Dante. Vergil is a lot less quick to the gun so to say. Less likely to snap at someone for talking to him. He fancies himself an aristocrat and gentlemen even if he is a dick.

CURRENT STATUS: Vergil came into game mind-washed as the Dark Knight Nelo Angelo, his memories and true personality have sense been awakened. Which came around the time his brother vanished so he's working through a lot of stuff and just staying out of sight because of it. His main short term goals are to stabilize his living situation and find a way to learn how to read the natives language.
CR GOALS: I would like to make some CR that can balance out Vergil's aggressive moodiness. Someone light hearted who maybe doesn't scare easily. Though to be real I would like to just get a lot of CR which I need to work on doing.

SCENE-DOS: I am actually open to all sorts of interactions. I flow pretty easy where ever I am pointed. I do generally default to prose by default but I as stated I can do either. Vergil will be more willing to use the network than Nelo Angelo was, he simply hasn't had anything to say yet.
SCENE-DON'TS: Everything's groovy by me.

4TH WALL PLANS: I don't know if any of my muse list would be of interest to anyone, but I am down if you want any of them!

ADDITIONAL:

[wrathfulkhan]

More Gene and Vergil CR yessss. Once they're both un-Dusted.