CR meme

[sodder]

Deerington's CR Meme

Been wanting to bug that neighbor of yours for the past few weeks but don't know how to? Looking to spice up your rp palate with some much needed angst? Look no further than the CR meme. Fulfill your urges and needs today! Discuss outer-event plans, happenings, get some CR set up and in the making. Ya'll will make some beautiful, beautiful CR together, we're sure of it.

Fill out the form below and start working your way around to get some dank ideas! Have fun guys.


<b>Player Name:</b> What you prefer to go by <b>Preferred Contact:</b> Discord, Plurk, PMs, etc. <b>Time Zone:</b> EST, GMT, etc. <b>Personal Style:</b> Prose, action? Backtag haven or quick as dickens? <b>OOC Limits:</b> Let people know what you're SUPER not down to ever play! This is a horror game so you might as well paint a clear line. <b>Character Name:</b> What does your character go by <b>Age:</b> How old are they <b>Employment in Deerington:</b> Where they work <b>Residence in Deerington:</b> Where they live <b>Day to Day Activities:</b> What can they normally be found doing? This is usually the handwave stuff people don't bother to role play every second of. <b>About This Character:</b> Let people know a little about their personality, their background, what can be expected when dealing with this character! <b>Any Warnings:</b> If your character has a particularly rough past, now is a good time to warn people about the potential stuff that might come up! <b>Present Life:</b> Talk about any present major/important stuff going on in the character's life! Relationships, what they're trying to work on for themselves, maybe hero or villain shenanigans... <b>Future Ideas:</b> Stuff you want your character to eventually be doing, ideas you maybe have for some development etc. <B>CR You Want:</b> Want some more best friends? Lovers? Mentors? State it here, homeslice. <b>CR You Don't Want:</b> Really want to avoid anything violent or overly happy? Here ya go, pal. List it here. <b>Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:</b> You know what to do, boss.

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noodle's caboodle /

[wiseass]

Player Name: Noodle
Preferred Contact: doggos, noodle#7170 @ discord.
Time Zone: CST
Personal Style: will match format! reliable tagging, moderate pace, backtag heaven!
OOC Limits: abuse of an animal / animal-death written out in graphic detail. non-con, dub-con.

carly’s crew

[earps]

Player Name: Carly
Preferred Contact: favoritings, disco: carly#5387 or PM.
Time Zone: EST.
Personal Style: Typically I default to action brackets, but I will happily adapt to whatever style the other person is more comfortable with. I’ll also backtag into oblivion, but have been known to boomerang a thread or two depending on time of day and whether or not schedules align for that sort of thing.
OOC Limits: Most subjects are quite honestly open to discussion; as long as we talk it out beforehand, chances are I’ll be fine with playing it out. The only thing I’m a hard no on is any sexual violence, but aside from that, as long as all players involved are on the same page and communicating in regards to darker plots I’m good with just about everything. If there’s ever anything I’m not looking for with regards to an event I’ll make sure to include it on my plotting comments!

Dante | Kiara

[halfaprincess]

Player Name: Dante
Preferred Contact: teenysanguini
Time Zone: EST
Personal Style: I'm an action bracket RPer but I can match styles.
OOC Limits: Anything that involves eye gore.

Character Name: Kiara
Age: 7 months old
Employment in Deerington: She has no job.
Residence in Deerington: Various houses! She'll camp out at houses of people she knows, but sometimes you can find her in your bed without knowing.
Day to Day Activities: What can they normally be found doing? This is usually the handwave stuff people don't bother to role play every second of.

About This Character: Kiara is a princess! Though she hates being one and wants to be her own independent lady! She's very adventurous with a knack for getting into trouble. Tends to go off and do whatever she wants.
Any Warnings: Kiara's past is pretty tame. She has an overprotective father.

Present Life: She's getting to know Deerington, but more importantly, she's currently watching the Trails/Executions going on and it's definitely messing with her to see someone getting executed.
Future Ideas: Learning to read, making more friends, maybe get her more involved with horror plots?

CR You Want: Friends or found family!
CR You Don't Want: Can't think of any.

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

claire novak / supernatural

[wiseass]

Character Name: Claire Novak
Age: 22
Employment in Deerington: Unemployed
Residence in Deerington: 406 Prospero Townhouses
Day to Day Activities: She's a heathen so she steals from the local native-run establishments like all the time, and when she's not doing that she's patrolling or causing mayhem someplace else. blowing off steam with unhealthy coping mechanisms is the name of the game. frequent barfly and pool table hustler.

About This Character: (APP) but all you really need to know is that she's a smartass and capable of handling herself. she's been through hell and back and speaks her mind. good badass things come in small packages.
Any Warnings: her father was taken by an angel trying to stop the apocalypse. that angel is Castiel, her father gave his consent. dean and sam kill things for a living and she's basically a professional monster murderer. lost both of her parents in gruesome ways, was part of a little group of thugs and almost traded to a douchebag so that someone she looked up to could make a clean getaway.
Present Life: Just in time to bounce back from the last event and move on from the past few months Claire's going into a full grief trip, guilt trip, and getting put on trial. So, that's cool. She's slowly coming around to the idea that she's an imperfect person when her emotions aren't be manipulated and is scouting out gigs to stay busy with now that she's had some time to recuperate from her losses and the hell that had followed her the months following.
Future Ideas: Honestly, bond with others a whole lot more - come outside of herself and share more than the surface value chick. Get her to talk about her parents, I fucking dare you.

CR You Want: Bold of you to assume I don't want everything.
CR You Don't Want: Really want to avoid anything violent or overly happy? Here ya go, pal. List it here.

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:



DeerlyBeloved | Staggr

The Ax Gang

[ninetieskid]

Player Name: Ax
Preferred Contact: intercession Just LMK who you are
Time Zone: EST
Personal Style: Prose or Action, and I backtag forever but will tag several times a day if I am available.
OOC Limits: I'm not ever going to be down with writing out physical torture. Beyond that, I'm good with most stuff so just ask.

Character Name: Rei Hino
Age: 23
Employment in Deerington: Librarian
Residence in Deerington: 6020 Swan Lane
Day to Day Activities: Rei can often be found at the library doing reference related things, as that's her day job. She frequents the comic book store primarily to see Chloe and now Gwen, and does her shopping, typically walking everywhere. She is considering acquiring a car, though. Also she rejoined Chloe's D&D game so there is that too.

About This Character: For starters, Rei is a typically quiet, somewhat reserved young woman with an almost aristocratic air of peace and elegance around her. She rarely raises her voice and tends to communicate some feelings more with facial expressions than words alone. She is the child of a powerful politician who more or less abandoned her, and she didn't really have friends until she was 14, and those were people who were more or less tied to her soul by destiny, so her first time in Deerington (about 1 year ago, and she has her memories of that time.) was an experience in making new connections. She tends to dress in more traditional Japanese clothing, favoring hakama and the like, so she stands out pretty starkly.

She's kind, though she has little patience for the kinds of people that waste her time, men in particular she gives short shrift too. In a crisis, she responds decisively and boldly, often transforming into her magical martian alter ego, Sailor Mars. In those kinds of situations she'll fight with the singular goal of completely destroying whatever it is that's causing her problems. She's also psychic, and accompanied by 2 crows at nearly all times!

Any Warnings: Rei is the victim of emotional abandonment by a parental figure, and she herself can lay on some casual misandry fairly thick. She's also prone to acts of extreme violence involving fire if conflict happens, and is fairly matter of fact about death, particularly her own.

Present Life: Rei is currently transformed into a ghost! She is dealing with all of that stuff while also trying to keep her head on straight. She's also currently seeing Gwenpool, and raising an adolescent Warg named Iris while trying not to freak out about Usagi being around.
Future Ideas: I'm planning on Rei performing a ritual to break her ghost curse sometime in August or September, so I'd be interested in spiritual characters to get involved with that some!

CR You Want: I'm open to a lot of things with Rei! She can always, always use more friends, and she makes a decent mentor figure for younger characters. I'm also cool with negative CR, particularly with characters that find her unsettling either as a person or a ghost!
CR You Don't Want: I'm not looking for romantic CR because she's currently involved. Beyond that I'm fine with anything!

AND

Character Name: Jubilation Lee AKA Jubilee
Age: 19
Employment in Deerington: Manager at the Roller Skating Rink
Residence in Deerington: 42 Blackwood Townhouse
Day to Day Activities: Jubilee hits up the arcade often, she goes to work, and she's almost always going to be seen traveling around town on rollerblades! Weird as heck, I know! She's easy to spot, just follow the giant yellow coat.

About This Character: Jubilee is a Valley Girl, Chinese American, and the child of two wealthy and deceased immigrants. She's also a mutant with the power to create small explosive bursts of plasma, and she is basically the 1990s as a decade distilled into human form. She's loud, brash, with a big personality and a 'tude. She's a nice gal, but she'll make fun of people as a form of affection. She's extremely athletic, and a bright ray of sunshine compared to most.

Any Warnings: Jubilee is an orphan who has experienced extreme alienation and outright racism both as a Chinese American in the United States and in China, as well as because she is a Mutant. She has a violent past and that may come up as well.

Present Life: Jubilee is just getting settled in, and she is brand new!
Future Ideas: I'm hoping to get Jubilee settled in, that's the big thing right now!

CR You Want: Friends, Enemies, Crushes, People crushing on her, people who harsh on her musical choices...anything.
CR You Don't Want: I'm totally open to whatever!

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

Red's Dudes

[shiro2hero]

Player Name: Red / Redfirelight
Preferred Contact: redfirelight - just let me know who you are, because I've got a terrible name memory.
Time Zone: PST
Personal Style: Prose and action are fine! I'll backtag as long as it's wanted, and I do try to hit things back quickly, but I lose track of threads pretty easily. Don't hesitate to let me know if I've lost something important!

OOC Limits: Child death/harm, domestic animal death/harm, suicide, drug use. And zombies of the pathogen/disease related kind. Magically created zombies don't bother me. Weird, I know. And major body horror of the painful transformation and parasitic type.

Shiro Shirogane Shiroson

[shiro2hero]

Character Name: Shiro (aka Takashi Shirogane but almost no one ever calls him that)
Age: 25 in canon, 27 in game
Employment in Deerington: Elementary School science teacher
Residence in Deerington: Mouse House - out by the nature park on Elm Street.

Day to Day Activities: Now that school's out, Shiro is at a loss with what to do with himself. He did sign up to help repair the stables a while back, so he'll probably be doing that! He can also be found at the Coffee shop, or the cafe run by John and Bruce. He rides around on a hoverbike a lot of times. At night, chances are he's patrolling back and forth between Mouse House and the apartments, followed by his robot Lion. The Lion's the size of a draft horse, you can't miss it. He can also be found at the rec center gym, where he'll help with self-defense lessons if asked.

About This Character: Local Ace pilot goes on a deep space exploration mission, gets abducted by aliens, tortured and experimented on. Escapes back to Earth and accidentally adopts a bunch of reckless teenagers -- and then they're all kidnapped by a giant robot lion and strongarmed into fighting a space war for the freedom of all sentient beings. Loves space and astronomy, can drive or fly just about anything. Hopeless in the kitchen. Loves bad jokes and uses them as a coping mechanism.

Any Warnings: He's got a LOT of signs/symptoms of PTSD, anxiety/flashbacks/etc. Most of those flashbacks relate to violence and/or medical trauma and experimentation. It's not clear what exactly happened beyond "really bad stuff", but I try and warn for it regardless.

Also, because it's come up a few times recently, descriptions of chronic and/or potentially terminal (?) illness may occur in close CR conversations. I will warn for that in the subject lines too.


Present Life: Shiro hasn't slept well in like weeks now. Thanks to the Palantir. Which means he's out and about even more. Chugging coffee and working out. He's still going to his teaching job when the school's open, because hey, it helps him focus on other things. Otherwise not much has changed except the massive amount of guilt hanging on him - he still lives at Mouse House, still has his bike and his Lion. He's struggled a lot with the rumors recently, but has no idea how to deal with any of it.


Future Ideas:
Mostly looking into solving the Sodder mystery right now. Maybe a trip up to the lab at some point in the future? But always open to throwing him into things that may require a magic robot arm or combat support in general! He's always up for helping people, no matter what. Aggressively friendshipping anyone who might need it.

Since he's been going to the gym, he's made himself available to people for self-defense training too. If you want to thread or handwave that happening, I'm up for it!

Current event toplevel is here! He definitely may need someone to help talk him out of the Guilt Monster.

I may be taking it easy on the tag outs this month, but if there's something you'd like to do, let me know!

CR You Want: Look, he has a problem and that problem is looking after younger people. Usually teenagers. Or anyone who may look like they need a big beefy shoulder to lean on. So that's... probably going to happen whether people want it to or not. But I'm open to ANYTHING really.

CR You Don't Want: Not really anything? That I can think of?

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:


did we mention he's a dork with terrible coping skills?

magnus bane / shadow hunters

[hedon]

Character Name: Magnus Bane
Age: LOL centuries old no cap
Employment in Deerington: Librarian at the Deerington Library
Residence in Deerington: 433 Allison Rd
Day to Day Activities: Currently a bit of a homebody. He alternates between home, work, and the bar and will on occasion be found in some of the more wild unkempt areas gathering bugs, herbs, etc for his own concoctions.

About This Character: (APP) he's pretty much as advertised, a warlock then at is hundreds of years old with a penchant for dry wit and a heart of gold. he keeps his secrets secret and opens up completely for very few. he likes to meddle and has become a big fan of the finer things in life.

Any Warnings: Parental negligence, suicide, isolation, homophobia, race wars as it pertains to syfy creatures, and all there-in.

Present Life: Well, Deerington brought his current soulmate Alec Lightwood around as well as his sister and then bait switched and left him alone. After that little debacle and given a few months break he's come to find Alec is back and much more like the Alec he'd known before. Magnus is distrustful of Deerington by nature and keeps waiting for something to whisk Alec back away. He's currently dealing with his own selfish desire to not be alone in a place that he knows is truly horrible. Beyond that, he's been lying low and doing some surface magical research into the area after the three-ring circus that the fairies brought on and the magical undercurrents that they may have left in their wake. Mother Superior isn't his favorite local native and the rumor-mill and the gossip that spread thanks to her has had him much more curt and direct than ever before. His title as the Ultimate Warlock has helped him to understand the limitations of his magic a little more.

Future Ideas: Definitely want him to get involved in F.E.A.R. and do more to build relationships since he's so afraid of it. I am hoping to have him become more involved with Deerington and the nature of the place itself soon and much less of a naysayer where finding the truth is concerned.

CR You Want: D.) all of the above.

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:


DeerlyBeloved | Staggr

Ironhide the cranky old man | Transformers

[heavyweaponsbot]

Character Name: Ironhide
Age: ... older than dirt, probably
Employment in Deerington: Nowhere
Residence in Deerington: Any open garage
Day to Day Activities: Driving around in his truck mode, trying to stay incognito, but... not doing a great job of that. He goes off-roading a lot, probably to the dismay of every living thing in the woods. Sometimes he'll check in on people he knows. Sometimes.

About This Character: A cranky old man in a giant robot body. He's canonically one of the oldest Autobots, and has the ... uh. Physical issues of an old man, too. His joints seize up, transformations are rough. And he hates it. A lot. He was made to be a soldier and has enough body armor and guns to match a small country. Violently hates Decepticons. Like, super violently.

Any Warnings: ... aside from being from a Michael Bay movie, nah not really.

Present Life: Ironhide doesn't get out much. He's used to trying to hide his presence from human beings, but has come out of his giant metal shell a little bit. Mostly to the local toys and Moira. He's been turned into a human a few times, and hates it. There's very little in town that's made him smile.

Currently he's been Brooding due to the last event reminding him he is very alone in Deerington. So now he's pretending he's fine.

I'm not sure if I'm going to toplevel with him this month. But he has an open thread available here!

Future Ideas: REALLY NEEDS TO GET OUT MORE. MAKE FRIENDS. ETC. He... usually tries to bully his way through monsters and other robots and stuff. So if there's something you need in that regard? Yell at him.

CR You Want: F R I E N D S
bother the grumpy old man enough he might like you.

CR You Don't Want: N/A I'm game

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

just gonna smack OPTIMUS PRIME on the head no big deal


"well, he's pissed."

Logan | Marvel 616

[howlett]

Player Name: roxi
Preferred Contact: Discord is the fastest. Plurk is the slowest. A DM is right in between.
Time Zone: EST
Personal Style: Prose is my default, but I'm fastest at network threads. Either way don't feel obligated to match it. If you want our styles to jive just let me know. 7 to 11 PM weeknights is when I get most of my tags out. Weekend evenings about 6 to whenever in the AM. If it's a slow work week I'll try to pop on from the office and if you want to set aside some time to power through something no prob. Let me know. I'm happy to boomerang something for a while.

OOC Limits: None.

Character Name: Logan
Age: Somewhere in the vicinity of 170 - 190
Employment in Deerington: Park Warden Logan. When he's not recovering from his 2nd death, find him somewhere in Deerington National Pk, convening with nature. Picking berries. Identifying flowers. Practicing bird calls. In a past life, he was a Disney princess.

Residence in Deerington: What used to be a private little cabin near Lake Tomie.

Day to Day Activities: See employment details. Ever the skeptic, he tries to keep off the grid. As much as anyone can in Deerington. Which, admittedly, he knows might be a lost cause. But it's also a very good excuse for avoiding social situations and not learning how to use his phone. He's always low-key tempted to delve into the mysteries of Deerington and it's not hard to get his conspiracy theories tingling, but he's no magician and at the end of the day apathy or nihilism wins out over curiosity. He hunts what's in season, reads what's out of season, smokes a lot of cigars and does a lot of handy work for people in and out of the park. Carpentry. Plumbing. Mechanics. You name it. He can also be found meditating and doing some creative projects, but both of those things he tends to guard a little more closely. You're more than welcome to find him odd-jobbing around town, up to his elbows in hunting, fishing and skinning things, loafing around the bars or buying an absurd amount of cigars at any local tuck shop. If you're less likely to find him in the forest, it's only because odds are good he's already found you first.

Sometimes he gets up to things in the shadier parts of Deerington but he likes to make sure most people don't know about that.

About This Character: This is 616 Logan, but the attitude doesn't change much across mediums. Alignment: Chaotic-tired. Bitterly apathetic on the outside. Warm and fuzzy on the inside. Says he doesn't like anyone, but no one more than himself. I know he makes things difficult being generally unapproachable, but I swear to god anyone with the patience for his clipped remarks will get a long winded story or a shoulder to cry on whenever they need it. <3

Any Warnings: Oh so many warnings. His whole life is a chronology of dead spouses and families, human rights violations. You're more than welcome to get into any of that with him, but know it's a retrospective of misery that spans just about every major world war, and global tragedy of the last hundred years. CWs for graphic violence, body horror, torture, self-harm, suicide, non-con, coercion, animal / psychological / physical / sexual / substance abuses. I never dive headlong into any of these topics without knowing someone. If their conversation starts getting heavy I'll check your persmissions but feel free to PM me if you want to dbl make sure I avoid anything entirely.

Present Life: Logan was pulled from a canon point where he's dead. Thanks to other people from his canon in the game he knows he's dead back home and doesn't have a lot of faith in ever leaving Deerington. He's also been through more than enough interdimensional weirdness in his life that he's not exactly shocked by the horrors this place has to offer. In fact, he's done pretty well for himself here, settling in with a handful of familiar faces and rebuilding something of the found family they were before Deer-town. If there's anything he's still not wholly used to it, it's the added precaution he has to take with his healing factor around here. What happens to him happens to someone within 10 feet of him. As he heals from the damage they take it. He still forgets that sometimes and SNIKTs his claws at will. Apologies to Kurt's knuckles. In a breath: it pisses him off to not know what's actually going on around him. He's habitually paranoid enough without help. But spend a lifetime around people who can warp reality and you become pretty adaptable to whatever.

CR You Want:
‣ Drinking buddies. Like blues and poker and brown liquor? Let's hang out.
‣ Co-conspirators & partners in crime. While he has a lot of do-gooder friends, he's really easy to conscript for some bad deeds. You got some ambitions to do some crimes on the down-low? He'll probably be happy to help. I'd love to give him someone to go all covert-ops with only to have their misdeeds come to light some day
‣ Doctors without boundaries. He's an interesting specimen for anyone in the medical community. Apart from being a one man organ farm, his blood and plasma have both been tapped as a cure-all and a narcotic, among other things. Or some doctors interested in his physiology.
‣ Curious telepaths and unwitting empaths. The only thing more interesting to dissect might be his head. I'd love find some uncomfortable CR with nosy psychologists, telepaths or empaths.
‣ Found-family. Give me your misfits and orphans and lonely hearts. Misery loves company. He's a very good confidant. Not the kind that hugs you and tells you it'll be all right, but the real talk kind. Also, if your character pairs well with an older brother kind of figure, get at me.
‣ Book lovers. He's unexpectedly well read for a guy that says ain't without a hint of irony. I'd love to find an adorable intellectual to surprise with discussions of Tolstoy or something nerdy.
‣ 'Fraidy cats. I'd love to find someone who's literally afraid of him— be that his general disposition or being creeped out by the claws and the violence and the accelerated healing. It's on my bucket list to find someone like this who might eventually warm to him if he puts in enough effort.
‣ Flirts. He's an unrepentant flirt. He'll do it as much out of interest as an interest in your embarrassment. He's shameless, and noncommittal and since he's here for a long time, it might as well be a good time.

CR You Don't Want: No such thing.

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

wynonna earp | show of the same name

[earps]

Character Name: Wynonna Earp, although she also responds to "Earp," "hey you," "the girl with the big-ass gun or the big-ass... ass," you name it
Age: 30
Employment in Deerington: Bartender at the fake Hair of the Dog, though she's definitely someone you can ask about how to get into the real one.
Residence in Deerington: 1433 Gatlin Drive, a farmhouse out in Clarke Acres, where she lives with Waverly, Frank, Cliff, Laura and Brianna, as well as a verifiable menagerie of animals.
Day to Day Activities: Wynonna, queen of non-routine and keeping things unexpected, definitely has something resembling regular habits here in Deerington (surprise, surprise) and has sort of acquired a few usual haunts. In the mornings (or early afternoons, depending how late she's been at the bar working the night before), she usually pops into Dearly Diner for breakfast (or coffee, at the very least) and some face time with that manager dude, or Jane Dough for coffee and a pastry of some kind, depending on her mood. In terms of work, she's on at the bar either in the late afternoon or the evening, and aside from that she tends to go to the movie theater to check out whatever's playing, the thrift shop to score some vintage duds, the pizza place for a good slice, or the supermarket for some questionable choices in grocery shopping. If you've seen her driving around town she's usually on her giant black motorcycle or in her blue-and-white Ford truck, though she's also made one or two appearances as a passenger in a certain GTO Pontiac.

About This Character: On the surface, Wynonna can come off as an easygoing personality laced with frequent amounts of toughness and snarking all wrapped up in fringed leather — and that's not entirely inaccurate. But the truth is that she's sort of damaged goods thanks to a super traumatic childhood that's given her a lifelong subscription of abandonment and trust issues, so the surface-level joking is basically just her way of keeping others at a distance.

She's made no secret of the fact that she's the great-great-granddaughter of Wyatt Earp (yes, that Wyatt Earp), or that she's technically the latest in a long line of Earp heirs responsible for ridding their home turf of all the resurrected outlaws Wyatt ever put a bullet in — yes, that means demons, with the magical gun that kills them to boot. So she's definitely got experience dealing with the freaky, and even if Deerington has some stuff the likes of which she's never seen, she's pretty capable of keeping her head on straight long enough to take on whatever this town throws her way.
Any Warnings: Her application sums up most of it in terms of general warnings from her canon, including violence/death, parental abuse, alcoholism, depression/mental health issues and more, but happy to avoid those subjects in any threads if needed.

Present Life: SO Wynonna's personal life has been all over the place recently. Not only is she still sort of reeling from the unexpected disappearance of her little sister Waverly (and pretending she's dealing with it while Not Actually Dealing With It), but she's been operating in hardcore demon hunter mode as a result of her ultimate trait (Ultimate Heir) going into overdrive.

So really, she's just been about burying her feelings and taking out a lot of monsters this month alongside her fiance (a Mr. Frank Castle) and it's all going to culminate in her accidentally killing a Sleeper and briefly inheriting their powers — and not knowing what to do with that real steep learning curve, obviously. By the time all is said and done, she's going to be dealing with a mountain of loss and guilt and will probably end up spiraling a little bit and, once again, drinking too much and falling back on some other bad habits. Good times!
Future Ideas: I want to focus on building and deepening Wynonna's existing relationships, as well as continuing to introduce her to new people. She has a lot of great, dynamic CR that offers her lots of varying opportunities to interact with folks, from trying to mentor any kids that somehow think she's cool to hanging out with fellow hunters to having her world rocked a little by non-humans and Sleepers with powers and things of that nature. I don't have any Big Plans for her at the moment, but Wynonna will always and forever be available to help your character tackle any monster problems (mostly because I like writing fighty/action scenes for her, so any chance she has to kick ass is thoroughly welcomed). She's also forever available for serving your characters drinks at the bar and listening to their problems, and if you want an unbiased ear doling out debatably good advice, you can count on her.

CR You Want: Friends, found family, kids for her to secretly mom as a Secret Mom, drinking buddies, diner buddies, people for her to serve drinks to, folks with supernatural/demon-type experience, honestly everyone and anyone because I want her to meet all the people.
CR You Don't Want: Ideally, not super negative CR (unless there's an event-motivated reason behind it) but I'd be OK with her having someone she gently butts heads or snarks with from time to time. No romantic CR because she's very happily spoken for.

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

dustin henderson / stranger things

[sscuriosity]

Character Name: Dustin Henderson
Age: Thirteen
Employment in Deerington: Nowhere yet
Residence in Deerington: 3253 Castle Road
Day to Day Activities: Dustin is a big doofus so he generally hangs out around the library and the main area of the town. He can be found tinkering with random mechanics trying to reverse engineer ... what? we don't know.

About This Character: (APP) Cuba Goober JR. This kid is as smart as they come but dense in different ways to balance it out. The bard of the good party from Hawkins, Indiana Dustin is definitely the kind of guy to stay optimistic and look at the world through rose colored glasses. Hes' wily, intelligent, and a natural comedian.

Any Warnings: Scientific experiments on people, bullying/hazing, animal-death, government conspiracies, illness.

Dustin also has cleidocranial-dysplasia but he takes it in stride and doesn't let it disrupt what he enjoys or how he lives.

Present Life: UM, well besides trying to keep his little tight knit crew from killing themselves on skateboards he's clutching to a small party than before after Billy and Steve disappeared. Dustin is considering getting a job to help facilitate their lives and even though he won't admit it he's a little freaked out. Steve was the voice of reason and now with no judgment and not a damn car in sight he's feeling more stranded and under more pressure than ever before. Goodbye childhood.

Future Ideas: MOAR friendships, scientific mentors, Frank Castle might want to beat him up which ain't cool and more shenanigans in FEAR

CR You Want: Y'all should know better by now.

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:


DeerlyBeloved | STAGGR

jade | barry and katherine.

[manipulative]

Player Name: Jade.
Preferred Contact: boofhead, PM, or jaded#0421
Time Zone: GMT +11.
Personal Style: Action by default, but will prose. I'm a slow to medium tagger. I backtag; I tend to keep a thread going as long as it has some momentum and as long as it hasn't dwindled into small talk. You can always hit me up if something is "old". Sometimes I do drop stuff, though, but I tend not to make it a habit! Work has also been keeping me a bit busier than expected.
OOC Limits: Teeth trauma and anything to do with graphic violence against animals. I'm generally okay with most things but I do pick and choose my body horror.

[thefaulty]

Player Name: Sue
Preferred Contact: crimsonxiphos
Time Zone: PST, might be changing radically in the near future
Personal Style: Basically prose with brackets and small-text to indicate meta/action vs dialogue, but I can adjust to fit my partner's style. I'm both backtag- and boomerang-friendly
OOC Limits: Prefer to avoid very graphic gore

Character Name: Arid
Age: Likely somewhere between a few months to a couple of years old.
Employment in Deerington: None! Arid doesn't know AI can have paid jobs and thus just scavenges for things she needs.
Residence in Deerington: 300 David Cliff Apartments
Day to Day Activities: As a point-and-click protagonist, Arid spends most of her time wandering around Deerington and looking at/poking everything. Her apartment is full of random junk she picks up because it might be useful later.

About This Character: Arid is a combat suit AI (think JARVIS from Iron Man) from a universe where AI are both common and treated like shit by the humans who own them. Arid's owner was one such human who used Arid as a test subject for a new way to control AI: overwhelming fear. His experiment drove her to do awful things to other AI (and one human), for which she now seeks to redeem herself. That said, she hates humanity for what they did to her and her kind, and does not include them as a valid part of her redemption arc. Sorry, everyone.
Any Warnings: Arid’s backstory includes themes of abuse, brainwashing, and rape. Her canon at large includes themes of slavery and mentions of sex trafficking.

Present Life: When Arid first arrived in Deerington, she quickly latched on to the two characters she defined as synthetic and treated everyone else—humans especially—with suspicion. Though she did gradually warm to a handful of human characters, in June, Mother Superior put the idea in her head that none of the humans in Deerington were real. Arid latched on hard to this theory and decided that Deerington was a simulation, the humans were all AI, and thus, maybe they could all be friends?

Then, last week, arguable-human Jonathan Sims psychically tortured her so badly that she tore out her own battery to make it stop. She's now trapped in a weaker body and coping very badly with the situation at large. She's also changed her mind on the "maybe we can all be friends" thing because even if none of the Sleepers are actually human, clearly some of you are pretty close in terms of general assholery!!
Future Ideas: Getting a job. Finding hobbies. Getting over her trust issues with humans. Also, please insert fluff directly into my bloodstream.

CR You Want:

1. Friends: Arid's had a really shitty time of it lately and could use more positive CR. This can be difficult because she's a traumatized, angry, often violent AI with little-to-no empathy towards humans, but it's not impossible! After this month, Arid's going to be in a pretty dark place and could use both new friends and old friends to help pull her out of it!

1. Negative CR: Lbr, it's hard getting along with Arid. So why not take the path of least resistance and lean into it? Maybe your character doesn't like robots. Maybe they don't like Arid's humanophobia or her attempts to murder them due to Despair, etc. There's lot of ways to be enemies with this gal!

2. Extremely patient mentors: Due to her desire to redeem herself, Arid has great potential to learn new skills and try new things if she can be convinced that doing so will help her morally better herself. If you have a character who is passionate enough about their skills to convince her of their moral worth, we should talk!

3. AI/AI-adjacent characters: Do you have an AI character? Can your character be considered even vaguely synthetic or artificial? Arid is very determined to protect the synthetic lifeforms of Deerington and generally be kinder to them than she has been in the past, so she’ll almost certainly want to get to know them better!

4. Characters with AI-related experience/opinions: Does your character come from a canon with robots or AI? Do they just have strong opinions about AI in general? Let’s throw them at Arid and see what happens \o/

CR You Don't Want: None!

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit: Hangin' with her hosts:

katherine pierce | the vampire diaries

[manipulative]

Character Name: Katerina Petrova. Katherine Pierce.
Age: Physically 19, now 547.
Employment in Deerington: Owner of Petrova Apothecary! Looking for some peeps to help out.
Residence in Deerington: 28 Blackwood Run, Brahms… and 28 Main Street (Stefan's house! 🤭)
Day to Day Activities: Working at her apothecary, window shopping, shoe shopping, yoga, reading, going to coffee shops, and walking around town. She's been hanging out at Stefan's place a lot.

About This Character: Katherine has been on the run for over 500 years. She has 1,001 walls, is incredibly strategic, and will throw anyone under the bus if it means her own survival. (She really needs a reason for the latter.) With that said, Katherine's funny and charming, incredibly intelligent, and very personable. She's a penguin—give her a reason to give a shit and she's there. (She will drive a bus over you if you do piss her off, though.)

She does have terrible self-esteem deep, deep down due to a buttload of trauma. She's a mother and she's slowly starting to acknowledge it for herself, and she likes to adopt people and then kill for them. ☺️

Any Warnings: Permissions post. | PTSD, family loss (family was slaughtered to punish her), loss of her baby (never got to hold her or name her, thanks Papa), psychological trauma, murder, suicide, survivor's guilt, shitty taste in men, and mind control. She's also a vampire so she leans very heavily on that.

Present Life: Katherine's been busy reliving her trauma and everyone else's. She's living her best sexy life with Stefan Salvatore (WHO IS HER BOYFRIEND BTW). She's in a good place mentally and emotionally and is very, very slowly knocking down her walls and dealing with a lot of her own trauma. She's really opened up over the last few months.

As for the current event, she's being bombarded with rumours about things she already knows about herself but secretly has trouble accepting as actions that she's done. She's feeling the weight of her guilt for her actions that she writes off as being ones made for survival, and is helping a few people out.

Future Ideas: Continue strengthening established CR and building new connections!

But a few:

• Deal with being a mom and not having her baby here.
  
• One day I'd like to force her humanity off. c:
  
• Have her get seriously injured saving someone.
  
• Deal with her PTSD. In turn, have her also help others with their PTSD. She is like the only vampire in her canon to never turn off her emotions to hide from the pain and she's been through a lot of shit that's left her isolated and guarded (and it's never acknowledged by anyone, boo).
  
• Nerf her down or make her human for a little bit so she can be hopelessly hilarious and also maybe be a Traveler witch for a short time??? I want to explore her Traveler witch roots since it's so blank so!!! (Travelers were all about spirit magic and unspecified shit so!)
  
• One day introduce herself as Katerina Petrova.

CR You Want: Everything!

• Friends!
  
• Teach people about history and other languages???
  
• Dream manipulate for people??
  
• People to get relationship advice from. She's in love with Stefan Salvatore and is officially dating him, but she's also keeping him at arm's length as well out of fear.
  
• People to spar with and people to train in combat.
  
• Parents of Deerington, recruit her!
  
• Clientele for her apothecary.
  
• People for her cat to troll if you're into that sort of stuff. I'm also going to get her a puppy so plz help her walk it.
  
• People to relate to/supportive friendships, etc.

CR You Don't Want: Super negative CR for the sake of it. Mistaking Katherine for Elena—the two of them are different and this isn't a trope I'm big on. Outing Katherine as a vampire.

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

dana polk | the cabin in the woods

[unvirgin]

Character Name: Dana Polk
Age: 22
Employment in Deerington: Part-time sales consultant at Paintbrush Kingdom; recent graduate of Deerington Community College (with a major in art).
Residence in Deerington: 13 E. Main Street with Wanda Maximoff a mood color-changing cat named Paprika, although she might be moving places soon 👀
Day to Day Activities: Dana's trying — and mostly succeeding — at having something resembling a normal life and schedule in a town that feels equal parts quiet and all-too-familiar considering her canon. She's got a part-time job at the art supply store to supplement her income/help pay for groceries and things like that. When she's not hanging out at the coffee shop, perusing the bookstore or swinging by the high school to visit her boyfriend at his place of employment she's probably exploring the town in the company of any one of her friends or sequestered somewhere with her sketchbook trying to draw something. Now that she's inconveniently become a werewolf too, she sometimes spends her days heading out to the woods and practicing her shift so that full moon transformations aren't as intense or painful as they were for her at the start.

About This Character: Dana hails from a canon wherein the plot of every formulaic slasher movie has been explained as a ritual sacrifice: a group of young adults, each member identified with a certain classic horror trope, is offered up in tribute to ancient gods in order to appease them and prevent them from rising up and ending the world to remake it themselves. Dana and her friends had the misfortune of being the latest batch plucked up for sacrifice when they left town to spend the weekend at Curt's family cabin, where they inadvertently conjured up a zombie redneck torture family and were basically manipulated into getting picked off one by one. Some of them made it in spite of the odds, navigating down through the underground Facility beneath and discovering the truth for themselves (along with the bevy of ancient and mythological monsters being held to be wielded as instruments of death in potential future rituals), but the world was literally ending as Dana was pulled into Deerington, so it's understandable that she might want to stick around here for a while.
Any Warnings: Dana's a character from a comedy-horror canon that gets pretty meta at times, but there are warnings for gore/monster and horror violence, drugging, manipulation, etc., so if there's anything you want me to steer clear of in her tags, let me know.

Present Life: SO ya girl's a werewolf. It's been a really interesting cluster of months for Dana so far, because given that she's somewhat of a more introverted type, woofing out has almost made her a bolder and more direct character in terms of expressing her intentions and making her feelings known more plainly than she would have before her transformation. But she's also very conscious of the fact that most of the people in her immediate circle are human, and given that she's stronger and prone to certain spikes of emotion, hurting someone she cares about is always sort of in the back of her mind. She isn't necessarily pushing anyone away these days, but she is trying to be more careful so she doesn't forget her own strength.

Days leading up to the full moon are harder for her in terms of her mood, but she currently camps out in the basement room rigged up in Addy Carver's house on the nights she actually has to shift because it's been tricked out with a bunch of comforting things and being surrounded by friendly scents is enough to keep her fairly mellow. Aside from dealing with her woofing problems, she's also trying to figure out how to have a semi-normal romantic relationship; she and Sam Winchester have officially started dating and they do gross coupley things like read together and cuddle, it's ridiculous.
Future Ideas: I still really want Dana's continued wrestling with her condition to be a cornerstone of her plotting in this game; this is a long-term plan that I'm not looking to cure for the foreseeable future. Looking ahead, she'll definitely be trying to get a handle on her new abilities, including her super-senses/strength/speed, as well as the possessiveness and territorial behavior that starts to get progressively worse the closer she gets to the full moon each month. Now that she has a little more control over her abilities and can shift outside of a full moon without trouble, I'd really be interested in doing something to throw a wrench in that, especially if it's something event-related that might affect her impulse control. I'd also potentially like to thread out her even attacking and/or maybe killing another Sleeper while she's too deep in wolf mode to realize what she's doing until she shifts back, so if that's something you'd like to participate in, let me know!

CR You Want: All types! Friends, artists or artistically-inclined types, fellow college students, fellow survivors of supernatural or spoopy events.
CR You Don't Want: Not super negative CR (unless there's an event-motivated reason behind it) but I'm game for her to have the occasional conflict with someone or that person in her life that she just can't seem to say the right things around because she can be kind of a dork.

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

Rona's Nerds

[itknowsyou]

Player Name: Rona
Preferred Contact: ochrona
Time Zone: PST
Personal Style: Brackets or present-tense prose; variable pace!
OOC Limits: I avoid graphic torture!

barry allen | the flash

[accelerate]

Character Name: Barry Allen who is not THE FLASH.
Age: 29.
Employment in Deerington: Look!!! I don't know yet. He's a wannabe C.S.I.
Residence in Deerington: 1439 Gaitlin Drive, Clarke Acres.
Day to Day Activities: Barry is eating his way through Deerington. When he's not doing that, he's at the bookstore speed reading, people-watching, and walking around. He's also housing horses on his property because why not???

The Flash is active in Deerington, so you're welcome to see streaks of golden/yellow all throughout town at any point during the day and night! The Flash does seem to hit up Clarke Acres a lot… I wonder why… 👀

About This Character: Barry is a literal golden retriever puppy. He's very positive, has a really good and intoxicating vibe about him, and he is just literal sunshine. He's deeply traumatised by the murder of his mother at the hands of his arch-nemesis, Eobard Thawne, who is a man centuries into the future who took being a super stan of the Flash a little too far. Barry is a do-gooder and someone who wants to help people, and will do everything in his power to do that. He is emotionally constipated, but he hides it well. He is the best person to have on your team.

Debbie Downer stuff: He's from 5x01 where he just meets his daughter and learns he is gone from her life (and from Iris' for 25 years) after he vanishes in the Crisis, so he's dealing with his guilt and abandonment issues, which is pretty hard for someone who kind of hasn't been able to deal with his own trauma. He is still dealing with his parents' murders and his own guilt over feeling responsible for it. Barry does feel very insecure about being the Flash because he doesn't think he's good enough. 8(

Any Warnings: Permissions post. | PTSD: parent murder, time travel bullshit, survivor's guilt, abandonment issues and trust issues; psychological trauma; murder; and the Flash's timeline because what the fuck, guys.

Present Life: Barry's been dealing with Deerington being Deerington. Meeting people, saving people, getting attached to people. The Flash has been active and saving people's hides while also forging relationships, which is great! I'm hoping to get him to do that a little more and even have people connect Barry and Flash are the same.

Barry also got to relive his hijacked wedding and inform people IRIS WEST-ALLEN IS HIS WIFE.

As for the current event, he's dealing with rumours being written about him (that he knows are true even though some aren't), fighting robots and dealing with his guilt because that isn't clearly his usual state of being. I'm hoping to get Barry opening up to some people about some of the shit that's happened in his life because he's otherwise seemingly the perfect picture of positivity.

The Flash and Barry also have separate fluids! This is important to note because I want to try and get two different cr circles for them (and one that overlaps).

Future Ideas:

• Train people in combat and in turn get some training in himself.
  
• Flashtime if I can somehow work out the logistics.
  
• Have him throw a BBQ and overdo it.
  
• One day I'd like to turn him into Savitar and Earth-2 Barry Allen.
  
• Maybe do a small, contained time travel player plot.
  
• DEAL WITH HIS TRAUMA. The show sucks and barely digs into the nuances of it anymore.

CR You Want: E V E R Y T H I N G !!!

• Friends!!! Science geeks, non-science geeks! Superheroes, non-superheroes. People who are bubbly, people who are not. Funny people, people to laugh with and at him. Anyone who will really gel with someone who is pretty upbeat and always wears his heart on his sleeve.
  
• People to flirt with him. Look… I need awkward Barry in my life. The man is a hottie and a sweetie and he deserves to be flirted with. He is married and wears a wedding ring, but I love shipping and if there's chemistry, maybe we can develop it further!
  
• Mentoring opportunities! He is A SUPERHERO! Let The Flash mentor you in something. He is very, very good and he's the best cheerleader you can have.
  
• The Flash saving people. I've never really had people know The Flash instead of Barry so I'd like to work that in!
  
• Confidantes. Partners in crime. Prank buddies. People who he can trust as Barry and The Flash. Teammates!
  
• People to defend/save. Barry/The Flash is OP AF so let him come save you in a literal flash (ha).
  
• PEOPLE TO GET DRUNK WITH! He cannot get drunk yet because I gotta get him his alcohol but let him fake being drunk!! Also if you want to try and make him alcohol, go for it!! I need drunk Barry in my life.
  
• Can his turtle please wander into your property? McSnurtle needs some love. I'm probably also going to get him a dog so a dog to randomly appear on your lawn? Barry's animals apparently like to wander.

CR You Don't Want: Super negative CR for the sake of it. Spoilers for Barry—I have a few things I don't want him to know about because I'd like for him to focus on processing and dealing with the fact that he misses out on raising his daughter and being happy, and a few future things will upset that for me. Outing Barry as the Flash—I kind of want Barry to tell people Barry Allen is the Flash, but I'm happy for people to know the Flash's exploits and Rogues via comic knowledge... maybe just be super murky on the Muggle persona. (Feel free to put two and two together if your character meets Flash and Barry.) All of that is laid out in my permissions!

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit: Befriend him.

bo peep | toy story

[shepherdesses]

Character Name: Bo Peep
Age: it is a mystery, honestly
Employment in Deerington: N/A at the moment.
Residence in Deerington: 408 Prospero Townhouse, aka the House of Toy Feelings
Day to Day Activities: Bo's just trying to find her footing in this town as a toy who has been slowwwly working on outing herself to more of her fellow Sleepers. After mostly keeping her presence here on the down-low (partly out of a desire for self-preservation, but also because old habits die hard when you're used to staying under the radar where humans, children especially, are involved — and this town is full of them!), she recently chose to reveal her existence via the network in a desperate attempt to save Woody's life, so she's going to be dealing with the ripple effects of that. As of right now, chances are you might just see her zipping around town in her RC car disguised as a skunk, although she'll be a little less anxious about letting herself be seen or found out.

About This Character: For most of her life, Bo was confined to the boundaries of a child's bedroom, part of a gentle nightlight lamp along with her trio of equally porcelain (and actually conjoined) sheep, known as Billy, Goat and Gruff (but yes, they are ladies, thank you very much). She typically took on the role of damsel-in-distress for a majority of playtime, dangled over a threatening barrel of monkeys or a "deadly" shark trap in order for a dashing and brave Sheriff Woody to come to her rescue — and behind the scenes, she was more often than not a support system for him, offering him advice and trying to give him perspective about various toy-related existential crises. Eventually, however, her child outgrew the need for her nightlight and she was given away to another family; after that, her timeline is somewhat vague, but she later wound up in the front window display of an antique shop. It was there that she ultimately decided to ditch her lamp and become a "lost toy" of her own volition in order to see the world from beyond the perspective of a shelf, where she'd only be collecting dust anyway.

By the time she's ultimately reunited with Woody, she's been on her own for a while now — well, her and her sheep — and basically thriving. She's still got a secret soft spot for kids and playtime, but she doesn't necessarily worry about assigning worth to herself based on whether or not she belongs to anyone. In many ways, leaving Andy and Molly's house allowed her to really find a new purpose for herself (and unleash her inner badass, lbr) and she's not the toy she used to be, but she likes the one she's turned into.
Any Warnings: No warnings in her application or storyline, but I'll likely only be tagging people with her if we've already discussed any kind of plotting or threads in case anyone would prefer not to opt into interactions with her.

Present Life: A lot of Bo's current journey has been just trying to survive through whatever hells this town chooses to throw at her, but along the way she's been able to really grow and strengthen her relationships with her toy family after several years apart from them, so it's definitely been one of those situations of taking the very good with the real, real bad. (Basically, she is ride or die for her toy family and anyone who hurts them is going to have to deal with her too, even if she's in more stealth mode about it.) She's slowly widening her circle of new friends — mostly kids, because she has a real weakness for revealing herself to any child who might be in distress and look like they just need a toy friend to hug. She and Woody may have recently been married by a child monk? It's unclear, but it seemed pretty official IDK IDK. But this month she's really going to be focused on taking care of him and looking out for him while he's on the mend.
Future Ideas: I just want to continue getting her more settled, letting her meet new people, and focus on building her existing relationships, so if you have any ideas for anything you want to do with her specifically, don't hesitate to come at me with ideas!

CR You Want: All kinds! Any interactions may consist of some stealth and misleading before she becomes comfortable enough to reveal her existence, and she's definitely more inclined to do that with non-human CR first. Also kids who would be interested in playing with her or need a hug from a doll (or anyone who wants to tap into their inner child), because she's still quietly weak for that!
CR You Don't Want: No super-negative CR unless there's an event-motivated reason behind it; romance isn't really in the cards for her either (because why, but also because she's sort of given her heart away to someone already).

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

barry berkman / barry (hbo)

[hitactor]

Character Name: Barry Berkman / Barry Block, depending.
Age: 40-41
Employment in Deerington: A stagehand at the theater.
Residence in Deerington: 208 Dorian Circle
Day to Day Activities: This lonely loser can be found jogging in the early morning, grabbing wood, chopping that wood, going to work, grabbing a meal at the diner and then going home because he's a socially defunct weirdo with a green station wagon. I don't know either.

About This Character: (APP) - Barry is basically a dumpster fire of a person that was trying to escape his life as an actual hitman through acting in LA but as you might expect, it didn't turn out well. Now he's here and twice as miserable than before. If you want a weird stilted emotionally stunted dude around you he is the guy to go to though. For real.
Any Warnings: PTSD, spousal abuse, murder, gaslighting, Stockholm syndrome, emotional abuse, torture, various aspects of mental health, war, guns and gun violence, weapon violence, terror, racism where it pertains to gangs, racism where it pertains to war, etc.

**** PERMISSIONS

Present Life: Very fly under the radar and as listed in the day-to-day above. After Hank went back and then Richie he's starting to realize that this place wants him and that he might be screwed. Because of that, he'll be coming out a little more often but he's lame and really hard to get through to. YMMV.

OH, AND HE'S ON TRIAL LOL

Future Ideas: I'd love to develop more friendships, allies, and even people that might just outright hate him??? I do want him more involved in the game plot itself and definitely need to grab him a second job to get him out a little more.

CR You Want: I Want It All - Queen

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:



STAGGR | DeerlyBeloved | A GREAT AF FAN VIDEO (spoilers)

Eames || Inception (AU)

[falsify]

Player Name: frank!
Preferred Contact: FiremanSam or Frankentine#0816, i find pms are massively inconsistent because dreamwidth hates me specifically
Time Zone: GMT, but i'm around at all sorts of times
Personal Style: i have a minor preference for action, and i live in backtags
OOC Limits: i can't think of anything! but i will def let you know if something catches me out in a thread

Character Name: eames
Age: 600~ish
Employment in Deerington: he's in FEAR and also, yk. petty crime for funsies
Residence in Deerington: out in clarke acres
Day to Day Activities: dog's gotta get walked for starters, poking around at the spookier parts of town, definitely not stealing from non-sleeper stores and establishments.

About This Character: his app is here, but the short version is he's a shitty person who's real good at pretending to be decent, but he's much more interested in dealing with this whole [gesture] situation thank fucking anyone over. his key talents are reading people and figuring them out, and he's made a real skill of hiding any depth of character behind a charming laissez-faire attitude and casual flirting.
Any Warnings: fantasy racism and slavery? also his dog is a rescue so while i doubt it'll ever come up, there's animal abuse there.

Present Life: honestly a lot of his attention is taken up by meeting the other eames last month, but he's also keeping a keen eye on the current situation and how people are dealing with it. especially now with the trials. he's also made the decision to stop hiding what he is, but you know. old habits die hard.
Future Ideas: i have no conception of the future anymore, but i think i want to form some decent bonds for him, but that's... easier said than done.

CR You Want: friends, friends 😉, fellow magic types (especially non-human ones,) fellow dog parents, fellow morally dubious types. he's generally distrustful of All Mortals but witches/wizards/whatever you want to call them specifically, so playing with that could be cool. (he also doesn't fuckin trust vampires but that's different)
CR You Don't Want: i can't think of anything!

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit: listen. i know i was kind of a massive flake last time i was here, so if you don't wanna thread with me i totally get it. just drop me a line and i'll steer clear

also

oli / logan "james" howlett from xmcu

[knewaguy]

Player Name: Oli
Preferred Contact: valleyheart
Time Zone: GMT-4
Personal Style: I typically prefer bracket but can work with prose too. I tend to keep things backtagging as long as I can, but do cut offs time to time but if there's something you want to keep playing out I'm open to it. When I can I like to boomerang too.
OOC Limits: Miss me with animal abuse.

Character Name: James "Logan" Howlett
Age: ~198 years young
Employment in Deerington: He works part time as a driver, but will probably need a different job soon.
Residence in Deerington: Flatwoods point, in an old house. Visuals forthcoming.
Day to Day Activities: He typically putters around home, because he's not exactly and never really was a social butterfly. He's fixing up the house which is an ongoing and arduous process, but can otherwise be found in town either at a pub or running errands. He does some work as a driver, so if you'd like to pretend he's helped move your character or something for them, let me know and we can handwave that! Similarly, he'll be looking for some more part time work to get cash saved.

About This Character: Logan's a very old mutant with angry claws made of a metal that's poisoning him. He hasn't been very open about the latter, or how it's really Transigen's work (assumed) suppressing the mutant gene through modified food products, so his healing factor hasn't been keeping up and thus he's been wearing down. When he arrived he was much worse off, but game events have given him a boost and he's maintaining it. He's Laura's bio-dad by means of cloning, and pretty much a grumpy dude who likes cigars.
Any Warnings: Typical Logan Warnings

Present Life: Logan's just still getting acquainted to the brief bursts of peace here in Deerington, fixing up his house and pondering the idea of loosely setting roots in the dirt. He has had a few encounters with people who have pushed him toward that, also he feels compelled to be around and take care of Laura and Rogue due to canon relationships (despite universes,) and has somehow come to mentor two dumb teens Billy and Stiles as well in a gruff, backwards way. It's making him feel like it's harder to disappear (which is what he would've wanted,) so he's starting to open up! He's also head over heels for Jean Grey who is from a doomed timeline, so there's angst where that's concerned.
Future Ideas: Long term goals: I would like to find a way to keep boosting Logan's health through IC progression, whether that's finding some treatment plans and going through that to see if it works and mapping out the ups and downs or just using events and player actions to get him a little closer to a cure, so to speak. Really open to ideas!

I also would love to just get more CR with Logan and everyone around him because he may be gruff but he'll also have a heavy conscience make him take a few steps back around into helping, despite all his desires not to, should something go awry. If anyone wants to also deal with him in the terms of his decaying health (but not necessarily the fix - just tolerating it, short term care,) that'd be cool too! I hope to experiment with that in the future as well.

CR You Want: More friends, associates, former X-Pals, enemies, adoptive not!kids, yadda yadda.
CR You Don't Want: n/a

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

Jax's Jamboree

[lightthedarkness]

Player Name: Jax
Preferred Contact: snickersnack
Time Zone: PST
Personal Style: I will match style but I'm happy to backtag for a long time.
OOC Limits: Actually killing my characters at the moment but that

Character Name: Ritsuka Aoyagi
Age: 12
Employment in Deerington: Student, middle school
Residence in Deerington: Well, currently, he's staying with Jesse because his house got destroyed by a bear robot.
Day to Day Activities: Not... dying? Ritsuka just arrived and is trying to figure things out.

About This Character: Ritsuka is a very grumpy child who has a heart of gold and is actually very sweet once you get past his 100-foot high 100-feet deep walls. He has a really hard time trusting adults because adults are either evil or incompetent of a mix of the two where he's from and children aren't ALL that much better. He likes to take photographs, play video games, read, and secretly really really really enjoys hugs and never gets any without strings attached.
Any Warnings: Well to start, he has an opt-out. But Ritsuka deals with an abusive mother and neglectful father, a literal sociopath brother who was grooming him, a 21-year-old pedophile who has convinced him that he loves Ritsuka only to abandon him in a cemetery. And Ritsuka is also fighting against a school that's trying to turn him into a magical child soldier for a secret underground council that is trying to murder his brother (because again, his brother is a sociopath). There is, unfortunately, more than even that but it's in the opt-out.

Present Life: Well, a bear destroyed his house, so he's staying with Jesse. But after that, I'm honestly just letting things come as they do.
Future Ideas: I would like Ritsuka to make friends and realize how much his life back home sucks. So. That. Found family, someone please adopt this child and show him actual concern and compassion, he does not know what it looks like without about a million conditions and strings attached to it.

CR You Want: Friends, please, someone befriend this very grumpy cat. Also, ideally, someone telling him that his life back home is super AWFUL. Parental figures.
CR You Don't Want: None at the moment.




Character Name: Usagi Tsukino
Age: 18
Employment in Deerington: Comic Book Store Event Planner
Residence in Deerington: 8765 Starling Ln. in the Prospero townhomes
Day to Day Activities: Usagi is grocery shopping, dress shopping, working at the comic book store and helping protect and fight monsters, betties, and whatever needs to be fought as Sailor Moon.

About This Character: The embodiment of sunshine is the princess and goddess of the moon. She's bubbly, sweet, kind, really really loud and a tiny bit obnoxious but tries not to be (she fails in her trying but the thought is what counts).
Any Warnings: So, Usagi has, canonically, attempted and committed suicide, dealt with sexual harassment, has murdered people and is constantly being attacked for existing.

Present Life: Well, for the current moment, Usagi's house is a safe house for the event, and Joker is on trial for her fake murder. She's going to be dealing with the aftermath of this event on all her friends and loved ones. So there's that.
Future Ideas: I would like Usagi to deal with her trauma since her series doesn't allow for TIME to deal with the trauma she goes through.

CR You Want: I would like for her to possibly have romantic CR but it would be a very very veeeeeeery slow burn cause she is canonically IN a relationship. Give me what you got.
CR You Don't Want: None!

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Syaoran Li | Cardcaptor Sakura

[cardcaptured]

Player Name: Luna
Preferred Contact: Urameshi or starsugars#7982 @ discord
Time Zone: EST
Personal Style: Action/brackets for me! I'm a bit on the moderate side when it comes to pace, but I will backtag for however long you want to!
OOC Limits: Child murder/extreme harm, abuse, graphic gore, animal abuse/harm, drug use, anything involving emetophobia including illnesses or poisoning

Character Name: Syaoran Li
Age: 13
Employment in Deerington: Student at Deerington Hill Elementary/Middle school
Residence in Deerington: David Cliff Apartments Apt #506
Day to Day Activities: Food shopping at Hart Mart, checking out the library for books re: Deerington for research, going to... school...?? (is school even in session at the moment here--) Since he just got here, he's probably hitting up whatever thrift store or department store he can safely so he can furnish his apartment and attempt to settle in during all of... this.

About This Character: App + powers+etc here! The tl;dr is that Syaoran's the descendant of a powerful magican and next head of his clan, and acted the Designated Ice-King Magical Rival in his series until he got a blow to the feels and fell in love with his rival and became Designated Boyfriend instead. Oops. He starts the series as a grumpy, aloof, jerk-ish kid, but becomes a lot softer, nicer and attentive as time goes on, and overall he's a generally kind kid and good bean who's incredibly honest and straightforward! He sort of comes across as an old guy in a kid's body with how serious and mature he is, but he's also stupidly gullible and innocent and would probably fall for any bullshit story should anyone feed him one. (He also flusters and blushes more than the actual heroine of this shoujo series, so--) He also stresses a ton about people he cares about/those close to him and tends to get very protective of them, so uh... being here is gonna be a fun time for him for sure.
Any Warnings: There's some mild child endangerment and threats of memory manipulation in the original/current series, and he's also from an on-going installment of the manga, so spoilers are likely for that!

Present Life: Syaoran just arrived here, so he's trying to adjust to not only the odd warping of his magic, but also the threat of the Monokuma robots and just the... everything bad and weird about Deerington, honestly. (Doesn't help that his title this month is Ultimate Protector so he's been throwing himself into fighting stuff without being properly prepared!!) His girlfriend Sakura (keystaff) has already been here a few months, so he's not-so-lowkey stressing over what she may have gone through and the warping of her powers, and also just frustrated by not being able to keep her safe from all of this. This, along with stuff already happening in canon, isn't making him a happy camper!!!
Future Ideas: I do want him to eventually get over his inferiority complex a bit and be more conscience of his worth to others, because BOY does he have a bad case of doing risky shit for other people's sake!! Hopefully the Guilt purging this month may help that, but we'll see how that goes?? I also want him to start exploring more aspects of Deerington, such as The Great Sleep and F.E.A.R!

CR You Want: Probably the least helpful of answers but I WANT ALL OF IT, PLEASE AND THANK YOU-- since he's brand-new, he has no connections to anyone here aside from Sakura, and I'd really like to have him to get a little bit of a social base! But if I had to list specifics:

+ people around his age
+ magic users of any type (Magical Girls or Eastern magic would be particularly great!)
+ older people who don't mind being mentors
+ older people who might fuss over him
+ cheerful types to bounce off his seriousness
+ trolling types who might feed him dumb stories (PLEASE, I want someone to dupe him so badly over something)
+ people to tease him and fluster him because the boy is a goddamn tomato

CR You Don't Want: Obviously nothing romantic, due to his age (and also being spoken for), but also nothing with more violent/brutal types. I definitely like negative CR though!

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Andie | Wrench | Fargo TV

[wwrench]

Player Name: Andie
Preferred Contact: ampersandie#8263 on Discord (best), stickyholograms, or PM
Time Zone: CST
Personal Style: I've got a strong preference for prose, but I will match style if you want something different. Mostly I tag in the evenings after my regular 8 - 5, but once in a while I'll throw in some tags while I'm at work. If I'm tagging around in between other obligations I'll grab my fast tags first and might boomerang if things are really speedy, but otherwise it's a steady chipping away with the occasional fits and starts. (Admittedly more fits than starts these past couple of months, but life is tough.)

I've got a whole system*~ for Wrench's communication right now:
→ American Sign Language is indicated through italics
→ Handwritten or typed Fluid messages are written in Courier New
→ TEXT-TO-VOICE IS TREBUCHET MS AND CAPITAL LETTERS

OOC Limits: My only hardcore OOC trigger is violence centered around the throat or wrists. I would prefer a conversation before engaging in storylines that involve an element of ableism, but I'm not inherently opposed. Please just chat with me first if you anticipate that it would be a part of your character's reaction.

Character Name: Wrench (or Wes to his very close CR)
Age: ~39
Employment in Deerington:
American Sign Language Professor at Deerington Community College (also available for private tutoring)
Manes on Main Owner and Barber

Residence in Deerington: 98.5% at the cabin by Lake Tomie with howlett, suchmiracles, speed_of_snark, and dividingline. 1.5% on the seventh floor of David Cliff Apartments.

Day to Day Activities: At any given time, you're welcome to find Wrench at Deerington Community College, at his barbershop on East Main Street, or around town as he makes his way between private tutoring lessons. He also spends a good amount of time hunting, fishing, trapping, and foraging around the cabin and near Lake Tomie. He's a regular at B&B's Restaurant, though usually makes his appearance just before they open for morning service. Wrench can also be found in the evenings hanging out at Pixie's Booze and Moves where he will be keeping an eye on things, helping deliver drinks and mop up spills, and occasionally engaging in some after-hours slow dancing.

About This Character: Wrench is a former hitman who worked for -- and was largely raised up within -- the Fargo crime syndicate. SPOILERS: He's taken from a canon point where he's five years out from the incident that killed his former partner (dividingline) and completely obliterated Fargo. The five years prior were largely spent with him on the run. Just before his introduction to Deerington, he was captured and on his way to federal prison.
Any Warnings: Because of Wrench's background, both his canon and his personal history are heavy on gun violence, general violence, murder, torture, and kidnapping. I also assume based on canon clues that he was coercively kidnapped as a child and groomed to become a hitman, and that his early life contained elements of child abuse.

Present Life: Wrench views Deerington as the best place he could possibly be right now, and is generally trying to adjust to the most "normal" life he's ever lived, in between bouts of torture and strange incidents with monsters. Still, he'd take this place over where he comes from any day of the week. (A point that I'd like to create some eventual friction for him with.) He's enjoying the company of the men in the cabin and developing some really, really strong connections (as is his canon tendency).

Right now, Wrench is in the process of figuring out for himself who he is, apart from the tool that he's been used as for most of his life. What can and what would he do if left entirely to his own devices? He's basically accepted Deerington at this point and has moved from questioning how he got here to using this place as an opportunity to try everything life has denied him.

Future Ideas:
→ Wrench recently enlisted some help honing the very elementary magic skills he was initially taught some time ago. I'd love to continue to explore this aspect and delve a little more deeply into what's possible for him to access.

→ Manes on Main needs Sleepers with unique physical characteristics to continue to develop these products and treatments Wrench wants to sell. Feathers, fur, scales, shells, tails, whatever! Also people whose talents might mean they need to take extra care, like speedsters with road rash on their feet or magic users whose magic can cause repeated physical injury. Whatever. Bring him customers.

→ American Sign Language students are always welcome, either via Deerington Community College or private instruction. Wrench would love to trade knowledge and talent, so if your character has a cool skill to share and would like to learn ASL in exchange, please hit him up.

→ Over the last few months, some interpersonal problems in his relationships have led Wrench to the genuine realization that he's pretty poorly socialized. Or, at the very least, his values and expectations of interactions between people run pretty contrary to the norm. I'd love to play with this a little bit more and create some mild friction with the fact that this dude just has some unusual thoughts on personal behavior and group values.

→ Once he finally opens up to technology, I think he's going to love it. He's obviously embraced the Fluid as a good tool for mitigating conversation, but needs someone to push him to use it more. Staggr, posting to the network, taking pictures, whatever. Help a guy out.

CR You Want: Taking all comers, honestly. Wrench has reached a point of utter fascination over the fact that there are so many people here to talk to, and so many who are willing to take the time to talk to him. He's been living in his mind for the last half-decade, and the fact that everyone here is from a different place with different experiences is overwhelming in the best way for him. Come tell him about yourself.
CR You Don't Want: Romance is pretty well covered, but I'm open to all else.

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