expiationooc | INTRO MEME AUGUST 2023

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.

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Player: Bryo
Contact: PM, in the discord, or

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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!

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INTRO MEME AUGUST 2023

Bryo | Ethlyn