abraxasooc | OOC INTRO & CR MEME #17

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OOC INTRO & CR MEME #17

OOC Intro and CR Meme

Welcome to our OOC intro and CR meme. We encourage you all to get out there, plot, and introduce yourself!

There is no formal introduction log for characters joining the game. Players are free to introduce their characters however they like.

To participate, fill out the form below and post it as a comment:

Notices

◎ Nocwich is OPEN every first weekend of each month. Characters can get some cross-border CR here. Beyond those 3 days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) and outside of game events, characters from opposing territories will only be able to see each other in the Horizon.

◎ You can review the newsletter here, which includes a Conclave meeting for all Summoned. New arrivals may participate!

◎ We've updated the Setting pages for each major territory. We hope this will make it easier to settle in and find the information you need, for new and current players alike. See: Thorne ⦁ The Free Cities ⦁ Solvunn

A Look Ahead

The OOC Plotting is scheduled for the 14th of this month, while the IC Event Log is scheduled for the 16th. The event will involve a mysterious crime for characters to solve. In-person cross-border interactions will be possible! The event will be fairly mod-involved, and players will need to interact with a variety of objects and NPCs to resolve the situation.

In-game, the event will take place on the 24th to 25th, so characters will have most of February to themselves before it begins.

There will be no Quests in March.

Setting ⦁ Magic ⦁ Network ⦁ Bestiary ⦁ FAQ

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OOC INFORMATION

NAME: Andie
CONTACT:

stickyholograms or dystopiandie on Discord.
ABOUT YOU: Four opossums in a person-shaped meat suit. Just, like, so tired.

Okay, in all actuality, I'm a thirtysomething hailing from the Midwestern United States. I've got an 8 - 5 working in state government, and occasionally I find the time to do creative things. Those mostly consist of ceramics and weaving, though I've kind of taken up sewing for the new year. Mostly zippered bags. I've sewn a lot of zippered bags. Assuming I'm canon-blind to anything you're talking about is probably a safe bet. I'm just Happy To Be Here.

OOC INFORMATION

NAME: Dee
CONTACT: theskyisnew both on plurk and discord
ABOUT YOU: Hi I'm Dee! I love video games (mostly RPGs outside of FF14 which I love), cats (I have four), and generalized geeky/nerdy shit. I run a screencapping comm called

capseroo and I also run wikicon on IJ and

wikicollection on DWRP so I usually know where icons are. I am the keeper of the Abraxas Cheatsheet so please feel free to link me to things as you add links like the Horizon.

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Istredd
CANON: The Witcher
SIGN: The High Priestess
TERRITORY: Thorne

CHARACTER INFORMATION: The nerdiest of nerds! Istredd is a psionic mage from the Witcher world who is a researcher and archaeologist. He has some previous knowledge of the multiverse and conduits/teleportation to other spheres so he is very focused plot-wise on the Singularity and the big picture concerns about how this world impacts others. He's very involved in the magical and theoretical plots of this place, including the gods and such.

Outside of that, Istredd's a leader-ish person within Thorne as a teacher of magic for newbies, especially other Summoned. He helps throw a Thorne mingle to get newbies used to the Horizon/network/whatever. He is also a beginner's magic teacher for Summoned and young mages. His Horizon is a very cool giant library where people can fill in their own books. If you look at the comments, he has added public information about the game history and details that might be of interest to your character. This is public! So your character can easily find it.

He's an introvert and doesn't feel natural with big social situations and yet he's managed to force himself into it a few times, throwing Horizon meet ups to talk to the others. He's a firm believer that they're all in this together. He is seen constantly with his boyfriend Lucifer, they're a package deal in Thorne.

CR YOU WANT: Anything you want! He can teach you magic, talk about the mysteries of the world, or flail at you about the Singularity. He loves theorizing.

CR YOU DON'T WANT: Nothing I can think of right now!

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Istredd is very protective and interested in the Singularity as he thinks it's important to the life of other worlds and magic in them. He's passionate about magic in general. He is interested in the gods and keeping track of them. He's very invested in the world here as he has no plans on leaving.

ANYTHING ELSE?:

Edited 2024-02-05 23:49 (UTC)

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Theodore Blackwell
CANON: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
SIGN: Temperance
TERRITORY: Thorne

CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Not so very long ago, Theodore Blackwell was hailed as a "Spartan hero" of protest vessels and sabotage ships. Along with his then-wife, he dedicated his life to causing trouble for whaling ships and working against unsustainable fishing methods to protect marine life. Unfortunately, he was pretty badly injured in the process. Fortunately (???), Imagine Entertainment was there to put him (sort of) right again. After an experimental neurosurgery involving compounds derived from Turritopsis dohrnii, or so-called "immortal jellyfish," they were able to reverse some of the damage that had been done to his spine. And then — as they have done with many others they've provided medical treatment to — they hired him.

Now Theo works as the right-hand man of Imagine's aging CEO. Some of the same people who used to call him hero now call him "corporate shill." To be fair, it's not entirely inaccurate. He mostly does what he's told and acts as the face of the company. Most recently that's meant overseeing the voyage of an enormous research vessel called the Melusine in its effort to prove the existence of mermaids.

And hey, Theo was successful! He's the first person on earth to successfully trap a live siren and live to tell the tale. (Many, many people did not live to tell the tale.) Yay him. Unfortunately, now he's in Thorne so he doesn't get to explore what the outcome of that discovery looks like.

CR YOU WANT:
A-n-y-t-h-i-n-g.

CR YOU DON'T WANT:
Since Theo here is my second character, I'm going to try to limit the "what the heck am I doing here?" style threads that helped me get acclimated with Wrench. There are some preliminary things I'd love to play out (see below), and I am very not familiar with the inner-workings of Thorne, but the "how did this happen?" and "why did this happen?" are something I'm probably going to breeze past.

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

→ One of the first orders of business for Theo is figuring out how he's going to get his hands on the medication he requires to remain mobile and functional without excruciating, debilitating, world-obliterating pain. It's a pretty noxious combination of stuff that may or may not exist in Abraxas: botulinum toxin, sea snake venom, and cone snail venom primarily. (Like I said, noxious!) If those things can be sourced here, fantastic! He'll need someone to fish them up for him, and know how the heck to handle them. If they cannot, he'll need a mage or a scientist or both or a miracle worker to cook something up that'll do the job just as well.

→ I didn't get to play out Wrench's first trip into the Horizon, so I'd love to do so with Theo. Anyone who meets him outside of that trip will probably note that he's extremely restrained — from the way he speaks to the way he carries himself, he seems held pretty tightly. I doubt that will be the case in the Horizon. Expect to see much more of the firey dude who used to spend his mornings surfing in Hawaii and his afternoons screaming at whalers with harpoons.

→ He got his first taste of magic on the TDM, and he'll definitely be interested in more of that stuff. Moreover, he's just recently had his mind blown with the confirmation that sirens actually exist. A creature once thought to be entirely relegated to myth is very, very real and very, very much not how popular culture depicts them. He'd be fascinated to speak to anyone from different sorts of reality where the myths of Earth are actually proven true.

→ If anyone would like to adopt him as a roommate, however temporarily, and show him around the castle, that'd be fun. Including figuring out a wardrobe and understanding when he can and cannot come and go. Theo's gotten to be a clotheshorse since working at Imagine, and he's also pretty used to dictating his own schedule.

→ Whenever Borrel opens again, he'll be in a hurry to get back there. He'll be in a hurry, really, to talk to anyone who's spent a significant amount of time in the open water.

ANYTHING ELSE?:

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Jesper Fahey
CANON: Grishaverse (Six of Crows the books)
SIGN: The Wheel of Fortune
TERRITORY: Free Cities

CHARACTER INFORMATION: Jesper is a cheerful gunslinger who is a vicious combatant, watch out, but otherwise is a friendly welcoming fellow. He's from a criminal gang of thieves the Crows, who are mostly all here. Since coming here he's made some close family in Cadens and he helps as the Welcoming Committee to Free Cities. He has a lot of lovers. He gathers a lot of information on a more personal level like a census of the Summoned who are there.

Jesper is a Grisha which in his world is someone born with supernatural gifts (they call it the small science but he refuses to call it that lol) and his Durast abilities surround the control and alteration of matter. He can metal bend which is why he's a perfect shot and can use knives with telekinesis in a very serious way. He can also change solids to liquids and he does this sometimes to create things. He is a merchant and makes money selling trinkets and jewelry. He recently started a fashion empire with Hilda.

He's the guy who Knows Things so ask him any questions and he's laid back and easy to talk to. Recently he's been struggling because two of his closest friends were sent home and he's been bummed out. He made himself feel better by trolling people on the network.

CR YOU WANT: I'm good with everything! He will flirt with anyone who breathes near him but most of the time he's just having fun, unless your character is into that sort of thing.

CR YOU DON'T WANT: None I can think of!

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Jesper is the guy to ask questions to or get settled into Cadens with. I'm pretty open to whatever!

ANYTHING ELSE?:

Edited 2024-02-05 23:48 (UTC)

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Wrench
CANON: Fargo TV
SIGN: The Hanged Man
TERRITORY: Solvunn

CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Wrench is a former hitman and only surviving member of the Fargo crime syndicate. He and his former partner were raised in the syndicate and taught to kill at the behest of its leader, and later served as two of its most prolific contract killers. At present, Wrench is about ten years post-encounter that left his former partner dead, and the entire syndicate ambushed and obliterated. He's also around five years out from coming into a two-million-dollar windfall, though for all intents and purposes, it doesn't appear as though he ever did anything with the money.

He's mostly been subsisting by living totally off the grid and evading a second capture by the US Marshals. He was captured once before, but the prison transport bus he was on was ambushed, and he managed to escape while shackled to the target of the ambush. He might've nearly died in that encounter and might've had his soul saved by some higher power upstairs, but for the most part he's Just A Guy trying to survive past his upbringing and everyone else he's ever known.

Important point of information: Wrench is Deaf and doesn't voice. I have a communication FAQ page if you want more information about any of that, and you can always feel free to ask for clarification or to brainstorm ways of interacting with him. I am forever welcoming of people who want to lean into the challenge, but am also highly cognizant about it not being more "trouble" than it's worth for people.

CR YOU WANT:
At this point I am enthusiastically taking all comers.

CR YOU DON'T WANT:
This question does not compute; I'm happy for it all.

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

→ I would be delighted for anyone to explore Wrench's Horizon and take part in any of the recreational activities or hit him up for some ASL lessons.

→ Someone please come and take this man by the hand and force him to get a permanent place to live. He survived the winter in improvised shelters and self-constructed lean-tos, and living off the grid is absolutely what he's become used to and comfortable with. But I'm not sure he'll ever feel like he actually has a stake in this place — or in his own future — until he gets himself a dang house.

→ Similarly, it's high time he learns that he has more to contribute than being really, really good at murder. He's been doing the self-sufficiency thing pretty well: hunting, trapping, fishing, breaking down the animals and preserving the meat, stretching the hides, and processing the pelts. He's got a good little reserve of warm things to wear and to cover oneself with, a good amount of preserved fish and strips of meat, and probably way too much blood. If anyone needs any food or anything warm, or if they want help with a construction project of their own, hit him up.

→ Someday somehow someone's going to have to unlock part of the Tragic Backstory.

ANYTHING ELSE?:

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Julia Wicker
CANON: The Magicians
SIGN: The Tower
TERRITORY: Solvunn

CHARACTER INFORMATION: Julia is a witch in her mid-twenties from a typical real world where fantasy stuff is a secret genre. Urban fantasy. She was stuck in a time loop with her friends where 39 times she'd gone to the magic school Brakebills, and they'd all died, so the 40th timeline she was pushed outside of the group and left on her own. She became a Hedge Witch which is a self-taught magic user (instead of university-educated) and became very good at it. Eventually some very bad things happened (PLEASE LOOK AT HER OPT-OUTS HERE they are very serious) and she has gone through a lot of pain in the past few years. I will not be bringing up anything on there without warnings and making sure the other person is okay. She is not a trauma dumper.

A key part of her right now is that she is a goddess in her world. People with supernatural abilities/sensitivity to feeling it would probably know right away, she radiates it especially as she's a baby deity not in control of her powers. She didn't ask for it, so she's trying her best. Julia has successfully courted the spring goddess Endrborrin and her flowers have special butterflies around them. She can also teach people Magicians magic if you want your character to learn something different from the native magic. It is spellwork and so usable by anyone with access to magic.

Julia's a type A personality, she takes charge when she needs to and she reacts badly to people trying to control her. She is very curious and likes to ask people questions about themselves, so watch out for that. She is seeking a community and a coven of sorts, having felt alone most of this experience, but she doesn't know how.

CR YOU WANT: Everything! Julia is friendly and generally likes people. She likes to pull introverts out of their shells in particular. She is a kind person and tends to caretake.

CR YOU DON'T WANT: Negative CR just for the sake of it because Julia's more inclined to not waste her energy on it and she's going through enough as is. Everything else welcome!

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Julia is dealing with no longer being human and what that means to her, and also in getting to know the gods of this land. Anyone who is interested in those themes would be welcome! She has life magic which means she's great at healing and specifically earth magic. Other witches/magic users are always welcome!

ANYTHING ELSE?:

OOC INFORMATION

NAME: Dia
CONTACT: PM me
ABOUT YOU: I work in cultural heritage and live with one very loud cat. I'm currently reading The Feather Thief, a nonfiction book about stolen bird specimens from a natural history museum. It has everything. Heists. Classical music. New Jersey. An absolute Stefan sketch.

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Alucard
CANON: Castlevania
SIGN: The Hierophant
TERRITORY: Free Cities

CHARACTER INFORMATION: Alucard is from 1400s Romania, and arrived in the game having a) lost his mother to witch accusations and being burnt alive b) having committed patricide because his father wanted to destroy the whole country in retaliation for a and c) also having his trust betrayed by intimate partners, nearly dying, and then impaling corpses on the front lawn. Since arriving in Abraxas, he's gotten much better. He is responsible for historic restoration in Cadens' Old Public Hall, having worked with Jaskier on creating a public park, and other sundry events related to the arts. He is currently undertaking a historic restoration of a castle in Aqualia, which he's having a great time with.
CR YOU WANT:
- Al's current open post is here!
- Other vampires or night world residents are always welcome.
- People to push further exploration be it of the Free Cities, other parts of the world, or a little bit more inward. Al's managed to do a lot of surface level work on his issues so he can function, but it's an ongoing process.
- Further contemplation of religion. Al's been deeply rattled by the cult and is trying to figure out what the role of the gods are here, really.
- Maybe he needs to start poking at the connection between gods and the singularity, if there is one? He tends to avoid the that rock.

CR YOU DON'T WANT:
- Antagonism without foregrounding it.

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:
- Al is on pause for an investigation into two NPCs, Oliver and Elizabeth, who appeared only once in the early days of the game.
- Likewise, he is waiting to hear further information about the "New Day" that he first heard about from the fae. There have been a few leads, and they're slowly being worked.
- He's open to stepping into other people's as well!

ANYTHING ELSE?:

OOC INFORMATION

NAME: Elizabeth
CONTACT:

detectivefiction, pm to character journal, Discord (I'm in the game Discord)
ABOUT YOU: Midwestern lady into writing and reading (mostly history, litfic, mystery, some fantasy); various crafts; medieval stuff; leftist politics; soft goth/dark mori fashion; red lipstick and big sunglasses; journals/pens/stationery/calligraphy; Switch video games; music (mainly classic alt and classical); fandoms including but not limited to GoT/ASOIAF, Elder Scrolls, Ace Attorney, and Sandman. Also chronically ill (and not at all into it; most of my hobbies are an attempt to stave off the incredible boredom that comes with limited physical energy). Sometimes I post cool links.

I actually would love to offer Geralt up to help him with his medication, because Geralt may be one of the few (only???) people in Abraxas who also uses venoms and poisons to create beneficial concoctions for himself. He's been working with substitutes using the monsters and plants grown in Cadens (+ stuff he's gotten friends w/ plant powers to grow for him), so he could source relatively similar ingredients, and he knows how to brew things.

Theodore will just have to assure him he's not gonna keel over dead from this stuff, bc that would make things...complicated, but otherwise the risk is his to take. Also depending on how their conversation goes, Geralt miiight request payment of some kind, but that's 50/50.

OOC INFORMATION

NAME: Whit
CONTACT:

whitticus OR discord at whitticus.
ABOUT YOU: HELLO I'm Whit. I live in EST land and plurk about rp and video games and work. Things I enjoy include various nintendos (metroid, animal crossing, splatoon, totk maybe), elder scrolls, valve properties (portal, half-life), HZD/FW. Sometimes, occasionally, I draw a game-related thing. Please feel free to add me I love to make new game friends.

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Viktor
CANON: Arcane
SIGN: Death
FACTION: Free Cities

CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Viktor is a scientist-slash-genius engineer-slash-BIG NERD. He's spent the last 6-7 years developing magitech with his research partner, which has not necessarily played out as he would have hoped, with much of his work being co-opted by rich people who are only interested in doing rich people things. He comes off as a fussy academic but is actually an agent of chaos who loves to break rules and do weird science and ponder orbs. Despite his general penchant for putting himself in danger by screwing around with unknown forces he does not fully understand and can't control, he is an idealistic, highly principled individual who believes that the purpose of scientific advancement is to improve lives. He’s soft-spoken but quietly ambitious, intellectually curious, and kind of an obsessive workaholic who is preoccupied with legacy.

I have an info and permissions post here and his app is here for further reading. He used to be terminally ill and still thinks about it sometimes so I have an opt out just in case. Comments are screened!

CR YOU WANT:

✷ Science types, baybe. He hangs around the Cadens academies and likes to be in tune with the general scientific goings-on of the city. If you’re an engineer or a mechanic or another scientifically-inclined individual he would like to connect and swap notes! Also, you know, people to do weird magitech experiments with?? Technologically-inclined people to mentor??? He has, like, an undisclosed number of degrees and likes to talk about math and physics and stuff.
✷ BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS. He wants to connect with people who can do things that he cannot, like go out on dangerous adventures and acquire exciting resources and bring him cool things. IN RETURN: He can fix your shit. He can make you stuff, provided it's not guns! I really want to lean into this now that he has more time/energy for it.
✷ idk. friends. People to get him out of his comfort zone, which is working until 4am and then falling asleep at his desk. He’s fully slipped back into bad habits (not eating or sleeping, working all of the time, etc.) so he needs someone who will tell him to go to bed and/or to stop tampering with the Horrors.

CR YOU DON'T WANT:
I’m all good let’s get dangerous

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

✷ Generally, his work involves faking magic via technological methods so he’s very jazzed about the real thing. He is usually testing projects in the Horizon if you want to stop by and say hi and ask him what the hell he’s doing. Recent work includes an automaton, and he's still working on that with the hope it can replace human laborers in the mines (because that's never ended poorly).
✷ Once upon a time Viktor did some illegal human experimentation on himself to cure his terminal illness. It worked! But it was definitely shady and in the aftermath the government raided his lab and stole all of the stuff he didn’t manage to burn and/or smash. You are welcome to have heard about this if your character pays attention to such things.
✷ Viktor has a business venture for all your "making things" needs. Bring him your terrible napkin scribbles and he will make your dreams a reality. Always love to get him working on projects. Pitch him any and all of your ideas, no matter how stupid.
✷ HELP WANTED!! Viktor cannot manage said business on his own, especially now that it’s expanded to Aquila and probably Libertas soon also. He has his eye on Nocwich too. Do you have a character who needs a JOB? A scientifically-inclined guy who might want to be a workshop assistant? There may be an OPPORTUNITY for YOU.
✷ Viktor is kind of quietly losing it and has some secret designs to puzzle out the Summoning ritual so that he can create the universe that he wants (this is bad of him). I would like him to talk to other people who plan to stay in Abraxas, or desperately want to leave Abraxas, and also maybe anyone who has knowledge of the multiverse. Just think it might be interesting!!!
✷ Despite not wanting to be perceived e is a newly-minted level 8 influence thanks to his various shenanigans and just got awarded an honorary doctorate from the Grand Academy of General Science. He’s getting heckled about it here and having a little workshop mingle and hanging out in Nocwich here if any new friends want to say hi!

ANYTHING ELSE?:
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Edited 2024-02-06 00:05 (UTC)

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Jon Snow
CANON: Game of Thrones
SIGN: The Emperor
FACTION: Thorne

CHARACTER INFORMATION: Medieval hero-king guy, but with more psychology. Well on his way to being a failed Aragorn. Works as a weapons tutor for the tween children of a low-end aristocrat; hangs out primarily with Mat, Sansa, sometimes Sandor in Nocwich. Morally good, self-sacrificing, and always low-key distressed about the state of the world and human nature. Superficially affable, but hard to get to know on a deeper level. Canon point is the month between 7x02 and 7x03: he is en route to Dragonstone from Winterfell as King in the North.

CR YOU WANT:

- THORNE PEOPLE. I would like him to have at least glancing CR with everyone in the faction. Other factions are cool too!
- CONTINUING CR. I would like to develop more friendships for this character -- he has a few, and he has his sister, but he also has a ton of acquaintances, and I'd like to turn some of those into something deeper. For 1-2 reliable medium/fast taggers, this could also turn into a small plot I've been trying to lay groundwork for.
- MORE CONCRETE MAGIC LEARNING. He goes to class all the time but I honestly have no clue what he's learning. If anyone wants to do some threads with specific content, I'm into that. Jon has a connection to magic in canon (but no powers that he's aware of and understands), so he probably has a little more facility than he would expect; he also is just a very hard worker who likes to do well at things.
- CHARACTERS FROM MORE CONTEMPORARY CANONS WHO WILL INTRODUCE HIM TO MODERN MEDIA IN THE HORIZON. Jon has never seen a movie or heard any kind of pop or rock music (except possibly in one thread almost two years ago, if I squint). He also isn't familiar with basically any common cultural touchstones: as an example, he has never heard of King Arthur or Shakespeare, or the Iliad or the Odyssey, and has heard of things that people from outside of ASOIAF/GoT-world absolutely have not. I don't want to overdo this (Jon Snow vs The Modern World has comedy value, but it's not an unlimited well!), but I do want to have a little fun with it! It also might be a good way to bond with more contemporary characters.
- TEACHING AND ACTIVITIES: he can teach any weapon/skill he knows (swords, shields, archery, spears, possibly horse riding) to anyone he likes from any faction, and he can also teach hunting and fishing. But he also just likes to do those things for fun and to stay in practice: sparring in the training grounds, hunting, fishing, riding, etc. All are good activities for new or deepening CR.
- SOLDIERS, SPIES, FELLOW MEDIEVALS, LEADERS, ACTION GIRLS, PEOPLE BEREAVED BY WAR, PEOPLE BORN IN STIGMATIZED POSITIONS: all are either types Jon likes or has things in common with! MOM TYPES are also great. If your character doesn't fit that list but you're interested, hmu anyway.
- CHARACTERS INTERESTED IN METAPLOT and/or PLOT CONTACTS IN OTHER FACTIONS. Let's get into each other's inboxes to talk about what's going on where we are!
- BOOMERANG TAGGERS. This is a "nice to have" and not a must-have, but it really helps develop CR.

CR YOU DON'T WANT:

- Dedicated life-ruiners of the kind that probably aren't even a factor in this game. I'm talking, like, Joker vs Batman stuff. The occasional low-key negative cr is fine!
- Jon is probably reluctant to mentor teen boys, because the last one ended so badly (kid stabbed him, he executed kid, he will be messed up about this forever). Other kinds of CR with this kind of character are fine, but he probably won't be eager to step into a big brother role for a while, especially since his actual sister is here. If this happens, it will happen very slowly and against Jon's better judgment.

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

- Overarching plot
- Magical side
- Political side

I am interested (as a player!) in the overarching plot: it is my motivation for joining any game. Jon would be interested in trying to understand why things are the way they are (example: he'd be interested in stuff related to the Singularity here for the same reason he'd be interested in the Night King, the Three Eyed Raven, and dragons at home, and he'd be interested in politics here for the same reason that he's forced to be interested in whatever Cersei is up to at home)... but he's not hyper-intellectual, so while he's able to keep up, his own groundbreaking observations will be pretty rare. I'd just like him to be more in the loop than he currently is, so I'm especially interested in CR combinations that would help with this. That said, it's not the only kind of CR that interests me!

ANYTHING ELSE?:

I've worked really hard in recent months to become a much more consistent tagger! I've broken a bad thread dropping habit that I had for a while due to RL factors; I'm also back up to a decent speed.

OOC INFORMATION

NAME: dai
CONTACT:

disarmingly | disarmingly @ disco | PM
ABOUT YOU: hello hi- my name is dai, she/her, 30s, texan, freelance editor, part-time nanny/travel nanny, and recovering member of the publishing industry. i do a lot of traveling, reading, writing, rping, ttrpgs, larping, cosplaying, ren faire-ing, etc. and I am always open to be added/chatted with on plurk or disco so please feel free to reach out literally whenever! c:

the biggest things you'll find me chatting about on plurk are going to be current fandoms, which at the moment include: pjo, the mandalorian (i'm officially a star war.....), witcher, good omens, ted lasso, grishaverse, stranger things, mcu, etc. previous fandoms have varied greatly and will continue to do so (reoccurring interests include the expanse, tlou, hades, tales from the gas station, arthuriana...). i read A Lot too so you may see some Book Plurks.

i have a fairly odd schedule rn as i am uniquely employed, so i greatly appreciate pings and/or direct disco messages to things people want me to see/messages they may have/comments/silly ideas/etc. c: im really awful at being a part of discord servers. like really really awful. r.i.p.

Edited 2024-02-06 00:07 (UTC)

OOC INFORMATION

NAME: Hannah (2)
CONTACT:

muttonchops / poultrylegs @ discord / PM
ABOUT YOU: I live in Colorado (MST) and I paint and listen to music and my love for soup is probably my entire personality. I plurk mainly about RP, but I’m also an illustrator and post my artwork and sometimes I talk about music, and I also have a very cute dog named Theo who I post many photos of. If you want to add me, you don’t have to ask!

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Eddie Munson
CANON: Stranger Things
SIGN: The Devil
TERRITORY: Solvunn

CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Eddie is a doomed by the narrative, anxiety-ridden metalhead from 1980s Indiana—but like, a highly cursed town in Indiana that houses an alternate dimension with monsters and creepy shit. Long story short, he had one really bad week that started with him being wanted for a murder he didn’t commit (the satanic panic of it all) and ended with him getting munched on by some mutant monster-bats. Bats: 1, Eddie: 0

He repeated his senior year twice back home and in game time, he’s 22 years old. He doesn’t like conformity, but he does like D&D and rock music to an obsessive degree. He’s super dramatic and just a little bit nervous. He’s incredibly intense and might look like he’s gonna strangle you if you even try to insult his favorite bands, but he’s a kind-hearted dude who genuinely wants to help and do the right thing and has a serious soft spot for those who “don’t belong”.

CR YOU WANT: I guess it would be best not to start 2024 off with “all”, but genuinely—I’m open to all of it! He’s a friendly guy for the most part, but if your character is a bit of a black sheep? That’s his bread and butter right there, let him collect you. But he's also kind of intense and tbh it might be nice if someone actually found him scary for a bit.

CR YOU DON'T WANT:
We’ll play it by ear.

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:
I’d like to get him more involved in general this year and maybe like…find an actual goal to work him towards now that his general anxiety has calmed down a bit, he’s not overwhelmed by this death, and he’s actually willing to get out there. BUT, because I haven’t found that goal yet, here’s a few other things:

—General Solvunn stuff.
—Horizon stuff. You can see his domain here. He does a D&D session there once a month (when major shit isn’t going down), but that generally gets handwaved.
—Music stuff! Eddie’s main love in life is music. So that can be fellow musicians, people who want to learn music, listen to music, anything. As long as it’s music. He may or may not have a sometimes-duo with Nanaue, and Hall and Oates are quaking.
—He’s trying to actually learn some magic so magic stuff and get in touch with the gods. He can’t decide if he totally buys that part yet or not, but he’s doing his best.

ANYTHING ELSE?:

Edited 2024-02-06 00:59 (UTC)

Okay, that would be absolutely perfect. Theo's not keeping any secrets, but he does have a pretty good idea what people are likely to assume if he starts going around asking everyone he meets about poisonous stuff. And while he's got a tacit trust of the people who prescribe the stuff back home, I can imagine he's going to be wary about mages with cauldrons around here, rofl. He'll be glad to know that Geralt has done this all before.

I don't know what he'll have to offer as payment that Geralt might find of interest, but I am very happy to also have him generally indebted to the guy. Especially since his need for medication is an ongoing thing and that can rack up... a lot of debt, until Geralt decides it's repaid.

OOC INFORMATION

NAME: Noa
CONTACT:

discontinued | Discord: quantifies
ABOUT YOU: I watch a lot of things, play a few video games, crochet, bake bread. I'm currently back at Honkai: Star Rail, and I'm getting through The Expanse. Add me on Plurk or Discord any time! My plurk is primarily RP chatter, so no need to ask. I'll answer either one for plotting; whichever you prefer is fine by me.

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Aloy
CANON: Horizon (Zero Dawn/Forbidden West)
SIGN: The Hermit
FACTION: Solvunn

CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Aloy hails from a post-apocalyptic version of Earth that was ended by a robot apocalypse and reconstituted via an extremely complex AI-governed terraforming system. This system is currently not in good shape! But it’s much better than it was, thanks to Aloy’s endeavors, though the aforementioned system still churns out a bunch of robot dinosaurs that she needs to kill, a lot. As a result she’s an extremely capable machine hunter slash RPG protagonist slash problem solver who was raised an outcast but has since saved the world like three entire times, and will have to do it one more.

Or she WOULD if she wasn’t HERE. Generally speaking, she’s a determinator with poor social skills but has recently come around to the fact that it’s nice to have a team, and friends, and people she can count on. All of that’s GONE NOW and she’s pretty mad about it, but she’s a good person at her core, and cares very deeply about helping people and not making things worse.

Also she’s a clone and her mom is a computer. It’s complicated. You can read more about her on her application here!

CR YOU WANT:

✷ Fellow hunters/combatants/people who want to go out and kill monsters! She’s used to taking down giant robots with nothing but a bow and arrow/sling/primitive firearms so she’s highly skilled in that department and will gravitate towards people who can hold their own in a fight.
✷ Friends??? People she can warm up to and hang out with even if she will probably be a big jerk to you at first and tell you that god isn’t real.
✷ Aloy is used to working with tech far beyond that of her contemporaries, so she would love to have some people to commiserate with in that department. The story of her version of Earth is a doozy, so I would also love to have her work up to, you know, telling people about it.
✷ HORIZON FRIENDS AND HUNTER’S CLUB WHO WANTS TO FIGHT A ROBOT DINOSAUR IN THE MIND REALM
✷ new solvunn people come over here.
✷ She’s also from the end of Burning Shores and is feeling some type of way about it! Did you also experience a canon update? Do you want to talk about HOME??? She’s probably more willing to talk about those kinds of things at the moment. I would like her to talk more about her friends and family and girlfriend and the unique circumstances of her world so let’s make it happen

CR YOU DON'T WANT:
I want everything lay it on me

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

✷ Interested in leaning into the whole “the Summoned are being revered” in Solvunn because she knows a thing or two about that. She’s sick of it! That said, in true RPG protagonist form she cannot refuse a side quest. Hey help her find all these goats
✷ She hates cults. She's so mad about everything that just happened in the Pit still. Despite this, she voted to restore the island, if anyone wants to have, like, a discussion about it
✷ Investigating??? Old gods??? Probably she’s going to want to find the AI behind the curtain, because there is always one. Aloy lives in a compound out in the woods and has no qualms yelling at people to stay away from the shrines because none of you know what you're doing
✷ More practically, establishing some kind of monster hunting group (both for the safety of the primary settlement and also so she can travel further beyond it, you know, as like, a bonus). She can make cool things out of monster parts!
✷ boot camp. if you need to know how to shoot a bow or survive in the woods or eat squirrels she is your girl and I want her to teach all of the solvunn children how to skin a deer.
✷ Aloy is INCREASINGLY CONCERNED that the Free Cities still has an entire Thunderjaw corpse. She might be considering an ill-advised excursion across borders to blow it up. She has told no one about this

ANYTHING ELSE?:
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OOC INFORMATION

NAME: Sarah
CONTACT:

bitchcraft or bitchcrafty on Discord
ABOUT YOU:

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Julie Lawry
CANON: The Stand (2020)
SIGN: The Wheel of Fortune
TERRITORY: Free Cities

CHARACTER INFORMATION: Do you like canons that now seem oddly prescient and will make you nauseous at how close reality came to a fictional dystopia? Welcome to the world of The Stand, a miniseries released in 2020 about a global pandemic that kills 99.4% of all human life. Stephen King wrote a book in the 70s and we're all still paying the price. Julie Lawry is a manipulative, social-climbing hayseed from Kansas who is among the .6% of humanity who is inexplicably immune from the superflu. As the sole survivor from her entire podunk town, she spent a month completely alone, then fell prey to a wizard/demon/sex god, went to Las Vegas because of dreams, and now her wardrobe is fabulous. Also she died, but we don't talk about that.

Julie practices wild magic, which she learned by living in Nott for half a year to get a start, then just kept stubbornly practicing via trial and error until she got good at it. Her abilities were sped up by spending excessive amounts of time with the Singularity because ↓

She has a distinctly strong connection to the Singularity and the Horizon -- by which I mean it turns out that she can FUCKING TALK TO IT. As far as she knows, she is the only one who can have an active conversation with it. This has led to her becoming somewhat obsessive and territorial over the Singularity; she spends a lot of time with it, speaking to it and absorbing its magic like nuclear waste. But she loves the Singularity a lot and is fiercely protective of it, both due to her connection and also the fact that she cannot leave Abraxas (since her world is dead), and she fears something bad happening to the world if the Singularity is harmed.

Over the past year, she has been further weakening the mental wall between herself and the Singularity by using her ability to help try and find clues during the kidnapping. It worked, but she does not yet know the cost of doing this. She can also now interact directly with it outside of the Horizon, interaction mostly being her telling her thoughts to it like a really dumb live tweeting session, and its subsequent reactions. Spoiler: It does not really care about most of her petty commentary on other Summoned. It seems to mostly just like her company. Most recently, she made an ill-conceived pilgrimage to the physical Singularity, where she spent two and a half weeks lying comatose in the center of the crater while her consciousness was forced back to the freaky alternate plane she got stuck in last year while the Heralds attacked (?). Sidenote: she is now capable of making portal stones of questionable quality. Possibly also portals (of equally questionable quality) but she's not super keen to try those again.

In the Horizon, she has a nightclub that's open whenever she's there, populated by roughly 100 fake people who live on the dance floor. There is a lot of booze and drugs available, please see the bartender (Steven, a manifestation of the Horizon) or the hostess (Julie, an idiot) if you would like some. She has also recently created a secondary tower that functions as a repository of alternate planes to which she has been exposed via the Horizon/Singularity and its bullshit.

When she's out in the real world, she lives with Nadine Cross in their own home, as well as co-operating their cannabis brand. Julie is much more involved on the recreational and marketing side. Which means she will sell you some drugs if you wanna meet up in Nocwich.

CR YOU WANT: tbh I am wide open. Julie will be the cheery to your grumpy, she can work as both little sister or big sister types, she is happy to encourage all those terrible but mundane ideas of your character (eg, she will give you cocaine but probably not help you commit genocide. Unless you have a really convincing argument). Also she is an incorrigible slut, even if she has fallen into a mostly monogamous situation.

If you want negative CR, she can be kind of a dick, especially to people she doesn't know well or regards as being "beneath" her in some way. But I'm not into CR that's negative purely for the sake of negativity.

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Julie is really attached to the Singularity, I cannot overstate this. She is highly suspicious of anyone else she deems "too into" it (as she doesn't think they have a right to be), but if your character is chill and eases into the conversation, she likes to talk about it. She isn't open about what she can do or knows about it, since that could turn her into Abraxas's Most Wanted #1, but she has insights to be gained. If your character is on the level and can build up the trust enough, she might someday let them in on her secret -- but if they choose to dig around on their own instead and manage to work it out, she will be beyond pissed. If your character also has some sort of special connection to it (which she can detect. also go talk to the mods if this is your jam, they will set you up), she is much, much faster to warm up.

Shockingly, Julie probably has the best insight amongst the Free Cities Summoned into the different kinds of magic in Abraxas, if your character is interested in learning about it. She is one of the few left who has lived in more than one faction, and her dominant/preferred form of magic is a rare one on top of that. While she traffics mostly in wild magic, there are certain principles out of academic and new magic that she taught herself (mostly in pursuit of doing incredibly illegal things). High magic is some shit she doesn't want anything to do with, though.

ANYTHING ELSE?:

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IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: steve harrington
CANON: stranger things
SIGN: the lovers
TERRITORY: solvunn

CHARACTER INFORMATION: once upon a time, steve harrington was super popular, great with the ladies, and the king of hawkins high. then he found out his town is kind of cursed and has this really weird ‘other world’ that ends up crossing over with his, and nothing was the same. there are monsters, girls with superpowers, a bunch of kids who are the only reason he, or really anyone, is alive, and oh - also he was totally dumped by his gf (who he was def not completely in love with)? needless to say, none of those earlier things apply anymore, and steve is working hard to figure out who he is through all that. at his heart, he’s a good kid who is doing his best and he's had a hell of a reality check (honestly, he feels a little like that reality hasn't stopped checking him for the last three years.) and he may or may not have REALLY great hair.
CR YOU WANT: more friends!!!! also more people to just straight up adopt him. he might be 20 but he is also Just A Guy. just a little guy. in solvunn. which is not made for Little Guys. i would also love for him to flirt around a little, maybe just be a little bit of a loser now that he's not straight up terrified all the time, etc etc etc.
CR YOU DON'T WANT: n/a
PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

- found family!!!! he connects with people pretty easily, and is very loyal and very protective, so I would love to keep that train moving along. especially where it concerns parental/older sibling figures, because steve is driven by having His People, so having as many of those as he can is perfect for him.

- anyone from a semi-normal version of the United Stated who knows who Queen Is? he attaches onto those sorts pretty quickly because he's uh. missing home. so. c;

- people to help him with magic!!!! he has. no idea what he's doing on that front, but he and eddie kind of made an agreement that he would at least try, and he's starting to learn how to use a couple of them lately. if there's anyone who wants to help him figure things out he's more than happy to listen

- ANYONE WHO HAS STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH GODS. steve's very recently kind of accidentally stumbled his way up into some old gods bs that's happening in solvunn, and it's going to complicate his life tremendously. so if anyone ALSO wants to get all up in that business, or has any fun things to say about it all, he is HERE.

- flirting??? romance???? dates????

- he is gonna end up diving into more things that relate to the summoning and singularity if only because he now has a vested interest in making sure a certain someone, who may or may not be dead back home, can go back home WITH HIM and be alive. it's not necromancy, exactly, he thinks. he doesn't really know.

ANYTHING ELSE?:

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Geralt of Rivia
CANON: The Witcher (Netflix)
SIGN: The Hanged Man
FACTION: The Free Cities

CHARACTER INFORMATION: Geralt is gruff and rough around the edges, and soft on the inside. Surprisingly easy to get along with if you can overlook his brusque nature. Harder to get to know him well past the surface. He was abandoned by his mother, nearly died in some gnarly mutation experiments, and was subsequently raised in a pretty harsh environment and taught to endure from an early age. Stuffed full of hidden trauma. He's good at killing monsters, handy with a blade, and prefers his solitude but likes company that he's comfortable with. Can be solicited with free drinks or food. Extremely protective of the people he loves and will not hesitate to murder. Heavy association with wolves. Also has a daughter he would do anything for. More info.

I also have a Sense Permissions post where you can tell me what your character smells like and if they have a less-than-average heartbeat (or no heartbeat).

CR YOU WANT:
— ◈ Cheerful and persistent types to force him into friendship or anyone patient enough to get him to open up and/or give him shit for being a grouch
— ◈ Other dads or dad-adjacent folks!!!
— ◈ Actual monsters, monster hunters, and fellow outcasts he can befriend (or not befriend)
— ◈ People he can protect! Geralt has a strong protective streak even if he won't admit it. Conversely, people who will be protective of him since that's a rare one
— ◈ Characters with orphaned/fucked up childhood backstories, esp those exposed to/committed violence at an early age. Or on the other hand, ppl who have a wildly different upbringing than him
— ◈ Harmless idiots who'll rope him into some shenanigans against his better judgment
— ◈ Negative CR is good, too! Geralt doesn't go out of his way to upset people, but he'll let you know if you're trying his patience and tensions can naturally arise over contrasting philosophies. Geralt is not a man who changes his mind on these things - his core beliefs have stuck with him for decades and he rarely cares to defend or explain himself. 100% fine with people who'll be wary of him or don't like his habit of slicing people open as an answer to certain problems, or who just don't get along with him because he's as stubborn as an ox.

CR YOU DON'T WANT: Anything that develops naturally is A-OK with me. Purely negative CR for the sake of it might not go very far since Geralt rarely engages there, but that's just an FYI. On an OOC level, I'm open to anything. Because of the type of personality Geralt is, I'm happy to talk out slowburn plots or extended scenarios or anything of that nature.

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

— ◈ Hunting/exploring. Geralt rides out for 2-3 weeks at a time into the desert to kill things. He's not one to take partners but it can happen if they're both coincidentally out there or if you want to just disrupt his day, go for it. He can also be found just wandering the desert since he doesn't really like being in the big city constantly and prefers to go rock climbing and watch the sunset in silence.

— ◈ Horizon fun times. His Horizon is a big old decrepit fortress/castle, with skeletons and bones buried under the snow. Underneath that is a more pleasant temple. Geralt might not say a lot, but his domain speaks a good bit for him and about his history, so if you want an easy in to get to know him, swing by.

— ◈ Politics! Previously, Geralt preferred not to get involved in the bigger picture. He still doesn't, but he is now no longer so cautious about doing so. Firmly in his fuck around and find out era for the sake of protecting his daughter, Geralt is about 100% more willing to interfere in places where he once might've taken more time to think about it or waited until his hand is forced. He's committed to keeping Ciri safe, along with his family, and believes the Singularity is what's keeping her out of the Wild Hunt's sights. As a result, he's very against destroying it. He's extremely wary of anyone who poses a risk to this world he's made his home in - even if he understands their intentions.

— ◈ Horse girls and/or swords. Geralt is a horse girl through and through. He loves his horse, he talks to his horse. If you, too, love horses or just want someone to show you how to ride/tack up, he's willing. He's less open to training people out the door, but he can be convinced. Sparring is also on the table!

— ◈ Extremely grey morals! Geralt is a monster hunter who's perceived as a monster himself in a war-torn world where people are often the worst monsters. He has his own philosophy on navigating the chaos, and sometimes, what he believes, what he says, what he wants, and what he does can all be contradictory. I'd love for things of this nature to come up.

— ◈ Bonding, especially some brotherly bonds. Geralt's chosen to stay in Abraxas, so he values people important to him a lot. If he sees common ground in someone (i.e. similar traumas), he'll take an interest. He's started to collect other hunter-types in Abraxas into a little family of sorts. The only qualifications are being a dumbass and killing things.

ANYTHING ELSE?:

OOC INFORMATION

NAME: Valkyrie
CONTACT:

valkyrieblue same for discord
ABOUT YOU: Hi I'm Valkyrie, I'm an old lady who plurks mostly about fandom stuff, RP, and sometimes work complaints and RL stuff but not a huge amount. I'm kind of all over the place. I love Star Wars obviously but also like every other fandom. I also like video games I'm currently playing Starfield mostly and also the oregon trail randomly because I'm also a theater nerd and auditioning for an oregon trail based musical in a month.

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Rey
CANON: Star Wars
SIGN: The Star
TERRITORY: ~~anywhere she pees~~ Free Cities

CHARACTER INFORMATION: Rey is a space wizard techie who has been in the FC a few months after spending the better part of a year in Thorne (and a year away, tho it was only a few weeks to her in her own world) so she's still kind of finding her footing. She works for Viktor. slightly feral. Does bite.
CR YOU WANT: I would love more friends and people Rey can hang out with, but I also like people she can be snarky at or prickly towards.
CR YOU DON'T WANT: NO NOTES
PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I'm interested in doing more stuff with Rey's building and creating, and getting her into humanitarian things and maybe some gardening she likes plants.

ANYTHING ELSE?:

OOC INFORMATION

NAME: kira
CONTACT: PM | discord: tembleques |

suspiros
ABOUT YOU: i don't use plurk that much anymore but feel free to add me there if it's easy as an access point. alternatively, it's easiest to find me on discord. had a bit of a rough time in january, so i'm working towards new stuff now + handwaving past threads.

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: wanda maximoff
CANON: mcu
SIGN: the hanged man
TERRITORY: solvunn

CHARACTER INFORMATION:

wanda is a character that has been shaped by tragedy and loss, thus why she's a tough nut to crack at times. she wields powerful magic—chaos magic—and tries hard to be one of the good guys despite her doing more harm than good with it. at this point, wanda is from post-multiverse of madness. she has claimed her title as the scarlet witch, a being of unfathomable magical power, but given she's from the end of the movie she has seen how she's done wrong, and is currently going to be working on living with all that chaos, loss, and corruption from the darkhold. this basically means that she will have her moments of feeling very sad, guilty, and angry. NGL with the power of love and friendship she's getting there. she will, however, still make stupidly rash decisions with her magic.

additionally, given her mind powers, she can connect (even more so now) with the 'louder' thoughts of others. i tend to play it by ear in threads wherein she picks up on things here and there, but never grabbing onto anything secret/important unless discussed previously; however, here is an opt-out post for that and other mind-related magical skills.

at this point in time, wanda's found something of a home and family within solvunn. she has also created a pact with one of the old gods, soris immaneus, and is looking to understand their place as summoned and the old gods more thoroughly. she's been working on divination as it works in abraxas, and is looking to delve more intrinsically with the magicks of this world.

CR YOU WANT:

one of the big themes for wanda is found family, but other than that i really like the idea of some conflicting cr because of different opinion and/or personality. magic-inclined/supernatural friends would be fantastic, as well as the brother types, and any non-magical folk she could help out with magical endeavors. i'm always open to any cr!

CR YOU DON'T WANT:

other than romance, since she's already in a relationship, nothing comes to mind.

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

— fucking around and finding out in solvunn.
— exploration of grief and found family themes.
— themes of forgiveness, letting go, and moving forward.
— the idea of being able to redeem yourself, or just exist as "the bad guy".
— dark magic, magical corruption, studying magic.
— letting her do wicked and magical things. :)
— old gods researching!

ANYTHING ELSE?:

Excellent, I'm sure we can work something out to get this going, esp since Geralt doesn't hide what he is, either.

Generally indebted is totally fine! If they get along well enough that Geralt is mostly offering to help, he'll likely never really collect bc he'll eventually consider him a friend. If he doesn't super vibe with the guy, then he'll definitely call on a favour when the need rolls around.

IC INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: sam wilson
CANON: mcu
SIGN: justice
TERRITORY: free cities

CHARACTER INFORMATION: hello hi let’s talk about captain america. and about how this dude (who genuinely cares way too much and somehow managed to keep ahold of some pretty naive beliefs and hopes for the future) who has spent his whole life trying to CHANGE THE WORLD, and found his way to do just that by giving shit to the one guy who most people were too intimidated to give shit to (aka cap #1). anyway. that cap has 'retired' (it's complicated) and after some soul-searching and a couple of missions over the span of an mcu tv show, sam took up the shield and is now driven by what being cap means to him in the current day. and, of course, how he can help as many people as possible. he is an eternal optimist, believes in the good in people, and WILL give you a Captain America Speech (and won’t regret it). he’s doing his best and will continue to do so, that is something you can always depend on.
CR YOU WANT:

sam is on a mission to adopt/connect with/be friends with as much of the entire game as he can - this is driven pretty intensely by the fact he believes that the best and only way for the summoned to stay safe is to stick together/protect each other, so being separated by factions is NOT going to be a problem for him. he already feels somewhat responsible for everyone anyway (whether you want him to or not, he's been here since the beginning so this is just gonna be a thing that happens) so he's happy to help provide a safe place to go (quite literally if you're in cadens), someone to talk to, or a dad (slash cool uncle) if you just want a hug.

in general, he is looking for allies, friends, or found family (habits are hard to break), and is happy to make connections with ANYONE AND EVERYONE.

atm cr for sam rn has fallen into three categories: He Has Adopted, He Is (Going To Be) Family, or He Will Protect (sometimes a mixture). if you fall (or want to fall) into any of these, hello hi come talk to me. c:

i am also not against negative cr for any reason so if you think your kid will butt heads??? let's go for it - it might take a sec because sam isn't looking to make enemies and has some pretty impressive patience, but we can always get there. i am not at all against getting some good guys vs. bad guys energy up in here, either, so if you want an Enemy!!!

CR YOU DON'T WANT: n/a
PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

- UNOFFICIAL CADENS WELCOME COMMITTEE: if you're in the cities, chances are you'll hear about sam. he is a name you will also most likely be told/pointed in the direction of if you're new as well, since he's a p high ranking influence AND he's made a name for himself as the sort of 'if they're lost, point them to me' kinda guy. he is willing to help you get set up with a place to stay and answer anything and everything about this place, as he's been here since the beginning (as long as you're not throwing up any weird red flags.) C: this includes history of the summoned, the political status of the world at large, etc.

the welcome committee is basically just...sam and hilda and jesper and diana, who go out of their way to make sure new summoned don't fall through the cracks. which happens to also involve a welcome party every now and then, too!

NEW CADENS PEOPLE part of the welcome committee's job is to make sure y'all have a place to stay. mag's inn is open for anyone/everyone who has been summoned and needs a place, but you gotta work for her around the place to pay it off. this is something that would be told to you either by another summoned or some locals around the neighborhood, as they know the deal by now.

ALSO IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THE COMMITTEE you should also talk to him. he and hilda and jesper and diana have a real fun time.

- POLITICAL SPHERE: so right now sam is (unintentionally) kinda a big deal. he's level seven, which means it's entirely possible you'll hear his name mentioned out and about the general populace of cadens (and beyond). he has met with marlo on a couple of occassions, and tends to be present for any and all political meetings, and is someone that the locals know pretty well. all this to say, if you're interested in getting your character involved in the politics of the cities, SAM IS HERE TO HELP AND WE CAN FIND A WAY TO GET YOUR CHARACTER involved. whether or not he wants to be wrapped up in it, he's going to. c: just let me know!

- THE SUMMONED AT LARGE: right now sam's kinda also in the process of building up some close connections between thorne, free cities, and solvunn among the summoned themselves. he's in the space of "we all need to stick together and stay out of the rising tensions - war is never good for anyone, ESPECIALLY for outsiders". so that can involve running into each other in the horizon, reaching out to people he might not already know, etc.

- FAMILY DINNERS AT MAG'S: if your character is in the free cities, whether or not they've settled at the inn, Sam has fairly frequent family dinners where he takes over the main dining hall portion of Mag's and just makes a huge ass meal for whoever wants to come by. These are usually every two-three weeks, so if your character has been around enough/heard about it, the invite is always open. I don't always put up logs for these, just because I don't want to clutter things up, but if you want your character to run into sam there and/or other people, it's a setting that is open! these tend to be a lot more chill than the Welcome Committee Parties.

BEYOND THAT:

- he is prepared to be anyone and everyone's uncle/dad figure/parental figure if you need one or even if you don't. he is HERE to build a found family, come join in the party he cooks great dinners. did you have a bad family history? he will be your new dad. just want some kinda support? hello he's here.

- friends!!! for real!!!! he is building his crew and his circle and he is always open to bringing in some more people that he can rely on/trust. he's super friendly, too, but CLOSE close cr will take a little time.

- hanging/shit-giving buddies. friends? yes. friends??? in this economy??? let's grab a beer.

- people to flirt with casually. he's a huge flirt, but he's not gonna follow up with much atm because it does take a bit for him to get there and his priorities involve Work atm.

- F A M I L Y

- people he can check in on (hey....hey friend....you taking care of yourself? no? need someone to come over and give you a talk?)

- people who have given up on heroes who would like to be reminded they can sometimes still exist??? gestures.

- A D O P T I N G wayward souls

- someone force this man to take a nap

ANYTHING ELSE?:

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OOC INTRO & CR MEME #17

Andie + something old & something new

Dee's Peeps

Istredd | The Witcher | Thorne

Theodore Blackwell | Into the Drowning Deep | Thorne

Jesper Fahey | Grishaverse (books) | Free Cities

Wrench | Fargo TV | Solvunn

Julia Wicker | The Magicians | Solvunn

Alucard | Castlevania | Free Cities

Elizabeth & just one fellow

no subject

whit and some guys

viktor | arcane | free cities

Jon Snow | Game of Thrones | Thorne

dai + her kiddos

Hannah (2) | Eddie Munson

no subject

noa + 2 old men

aloy | horizon | solvunn

Sarah | Julie Lawry | The Stand

steve harrington | the lovers | solvunn

geralt of rivia | free cities

Valkyrie's last Jedi

no subject

no subject

sam wilson | justice | free cities