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INTRO / CR MEME

Welcome to Expiation, where the points aren't real and absolutely don't matter. But you do, and we're happy to have you! Please note that this intro entry serves additionally as a CR meme, so you are free to use it to say hello, tell us a bit about yourself, talk about your character, and potential plans for the game.

As a reminder, Expiation runs on bi-monthly events. Please note that all players / characters accepted in March are exempt from the March AC. For everyone else, March AC is due by 31 March, 2023. Halfway through the day AC closes, we will give one (1) warning on both plurk and the OOC community for anyone who hasn't submitted (this will also be linked in the player-run discord).

To give you a very general overview of how the upcoming timeline will be...

17 March - Event #1
31 March - Character Action Poll for Event #1 (This will be further explained on the event post.)
14 April - Results of Action Poll for Event #1 + Game Environment Alterations
15 May - ATP / Enable Me for Expiation's TDM #3
19 May - Event #2
22 May - TDM #3

Where are the reservation / app dates for our next cycle? Our poll is still being used and looked at. At present, most participants don't have a preference on how we adjust dates to better suit enablemeplz, which is posted the second Saturday of each month.

With that said, we currently have more votes for 1 week forward, rather than 2 weeks, which would place reserves to open on 03 April, and applications to open on 10 April. We will, of course, adjust this accordingly as we get closer to the end of the month.

One more reminder:
After this upcoming app cycle, our TDMs, Reserves, and Applications will open on a bimonthly schedule, opposite of event months.

This means the next TDM, Reserve, and App process will begin at the tail end of May 2023.

EVENT NOTES:

The Short of It:
The units used to preserve food in Aldrip have malfunctioned and Aldrip's townspeople face starvation. Characters are encouraged to lend a hand in the crisis, though of course, can choose not to. (Don't be that person. Or do...! We're not your parents.)

Prompts Include:
🧊 Fixing the refrigeration units. Potential electric shocks during repair.

🍳 Cook a thing. Burn a thing. Hunt some animals. Fish some... fish? Dry / smoke some food? Have a large, improvised grillfest? Please feed the people. They are probably hungry.

🤝 Travel through Pessiria Forest with Aldrip locals to meet the Rumpiturians and barter for goods. (TW: They're a people with snake-like features. There will be reference links.)

💰 Alternatively, steal supplies from the Rumpiturians instead of bartering. Or steal some of their other things. (TW: They are still people with snake-like features.)

👻 Pessiria Forest creepy things. No one will be outright hurt by this. Select characters sensitive to ghostly, phantom apparitions, and related will have nightmares regarding the forest for an undetermined amount of time.

❓ The party returning from Pessiria will be minus some people (read: locals, not Chosen; this will tie into a future event). Speculate, count heads, do whatever you need to in order to sleep at night.

Until then, please make use of the below form for all of your intro and CR meme needs! In the future, we will include a Table of Contents section that will contain intro links for all of our new players for convenience.

Player:
Contact:
Anything Else?: Anything you might want us to know? What kinds of things interest you? What's your current favourite fandom? Put it here.

Character:
Canon:
Canon Point:

Crime: The crime your character was accused of when they arrived.

Background: A brief insight into your character's history is fine here. You can talk about their personality as well.

Abilities: Any abilities that you feel is important to note about your character. Bullet points and concise descriptions are okay.

Plans: What kinds of things do you want to do in the game? Any kind of CR you want to specifically pursue? Any special character discovery or exploration you want to do? This is the place to put all of that.

???: Questions? Comments? Memes? Put them here.

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Player: Psi
Contact:

PsiYamaneko
Anything Else?: I talk about video games a lot. I obsess over them. I play them. I make them for a living. Sometimes I talk about other stuff but I'm not very interesting, don't follow me!

(fandoms: Tales of, Suikoden, Dragon Quest, Pokemon, Legend of Zelda, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Final Fantasy, niche western games too numerous to list)

I bring to you two (2) science experiments with summonable swords, ego problems and black feather motifs. Pick your poison!

Edited 2023-03-14 01:02 (UTC)

Player: Chris
Contact:

necrofancy or PM! I'm also in the discord.
Anything Else?: Caregiver, gamer, casual streamer, cat mom. My speed varies because I have some ongoing health stuff happening that's very up and down, but I'm very open to communication to work things out accordingly! I love video games, crochet, tabletop RP and campy spooky stuff. I have a muselist over here that's a pretty good indicator of fandoms; once I'm invested in something, I tend to love it forever.

Character: Vholran Igniseri
Canon: Tales of Arise
Canon Point: Post Canon

Crime: Tyranny

Background:An oppressive, domineering asshole who thinks he gets to rule the world. Hates everyone. Thinks humans don't deserve rights. He throws his weight around so you think he is a cruel warlord and that his megalomania isn't a trauma response but it's definitely a trauma response.

(MASSIVE TOA SPOILERS: Vholran was born a slave and was isolated and abused most of his life. He has very strong opinions about never letting anyone control him ever again and is ready to make this everyone else's problem.)

Abilities: Extremely acrobatic swordsman who was biohacked into a powerful elementalist that explodes when upset. Basically. He uses mostly water and ice magic.

Plans: Vholran is a character who has done awful things, like brutally rule over a slave nation, in canon but canon also tries to make it clear that he isn't purely evil. At this point in his life, he can't be fully redeemed but maybe he can find somewhat more productive ways to vent his anger. Tales of Arise does not do a deep exploration of his character but his premise is very interesting. I want to explore the character in ways the game maybe was going to do but did not in the version of it we ended up getting.

Vholran will probably not make friends easily but he can attempt to form alliances.

He is a very unpleasant man so please don't have your character provoke him if you don't want to deal with ic consequences. This isn't to say I intend to make him impossible to interact with. Usually, he is content to leave people alone as long as they aren't a threat to him. Since he has a very high opinion of himself people need to prove they are threats. I'm here to play a villain but not one that will be on an unending rampage and making the game annoying to play in.

During the event: Vholran could be convinced to use his magic to help with refrigeration problems or go hunting but he's not going to come to that decision on his own.

???:

(Vholran, it was Vholran I'm spoiling it. By the way if you think this was funny just wait for our next guest)

NOTE: Vholran's character involves things like trauma, mental illness, slavery and body horror and also he is a villain. If you think you might not want to interact with him please use his Opt Out!

Edited 2023-03-14 01:53 (UTC)

Player: Laura
Contact:

jojoveller or laura#8074, hmu
Anything Else?: all i do is go to work and come home to video games..... I teach middle school, so that's 80% of my time, but!! Fandoms!! I am an enjoyer of: Persona, Yakuza, Dragon Age, Jojo, The Locked Tomb, uhhh Pathologic?, Zero Escape... Trigun, recently. etc.

Character: Shinjiro Aragaki
Canon: Persona 3 Portable
Canon Point: Oct. 4, or: after he gets shot.

Crime: Involuntary manslaughter.....

Background: He's a grumpy teen with Issues. Or: local teen desperately tries to protect his friends, accidentally kills someone in the process, immediately is consumed by guilt and quits being a world-saver forever until he goes back on that, too. He has self worth low in proportion to how much he loves his friends, which is hyuge amounts, but he'll never admit it out loud because that's mortifying. He likes to cook. He kept a photo album of the team dog and no one else. He has resting jerk face and a mean right hook but under 1mm of Gruff Mean Guy he's the softest person on earth. He once pretended to be asleep to get out of a conversation.

So yeah! Shinji...

Abilities: Shinji has a Persona, Castor, which hits really hard and not much else. He has to shoot himself with a magic gun to summon this thing, in a very normal way to use abilities. He's also a really good cook and he hates being praised about it until he can fuss about it somewhere alone, like the bottom of the ocean or the moon!! Tell him he's a good cook.

Plans: ya boy desperately needs friends... he does well with the aggressively friendly type so that he can grumble about being pulled into Situations without having to admit that he enjoys the company. He's also an overprotective big brother type and, like, a mom? Like, he will make sure you eat your veggies? If you need this kind of energy in your life please lmk. He will also be your anime rival (tm) if you really want.

Re: the Event Snippets, obviously, he will be doing a lot of cooking. He can teach cooking perhaps?? Also ready and willing to march through a creepy forest to gruffly keep watch, etc. And... steal... he'll steal if needs must.

???: basic state of the shinji:

Character: Balthier
Canon: Final Fantasy XII
Canon Point: Post-game/pre-epilogue, with CRAU from Isle of Avalon.

Crime: Patricide.

Background: Balthier is a sky pirate with a flair for fashion and theatrics, who rather likes to make a habit of pointing out just how dashing he is while simultaneously claiming that he can't be bothered by getting involved in other people's business. Of course, while declaring loudly that he doesn't care, he's usually getting himself knee-deep in someone else's troubles for one reason or another. He'll deny it, but he's rather soft despite all his protesting. Though he wasn't always a pirate by trade, he has used sailing the skies of Ivalice to try and put distance between who he is now and who he once was, and in the process, got rather caught up in helping with a revolution that helped to free the kingdom of Dalmasca from occupation by his own homeland. Being a CRAU, he will have some memories from his year+ in Isle of Avalon, though at the moment they are completely obscured and will steadily return with time.

Abilities: Balthier is an expert pilot and engineer, in addition to being quite clever overall. He was something of an academic prodigy before he turned to piracy, though he doesn't care to talk about those days much. He has a short list of spells available to him that largely serve as support; his true combat prowess lies in his excellent marksmanship, and he's no slouch in close-quarters, either.

Plans:

He's spent more than enough time settling, so he's going to be looking to do more exploration and push further past the outskirts of Aldrip to see what's out there.
He'll be big on the travel portions of the event as a result!
STEALING SUPPLIES, STEALING SUPPLIES. It's for a good cause, so it hardly counts as a crime, right? ~~It does, but that's fine.~~

???:

Player: Jade (no not that one, a different one-)
Contact:

jaderhade; jade#9297 -- I usually prefer plurk for plotting, but check discord more often than I should anyway, so either is fine! Feel free to add me on plurk without asking first, all good here 💖
Anything Else?: I'm unfortunately Very Into Persona these days-! I've played Persona 3 and Persona 5 a... lot.... and am currently streaming Persona 4 on twitch! I'm also losing my mind with excitement over the Sims 4 update that's supposed to happen TOMORROW.... Other fandoms are Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Danganronpa!

I'm also an ESL teacher for adults so I tend to sleep early and be unreachable in the mornings, but around in the afternoons/evenings EST!

Character: Kotone Shiomi
Canon: Persona 3 Portable
Canon Point: March 5th, if you know you know 💦

Crime: Duplicity! I wanted to play with the idea of Persona protagonists saying what people around them want to hear and acting as a mirror for whomever they're speaking with. Kotone is more straightforward and talkative than her male counterpart, but she can be very guilty of hiding her true feelings to prop others up instead (so they don't worry/think she's weak/etc)

Background: Kotone is an energetic, outgoing, and playful teenager who's just as quick to be your new big sister as she is to be a professional mischief-maker. Your mileage may vary, but she tends to be Too Willing to stick her nose into someone else's business. How else do you form social links??

Abilities:
Kotone has her Evoker and the ability to summon a Persona! There's a list of those she has available in her app, but the short of it is that she can summon some godlike figures that are reflections of her inner soul.

IMPORTANT NOTE, cw suicide: Persona 3's major themes deal with death -- if that's something you'd prefer to opt out of, please let me know via PM! The use of an Evoker intentionally looks like someone committing suicide by bringing a gun to their head.

Plans:
I don't have any concrete plans as of yet! I'd love for Kotone to have to start being more honest about her own feelings instead of trying to take on everyone else's problems as protagonists are wont to do. She'll definitely be willing to barter for goods instead of fight without reason for them, and while she's more of a baker than a cook, she'll also help out with the cooking!

???: queen of my heart

Character: Dohalim il Qaras
Canon: Tales of Arise
Canon Point: Pelegion, following the brief timeskip/interlude there.

Crime: Negligence.

Background: A Renan hailing from Lenegis, Dohalim has always considered himself to be a musician and a poet rather than a politician of any sort, but nonetheless found himself in the position Lord of the realm of Elde Menancia with the expectation of participating in the Crown Contest, where the Renan Lords of each realm set out to see who could harness the most energy from the Dahnan slaves serving them. Though not initially as altruistic as many thought, he did take a different approach to his rule than most Renan Lords, and worked to promote coexistence between Renans and Dahnans. This had mixed results at best; on the surface, many people were happy with these changes and grateful for the opportunities it granted, while still others (mostly fellow Renans) resented him for not being the sort of Lord they had intended to serve, and remained unwilling to acknowledge Dahnans as anything even approaching equal. Of course, this all eventually backfired in both a grim and spectacular manner; countless Dahnans lost their lives because Dohalim neglected to consider what resentment might lead his countrymen to do. Since then, he has resigned from his position as Lord and set out to bring an end to the Crown Contest for good, joining the group of travelers that had been largely responsible for bringing the problems in Elde Menancia to light.

Abilities: Dohalim is handy with astral artes, with his offensive artes being earth, plant and darkness oriented. He also has some useful healing and defensive artes up his sleeve. He plays a mean violin, recites poetry off-the-cuff (your mileage may vary on quality) and claims to be able to hear artifacts speaking. Whether or not this is literal remains to be seen. The world may never know. He is a weird dude.

Plans:

He's going to be very, very interested in assisting the people of Aldrip with this food shortage. He can't do much regarding food prep, but he's good with diplomacy, so he'll be aiming to put that to use with the Rumpiturians. In general, he's very invested in fostering good relationships with the locals while we continue to gather information.
He'll be doing some venturing into the woods to get to Rumpitur, naturally, so spooky forest things are on his agenda.
This seems like a good time for him to work on his practical life skills... which means learning to fish, and to expand the sorts of dishes he is able to make, learn food preservation techniques etc, to varying degrees of success.
He's gonna ruin some laundry this month tbh.

???:

Character: Sephiroth
Canon: Final Fantasy VII
Canon Point: After summoning Meteor

Crime: Matricide

Background: A powerful warrior who was born to and raised by the Shinra Electric Power Company as the base member and core of their PMC called SOLDIER. He was a handy weapon until someone asked him why he fought and he started getting self-reflective. Then he decided he'd fight for his friends. And he did because he loved his friends but they did not love him back and defected from SOLDIER leaving him alone. His generally kind heart broke, he worried himself sick and stopped eating, and he failed to ever get them to come back. While he was still heartbroken he was deployed to the village of Nibelheim where he learned about the experiments that created him and got it in his head that he was the last Cetra because that's what his mother was. After a week of sleepless nights spent researching his own creation he wandered off, set fire to the town, killed most of the residents, and rampaged up to the local mako reactor to rescue the remains of his "mother", Jenova, who was actually an alien and not a Cetra. Cloud knocked him into the mako reactor and killed him.

Whew!

And that's the prologue. It all gets worse from here... At this point he's been dead for five years and absorbing the Lifestream. His main ambition is to merge with the life force of his planet and become god then use his planet as a vessel to travel through space. As one does.

Abilities: Aside from being a powerful swordsman, Sephiroth is also a sorcerer, and a psychic. His psychic powers can be spooky so please take a look at his Permissions if you'd like to interact with him! Rest assured I will always check in with you before he does anything too dramatic.

Plans: Sephiroth is a very manipulative, cunning man. While he is powerful, he prefers to strategize and watch humans do all the heavy lifting for him. He can be outwardly affable but he's always looking for weaknesses to exploit. Want CR that will encourage your character to be the worst version of themselves? Sephiroth will give folks the nudge they need to go murder their neighbors. Don't be sad, everyone who dies will be reborn as part of him when he ascends to godhood! (He might be scheming to eat Those Who Were There).

???:

NOTE: Those who are only familiar with this character via cultural osmosis might be surprised to learn he is more of a Lovecraftian Horror shaped like a pretty catboy than a swordsman who travels around stabbing people. He likes to get under people's skin, manipulate them and frighten them. Neutral to almost okay CR is possible with him but expect him to be a lurking threat in general. I know this isn't everyone's idea of a good time so PLEASE use his Opt-Out if you want to establish limits or avoid all interaction. My goal is to have people enjoy his presence in the game, not dread or be annoyed by it.

TOGETHER AGAIN!

Cave adventure will probably turn into some genuine concern for a young adventurer that has him checking in regularly because that's who he is as a human being, even though he will insist otherwise.

TOGETHER AGAIN!!

is he her new dad. does she need to give him cupcakes and handmade goods to make him worry less

Player: Amm
Contact: PM,

yammdere
Anything Else?: You might know me from Songerein. I'm still brainrotting The Great Ace Attorney pretty hard atm but Uchikoshi owns my whole-ass soul. Feel free to ask me for my Discord if you prefer, too!

Character: Mizuki Date
Canon: AI: The Somnium Files -nirvanA Initiative-
Canon Point: mid-confrontation at the stadium (but before its conclusion)

Crime: mass homicide

Background: Mizuki was an orphaned child who was genetically experimented on and was later adopted by a father who didn't have time for her and a mother who couldn't handle her, and as a result, hated her. In short, she had a rough life growing up, culminating in a lot of anger and also superpowers from said experiments. Nowadays she is a police officer back in her world, in a special department called ABIS full of weirdos people who can see your dreams. You can read more about her in my app, which is ripe with spoilers if you care.

Abilities: She has superstrength and can run really fast and jump really high. Also, she can whack you with her cool metal pipe.

Plans: So I feel like I'm getting through the worst of her little breakdown now! It'll be easier on her CR from here on out. The only thing super specific is that either she or Saito will kill the other at some point, but I'd like to take it easy on her for a while. She has her bike back, and my next thing I'd like her to regain is her adorabbit plush. Perhaps once I have a better idea of her new living conditions...?

???: Nah.

listen shinji pretending to be asleep to avoid conversation really was so relatable

she'll help him cook! she's more of a baker but she'll be more than willing to help, if by "help" you mean, "tell everyone who walks by that they have to try this, oh, this? shinji made it, isn't it good-"

He is but don't tell anyone, he has to protect his reputation for being cool and dashing.

... he'll take cupcakes.

honestly yeah he knows what's up

kotone..... he's going to dissolve into the floor, no one look at him!! but yes she should help him cook This Time, it will be very wholesome... he won't even snap at her...

kotone really does have to carry all these soft boy's egos inside her heart huh, i love that

Player: Yue
Contact: PM
Anything Else?: I've been working on translating D_Cide Traumerei because it is very good and will never, ever get an official English translation.

Character: Ritsu Shikishima
Canon: Caligula: Overdose
Canon Point: Post-Musician route

Crime: Running away.

Background: So I think the thing that's most relevant to CR at the moment is the fact that while Ritsu is more than happy to listen to others talk about themselves, he hates talking about himself and will try his hardest to derail any conversation that starts focusing on him. I apologize to anyone who has had to deal with this tendency of his. (Though, this may be for the best: he's pretty self-loathing, so his view of himself tends to be overly unkind. As an example, he mockingly diagnoses himself with fanatical narcissism at one point. While he does have some of the symptoms, it's still in no way an accurate diagnosis, so you really have to take even Ritsu's internal monologuing with a huge grain of salt.)

Also, he's super duper observant, so here's his permissions post if there's anything in particular you'd like him to pick up on about your character.

Abilities: His abilities are all tied to his emotions and identity, so... yeah. It's easier to just skim through his app. He's trying to avoid using them, as a result.

Plans: So before Ritsu ended up here, he kinda went, "I'm sick of interacting with people. I'm so sick of it I'm gonna destroy the world." However! He has been very social here, so that's been kind of weird for him, mentally. Ideally, this time he'll learn to not let social interactions completely wear him down. Also, he knows a lot of people's birthdays now, and I have those jotted down — but my memory can be pretty bad, so please feel free to poke me if your character's birthday is coming up so that Ritsu can get them something.

RE: the upcoming event, Ritsu's pretty good with people (at the expense of his own mental health), so he'll probably go bartering.

???:

in which two people are jealous and the third is shogo

Edited 2023-03-14 02:01 (UTC)

She really, really does. Love that for her and for you.

Player: Fel
Contact:

hepaticas (Feel free to add me, don't be shy)
Anything Else?: Hello! I am your resident health care worker, and recently been promoted to a lead. I'm. Honestly crazy busy at work lately, but here I am, playing two characters... ahaha. Anyway, my interests range from horror, to jrpgs! I love, love horror games like Fatal Frame, and Silent Hill. As for jrpgs, I do enjoy the suikoden series, xenosaga series, shadow hearts series, final fantasy... I'm currently a savage raider in FF14 (just cleared p7s yaayy), so my wednesdays and thursdays are dedicated to that. I'm also an avid cook!

Player: Bryo
Contact: PM or plurk @

compassinks! I can't keep up with discord servers 99.9% of the time so that's where to catch me at, please feel free to plurk friend me!
Anything Else?: I am a botanist and a graduate student! Sometimes I talk about how cool plants are. I also play a lot of Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy, and other video games, and I have watched probably way too much Star Trek in my life. I draw and write (non-RP things) as well. I live in Central US Time but I just tag whenever, usually.

Character: Ethlyn of Leonster
Canon: Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
Canon Point: Chapter 5, right after she dies and it's in GAMEPLAY but you CAN'T GET ACROSS THE MAP IN TIME so all you can do is wATCH

Crime: "The crimes of the Grannvale Empire"

Background: Ethlyn is the younger sister of Fremblem 4's protagonist Sigurd, who is a reckless hothead, and wife of his best friend Quan, who thinks that strength of arms is the most important thing to ensure victory, and she's the sensible one who keeps them patched up when they go off and do stupid things.

...At least that's what she thinks she is. In truth, she is just as prone to making reckless bad decisions and holding to them stubbornly, which plays a huge role in how and why she meets her end. After falling into one unwanted battle after another, Sigurd's army is betrayed, exiled, and finally backed into a corner. Ethlyn and Quan's attempt to reinforce them ends in disaster when their own enemies ambush them.

She's also a noblewoman and had to take the role of duchess very young (it's not said how young but I feel it's probably her early teens, and she's 20 now) so she wound up with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility and a tendency to decide that you are her responsibility. So she's both a self-decided Mom Friend and a person with the instincts of a little sister, which can be fine a lot of the time for other people, but probably not all the time.

Abilities:
- Healing: Ethlyn is a battlefield healer and she has her staff. She's organizing other willing healers to be a little horseback emergency healing troupe.
- Sword's: Ethlyn is 50% divinely blessed to be good at them. She doesn't have her personal weapon here, just a regular sword, but she's very skilled with it and can fight competently with almost any sword she gets her hands on if necessary.
- Horseback riding: It's not magical she's just good at it because she's been doing it since she was like, 5 probably.

Plans: Ethlyn doesn't understand how she can be held responsible for her birthplace becoming an oppressive empire, and she's been telling everyone that she opposed it with all her might when the subject comes up. While she did take up arms against them, the truth is that her brother and all his friends failed to see how their actions were being used by their rivals in Grannvale to further their own ambitions, and how they were being manipulated into helping destabilize Grannvale's neighbors so it could swoop in and annex them. Overall I want to have her come to realize this fact, and that her lack of foresight and looking back did a great deal to help her enemies succeed.

In personality, Ethlyn is affable and kind, likes to gently tease people, and has a great deal of empathy for others, so she's a good person to make friends with. She's also organizing any willing healers into what she thinks of as the Arztenritter (doctor-knights) as kind of an emergency response force in case anyone gets injured (so if there are big game events that involve danger and casualties, for instance, they'd be there).

???: check out these DOPE-ASS MAGIC SFX

Edited 2023-03-14 02:01 (UTC)

Player: Gigi
Contact:

makochan; nothlir#9497; PM
Anything Else?: I am EDT, but I keep weird hours. I love Final Fantasy, Tales of games, D&D, Critical Role and MCU. I post daily pictures of my cat on plurk, so if you like Russian Blues, boy... I have just the crack you need. <3

Welcome, Laura! I'm Chris, and I play Balthier (FFXII) and Dohalim (Tales of Arise) here. I am just REAL EXCITED TO SEE SHINJI, big Persona fan (and Akihiko player) so I will definitely have to throw someone at him! That accidental manslaughter... poor kid. v.v

Character: Rin Nesidri
Canon: Original Character
Canon Point: Ori war

Crime: High Treason against Demetria Xydis.

Background: Rin is a weird character. She works for the black market, but she's a very cheerful person, despite the work she did before the war. She used to sell drugs, and weapons to noblemen and women who asked for it, but now that she's in the middle of a war. So, her current job is actually being a spy, and doing field work for her organization. Overall, she's a very happy person, but she is a bit lonely right now without her friends and her husband along for the ride. She also hates using her brain.

Abilities:
Katana proficiency/swordplay: Rin has been a skilled swordsman for nearly all of her life. She moves fast with her sword, and is able to perform acrobatic skills with her sword. At present, her sword looks like THIS.
Fire magic: Able to create fire geysers, and shoot fire lasers. Although, her control with fire is not good, she still manages to possess an affinity for it when she's calm and collected. She usually does not use this magic, as it causes her to be exhausted, but she is able to ignite her hand into flames to act as a source of light. This is currently nerfed at Expiation, and she can only make flames as a source of light.
Electricity magic: Rin's specialty. With her electricity magic, she can create lightning cages to seal her enemies. She can also invoke electricity into her katana; creating lightning slashes that vaporize enemies in an instant.
Earth magic: Rin uses earth magic to make herself a human shield. She is able to absorb damage within the shield, but only for a limited time. Once the shield breaks, she becomes extra vulnerable to attacks, but can dish out attacks twice as hard. Not available at Expiation.

Plans: Rin just recently opened up her own tailor shop! Those who want clothes are more than welcome to drop by. She will take your measurements and design whatever clothes you want. She's very open to making casual clothes, formal clothing, and her favorite for the female body: tight fitting clothes. It's the only clothes she wears.

As for the event, she's going to choose to help the people of Aldrip. They've been nothing but nice to her, so it's the least that she can do. Feel free to team up with her to help them! She'll either try and go with the locals to barter, or stay behind and cook. She's good with both, as she's weirdly charming and she honestly cooks for the refugees back at home.

She also wants more friends to do stupid shit with, so. You know. She's very easy to make friends with.

???: nyhehehe

Player: London
Contact:

roseofmay, PM, I'm in the discord.
Anything Else?:
I'm an EDT (thanks Gigi!) British / Portuguese resident and I WFH, however, as much as I want to make tags happen during my workday, that doesn't always work. I'm a musician, classical vocalist w/ a VA and stage arts background, and I do video game development and industry analysis, along with five million other things.

I love cats and hobo old men and prickly women.

I am basically rubbish. Please do not perceive me.

Character: Fran
Canon: Final Fantasy XII
Canon Point: End of the game

Crime: Heresy

Background: Fran is a viera that has left the Wood to join the rest of the world of Ivalice. After a few years, she met up with a certain dashing hume and became a sky pirate. Things were great until they decided to take the Dusk Shard and got caught up with Vaan and Ashe and their crap.

Abilities: She has both the Archer and Red Mage jobs, so she has some healing and some damage magicks.

Plans: I really want Fran to make a new found family that she grumbles to herself about but would murder a whole town for.

???: Balthier's partner is finally here!

Character: Aerith Gainsborough
Canon: Final Fantasy VII Remake
Canon Point: Chapter 16 - Belly of the Beast / Whilst in Hojo's Laboratory

Crime: Abandonment

Background:
Local flower girl is the last of her kind, very friendly, and a chaos gremlin with good intentions! More seriously, Aerith is a street-savvy young woman who appears much more delicate than she actually is. She isn't the most well-versed in combat, but she has an incredible emotional strength about her that allows her to be empathetic, an excellent listening ear, and just an all around good friend.

As a note, I took her as a CRAU from isleofavalon, where I played her for a year, but nothing about her really changed and this won't impact likely anyone as much as it'll impact Balthier, with whom she had a very close and complicated relationship with that they'll eventually be forced to deal with. She'll very slowly regain memories from her adventure, but it probably won't serve as much more than conversation pieces.

You can read more here.

Abilities:
- She's got some weird Ancient powers, which I might play with here and there, though many of these seem insignificant. She gets to commune with the life presence in Expiation, so that's pretty cool.
- Very good with plants. DO YOU LIKE PLANTS? IF YOU KNOW AERITH, YOU DO NOW, BECAUSE SHE WILL NOT LET YOU LIVE OTHERWISE.
- She has some materia on her (but no staff...) and can use some of that magic. She also has a materia that she wears in her hair that she insists does nothing!

Plans:
Event:
- Aerith will want to help out wherever she can fit in during the food shortage. But probably not with repairs herself. (She can help hand someone tools whilst they repair, though.) Chances are she'll be of more use in the kitchens.
- She wants to go on adventure! I want her to go to Pessiria Forest and Rumpitur to meet the naga people. If you're planning on stealing and want her nagging in your ear about why that's a bad idea, this is your girl right here.
- I would also love for her to be one of those plagued with nightmares following the little adventure back.

General:
- She is seriously doing her best to make friends and help people out and we all saw how that turned out when she offered up her room with Cloud.
- Her evil, evil nemesis is here and now so too is her dead boyfriend who she never actually said was her boyfriend, but later claimed that she loved him, so everything is probably fine. (It is not fine.)
- She is going to help Rinoa make a flowerbed! (She would kind of like a flowerbed herself...)
- She's actually very interested in figuring out if she has a similar connection to this world's life force / energy that she has back home, so it could be a little amusing to have people stumble on her whilst she's testing all of that out.
- That said if you would like some flower education or just someone to meddle in your affairs whilst she tries to do good things and make good things happen, please let me point her in your direction.
- If you want a seeming damsel in distress for less-than-good intentions, I am also happy to offer her up, though she's probably not as much a damsel as it seems.

Edited 2023-03-14 02:24 (UTC)

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Intro / CR Meme / Extra Notes

Psi, breaking this in

chris | balthier & dohalim il qaras

Vholran Igniseri

laura | new guy shinjiro

balthier | final fantasy xii

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dohalim il qaras | tales of arise

Sephiroth

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Bryo | Ethlyn

Gigi

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Rin Nesidri | Original Character

LONDON

Fran 🐇 FF12

Aerith Gainsborough | FFVIIR