CR With Me | January 2013

[ironwood]

Hello, chelonauts! We're back again, ready for 2013's first CR meme!

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's a bit different this month, including two new 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!

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">TURTLE DIVE EVENT:</font></b> Feel free to link open plotting threads from the original plotting post or outline what you're looking forward to doing with this event! <b><font face="georgia">ADDITIONAL:</font></b> Anything else you might want to add that doesn't fit into the above goes here.

Turtle Dive Event:
We are in the final countdown for the start of the Turtle Diving Event, which will start with a leisurely tour of the ocean floor followed by a course of zombies. A section has been added to the form to include any specific plotting or for you to put links to your plotting threads on the plotting post.

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Cat | Kara Thrace & Inara Serra

[suoxi]

Cat

CHARACTER: Kara Thrace
CANON: PERSONALITY: Kara is rowdy, rambunctious, a drinker, and wears her heart on her sleeve. She’s a flirt and tends to do this very openly, and she’s pretty damn loyal to her friends. She’s outgoing and friendly enough but pretty volatile when she’s crossed, and has a tendency to hit first, ask questions later. Or shoot first, but she’s saving her bullets.
CURRENT STATUS: Kara’s been settling in nicely in Tu. She had her own place in the Earth sector but when it burned, she shacked up with York over in Metal and just kinda stayed. She helped get people out of the fire and also might be doing a bit of vigilante work at night.
CR GOALS: I wouldn’t mind developing something new! I’m pretty open to anything, really. I like having Kara build relationships here; she’s seen a whole lot of bad shit happen in her canon and it’s pretty calm here compared to that. She knows she should want to go back more than she should.
SCENE-DOS: Most things are fine; Kara is kind of crap at comforting people unless you’ve got a bullet in you – she knows how to deal more with that than she does anything else.
SCENE-DON'TS: Too much slice of life and I can get a little fidgety, but I am a crazy backtagger and will just keep stubbornly tagging it until it dries up or we both finally go “yeah okay its done”.
TURTLE DIVE EVENT: Her plotting thread is here, and I’m up for anything happening. She’ll probably be wanting to help people out if she can.
ADDITIONAL:





CHARACTER: Inara Serra
CANON: PERSONALITY: EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS A LIE. I mean. She’s really kind and compassionate (truth!), and tends to take a liking/maternal instinct to those younger than her (River, Kaylee) and is pretty well mannered and spoken. Unless you piss her off, then she can be a petty little thing /o/ (summarized personalities are hard for me :c)
CURRENT STATUS: Right now she’s trying to get on her feet and will soon be taking trips to the brothels to see how they work and functioning in conjunction with her companion training. She might look into opening a Firefly based Companion house here because honestly I don’t see her working for a regular brothel and I don’t see her giving up her work, either – she’s shown to actually LIKE her job, so! There’s that that might be happening.
CR GOALS: Basically just getting her settled, making new friends and acquaintances, networking, making connections, all that jazz.

ALSO. Inara is sick 8D She has a terminal illness that isn’t named, but I’ve narrowed it down to a few it could likely be, and I chose this one to deal with: B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). It’s a slow moving disease and one that is treatable but not curable. Her life expectancy is probably another several years unless it suddenly flares and decides to impact her quality of life. While she’s here, she’ll probably be casually asking around the apothecaries, etc and seeing if there’s any cure/treatment to stave it off if that happens, as well as prolong her life.

SCENE-DOS: Inara is flexible with her CR; her pettiness can be subtle and she’s also a pretty nice person when it comes down to it. She doesn’t care much for conflict
SCENE-DON'TS: Inara is basically a glorified prostitute, and yes – she has sex for money. Please please please do not ask her to take your character on as a client if there is a significant other involved (unless that SO SPECIFICALLY SAYS this is okay). I’ll say no, she’ll say no. It’s bad for her business and reputation to break up couples, and not something she is actively seeking to do – and I also don’t like playing that kind of thing out. She’ll be keeping an eye on who is with who as much as she can, just in case there are any perspective clients in the playerbase as opposed to the Kedan NPCs. As a rule of thumb (for me), she’ll probably be sticking to the Kedan as clients anyway – once she trusts them and gets to know some of them.

This doesn’t mean I’m not interested in her taking on other clients or doing shippy things with her! I love shippy things but but but she is probably not going to give up her work, and she’ll be hard to wrangle into a real relationship because of not only that, but also her disease. :c

TURTLE DIVE EVENT: Her thread is here, if you want to plot something there/here whatever. I’m down for anything :3
ADDITIONAL:

Re: Cat | Kara Thrace & Inara Serra

[tuskenlancer]

hi.

can ct come over for popcorn and movie night :(

Re: Cat | Kara Thrace & Inara Serra

[suoxi]

omg ct why u so cute ;w;

Re: Cat | Kara Thrace & Inara Serra

[tuskenlancer]

because frieeends

[tearsinnajar]

HEY INARA LETS BE FRIENDS. Elena knows all about tolerating lovable rogues and their shenanigans.

[suoxi]

XD OKAAAY

oh gosh them darn rogues :|||

[tearsinnajar]

Let's have tea and slowly shake our heads disdainfully over their behavior.

Re: Cat | Kara Thrace & Inara Serra

[grimreaping]

HEY PRETTY LADY~ how about a tea buddy?

Re: Cat | Kara Thrace & Inara Serra

[suoxi]

eee! Yes, definitely - she's going to be pleasantly surprised when she goes to that shop :3

Re: Cat | Kara Thrace &amp; Inara Serra

[grimreaping]

YAY! Kid likes surprising people.

[wherethestoryis]

Sep recently posted to the network about being a pretty powerful healer. I don't recall if it was after Inara's entrance or not, but he'll mention it again during the zombie plot. I have... extensive theories on what his healing can do, so she might be interested.

(Also Sep will have an organizing-people-thing going for the network, if Kara wants in.)

[suoxi]

Oooh...it looks like he posted just after she arrived...that's probably why I missed it /catching up like a boss

That is perfect; she will definitely at least be interested, especially if it's the whole 'magical healing' thing. I am interested in what your theories are, especially in regards to her 'problem'.

And yes - knowing Kara who is itching to get involved/in a fight will definitely
be interested XD

[survival_isnt_living]

Heh, no problem, I'm technically slow and not expecting to post much until after the weekend. Given that and my love of backtagging, if she wants to tag in, she's welcome to.

As for theories on healing: ta-da! At your leisure. If you have more questions, let me know.

[build]

/sits here


I really would love to see ari "annoy" both of them.

Shes a bit more interested in Kara because lol York amuses her and she wants to know whats up with all that stuff. But yeah, gimmie yo cr

[suoxi]

Yes good all of this :3 /reaches

[build]

i totally would be up for some shenanigans during the event at sometime.

[flawedgoods]

Okay because I fail at tagging that first post, maybe after the event we could have these two run into each other? Maybe at a tea shop or something idk? IDK. Did Inara mention anywhere in that post what it is she does for a living? I haven't had a chance to scan the threads...

[suoxi]

She hasn't mentioned it yet, nope! So it's still kind of her dirty little secret but she will probably reveal it fairly soon, probably after the event. I'll probably post asking about brothel recommendations XDD

[flawedgoods]

....perfect opening. Favrielle knows them well :> They can grab someone to go with since it's not a nice neighborhood and Fav can show her around.

[aloadeddie]

I need to throw Arthur at one or both of your characters at some point. I think he could have great CR with either of them - Kara's military mindset could be good.

Or if Inara wants some help with zombies or something idk. WHATEVER WORKS. I'm not sure if Arthur would be interested in becoming a client, per se - but he'd find her intriguing, anyway.

[suoxi]

Either of these are great! I would love CR with Arthur for either of my ladies mO_Om

[emasculates]

I'd love to try to get something off the ground with Kara and Bruce still. Rofl, on the topic of 'digging bullets out of people', I could always have him get caught in some sort of crossfire as 'Bruce Wayne' (who doesn't handle ~injury well at all) and we could have her treat him? :|a idk! thoughts?


INARA AND BRANDON ARE SO CUTE I CAN'T EVEN she can make him feel like an ass just with her tone of voice I would love for him to sort of glom onto her as his Sane Adult Figure or something.


And Aisha and Inara are going to do tea if it kills me. Yes.

[suoxi]

...oh god I love that. It would be hilariously awful for everyone involved lets do this.

XD YES this thread is just djfkjjdj I didn't expect it to work but >] SHE GOT HIM bwahahahaaaa

Tea time is in. :|b Inara is not going to forget nope

Re: Cat | Kara Thrace & Inara Serra

[the_other_eight]

I don't think Pepper has met Kara, though if you want to I'm all for it. I'd like to see more Pepper and Inara. They seem to get on really well (though they both have their game face on). It'll be interesting to see if those masks ever come down.

Re: Cat | Kara Thrace & Inara Serra

[suoxi]

Yes to both of these! Kara and Pepper could be hilariously bad or awesome or both idek xD

Inara likes Pepper a lot - anyone that can get her to a cafe her first day here has a million points in her book