INTRO / CR MEME MAY 2024

[expiationmods]

INTRO MEME

Welcome to Expiation and come on down! We're thrilled to have you here! 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.

The SOTG for May is HERE, with changes and where the game is going for the month. Feel free to browse around if you haven't already, and check out the MAIN NAVIGATION for more detailed info about the game itself.

MAY EVENT

MAY EVENT SUMMARY

WOULD YOU CARE TO TEST YOUR METTLE?

The tablets don’t normally play ads, but on May 5, they do. Everyone receives the same image at the same time, as if a pop-up ad has been sent out to every device:

PUT YOUR SKILLS TO THE TEST. Join us for the CHALLENGE OF THE CENTURY! Sign up now!

There is no other information given. Tapping on the tablet’s screen outside of the ad will make it go away with no effect; players can choose to have it appear only once, or persistently. “Sign up now” is a button, and when tapped (either on purpose or by accident), the ad just…goes away. How odd.

THE TOWER

On May 20, anyone who signed up for this strange ad, whether intentional or not, wakes up on the ground floor of a tower with no way out and stairs leading upward. They’ll find doors as they climb, and behind each of these doors is a challenge. The goal of the tower will be simple, as explained to each character: there are four categories of challenges (outlined below). Each competitor must win one of each challenge type to conquer the tower, at which point they will be given a reward.

We leave the nature of these challenges up to you, but the following details will be the same for each challenge:

One, each challenge falls under one of four categories, outlined below. The size, nature, and scope of these challenges is left up to you, and can fall under any of these categories. You can do as many or as few as you would like.

Two, characters will find themselves facing off against another character, in direct competition for each of these challenges.

THE CHALLENGES

Wands. Challenges in the wands category focus on will and creativity. This includes creative solutions to problems, tests of resolve, examining accomplishments, and exploring what is important to your character.
Swords. The swords category centers reason, logic, wisdom, and intellect. This category also emphasizes adversity and problems, feeling trapped, and situations of oppression/cruelty.
Cups. Challenges in this category might pertain to spiritual matters, emotion, love, and examining your past or your feeling. Cups can encourage characters to face feelings head-on, or to focus on memories, whether accurate or not.
Coins. Emphasizing material matters and possessions, this is a category that focuses on physical, tangible challenges. These don’t have to be related to money; anything with high stakes (tests, games, etc) as well as challenges of physicality can fit into the category.

The categories are broad by design; we encourage you to think creatively about how you set up your challenges, and what category they may fit under best! Not all of these have to be physical fighting challenges, either. They can be any situation where one character is directly compared against another. Some examples: squats competitions, knitting the longest scarf, rap battles, test scores, the quiet game, challenges to not fight or not touch things, “the floor is lava,” races, really the sky and your imagination is the limit.

COMPETITION RULES

Winning. What determines a challenge win will vary based on the challenge given. If the win condition is to best your opponent in battle, you win by doing that! But if the challenge is “do not fight,” then winning a battle against a competitor could make you lose the challenge. We encourage you to be creative with challenges and win conditions.

Three strikes. Everyone has a loss now and then, but losing three times will kick a participant out of the competition. Not everyone can emerge a winner!

Knockouts and death. Strangely, death does not seem to be a permanent condition within the tower. Characters who die will wake up just as if they were knocked unconscious, unscathed and ready for the next round.

Forfeit. Characters can choose “fuck this, I’m out” as an option at any time! But you can’t reenter the tower once you leave.

Draws. If two characters tie, neither wins and neither loses. No one will collect a win for the category, but it doesn’t count as a loss either! They find themselves back on the tower steps, climbing to their next challenge.

Determining winners. We encourage you to determine who wins each challenge individually by whatever means makes most sense to you.

Leaving the tower. Characters who decide to leave, or characters who are eliminated from the competition, will wake in Aldrip to find that very little time has passed in their absence, no matter how long it seems like it’s been.

THE TOP OF THE TOWER

More information will revealed about winning the competition when the log goes up.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN ALDRIP…

The mAPP application on tablets has gotten an upgrade along with the rest of Expiation. However, it doesn’t always seem…accurate? Sometimes it seems to add buildings, roads, or even whole neighborhoods that aren’t actually there. Sometimes it puts a location pin on areas outside of town that you’ve definitely never been to…they don’t always seem to even exist.

It also seems to have added a percentage at the bottom, indicating how much of the map you’ve actually been to. Here’s a fun fact: even if you’ve been to every nook and cranny in Aldrip, even if you’ve walked every street and every district, the percentage tops out at 95%. It never goes any higher. Strange! But that’s fine. It’s probably just a weird little bug…right?

PLOT WITH ME

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.

How can you run into my character? What's their daily life like? Do they have a job? Do they have other habits or routines?

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

<b>Player:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Anything Else?:</b> Anything you might want us to know? What kinds of things interest you? What's your current favourite fandom? Put it here. <b>Character:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Canon Point:</b> <b>Crime:</b> The crime your character was accused of when they arrived. <b>Background:</b> A brief insight into your character's history is fine here. You can talk about their personality, as well. <b>Abilities:</b> Any abilities that you feel is important to note about your character. Bullet points and concise descriptions are okay. <b>Plans:</b> 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. <b>How can you run into my character?</b> What's their daily life like? Do they have a job? Do they have other habits or routines? <b>???:</b> Questions? Comments? Memes? Put them here.

Comments

QUESTIONS / CONCERNS / COMMENTS

[expiationmods]

[fieldtrip]

mods thank you so much for the chill month to breathe PRAISE BE

Kelly

[heartstopping]

Player: Kelly
Contact: tinybro, orbynit @ discord
Anything Else?: I like getting my ass kicked on roller skates.

Saralegui | Kyou Kara Maou!

[enthraller]

Character: Saralegui
Canon: Kyou Kara Maou!
Canon Point: End of episode 36 of season 3

Crime: Perfidy

Background: A young king with both mommy and daddy issues. He has crazy hypo-eyes and does not fear god or death, but he's also a great actor and deeply manipulative, so most people will just know him as a kind, affable, humble youth.

Abilities:
- He has mind-control powers but fortunately for everyone he's very restrained in his usage of them. Still, if there's ever anything you really want your character to do but they wouldn't normally do it of their own free will, hit me up and maybe we can work something out lol
- He also has a magic sword with some wild powers that include healing, rapid growth and manipulation of plantlife, and more, but it's a new acquisition and hard to control so he's also not too inclined to use it much unless he really needs to.

Plans: As a king, Saralegui has a lot of motivation and urgency to get back home so he'll be doing what he can to work towards that end. He might seem very nice but he will burn this place to the ground if needed to escape. And far as CR goes, Sara's easy to get along with on a surface level but he's got trust issues like woah so developing deeper relationships is gonna be slowburn by default and will probably require some more drastic circumstances because he's not the sort to just naturally become close with people over time.

How can you run into my character? Sara's a medieval fantasy person so figuring out modern shit is always an easy in. He's also never had to work a normal job or do a lot of mundane stuff for himself so there will definitely be some struggles in just learning to take care of himself and he could use some help. Alternatively, someone just take care of him and pay for all his living expenses uwu

???:

kri | yu narukami

[izanagis]

Player: Kri
Contact: posolutely or kribbit on discord (feel free to add either!)
Anything Else?: wow i forgot to fill this out...anyway hi i'm kri (she/her, they/them), i'm one of the mods here! most of what i do is event writing and finding ways to kill all the characters ...not finding ways to kill all the characters. promise. i have a 4-year-old and two cats. i'm a graphic designer. interests include video games, plants, books, and probably more that i'm forgetting. i'm in est (but like, barely) and do most of my best tagging during daytime hours. not usually around on weekends bc it gets very busy. i can sometimes get kind of slow because of that, but i keep up with backtags on most everything!

Character: Yu Narukami
Canon: Persona 4
Canon Point: post true ending

Crime: Assault on a police officer

Background: Yu is a chronic do-gooder who can't keep his nose in his own business and loves making friends. He's struggling a bit right now with unstable memories from the previous event (all the bad endings all at once rip) and he's going through some personal drama with Mikey, so he's having quite a time. That said, he'll throw himself into any sidequest, he has a ton of part-time jobs, and he does quite a bit of exploring and monster hunting, so he gets around.

Abilities: Yu is a wildcard, meaning he has a ton of different personas at his disposal! He's also good with a sword.

Plans: My main goal for him is to form more (and deepen current) CR because the lad loves making friends. He's definitely participating in the tower challenge! I think he'll have a total of five challenges because I want to; one for each category (and i guess one category will get a second challenge). His challenges will have an additional theme of one for each social stat, so he'll have challenges for: courage, knowledge, understanding, diligence, and expression. I'm flexible on whether he gets to the top of the tower or not, but in some challenge (probably one of Mikey's), he'll be facing off against Mikey and getting killed from it. so his struggles continue.

How can you run into my character? He has part-time jobs in a ton of different establishments, some player-run and some npc-run. A few restaurants, delivering supplies to other businesses, feeding cats at the farm, the list goes on. He's also throwing himself into sidequests right now to keep himself busy! Also, he's in Scott's abilities club (TWAT life yo) and the cooking club. I can find excuses to put him almost anywhere with almost anyone, so let's do this!

???:

[laserguy]

time to shove yu off the building for not telling scott that he's a wildcard

i'm assuming yu isn't gonna mention the whole being killed by mikey to ppl?

hibiki | akihiko sanada

[marakunda]

Player: Hibiki
Contact: spiciest
Anything Else?: I got no idea what to put here. I am in the UK timezone, will eat anything spicy and ask me about my giant cat.

Character: Akihiko Sanada.
Canon: Persona 3.
Canon Point: 31st January. I'm talking he ran up a few hundred flights of stairs only to end up here.

Crime: Impulsivity. This boy needs to sit down and think things through more.

Background: One of those darned Persona kids. Had the joy of experiencing what we all want; an extra hour in the day. Is popular at school even though he's not about that, and is part of the boxing club. Watches his food intake (somehow). His abilities are lightning / electricity related and his weapon is his fists. Not the brightest of the group and normally the first one ready to run in to battle.

Abilities: ((cw: suicidal imagery for this section, highlight to read))

Akihiko is one of the Persona crew which means he has the ability to summon a manifestation of his psyche. This in turn allows Akihiko to fight, most notably against Shadows during the dark hour. His Persona is summoned by shooting himself in the head with a custom gun known as an Evoker.

His Persona is called Caesar, and most of the skills revolve around electric (zio) based attacks, meaning that Akihiko is susceptible to ice based attacks. The full spell list is HERE.

Outside of his Persona, Akihiko is in the boxing club and is very good at it, he also makes sure to keep his fitness levels up.

Plans: First month obviously getting him adjusted to new surroundings and the fact there are other people who have persona too. That and to understand time is weird, because he kind of left at a really urgent point. And other major things that are here but not back home. Cough. CR wise all of it, everything, friends, frenemies, sparring partners....

Oh and he'll also be looking at the Coins challenge at the tower too.

How can you run into my character? He'll be out jogging in the mornings and afternoons at the very least. Or he'll be hanging with some of his canonmates as well, or wandering around figuring the place out. He's easy to find really.

???:

[drugsnotclubs]

Re: bowling

Aki no you were supposed to just do a three pointer from down the lane

Suze featuring Shinjiro Aragaki from the Persona series

[drugsnotclubs]

I can't help myself from making 20 year old jokes

Player: Suze
Contact: soozaphone same username on Discord, also i"'m in the expi disco server all day during work.
Anything Else?: I like to think I'm funny. I talk about magnets a lot. I am EST and will either be TAGGING ALL THE TIME or like unable to tag for a week so you know. stay flexible.

Character: Shinjiro Aragaki
Canon: Persona 3
Canon Point: October 4th, iykyk

Crime: Loitering.

Background: Cranky teen dealing with trauma through inaction and depression pulls an uh-oh and wakes up in Expi! After 6 months here he's chilled out some and basically come to the conclusion that this world is probably some fake digital bullshit and he probably isn't "him" so much as just as some virtual copy. He's remarkably OK with that, because it means nothing actually matters so do whatever. Cooks good. Dry sense of humor. Kind of a cagey asshole still. Come be his friend.

Abilities: He can summon a giant monster out of his brain that smashed things, but usually doesn't.

Plans: COME DO INSANE CHALLENGES WITH ME ON THE EVENT. See sub thread below for ridiculous challenges suggestions, and feel free to add your own.

I have no current concrete plans!! Shinjiro is pretty settled (aside from not having a home RN but dwbi they're getting a house like this week or next), helping Mitsuru with casino take over, just kind of chilling post organ plot and trying not to think about how he sort-og-accoidentally-sort-of-on-purpose killed a clown. That surely will never come up again or be a problem in any eay.

I love new CR and I love writing dumb shenanigans...!!!

How can you run into my character? He's absolutely going to be stuck in challenge land so that will be an easy way to spring off new CR! Aside from that he takes monster hunting jobs, he'll be "working" at the casino once it's renovated, and he loiters around town people watching. Also a member of cooking club and TWAT club.

???:


Old men don't like Shinji's vibes, smfh

RIDICULOUS CHALLENGE IDEAS, FREE

[drugsnotclubs]

I'm gonna put a bunch of stupid shit under here for EVENT CHALLENGES.

please feel free to take and use any that strike you, use them as inspiration, think I'm an idiot, or even add your own ideas to the pool!!

Mir

[paragonknight]

Player: Mir
Contact: DM, encrelapin, and I'm also often being whimsical in the game discord.
Anything Else?: In April I vigorously shook the game like a jar of bees using my clown. I'm so sorry for disturbing the peace like that

[paragonknight]

Character: Argenti
Canon: Honkai: Star Rail
Canon Point: Following the conclusion of "Night of Universal Hallucinations"

Crime: Vagrancy

Background: Argenti is the sterling example of a knight you imagine from fairy tales except that it's not really an act. It's his way of living. His mission is to protect everything beautiful across the whole universe and he takes it very seriously. The beauty here in question has a big definition... Actually in fact The Beauty is what's known as an Aeon in his universe—which is some manner of cosmic entity so surprise he's actually really religious. Funnily enough though if you critically misunderstand what he's talking about it just seems like he's the most devoted wifeguy in existence? Much to think about.

There's honestly no way to explain Argenti better than watching his Character Trailer. Please note he is like this 24/7. He is the "Crack Treated Seriously" tag.

Abilities: What if I linked the boss entry for him.

Plans: I'll be honest who knows if he'll be here for a long time? Argenti does a lot of dipping out in canon. Despite being a fever dream to interact with he's legitimately a really good guy. I'm interested in offering good-natured and friendly tower competitions and I guess I'll see where CR goes from there.

How can you run into my character? He's so hard to miss! Follow the trail of rose petals and declarations about Beauty. During this month he will be out there vanquishing nasty beasts who target damsels (gender neutral).

???: Did you know hoyoverse collaborated with a Botanist to create a new rose to name after him? During his drip marketing? He's also shown up in Manhwa. Mr. Worldwide.

Jans

[starguy]

Player: Jans
Contact: cantito or hit me up jans on disco
Anything Else?: I'm PST and work M-F, 9-5 and tag when I'm not tired so I might tag a ton one day and then collapse for another, I do not control the speed at which the will takes me.

[starguy]

Character: Peter Jason Quill, aka: Star-Lord
Canon: Guardians of the Galaxy 2021 (the video game)
Canon Point: Post-game

Crime: Treason, ya boy betrayed his space pirate dad and they ain't gonna let him forget it

Background: It's a good game, Brett. Peter Quill is kind of like the Peter you probably know except he's altruistic, devoted to doing the right thing, and doesn't have a selfish bone in his body. Even here in Aldrip, he will never shut up about his friends, the Guardians, who he loves and respects and cares for. He also loves 80s tunes, hair metal, and acting like he's totally fine. He's practically dad material (and recently adopted his not-daughter in space, don't worry about it.)

Abilities: Peter has no abilities! He's a normie. His blasters work only for him because he's the bastard prince of the planet Spartax, but that planet got busted by Thanos so don't worry about it.

Plans: I want Peter to live a chill life and suffer. I mean what? Peter's endlessly optimistic and I don't plan to cut that from him. He's dealt with hardship and come out smiling, and that's what I hope for him to get here as well. Need somebody to run odd jobs and cheer you up? Peter's your guy. In terms of long-term, I want Peter to get the Milano back because that's his home! Though mostly I want Peter to make friends. Friendship is the best.

How can you run into my character? Peter is a big ol' snoop who thrives on boring odd-jobs and helping grandmas cross the street (and getting scammed by grandmas.) It's extremely easy to say you ran into Peter in the middle of the street, at a bar, or honestly anywhere because Peter is bound to be lonely and a lonely Peter is keeping busy as much as possible.

???:

Rema | Matt Murdock

[notthekingpin]

Player: Rema
Contact: baldurian
Anything Else?: Hi! I'm an old marvel fan arisen from my slumber to bring you the best of all possible Matts (no bias). I'm presently in PST and my tagging is kind of varied, when I tag I tag a lot but I don't tag every day. I'm into d&d and related canons (ie baldur's gate if my plurk wasn't a give away) and reading books. My library is outgrowing my house rip. I'm excited to be here!

Character: Matt Murdock (the better one)
Canon: Marvel Earth-65 (Spider-Gwen)
Canon Point: After Spider-Gwen (vol. 2) # 32

Crime: Racketeering (the coolest crime)

Background: Matt has all the powers and skills of Daredevil, but none of the catholic guilt. He's what happens when you have great power and like 0 responsibility. Officially, he's just a blind lawyer. But he's also the kingpin of crime in New York, the Western Sun of the Hand (that's a ninja organization), and the main antagonist for Spider-Gwen for the first couple volumes of her comic. He's going to start out by pretending he's a "nice guy" but I imagine everyone will start to see through that before long.

Also, memes? He loves memes. #Murderdock. It'll trend.

Abilities: Matt is blind but he has a radar sense that allows him to "see" the world around him based on sounds. He's also like hypersensitive in every other sense, plus did I mention he's a ninja? Also he graduated summa cum laude from law school. That's just a fun fact. Don't debate him.

Plans: I'm stoked for him to get settled in. The Tower stuff sounds great, especially with creative challenges. Long term, I want him to start his law firm up and try (??) to provide representation before the pesky council (or Jerry, I guess) with all these accusations flying around. So if you wanna be his test case one day hit me up.

Also crime. First comes the lawyer business, and then, you know, the racketeering business.

How can you run into my character? Matt is going to be really trying to ingratiate himself in the community to build business relationships because he's certain those will be handy in the future. So he did a bunch of side quests etc on the tdm. Speaking of I posed super late so feel free to still hit him up if you want!

???:

[devilsavocado]

truly the dichotomy of man

jenni

[traumaticus]

Player: jenni
Contact: sparklepire | lamarqiaa @ plurk
Anything Else?: hewwo! I'm Jenni, one of the mods around here! I'm excited to talk with you all. I'm struggling uni student that writes and waitresses. I like all old-school shoujos and persona.

Richard

[traumaticus]

Character: Richard Plantagenet, also known as Richard III.
Canon: Requiem of the Rose King
Canon Point: right before his coronation. the audacity

Crime: Existing. :)

Background: Requiem of the Rose King is manga adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry VI & Richard III, focusing on the life of the latter. So, Richard here comes from medieval England having just schemed and plotted his way into becoming the King of whole England. His hobbies include inappropriate face touching, hunting, sword play & archery, political coups and talks about existential horror with the ghosts that, unfortunately, live rent-free in his mind.

Abilities: He's... He's just a guy. Richard is a knight and war veteran, having an education on different warfare and military techniques. But like... It's still medieval times so.

Plans: Richard just got here! So, here's the usual everything please! He is going to believe that Aldrip is a Hell of sorts and that they all are either demons and/or sinners. So, after bit of a culture shock he'll get used to the surroundings.

- I need someone guide him through the weird tech shit. Have fun trying to explain internet to him.
- Someone Please teach him how to use the utensils. . . .
- For money I think he'll settle in doing hunting jobs! monsters and for meat. you know, help him keep in touch with the nature and bloodshed.
- Semi-philosophical talks about religion, souls and politics.
- Idk. Wanna meet his ghosts?

I want to throw him into the Tower! He might have little issues with No Death part because that's how his mind works, but he'll defs go along with all kinds of funny shenanigans because, sure. Why not.

How can you run into my character? I never know what to put here but umm. Around? Richard will be trying to get used to the city the best he can. He's going to be confused by literally everything. Watch him try figure out how to use firearms.

???: Richard is transmasc and the canon deals with a lot of heavy & triggering subject. There's warnings for death, murder, sexual trauma, religious trauma, homo- transphobia, gender & body dysphoria, suicide & self-harm. So, I have an opt-out post for him with screened comments.



Richard misses his animal companion :C

sara | scott summers

[laserguy]

Player: Sara
Contact: currykirby
Anything Else?: I live in EST and work at a university, so sometimes I get a lot of tagging done when it's slow or I'm so busy and can't do anything because I am in Excel or phone call hell. Otherwise, fandoms I like are Marvel, One Piece, FFVII, and Persona. I also really like korby ok.

Character: Scott Summers
Canon: XMCU totally not going to be destroyed in dp3 #copium
Canon Point: Driving back from the mall

Crime: His updated crime is Kills Charles Xavier, so that's fun. He's totally coping with that well.

Background: Originally grumpy teen becomes even grumpier when he started to shoot lasers out of his eyes and needed glasses to control them. Was slowly making friends at Xavier's, but just after 3 days of becoming a mutant, he got sucked into this world and thus grumpy. But through the power of friendship, Scott's become less grumpy and a lot more outgoing. Despite being a mutant, he really hasn't thought too much of the conflict, but recent things have made him start thinking about it more.

Yeah it's Quentin's fault--

He just wants to be normal for a while ok and help his friends. Not having some existential crisis about other Scott Summers existing or appearing in this world. Thank goodness that the two guys with red sunglasses that just showed up aren't him--

Abilities: pew pew optic blasts. Basically uncontrollable concussive forces that will wreck buildings and anyone standing in his way if he unleashes it. It's why he wears the sunglasses. Unfortunately doesn't have his visor yet, so it's all or nothing for Scott.

Plans: First of all, I'm going to be posting a mingle log for members of his TWAT Club (Teenagers With Abilities and Talents) early this month. If your character is a teen or at least somewhere around the age, feel free to join or show up. Scott probably will advertise it but handwave motions. They don't actually need an ability or say what it is, because Scott has zero standards. Also feel free to show up in a costume Spider people--

For the tower, I think I'll sign Scott up?? I don't have concrete plans regarding it and I'm bad with coming up with challenges, but I think it will be fun if it there are like goofy challenges that he must do until he actually has to fight someone, in which he'll just want to quit. Although it could be fun if your character really forces Scott to fight them but uh, optic blasts so wanna warn about that right now.

CR wise, I'd love to have CR with more adults, whether they want to mentor him or think he's a little shit. I'm good with either! Of course, more friends with teenagers. OwO

How can you run into my character? Scott's usually out and about town, either at a sandwich shop or at the arcade or movie theater. Sometimes just out shopping or exploring. Sometimes practicing his powers against monsters outside?? Especially if they're being dangerous again. Basically, easy to bump into this little guy.

???: he really has a thing for redheads doesn't he--

[drugsnotclubs]

What idiocy should we run into in the challenge tower bro

vi | sha-ming | gnosia

[bonobos]

Player: Vi
Contact: moontrip
Anything Else?: I’m sorry for everything my character says and does I think I’m one hair away from being permabanned from this game at any given moment.

Character: Sha-Ming
Canon: Gnosia

Crime: Escaping his home planet, Arsla.

Background: Y’all watch Tarzan? Ok, so he’s not Tarzan by any measure, but his parents were researchers who studied hyperintelligent bonobos and made him live amongst them. He loved them to pieces, they were his only real friends and family up until the corporation sponsoring their research came in and murdered them all. Sha-Ming has Trauma TM from the incident and 50% of his personality is the product of untreated PTSD. The other 50% is the fact that he grew up with notoriously horny monkeys. I wish this was a joke.

His personality is bad. He’ll say anything for any reason. He’s a canonically bisexual otherkin fuckboy with no shame or pride. At heart, he’s a genuinely good guy with severe attachment issues however, and I’m on track to getting him to become a zoologist because in canon he goes onto become one known by the entire galaxy. Guess he’s got something in that brain after all.

Abilities: Literally just some guy. I’m looking to unlock an ability to talk to animals and monsters for him this month though.

Plans: I deadass don’t even know if he’s going to be alive for the first week of this month because he’s in somebody’s (COUGH COUGH GOGOL) basement right now and it’s not looking great.

Regardless of what happens though:

- He’s laying low. Going to be deliberately hard to find.
- Zoology plot!!!! I want to get him to start studying Aldrip’s bestiary and cataloguing behaviors, mannerisms, doing fieldwork and so on. I will absolutely need people for this so if your character would be interested let me know.

How can you run into my character? In Gogol and Mikey’s basement.

Okay, in all seriousness… while he’s usually out and about, he’s had a bad past two months and will probably be on the outskirts or hanging around in nature. No clubbing for him for awhile.

???: beef stroganoff

[depressionnap]

i swear to god i will shove him in a locker

Toph Beifong | Avatar: the Last Airbender

[fieldtrip]

Player: Liv
Contact: chirality, whiskeyqueer @ discord
Anything Else?: AMA coffee, books, fluff dog ownership, and deep state government

Character: Toph Beifong
Canon: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Canon Point: Post-canon with some comics (she is 13)

Crime: Swindling. Which she has actually been doing a lot of here.

Background: Toph is a sassy child with a chaotic good alignment who ran away from her cushy rich person life in medieval fantasy not-China. Along the way she made a bunch of friends and got sucked into helping save the world. She's pretty famous at home now, but mostly that sucks because now people think she's part of The Establishment and are too intimidated to have cool fights with her. Toph loves breaking rules, having fun, teasing people, and is secretly a very good person who is absolutely loyal to her friends. She is also 100% confident in her ability to crush opponents.

Abilities: Earthbending!! Includes sand- and metalbending. Toph makes buildings and chucks rocks around and senses the whole world around her through the ground, which is important because she's blind. Her bending style is based on Chow Gar Southern Praying Mantis kung fu, which is a rare and interesting style in real life, and a unique one she made up in canon. So she's also a great martial artist, a great showman, and actually a great teacher.

Plans: Toph had a rough couple months and could use some space to breathe this month and get back to her usual self! She will definitely sign up for the tower challenges but in the interest of not overwhelming myself, unless we have a TRULY GREAT idea, I would be more up for handwaving an encounter. (Reply here to figure that out? Totally up for Toph losing, winning, ties, whatever!)

She is also buying out a rundown casino with Mitsuru and has declared herself head of security. She is probably going to set up a literally underground fighting tournament with Vi. Let me know if anyone wants in on those things.

How can you run into my character? The greatest sin for Toph Beifong is boredom so she is constantly running around. Previously she did a lot of building repair but there's not really a need for that now. You can still find her doing various side quests when she isn't swindling people at the casino she's about to buy or pestering others in general. She is the emergency medical transport for Ethlyn's medical clinic so you can meet her that way, too.

She has a very unique house in the middle of the city that she made from one unbroken piece of stone, and Kakashi lives next to her with his dog rescue, which she also built for him. She's such a busybody it's pretty easy for me to have her run across someone doing anything. If there's something going down, she wants to be a part of it.

???: Y'all where do we get more AtLA fanart done in traditional art styles? HELLO????

[battlefieldbrat]

kakashi and toph should have a dumb challenge in the tower. who can do the most pushups or something idk

alba | vincent valentine | ffvii

[depressionnap]

Player: Alba
Contact: albaaulbath @ plurk, mothodical @ Discord, PM
Anything Else?: i've been an ff7 slut since i was a teenager, for better or for worse. i also love a lot of horror media which frankly should surprise no one just look at who im playing. i love castlevania [laugh track], darkest dungeon [laugh track], as well as fear & hunger [howling laughter and clapping]

Character: Vincent Valentine
Canon: Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
Canon Point: Post-Temple of the Ancients

Crime: Infidelity

Background: Cloud found this guy in a coffin and then Vincent proceeded to be bad with technology and then he was a Bloodborne boss at the gang. Eventually he decided to join up with everyone else but not for fights and stuff, you don't get his bad stats sick shooting skills yet kids. There's more, but I'm mostly relying on FF7 OG for his backstory until further notice. Do not whisper Dirge of Cerberus at me, I will cry.

Abilities:
- sleeping
- shooting
- m-m-monster shifting
- whatever the fuck was going on in Advent Children
- sick backflips
- don'tworryaboutChaosrightnow

Plans: I'm here for shenanigans, hilarity, and then sometimes maybe I wanna jerk your feelings around. Otherwise, no major plans. Vincent is trying to figure things out while also keeping an eye on the FF7 gang. He's gonna end up as Barret's very spooky roomie and that's gonna be so funny I'm sorry Barret.

How can you run into my character? No no, he runs into YOU.

???: please appreciate that i drew this

[drugsnotclubs]

Ok but is Vincent a musketeer or an abomination in DD1. you gotta pick one


Also his cozy goth snugglebag is a work of art

[driving_from_the_backseat]

Player: Camryn
Contact: PM to driving_from_the_backseat
Anything Else?: Avalon comes with a blanket CW for murder, suicide, and self-harm. I have an opt-out (comments screened) on my permissions page. If you’re interested in having Avalon attack your character, feel free to hit me up here! I try to respond to tags within a day or a few. If I’ve dropped something, it’s usually because I don’t know how to continue, so feel free to hit me up when I drop something you want to continue!

Character: Avalon
Canon: Original character
Canon Point: They met the guy they’d been trying to track down for a few hundred years, and then got dropped into Aldrip. They’re actually interested in learning about themself now, but they’re still perfectly willing to try to murder people.

Crime: Murder.

Background: Avalon has spent their entire existence trying to fill an internal void that they don’t understand. They started out trying to understand themself through other people, and when that didn’t work they made a purpose out of murder. They’ve recently learned more about what they are, and are interested in exploring their species further. They have issues with their identity and think that they completely lack emotions.

Abilities: They can take on the physical form of any living thing that they can picture, and complete partial shifts like changing their hair color. They can manipulate their body to match anything that they’ve seen or can picture, and sense the emotions of people nearby. They can make telepathic contact with your character or take a PC’s physical form with OOC permission.

Plans: I’m happy to throw them into tower challenges with anyone interested!

How can you run into my character? They don’t exactly have routines at the moment. They will end up in the tower, though.

???: I think I’ll be running on enough sleep to function this month…

Robin | Jim Kirk

[finalfrontiersman]

Player: Robin
Contact: trickster88, PM, Discord provided on request!
Anything Else?: Hello! My name is Robin, I'm an Aquarius with a terminal addiction to self-sacrificing idiots xD Pronouns are she/her, timezone is PST! Fandoms are vast and infinite, but aside from Star Trek brainrot, I'm big on Marvel, Stranger Things, Teen Wolf, Doctor Who, Teen Titans, and RWBY as my main fandoms (though I have familiarity with a wide smattering!) I'm also a fanfic writer and a fanbinder~

Character: James "Jim" Tiberus Kirk
Canon: Star Trek AOS (Alternate Original Series - the 2009 movies)
Canon Point: Post-Into Darkness, set two years into the five-year mission (pre-Beyond)

Crime: James Tiberius Kirk: You are hereby charged with Criminal Negligence, with respect to your assumed Command Responsibility as Captain aboard the USS Enterprise.

Starfleet Code Violations:
- Starfleet General Order 17
- Starfleet General Order 29

Background: Jim's had a hard road, but ultimately, he's righted the wrongs of his universe insofar as he's able. Born in the middle of the destruction of the USS Kelvin, a tragedy which claimed his father's life, Jim's been fighting to survive all his life. His path, though drastically altered from his TOS counterpart, led him to the same place - the youngest Captain in Starfleet, commanding the USS Enterprise on her five-year mission to explore deep space.

Abilities: If Jim had DnD stats, he'd be near max on intelligence and charisma. He completed a six-year, intensive Command track program at Starfleet in three years, mastering the skills necessary for his captaincy. He's proficient in hacking and programming, and has been certified as a pilot and marksman, per Starfleet regulations. Outside of his above-average (for a human) intelligence, Jim doesn't have any extra abilities - unless you consider luck, as some would ascribe his solutions.

Plans: Jim's crime, while initially dismissed as baseless, points at one of his biggest fears - letting down his crew, or doing wrong by them. In actuality, the crime is geared towards his treatment of himself - his own recklessness, his willingness to throw himself in the line of fire. It's self-care, Jim.

So generally, building him up to realize that he's not as expendable as he thinks he is is one of my main goals. He'll also be very into learning more about Aldrip; why they're there, who brought them there, how the world functions. His first order of business will be to assist on Spock's "dark web" project (Jim's words).

How can you run into my character? Jim will spend a lot of time out and about, exploring nooks and crannies of Aldrip; he'll also likely be found at the library, enjoying the physical books available (a luxury, in his time). He can also easily be found at the local bar; and generally, most places Spock goes, he'll be around.

???: THE FIRST RULE OF RP IS TO HAVE FUN AND BE YOURSELF




Visualosities!

Re: Robin | Jim Kirk

[izanagis]

I'M SO EXCITED FOR MORE TREK IN THIS GAME. welcome! i'm kri and i just have this weird silent protag here. i'd love to throw him at jim sometime and will be keeping an eye out for opportunities -- he's an absurd extrovert so i'm sure i'll find an excuse at some point

celen 🍖 monkey d. luffy 🍖 one piece

[joyboys]

Player: celen
Contact: celen or pm
Anything Else?: hello i'm a teacher in the gmt+2 timezone, i love cats, kpop and gardening, fandoms include (but are not limited to) one piece, tolkien, the ace attorney games, mdzs, 6oc & riordanverse

Character: monkey d. luffy
Canon: one piece
Canon Point: post-wano, pre-egghead

Crime: treason 😌

Background: local food-motivated 19-year-old with boundless enthusiasm and exactly zero common sense decides to become the pirate king, declares war on the government and somehow charms a shitton of people into being friends with him. he's a walking ray of sunshine with an absolute out-of-whack logic, seems like the stupidest, most harmless guy you'll ever meet — but he's also one of the four pirate emperors with a 3 billion beri bounty, so, you know.

Abilities: oh god. this is your typical shounen manga protagonist bullshit, but i'll try to be brief. the shortlist is that he's: 1) made of rubber, which is as ridiculous as it sounds, and actually way more ridiculous than you could ever imagine; 2) proficient in using a spiritual power called haki, which allows him to do cool stuff like make his skin hard as steel, see a few seconds into the future to predict an opponent's attacks, and glare at people and make them feel faint. or scare beasts into compliance.

Plans: he is extremely new, which means that my plans revolve around luffy getting settled (as much as he ever can), exploring, and probably doing a lot of dumb stuff — and, most importantly, making friends! please come be his friend, willingly or annoyed into it as he's wont to do. he's also extremely competitive, so taking part in the tower challenge is definitely something he'll be doing, so please do those with him! the stupider, the better, honestly.

How can you run into my character? he has no schedule or any kind of hobbies (unless you count eating, which is the easiest way to run into him — in any place that serves food, especially meat), but he's also prone to exploring and getting in the stupidest of places, so you can just run into him absolutely anywhere. in a tree? on a roof? inside someone else's house? yeah, probably.

???: your honour he's an idiot

[notthekingpin]

Celen!!! We played a million years ago and then I stopped rping and changed plurks but I'm so hype we're in a game again!

din >> (s'chn t'gai) spock

[ashaya]

Player: din
Contact: askefise. i am also available on discord in the game's chat! feel free to reach out there or send me friend request and dm me directly. i don't bite!
Anything Else?: i'm perpetually awake and two drinks in according to liv. am i actually that? who knows. i know way too much and my coworkers think i should go into the fbi. i told them that i would never last because if i knew there were aliens for sure i would tell everyone. that's about it. i talk a lot about star trek and genshin impact. sometimes i talk about serious things, but most of the time i vibe in my mystical bog and air drop shit posts directly into their dreams (source: people have told me that is how i feature in their sleeping visions).

Character: S'chn T'gai Spock. He will introduce himself as Spock to 99.7% of people. Don't bother trying his full name. Most people can't hack the pronunciation.
Canon: Star Trek (The Original Series)
Canon Point: Post-Journey to Babel (S2E10)

Crime: I am not copying it down directly, but essentially it is horny crimes with the appearance of murder. Don't ask him. It's very embarrassing. Mostly, it boils down to: self-abandonment/unnecessary self-sacrifice that, as we all know, has a tendency to blow up in your face (and everyone else's).

Background: Spock is XO on Starfleet's flagship USS Enterprise. He was taken here in the middle of his first five year mission and he's not happy about it. He's known to be sort of remote and people (see: humans) might have a hard time relating to him at first because he subscribes to the Vulcan way of living (and, wouldn't you know it, he's half-Vulcan and half-Human). Most people who have no idea about Vulcans would clock him immediately as non-human given his features (tilted brows, green blood, pointed ears - angular overall), which he won't take offense to. He's a smart guy who is sure of his own abilities, but he has a hard time letting others in due to his very... Uh. We'll call it traumatic history, yes. However, if you engage him earnestly, he's pretty funny actually. He's very dry, a bit of a bitch, and will go on a tangent if you let him about various scientific things. He's also very gentle, but he will never admit that.

Abilities: Here is an entire permissions post. Right here.

Otherwise: very versed in Vulcan martial arts, great with electronics/engineering, actually the Chief Science Officer on his ship, knows a great deal about many subjects, loves reading physical books, and can fix up some stuff for you in a pinch (e.g., he can find a way to repair just about anything).

Plans: First and foremost: the dark web sends its regards. Otherwise, I would love for Spock to become the guy that people just sort of regularly go to for weird things he might be able to fix or look at. Given the state of plants this month, Spock will also have to release many trimmings he's collected into the wilds... Be free...

Other things of note:

⟁ Spock is still open to teaching others a thing or two about ciphers and cryptography. The end goal here is to get him and a few others to work with a one-time pad as needed. This is the burner phone to the burner phone when it comes to correspondences in other words. Fun fact: they are entirely untranslatable if they meet the following criteria: the key is truly random, you don't have access to that key. They are only ever used once as well (hence the one-time pad name).
⟁ Spock will be tentatively supplying some information and assistance to the new STEM Club and may or may not look into recruiting a few folks through that gathering of nerds for other projects.
⟁ Spock will inevitably be cajoled into Tower Shenanigans (he's also secretly competitive and loves a good challenge, it's fine). Here is a list of incredibly stupid things we can do (I'm open to other ideas though!): arm wrestling, harmonic tuning (or match given pitches), charades, never have I ever, make something explode the most spectacularly, make the most bitchin' paper airplane, trust fall, escape rooms, etc.

How can you run into my character? Spock feeds the local feral cats. He likes them. He will never advertise this, but feel free to bump into him that way. He's also probably shadowing (or is shadowed by) Jim most of the time! He likes to occasionally brood and meditate by the ocean as well. When he isn't doing that or kicking around with Jim, catch him fixing some stuff for local businesses/NPCs, checking a truly stupid amount of tangible books out of the library, or recording data about/taking samples of the local flora and fauna.

???:

[starguy]

MR. SPOCK...... I have a great need to throw Peter at Spock, I'm so so excited. Peter is just earnest in everything he does and I love throwing him into the dumbest situations so I think they'll get on swimmingly. Over-serious aliens? Some of his best friends are over-serious aliens.

Peter's also going to be poking his head into STEM club because his tech requires maintenance and parts that he can't get on his own, so they can meet up there or anywhere else really! Feeding cats sounds adorable though. That's so great.

Also would it be cool for Peter to recognize Spock as the guy from Star Trek? He will be so excited that Spock is REAL than anything since Star Trek still aired before he was born and he'd have no way to watch it outside of theaters, but also I'm totally cool with not playing the 4th wall angle at all

aki | miller

[melnik]

Player: aki
Contact: shomonkai
Anything Else?: looks into camera like i'm on the office

Character: Miller
Canon: Metro (video game)
Canon Point: Metro Exodus - Novosibirsk

Crime: Betrayal of the Spartan Order

Background: Tl;dr Miller is from post-apocalyptic 2035 Moscow. The whole world was sent into a nuclear winter in 2013. In Moscow, survivors were forced to flee into the metro system under the city. Miller leads the Spartan Rangers who are a neutral group in the Metro that try to protect civilian life, but he was recently forced to leave his position because his son in law done did a fuck up.

He's an overbearing dad and a hardass commander with a lot of misplaced national pride and an unhealthy paranoid streak, but overall, usually means well even if he sometimes fails to show that.

Abilities: Normal human with tons of military and survival experience!

Plans: The metaplot investigation continues tbh! I have a few ideas I need to run by the mods eventually, but for the moment, I am always looking for more characters for him to team up with in terms of trying to squeeze as much info out of the locals/setting as possible. While he's generally against taking massive risks like blowing things up (cough), they are kind of at a point where the bad shit is going to go down no matter what, so he thinks they better take advantage of having all their acuity while they can.

Event-wise, I do think he'll click the sign up and then feel like he's made a huge mistake. But once he's in the tower, he's going to engage with it under the assumption that cooperating may result in some valuable info! So I'm down for match-ups.

Also if anyone would like to collaborate on solving Spock's code riddle, I'm down for that, too.

I am planning on submitting a couple of monsters from the Metro universe to the game with the influx of monsters as well! They are pretty ugly creatures which are basically all amalgamations of existing animals mutated by radiation. Assuming that is approved, he will be pretty dismayed to see them here, but can give some pointers on how to take care of them.

How can you run into my character? Up until this point, he's been making money just by doing odd jobs, etc, but it's about that time that he needs to find something a bit more stable, so he's going to be joining Toph in managing security at the casino! Please direct all questions to the 12 and 13-year olds running it all, TY. But in seriousness, he will be easy to find there.

He also has been spending a decent bit of time at the library since the setting change, despite how out of place he may look there. But in general, he's not difficult to find anywhere around the city.

???:

[skelters]

aki aki aki aki i have (hopefully) returned from the depths so im dying to have vash and miller have some cr finally ... is miller going to be one of those boomers who's going to click on a link bc it says CLICK HERE because vash is totally going to be

IN ANY CASE i know we're going to have some kind of point of convergence re: casino security and stuff but i'm so down for them to have some dumb tower competition as well!!!

Pixle / Kei Nanjo (Persona 2)

[totheno1]

Player: Pixle
Contact: pixle or PM this account!
Anything Else?: Hi! I am Pixle and I used to play Ryoji from P3 but now I went back to my first plan of playing a rich asshole with a heart of gold of Persona 1 and 2, Kei Nanjo. I enjoy doing artworks, cooking, taking care of my soon-to-be 3 year old and playing video games.

Character: Kei Nanjo
Canon: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Canon Point: End of the game (meeting the P1 protag at a bar)

Crime: Incitement (More specifically; For finding out too late the Nanjo's Group's nefarious projects including human testing and the creation of artificial personas, and also for being the heir of the said Nanjo Group, from which the Kirijo Group broke off from but still worked with, therefore being indirectly responsible for nearly causing The Fall in the future and failing to stop the events leading to it.)

Background: - Some rich asshole kid decides to give his parents the middle finger and go to a public school where he meets actual friends and learns to be chill and not an actual asshole. A lot of weird-ass plot of Persona 1 happens. Someone has Mara bursting out of their stomach. Kei loses his only family, his butler who took care of him like a dad (but it's okay, cause his memory lives on as his ultimate persona, on a surfboard)

This is Kei Nanjo from P2 where he's had 3 years from those events to become even less of an asshole despite being super ultra duper rich and now values friendship above everything else. Wants to be the #1 man of Japan, but we're never told what that means? President? Biggest CEO? Owning a famous video game company? Mysteries.

Abilities:
- Persona Wildcard user but only because P1 and P2 had "everyone is a wildcard!" with a lot of asterisks because they can't use certain Arcanas and also have affinities with certain arcana. TLDR: "We have Wildcards at home." aka can summon parts of him to use as weapons and healing and basically summoning magic.
- Good with Firearms and Swords (he has a two handed sword which he uses with one hand. BECAUSE.)
- Good with Economics
- Rides horses
- Rides motorcycles

Plans: Honestly I just want him to suffer more especially with the crime he is accused with. He's going to be feeling so guilty about the future and how he failed to stop it in some parts. But also non-persona wise, I want him to meet people, maybe become a brother figure to someone (he's 20 going on 50 tbh)

How can you run into my character? For now since he's new, he's mostly exploring the place, trying to learn more about the world, the people, the local customs. Also economically, he's trying to see what businesses are run around here. He might not be able to make food, but he can sure as heck know how to run the entire business that gets you that food.

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

[bombdevil]

so happy to see someone playing from p1/p2! reze is doing odd jobs here and there so maybe that could be a way for them to meet or interact - mostly i think their personalities would have really amusing cr so i gotta finagle them interacting somehow

novas feat. ryoji mochizuki from the persona series

[luneminary]

Player: Novas
Contact: soukokus or by lycelle on discord!
Anything Else?: HIII my name is Novas (they/them) and I live in the Philippines over at the GMT+8 timezone! This is my first time back in Dreamwidth in over a decade, and I used to be part of the LJ crowd! Interestingly enough, Ryoji was also the first ever RP muse that I picked up. I love going hard about lore, video games, building gunpla, and telling everyone I meet to watch Kamen Rider Build.

Also letting everyone know that my character is basically a Walking Spoiler for his series - talking about him in-depth while avoiding those plot points is kinda impossible!

Character: Ryoji Mochizuki
Canon: Persona 3
Canon Point: Before December. :)

Crime: Helplessness.

Background: Ryoji literally inserts himself into the story very late in the game as a charismatic yet somewhat airheaded of a transfer student, serving as a bright source of sunshine following some tragic twists in the game's plotline. Turns out his appearance is a Bad Thing, because he's destined to bring about the end of the world.

Abilities: Despite being one of the Persona folks, he doesn't summon one of those fancy giant monsters to fight for him. This is because he's Death a totally normal high school student! He transforms into one of those fancy giant monsters instead has no experience in fighting whatsoever!

Plans: OKAY OKAY OKAY He just got here but I Have Plans. I want to place him first in this slow horror kind of mood where everything seems to be normal and ordinary but you can't help but feel unsettled by something, and you don't know where it's coming from. I took Ryoji from a canon point before he remembers his true nature, so I want to play around with this: please put him in scenarios where he can slowly discover that he has special powers of his own, eventually coming to a head when he finally remembers that he's not even human.

Those who know that he is way happier as who he is now (read: most of the P3 cast) can attempt to steer him away from that! Your efforts are futile, but you can certainly try!

As for short-term plans, Ryoji is probably gonna sign up for the tower challenge thinking that it's just some obstacle course type of competition! Feel free to prove him right or wrong about this.

How can you run into my character? Outside of challenge theme park he's basically wandering around town pretty much exploring everything and getting used to the new environment. First thing in his mind is to look for what he could do on his spare time, so expect to bump into him trying out an assortment of part-time jobs.

???: Died 1996 born 2006 welcome back Nagisa Kaworu

[memori3s]

When Minato spends all his time sprinting tf away from Ryoji. Then he will realize. Except I know we've spoken about this briefly so I need these 2 to land in a scenario where Minato Can't sprint tf away and has to grit his teeth and pretend Ryoji is a stranger. I think that would be incredibly funny. To me.

Megan | Tsunayoshi Sawada

[theskyaccepts]

Player: Megan
Contact: urbaninja
Anything Else?: Hello, I'm Megan! I like anime, JRPGs and actual play podcasts and am horribly behind in all of them. My current favourite podcast is Friends at the Table. I am in MST and usually available evenings and weekends.

Character: Tsunayoshi Sawada
Canon: Katekyou Hitman Reborn
Canon Point: Post Series

Crime: Literally being involved in Organized Crime

Background: Once upon a time, there was a boy named Tsuna. He was kind of loser, not good at sports or school, and really just kind of cruising through life with no ambition. Then, in a cruel twist of fate, a baby hitman appeared, and told him that he was the heir to the Vongola Mafia family, and it was his job to shape Tsuna up into a good mafia boss. Tsuna's protests fell, and continue to fall, on deaf ears, but considering all the other candidates are dead or just kind of suck, someone's got to do it. At least he got some friends out of the deal.

Tsuna doesn't seem like much at first, but he's a loyal, caring guy who just wants to do the right thing. Push him into a corner and you'll find his backbone. Got a tragic backstory? You're under his sky now. He doesn't ask for chaos but it follows him home anyway.

Abilities:
-Dying Will Flames - a source of energy born from a person's dying will. Tsuna's flames specifically are Sky flames, which can harmonize with other flames. In their hard form they pack a punch, in their soft form, he can fly.
-Hyper Dying Will Mode - the form that allows Tsuna to use those flames
-Hyper Intuition - while I don't play it up too much, Tsuna can usually pick up vibes and get a sense when someone is lying or just doesn't have their heart in it.

Plans: I've kinda fallen behind so this month is a catch-up month for Tsuna and I want to get him out there.

-Hoping to tag out at the TWAT Club meeting and also around.

-Get Ready for a Game Changer! Tsuna will be heading into the Tower and a lot of his challenges are probably going to be based around the hit Dropout Show, Game Changer (particularly some of the more mind bending ones). There may also be some Vongola Style nonsense thrown in as well.

-He'll also be down for exploring the city and filling in the map, if anyone wants to join him in that. He's looking for leads or anything else to investigate that might off since all the changes took hold.

How can you run into my character? Tsuna can usually be found at his house, and running errands throughout the day. He probably visits the club building regularly.

???: <3

minato arisato | persona 3

[memori3s]

Player: Jin
Contact: alaudarum or Expi Discord
Anything Else?: Hi all!! I'm on EST time and tend to tag in the evenings after I've eaten dinner + cleaned up for the evening. I work from home so I'm oftentimes around but idk I might also be knee-deep fighting for my life in a client call or wading through the shittiest microfiche scans of messy handwritten medical records from the 1940s so. You never know...

Character: Minato Arisato
Canon: Persona 3
Canon Point: Post-canon/after final day of the game/iykyk

Crime: Negligence

Background: Physical embodiment of "Nihilism: Nothing matters (existential dread) vs Nothing matters (fuck it we ball)." High school student who drifts through life and gets roped into others' shenanigans no matter how stupid they might be. His idgaf attitude and flagrant disregard for his own well-being can be alarming at times but!! He's genuinely quite nice so surely that counts for something... Thanks to some people's persistence, he's starting to think twice before doing especially stupid shit. Apparently it upsets and distresses the people who care about him??? Whether he actually stops is yet to be seen though... You might see him wandering around with a dog named Koromaru too! 10/10 goodest boy, please come pet!! Yes the dog has a Persona too dw don't ask

Abilities: Personas!! He has 10 of them and they range from huge + somewhat concerning-looking to a tiny pixie. I think he has the Worst set of Personas out of all the Wildcards at Expi LMFAO it's ok. It's his brand now.

Plans: I'm not 100% sure yet whether Minato will be participating in the tower challenge despite the Persona 3 Urge to Climb Mysterious Tower. On the other hand don't quote me on that because I wouldn't put it past me to see the event log and go "actually this log is cool af I take it back" HSDFJSDFJKL

Otherwise, no concrete plans outside of continuing to build on current CR while exploring new CR! He's made friends within his own age group during his time here which has been really helpful re: learning how to better connect with others! It would def be nice too to have adults that might be good influences on him as well, since he's never really had one before? He's had to step into leadership roles as a teen so it would be nice to have someone as a mentor/looking out for him!

How can you run into my character? It wouldn't be too unusual for Minato to be anywhere, given his penchant for wandering about. You might catch him taking Koromaru on walkies as well. Otherwise, he lives at the inn so their paths could have crossed there! He has 500 part-time jobs too, but he's mainly with the Arztenritter i.e. Ethlyn's healer brigade and available for patching people up via magic! In general though, he takes on various odd jobs and errands, usually through Juri Arisugawa who is. Basically his fixer. Except for legit jobs as opposed to the shadier sort...... unless asked...... .....idt he would say no to whatever job she sent him to... .....

TBH I can very likely finagle a reason for Minato to run into your char or we can cook something up! He is a jrpg protag always getting into everyone's business albiet unintentionally and never by his own volition. We will figure something out... So feel free to hmu on Plurk or in the Discord!

???: \o/

[fieldtrip]

PLEASE share with me and Suze some shitty microfiche scans of 1940s medical records, why are you withholding this

Also what are Minato's feelings on Mitsuru and Toph buying out a casino?

timmy | rafal

[nilhilistic]

Player: Timmy
Contact: timmtams
Anything Else?: Uhh, I'm on the worst timezone (GMT+8) but I'm a consistent tagger. I'm a bracket user (sorry prose friends, I love you but you're too powerful for me) and I love cross-canon CR. My plurk is usually RP, icons, Fire Emblem, Dune, Dungeon Meshi, Frieren, various movies and animation.

Character: Rafal
Canon: Fire Emblem Engage
Canon Point: Before the final battle with Sombron

Crime: He destroyed the world.

Background: HOO BOY WHERE TO BEGIN.

In a nutshell Rafal is the spawn of Satan, I mean Lord Sombron, the big bad of the game. He was raised in believing power was the ultimate goal so he played 4D chess with the entirety of humanity, won and went . . . well I'm not done :|

So he continued to fuck things up until his sister and an alternate version of the protagonist told him to stop, it's not worth it. Realizing the extent of the shit he's done, Rafal is working towards his penitence by saving other worlds. He's a good dragon now. Sometimes. Usually.

Abilities:
🐲 He can transform into a dragon! Which breathes pink fire. Just roll with it.
🐲 He can create zombies! Or make you into a zombie! Very normal things.
🐲 He's an excellent dessert maker. This is a valid skill.
🐲 Oh and he's a good fighter.

Plans: Rafal is going to take saving the world seriously. He's not the best at making friends, tending to be very blunt and rude, but he will never turn away anyone who is in need. Your cat needs saving? Fine, whatever, but he'll do it.

How can you run into my character? He'll be scoping out things by flying in the sky, wandering around in his dragon form. You'd also find him in cafes and bakeries being a menace by adding a zillion cups of sugar in his food.

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Re: timmy | rafal

[baldrshand]

god FIRE EMBLEM REALLY LOVES ITS ZOMBIES DOESN'T IT

I am REALLY ENJOYING our TDM thread and I would absolutely love Ethlyn and Rafal to get to know each other better. The fact that he was able to give her some closure on her brother's death and her nephew's survival is a huge weight off her shoulders so she will genuinely want to repay him for that and help him get to grips with Aldrip etc.

gigi | reze (chainsaw man)

[bombdevil]

Player: gigi
Contact: r0sebride @ disco
Anything Else?: excited to play with you all! i am a marketing girlie who lives in chicago and mostly games and watches prestige dramas these days. my job is a little crazy right now so i'm slower than usual but hoping that things slow down in the next two weeks or so.

Character: reze
Canon: chainsaw man
Canon Point: vaguely post part 1

Crime: Lying to a friend

Background: TLDR; Russian Psyop and Manic Pixie Dream girl extraordinaire. Reze is basically a child soldier who's spent her whole life dreaming of normalcy. She's pretty smiley and upbeat on the outside, but inwardly she's just this.

Abilities: A walking bomb, basically. The choker around her neck hides a grenade pin and if gets dislodged and she gets jostled around she WILL explode.

Plans: Reze isn't used to not being on the run or having government assigned overlords pulling her strings - she's dreamed of this kind of freedom her whole life but can't really believe that she has it now. She's going to be paranoid and looking to gather as much information as possible about Aldrip and its denizens.

Outside of that she'll be doing odd jobs- deliveries, chores, and the occasional debt collecting. Probably some pickpocketing here and there. If you want to yell at someone for stealing your wallet hmu.

She's a bit like a skittish feral cat right now, and the whole upbeat, happy-go-lucky thing she pretends at is hanging on by a thread.

How can you run into my character? Maybe you've done a job with her or hired her for some errand! Maybe she stole your wallet! Or you saw her shake down a grown man because he owed someone money.

Also collecting intel like I mentioned so it wouldn't unusual for her to chat up other people if the situation allows for it.

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[bonobos]

Gore

[digthefuzz]

Player: Gore
Contact: goreo or disgore at discord
Anything Else?: I'm Gore. The pun guy. I have a lot of fandoms on my plate across different media, probably too many to list. I definitely play a lot of video games (mostly Nintendo games as well as some mystery/puzzle-solving games like Ace Attorney, Dangan Ronpa and Professor Layton and some RPGs including Tales of and Persona), and I'm currently keeping up with X-Men '97 while working my way through Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and also (very slowly) the One Piece anime.

Character: Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Canon: X-Men Evolution
Canon Point: Post-"Cajun Spice"

Crime: He has been accused of matricide, specifically the murder of his biological mother Mystique. Something he was actually trying to prevent in canon!

Background: Kurt is from X-Men Evolution, an X-Men show from the early 00's which is not to be confused with the 90s series that currently has a revival. Unlike other versions of Nighcrawler, this one is depicted joining the X-Men as a teen. He hails from Germany and has lived with adversity all of his life due to his mutation making him look like a fuzzy blue devil. Ever since he moved to America and joined the X-Men, he receieved a special image inducer that uses hologram techology to look like an Ordinary Teen. He's generally a fun-loving class clown with a love for bad jokes and slinging around cringey slang to fit in, while still being anxious about wanting to avoid the backlash that his real from can get.

Abilities: Kurt's very acrobatic, can cling to walls/ceilings, knows some hand-to-hand combat and has a prehensile tail. His big power though is the of teleportation, with a range that has an upper limit of two miles. He can teleport with others, and he leaves behind clouds of smoke that smell of brimstone as he teleports. (When he teleports, he's actually moving through some Hell-like pocket dimension at speeds too high for anyone to realize that's happening!)

Plans: So right now I'm settling Kurt into the game and looking to gather all kinds of CR, from fellow teens to adult figures! Anyone's welcome, with or without superpowers or mutant-like situations. There's a lot of character stuff I'd like to explore with Kurt, like the angst of being a mutant, his family issues (especially given the crime he's been assigned) and him coming close to being open about himself. In canon, he eventually went public as a mutant, but with his image inducer on, so the public doesn't know he's specifically the blue fuzzy mutant. So he's doing a bit of a secret identity thing, but we'll see how long that lasts. Also, while I headcanon he's probably had some fencing lessons at the mansion, I do want to explore him learning more about swordfighting so he can eventually swashbuckle like his comic self! I'm not sure yet if I'm throwing him into this month's event, but generally I'm open to starting all sorts of CR and building up new ones!

How can you run into my character? Well Kurt's new to the setting so he's going to spend a lot of time checking out the city and familiarizing himself with the place, though it should be noted that he'll usually have his human disguise on when in public. The Game Parade sounds like one place he'll be frequenting! He's also going to be living in Scott's house, so visitors may find him there (and more likely to be in his normal form to boot!)

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[totheno1]

How many puns should I expect if I toss my purseowner at him