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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[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

[needmetoo]

The best part is unless she actually has objections like in the one case so far, she won't realize it's terrible advice, tbh. Which will likely make everything very entertaining.

[aquanimity]

oh nooooooo

[merb]

WHAT'S THE MATTER, MAMA AQUA?

[aquanimity]

that icon is not inspiring reassurance

[merb]

oh mai how'd that one get on there

[needmetoo]

WELCOME TO PARENTHOOD MASTERHOOD.

ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE READY? 8D

[aquanimity]

SHE'S TOTALLY READY FOR THIS SHE CAN DO IT

Don't worry Xion she won't let raz-something or other poisoning or whatever scare you

[valevectorian]

You want someone willing to challenge her preconceptions? I got someone more than willing to call people out on things others say or do that come off as messed up and warped to him. Especially considering he's had to deal with breaking free of various preconceptions himself, so he knows all about that kinda crap. He might even be marginally nice about it at some point.

[needmetoo]

Yeah, that sounds like a really great opportunity for CR building - I've often found Xion tends to respond better if she finds some common ground. Though it's not the only way, which will help considering I'm not sure how forthright either of them would really be about any similarities.

Still, this sounds fantastic and I love it!

[valevectorian]

Yeah, it seems like the kind of thing that will be more likely once they establish something, but the establishing itself could take a while. But hey, he's always good for casual arguments and complaining.

I'm not sure he would feel comfortable responding to her two network posts so far due to a- being new and b- being an antisocial butt who tries not to meddle in others' affairs, which is why I didn't. Do you have any ideas for how you'd like these two to first meet? In-person vs network?

[theideaguy]

I am still thinking it would be hilarious for Genis to crush hard on Xion. Because I am horrible to Genis, falling for people who are weirdly aged for that. But definitely friends... and Genis just unable to capitalise on that. XD;

[needmetoo]

Genis I hope you're ready for Xion to never realize unless it's explicitly pointed out to her. Recognizing emotions is difficult and no one understands.

But man in all seriousness that sounds adorable as hell. I can't promise it'd be reciprocated but we can certainly see how it develops! And friendship yes because it's most important.

[strokeofgenis]

Well, given that this is IDENTICALLY the sort of relationship that Genis has with Presea in his canon, that's even ALL THE MORE HILARIOUS.

No seriously. Presea is actually 28, but for 14 years she's had a crystal attached to her that's (a) stymied her growth for those 14 years and (b) repressed most of her emotions. Which means that Genis falls for her (since she looks 14), but she doesn't really figure out why Genis is stammering all around her.

So even if it doesn't get reciprocated, that's totally fine. And if something does happen between them, I'd rather it not be explicitly planned anyway. It makes it all the more awesome. :)