INTRO MEME AUGUST 2023

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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.

This month's State of the Game post is here, and the world changes from the last event is here. Feel free to browse around if you haven't already, and here's a handy dandy directory below so everyone can check out the info pages:

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The info pages and such are still under construction, so if there's any questions let us know either on the FAQ page or the mod contact page! We will be putting up a mingle log on Monday the 21st, so please stay tuned for it!

Until then, 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

[usarinpa]

hey nerd

fancy seeing u here

Re: Farmel | Kazuki Kurusu

[usarinpa]

someday she'll kick him in the crotch, probably idk

[papartner]

Hi Elise! Thank you!! I'm excited to be here c: Yosuke can totally get in on some cooking and cleaning action if he too is a pathetic excuse for a person like some other people Kazuki knows (okay it's just one person)

Kazuki and Yosuke can also bond over being trash bros - technically hasn't happened yet but tbh probably not the first time Kazuki has been laid out in a garbage pile

[papartner]

if anyone deserves it

it is this man

[murderingjustice]

Hello Orphen!! I'm jenni, one of the mods here and I have here another socially weird hitman with daddy issues!!

Buddy Daddies is on my watch list and I'm defs excited to have Rei here.

[usarinpa]

I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE

ALSO HI :) you are a lovely writer. i wonder if these two will ever get along.

[murderingjustice]

The santa outfit cracked me up.

Hello and welcome! I'm Jenni, one of the mods here, and today I offer you one (1) teenage hitman that can't cook to save for his life. I'm defs gonna throw him at your Daddy.

[dadinside]

let him watch

[murderingjustice]

wow

a loser

[dadinside]

new game, who dis

[dadinside]

hi Jenni! ty for having me. I love Akechi. he just gotta fill that void in his soul with some video games, that's the hitman with daddy issues way.

highly rec BD, totally not biased. but it's a fun ride and Miri is the cutest. totally destroys me picking a point without her. 😭

[dadinside]

hey Santa can I have cat for xmas

[opheliac]

Do not lie, miss. I can not write well.

ONLY TIME WILL TELL!!!

Kaito | Echo

[individualized]

Player: Kaito
Contact: kaitodoushi, belinsk @ discord
Anything Else?: I'm busy focusing on things no one cares about at that moment and having mental health troubles.

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

Crime: Desertion

Background: Special ops/servant for an assassin family who was so physically and emotionally abused (plus spoilers) that she doesn't really understand feelings or her right to have them. She's very curious about the world and likes noting down things she sees. And she's getting a bit better at people-ing after her canon arc and time with CRAU in Deer Country.

Abilities: She is really good at combat, especially with swords. Can jump higher than is natural. She can handle being still and quiet while observing thing for a very long time.

Plans: I'd really like to get her learning more about being a person and her feelings. Definitely want her to make friends; that's become an IC goal of hers because she doesn't quite understand how that works. Eventually I want to use her crime to properly process some of her worse problems. For the time being, though, I need to finally get her properly settled and starting relationships in the first place.

???: I am so, SO sorry about falling off the face of the Earth in July! Work kicked me hard, the mod uncertainty threw me off, and then I was on vacation. If you want to handwave or reset any CR I tried to start then, I am totally fine with that.

[dadinside]

Hello Lycoris, I'm Orphen. Not canon familiar at all, but Mitama sounds cute and amazingly complex with a lot of neat abilities. You've got a nice contrast of characters to start with. I'm also new here, so I hope to see you around. :3

[shadowofpride]

Player: Taisa
Contact: noletters
Anything Else?: I have a cardboard addiction, play FFXIV and like that one lawyer game series.

Character: Pride
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
Canon Point: Ep. 61. End game for him.

Crime: Being merciless

Background: 300+ yr old homunculus pretending to be a child, with spooky shadow powers and has daddy issues. He spent some time in empatheias and caused massive havoc, using people as sacrifices to "open a Gate" to get home. Obviously failed and he had to learn the concept of living with consequences. He's trying this concept of thinking for himself instead of what Father would do. Just because he's your dad, doesn't mean he's truly family to you.

Abilities:
Hoo boy ok. Pride's shadow has multiple abilities and attributes to them.

• The ability to cut through anything as strong as steel. He cannot cut through harden carbon-based material.


• The ability to control others and change form (Tendrils, sharp spikes, shield, etc). Possession is only possible through a blood relative. So this will likely never come up.


• The ability to consume and assimilate the abilities of others. Nerf or player permission?? idk lol


• His child appearance is just a container to hold the shadows and his true form. Both container and shadows are extremely resilient. He has been hit by a car, mauled by a chimera and still came out without a scratch. Far as I'm aware, he doesn't bleed either since the body is just a container. He starts to fall apart as his shadows are "killed off".


• Able to see beyond the human limit through his shadow. The shadow's range is limited to his container's current position and its surroundings. The length is really ambiguous though, but I say about....the length of a football field at full strength. He can also speak through his shadows. His shadows has also able to cover a great distance in a short amount of time.

He cannot use shadows in complete darkness and requires some source of light. At the same time, sudden flashes of light, like from a flashbomb, will cause the shadows to dissapate.

He gain knowledge of hand-to-hand and unarm combat for self defense purposes during his time in Empatheias.

While not an ability, just a little extra note for others:
In FMA, Xingese are capable of sensing the life flow and energy known as Chi that is present in all living things and the earth itself (the dragon pulse). As Homunculi are made up of thousands of souls trapped in the Philosopher stone, those who can sense the life energy of others will sense this anomaly. Generally the feeling is described as foul, heavy and unsettling. Characters who have similar abilities that can sense life energy may likely notice Pride's odd make-up.

Animals will also react poorly around homunculi. Animal instincts tell them they're a threat and to avoid at all cost.

Plans: Just want to continue from where he left of, which is just learning to be more honest about himself and with what he actually wants. Maybe give a shit about others over himself. He's teetering between wanting to change or stay as he was, so it'll be interesting to see how that plays out while he's here with no one to rely on.

???: Me being tired is a meme. But I'm looking forward to playing this hellspawn with everyone once more!

[dadinside]

fist-bump for daddy issues and having shitty dads that shouldn't be considered as family. ✌️

Bryo | Ethlyn

[baldrshand]

Player: Bryo
Contact: PM, in the discord, or compassinks (feel free to add me!)
Anything Else?: I am a botanist/ecologist currently pursuing my PhD! As a result I am an enthusiastic tagger but not a particularly fast one. I make up for it by being a shamelessly wordy bitch even in network nonsense.

Character: Ethlyn
Canon: A Song of Ice and Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
Canon Point: Chapter 5, when she and Quan return from being out of your army but they're NPCs and then the dracoknights come up behind them and no matter how hard you try you can't stop them from being cut down!!

Crime: "The crimes of the Grannvale Empire."

Background: Ethlyn was born to a noble house whose founder was divinely blessed to be very good at swords, and her older brother Sigurd (the protagonist) is the current heir to the major part of that blessing. She is married to his BFF Quan and they have a couple of kids together. When Sigurd's quest to rescue a friend snowballed into an accidental conquest of the continent, Ethlyn and Quan were there, wondering how this got all so out of hand. After returning home a while for Quan's responsibilities as prince of Leonster, they rode out to reinforce Sigurd--and then they were ambushed by the king of Leonster's rival nation as they crossed the desert. Ethlyn and Quan died, and their young daughter Altena was captured.

On a more general note, Ethlyn has an overdeveloped sense of responsibility thanks to having to assume her late mother's role in the household at a young age. As a result, Ethlyn is the kind of person who feels like she's doing something actively wrong if she's ever idle. She's always looking for something useful to do, especially if it involves taking care of someone. Ethlyn is something of a self-appointed "mom friend," and mostly that's fine, but she can definitely get fussy and nosy with it.

Abilities:
Healing: magic stick with a glowing rock on the end heals u!! so if your character ever gets hurt you can give her a call.
Sword's: She may not be as divinely blessed as her brother, but she is still an extremely competent swordswoman and makes sure to keep in practice.
Horseback riding: She loves riding and is happy to teach other people how to ride too.

Plans: At the moment, Ethlyn is feeling super weird and on-edge and upset because she is unaware that "unresolved trauma from having died" may not a thing she can just power through by keeping busy. There's also this thing going on where people asking seemingly simple questions throws her for a loop! Because she has gone through life feeling very assured that she's doing the right thing because she means well by doing it and that the world works a certain way (spoiler: this has a LOT to do with why she's dead in canon). So she is starting to feel challenged on a few levels and she still hasn't figured out how to deal with that--and I would love to continue this! Because my ultimate goal with her development is for her to realize how she can be considered culpable for her accus'd crime.

In day-to-day terms, Ethlyn is still running the Arztenritter, and she is going to be actively on the lookout for potential new recruits now that there's been some character turnover. (You know, moreso than usual.) So if your character is a healer, a horserider, or is interested in either of those things in any way, that is an easy route to interacting with her!


???:

[baldrshand]

So Ethlyn has two kids at home and she is going to instinctively perceive Pride as a child who needs looking after and protecting (and even if she saw his crime she'd just assume 'merciless' as in 'normal bratty child things'). How do you feel about her trying to mother him?

Also, question: does that mean homunculi spook horses? (I have the whole series on my bookshelf BUT IT'S BEEN A WHILE)

Re: noel kreiss

[baldrshand]

ETHLYN IS JUST THAT NOSY. she'll have to find out his age sometime and shortcircuit.

Do you want to continue our inbox thread or start something fresh? She's super jittery right now because of not understanding how trauma works and going to a place very like the one she died in

[shadowofpride]

fist-bump! He'll eventually get there. It's 300 years of damage he has to work through, and he still isn't sure he should be thinking of such things LMAO he got him good.

[shadowofpride]

Yes, absolutely do it. He had the opportunity to have Mrs. Bradley at Empatheias, so he's definitely going to feel momsick, even if he won't admit wanting some motherly presence.

And homunculi do be spooking horses!

medchan | Luffy

[couldntsaveone]

Player: medchan
Contact: DM or discord @ medchan97
Anything Else?: I'm pretty chill and backtag forever. Also, clearly my love for One Piece is still reigning king.

Character: Luffy
Canon: One Piece
Canon Point: Chapter 513, Sabaody Arc

Crime: Pirate is his main crime.

Theft, breaking and entering, property damage, assault, battery, political manipulation, inciting rebellion, war crimes. And a whole host of other things, to boot.

Background: The pirate captain of a crew, he's big on having adventures and basically sailing the world to find a legendary treasure that may or may not exist. (It does, he just doesn't know it yet.) There's a lot so I'll just sum it up as he's a positive, fun loving guy who is very morally gray.

Abilities: Rubberman. He ate a devil fruit and became a rubberman. He's very stretchy. Also, luck, maybe? He has great luck. Some charisma. A beacon of positivity and chaos.

Plans: Just looking for some fun CR with this guy. No concrete plans yet.

???:

[papartner]

It wasn't my plan until it suddenly was. Ho ho ho.

I love Akechi so I'm super excited to see him and bounce these guys off each other. Thank you so much for the welcome!

[papartner]

We don't have cat at home