CR MEME: EPISODE II

[pigsfeet]

We've got new people, we've got old people, the only thing we haven't got is a CR meme. Oh wait-

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[komarran]

NAME: Manda
CONTACT: topsecretgirly, Discord: galeni#6544 feel free to add me on either!
TIMEZONE: CST
INTRO: Currently a lot of job hunting things, video games I’m currently playing (a lot of Overwatch sometimes), history (primarily US history since that’s what I study), and RP!

CHARACTER NAME: Duv Galeni
CHARACTER A/S/L: 34 / M / Barrayar
CHARACTER INTRO: He has a doctorate in history, specifically in “modern” Barrayaran history (so… this time period that’s currently occurring, he is both fascinated and hates that he is here). He’s a bit of a pariah when it comes to native Barrayarans since he’s from Komarr, the planet that sold Barrayar out and helped start this messy affair in the first place. He has military training since he joined up with Barrayar’s Imperial Service, placed with the spy bois, during his adulthood not that anyone from Barrayar would currently believe him so he’s keeping that on the downlow. Also was a child terrorist (reformed he swears) because his family is special and used to be bigwigs on Komarr before Barrayar took it over at a much later date than now.
STATUS: So he was on the Cetaganda side, but was kidnapped in a raid last month and is spending the early days of this month being interrogated by Piotr and Byerly. Currently recovering and stubbornly trying to prove he’s loyal to Barrayar since he’s Komarran and that’s a whole bag of worms. Also part of the failure of a hunting party, you’re welcome for having no food.
CR YOU WANT: People he can commiserate with, antagonism welcome since he can be snarky/dry/sassy at times. He’s not likely to take care of himself if it means he has a chance at proving his loyalty, so anyone that wants to tell him to sit his ass down and chill is cool. I’m pretty loosely goosey and willing to throw him at people and see what happens, honestly.
CR YOU CAN PROVIDE: He can be a serious, sarcastic fellow and provide vague context to characters wanting more information about what’s going on. He’s not telling anyone his true background because “time traveling historian” is not something he wants to broadcast, so he’s going with academic with an understanding of what’s happening in this galaxy. If anyone wants to flirt with him, he can provide a clueless brick wall that will be completely oblivious to any attempts if that interests anyone.

[vorrutyer]

so.....sorry for the torture

[komarran]

are you really byerly are you

[littlemissfutility]

It's pretty easy to get commiseration points when you were just tortured, ahahahahaha. Beth's willing to commiserate and is quietly trying to figure out her longish-term options, and she can be quietly firm about eating your damn dinner if need be. So there are a fair number of options, most of them p. friendly. ♥

[stompadour]

NAME: Harry
CONTACT: ormery hell yea feel free to add me! my plurk is garbage tho
TIMEZONE: EST
INTRO: I used to live in England but now i live in Canada. despite my name i use she/her pronouns. i have a lovebird called Maggot, and i am really enthusiastic about bigfoot. my job is furry porn so sometimes there is furry porn on my plurk, which may be a pro or a con depending on your attitude (no dont worry its never like... in the toplevels of unmarked plurks I PROMISE ITS FINE)


CHARACTER NAME: Jasper
CHARACTER A/S/L: 5,500/lmao*/ceta (* there's no gender in gem society but they all use she pronouns. jasper thinks people who identify as male are special snowflakes)

CHARACTER INTRO: Jasper was made on Earth five thousand years ago as part of her species' effort to colonise it and suppress a rebellion that was taking place there. Her entire life since that point has been unfortunate emotional baggage, stockholm syndrome (various), and pushing people around to make herself feel better. Generally she's pretty terse and serious and impatient and her baseline for interacting with humans is 'dismissive', but she has a terrifying grin on her when she gets really Into something. She is eight feet tall and bright orange and she has a like a billion teeth, all the same size and shape

STATUS: boy she just hates this. food?? sleep??? baTHROOM???? MEAT BODY??? unconscionable. She just failed at her life's purpose for the second time though so she figures this kind of repugnant suffering is what she deserves. She is probably asking a lot of rude questions, but also generally doing what she's told when it comes from authority figures on the base; she's going to get restless here pretty quick but she's good at following orders.

CR YOU WANT: People to field the rude questions Jasper has about human stuff. People who will be patient with her inevitably passing out from lack of food and sleep. People who WON'T be patient with her inevitably passing out from lack of food and sleep, like, just kick her while she's on the floor, I am OK with that . Once she actually works out how this stuff works she is going to be very interested in Healthy Eating and Exercise... so if anyone wants to help her work out how those things work and/or be her workout buddy that would be Radical. OR anyone interested in humouring her eventual forays into Fashion. People with the patience to maybe make a dent in her horrible worldview? People who want to arm wrestle? Also Jasper is SUPER easy to dunk on, so, like... please dunk on her she is a massive orange dunk target

CR YOU CAN PROVIDE: Jasper is fully equipped to be your Surly No-Fun Pal, if that is what you are into. She is capable of fun you just kind of have to dig for it. People she is better at relating to include soldiers, citizens of oppressive regimes who don't have a problem with their oppressive regimes, people who value Being Strong. She is also very good for negative CR? She's easy to offend and she does not hesitate to get really unpleasant with people. OR if you need someone to lift you to a high ledge.........boy have i ever got you COVERED

[protocol]

These two should be surly no-fun pals and have surly no-funtimes! Wash is military as fuck and would get along with her in that sense, and has surprising patience dealing with complete idiots so he might be able to help her ( some of the people he's looked after are barely smart enough to feed themselves on a regular basis ok ). He's also totally the dude who spends 99% of his time running laps and doing bodyweight exercises and training and shit so he can help her with that too. When he started training people he rode them hard and was definitely the intense military drill sergeant guy so hey if you want someone to order her around.

He'll also try not to stare at her rock nose.

[natalia_vdova]

I still totally want to do sparring and exercising stuff, but reading this I realized something more important

Okay

So

Nat is 5'3". Please help her reach things.

Sans | Undertale

[skelepun]

NAME: Em
CONTACT: safelybeds --> feel free to add me! But I think I got all y'all already.
TIMEZONE: PST
INTRO: My name is Em! I'm a student/working artist and that's basically what I talk about. That and my fondness for tofu and some of my fandoms. I post a lot of art, to-do lists for school and work, and occasionally RL whining. Also RP stuff, most of all!

CHARACTER NAME: Sans
CHARACTER A/S/L: 35 / M* / Cetaganda (* sex doesn't really exist for monsters, but gender kiiinda does. sorta. some don't bother with it. i have still not decided what sans has going on in his weird body. i don't. think it's going to come up. but he does not have much concept of biological anything, let alone sex)
CHARACTER INTRO: Sans is a nihilist, a lapsed scientist, a big brother, bad joke lover, aaaand a depressed alcoholic. He also, most importantly, is absurdly chill even if he avoids talking about himself and has a mean passive aggressive streak. Before getting sent through the wormhole, he was a monster with very different physiology AND loads of magic and now he's weird and sickly and kind of unsure of how to Be. Existing without magic is definitely going to take some getting used to, but dude's nothing if not. Adaptable.

STATUS: Sans is a skeleton-turned-human. It's not quite a perfect translation, his eyes are still sockets and his body looks like this nightmare. His current goal is to keep his head down, listen up, and learn what he can. After stumbling onto some... unsettling information in the lab, he's going to quietly try and conduct some research. He's also getting misestimating his body's alcohol tolerance and waaaay overdoing it at the Ceta party, winding up in the medbay for several days. Look out for a log for that!

CR YOU WANT: + People to grow a fondness for!
+ Fellow scientists!
+ Fellow drunks!
+ Nonhumans adjusting to being fleshbags!
+ Dense political/moral conversations!
+ People who don't want anything to do with war!
+ People to passive aggressively judge (important)!


CR YOU CAN PROVIDE: Ditto above. + Sans is great for positive and negative CR. He's super apathetic while also lowkey caring a lot about people and showing that in a million little ways. A few of them are even nice. However, he's got really strong convictions about morals that he alsoooo doesn't really follow himself, but judges people pretty harshly for. So that's fun. Plenty of room for conflict there.

As I said, he's also got some info from the last round of missions and at this point, he's pretty keen on figuring out getting back to whatever reality he can where he's not this... creature he is now. Dude really misses his magic.

[protocol]

NAME: Rocket
CONTACT: Valonqar#1048 on Disc, dragonpunch, I will add you back on plurk but I'm not on there that much these days. Journal PM or @ me on disc if you want to get ahold of me more reliably.
TIMEZONE: GMT+8.00 but I do not have a functional sleep schedule
INTRO: I like games of the video, board and tabletop varieties, art and animation, and my head lately is full of Hamilton and Moana songs, please send help I can't stop considering the coconuts. I have a miniature schnauzer named Fiver after the crazy rabbit in Watership Down, and also two pokemon plushies that hang out with me on my desk. Currently a lot of my time is spent making little buildings in Planet Coaster and trying to convince myself to save my wallet and not buy Picross 3d Round 2, though that one's a battle I am slowly losing. I also am completely VKS canonblind, so, uh, sorry if I'm messing things up sometimes.

CHARACTER NAME: ~*~Agent~*~ Washington
CHARACTER A/S/A: 37 / M / Cetaganda
CHARACTER INTRO: Wash was once part of a top secret experimental spec-ops military project, and like all top secret experimental spec-ops military projects it had a very happy ending and nothing went wrong, haha just kidding it's fucked him up for life and left him with severe issues about his sanity and a good helping of survivor's guilt. He's paranoid and slow to trust, and while he's appreciative enough of Cetagandan hospitality he's also inherently suspicious of it and is very careful to not involve himself in their war in any meaningful way. His app goes into more detail and uh I promise I'll get off my butt and make a good info post for him soon . . .
STATUS: Settling in, snooping around, and quietly planning to leave the Cetagandan base and make for the other side as soon as possible, but he's trying to find out as much as he can, first.

CR YOU WANT:

SPARRING BUDDIES. Surprise surprise, military man wants to spar. He likes keeping himself on his toes and has exercise and training regimes for himself that he'll keep to as strictly as possible even after being whisked away to some random place. He'd appreciate sparring with anyone who'd be a fair challenge for someone who is essentially a supersoldier space marine, although one minus is super duper space armor.
PEOPLE TO TEACH/TRAIN. He's spent the last significant stretch of time in his canon teaching a bunch of incompetent idiots how to take care of themselves. While he would very much appreciate teaching people who aren't idiots, he in general has developed a pretty strong Team Dad type instincts. He likes teaching people, likes training people, and I think it'd be pretty fun to have him take someone less militarily inclined under his wing, if they're at all interested of course. He's honestly a pretty damn good teacher and has a surprising amount of patience.
FRIENDS & SPACE BUDDIES. Wash is, uh, very slow to open up to people and generally distant and struggles with socializing like a regular person, but he's better about that these days and he's currently more inclined to talk to and trust his fellow wormhole dumpees. He's also a spaceman, talk to him about space, he's interested in the different tech he's come across and he currently is still trying to find out where Barrayar is in relation to where he once was. He's also kind of a not-so-secret nerd, so just talk to him about nerdy shit.
I-DON'T-TRUST-THESE-GUYS BUDDIES. Wash doesn't trust these people, like, at all. He's more given to trust other people dumped here along with him right now because that's simply what makes sense. People who'd work with him in terms of wanting to keep a careful eye on what the natives are doing and figure them and their motives out more would be valuable to him.
CATS. Wash likes cats.

CR YOU CAN PROVIDE:

THE INTENSE MILITARY GUY FRIEND. Do you need a space marine who wakes up at the same ungodly hour of the morning every day for a run and and a workout? Wash is your guy. Need someone who takes his training very seriously and wants to stay on his toes? Ayup. Want someone to design a rotating chore schedule? Totally Wash. Need some intense military training or someone else who only really knows how to function in a military environment and has no idea how to be a civilian? Call Wash today.
TEACHING & TRAINING. As above mentioned, he's more patient than he seems and he genuinely likes teaching. He's good at it and has a fair amount of military expertise to draw on. He'll also teach you about other things if it's something he knows about. Space. Technology. Though he doesn't know shit about a lot of the Cetagandan technology in specific, but maybe he knows more about space things than you do, he'll help out how he can.

[natalia_vdova]

Oh man, maybe they can do sparring stuff?

Nat is a tiny redhead, but she is also a former supersoldier/superspy and was raised in a top secret experimental military program, and is one half of a spec ops team that recently dissolved because everything turned into sunshine and roses. Which is to say that she would probably do a lot better at keeping up than she looks like. ;)

If he wants someone to train with / spar with / friendly competition sort of thing? Nat would totally be into that. I'm thinking for this month especially she is going to be spending a lot of time training, so they could totally run into one another or something?

[lovernotafighter]

Better hurry up on over before Tucker finds out and does something stupid (or, as we like to say, "the factory default settings").

dove

[littlemissfutility]

NAME: Dove
CONTACT: PM this journal or PP prettydoes. Friending my plurk is fine, but I prefer to friend people over there because we're going to be socializing ooc rather than because we happen to be in the same game.
TIMEZONE: CST
INTRO: Main thing to know about me rp-wise is that I'm most available on weekends because my work days tend to be long. As far as Dove-the-person goes: old movies, old music, children's books, cultural history, shrieking about the movie star signatures I saw at work on any given day, memes, writing, cooking-baking-ice-cream-making, and more idk.

CHARACTER NAME: Beth Greene
CHARACTER A/S/L: 18 / f / Barrayaran camp
CHARACTER INTRO: Beth is a nice high-school girl from Georgia who survived the zombie apocalypse right up until she didn't (though she doesn't know that yet). She loves babies, singing, friends, and trying not to be catatonically depressed. Her permissions page has some first-impression deets as well as the thematic material her character deals with.
STATUS: She's been healing some more from her injuries from home! The stitches are gone (though the facial scars remain), but she's stuck with the cast for another two weeks or so. She also went on perimeter scouting, cleaned up after horses, stirred groats, became a lady's maid, and finally got a knife. The last thing is the best thing.

THIS MONTH she's going to help capture the traitor in Barrayar and will probably be doing a fair amount of chores, horseback riding, scavenging for edible plants if possible???, practicing with swords, and eventually hanging out with Daryl "several possums inside a human disguise" Dixon if he defects.
CR YOU WANT: GREAT QUESTION. I'm open to positive, negative, and complicated CR, and I'm excited about what you might be excited about, but here are some possibilities:

♫ FRIENDS AND CONFIDANTES: Beth's made a few potential friends, and I'm always happy to encourage more. It takes her time to trust others these days, but if you're close to her age or clearly not a creep don't be ambiguous like Byerly, she's much more likely to warm up pretty quickly.
♫ RIVALS AND ALIENATED INDIVIDUALS: Like last month, I feel like I'm just saying "anything" with more words, but I want to make clear that if you're interested in pissing Beth off, frightening her, or otherwise making things weird and complicated, I'm completely here for this. Beth's not necessarily going to be super impressed with people who won't pull their weight, for instance. Anyone who seems like they could be physically dangerous or sexually demanding toward her can set her on edge, too, because of some of her experiences at home. But she's also just plain willing to call a jerk a jerk, so there are plenty of options that aren't, like, Serious Fuckin Damage areas.
♫ MUSICIANS: I'm just saying, she sings and plays a few instruments. If your character also does, they could definitely bond.

CR YOU CAN PROVIDE:

♫ ARGUMENTS: Beth is p. stubborn, and her current tolerance for putting up with other people's bullshit is still on the low side. Would you like an 18-year-old girl to yell at you? Because that can probably be arranged.
♫ TAG-ALONG: She also just spent a bunch of time trapped inside a hospital where everyone was shitty to everyone else and there were hardly any windows, so being out in the sunlight and doing things suits her.
♫ UNLIKELY TEACHER: On the other hand, she already knows a little about living like the Barrayarans. She knows how to do such varied shit as ride horses, feed cattle, garden, start fires with a mirror and a piece of glass, braid hair, use a hunting knife, scavenge for supplies, shoot guns, doodle, sing, play piano, play guitar, upcycle jewelry, and do some basic first aid. Maybe your character could stand to learn to do things, too.
♫ LIKELY STUDENT: She doesn't know how to use a sword, just knives and guns. >> There's no doubt other stuff she could learn, too!

[shri]

NAME: Lily
CONTACT: aeneia + adding me is fine.
TIMEZONE: +10 ( GMT ), or East Australian Standard Time
INTRO: Hi, I'm Lily, I am a historical nerd from australia. I love my weapons and research, also endless amounts of pretty things.

CHARACTER NAME: Lakshmi Bai
CHARACTER A/S/L: 57 / F / Ceta
CHARACTER INTRO: Lakshmi is a real historical figure who died herocially in battle about twenty years ago in her timeline. In this canon, however, she took up a magical juice called the Blackwater which keeps her from aging and since then has been fighting the British Empire that is secretly being used by Werewolves ( this canon, seriously ). She's a Queen, stubborn as hell and really, really hates evil Empires. She doesn't look much older than about mid twenties, but she talks like she's ancient when she's comfortable.
STATUS: She recently got captured by Ceta, interrogated and been deprived of the blackwater so she's slowly aging back to her real age and is convinced she's probably going to die. Basically, she wants out so bad because she loathes colonising empires to her last breath and has no chill, and being in an honest out and out war has her have even less chill. She's ended up loyal to Countess Olivia annnnd hates the cold. She doesn't really know what happened to her with the Fast-Penta and it broke her as a feeling quite badly, so she's reflexively jerked back to not speaking to anyone very much at all, SO. I am happy to work with any ideas you would like. fdsafds.
CR YOU WANT:

CHILL BUDDIES - she's a little untethered because she feels so backed into a corner and wants to hiss at everything and is low key panicking all the time and has no plans other than to get the blackwater back to at least destroy it if she can't escape. She's very badly trying to play along and if anyone wants to pull her into line, that is more than welcome.
INVERSELY, NOT CHILL BUDDIES - Want your character to get in her face about how she's behaving? Please, go for it.
MODERN STUFF - it is but 1886, and she is but a woman... whose been living in slums for 5ever, and she is super not used this electricity or clean water, or not having to fight for every little thing ever. SO if your character wants to tell her about the wonders of indoor heating or any such things, she'll honestly be so fascinated.
OLD LADY - she's rapidly aging and things are getting the better of her that shouldn't be. She's exhausted all the time and trying her best to hide it, but she's in a lot of pain and Needs Help.

CR YOU CAN PROVIDE:

ANTI-CETA - she hates empires, and she's got a new and shiny appreciation for how much she loathes Ceta, and will happily tell anyone who asks that They're Bad Guys ( and if you want to have your character to tell her to cool it, feel free ).
HISTORICAL LADY NONSENSE - she's electing to pretend she doesn't give much of a damn about it, but she knows her way through courtly games and can provide insight into that kind of deal.
BREAK OUT BUDDIES - she wants out and she will keep trying to get out but after her first miserable guns blazing attempt, so to speak, and as she's getting weaker, she's going to try and be sneakier and more low key about it.... also she's in a box again, so it won't be any-time soon.

[vorrutyer]

NAME: Hope
CONTACT: I'm asyndeton@plurk, please add me!
TIMEZONE: EST
INTRO: I'm a grad student, the light is broken but I still work

CHARACTER NAME: Byerly Vorrutyer
CHARACTER A/S/L: 35 / M / Barry
CHARACTER INTRO: By Vorrutyer is a Vor, also known as "one of those righteous assholes who run this benighted world." Specifically, he's from the crazy inbred torturey murdery Vor family. By himself is not particularly torturey or murdery, though he is very inbred. He loves wine, gossip, rumors, sarcasm, wit, charm, high-powered chemical stimulants, and bisexuality. He also loves informing on anyone who says anything at any time, because in addition to being an A+ fun person to hang around with he's also a rat for the government. He does it, of course, for good reasons: under all those layers of shittiness, he genuinely wants to help humanity and make sure that the innocent don't suffer the slings and arrows of false accusations. And yet somehow that doesn't make him any more bearable.
STATUS: By is working hard to gain trust so that Barrayar will let him go be a double agent embedded with Cetaganda. Of course, "gaining trust" entails "doing useful things but being so shitty about them that no one wants to give him credit because fuck this guy"
CR YOU WANT:
People to have Feelings about. Byerly is an overprotective and adoring big brother who hasn't seen his little sister in nearly two decades. He doesn't want good-hearted, fierce young ladies to care about, but I want him to have them.
People to be nasty to. One time, someone warned another person in canon never to be rude to Byerly Vorrutyer, because he'd just get all excited and decide that it's a competition. Please, compete with him. Be nasty as hell.
Teachers! By doesn't know how to survive in the wilderness. Help him.
People to side-eye this suspicious piece of shit.
People to investigate. Do you seem like you might be sympathetic to the Cetagandans? Let him try to suss you out.
People to try to convert. Do you seem like you could be swayed to the Barrayaran cause? Let him try to propagandize you.
??? people/creatures who are just like what the fuck, because Byerly is kind of a pervert so if you aren't human-y he might well find you pretty hot. And also he'd want to know more, because terminal curiosity.
CR YOU CAN PROVIDE:
Informing on them.
Snooping in their business.
Commenting nastily on their clothes.
Commenting nastily on their appearance.
Commenting nastily on their intellect.
That Fucker who doesn't know which end of the sword to hold so please keep him from dismembering himself.
Flirting. With anything and anyone.
Drinking buddies.
A complete cultural and political history of Barrayar along with tips on how to survive it, delivered in a drunken slur because he pretends he isn't really helping.

[pigsfeet]

god hope i want them to go camping so bad???

[lovernotafighter]

Can I just say that I'm loving what they're doing right now, and I don't care what happens just as long as they keep interacting?

[terrifyingrenegade]

NAME: Possum
CONTACT: awkwardpossum
TIMEZONE: EST
INTRO: I'm a 25 yo certified Huge Gay who loves dinosaurs, video games, and reptiles. I live in Boston Massachusetts along with 5 other nerds who are also all gay/bi, and who also all do DWRP. So basically I live in a miniature liberal lesbian hippie colony. My Plurk is not RP exclusive but you can feel free to add me!

CHARACTER NAME: Pearl
CHARACTER A/S/L: Over 6000 Years old / Female / Barry (but presently being held captive by Ceta)
CHARACTER INTRO: Pearl is a literal sapient space rock who was originally created by OTHER sentient space rocks to serve as a personal slave/fashion accessory/convenient stuff holder for some high society type. She super ain't about that life anymore though. In fact, she's been free and living as she pleases back on Earth for the last several thousand years now! But before she got to the whole "living freely" part, she was a rebel soldier who helped repulse her own home planet's efforts to eliminate humanity and colonize Earth for themselves. It was a rough time, and a lot of her friends didn't survive the ordeal, but they won in the end. Pearl has a fastidious and precise personality, a detail oriented perfectionist who's a bit emotional and has a tendency to fuss a lot over those she cares about. She loves teaching (it's the perfect excuse to lecture people) and is incredibly bright, and knowledgeable on numerous topics.
STATUS: Arrival was PRETTY SHITTY all things considered, it kind of sucks going from not needing to eat at all to being in a situation where you DO need to eat and food isn't available??? Really bad. Also she got captured by the enemy only a week into being here, so, you know. That's not super fun either.
CR YOU WANT: Please let Pearl teach you how to fight with swords. She loves swords. She loves swords so much and she's really good. At swords. Aside from that she will probably eventually need a few friends to help reel her back in and keep her from going totally crazy gung-ho rebel, because she has a tendency to get a little carried away when she's misbehaving? She's usually so responsible, too, it's just that fighting the establishment gets her SO PUMPED?? Also focusing on the war is a good way to distract herself from how miserable and sad she is about missing her family Someone also needs to. Teach her how to. Human.
CR YOU CAN PROVIDE: Seriously though she will be your character's sensei if you need it. Otherwise she can. IDK. Be judgmental of your strange human ways. I'm NEGL I'm too tired to fill this out more thoroughly just tell me what you're thinking and we can talk it out.

[littlemissfutility]

I'M THINKING SWORDS

[vorrutyer]

hi oh my god i would love to get a quick thread with her before she goes Cetagandan

[lovernotafighter]

Heeeey! I don't know how you feel with dealing with a guy who is...um, yeah just an idiot horndog, but he knows how to use swords, too. The problem is that he was never properly trained so he needs someone who can help refine him, especially with footwork and proper stances; he's very "let's stab things", and such simplicity doesn't always work. There might be some initial pushback on the training (he's horrible with authority), but eventually he'll get it. Would you be interested?

[natalia_vdova]

NAME: Jamie
CONTACT: natalia_vdova and natalia_vdova#0150 @ Discord. Feel free to add on either!
TIMEZONE: PST / GMT - 8
INTRO: Gosh, there's not too much to know. I am a GIANT Marvel comics nerd, so there are occasional comics spoilers, Nat is my favorite and I've been playing her in some form for about a decade and I have A Lot of Feelings about her. I just found Dreamwidth at the end of May, so if I screw anything up just lmk. I'm a huge nerd, I casually collect the Marvel Funkos, and BuckyNat is my forever ship in the whole world.

CHARACTER NAME: Natasha Romanoff
CHARACTER A/S/L: 76 / F / Ceta
CHARACTER INTRO: So just as an FYI I do pull some stuff from the comics, and I am always willing to tldr if anyone is interested. I also have a headcanon history written up that fills in the gaps between the Red Room and SHIELD, for anyone curious. But, Natasha was a brainwashed and enhanced child-assassin turned into a grown-up assassin, who became one half of a spec ops team, then a superhero, and then realized that the organization she was working for was not-so-different than the bad people she'd grown up working for. And then just as she finally decides to jump back into the whole heroics and trying to believe she belongs... she ends up here. She's a superspy, former soldier, hasn't aged in about fifty years, misses her friends and is still silently struggling to figure out where she fits in, and what that means for who she is. Ending up on an alien world has actually not helped her figure that out. Once she adjusts, she's got a streak of humor, enjoys teasing people, friendly competition, and can be prone to playing matchmaker as a savvy way of trolling people. She is also still a badass and can dance like no-one's business.

STATUS: Natasha is internally a cornered alleycat but she hides it well behind social graces and practiced smiles. That said, anyone who stumbles across her in the gym might recognize the signs of a person who is a bit more strained than she's pretending. She is not taking this whole not being as capable as she's used to thing particularly well. She'll adapt, adjust, it's what she does, but she's certainly not happy about it. She also has very specific emotional association with black roses which is of course what she got put in for the party. So that's fun and totally okay. Yepp. Also really dislikes not having weapons.

CR YOU WANT:
+ People that can see through her THISISFINE.GIF thing. People who are better with feelings than she is, or people familiar with what compartmentalizing looks like. People who might get her to chill the fuck out / remind her that Food Is Good. Other people that hang out in the gym / sparring friends, soldier/spy friends. Talk to her about the Cetagandans, share information, tell her about your world, smart people friends? She doesn't get enough chances to be into science and tech stuff. Possible commiseration with anyone else missing close friends? She's not the best at opening up on her own, but she does seem to be willing to use it to connect to people, though clearly has trouble with emotionally connecting herself. Trust and feelings are hard?

CR YOU CAN PROVIDE:
+ At the moment, she has sort of a short temper and is very much Pushing Herself Too Far while generally trying to keep a smile on her face so if you want irritable with occasional demonstrations of the ability to go from tense to seamless and pleasant in a literal blink of an eye, she can do that. She is a great sneaky-spy friend. She can Teach People Things, and is willing to learn from Other People who Know Stuff. She knows a mess of languages, several fighting styles, is very tech savvy and smarter than most people take her for. On good days, or just with people she starts to get familiar with, her sense of humor will start to show through, so teasing, bad jokes, pop culture references, annoying messages with smiley faces are bonus prizes. Semi-philosophical discussions about things like guilt and identity can happen. If you want a friend with war stories to trade, or alternately stories about being Big Damn Heroes stopping an alien invasion, she can do that too.
+ In her own words: "who do you want me to be?"

[lovernotafighter]

NAME: Vee
CONTACT: veelynn | Discord: Vee#3768 (although I'm still learning how to use this thing so bear with me). Friend me on either! I'm on plurk more than Discord.
TIMEZONE: EST
INTRO: Um, let's see. I have two jobs: one at a pediatric hospital with a bunch of doctors (so expect me complaining about docs) and the other as a photographer (so there's lots of pictures sometimes, especially with a few ongoing projects). On top of those, I have two cats and an insane dog, and I'm currently into Red vs Blue and Borderlands (if anyone wants to wax poetic about the glory that is Handsome Jack, hit me up!), Soon, though, I'm sure Robot Dinosaur Game (Horizon Zero Dawn) will be getting into that mix. But mostly, I try to post a lot of memes, RP stuff, and just try to have fun.

CHARACTER NAME: Lavernius Tucker
CHARACTER A/S/L: 27/ Male / Barrayar
CHARACTER INTRO: Tucker is a Simulation Trooper/ military idiot. But hey, he's better than the other idiots he's usually with, so that's kinda good, right? He can hold his own in a fight, he can do things, it's just a question of how much pushback, bitching, cursing, and awkward pickup lines will be included. Also, he's the aliens "Chosen One", so this guy? Yeah, he's a diplomat and father-mother of an alien son. I swear, it really does make sense, somehow.
STATUS: Tucker just got here, and... he's just complaining about the cold and hitting on chicks, so he's pretty much appearing as baseline normal. However, underneath that, he's a mess of tense crap, worried about his team back home, about his kid, about Chorus, and still trying to deal with his best friend's stupid, stupid sacrifice. He sure as hell doesn't want to fight in someone else's war, and after dealing with a traitor in the past, he doesn't really trust too many people here. But hey, Carolina's around, so bonus!
CR YOU WANT:
Friends - By "friends", he really means people to bitch at. This place kinda sucks, and he needs to tell people about exactly how much it sucks. And hey, he might just end up talking about his other idiot friends, too; want to hear about a robot that only speaks spanish? Want to hear about the time Grif forced the mess to post guards so he just got someone to dig a tunnel underneath it so he could steal more food? Want to hear about how amazing Reservoir Dogs is? Yeah, that's what you get.
Like, Really Good Friends - Not the hitting on kind, but someone he can trust. Someone he can talk about his problems with (like not at all trusting a certain mountain of a guy here) or the fact that his best friend died and he a) doesn't know how to deal with it, and b) he doesn't know how / if he should tell Carolina. He needs a confidant, but he's not good with his feelings so he'll probably yell a bunch first before getting to this.
People to hit on - As the title says. Expect lots of bad pick up lines and gross exaggerations of his romantic skills.
PTA without the T - Anyone else have kids? He needs to talk to some parents about his especially awesome alien son and how he misses him.
Negative CR - Tucker is hard (bow chicka bow wow) to get along with. Most people don't like him, so feel free to be annoyed by his mere presence. He may or may not get the hint, and he may or may not care; it's never stopped him before.

CR YOU CAN PROVIDE:
Comic Relif - Bad pick up lines, creative cursing, rashes that may or may not need to be identified: Tucker has it all. He's also annoying, but in an endearing way, so hey, maybe you need that in your life right about now.
Swording 101 - Tucker can use a sword, and he can teach you, too! Or you can teach him how to get better because not fighting with powerarmor is a hell of a lot different than fighting with it. Mutual learning experiences!
Bitch time - Dude, complaining is therapeutic. Let's go have a bitch session.
Stupid plans with stupid consequence - Just what it says. Especially in the off chance that he learns that Wash is on the other side. He's done it before, and he sure as hell will do it again. Someone might need to stop him.

[symmetricks]

NAME: Diya
CONTACT: isadiya | Discord: isadiya#0961
TIMEZONE: CST
INTRO: I am a cosplayer, RenFest enthusiast, gamer, and all-around geek type person. Comic books, movies, video games, table top, all the geek, bring it me. Fandoms I am into the most atm are Overwatch, MCU, Firefly, Dragon Age, and Red vs Blue. I like many other things too, but those are my go-to. I also have three small furry sociopaths that are allegedly cats. THINGS. STUFF. COME CHAT WITH ME.

CHARACTER NAME: Satya Vaswani | Symmetra
CHARACTER A/S/L: 29 / Female / Cetaganda
CHARACTER INTRO: Extremely fixated on order and structure, Symmetra was scooped out of the war-torn slums of her hometown as a kid and brought up to be fixated on the idea of constructing a perfect world for people to exist within. Of course peace and security usually come at the cost of freedom and individuality, but isn't it better to be safe and comfortable? She's autistic, a little awkward socially (usually masking that with a 'too good for you' attitude) and not terribly empathetic, but she's got a good heart and means well.
STATUS: Current title holder of 'taking all these shenanigans better than anyone else', she's settling in and trying to learn what she can from their hosts. It all seems to be on the level, though she's getting encouragement from a few of the other 'exotics' to look deeper than the surface, despite her desire to simply go along with things as they stand.

CR YOU WANT:

ANTAGONISTS: By which I mean, people to antagonize her and keep her from growing too complacent. Challenge her way of thinking. Instigate debate, provoke questions. Deep down, she knows she should be exploring her options, but indoctrinated behavior is a bitch to break away from.
FRIENDS: Tall order, because she is kind of aloof on the best of days, and she's better with science and dance than people. She is extremely loyal once won over, however, and she doesn't necessarily enjoy being alone all the time. (ooc preference: the more diametrically opposed to her the friend, the better.)
CULTURE LOVERS: Someone else has to appreciate what the Cetagandans have here, right? I mean look at all this stuff! The technology, the art, it's majestic, and this is just an outpost. Why are more people not geeking out over this??


CR YOU CAN PROVIDE:

DEBATE ABOUT ORDER vs CHAOS: And other such associated discussions. Let her word at you. Word at her in return. Hash out the complex structure of society and how it effects humanity. Words! Words for everyone!
MOTHER HEN: Is your character messy? Prone to injury? Do they need someone looking after them while they do their best to ruin this very fine opportunity they have here? Are they likely to try and run away? If you want a counter to bad/careless behavior, whether your character wants one or not, Symmetra is here. And she is so ratting you out, given half the chance. It's for your own good.
QUIET BUDDIES: You know what's great? Quietly exercising or meditating to focus one's thoughts in a chaotic situation. It's even better with other people that you can settle in and enjoy the quiet with. No, really. You should come try it with her. There's something to be said for silent co-habitation.

IT'S TIME TO D-D-D-D-DARYL DIXON.

[pigsfeet]

NAME: pel
CONTACT: wehwalt add away!
TIMEZONE: cst..... i think
INTRO: i am the danger

CHARACTER NAME: Daryl D. Dixon
CHARACTER A/S/L: 30ish / m / angry ceta
CHARACTER INTRO: how do you like your squirrel seasoned? daryl eats it raw. this is basically all you ever need to know about him
STATUS: daryl hates the cetagandans so fucking much. mostly he hates diya. CHRIST does he hate diya. she is honestly probably the living human being he hates the most right now. do you think she's ever eaten people? daryl would not put it past her. UHHHH tldr hes probably jumping ship sometime this month
CR YOU WANT:

• DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN. daryl fucking doesn't. he is from fucking georgia. that said, he is seriously considering defecting and living in the mountains rn. he has never survived in the wild in an area this cold before tho. if your character has, speak now or forever hold your hypothermia.
• A FRIEND IN NEED. daryl is critically weak to people who need help, especially if theyre women or children but just in general tbh. he will try to help anyone he sees, despite his generally surly exterior.
• SMUG ASSHOLES. are you a smug, superior prick? do you like fighting the unwashed masses? were doing this. were making this hapen

CR YOU CAN PROVIDE:

• MAN VS WILD. daryl is a consummate outdoorsman / survivalist / hunter / trapper / tracker weirdo. and not the weird prepper kind, i mean he has actually survived in the wilderness since before he was 12 years old. if your character needs to learn how to ~~survive and show a genuine willingness to learn and not be a TOTAL dick about it, daryl will probs help them out. hope you like tree rat
• PARTICIPATION TROPHY. daryl is a reclusive shithead who is only getting more reclusive. if your character is the bubbly sort who would try and drag this awkward weirdo out and talking to people, please. please do. please. just be warned, if your character gets too much on his nerves, he might snap at them. and then probably feel shitty about it and fail to apologize. js.
• PUNCHING BAG. alternatively, if your character is a bully or a just someone prone to picking at others' insecurities, WHOO BOY have i got a target 4 u

[natalia_vdova]

WELL Natasha was raised in Russia which semi-regularly included being abandoned in the snow and having to survive for weeks. So, you know, if he needs tips or advice on surviving in the stupid-fucking-cold, Nat can definitely help. It'll be just like the camping trips when she was a kid, except hopefully with less dying.

She could also maybe ping as someone that could use some help, if you think he'd pick up on and/or respond to people who are Having Trouble Adjusting.

And while she's not bubbly, she might try to encourage him to be slightly more social. Or at least impose her presence on him. If she was in higher spirits she might playfully harass him, but she's pretty much all maladjusted soldier atm.