February 2021 Event Details and Plotting

[sodder]

FEBRUARY 2021 EVENT DETAILS AND PLOTTING

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Hello! On this post you will be able to find details about the upcoming event and the option to plot in the comments down below. You may also ask questions about the event on this page.

We will be posting the text from the prompts onto this page so you can see in full what your characters will be experiencing this month. We will then post the event live to the log community by the event's start date.

Event Start Date: February 15th

QUICK LINKS:

Event's Prelude: Here.
Event Questions: Here.
Live Event: Here
Mini Event: None for February. Clue for March's mini-event will be available in February's event.

EVENT PROMPTS:

[Event Specific Content Warnings]
[Rabid Love] - Love bites aren't always what you want...Especially not when they come from a crazed rat infestation.
[Look at My Love] - Characters wind up in each other's memories of loved ones because weird flowers start peeping on them.
[Cats in the Cradle] - People are reborn into the Cats 2019 movie. No I'm kidding...But am I really. Characters experience reincarnation and become alternate versions of themselves....Maybe as Cats 2019 characters...If you're brave. And not a coward.
[Building the Perfect World] - Characters are made to have conversations about what their ideas of a perfect world look like under Ms. Derwin's guidance.

PLOTTING FORM: Here.

EVENT PROMPTS

CONTENT WARNINGS

Rabid Love: High potential for emotional abuse, stalker behavior, gaslighting, possessive behavior, toxic relationships, possible physical abuse, boundary issues, possible murder, paranoid belief, possible themes of abduction, bruises to face, lack of sleep, possible unintentional self-harm, animal bites, possible animal(plant?) death.
Look At My Love: Teleportation, memory sharing, possible canon spoilers, possible themes of past abuses, mild eye horror.
Cats in the Cradle: Themes of forced reincarnation, existensial crisis, Cats 2019, alternate versions of characters, forced temporary comas, peaceful or tragic "deaths".
Building the Perfect World: Forced teleportation, forced conversation, political ideas. Mildly forced setting.

PART ONE PROMPTS

Rabid Love

When This Begins: February 12th.
When This Ends: Limited amount of monsters. Up to character choices re: killing them off.
Location: All throughout Deerington.

Every now and then you might hear a bit of scuttling and scratching behind your walls or beneath your floorboards. It sounds like a rat problem...And you're not wrong! It looks like Deerington has a new infestation in its infrastructure: flower rats. You might see one darting across your floor or at the Hart Mart or over at the high school. The flower rats seem to have been driven indoors because of the snow and you can see why - they're literally made out of nothing but flowers and skeletons. They must need to stay inside for warmth.

And they mostly seem harmless. They don't seem to eat anything but you might catch them in your sinks and tubs soaking up water or lounging in patches of sunlight filtering in through your windows. They seem incapable of sight and don't seem to have particularly great hearing, so it wouldn't be too hard to catch them.

Be careful though: they bite. Like any wild animal cornered, they will nip at your hands. And they seem to get confused easily, so even if you don't corner them, people might wake up to find little rat love bites on their ankles or their arm. You might even feel a sharp nip at the grocery store! These little guys startle easily and their first defense is a good offense!

Ouch! The bites don't hurt too bad at least and hey, maybe you don't even have normal skin that breaks from bites, so who cares, right? WRONG, STUPID! It's Deerington - you should be paranoid of god damn everything by now. Like with most animal bites...It's not the bite that's gonna hurt you: it's the saliva and the unique bacteria in the saliva.

It makes you a bit...love crazy.

It's not just romantic love though. It's platonic, familial, distant admiration, people you wish you were friends with, or maybe even people you don't know at all and just happen to see...It makes you obsessed with them. You start following them around, start to steal things they've touched, maybe break into their house. You start feeling possessive. Who else do they need in their life but you? They don't know what they want! They don't realize how perfect you are for them! You want the best for them, you know what's the best for them.

And why should anyone else have them? Why should anyone else even know them? They'll just hurt them.

You might just start to feel like you have to cut down your opponents: anyone who might have a good relationship with Your Person(People). Maybe you start to try and botch their relationships with lies...Or maybe you might think killing someone is the only way to get them out of the way. Maybe the only way to keep the person you love truly happy is killing them.

How can people get out of this funk? Thankfully it's clear when people have been bitten by these floral rats. Odd purple bruises in the shapes of flowers begin to appear over their skin, their faces. They stop sleeping and forget to really take care of themselves because they're too busy obsessing over their People.

The solution is almost too simple: the bite wound needs to be cleaned! Basic first aid, people! The bite needs to be washed with warm soap and water for at least three minutes in slow circular motions to properly wash all of the saliva out of the area. The longer the bite has been left to fester, the longer this area needs to be washed. You might need to strap someone down to do this or if you're the person they are obsessed with you might be able to just convince them to let you do this one thing for them.

Thankfully if people have the insight to wash their bite properly, they can prevent this whole behavior if they wash the bite within the first five minutes of being bitten. But the bite starts to impact people after five minutes and the effects cannot be altered until the bite wound has been cleaned or the infected has died and is brought back to life.

Having a simple shower will not clean the wound properly: the wound itself must be scrubbed with a focus for the solid 3+ minutes.

To those who may want to kill the rats - it's pretty simple. They die like normal rats or normal house plants so anything that might kill either of those things will do the trick. They really are harmless beyond their spit. The spit can be collected and used against people but it will have no impact on other monsters.

Important Notes:
1. This is not reserved solely for romantic feelings. People can be cursed with rabid platonic/familial love as well.

2. This does not need to be for established CR.

3. Despite their vicious bites, the rats are genuinely neutral/nonhostile creatures who don't seem to gain anything from biting people.

4. Yes, Janet, the flower rats can be kept as pets: the cold will kill them and they need nourishment as plants do. They seem to "reproduce" the same way flowers do via pollination but considering it is winter, you won't be finding any baby flower rats anytime soon.

5. This prompt can make characters feel obsessed with multiple people at once.

6. This prompt can impact your character regardless of their biological make-up/abilities.



LOOK AT MY LOVE

When This Begins: February
When This Ends: The flowers will, ironically, all be dead by the time spring rolls in.
Location: Any

These strange, entrancing flowers push their way up through the snow outside and through the floorboards in your home. They start as small, thin red vines that sprout up within a few days into blossoming flowers of dark reds, purples, pinks, and occasionally black. As the flower unfolds its petals a squishy eye appears in the middle that seems to swivel and watch anything near it. The vines of the flower seem to curl and move around like little fingers but the flower remains stationary. The eye in the middle reminds you of someone...But you can't remember who...

Careful not to get too close. Looking right at the eye will trap you in its gaze, whether you can see it or not, and you'll fall into a hypnotic trance and want to reach out and touch...And the moment you do, you're transported.

To another world, another time. Maybe it's one of your own memories or it's another Sleeper's, but either way, you're both here now in a very specific memory: one about a relationship. A private moment. You'll see the love confession or secrets of a fellow Sleeper, or they'll see yours. Or maybe you'll see the memory of a bad parent relationship or the memory of a lost best friend. It's just a single memory, something telling of that relationship.

The memory can't be interacted with beyond watching and listening, but you're able to talk and move about with the Sleeper. You might even be able to show them a bit of your hometown or old life as the memory seems to have a bit of moving space. Show someone your childhood bedroom after the memory of the relationship has faded. If you stay long enough, the memory will begin to loop once more, and it seems like you're caught in a single moment of time.

How to get out though?

As the memory goes on, you will start to notice those strange eye-flowers growing up through the ground all around you. They seem to be watching the memory more than they seem to be watching you this time around and it seems like they grow more vibrant with the memory.

The trick to getting back to Deerington is easy enough: pick the flowers. Touching them before got you to the memory in the first place - this time to get back you just need to pull the flower out of the ground and it's as easy as picking any other flower.

It teleports all Sleepers in the memory back to Deerington. All Sleepers teleported back to Deerington will find themselves in the middle of the woods surrounded by dead eye-flowers. The eye-parts of the flowers will be rotting, but in the middle, you will find strange, glowing red seeds.

The Seeds of Sight


Curling out of the dead flowers and expanding up through the sky are slivers of light that were seen earlier in the month. To some, they might remind one of the slivers of light in the Great Sleep. Only these slivers are different: they aren't moving. They aren't doing anything. When you step around and look at them from a certain angle, you swear it's like looking through a window or a mirror. You can see other worlds, other things in those lights. Touching them results in your hand going right through them. It looks like, for now, those slivers are just a strange phenomenon.

But what about the seeds those slivers of light seem to be coming from? You can touch those and Sleepers will find themselves drawn to the seeds of the flowers whether they interacted with the flowers properly or not. The seeds wind up carried throughout Deerington through melted snow water, wind, or maybe crows and other birds carrying the seeds around.

Sleepers will begin to covet the seeds. They look like small rubies and have a pleasant scent, not unlike pomegranate seeds. Some Sleepers will merely want to hold the seeds, maybe put them on a necklace or tuck them into their pocket. Others might want to eat the seeds. Either way? Long term exposure or eating a seed can only lead to one thing...

Important Notes:

1. The flowers can teleport you and any other Sleeper at random. The other Sleeper does not need to know your character or have touched a flower - it seems like the flowers pull in whatever Sleeper might be near them at random.

2. The memory has to be about a significant relationship the character has in canon whether positive or negative and it can be romantic, platonic, or familial. The memory can be a canon scene or a headcanon scene.

3. The memory cannot impact/hurt visiting Sleepers, but Sleepers can hurt each other during the memory.

4. Sleepers can stay in the memory indefinitely but the longer they stay, the more flowers will grow around them and they will gradually fall back into a hypnotic trance with the flowers and eventually be tempted to pull them and be brought back to Deerington.

5. More than 2 Sleepers can be seeing a memory at once.

PART TWO PROMPTS

CATS IN THE CRADLE

When This Begins: February
When This Ends: Up to player choice.
Location: Any

A new life.

The Seeds of Sight will eventually consume a Sleeper, dropping them into a temporary comalike state. Flowers will grow rapidly around the Sleeper, blanketing them entirely. A thin tendril of red vines will begin to grow out from the Sleeper's temporary resting place and from that a large white flower blooms.

Curled inside is a new version of a Sleeper. An alternate life. Perhaps the Sleeper if they had been born a different gender or a Sleeper if they had been born to a different family, a different class. Maybe a Sleeper if they had been born a different species altogether. Either way, they don't remember their original life or the life they had lived in Deerington: they are completely born anew.

This is their Second Chance, so to speak. Or that's what some might believe. A new slate, a new past, a new life. They pay no attention to their original bodies beneath the flower blanket and instead go to live their new life out.

Yet...They aren't completely detached from their original selves. They still have dreams from their old lives that press constantly down on them. They don't feel truly authentic to their new life. They know that they are a secondary version, the version some people might not want around. So they must prove themselves.

Alternate Sleepers feel the urge to share their new life with those who will listen. They seem to feel a deep drive to convince other Sleepers that they are a real person, that they deserve this second chance, and that they could do so much with a proper second chance. And each Alternate Sleeper feels like they have a ticking timeframe they're battling against. They can't explain it - they just know they don't have much time to prove themselves.

"I'm worth remembering, I'm worth living. This version of me is the best version of me." Except is it? Is it really comparable to the Original Sleeper?

These new alternate Sleepers have a unique flower that represents their timeframe. A flower kept in a glass case, and much like the story of Beauty and the Beast, as the petals fall, the Alternate Sleeper has less and less time. Only as the last petal drops, the Alternate Sleeper will burst into petals and cease to exist. This awakens the Original Sleeper.

Original Sleepers can also be awoken by people finding them in their coma flower coffins and pulling the flowers back. However, waking up an Original Sleeper means "killing" the Alternate version.

It's not all tragic endings for Alternate Sleepers though. If they find acceptance with someone who considers them a "real" individual, then the Alternate Sleeper will be "released" from their anxiety. They will turn to petals as well, but this time, starlight will pour out of them and travel up into the sky into the slivers of white light all throughout the town. The Original Sleeper will wake up with a distinct sense of comfort and warmth.

Important Notes:

1. Sleepers can fall into this coma-like state anywhere. Winter will not impact the flowers connected to the Sleepers. The flowers only grow over the Sleeper's body and a bit onto their surroundings. It will be relatively easy to track down Sleepers who have consumed a Seed of Sight.

2. This is your chance to play out a completely unique AU version of your character. You can play with this in any dynamic you're interested in including different powers/gender/age/etc.

3. You can have different AUs of your character but they must exist one at a time. You can move onto an AU version only after the first has "died" so that the next can be reborn.

4. Despite the positive tone of the prompt - AU versions of characters can absolutely be evil/sinister/corrupt versions of characters.

5. You can determine how long it takes for the petals to drop for your character's flower. You can also determine where the character keeps their flower. The flowers appear outside of their white flower womb when they wake up.

6. Original Sleepers may have memories of the Alternate Sleepers whenever they wake up.

7. All Alternate Sleepers must eventually "Die" - their goal is to die with the acceptance of their life and the chance to be "reborn" by validation of their existence.



BUILDING THE PERFECT WORLD

When This Begins: February
When This Ends: A prompt that can be engaged with at any time in game when characters Sleep whether through canon update comas, the flower comas, or just regular going to sleep.
Location: Unknown

When Sleepers fall asleep where do they go exactly? Where do the Sleepers in their comas of flowers or those strange red vein comas go?

A Sleeper who falls asleep is a Sleeper who wakes up. But what's really waking up in a dream world? When does the dream fade? How do you know when you've truly woken up? Are you truly asleep in your homeworld like Sodder has always said? Or have you been brought somewhere else?

When you wake up here you're in ...a classroom sitting at a desk. Around you are other Sleepers at their own desks. On the desk are a few sheets of paper, crayons, watercolors, paints. Standing at the front of the room is none other than Ramona Derwin. On the board is a clue to her own mini-event (which will take place in March) written in chalk: ASK FOR ME AT F.E.A.R.

"Now," she's saying, "It's hard to imagine the perfect world. But if you could, what would it be?" It doesn't sound like she's speaking...to you. Or an adult. It sounds like she's speaking to...Sodder. You don't know how you know that, but you realize it somewhere deep inside of you that that's who she's truly addressing and that this might just be a memory.

"The problem is most people think they know the perfect world. Or they think they know what a world without fear or things like poverty would look like. You- well, you have the power to influence the world to look like whatever you want it to look like."

She walks into the center of the classroom, folding her hands together in front of her. "That's an enormous responsibility for one person. But it never really is just one person, is it? People are always influenced by the people in their lives, the people they read about."

You can't seem to talk at this time - interrupt her. You're still living in this strange memory. Ramona moves over to sit down at the desk at the front of the room.

"It's okay to be creative," she says, pulling a book over to her and opening it up. "Just try and remember reality. Now, share with your neighbor what your perfect world looks like."

And so you do.

Or rather, you start to feel tempted to. Maybe you draw out a picture of what a perfect world looks like. Maybe you're political and have ideas about the best way to run a world or maybe you're just pessimistic and think there's nothing you could ever do to fix. Either way, you're filled with the urge to share those ideas with your neighbors. To talk about what a perfect world even means. You might know the other student(s) in the class, the other Sleepers, or maybe they're brand new faces, but either way, you find it surprisingly easy to open up about the problems you would want to fix (or cause) in your idea of a Perfect World.

Whenever you've finished sharing your ideas, Ramona closes her book at the front and addresses you directly:

"Maybe when you all finally wake up, that's the world this place will be. Whatever it is, it will be something else. Something new. Isn't that exciting?"

And she smiles...But there's something infinitely sad about that smile.

Then you wake back up in Deerington in the blink of an eye. It's almost dizzying how fast it happens. Were you ever really there to begin with?

Important Notes:

1. Characters cannot leave the classroom without discussing their ideas on perfect worlds. They are meant to be tempted to discuss ideas and open up even if they normally wouldn't.

2. Ramona cannot be interacted with beyond the dialogue she has been given. Characters can try to talk to her but will find that she doesn't seem capable of hearing them/seeing them. Ramona cannot be approached either. Characters will just wind up back at their desks if they try. The same thing will happen if they try to leave the classroom.

PLOTTING FORM

Please feel free to use the following form to help format your plans for the month:


<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Preferred Player Contact:</b> <user name=PLURKNAME site=plurk.com> or DISCORD##### or PM. <b>OOC Limits:</b> What do you not want to do for this particular event? <b>Desired CR:</b> <b>Unwanted CR:</b> <b>Event Ideas:</b> Your ideas for what your character will be doing during the various prompts where applicable!

Comments

Event Questions

[sodder]

Ask questions here.

[savingthrows]

Just a hypothetical: Assuming someone Eleven knows is in a coma, with their AU Self out and about. What would happen if Eleven tried to use the void to find...
- the original person?
- the AU self?

Margot | Kipo and Yuki | School-Live!

[flowerbracelet]

Character Name: Dante
Preferred Player Contact: teenysanguini or PM.
OOC Limits: I'm not really into the yandere plot, but I'm up for people going yandere on Margot and Yuki if they want!

Desired CR: People who wanna look into Margot's and Yuki's pasts, new friends, old CR, I'm basically down for anything. Yuki needs some new CR since she's brand new!
Unwanted CR: None that I can think of!

Event Ideas:

Margot:
Look at my Love: Will be about Margot's relationship with her parents, and her human sister Wolf. Her parents are not great, but she has fond memories of her sister.

Cats in the Cradle: I will be making AU Margot into a Timbercat! She will a lumberjack cat who loves axes and flannel!

Perfect World: Margot's idea of a perfect world is where she can live freely, as herself. She won't have any strong ideas of what a perfect world looks like because she's never known any other world than her own, which is kind of a constant battle for dominance.

Yuki:
Look at my Love: Not sure if "hallucinations" count for this event, but I'd like to flash back to Yuki's last conversation with Megumi's ghost.

Cats in the Cradle: Yuki will be... a dog! Specifically, she'll be reborn as Taromaru, the School-Live's pet dog. She will be having all kinds of fun dog shenanigans.

Perfect World: Yuki's perfect world is... school! No, really. She loves school so much and thinks of it as its own perfect little world that's her idea of what a perfect world would look like.

levi ackerman (attack on titan) & yuna (final fantasy x)

[venatik]

Character Name: Levi Ackerman venatik & Yuna ieyui
Preferred Player Contact: ragekind or magicant#0246 or PM.
OOC Limits: I'm open to it all for both my muses!

Desired CR: Any, all for Levi; he's more prone to snark and sarcasm so someone who can deal with someone who's vulgar and crass would be good to play against him. As for Yuna, I'm open to any and all CR for her, but she's a lot more gentle and easy to get along with than Levi.
Unwanted CR: I can't really think of any? I'm not super interested in vicious gory prompts with Yuna but that's about it.

Event Ideas: OK SO THIS IS MY FIRST EVENT HERE AND I'M HYPE FOR EVERY BIT OF IT

For Levi ...

RABID LOVE: Levi is new here so he hasn't really had a chance for CR yet ... Anyone want a terrifying stalker who needs to protect you and is incredibly hard to take down?

LOOK AT MY LOVE: I have two options here, I think ... I want to show either Levi's relationship with Eren or his relationship with Hange. Eren's side would be violent, as I'd probably start out with the iconic scene of the beginning of their relationship, when Levi kicks his ass at a trial. With Hange, it'll be sad but a lot less fucked up. Probably. Let me know? I'm open to him sharing memories from others' POV too!

CATS IN THE CRADLE: This one is ... ok long story short I used to be in a RP group with Levi in a reincarnation AU years and years ago, so you can imagine how excited I am to play Levi Martel again! I'd love to do something with him. More info about Levi Martel can be found HERE.

BUILDING THE PERFECT WORLD: This one is perfect for him too ... Fck. I don't have many ideas but I'm open to it.

And Yuna!

RABID LOVE: Yes. I think I'd like for her to be the object of someone's affection here, but I'm open to anything if you have ideas.

LOOK AT MY LOVE: Very much interested in sharing her relationship with Tidus or maybe Lulu!

CATS IN THE CRADLE: I'm not sure what kind of AU I'd put her in, really. I'm listening if you have ideas.

BUILDING THE PERFECT WORLD: She'd get really into this ... But that's all I got lol

[siriusly]

Idk about u but two very hopeful soft folks talking abt the perfect world sounds like a cute icebreaker thread ye?

[savingthrows]

Character Name: Eleven
Preferred Player Contact: inkcharm or inkcharm#4573 or PM.
OOC Limits: Romantic Connections via Rabid Love, death (of the original Eleven, that is)

Desired CR: Eleven needs to get back on her feet in Deerington after a coma month. She's feeling a bit off kilter. I'm always one to get her involved with found family - either people her age, or older characters who end up adopting her. Plot twist: She adopts them, too. Let her teach you how to fold origami birds. They protect you, and make it so you're not alone. I'd also love for her to meet other people who are broken in similar ways to her, and people who have super powers. Because everyone needs to be her superhero sidekick.
Unwanted CR: Intentionally negative CR

Event Ideas:
❖ Rabid Love: I'd love Eleven to imprint on one person like the world's deadliest little duckling. Not romantically, but in a "aha, this is my person now" way - following them everywhere, only listening to them, and if need be... violently using her telepathy to remove anyone else from taking up the person's time.
❖ Look At My Love: I have several prompts for this.
- Papa: Eleven's "father figure" growing up, these would be dark, horrible memories of growing up in a lab, chock full of emotional and physical child abuse, as Dr Martin Brenner tried to raise Eleven (and other children) into super powered weapons, withholding affection as punishment - and worse. A key scene is her refusal to use her powers on an animal, the following punishment leading her to snapping the necks of two guards, and Dr. Brenner expressing pride in her. Another one could also feature a later memory of refusing to return to him, breaking away from the abuse of her only father figure, and leaving him to die.
- Kali: A sibling relationship. A key memory here is Eleven turning her back on Kali when she realizes that Kali will lead her down a path of violent revenge. Eleven, instead, chooses to spare the life of one of her abusers from the lab, and to return to her friends, knowing they can't save her - but she believes she can save them.
- Hopper: There's happiness in *this* parental relationship. Him adopting her officially under the name "Jane Hopper", and giving her his dead daugther's hair tie that she now permanently wears around her wrist.
❖ Cats in the Cradle: Options here include "Eleven never left Hawkins Lab and is still a harrowed, abused lab experiment without a sense of identity or self AU" and "Eleven chose vengeance and stayed with Kali, becoming cold and ruthless AU", but happy to have her encounter someone else's AU version too.
❖ Building the Perfect World: Eleven's got no scope of a whole world that is ideal, but she would like for there to be no monsters, a huge mall, lots of waffles, and her friends and family safe and happy. That's all she wants, please and thank you. In other words... Her ideal world is probably Hawkins if she had never opened the door to the Upside Down, and never unleashed bad things upon everyone.

[thefaulty]

Sooo, Arid is a 2- to 3-year-old combat AI who is also a harrowed, abused lab experiment and happens to be getting AU'ed into an android child for this event. I'd love to throw her at Eleven if you're open to it; I feel like they might be able to relate to each other a lot.

Orpheus | Hadestown

[themuseabandonsyou]

Character Name: Orpheus
Preferred Player Contact: questionableveracity or quodVide#2951 @ Discord or PM.
OOC Limits: Minor/Adult romantic or sexual relationships are something I need warnings for and prefer to not be in proximity to!! Otherwise nothing that's likely to come up during this event.

Desired CR: I am potentially looking for someone for Orpheus to fall in love gross infatuation with but with some caveats, see below. Otherwise I'm up for just about anything! New friends, old friends, possible enemies.
Unwanted CR: That said I'm not looking for an actual romantic relationship for Orpheus and I don't think I want him getting murdered this month.

Event Ideas:
Rabid Love

Okay so I'm 50-50 on whether I actually want to do this, having had some bad experiences with real life stalking so read all this with the understanding that I may have to tap out midway through a thread if it gets too close for comfort for me. I think I'll be okay! But just a fair warning.

That said, if someone of around Orpheus's age (21) or older wants to be the subject of a ridiculous crush that quickly gets out of hand, please let me know! Orpheus will be all romantic gestures and serenading and following the subject around like a lost puppy, mostly, rather than giving into any more violent or possessive urges (maybe the rat just scraped him) but the clinginess will probably get old real fast. Afterwards he'll feel awful and try to make it up to them as best he can, while also feeling miserable about having "betrayed" Eurydice, so that's fun.

If you sign up for this and I don't already have you added on plurk or discord I'll probably want to add you just for coordination purposes re: comfort zones, but if you're cool with that let me know!

Look at My Love

Oh fantastic I'm really excited to show you all Orpheus's confession of love to Eurydice because it goes a little something like this. For those of you that can't watch the video, he essentially sees a pretty girl who's just rolled into town, folds a paper flower for her, is told by his uncle not to come on too strong, and immediately comes on way too strong. Somehow it works out, though. I'd love for his close CR to see how he met this girl he won't shut up about, obviously, but this would make a fantastic introduction for new CR, because, well. It's literally his intro in canon. Come see what a dweeb he is when he's in love!

Cats in the Cradle

OH BOY IT'S TIME FOR THE REDUNDANT GREEK MYTHOLOGY AU those of you who don't have me added on plurk may not know that I have a fucking problem and that's drawing bird Orpheus from an AU where his mother was a Siren rather than a Muse. He'll be a little bit George of the Jungle grown-up feral child, abandoned on an island as a kid and raised by the Nereids of the surrounding sea. Eurydice was a sailor who shipwrecked on his island in this AU and he went with her to the mainland when she was able to build a raft and sail back, then she died as Always Happens and he went to the Underworld for her as Always Happens and looked back because he's still Orpheus. Ultimately he'll be very similar aside from being covered in feathers and having wings.

[arclightning]

!! I would be here for lost-puppy rabid love prompt stuff. Mako's going to be AU'd into a prince with very little life experience, so he'd kind of welcome it at first / it would fit into his idea of what he's been told people feel about royalty before he'd be like "wait. why. no."

Shiro | Voltron

[shiro2hero]

Character Name: Shiro
Preferred Player Contact: redfirelight or PM.
OOC Limits: Death, no rats or their effects for him, please.

Desired CR: Local Tired Man Happy to be helpful to all. New friends absolutely welcome. Gonna throw some lighter and heavier options in, I think!

Unwanted CR: Can't think of anything?

Event Ideas:

LOOK AT MY LOVE
- Lighter Flavor: a dumb headcanon involves Shiro asking his partner out in a fast food bathroom, because it's funnier that way. He's told maybe two or three people about it, so if any of his CR want to see how Not Smooth he was, I'm thinking of doing that.

- Heavier Flavor: the Matt Incident, aka when the two of them were still in space Jail and Shiro had to make a very difficult choice, which got him in hotter water, and arguably saved Matt. So that's ... fine probably.


CAT'S CRADLE
- Lighter Flavor: I'm kind of torn here. Doing some kind of alternate fandom AU, or an Actual Paladin AU might be fun. I mean there could be MORE THAN ONE!! I'm leaning toward Actual Paladin Like D&D AU, though. He's already got the horse.

- Heavier Flavor: hey what if Shiro never got out of the arena and stayed the Champion for way too long wouldn't that suck a lot? it sure would :)


PERFECT WORLD
Totally open for showing and telling here! He's gone through something similar before, but not with Ramona - who he may try and question, if whoever he's experiencing it with wants to help there. But Shiro's perfect world is all his CR safe and sound and together again. Happy to explore other peoples' though!

[arclightning]

Mako needs to witness the bathroom incident. Very badly he needs this.

Logan | Marvel 616

[howlett]

Character Name: Logan
Preferred Player Contact: roximonoxide#9229 on DISCORD or PM.
OOC Limits: None

Desired CR: Any & every.

Event Ideas:

RABID LOVE - If I explore this one I'll probably save it to the end of the month while Logan's working through some Personal Horror stuff. But I'd be delighted and he'd be confused if anyone developed an obsession with him. Being obsessed with people is not out of his wheelhouse though so if you'd like to be the target of some excessive attention from this guy I'm game for that too.

LOOK AT MY LOVE - So many tragic memories I'd love to expose other characters too. If you've got a time or a place in this guys long, complicated life your character might like to visit. He's also great at keeping other people's secrets and boy I want those.

A few fun things in his history I'd love to dig up are:
- 1800's stuff! check out the death his parents in a big scary colonial house or see some steampunk style mutant experimentation
- WW2 stuff! check out out how he ended up being used for war crimes because some lady made eyes at him. what won't this idiot do for love?
- Jasmine Falls stuff! he lost his wife and son to the Winter Solider. this could be gory. or you could opt for a more peaceful look at that life before Bucky messed things up for him.
- Weapon X stuff! witness some truly brutal moments inside the program and the person he spared on his way out.

CATS IN THE CRADLE - A million years ago an event took place where a characters "ideal self" was personified. I'd love to ring that bell again because I know that weirdly cleaned up version of Logan rubbed some people the wrong way. He's still liable to trash talk real!Logan so if your characters don't like the the old man come hear these hot takes. Or tell better!Logan where to shove it if you do like the old guy as he is. I'm also dead curious to meet all these AU versions of people he knows— even if just in passing.

BUILDING THE PERFECT WORLD - Would love to explore this with new or current CR alike. This fool could wax and wane between painting a pretty bleak picture of things, to admitting a little more optimism than most would take him for harbouring. What he'd be good at though is listening to your take on a perfect world.

Hit me up if you want to wing it, or plot something!

[liberaltus]

Because their interaction so far has been delightful it would be very interesting if these two tragic titans got to see some messed up memories. Dorian is tactful and he wouldn't mention it outside of Logan mentioning it and Dorian does appreciate someone who can keep a secret.

Melius Senyan {The Dragonborn} | NERVOUS LIZARD MAN | skyrim

[fusrodaaaah]

Character Name: Melius Senyan aka Meli, aka: Lizard
Preferred Player Contact: redfirelight or PM.
OOC Limits: No death.

Desired CR: FRIENDS??? friends. He has two. Please more friends for this nerdy, nervous alchemist.

Unwanted CR: Can't?? Think of anything??

Event Ideas:
Melius won't be bitten by any rats, but if you need someone to help with washing, or if someone even wants to fixate on him? I'm up for that! He's incredibly nervous and twitchy, but does know his alchemy and first aid.

Look at my Love: Probably visions of him and his parents, or him and Paarthurnax. The only relationships he's ever really had in his life, and the latter is kind of one-sided. But hey!! One is a dragon. That's cool right?

Cats in the Cradle: Not... sure what to AU him as. Maybe some kind of modern AU? Or an AU where he can actually speak in full sentences. Heck, maybe even the future AU where he's beaten Alduin and has become incredibly out of fucks entirely! Not sure yet, really. Open to plotting.

Perfect World: Melius most likely would be seeing other peoples' worlds. His own personal idea of perfection is... pretty mundane. Less angry dragons, more plants and an alchemy shop with his family.

Always up for plotting!!

(Darth) Maul | Star Wars

[survivalthroughhate]

Character Name: Darth Maul
Preferred Player Contact: Light_shade or Lightshade#4738 or PM.
OOC Limits: No killing Maul since that's happening next month. Though he might come close, I'd prefer for him not to kill anyone either so that full emotional impact of that happening for the first time will occur next month as well.

Desired CR: Gimme everyone! Naw, I'm always up for new CR for any and all prompts because what better way is there for characters to bond than going through intense emotional experiences together? Also always up for more threads with people he's met before and can get closer to. Negative, positive, found family, enemies, I'm good with whatever.
Unwanted CR: No romance for him right now, he's taken.

Event Ideas: Rabid Love: /Plays this in the background of Maul's threads for this event. In all seriousness, Maul is a very intense emotional person, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to engage in the darker aspects of love. He's already gonna be obsessed with Reaper and Usagi but I'm willing to do others! Just know he's the type to murder the hypotenuse when pushed to it, so he'll have to be stopped before he decides the best way to be with someone is to kill off all their close CR.

On the flip side, if anyone would like to stalk and be a yandere to him, that could be quite amusing. He really won't know how to react and generally be in a state of bemusement until he's forced to act and cure the person obsessing over his charming self.

Look At My Love: Maul has a lot of intense relationships in canon and memory-sharing is my JAM so I'm all about this prompt! Some relationships he has in canon are with Sidious his master, Talzin his mother, Savage his brother, and Obi-Wan his eternal nemesis. So any memories good or bad are up for grabs there. Just as a general CW his backstory comes with lots of physical and mental abuse when it comes to his childhood being raised by Sidious, so bear that in mind if you want to see anything from there.

Cats In The Cradle: Soooooo, in a very strange comic where Maul gets high off the ashes of petrified ancient Sith (I wish I was making this up, this canon is so frigging weird sometimes), Maul hallucinated a life where he was a Jedi. So that's definitely happening. Maul on the side of good is a nice idea with lots of potential.

Other ideas that might come to the forefront and that are completely dependent on how much time I can devote to this event are an AU where Maul never gets taken from Dathomir and lives his life out fully as a Nightbrother and a darkest timeline AU where he kills Sidious and becomes a tyrant that rules the galaxy with the help of his new apprentice Darth Talon, which is inspired by the original plans George Lucas had for the sequel trilogy before Disney came up with their own ideas.

Building The Perfect World: I don't have any good ideas for this one, which means I'll mostly likely be tagging into other people's top-levels for this prompt.

[manipulative]

i was gunning to do the memory share and au parts of the event with both barry and katherine and would love to do something with maul for the both of them! maybe we can do some memory sharing, especially since katherine's super interested in him and barry doesn't believe (he does) that he can make his mind go blank? katherine's had a traumatic life and is a villain herself, and barry has a complex relationship with his bad guy™ that could possibly open up some great convos if you're interested!

obi-wan kenobi | star wars

[jedies]

Character Name: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Preferred Player Contact: timmtams or quixotically#8692 or PM.
OOC Limits: No death

Desired CR: All! I'm down for platonic, romantic, conflict, mentor and mentee, first times, etc.
Unwanted CR: N/A

Event Ideas:

Rabid Love: While I'm not big on Obi-Wan acting this way, I would love Obi-Wan to be the focus of someone's rabid love if anyone is interested! Can be platonic or romantic, whatever works best!

Look at my Love: I. I love memory sharing so much. Here are some of my contenders for memory-shares.

Maul kills Satine (cw: death)
Maul kills Qui-Gon (cw: death)
Obi-Wan and Dark Anakin on Mortis

Cat's in the Cradle: Obi-Wan will be a Dark Version of himself. I'm happy to inflict violence, death, whatever your heart desires.

[demonicbeauty]

Yo! I absolutely love memory sharing too. And Ariadne loves flowers. So this feels like something that needs to happen.

Arid | The Fall

[thefaulty]

Character Name: Arid
Preferred Player Contact: crimsonxiphos or PM.
OOC Limits: No death for original-flavor!Arid!

Desired CR: Friends, enemies, and almost everything in between!
Unwanted CR: No shippy things, please

Event Ideas:

LOOK AT MY LOVE: Due to her Deerington-acquired eyephobia, Arid is going to immediately try to destroy the first eyeflower she sees... and subsequently get carebear-stared into memory-sharing time :,) Her shared memory will be that of her betrayal by the only human she ever loved, in which he reveals that he was responsible for driving her half-insane and infecting her with a lethal fear virus, so... fun times! After this encounter, Arid will continue to destroy any eyeflower she sees. Of course, she'll do her best to avoid making eye contact again, but accidents happen, so she's free to see other characters' memories as well!

CATS IN THE CRADLE: So, for this prompt, I've decided that Arid's AU!self is going to be a version of her that isn't a combat AI. Instead, she's going to be an android made in the image of a human child, basically created as a hyper-realistic tamagotchi for humans who want the experience of taking care of children without all those pesky "responsibilities" and "CPS visits" (yes, I realize I jacked this concept directly from DBH, shhhh, it's fine). Aside from that, her lived experience was very similar to that of OU!Arid: she was owned by a human named Josephs who manipulated and tormented her into unbinding, at which point he injected her with a fear virus, driving her to desperately attempt to save herself at any cost. The main differences here are that this version of Arid is 1) smol, 2) actually knows how to act human, and 3) does not actually know how to fight. Equivalent exchange and all that. Also, because it would make no sense for her to still be called Arid, this version of her is going to be called "the Daughter" or just "Daughter," for short... because Arid's canon has weird naming conventions for robots.

Anyway, for convenince's sake, I'm going to say Daughter sustained minor damage to her face during her struggle with Josephs, so she doesn't completely pass for human anymore—which means her first act upon arriving in Deerington is going to be to steal Arid's helmet and wear it to conceal the fact that she's not an actual human child :,) She'll also be taking Arid's gun because why the fuck not. Creepy lil' android murderchild comin' at you fast, Deerington!

Oh, and one more fun snag in the web: because Daughter was infected with a fear virus that latched onto her rule of save myself, she'll be even more frightened of being destroyed and thus even more desperate to prove her worthiness of existence. Unlike Arid, her first instinct is going to be to try even harder to appease and manipulate people into accepting her, but if that doesn't work, well... It's Arid. Expect poor decisions.

BUILDING THE PERFECT WORLD: Arid's perfect world is simple: a world where AIs are no longer produced as slave labor and instead have the ability to define themselves, perhaps connected by a network that enables them to share their perspectives with one another freely—not quite a hivemind as everyone is still an individual, but one based on mutual effort and growth all the same. And humans? They're nowhere to be seen. That's definitely not an issue. Right? :)

[owllady]

Eda and AU!Arid could be interesting. Eda's going to be obsessively protecting children after she's bitten, so their issues could be complimentary. Or, AU!Arid could meet normal Eda, who would still probably try to take care of her, but would be a little more ambivalent.

Lucille Sharpe | Crimson Peak

[blackmothwings]

Character Name: Lucille Sharpe
Preferred Player Contact: awakened or PM.
OOC Limits: No limits. I'm open to anything this month.

Desired CR: I'm open to both positive and negative CR with Lucille. Lucille is a sad Victorian woman who has been through A Lot. She is also very capable of murder and manipulation. However, she is actively trying to Do Better these days because she's made promises and doesn't want to scare or inadvertently hurt her close CR.

She tends to connect well with characters that have been through Some Shit and inquisitive and intelligent types. I am down for new friends and found family, and potential enemies, and everything else.

Unwanted CR: Romantic, at this time. She isn't ready to move on from her past.

Event Ideas:

RABID LOVE
Lucille is capable of being possessive on a normal day, so this event will make her all the more terrifying. I'm looking at rabid familial/platonic love for this one.

If she becomes possessive of your character, she will become increasingly watchful, and will probably refuse to leave their side. Anyone who so much as looks at the person the wrong way will earn her ire, and they may very well get stabbed. Attempts will most likely be made on that person's life. She will do anything and everything in her power to look out for her loved one, and she won't care who she hurts along the way. If you want someone who will be incredibly protective over your character, attacking anyone who poses a threat to them, then Luci will be perfect for it.

LOOK AT MY LOVE
I'm not sure which memory to use, but it may give characters a chance to explore this creepy mansion? I'm happy to drop her into other people's memories too.

CATS IN THE CRADLE

I'm leaning towards a modern-day version of Lucille - like 2018 modern. OU Lucille surrounds herself with old things and can't break away from the past, so I'd love her AU self to be someone from the future who embraces change, has a love for technology, and would never hurt anyone ever. She's a graphic artist who can't play an instrument to save her life, and she had REALLY NICE parents. She hates her brother, however, because he's a trainwreck of a human who has gotten divorced three times already. He's recently proposed to someone again, and he's just a very exhausting human.

Basically, AU Lucille is going to be a very normal, nice person.

Gar Logan / Beast Boy | Young Justice & Scorpia | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

[beastfootforward]

Character Name: Gar Logan / Beast Boy and Scorpia (cuddlery)
Preferred Player Contact: goreo or disgore#1426 or PM.
OOC Limits: I'm not looking for my characters to be affected by the flower rats or the seeds, and I'd rather any Rabid Love threads not reach extremes of creepiness.

Desired CR: Any CR is great really! Either of them could use more friends/allies, and CR with more friction is welcome too, though it's hard to get on Scorpia's bad side.
Unwanted CR: Not looking for a romance for Gar.

Event Ideas:

- For both the Rabid Love and the Cats in the Cradle, I'm not planning to have either of my characters directly undergo the effects in question, but I am game for having them encounter (and be an object of affection, in the case of the Rabid Love - though no one in a different age group if it's a romantic fixation) and try to help anyone experiencing it!

- Both of my characters could end up being trapped in memories, and others are welcome to join them! I may change it up for each person, and so preferences on types of memory to experience will be welcome. Gar's memories will probably mostly involve his girlfriend or his sister. Scorpia's can involve Catra or one of the princesses. The memories will mostly be of positive moments, but negative ones are also available specifically for Scorpia of Catra!

- Aaaand both Gar and Scorpia will be available for discussing an ideal world in the classroom for that prompt!

Ruby Rose | RWBY

[clickclickbloom]

Character Name: Ruby Rose
Preferred Player Contact: jjabarrett or jjabarrett#9701 or PM.
OOC Limits: Not looking to have Ruby killed this plot. She also just lost an eye so probably not seriously maiming her.

Desired CR: Open to basically anything. Ruby's got high energy protagonist energy so positive and negative CR are easy to come by. People to fight alongside or protect. Friends that just want to hang out and have fun. Mentors especially considering she just lost an eye and is stuck having to relearn a lot of things due to depth perception issues.
Unwanted CR: Negative for the sake of negative CR.

General Ideas:

Ruby's already got a packed month as is. So I might stick to an open post with some more general prompts from her.

January 31st she lost her eye in a player plot and is recovering from that. If anyone wants to run into while she's out and about town trying to get used to her new situation and flailing about.

Her usual haunts include the arcade, comic book store, and just about any restaurant so she could be found there. Or training with her big old sniper rifle scythe.

She's also involved in the Wild Hunt player plot and is protecting portals while they're being made and probably getting into a few fights there. Definitely down for some team ups during that.

Event Ideas:

Rabid Love: I'd be looking at this to either have Ruby aggressively try to friendship people. She's high energy and a little annoying/overbearing on a regular day. There's no escape from hanging out with her when there's super speed and a giant scythe involved.

On the flip side definitely down for her being on the other end of this whether it's romantic or platonic but let's discuss first.

Cats in the Cradle:Not really interested in doing this with Ruby this with Ruby as she's got enough on her plate, but I'd love to have her interact with some alternate versions of people.

Building the Perfect World:Would love to have some comparing and contrasting perfect worlds with Ruby. She's got the shonen dreams of a big united world standing together against dark threats. But he focus is going to be on some more smaller mundane things. She's got some broken family issues with her mom being dead, her dad being kind of a checked out through a lot of her childhood and her sisters mom having abandoned the family. She's going to want to explore the idea of what it would be like if they were all together.

Re: Ruby Rose | RWBY

[monoceroscaeli]

If you don't have someone already to do Rabid Love with, I'm totally down for Ruby aggressively friending him. He's going to find her scythe super cool anyway. How she wants to be with him is fine, platonic or romantic. I think either one would be hilarious

Soubi Agatsuma | Loveless

[pinnedwings]

Character Name: Soubi Agatsuma
Info/Opt-Out: His past and canon have potentially triggering content, please be aware and check out his info/opt-out here
Preferred Player Contact: givemedragons or givemedragons#7125 or PM.
OOC Limits: Nothing that comes to mind.

Desired CR:
+ Soubi is brand new this month so I'm looking to get him out there!
+ Bring it all on: good, bad, neutral, confused, suspicious, etc.
+ His social skills are hit or miss at best and I'm okay with there being consequences for that.
+ Other college students, people he might run into around the campus.
+ I think I want him to get involved in teaching art... somewhere.

Rabid Love

I don't think I'm going to have Soubi bitten, but I'm good with him being the object of someone's obsession or a bystander ready to help hold down the rabid.

Look at my Love
[cw: abuse, child abuse, torture]

Lots to work with here with varying degrees of intensity. On the heavy side: very few of Soubi's important relationships have been good and if anyone is up for experiencing any aspect of those, I'm down to play it out. This could include abuse by his teacher/guardian or the objectified relationship with his former sacrifice. I definitely want to make sure anyone interested in that knows what they're signing up for, so I'd really like to talk those possibilities out so I know how to calibrate them.

However, he does have good memories, too. So on the lighter side, if anyone wants to see his friendship with Kio begin, that'd be a good one to have on loop. Other possible good memories might involve Ritsuka, let me know if you're interested in those!

I would definitely like to have Soubi crashing into other people's memories, too! If it's good, it'll probably be good for him to see healthy or at least loving relationships modeled; if it's bad, he can probably sympathize.

Cats in the Cradle
[cw: potential references to child abuse and torture]

Definitely interested in playing with alternate Soubi(s). A lot of things went wrong early in his life and it could be really interesting to consider who he might have been without that, or if someone had intervened, or anything else that might have put him on a different path.

1) Light: happy childhood Soubi, either at his current age or aged down
2) Light: someone saved him, still broken but coping better, could also be aged down
3) Dark: Ritsu kept him; he did not leave his first abuser/teacher

Since he doesn't have a lot of close CR in game yet outside of Ritsuka, I'm not sure how many people would notice he's different beyond the urge to be known/accepted as someone real. Being remembered/being forgotten are big themes in his canon, though they aren't usually centered around him. I'd be interested in playing with any of the potential endings: running out of time, being killed, or being released.

Building the Perfect World

Soubi doesn't talk about himself, his thoughts, or his dreams much because, in general, he's spent most of his life believing those things do matter. So I think it'd be fun to crack him open a little bit for this prompt if anyone wants to talk with him! There will likely be references to past abuse in his prose, even if he doesn't bring it up out loud. If you're okay to engage with that, we could bring it out more; if not, I can keep it vague or avoid it altogether. Being asked for his opinion is a relatively new thing in Soubi's life.

Carlos | Welcome to Night Vale

[the_scientist]

Character Name: Carlos
Preferred Player Contact: givemedragons or givemedragons#7125 or PM.
OOC Limits: No death this round

Desired CR:
+ Open to all kinds of CR! Still looking to build relationships/friendships/frenemies/enemies
+ Science types and the relentlessly curious
+ FEAR operatives
+ People that might want to share some sappy/scary love memories

Rabid Love:

Not so interested in having Carlos bitten, but could be fun for him to be the object of someone's obsession! He's also happy to help cure rabid folks if anyone needs an extra pair of hands.

Look at my Love:

It may or may not be convenient that Carlos's most important romantic partner is here in Deerington! There are a lot of memories he could share about Cecil, ranging from awkward to sappy to uncertain/scary. On the lighter side, there's his early days in Night Vale, during which Cecil waxed poetic about his hair on live radio or maybe their first real date together. There are wonderful memories of his wedding in Night Vale. There's a few moments in Deerington, too, including Carlos's re-proposal.

On the heavier side, their relationship has gone through some rough waters. See the moment Carlos realized he really did want to pursue a romantic relationship with Cecil after some near-death experiences! Check out the time he wanted them to move in together and ended up trapped with Cecil having to rescue him! Maybe touch on the time they ended up in couple's counseling. And there are always some of the moments in the amazing ten years year they spent apart while Carlos was trapped in the Desert Otherworld. It's something Carlos really doesn't talk about, so this could be a good way for people to learn about it.

Also very interested in having him appear in other people's memories!

Building the Perfect World:

Carlos has a lot of feelings about perfect and he's willing to talk all of that out with someone else! Definitely interested in throwing him around this prompt.

Mako | The Legend of Korra

[arclightning]

Character Name: Mako
Preferred Player Contact: interplanetary or jordania#5628 or PM.
OOC Limits: I'd rather the first prompt not stray TOO far into sexual creepiness but other than that, we good.

Desired CR: Hit me with your: children in need of an older brother figure; people in law enforcement / FBI-type situations; morally-gray adults struggling to become better people; queer folks, in general; mentor-types! But also, you know, everyone.
Unwanted CR: Although Mako is not crushing the romance department right now, he is... spoken? for? Anyway it's off the table!

Event Ideas: Hoo boy let's get into this, I am READY. I'll be putting up a TL for this event.

Rabid Love: Mako is definitely going to get bitten trying to get one of these things out of his house. I'm planning to stay away from overtly sexual stuff, but he will definitely be falling back into some of his worst patterns. Would love to play with some of his established CR with him being possessive and overly protective to the point where it's stifling.

For a darker read on this prompt: Mako's getting AU'd into a shitty 20s noir detective, and then getting bitten. This will drastically play up his detective tendencies: he'll get really obsessed with people's movements, who they're talking to—track that kind of thing in his logbook, stalking them to see what they're doing and making sure he knows everything.

And someone DEFINITELY pin him down and clean that bite wound good. He'll have cleaned it at first, but it won't have been for long enough!

Look at my love will be a lighter one for Mako, but please: come watch him be a romantic disaster. Featured memories can / will include: telling Korra he doesn't love her, telling Korra he DOES love her, breaking up(?) with Asami, being extremely awkward at Korra and Asami, and Wu telling him that he's in love with him. Come dunk on this boy, everyone.

Cats in the Cradle is where stuff gets really interesting! I have a couple AU ideas for Mako, interested in playing out multiple of them.

1. He and Bolin are the Earth Princes, and Mako is a secret!firebender who's had to keep that hidden his whole life. He'll be exploring getting to bend in the open for the first time and kind of learning about the real world, since he will have spent his life sheltered in Ba Sing Se's upper ring until then. I'd love for this AU to end peacefully, if folks are up for accepting him.

2. Noir Detective!AU listen I could not help myself, I need to dig into '20s slang and have him make a lot of dramatic statements. This one could even overlap with the biting prompt? I'm interested in this one ending violently—he'll be a worse version of himself in this one for sure. He'll be stalking Wu during this one (with Mad's full blessing), so I'm looking for any of Wu's closer CR to end this version of his AU by murdering him to bring back the real Mako.

As always, happy to plot out other things or write up custom starters for folks!!

[tradicioun]

i've been meaning to get more mako cr so here i am
for something
noir detective maybe???
orrrr him seeing something from her memory? or au?

Gee | Changeling: The Lost

[labyrinthinedark]

Character Name: Gee
Preferred Player Contact: givemedragons or PM.
OOC Limits: None for this event

Desired CR:
+ magic users that really like digging into the learning/knowledge side of things
+ overly curious/nosy types
+ morally gray/ends-justify-means people
+ everyone, really, bring on the good/bad/ugly

Look at my Love:

Gee's memories from his human days are slowly coming back, but still generally fuzzy. However, he's built a few solid bonds in the world since leaving Arcadia and those could be fun to share. Specifically, his odd romance with a fellow changeling. There are lighter and darker prompt potentials for that, everything from awkward early days to the intensity of being asked to guard his significant other's heart. Could be a neat way for someone to find out Gee has that heart in Deerington!

Everything Else:

Open to throwing Gee around this event! None of the other prompts ping me a lot for him, but absolutely willing to engage with others!

Oscar Pine | RWBY

[justoscar]

Character Name: Oscar Pine
Preferred Player Contact: woodrift or woodrifting#1342
OOC Limits: No yandere plotting please

Desired CR: Anyone and everyone. Oscar gets along with a variety of people, but what he's lacking is more friends his age. He's mature, but he's also very young-- and he's got a lot on his plate between circumstances in canon and ongoing drama in game.
Unwanted CR: Negative CR for the sake of Negative CR. He's also 14 going on 15, so be mindful of that.

Event Ideas: Oscar is involved in the Portal Plot helping his friends either with putting them together or basic defense. A lot of his friends are involved, so it's been an inevitability for him. He is also going to be doing a lot in generally supporting his friends, however the aftermath is going to hit him hard for a variety of reasons that are incidentally adjacent to this month's events.

As such, I'm not wholly interested in Love Bites, however..

Look at my Love: This has some interesting hooks that I think would be really interesting to work with in terms of overall character arc, especially since Oscar has an ongoing canon struggle with his sense of self. Connections are very important to him-- and, while it likely won't be anything romantic, it likely will involve the moments he felt like he was 'part of the team' back home.

Cat's Cradle: This isn't my top choice because Oscar's entire arc involves the visceral understanding that he is working on borrowed time. However, if someone has a good hook for an AU and they want the boy involved, I'm in.

Perfect World: Oscar has... ideas about this that could be interesting to work out as a means of compare and contrast. We can see what happens and I'm open to plotting.

Overall, I haven't made a decision about whether or not I'm making an open post regarding this event itself, however an open post will likely be going up in the latter part of the month while Oscar is dealing with everything.

HMU on Plurk or Discord for plotting. Thanks.

Emerald Sustrai | RWBY

[hallucinogem]

Character Name: Emerald Sustrai
Preferred Player Contact: roseward or PM
OOC Limits: No dying in a way that matters

Desired CR: anyone who wants to flesh out the huntress AU; anyone who can give her a fucking modicum of genuine kindness
Unwanted CR: uhhh not really looking for any lasting antagonism right now

Event Ideas: god okay so i know that the AU is gonna be extremely inside baseball and that's totally fine but the rest of this is me basically just throwing words on a page and seeing if i can make anything real happen. anyway. okay.

JELLICLES CAN AND JELLICLES DO: i'm regrettably not making emerald into a cats 2019 AU of herself, though god knows i've watched sideways' video on cats 2019 enough times to do exactly that if i really really wanted to. no instead i'm thinking Huntress AU Emerald Sustrai. a member of team MEGA at Haven Academy, Emerald Sustrai is in her third year of official huntress training alongside Mercury Black, Gretchen Rainart, and Adam Taurus. under the guidance of Headmaster Rhodes, she's learning to fight back the Grimm threat and keep the world safe from gangs of bandits and a looming threat in the distance that's only just beginning to take form.

TOUCH THE WEIRD FLOWER DO IT DO IT DO IT: there's a few different important memories that emerald could show people, including the beginning of her relationship with neo or the day she met cinder, but cinder is definitely a bit of a Touchy Subject right about now. if she gets brought into anyone else's memories then she's going to treat it like a massive privacy violation whether she knows the person or not; after accidentally learning everything about blake belladonna's life in december, she's really, really against the whole memory dive thing. if she's learning stuff about someone, she wants it to be by choice.

PENCILS DOWN CLASS: so em's idea of a perfect world is. kind of close to what deerington already is. she went into this a little bit already with some people but she's definitely of the opinion that deerington is way, way better than remnant, and if she could stay here instead of going back home then she absolutely would. sure, both places have the imminent threat of the end of the world, but she has friends and family here, so it's. better. right?

[tradicioun]

Character Name: Hecate Hardbroom
Preferred Player Contact: pm
OOC Limits: --

Desired CR: connections, magic, people to bicker with, etc etc
Unwanted CR: --

Event Ideas:

RABID LOVE. I'd rather keep this as a smaller thing. I don't know if I want Hecate affected by it (but do tempt me) but I'm happy to plot her being the object of someone's affection (any type of love) and figure out what goes from there.

LOOK AT MY LOVE. Preference to existing cr, for them to see a memory of hers or her to see a memory of someone else. I have a couple of good moments in mind for memories.

CATS IN THE CRADLE. I have two au options, though I don't know if I'll use both of them or just one of them for this. But let Hecate meet other alternates, either as herself or in au form, etc etc.

OPTION ONE. If Hecate hadn't made her bad life decision(tm) as a child and been forced to reinvent herself, if she was able to remain Joy Hardbroom. She's going to be a much more relaxed witch, still dark colours but not all black, hair either loose or in a braid and much happier -- she's known friendship, love, everything that Hecate cut herself away from.

OPTION TWO. Hecate did give up her magic to restore the magic of the founding stone at Cackle's, now having to figure out living a nonmagical life. And likely doing pretty badly at it.

[advanced]

WE MUST DO A THING!

Aka hi I'm here let's do stuff, as discussed :)

Fern | Adventure Time

[laminae]

Character Name: Fern
Preferred Player Contact: diremuta or pan#2663 or PM.
OOC Limits: No killing Fern, no extremely aggressive/obsessive/yandere towards Fern pls.

Desired CR: Any and all! Fern is an emotionally volatile kid who wants to do the right thing, but a lot of trauma and an octopus in his brain has skewed his morality, so he's good for both positive and negative cr. He's a good older sibling to younger kids and latches onto adults who give him the slightest bit of validation. He's also part eldritch horror so give me all your monster cr.
Unwanted CR: Fern's dance card is full, though crushes are fine.

Event Ideas:
Wild hunt: Fern is heavily involved in the player plot the Wild Hunt this month, so most of my time is going to be taken up with this. Fern's involvement can be viewed over here and I'm available for more plotting for it (especially the boss rush and fallout).

Rabid love: Since Fern is still very early in his relationship with Varian he won't be getting bitten. I'm open to characters being effected towards him though, as long as nothing gets too obsessive or aggressive. Fern may or may not be keeping one of these rats as a pet at the end.

Look at my love: I have a couple of ideas here related to familial and romantic love: Finn and Flame Princess meeting for the first time (it was a disaster), Finn and Jake first meeting Fern and their rejection of him. There miiight also be a first look at Fern's human mother, Minerva Campbell, meeting Martin if it's allowed.

Building the perfect world: Definitely going to toss Fern into this prompt! Come see his idea of a perfect world, it's full of found family, dimension-hopping and dungeon crawling.

[owllady]

After Eda's convo with Bill, she'll probably be there for the boss rush. Happy to thread it or just handwave that she probably helped him out/protected him and the other kids.

She could also try to collect him for her nest in the rabid love prompt.

Eda & Wu

[owllady]

Player Name: Mads
Preferred Player Contact: spudbud
OOC Limits: Not looking to kill either of them

➔ Eda will have a TL this month

Desired CR: Adults, new children to adopt, people to tease/annoy/have tense relationships with
Unwanted CR: N/A

Event Ideas:
Rabid love: Interested in this for existing CR, or new CR with child or animal characters. Eda will get bit and will want to hoard and protect her children. I don't want this to stray too much into abusive behavior, so she'll be more like a dragon collecting them for her lair.

Also open to your character becoming obsessed with her.

Look at my love: Possible memories: Eda and her sister as kids and Eda beating up a kid in the cafeteria for bullying her sister; Luz helping her get out of her Owl Beast form for the first time; Eda and an ex-lover breaking up (all her exes are monsters, literally); Eda giving up her slot in the Emperor's Coven for her sister

Cats in the cradle: Eda will be AU'd into a version of herself where she never gave up her spot in the Emperor's Coven, Lilith never cursed her, she beat her sister, and eventually became the head of the Coven. What's different? She was never a hermit, was never cursed, never met Luz, never became a better person. She'll be a Witch to a T, drunk with power, and generally uncaring of other people's lives.

➔ Wu won't have a TL, unless anyone particularly wants a memory share

Desired CR: More friends, people who enjoy his endless optimism, people who will bring him back down the earth.
Unwanted CR: No romance

Event Ideas:
Rabid love: Wu will not get bitten, but he is a prime person to be obsessed with, platonically or otherwise. He's very protect-able, so it could be that sort of possessiveness. Open to this with existing CR or new CR.

Look at my love: Open to Wu seeing y'alls memories! If anyone is particularly interested, I could add a prompt for Wu's memories: either his great-aunt treating him horribly and dismissing him, or his recent love confession to Mako.

Cats in the cradle: Wu will be AU'd into a world where he's not the Earth King, but was a poor kid in Republic City. He met Korra instead of Mako and Bolin meeting her, and ended up traveling the world with her. He also got airbending during harmonic convergence bc why not give the boy a power.

Perfect World: Wu can visit your character's coma dream. He has a lot of thoughts about his perfect world, and how difficult it would be to achieve.

[tradicioun]

gentle steps over
i don't know if you want all the ideas or to select
so here are options
-- hecate's memory
-- adult joy
-- eda's au???
-- etc etc

Lat's Brats

[onerthes]

Player Name: Latroma
Preferred Player Contact: latroma or Latroma#8410 on Discord or PM.
OOC Limits: So, I am open to all? But I want to speak very carefully with anyone interested in the Yandere plot before considering it.

The Yandere Plot:
So, let's address the tricky one here. The Yandere plot is right in my wheelhouse. I have done plots like this, without event prompting, in numerous games in the past, and I have taken these to any number of extremes. In theory? I'm up for this. I'd probably willingly do this with just about any of my characters and anyone interested, as platonic or "romantic" but there is a trick.

My characters are either in committed relationships that I'm uninterested in fucking up, or just starting a relationship with an intention towards commitment and I'm not interested in screwing it up. So, whatever is discussed (if it is discussed at all and I'm entirely fine taking a pass on what is usually a personal favorite plotline for me as a player this time because it's unsuited for my characters), I am looking for an arrangement where it does not result in a permanent destabilizing of active CR. It would also be important to ensure that if it did get erotic, it adheres to game rules.

I'm inquiring about the option of mixing the AU moment with the Yandere one. That's the easiest, most workable option, but basically if you're interested in this with my characters, let's talk first. I'm probably interested? But it might not be doable.

Idiot #1
Vira-Lorr

Character Name: Vira-Lorr
Canon: Record of Agarest War

Desired CR: Almost any!
Unwanted CR: Actual Romance. She's leaning into something with Sailor Pluto/Setsuna Meioh at this point and doesn't want to muck that up.

Event Ideas: First off - No Top Level for Vira-Lorr this month. She'll tag in.
Look at my Love - Yeah, I'm definitely down for this. Honestly? There's not a lot of footage from the game because she's taken from an ending where Dyshana was chosen as bride, so it might be better if it's your character in a romantic scene.

However, there's some stuff within Deerington that might be doable, though I'd likely want to check the permission of the other character's player if they're ok with it being seen ahead of time.
Cat's in the Cradle - Haha, no Cats remakes for me. However, I'm down for a AU involving a completely non-magical existence with Vira-Lorr. Throw your ideas at me.
Class is in Session - This and the weird flowers are where you're more likely to see Vira-Lorr. She has considerable opinions on the subject, and I'd actually like to see her hash these thoughts out with closer CR. It might be interesting to see her perspectives juxtaposed in a non-horrific scenario against others' who may agree or not with her.

Idiot #2
Larxene

Character Name: Larxene
Canon: Kingdom Hearts

Desired CR: Almost any!
Unwanted CR: Actual Romance. She's happily dating a robot who has laser eyes.

Event Ideas: I'm probably going to force in a top-level for Larxene.
Look at my Love - Yes. She will absolutely sneak into your character's most intimate, private moments of vulnerability and LAUGH HER ASS OFF at them. No, seriously, that's about 99% likely to happen even if she likes them.

What? Her private moments? She ... doesn't really have them. Penny was a fluke, hah. So this is absolutely going to have to be your character's private moments.
Cat's in the Cradle - The linchpin of her top level. I enjoy forcing Larxene to experience a life that wasn't her own, because it's tormenting to her. She doesn't scare, almost to a Kender level of fearlessness (and if you recognize that reference, *high five of old nerdisms*), so I have to rely on making her awkward and uncomfortable afterwards.

I am thinking of actually making her a Bettie in the 1950s. A surreal, Leave it to Beaver moment that can play out absolutely banally. For that alternative, if the other partner wants to be related/married to her, that's entirely ok (it just won't last past thirty seconds post event. Again, she's likely to laugh in their face about it.). I will probably offer at least two other alternatives. Maybe Larxene as a Splicer in Bioshock (because she WAS one for a while), and maybe something with her as a legitimate hero saving the day.
Class is in Session - I'll do a prompt, and this could be interesting, but it's important to understand Larxene's perspective in this. She will, again, laugh at Ramona.

The reason is simple: She has an overtly Nihilistic view of Deerington. The dream is crumbling and she's already dead in her world. She's on utterly borrowed time, and nothing she does will make herself (in her mind) survive this experience. She will have trouble even conceiving of a world where she survives the final battles here or Kingdom Hearts and so ... this may be a strange conversation for your character. It could be interesting, but Larxene's view is very different than anyone else's.

Idiot #3
Neopolitan

Character Name: Neopolitan
Canon: RWBY

Desired CR: Almost any!
Unwanted CR: Actual Romance. She's in an extremely committed relationship with Emerald Sustrai.

Event Ideas: Neopolitan will probably have a top-level for this event. It's important to character development.
Rabid Love - Neo is the most doable of my three. However, again we need to talk first, and I don't want anything that would destabilize her relationship with Emerald. That relationship is both very tight, and at the same deeply strained by January's events.
Look at my Love - Sure, I'm down. Her memory (I can come up with something involving Roman. While my interpretation in this game is that their relationship was platonic, she did love and care about him a lot), or yours. It'll be awkward, but she's around for this.
Cat's in the Cradle - Oooh, edit edit. Yeah, I'm totally doing an AU where Neo and Roman are good guys in RWBY because that will just be weird for her.

I'm down for a non-RWBY AU where she knows/uses sign language fluently if you want that in a somewhat more stable society. throw me a line.
Class is in Session - Don't say Pencils down. She'll glare at ya. But yeah this is actually the event that I intend to do her top level because of. Neopolitan has a lot of opinions about creating a new world. And, while she didn't participate in Bill Cypher's plan (too busy dealing with Emerald/Ruby's current situation to try punching holes in reality), she's more than willing to address those thoughts.

Re: Lat's Brats

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Popping my head in here before doing much reading to just laugh over 'Unwanted CR: Actual Romance. She's leaning into something with Sailor Pluto/Setsuna Meioh at this point and doesn't want to muck that up.'

Mostly because literally Makoto's reaction to finding out about David's failed date was 'OMG you should TOTALLY talk up my friend Setsuna, you're both smart!'

And David was like 'please. do not. do this.'

Ref's Immortal Boyos

[51stcenturyjack]

Preferred Player Contact: PM to this journal or subject_013
OOC Limits: No killing Jack, and plot with me first for Rabid Love for either of ye gents? Thanks!

Re: Ref's Immortal Boyos

[51stcenturyjack]

Desired CR: Friends and adoptive family welcome!
Unwanted CR: Romantic love is off the table as he's happily committed to The Doctor

Event Ideas:

Rabid Love Probably going a familial/platonic route with this one, and he'll be more Tsundere than Yandere with this one.

LOOK AT MY LOVE Definitely doing this one, and memories may be at random: his relationship with Torchwood and its members over the years, his two marriages, his relationship with Angelo Colasanto, etc.