INTRO / CR MEME

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INTRO / CR MEME

Welcome to Expiation, home of the big bucks and no whammies! We're thrilled to have you here, new and old players alike. 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 characters accepted in June are exempt from the June AC. For everyone else, please submit your AC by June 30th, 2023. We will provide a warning list halfway through the day (eastern time) on both the OOC community and the moderator plurk. If you need to take a hiatus or have extenuating circumstances, reach out to the moderator team via DM, our feedback page, or plurk. We're some pretty understanding people! Real life sometimes slaps all of us around, after all.

As a kind reminder for people who are using backdated threads as proofs, we are counting the number of comments from June. Please make sure your counts are correct. We will sweep anyone who fails to meet AC due to miscounted comments.

For our new players, we encourage you to read the Premise and End Game section of our April 2023 State of the Game, as it includes behind-the-scenes information for players. There's also a wide array of other information on that entry available for the curious. (You can also check out the tag and read the bottom section for interesting lore / world building questions that have been forwarded to the team since the game's opening.)

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

- Sometime this week, we'll have sign ups for the Sentencing mechanic. The short description is that we will be taking sign ups from interested parties. The sign up post will contain (hopefully) all of the information you might need as players to make an informed decision about whether you want to be involved or not. From the interested parties, a select number will be chosen via RNG, and those characters will be assigned a task that they will have a specific amount of time to complete. Successful completion will result in characters obtaining some kind of information pertinent to overarching game story line in some way (consider it may be a little more vague rather than directly in one's face). Characters who participate in this may also have their parchment crimes altered following successful or unsuccessful completion, depending on personal actions taken in the game thus far.

- Our next event isn't scheduled until later July 2023, but we can tell you that it's got something to do with those friendly little fairies who were giving people the power to grow plants at will. It might be worth fostering some good relations with them whilst the opportunity is there.

- We'll have a simple mingle available in late June / early July for newcomers and Chosen who've been around for a while as a means of getting to know people. Something likely light of heart to help offset some of the more serious themes we tend to explore in our events.

- The next state of the game will also take place in July, after the event, which will, as ever, include results of the event, changes made to the world, things we'd like to do in the future, things we're working on in the background, and more little curiosities for everyone.

- The next application cycle will be in early August 2023. The next TDM is scheduled for the end of July to pave the way for that app cycle.

Please make use of the below form for all of your intro and CR meme needs!


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.

<b>Player:</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>???:</b> Questions? Comments? Memes? Put them here.

Comments

[theskyaccepts]

Player: Megan
Contact: urbaninja or PM
Anything Else?: Hello, I'm Megan. I'm a librarian who lives in backlog hell. I like anime (shonen mostly), JPRGs (like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy), and Actual Play Podcasts (Critical Role, Friends at the Table, Dimension 20).

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

Crime: Deliberately getting involved with Organized Crime

Background: Tsuna is your average student. He's not the smartest or strongest individual, but he's a pretty good kid who likes hanging out with his friends and doing normal teenage stuff. He's also the (reluctant) tenth generation heir to a very influential mafia family with a toddler for a tutor. (Katekyou Hitman Reborn originated as a Gag Manga). Anyways, yeah, thanks to that, Tsuna got elevated to Shonen Protagonist status, but he fights constantly for normalcy in his now very abnormal life.
He doesn't invite trouble but it follows him home anyway.

Abilities:
-Tsuna fights with his DYING WILL, which manifests into brilliant orange flames
-Sometimes it causes him to go berserk and lose his clothes, but he's more or less got that under control. We don't need dignity here.
-He also has an ability called Hyper Intuition, which is something of a danger sense and allows him to pick up on ill-intent. I try not to rely on it but please contact me if you have questions and we can work something out.

Plans: In the immediate future, I'd like to get Tsuna settled and get him started on making friends. He's done a bit of time-hopping in his canon but not dimension hopping so this is gonna be a bit weird for him. He's gonna try to keep his mafia thing a secret but that's. Probably not gonna go well.

Love for him to make friends his own age, or maybe acquire a few responsible adults. Or irresponsible adults. He always needs both.

Longer term stuff will probably have him dealing with this whole crime thing and his feelings about the mafia, probably a few unresolved issues, and learning how to be a better leader.

???: I am just happy to be here

[prozaic]

KHR is such a blast from the past, it's been so long since i've seen anything about it. i definitely would like some cr, shalem here would definitely like a kid as sweet as tsuna and watch out for him in secret.

[prozaic]

Player: Ray
Contact: wildtrapinch / rayreichu @ Discord. No plans of joining the Discord server, sorry!
Anything Else?: I'm neckdeep in mobage, I'm so sorry. I do watch a lot of speedruns in my spare time though, since I do want to get into those one day. Sometimes I play horror games, sometimes I just nap. As for non-game stuff... I'm trying my hand at working with clay, but I can't go too hard on it since my carpal tunnel yells at me if I work for too long.

Character: Shalem
Canon: Arknights
Canon Point: After his introductory event, Phantom and the Crimson Solitaire

Crime: Mmmmurder. He's not surprised, just disappointed. In himself.

Background: A snake-man who was raised by a theater troupe that proceeded to traumatize him for life, while instilling an almost fanatic love of art in him. As an adult, he now works for a pharmaceutical company, but occasionally sees combat-- which is ill-advised, because part of the trauma imposed on him is a certain liking for blood and murder (because he was taught that's art too), and Shalem has trouble keeping that under wraps. He likes keeping people at arm's length because he doesn't want to put them in danger when his past inevitably catches up with him. Sad snake is just waiting to die, and he hopes it'll be soon since he has a terminal illness (except I have Plans for that, you see).

Permissions here! Please have a look at it, Shalem has a lot of CW attached to him.

Abilities: Here! To summarize: he has a lot of physical and magical strength but nerfs himself on purpose. And yes, he's indeed a snek. A nope rope. A danger noodle.

Plans: First and foremost, I want to start addressing his terminal illness since I don't want it to just progress and end up with a dead snek on my hands, since him dying means his illness becomes infectious and pandemic plots are Not Fun. Maybe I'll keep it in remission or maybe I'll have it cured, we shall see! I also want some character development on Shalem's side regarding his trauma and coming to terms with the not-so-nice sides of himself that he's trying to hide or ignore, but I won't pursue those too hard or too quickly since I'm sure canon will introduce new things that will kick any plans of mine into the dirt. As any canon with regular updates tends to do.

???:

[himbomb]

hello to creepy snek man

[likethestars]

Player: NoL
Contact: rubberspaceducky
Anything Else?: into vtubers, FFXIV, Warframe, tabletop, drawing, and making new OCs at the drop of a hat. i also have a cute cat

Character: Yuja Wightshade
Canon: Final Fantasy XIV
Canon Point: End of 6.4

Crime: Mass murder

Background: Yuja was born in the Steppe, left home at 10, drifted around, and did her best to survive, before eventually stumbling into being the Warrior of Light.

Full details here.

Abilities: The Echo is really the only ability that is necessary to mention here as it allows Yuja to experience the memories of others as if she is experiencing them herself. Granted, this is an opt-in/plan-to-have-it-happen kind of deal.

Full details here.

Plans: I am open to any kind of CR as long as it's not antagonistic strictly for the sake of being so. Yuja isn't the open sort but she's friendly. It could take a bit to crack her outer shell but once one does they'll have a loyal friend. I'm happy to explore all the things even if Yuja is reluctant to do so.

[emet_sulk]

gently touches you :3

[heartofsalvation]

Player: Kyuu
Contact: crystalzero / PM
Anything Else?: Hi, I'm Kyuu. I like anime and video games, cosplay, and general crafting! I work in a fabric store and it's not as bad as you'd expect. Usually.

Character: Elidibus
Canon: Final Fantasy XIV
Canon Point: 6.4 (PLEASE let me know if you're avoiding spoilers! Though this OOC comment will be full of them...)

Crime: Biased judgment (i.e. being bad at his job)

Background: Once a cheerful and optimistic young man named Themis chosen to serve as the seat of Elidibus for his astounding clarity of judgment, he sacrificed himself when the world faced a crisis like none had ever seen before, becoming the heart of He who would make all right again: Zodiark. But through no fault of his own, the primal and the entire star was sundered, and every soul upon it except for him and two others split into fourteen pieces. So it was that these "Ascians" began the Rejoinings in order to put Zodiark and the world back together, tempered as they were to his will.

He spent about 12,000 years with an aching void where a personality and memories of his life were supposed to be, but after being struck down by the Warrior of Light, he regained some of what he had lost. Though his memories may never be the same again, he's returned to some semblance of his old self, particularly due to the actions of a very ambitious would-be god.

Abilities: Uhhhh, there's a lot, but the long and short of it is that he's got creation magic (to create living beings that do not possess a soul, like animals or familiars), basic elemental magic with a specialty in light and dark, and the ability to alter his own body into something greater, i.e. transform. He also picked up a potent binding spell from Erichthonios in their time in Pandaemonium. He has also been seen to assume the bodies of the dead in order to pose as them. He can even do this with the still-living, but it's highly unlikely he'll ever feel the need to in this game.

Plans: Since he's coming off of the end of the Pandaemonium raids and has a clear view of the bigger picture he did not have before, I'm particularly interested in seeing how he can apply all he's learned, particularly since it means his motivations will change now that he is alive without Zodiark or a star to try and piece together again. His duty still comes above all, but his definition of it is likely to change, especially around Emet-Selch.

Cross-canon wise, I'd like him to acquire some friends and allies! Though he's not above manipulation or withholding information when it suits him, Elidibus is steadfast and loyal to those he trusts most deeply, so if you go for CR with him, it's likely he'll try to maintain those relationships as best he can. He has no more Convocation to rely on, after all. Conflict is also welcome; he's already got some of it going on in his own cast, so someone to challenge his lawful good stances would be interesting.

???:



Still not over this scene. Badass cute!

[rebellions]

No seriously, it's been forever since we've been in a game together so I'm excited to have a chance to tag you again! Even if Ragna might not care much about Elidibus' lawful good ways, but shhh we'll make it work.

[scythedance]

Player: Fel
Contact: hepaticas, ask for discord.
Anything Else?: I'm a lead caregiver so my schedule is either hectic or not hectic. You can catch me on plurk, which is listed above, or on discord. I enjoy horror, cooking, jrpgs... When FF16 comes out I may be slow with tags lmao. But fr, I play a lot of FFXIV, and I have one of my fellow static members with me in the game here.

Character: Astralin Turnont
Canon: Original
Canon Point: Demetria's seal breaking, modern times

Crime: Murder in the second degree

Background: Astralin is a former nobleman (legit the dude was set to be an actual prince) before his family left nobility. He comes from a powerful bloodline of magic users, so the man is a prodigy of sorts. It's bc of that, he's kidnapped at some point in his life. He killed the dude that kidnapped him, and eventually escaped, being saved by his future wife and husband after esacaping. When he goes back home, he essentially just continued his life as a farmer until war broke out. Once the war started, and assassins started to come after him, he became a contractor to Crimson (the resistance) to heal wounded soldiers and fight with them.

After the war, he continued his life as a farmer, and eventually, he has children and what not. There's centuries of peace, until the seal that Demetria is kept under is broken and that's where he's at in life right now. BASICALLY THE "Ah shit, here we go again" meme.

Abilities:

- Spirit Magic: He has the ability to take raw energy, and convert it into magic disks that he can throw. These disks can immediately vaporize his target, and basically cause a lot of destruction in his wake. He tries not to use this ability as much, as it uses quite a bit of energy and it's overpowered. It's basically nuclear powers. (Will be unable in Expiation)

- Scythe Proficiency: His main weapon is a scythe. He can move around quickly, and do aerobic flips with his scythe to perform his attacks. There's a lot of spinning, and flipping involved with his scythe, so he has fun with it. There's also a weightless enchantment on the scythe to make it easy to move around with.

- Ice magic: Astralin can summon icicle spears with his ice magic, and use it as a throwing weapon. He can also conjure up an ice shield to protect himself or someone else if they're in trouble. General ice abilities, like diamond dust and ice spears.

He has a creationism ability with his ice magic. He's able to create simple things, such as vases, flowers, ice sculptures, chairs, furniture and what have you. Just simple things like that. He is also able to preserve food and flowers by infusing his ice magic into those items.

- Restorative Magic: Surprisingly, despite his aloof nature, he is a proficient healer. He can mass heal those around him who are injured, without using too much of his power. He can heal through deep wounds, and can save people from the brink of death. (Nerf in Expiation: Not able to heal from the brink of death, but he can heal wounds, fractures, and broken bones.)

- Monster transformation: Man, he's not gonna really use this, but he DOES have it.

Plans: I actually want Astralin to come face to face with his sentencing, eventually. He's well aware that he's got a LOT of blood on his hands, despite the fact the people he killed were people trying to kill him. He knows there's some truth to this charge, because he doesn't view himself as fully innocent.

As for CR, i wouldn't mind more friends for him! He's a bit more open since first coming here, and he's open to being friends with people. He's quite the gentle giant, and I think having a farm with animals on them helps being a good conversation starter lmao.

???: Feel free to hit me up/add me. I am so sorry that this is so scattered IT'S LATE HERE.

[prozaic]

👀 shalem might just approach him one day since he's a tank. literally, he is always in need of a medic. that aside, i would like to see how their cr goes, since they're both charged with murder, though shalem would rather ignore the fact that he is a killer (and likes killing).

[alethiological]

Player: Kat
Contact: Discord at catpunsito, I miss the hashtags. Plurk is bitchesandtrolls but I tend to be a cryptid with months between logins because social media gives me hives. Discord message is deffo the best method to get me asap tho.
Anything Else?: I am remarkably lame. Ascended lame. I do savage raids in FF14 because I like being stressed, I have an Arknights account that is only missing two characters and I want to die about it, I have three cats and they're all dumb, and PLAY ENDER LILLIES. I haven't gotten into any recent manga or anime but I'll shotgun recs.

Also on like semi-serious bits: first, I live in Australia so my timezone is opposite of everyone else. Assume backtags to oblivion. Second, I have nerve damage in both hands, boo. But I finally got meds that work after a billion years, yay! Typing doesn't hurt so hopefully now my tagging speed won't be glacially slow.

Character: Willard H. Wright
Canon: some game with seagulls and timeloops and sayaka ohara going feral
Canon Point: Ep7's cat vore

Crime: Incitement and Misfeasance in Office

Background: Tfw you spend an eternity climbing the corporate paperwork ladder until you become upper management, realize it sucks after a bunch of centuries, then have a cognitive collapse about it and quit. Also the paperwork is murder. And endorsed by jesus. Also that's all backstory and the game is entirely about two idiots getting into fights about manners.

Also lbr, I could try and go on a personality spiel, but he's just every "apathetic/rude asshole with a heart of gold" trope turned up to max. We all know the vibe amirite.

Abilities:
- If this is how God makes His angels, then maybe we need to delete Christianity.
- Missing 2/3rds of an arm. It's an ability because he will absolutely make puns about it to weird people out.
- Can summon a sword from nowhere. Totally normal.
- Turn spoken words into physical objects to throw at people when they're being daft.
- Some sort of unbeatable combat god, but he's too retired to do anything with it.
- Also canonically considered a Sherlock-tier of Mystery Novel Protagonist, but again. Retired. Not doing it.
- There's actually an opt-in permissions post for me to occ-ly throw darts at the wall to bully your blorbos. Please sign at your leisure.
- Probably some other things but pls don't make me have to go through the powers section of the app again set me freeeeeee

Plans: I died for a month and a half because of medical issues but I'm GOOD TO GO FINALLY. knock on wood. The only mental thing I might do next month is take a stab at the cult tablets, because that is a fun language puzzle for someone who is fluent in yes, and it's juuust far removed enough from actually directly helping anything that he can still say he's retired and it's just a hobby. Taps temple.

I know saying "all cr is good cr" is a copout, but it's true. Friends are just nice. Also friends force you to stop treating reality like you're a background character and accidentally get invested in people's lives. He hates it, which means I love it.

???: I don't have any good memes on hand, so have one of my dumb cats instead.

[fatalism]

okay i am absolutely fascinated by If this is how God makes His angels, then maybe we need to delete Christianity. i'd be curious to throw them together and see if they vibe.

[afflatusexarch]

Player: Seraph/Ser
Contact:
verthunder @ discord
jardaan @ plurk

Anything Else?:
Hi. I'm Ser. I'm very tired like 24/7 right now and waiting for FFXVI to come out. At work I am an energetic Correctional Training Specialist with way too many side projects because my boss is super ambitious. In my off time I read a lot of romance webtoons and play video games like Genshin Impact, Star Rail, FFXIV, and a list of unfinished games. Ask me about my fandoms because they drastically vary.

Character: G'raha Tia
Canon: FFXIV
Canon Point: Patch 6.4

Crime: Destroying an entire timeline :D

Background:
...Well you see. It's kind of long. And involved. Involves time travel and jumping across rifts. Maybe deliberate deception with the intent of eventually ending his life or permanently locking himself away in a giant ass Crystal Tower because he can't cope well with loss?

I mean G'raha Tia is a scholar and a brat. He is a historian with a degree in a very niche field of study. But he's also very much into adventure and excitement - he's THAT GUY that's read too many books and wants to be like the people that he's read about in those books. But he genuinely has a good heart but is also his worst critic. No one dislikes G'raha Tia more than G'raha Tia. ᓚᘏᗢ˒

Abilities:
- Trying to sacrifice himself
- Pushing himself past his limits and passing out
- Controlling the Crystal Tower and locking himself up in the Crystal Cat Carrier
- White Mage
- Black Mage
- Paladin
- Burger Destroyer
- Nerd
- Master at the art of deception, clearly. No one knew his real identity. Trust me.

Plans:
- What are plans?
- Just here to have a grand ol time
- And make lists
- Oh probably make friends and CR. Those would be good


???:




P.S. idk i get unhinged with intros

[emet_sulk]

"No-one dislikes G'raha Tia more than G'raha Tia"

I dunno man, there might be a single contender here :U

[ticket218]

Player: Gray (I promise Fyodor-mun and I are not the same person)
Contact: PM, please
Anything Else?: CST tagging. I draw for a living, love dumb obscure media with dumb obscure characters, (Medabots, Megaman, and extremely underground and unknown story called Bungou Stray Dogs for example) and showing off my handsome cat! I'm kind of a plurk lurker, but will talk your ear off when I do decide to crawl out of my cave.

Character: Sigma
Canon: Bungou Stray Dogs
Canon Point: Chapter 106.5

Crime: Counterfeiting

Background: A man who popped out of thin air after being written into existence via a reality-altering book. He has since become the world's most accomplished three-year-old, being the manager of a giant flying casino that's now been taken from him, but his uncertain place in the universe and the company he's kept has been a real damper on his self esteem. Will be the straight man to your funny man for the cost of lots and lots of complaining. He's a pretty chill guy when not being intentionally poked at, though.

Abilities: Copy-pasting right from his info/app:
Sigma can exchange information through touch. The other party learns what they most want to know from him at the moment, and he learns what he most wants to know from them at the moment. Depending on the amount of information, the recipient may pass out from their brain having too much to process.

Sigma can also extract information from fresh corpses this way, presumably while the brain is still technically "alive."

Note: IC permission isn't necessary for this to work, but I'll always always always be getting your go-ahead first before trying to do it to your characters.

Plans: I am here to put this beast in situations. What Sigma wants most is a home and a family, a place that's his own with people he loves and who love him in turn. So I would absolutely love forming some close, friendly cr that'll eventually have him questioning if this weird other-world prison is becoming what he's wanted all his life and the complicated feelings that'd bring. He's also willing to go to bonkers lengths to protect what he considers his home/family despite not being as well equipped to defend himself as some of his castmates, so cr with people who might threaten it down the line is also welcome!

His crime has a double meaning, for both the actual legal counterfeiting he did in his casino and for being a counterfeit human. This is one of his more personal insecurities, so finding other not-quite-humans to bond with would be world changing for him as well.

???:

[darkdisgrace]

welcome to the game, Gray! Absolutely thrilled that I'll get the chance to toss Chuuya at Sigma while he's, y'know, not a feral vampire.

[dialetheism]

Player: Skull!
Contact: skulltaffy or hit me up in the official discord
Anything Else?: Hi I'm Skull, I still love D&D a normal amount (though I'm more into homebrew stuff these days, yarr harr), as well as other rpgs and most MMO's - chances are, if you name one, I've either played it obsessively or know someone who has. Backtags give me life.

Character: Lion Ushiromiya
Canon: Umineko no Naku Koro ni / Umineko: When They Cry (officially translated name, my beloathed)
Canon Point: End of EP7 Tea Party, with the dying and whatnot.

Crime: Being born.

Background: Lion is a perfectly ordinary heir to a ridiculously cursed fortune who's never done a thing wrong in their life. They're mild mannered and polite, sociable, patient... and also a petty, stubborn brat, but they don't like to talk about that part. They're also co-dependent totally-platonic life partners with this weirdly tall asshole in a blue coat, you might've seen him running around the place sometimes. If he insults you, it's not their fault.

Jokes aside, Lion is a massive walking spoiler for the deeper mystery of Umineko, as nothing is quite as simple as it seems - so read their app at your own risk. (I have an opt out for that, and also for the long long list of Umineko content warnings, over here.)

Abilities: You may have noticed a theme here, but Lion is a totally normal person who really isn't all that normal at all once you get down to it. They have the potential to do some really wild shit with magic, but that's all something they prefer never, ever think about.

Also, they can talk in colours sometimes. That's a neat party trick.

Plans: Same as last time, because life kinda kicked my ass - I'm always looking to build up their CR web up, both positive and negative, and to force them to confront that they don't have to be the most perfectly boring person on the planet 24/7. It's okay to be a three-dimensional multifaceted being that has the potential to be a horrible person! Plus continuing to dig into the overall mystery of the game, especially after that whole business with the cult tentacle last month.

(They're also good at nudging others to look after themselves, if you need a bossyboots to keep your character in line.)

Additionally, this month they'll be dealing with the fun and distressing arrival of their cousin from twelve years into the future, Ange. Who has no idea who they are, because they don't exist in most parts of Umineko. This Is Fine. They're Coping. (They're glad she's here, though. It's better then the nightmare she's been going through back home.)

???: I don't have any fun meme images/gifs because weirdly, the fandom completely skips over EP7, what's up with that :c

[opheliac]

seems cute. will bug and annoy. also "being born" as a crime is a good one. why wasn't i that creative?

[entreats]

Player: Jelle
Contact: queeningsquare
Anything Else?: Hi! I'm Jelle and very much new here, but also glad to be here! c: My fandom interests swing wildly, so it's so hard to even summarize them here.. It's probably some weird venn diagram of magical girls, murder and old men who haven't moved past living in the 80s. (To be fair, neither has Ange.)

Character: Ange Ushiromiya
Canon: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Canon Point: From the end of episode 6!

Crime: Killing her girlfriend bestie. :(

Background: Do you know those teens who comment "this is cringe, delete this" on everything? The ones so hurt by everything going on in the world that they instead turn incredibly nihilistic and feel the need to cover up any and all emotions with a completely detached persona?

Hi, this is Ange, and she is A Teenager alright. Though she's a very sweet girl deep down, years upon years of an absolute trauma train have made her develop a habit of covering up absolutely every single trace of emotion with deadpan sarcastic remarks as a protective mechanism. This tends to go a little bit far, to the point where she can jump off a second floor all the way to the ground without doing as much as blinking. This is just what happens when your entire family is murdered when you're six years old and things somehow only get worse from there. Especially when said murder is a big mystery and everyone loves speculating about it. Ange would hate true crime podcasts if they had been a big thing in the 90s, is what I'm saying.

Abilities: Umineko abilities are truly very.. [vaguely waves hands]...

Ange's main thing is that she can summon ice pick-looking stakes out of nowhere! They're technically her demon harem, but since they won't be able to take on any other form in-game, they'll just be stakes. Still pretty deadly though.

Plans: I'm super excited to explore the themes of the game with Ange! Her canon revolves a whole lot around themes of crime and guilt, and right now Ange's beliefs on that are very stubborn and black and white, and I'm curious to see if this place can change her mind even just a little bit..

Also, I'd love for her to make some friends? Ange needs friends. She's only ever had imaginary friends for twelve entire years, please save this girl from being friendless. I promise she's really sweet once you've unlocked it past the facade.

She's also castmates with Lion and Will, neither of which.. Ange actually knows, because Umineko is a fun and very uncomplicated canon. Lion is actually her cousin.. from the past.. and an alternate dimension.. but they're her cousin all the same, which is going to be a fun thing to deal with.

???:

[lightthedarkness]

Jelle!

We'll have to start from square one with ultimate optimist and ultimate tsundere realist.

[lightthedarkness]

Player: Jax
Contact: snickersnack or PM this journal
Anything Else?: I live in California (PST) as a second-grade teacher. I love to make icons, find icons, and doodle. As far as my favorite fandoms go I love Sailor Moon, Disney, Alice in Wonderland, musicals, and mythology.

Character: Usagi Tsukino / Eternal Sailor Moon / Princess/Neo-Queen Serenity
Canon: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (manga only)
Canon Point: After dying from restoring the Galaxy Cauldron but before reuniting with everyone inside of it. (In other words, she sacrificed herself to save the galaxy but doesn't know she succeeded).

Crime: Not Ending the Galactic War and Multiple Murders

Background: Usagi is a 16-year-old bubbly, sweet teenager. She's something of an unknowing flirt, loves everyone (no, really, that's literally her deal as the Senshi Who Loves All), and is a massive klutz who can barely stop herself from tripping over her own two feet. She's a massive optimist and she wants to befriend everyone and is all about second, third, nth chances.

Oh, and also she turns into a magical girl who defends her entire galaxy/universe and will be the eventual Queen of Earth and is currently the reincarnated Moon Princess from a kingdom that humans decimated. But she doesn't hold a grudge, quite the opposite, she does everything she can to defend them.

She loves cats, rabbits, the moon, flowers, food, sleeping, her family, and her friends (not necessarily in that order).

Abilities: Link to her abilities but the most important thing to note: When Usagi turns into Sailor Moon, she gains a magical glamor that can't be seen through unless she either 1. Tells you she's Sailor Moon/Usagi 2. Your character watches her transform 3. Has the ability to see auras/souls/the Force/see through glamors. There is no other way to see through the glamor proper.

Plans: Usagi 1. Has no idea if she succeeded in separating Chaos from the birthplace of all life in her universe and 2. If she'll ever see her family and friends again. So, ya know, she's... she's doing swell emotionally. She's doing even BETTER with her literal second most powerful foe Galaxia (turned ally as far as she's concerned) ALSO being here.

But as for what my CR goals are, friends! She ADORES friends, and she wants to befriend everyone! Right now she's keeping the whole "royalty/sailor senshi" thing on the down low until she really needs to pull out those abilities. Eventually, I hope to have her find out that her friends are safe and sound. Other than that, I'm here to enjoy what Expiation will do for her!

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[ticket218]

JAX♥

Hi it's Tseng/Poe from emp and I'm delighted to see Usagi around again! I already love her and Sigma's chemistry and hope they can be sweets pals.

[feintofhart]

Player: Fey
Contact: Plurk @ wisdombitch
Anything Else?: Hey y'all, nice to meet all you newbies! Currently playing a lot of Zelda, listening to Sweeney Todd, watching romcom kdramas, and real into Dimension20 + NADDPod.

Character: Claude von Riegan
Canon: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Canon Point: Mid-timeskip.

Crime: Deception.

Background: Claude is a Duke of the Leicester Alliance, a neutral party in an ugly war. During his canonpoint, he's carefully building up his forces in order to wage war against the Empire, all the while diplomatically juggling the rest of the noble houses to keep them at a stalemate, lest they decide to side with the Empire themselves. He wants peace so that he can achieve his endgoal, which is a world without discrimination or borders, but first he's got to deal with this whole pesky war thing. As a character, he's flippant and jokey, quicker with a smile than a frown, and prone to letting others underestimate him. Underneath it all, he's a lot more dedicated and serious than he seems.

Abilities: He has very, very minor healing abilities. Largely, his skills are in leadership (delegaton, drawing up war tactics as the Master Tactician, and working around a diplomatic roundtable) and his skill on a wyvern and with a bow.

Plans: I haven't done a whole lot with Claude here yet, but I'd love for him to start getting to know some people seriously and start to make bonds. He keeps people pretty at arms length and is completely at a loss in this setting due to his lack of direction and purpose. I'd love for him to find something to put his efforts towards and to start having real conversations with others. He's personally concerned with the lack of organization when it comes to crises, but he's so eager to get out that he doesn't want to throw his lot into a leadership position here.

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[illusionbreaker]

Going off of his personality, I can see Touma and Claude butting heads in an ideology sense. Touma is someone who focus heavily on individuals and doesn't really care that much about the bigger picture. In a way, Touma has the inverse problem that Claude has.

[individualized]

Player: Kaito
Contact: kaitodoushi, belinsk @ discord
Anything Else?: Hello! I'm a radio announcer/VA who also streams for fun. I'm mostly into video games and all sorts of animation. I am constantly behind on fandoms. I mostly babble about Legend of Zelda, Golden Sun, Tales of Symphonia, Pandora Hearts, Pokemon, video games in general, my cat, and how much my mental health sucks.

Character: Echo
Canon: Pandora Hearts
Canon Point: After Retrace 98

Crime: Desertion

Background: Go read Pandora Hearts right now because she's full of spoilers and some are unavoidable. Echo was a guardian/servant/assassin who people thought was just a mindless doll for her master. In truth she was supposed to be a short-lived puppet protecting her body's OG personality and was not seen as an actual person even by herself, so she was horribly abused and never learned about her feelings or how to respond to them. Then Oz shoved his way into her life and got her starting to think that maybe she did exist and learning about stuff like this "happy" concept. Insert all the horribleness that happens in canon, then in the end she finally got to a point where she could accept that she existed and could follow her own heart.

Then she spent a year-ish in deercountry where she worked on people-ing and carrying on relationships on top of all the additional trauma it added to her life. Believe it or not she's coming in here much less awkward than she would have been straight from canon.

Abilities: Nothing really, at least power-wise. She does have enhanced healing and you'd better be prepared if you're gonna face her in combat.

Plans: At the moment, getting settled and meeting people. She's been wanting to make friends for a while but doesn't quite get how that works or when something counts as friendship (the one person who confirmed they were friends is actually her canon love interest but she does not realize this, so her idea of "friends" is a bit off). Echo also has been wanting to choose a job for herself and then actually get one.

As for her crime, I really want to use it to explore her feelings about her canon relationships (Vincent, Noise, and Oz mostly) and her circumstances for the majority of her life there. Maybe a bit of dealing with stuff I put her through in her previous game, too. I'd love for her to find out how many people have "murder" if anybody's open with this stuff because she'll be very confused she didn't get that one.

Short version: FRIENDS!

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[kiseijuu]

Very excited to do more with Echo here! She and Migi have much to vibe about whenever they meet, all the Human Lessons yes please..... and Shinichi's crime is "murder" so that's something that could potentially be on the table, too. Fun conversation starters :'D

[illusionbreaker]

Player: Nameless
Contact: Just PM this account.
Anything Else?: Umm... I like video games?

Character: Kamijou Touma
Canon: To Aru Majutsu No Index
Canon Point: GT Volume 6

Crime: Genocide. No, I'm not gonna elaborate.

Background: A normal high school student who you could find anywhere. At least, that's what he would tell you if you were ask him to describe himself. In reality, he's a delusional, hypocrite who will dive head-first into hell save anyone whether they actually want his help or not. Even if the person he's saving is a scumbag. Or he only knew them for like five seconds. He is anything but normal.

Abilities: The simplest way to explain his power is that he can negate the supernatural with his right hand. This can includes deleting magical items and people. Like you! Yes you behind the screen! I got a Permission Post here for those who are not quite human.

Plans: I want Touma to do what he does best; punch people in the face help others grow and develop. Or as the fandom likes to say 'Live your life correctly'. Throw all your morally questionable characters right at him.

I would also like some bro friends to do stupid stuff with.

???: [Insert Funny Meme Here]

[dialetheism]

hello normal person this is another normal person let's be totally normal in the same vicinity

genuinely I have no idea how they'd even react but it'd be really funny for the two "designated Normal By Canon" people to interact at some point. also welcome to the game!

[kiseijuu]

Player: Jhey
Contact: horreur / hagfishs @ discord (although I check this less frequently!)
Anything Else?: Hello, I'm Jhey: cat lady, collector of skulls 💀, and lover of anything and everything horror. It's nice to meet you all (and bump into a couple of familiar faces). My plurk is generally for rp purposes and kept to those I'm sharing writing spaces with, so please feel free to add (or readd) me if you'd like!

Character: Shinichi Izumi (+ 1 sentient alien hand)
Canon: Parasyte: The Maxim (and just a note that this is a horror canon that involves sci-fi, psychological, and body horror! I have more notes on content warnings in Shinichi's info, as well as a link to an opt-out for any specific themes, interactions with Migi, etc.)
Canon Point: episode "The Stranger", after his parents have left for a trip and Shinichi is home alone (aka juuuust before a major plot turn, to give me room to possibly canon update after that at some point 👀)

Crime: Murder.... which will also begin to dip into themes of Eating People, it's fine, he's fine,,

Background: Shinichi was an average good nerd living his best sweatervested life in Japan when one night he got infested by an alien parasite (as one does). Said parasite was meant to take over his brain, but failed and ended up maturing in his right ("migi") arm, instead.... and thus, Shinichi became an unwilling horror protag. His life has since been a lot of Turmoil and Terror, as he's been having to hide this horrible secret from everyone around him, survive attacks by other human-eating parasites who successfully took over their hosts' brains and want to kill him and Migi for being an anomaly, and protect his fellow humans as best as he can without losing his own humanity in the process (something that might already be happening as another parasite just told him he was "no longer pure"... and he may have also lost himself in moments of upset and threatened to eat people here or there, oop). Needless to say, Shinichi is extremely stressed and probably due for a psychological breakdown at any point!! As far as personality goes, he's very shy, nervous, and Has Anxiety, but his defining trait is definitely altruism to a ridiculous degree, meaning that he wouldn't hesitate to jump in and try to protect someone else, even if it comes at the cost of his own well-being (Migi judges this, humans are stupid, etc.)

Abilities: So "sentient alien hand" comes with a lot of whacky horror abilities, including transformations into things like blades and tentacles, inhuman strength and speed, sensing the wavelengths of things.... There's a lot more details about what Migi can do here in Shinichi's info! Shinichi himself can't Do Much, but he and Migi are in the process of learning how to work together and use Migi's abilities as a team, so that's definitely on the table as well.

Plans: Gosh there is so much... I'm very excited for the premise of this game, and how having a literal crime accusation will have an effect on characters! I definitely want to dive in hard to all the nifty psychological horrors that come with Shinichi / his canon. Themes I'm very much interested in for him are: identity & autonomy loss, what it means to be a "monster", changing humanity, moral ambiguity and all the grey areas.... Shinichi is also perpetually carrying around a lot of guilt, so that's always fun. Being told that he's accused of murder will absolutely shake him to the core and fuck him up pretty bad, and I'd love all the Chats about these accused crimes with other characters. In general, since he's new, I'd really just love to see how he does with others and have him get to know some folks. And ofc there's the Migi Factor: he's going to be Curious about literally everything and everyone here and very much wanting to observe.... Migi's in the process of trying to learn more about what he is, and understand humans (and other non-human entities). He's also the "logical head" whereas Shinichi is very much the "emotional heart", so seeing how both of them might differ in response to other characters would be really fun.

???:

[megatheorem]

can pal see migi, he'll be so normal about him

[whatsamada]

Player: Mio
Contact: MioHio @ Discord, or Rosemotifs @ Plurk
Anything Else?: Uh...I'm just your local teacher who is currently teaching first graders? I'm on EST timeline and normally into fitness. I can't really say much about fandoms thing I'm usually everywhere but my current ones are Persona, Genshin and Oshi no Ko since that's really all I have time for!

Character: Ken Amada
Canon: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Canon Point: Post Canon

Crime: Attempted Murder. Yay!

Background: Honestly? He's a former feral child who wanted to kill someone. And then after realizing the errors of his years, he's sort of chilled out. But just know that he's an overly mature kid who has been through a lot of shit. Because of that, he acts a lot older than his age. Right now, he's trying to chill out and be a kid.

Abilities: More or less think of a Stand from Jojo. Except that this Stand is only going to be summoned for special occasions when he's really stressed. But it's a 10 foot creature who can heal, do electricity, and do a lot of dark related magic.

But other than that? He's just a regular normal teenager who likes soccer and can fight you with a spear.

Plans: I'm good with anything! THROW ME WHATEVER!

???: DO YOU LIEK WAFFLES???

[murderingjustice]

Waffles vs. Pancakes

[megatheorem]

Player: Laura
Contact: jojoveller or orbitallaser on discord! add me freely!
Anything Else?: I'm in EST, the school year ends on Friday so I the teacher finally get my free time back, I like video games and weird little guys. I've been here the whole time with Shinjiro, idk, it's still the same.....

your pal, palamedes

[megatheorem]

Character: Palamedes Sextus
Canon: The Locked Tomb
Canon Point: Harrow the Ninth

Crime: Treason! He's tickled.

Background: The politest necromancer you will ever meet... He's a massive nerd and he talks too much, and as a personal rule he doesn't lie, so if you ask him about necromancer things you will get a short and chipper lecture about osseo and fleshy bits. Pal is super massively friendly unlike Shinji and he absolutely wants to be everyone's pal and learn about their funky abilities and so on. He is fundamentally a strange noodle of a man who nonetheless sticks his nose in everything. Usually, he has his bestie eternal with him to stop him from getting himself killed. Presently, he is unsupervised.

Abilities: ya boy is a necromancer, again, which means all of the things you might think of besides resurrection, for plot reasons. They don't resurrect where he's from unless they're God, and he sucks. Broadly Pal can fiddle with any body part living or dead, he's not as good with bones as he is with flesh, he will definitely do something like abruptly cut a finger to get blood to use in front of people, sorry.

His specialty is psychometry or seeing the lingering energies attached to an object he touches, which is not so much seeing visions as being able to tell how old something is or match an energy signature on a thing to a person who touched it last, things like that. This ability is going haywire about Things Native To The Game Setting, which he loves and hates in equal measure already.

Plans: all things..... types that appeal 2 him:
✨ nerd friends, any sort of nerd is welcome
✨ jock friends, same
✨ "rivals" that will not be rivals but you're welcome to pretend, he considers this friends also
✨ people who are into mystery solving, specifically
✨ fellow people who have been dead before and have complicated emotions about it. or not so complicated emotions tbf
✨ he's good emotional support? the man is stalwart in his dedication to making tea for troubled birds, just unlock his friendship path
✨ just chill buds to hang out with so he manages a work/life balance because he will find a way to get himself a weird necromancer job to do
✨ who can help him self publish a romance novel

???:

[beautifulleopard]

Player: jenni
Contact: PM / Discord at request. I have a plurk but I'm bad at keeping up with more than one communication platform. So Discord it is!
Anything Else?: I'm old literature nerd from mystical northern Europe. I'm forever stuck with university grinding and currently writing my thesis like LET ME OUT. I love all old shojo series. Group 49 is my absolute favorite! Talk to me about 70's shojo anytime! Other than that.. I do like some jrpg like Persona and KH. Idk. I also draw

[beautifulleopard]

Character: Juri Arisugawa
Canon: Revolutionary Girl Utena
Canon Point: right after the whole deal with black roses

Crime: Rebelling against the miracles (what does this even mean....)

Background: Utena is so weird series you have no idea.

So. Juri is part of Student Council except that it's a cult? They wear rings with rose crests in their left ring finger as a mark of Duelist and get shady letters from someone who calls themselves as The End of the World. Then they have these shady duels behind school forest about ownership of a magical waifu that can give you the power to Revolutionize the World... whatever that means. Juri is actually most levelheaded out of the group and she only wants the magical waifu to destroy power of miracles. It's all symbolic about being closeted gay and trapping herself in toxic, unrequited love ok.

But outside of her cult activities Juri's hobbies include being perfect and fabulous. She likes fencing, bowling and modelling. Other than that she enjoys taking long walks during the night in her expensive haute couture evening gown and cry at the moon because the girl she likes won't return her calls.

OH, she has a banger Duel song

Abilities: Eh.. Outside of her being an expert at fencing there really isn't much. She's a good dealing with people tho.

Plans: Ok, the first thing Juri wants to do is get to know people and try to establish some kind of network. She misses her secret network of school girls that would come to her with any information. Other than that, I'd like to have her start a business of sorts (my first thoughts were like Casino or something alike to it). Something that allows her to be involved more in the Aldrip's business etc.


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[morsangel]

Player: Chantelle
Contact: Discord: 0kaamiii or PM!
Anything Else?: AEST times babey! I'm on at weird hours. Games Journalist and surrealist writer! I love me some horror, video games (come play DBD with me), reading, anime obviously... uh, I am super super chill so come at me with all your weird and whacky stuff. LETS BE FRIENDS <3

Character: Akiko Yosano
Canon: Bungo Stray Dogs
Canon Point: Chp. 94 ( Escaping Hunting Dogs)

Crime: Unable to forgive herself for War Crimes

Background: Conscripted into the Great War as a child soldier and forced to heal soldiers over and over until their minds broke! She eventually suffered a mental breakdown and tried to blow up the ship and was confined to isolation for 3 years.

Yosano struggles with ptsd, survivors guilt and a whole tonne of self-loathing. She sees her ability as a curse and struggles to accept she has a right to live.

Abilities:

Thou Shalt Not Die: Yosano can heal any lethal injury. The catch it the person has to be dying for her to heal you. So... she's a super sadistic doctor. Expect to get worse before you get better.

Plans:

Non-deep: Hella fun trying to survive on this unknown land. Lots of cracked activities, bar fights, exploring, getting other people to do hard labour for Yosano. Creating deeper relationships with everyone else stuck here.

Deep: Exploring Yosano's guilt and self-loathing. And her continuous quest to find somewhere she is allowed to live. Expect a lot of self-deprecation, war descriptions, Yosano hating herself sort of vibes.

[kiseijuu]

I'm canonblind, but Yosano sounds like a fascinating character and I think it could be really fun to toss this horror teen at her! Shinichi comes with a lot of psychological angsts and guilts himself (at the canonpoint I'm pulling him from, he's just starting out his Journey with all of that, so I love the thought of baby horrors meeting long-term horrors)... plus just her general Everything sounds like a ton of fun potential. 👀

He also comes with an extremely curious, scientific-minded alien that wants to study humans and has no emotional capacity for things like Empathy and Compassion, and I think Mr. Alien would be super intrigued by this sadistic doctor lady

[rebellions]

Player: Lycoris
Contact: psychelocks
Anything Else?: Perpetually tired Japanese translator with too many hobbies and too little time/money for them all. My main interests include video games (BlazBlue, Persona, Octopath Traveler, Pokémon, Sengoku Basara, Ace Attorney and many, many others), kyudo and crocheting. Also, I live in Europe (GMT+1/CEST area), so my tagging times might be a little weird!

Character: Ragna the Bloodedge
Canon: BlazBlue
Canon Point: At the end of BlazBlue: Centralfiction.

Crime: Destroying the world. Y'know, normal stuff.

Background: The world's most wanted criminal with the highest bounty in history on his head ─ a feat he's achieved by going around the world attacking and destroying various government facilities and killing hundreds of soldiers, earning himself the nickname "Grim Reaper". Generally speaking, he's kind of an asshole: he's rude, grouchy and cynical with hair-trigger temper that often leads to a rather liberal use of violence. Thing is, despite his deadly reputation and outward grumpiness, deep inside he's actually a genuinely kind and caring guy who'd do anything to protect his loved ones and always puts their happiness and well-being before his own (sometimes to a fault). He just has tons of emotional baggage that makes it really hard for him to actually open up.

tl;dr: he's a big dumb edgy tsundere with trust issues, do with that what you will.

Abilities: You can find the full summary here, but here's a short and sweet version:
- skilled in hand-to-hand combat, as well as sword fighting
- has access to a wide range of spells called Ars Magus, which technically aren't magic, but would probably appear as such to someone unfamiliar with the concept
- has ridiculous regenerating abilities that allow him to survive and more or less shake off most injuries that would otherwise be fatal (they still hurt tho)
- his personal special ability (aka Drive), Soul Eater, does exactly what it says on the tin: it allows him to absorb souls/life force of living things around him. He's got it mostly under control, but touching him or even staying around him for extended periods of time puts one at risk of him involuntarily sucking the other person's life out of them. Also, using it drastically decreases his own lifespan. Oops.
- should he ever lose control over his abilities, he's in danger of turning into a giant, world-destroying monster, but don't worry. It's fine. He's fine.

Plans: Now that he's not under the time pressure of the approaching doomsday, I'd like for him to have a chance to actually process the absolute mess that his life has been (hint: it involves a lot of time loops and him making a lot of terrible decisions) and figure out what to do with this new lease on life he's been given (because that sure wasn't on his agenda), especially since he's still running on borrowed time thanks to his powers.

CR-wise, I welcome all of it, be it positive or negative! (I know, I know, very creative.) I'd especially like to find some people patient enough to stick around with Ragna despite his... everything. As much as he wants to keep people at an arm's length, persistence in dealing with him is the key to getting yourself a surprisingly loyal and protective ally. Eventually.

Or just go ahead and antagonize him, that's what everyone in his canon does anyway.

???:

[opheliac]

[opheliac]

Player: rebekka
Contact: buttlet or PM
Anything Else?: i talk about arcane a lot if you add me so you've been warned. i also like video games, anime, reading, and some other stuff, i work 2p to 11p est so. that's a thing. and i dont feel good right now weh.

Character: jinx
Canon: arcane
Canon Point: end of S1

Crime: she did everything but i picked murder + illegal trading

Background: im copy/pasting.

deets about jinx.

Criminally insane, Jinx has a love for wanton chaos, destruction, and anarchy, and gets easily bored if these reckless urges are left unsatisfied for too long. Jinx isn't shown to think much about the consequences of her behavior and generally acts before thinking, which can lead to people getting hurt easily when around Jinx. While she is clearly a gifted inventor, Jinx is also extremely scatterbrained, forgetting scientific terms and instead imitating gun noises while she constructs her weapons.

Jinx is often portrayed to be hyperactive and very childish, complaining when she doesn't get what she wants and calling others by immature names, giving Vi nicknames such as "Fat-Hands" and "Stupid". With her carefree, self-centered attitude, Jinx doesn't care about money, order, or what others think about her and just destroys what she wants when she wants. Despite this, she still likes to get recognition for her many crimes and is capable of showing off to the Piltover police, knowing that no matter what goes down, she will always get away.

Despite her immature and silly demeanor, Jinx is still a significant force of evil and malice, even if in her crazed mind she sees it as a game. She would put on a veneer of a bubbly and energetic person, only to hide the hurt and trauma of past events. She's also very sarcastic, extroverted with a twisted sense of humor.

warnings about this character: even shorter version, jinx is a grey-area villain. she also has mental illness (Schizophrenia, PTSD, Separation Anxiety, and Hallucination). the show arcane also deals with quite few heavy topics: like love, sex, drugs, violence, terrorism, death, mental illnesses, and some others. there is at least a 50/50 percent chance if you interact with jinx, you will receive negative CR.

that said, if you do not want to roll the dice of possibly having negative CR, don't want to deal with a chaotic semi-villain, her mental illness, or anything, here is my OPT-OUT post for her: here.

another thing to add about jinx is that she tends to stalk people, listening in people's conversations, and just... randomly show up behind people like a fucking lunatic. i don't have a OPT IN/OPT OUT page for that yet but, just comment here for right now if you're okay with jinx doing that to your character.

Abilities: this is spoilers if you have not seen arcane so i sorry. anyway, jinx here has shimmer in her bloodstream. what is shimmer you ask:

Shimmer - a serum substance to be used and distribute for many different reasons; such as growing two or three times a human's size in mass, inhuman speed, heal wounds, and a pain reliever. the serum can be used as fuel as well. it is also known as a "street drug" for the city of Zaun.

because she got injected with this serum because that's a cool thing to do, she has some abilities. this is what she can do:

➜ inhuman speed.

➜ jump high like a monkey

➜ high pain tolerance. unless you stab her a million times repeatedly.

➜ high alcohol tolerance. she is 17 but that doesn't mean she won't try and grab a drink, cause she will. she lived in a bar all her life. she will attempt. but for her to get tipsy, she has to drink in the double digits.

➜ crazy high metabolism. she will eat you out of house and home.

➜ her eyes glitter/glow whenever she feels emotions.

➜ she sees the world like this usually.

➜ her blood/tears can heal people but she is not telling anyone she can do that except for her canonmates who well, knows what shimmer does so.

Plans: my plan is to make everyone miserable. but on the more srs note, this child needs some happiness. someone be nice to her even though she will hate you. she just needs friends, love, and a lot of mental help. she is somewhat a villain, yes, but she's not the typical "i want to take over the world" kind of villain (that's her dad). she can still be a fun and energetic person to be around. she just.... likes to shoot things, explode buildings/trees, and make fire. oh and she does art. she draws there's that.

also stay away from vi. only she can have her sister. no one else.

THIS SECTION IS FOR MY ARCANE CAST IF YALL READ THIS:

jinx has the gemstone. so. let's talk drama over that shit, yea?

???:

[himbomb]

how would jinx feel about someone who can turn anything that isn’t a person, place, or animal into a bomb just by touching it 😔 💣 🔥

[wrenchedup]

Player: Kitch.
Contact: PM / futuremachines / futuremachines @ discord
Anything Else?: Hi!! I love robots, am a big music nerd, and.. yup. KUNG FURY IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER. I work in production, festivals & events so I can go from being around all the time to not being around at all lmao.

Character: The Wrench (aka Reginald Blechman)
Canon: WATCH_DOGS
Canon Point: End of Watch Dogs: Legion, but also coming in with Deer Country CRAU.

Crime: Domestic Terrorism & Corporate Espionage & proud of it, lmfao.

Background: Wrench comes from a near future surveillance state where the data corporations and government mine from the public is more important than the public itself. He was once a member of a Hacktivist group known as DEDSEC in San Francisco where they worked as Watch Dogs and active protestors to uncover these problems. His role in this group, while indeed a hacker, was more active. At some point he moved away from that group to work on himself and formed a robotics company which... fucked him over. He has now returned, in London, both to extract revenge on the corporation that fucked him over and once again take up the role as "Wrench" within DEDSEC.

PERSONALITY WISE, oh boy. (here's some copy pasta) Wrench is all over the map. Friendly, charismatic, vibrant, violent, cagey, opinionated. A quirky, nerdy weirdo and proud anarchist. Very community driven. Flirtatious when the mood hits. Wrench is highly intelligent but not always wise with it. Deeply political and socially aware. Gives a whole lot of damn. He's incredibly passionate but hides a lot of paranoid, anxious, self loathing thoughts and other less fun and complicated emotions. Loyal to boot, Wrench is not someone who gives others up.

Abilities: Wrench is an expert hacker and weapons specialist as well as a mechanical and electrical engineer who specializes in biomechatronics and robotics.

He also has bloodbased abilities. Wrench is a coldblood, which means a lot of things. His blood freezes upon contact with air. He's less susceptible to the cold and anything that "burns" he can also wield elements that "burn". Fire, ice, electricity. IN THEORY. In reality he doesn't have much of a grip on that stuff yet to... he doesn't do it... really. LOL. This also give him some generic metahuman stuff like needing to sleep less, heightened stamina, and strength, blah blah.

Plans: I GOT NOTTA YET!! Just looking to get into some shenanigans and make CR with some likeminded characters or even people he'd butt heads with!!

???:

[opheliac]

U N C L E.

Gigi | Shionne

[thornygunner]

Player: Gigi
Contact: makochan; nothlir on Discord; PM
Anything Else?: God, I am EST but my tagging is pretty much every three days since I DM 2 D&D games and play in a third. Sometimes I also do one-shots and I love introducing new people to TTRPGs. I also love JRPGS, with a leaning for Final Fantasy, Persona, Tales of and Star Ocean. I am also really big into D&D podcasts like Critical Role, The Adventure Zone and Dimension 20. Other than that, I'm always reading at least two books at a time and I'm owed by a very pretty and pampered Russian Blue cat named Colette. (No, not like the character for Symphonia. It's just a great coincidence.)

Character: Shionne Imeris
Canon: Tales of Arise
Canon Point: As the party reaches Lenegis

Crime: THigh Treason

Background: Shionne grew up very lonely and didn't have friends until she met Alphen and the others. Even then, she had a hard time really opening up for reasons she is still reluctant to talk about. Anyone who touches her runs the absolute risk of having their nervous systems overloaded by her Thorns curse. She doesn't really have any control over it and they happen to go out of control when her emotions are out of line. Otherwise, she loves food, fashion, and helping people.

Abilities: - Accomplished Healer
- Excellent Gunmanship, with a focus on damaging flying monsters
- Ability to weave Artes into her shots
- Can use Artes made up of fire, water, dark, and wind
- Her Maiden powers allow her to both sync up with a Sovereign and control his powers through a special ceremony and suppress a great deal of her curse if she's conscious of it happening

Plans: I want to get Shionne reestablished with the people who knew her the first time she was here and try to find a way to suppress her curse more, even if not fully. I would like for her to be able to have friends without running the risks of hurting them! I also want her to rejoin the healing group, since that will give her something to do during down time. So, if you need a healer or are up for her sort of prickly attitude, please come and be friends with Shionne.

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[illusionbreaker]

Guess what? Not only would Touma love to be her friend, but also there's a good chance he would be immune or at the very least minimize any damage caused by her curse.

William G Maryblood | The Faraway Paladin

[strength_of_will]

Player: Chips
Contact: DM this journal
Anything Else?: Just an Aussie retail worker (which means weird hours compared to anyone outside of that timezone). I also play emet_sulk here so this guy is my 2nd character.

Character: William G Maryblood
Canon: The Faraway Paladin
Canon Point: Before entering the Iron Mountain (manga)

Crime: Being a monster in the guise of a man

Background: As the title suggests, William is a paladin. He is quite young (17-18 depending on which calendar you use) but he is well on his way to becoming a famous hero in his canon. Even before his ordainment, he has fought off an Echo of a god (basically a god's avatar), suplexed a wyvern, and is now on his way to fight an elder dragon. He's 99% certain he won't survive fighting the dragon but he's Gotta Do It to keep his oath to his goddess.

Abilities: His canon's brand of magic is based on the supposed original language of the world, which means words hold power. Speaking the old word for 'fire' will produce fire etc. On top of that, there is what is called Benediction which simply refers to the range of abilities one's patron deity grants to the individual. The power of this scales to the oath sworn by someone to their god. However, whilst you may receive great power in return for a strong oath, you will also face equal hardship. William swore his entire life to Gracefeel which is the strongest oath one can give. :')

Gracefeel specifically oversees the passage of the dead, so William is able to grant peace to the restless dead. There's also the typical holy magic like resistance to poisons, healing abilities, etc.

Plans: He's a very new muse and I haven't played with him beyond the TDM so far. He is definitely the sort to want to help and protect others where he can so I'd love for him to get involved with that somehow. And I swear I'll make more icons for him I'VE JUST BEEN VERY TIRED.

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William: "I'm gonna fight it."

[illusionbreaker]

Join Touma and together we protect all the things.

[fatalism]

Player: Grey
Contact: PM, please
Anything Else?: Hi, I was here before a few months ago before life fought me in a Denny's parking lot and won. Aside from that, I read a lot, watch films and sleep. My schedule can be a bit random so there might be tags at weird hours. My life is very exciting, wao~

Character: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Canon: Bungo Stray Dogs
Canon Point: 107

Crime: Act of Committing Mischief, which continues being the best. crime. description for this garbage man, thank you mods.

Background: Not much is known about Fyodor's past, it is implied that at some point in the past he met Dazai, and that he's been fucking up shit for ability users for far too many years. He usually happens to be on the sidelines moving pieces and causing Problems. Even being in prison hasn't stopped this man from helping to start the vampire-zombie apocalypse.

His canon point is after getting shot by the ultimate bbg Sigma in the final stages of the Prison Game Showdown. So now he's cold, wet, and injured.

Abilities: Crime and Punishment is an ability that kills people upon touch. Canon has been vague as to how it works but as far as we know it seems Fyodor does have some control over it and that he also hates using it, preferring conventional murder methods to do things.

Plans: As one of the major antagonists in his canon Fyodor is problematique and toxique and absolute garbage. That said, in his current canon point getting vibe checked by his fellow ex-coworker probably, maybe has, not exactly humbled him, but made it clear he has lost/is on the verge of losing. That is going to make him reassess a few things on a personal level, and perhaps decide that going home might not be the best idea.

Also, Fyodor was here before so if someone who knew him back then wants to recognize him/something, please go ahead. He's going to be so grumpy about the missing memories.

In general, Fyodor is very polite, even while he causes mayhem. He is very much someone who is here to enable bad ideas if the mood strikes him. If you want someone to tell you that putting mayo in coffee sounds like an excellent idea, and that murder is not that bad, this is your guy.

Canonically, it seems like Fyodor's entire life has been geared always towards planning and executing plans in the service of a higher goal. Whether this is by his own choice or there is something else going on behind the scenes is unknown. Being away from the world he wants to fix is surely going to cause a shift, maybe it'll be good for him to relate towards others in a more human/direct way rather than as pawns or maybe it'll be terrible and he'll spiral back into planning the downfall of everything. He is a fun kinda guy, very mischievous.

Warnings: he has an opt-out post in his journal, BSD canon deals with a lot of dark themes like war, murder, suicide, child abuse, etc. Fyodor himself is guilty of manipulating people, driving them to suicide, experimenting on someone, etc. Any topics coming up will be labeled accordingly with warnings.

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[kiseijuu]

I'm super canonblind but really enjoying Shinichi's interaction with Fyodor so far and would love to continue building cr with him! Migi is going to continue to just be so 👀 about this guy and want to learn as much about him as he possibly can.... 👀 While I'm loving that Shinichi's just Totally Unnerved by this guy

Also there's definitely nothing wrong with experimenting on people, Migi would think this is totally fine and normal, heck he'd like to get his hand on some folks around here and see what makes them tick :)