new year new you new CR new meme

[in_extremis]

gifts! the CR meme

Time to make some connections, lay out some plans, or just see what everyone else is up to for the foreseeable future!

GIFTS! With some seasonal gifts from the Agrii in the mix, now is a good time to plot out what exactly you might be able to do with them. Maybe someone else can use them in a surprising way!

JARS! Want a more visual chart to show off what you're into playing right now? Try filling the jars!

FORM! For a more traditional CR meme experience, feel free to use this handy form as it suits you.


<b>Player Name:</b> Your handle. <b>Contact:</b> Where you can be found. <b>OOC Yays!:</b> Maybe you can find someone with a similar play style/time zone/weird niche interest! <b>OOC Nopes!:</b> Whatever you're really not interested in playing, whether it's just boring or actively upsetting to you. <b>Character name:</b> You know, like a name. <b>Expertise/Ship:</b> What datapoint they have, or not have, and what ship they are on. <b>Current residence:</b> Where they keep their stuff or sleep, if they do that sort of thing. <b>Typical activities:</b> Where they can typically be found on a normal day, where they might be run into or you can claim you might have seen each other around at some point. This is a good handwavey opportunity, if you're not into small talk, or an easy point of connection! <b>Character themes:</b> What's going to come up most often in a thread with this character, that you want to explore? This might also be a good time to remind/warn everyone of the darker stuff they could be getting into. <b>Ongoing:</b> Where is your character right now? What are they working on? What kind of connections have they made? <b>Future:</b> What would you <i>like</i> your character to be doing? Do you have some nefarious plans you're trying to put a squad together for? Do you have some development you're trying to reach? <B>CR You Want:</b> Friends, romance, enemies, mentors, hilarious misunderstanding hijinks. <b>CR You Don't Want:</b> Really only interested in a happy friendship or want Tony to stop flirting with you for god's sake? Lay it out. <b>Anything else?</b>

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Tony!!!

[in_extremis]

Player Name: Bear
Contact: disco ¯\_( ಠ_ಠ)_/¯#3341
OOC Yays!: I don't have an essay about what I'm feeling neurotic about this time lmao you're welcome. Someone else bring that discussion to me, let me pick your brain. My Trope Jars still look like this, I'll play anything with you if you're giving me the energy back. I guess what I would really love right now is some feedback!!, because I feel like I keep on striking out and have maybe gotten off track with Tony. I never use this section right.
OOC Nopes!: This isn't actually an overall nope, but I thought I'd note I've been making a conscious decision not to tag the like...teen to young adult?? vague hands characters, ONLY because I feel like there are a bunch of them and they should be developing their tribe and until I see that happening, I'm wasting their time with this midlife crisis. That isn't to say I don't want to tag your younger characters, rather I'm noting it here in case that sounds bonkers to you and you would rather I take up your time more, and that tribe does exist already and I just haven't been paying attention. This is just the latest fixation in a series where I decide that other characters would be more appropriate in places or activities or whatever, like it would piss me off if Billy was suddenly the rich guy building robots for some reason, and I don't want to do that to someone else. Does anyone follow me? Oh look that's where the neurotic essay went.

Character name: Tony Stark
Expertise/Ship: Communications, and he's on the Vanquish, which he actually hasn't spent any time on yet really. What's up shipmates?
Current residence: Still the forge/orange 24. This is probably the best description of it that I've written. He might be basically splitting his time between there and the library now that he has Iron Man to travel around easily.
Typical activities: Roller-skating around, getting into trouble. I don't actually know anymore. He can be a little reclusive, and Cayde still HAS HIS SUNGLASSES, so you might be most likely to meet him in the armor, carrying junk around to turn into miracles.

Character themes: If you've been in one of these before, you've read this before
Addiction/control and isolation/abysmal self-worth are going to come up and he is going to be constantly dramatic and depressed. Building things/solving puzzles/the future are good distractions and his happy place. He will just start giving you stuff if you are nice enough to pay attention to him for 0.5 seconds. a t t e n t i o n.

Ongoing: Just recently he outlined an itinerary: get that thing out of Catra's head, scope out the Palace place over in Sh'Ka, try to get their audience's attention by blowing something up. Mostly, he's hanging out with Jon and Cayde and trying to figure out how to live here/get out of here. We haven't talked about the War Room where they map the place/pool their information/lay plans since Ikora left, but if someone wants to pick that up again with Tony, that would be choice.
Future: I feel like I've been saying this for months, but I know Beck wants to be a villain at Tony so that's the only thing really in the chamber still. I've got some GOOFY plots stewing re: werewolves, body swaps, honey i shrunk the kids, and if any of that piques your interest, just throw it all at me. Tony still hasn't gone to visit the fancy robot estate in Sh'Ka and that is a crime.

CR You Want: Did you see the Trope Jars?
Some specifics because of who I am as a person:
1. Celty: I feel like Tony and Celty laid some good groundwork, but I don't know what for. What are we.
2. Felwinter: They were at odds early, and I've been using that as a good reason to finally leave one of your characters alone, so let me know if you want me to keep doing that. BUT now that Tony knows a little more about Exos, maybe we could actually make something of Kaz's...secret. I don't know what that is.
3. Reeve AND Rufus: Tony and Rufus still haven't really met to be gremlins together, directly at Reeve. I feel like we must need a solid plan to do so.
4. Keith: lmao hey man. I do have a couple of reasons to send Tony to Sh'Ka, so maybe Keith really should be his bodyguard?? Unless you've thought of something funnier since then.
5. THAT REMINDS ME: GENERAL EVERYONE??: anyone that went by the Civics Centre during the painting thing, you should have picked up an IOU ticket. You don't have to have tagged into that to claim one. Feel free to cash them in with Tony any time. Let's talk about it.
6. Echo: Get Tony's glasses back you demon
7. Jon: they still haven't had a real fight and seem really resistant to it, so I have to figure out something else to be horny about. Or its your turn to pick something to struggle with, mine isn't working, I'm SORRY they're so IN LOVE.
8. Lauri: Last time they were together, they were kind of Cool, and since then Tony has committed a lot of crimes to her building. What's going on there, what's up?
9. These are worse than usual lmao.
CR You Don't Want: Billy.

Anything else? he's so stupid


THE GIFT!!!
"Tony will receive a suit of your choice but also the bottle of bubble path (scent is your choice) and some lipstick in a shade of red to match his suit."
Suit here meaning like...clothes, not armor. So he's going to be looking a little more himself. Unless someone has some other plans for any of this stuff...

Apologies in advance for this mess

[deal_me_in]

Player Name: Aya
Contact: PM any of my journals or trilobite_punch@plurk or Trilobite Punch#4073 on disco
OOC Yays!: Action stuff! Also getting my guys into trouble. This does not cover all my interests.
OOC Nopes!: Uhh whatever I put on the last CR meme

Cal Kestis

[out_of_order]

Character name: Cal Kestis
Expertise/Ship: Engineering / The Flygood
Current residence: Green-9 / The salvage/workshop
Typical activities: Poking around unclaimed buildings for things to salvage or maybe just clear some places out. He doesn't stay at the museum/Jedi temple anymore but you can catch him trying to keep it cleaned up, or using the meditation room, or going through lightsaber drills. Otherwise you can find him at the workshop, and if you need any spare parts or a portable heater, you're more than welcome to drop by.

Character themes: Traumatic past kind of goes with most Jedi coming out of the Clone Wars. He's largely gotten around the large bumps that have kept him down earlier on, done a bit of growing up and taking responsibility. Not to say he won't still have some moments, but he's largely in a better place, mentally.

Ongoing: I guess it's safe to say Cal and Merrin are a thing. Aside from that, he's decided not to stay in the temple because he feels the Jedi were meant to be more available to others to be able to help everyone better. He's still picking at fixing equipment and powerlines over in Sh'Ka when he can.

Future: I don't plan that far ahead, don't ask me these questions lol. I'm used to just going with things. Maybe find an excuse to have him revisit those awful caves by the beach if you wanna see his psychometry go bonkers again.

CR You Want: I'm open to positive or negative! Another question I am terrible at answering.

CR You Don't Want: N/A

Anything else? He's getting his master's broken lightsaber (back), so that's a thing.

Cayde-6

[deal_me_in]

Character name: Cayde-6
Expertise/Ship: Still ain't touched one of those things // Bishop
Current residence: Blue-18 / The clocktower
Typical activities: If he's not off wandering somewhere or pestering Jon and Tony or Echo then he's playing barkeep at The Deep End, cleaning glasses, counting bottles, maybe throwing darts at his crooked dartboard. Otherwise he can be found up in high places or poking around dilapidated buildings either in Temba or Sh'Ka. Sometimes one might catch him up in the clocktower working on a map or sharpening his many knives. On occasion he'll be out in the ampitheater with some empty bottles set up for target practice.

Character themes: Laid back Hunter who likes to shoot things. He is from an FPS video game after all. He's perky and happy-go-lucky but that's because he doesn't want to dwell on other things, although sometimes they work their way in. If that happens he usually lets that mask slip around those closest.

Ongoing: Got his arm sliced off by Catra Prime. Got it reattached by Tony and Jon. Making sure it's still got a decent reaction time by throwing snowballs at The Soldier. On team 'how do we get that thing out of Kit-Kat's head'. Planning mass destruction. He's blown up the tunnel to Calibrations a few times now but it keeps clearing up, so he's saving what explosives he has left. Still waiting for that other shoe to drop.

Future: He would love to be shooting something. Like those Atroma-folk or whoever that are pulling the strings.

CR You Want: COME TO MEEeee
CR You Don't Want:

Anything else? Cayde's getting some weird things for the gifting- a couple of worn playing cards featuring an Ace and a Queen of Hearts, and a Newton's Cradle thingamagig. The cards might make more sense to whoever was poking around his Calibrations headspace. The Cradle he hopes was taken directly from Zavala's desk and the Titan Commander is going mad looking for it.

Lord Felwinter

[tyrants_son]

Character name: Lord Felwinter
Expertise/Ship: Palm Cottage // Communication
Current residence: Yellow-10 / Security Tower Top level
Typical activities: Watching you. Well not really, but he does watch things from the Security tower. It's got a great view. He'll otherwise be out in empty areas trying to gauge how much he can push his abilities without compromising himself. And then there's skimming about the network.

Character themes: Identity and insecurity? I DON'T KNOW I FAIL AT THEMES

Ongoing: He's taken something of a backstep after Kaz has made good on his threat, mostly seeing who he can trust and cautious of who might think to ask further questions. His work with his Void and Solar powers is slightly more focused on the need for his own survival, but he's always been paranoid. You would too if your AI dad threw warsats at you.

Future: He sincerely wants to help people. He just needs to work on that trust aspect, so some reminder that not all people are Kaz terrible is always a good thing. He does feel vindicated by the response of most of the people to Kaz's post, at least, but he's still got his concerns from home ingrained. Some valid points have been made to him so he might be a little more willing to open up about who he is if someone asks the right questions. Or is just downright pushy.

CR You Want: See previous CR responses
CR You Don't Want: N/A

Anything else? He didn't get his throne (I would've laughed) but he did get his Lie. That'd be his shotgun. It no shoot though. So maybe it really is a lie.

Omega

[small_compromise]

Character name: Omega
Expertise/Ship: Medical // Vanquish
Current residence: Yellow-03 / The Hotel
Typical activities: If it were warmer she'd be out 'patrolling' or tagging along with Echo for patrols around the city. Sometimes she has Tony the mothcat with her. She also tries to keep up her practice with her energy bow. Sometimes she likes to climb up on the Eewawani boulder mound parked by the glownie pen to keep it company.

Character themes: Uuuuh... Science and child soldiers?

Ongoing: She loves learning new things, and most everything is new to her since she's had limited experience with things that others might consider quite normal. Always eager to help, and making friends. Winter's one of those new things for her so she's been trying to keep warm and Kyle's letting her stay at his place at Kaz's insistence. She'd stay with her brother but his watchtower isn't exactly warm.

Future: Maybe she will pilot some day. Also she's the most likely to get canon-updated at some point.

CR You Want: Everything but romance, she's only a kid, golly!
CR You Don't Want: Uh see above I guess!

Anything else? She's finally getting toys!!! Namely Lula and her clone trooper doll.

Celty Sturluson

[tsundullahan]

Character name: Celty Sturluson
Expertise/Ship: Nothing yet // Starduck
Current residence: Yellow-03 / The Hotel
Typical activities: Riding around on her motorcycle around the city. If someone needs her to transport something or give them a ride, she won't say no.

Character themes: ...supernatural..????

Ongoing: She's only made a few acquaintances so far but she's not been particularly put off by anyone.

Future: Someone find out what she is!! Or at least make her lose the helmet!

CR You Want: Aaaall

CR You Don't Want: N/A

Anything else? She's the only one I didn't specifically request a gift for so she's getting her pink flannel 'jammies cuz that's like the only other thing I've ever seen her wear that wasn't shadow-generated.

[tsundullahan]

WHAT indeed. I still find it funny that she will probably be unphased by Tony's flirting because Shinra is about the same level if not worse. Kishitani Shinra, not...FF Shinra lol.

As for Felwinter, GO ON AND BOTHER HIM. I dunno, they might not ever be friends friends and the thought of someone finding Tony pinned by his shirt and some rebar to a wall one day will never not be funny in my head. But if they wanna talk Kaz and Tony wants to work out more on that post that was made, I am all for it.

[ambitiousblond]

We definitely do! Tony would be such a bad influence on Rufus and Rufus is just a bad influence on everyone.

And Rufus can tell Tony all sorts of fun stories about Reeve.

[beholding_archivist]

Well. So far these two tended to just do what they felt like doing. No surprise us trying to set them up for a fight hasn't been very successful. Do we just let them run wild?

[in_extremis]

that's perfect though, they'll get along great, someone who doesn't encourage or cringe at him. Water off a ducks back.

we need to make Felwinter this irritated at least once, and I don't even think we have to plan for that, just let Tony do his thing while trying to accomplish anything else.
Work out more on that post that was made...?

[in_extremis]

I've been WAITING for them since you arrived, but the stars have not been aligning. Is Reeve actively trying to keep them separated??

[in_extremis]

I think TRYING to get them to fight has been an interesting guiding thread, even if that's never where it actually ended up, so I want to see what other effects we can have with another spectre like that. I don't know what that is, though. It could be something stupid like 'I want Tony to find out about the demon pig'.

[tyrants_son]

I english gud

That was referring to Kaz's post lol

[in_extremis]

oh yes okay
yes
let's...do something with that

I don't know what yet, I'm not sure how consequential this feels to Tony at all, but he might be curious enough about the mechanical difference to push pretty hard

bring the shotgun to get fixed!

[beholding_archivist]

asdfghjkl - Monster Pig XDD

Though sure. I don't mind to keep up setting up their paths in such ways. It remains fun~

[in_extremis]

is there any kind of pressure that you think would be interesting to put them under?

[ambitiousblond]

Reeve doesn't want them to combine forces no doubt.

And Rufus knows all the dirt on Reeve. Some of it may even be true. We're going to have to have them run into each other without Reeve knowing until it's too late.

[beholding_archivist]

Gooood question. Right now we're still having Jon holding off that detail that he can alter reality to a certain degree. He remains unsure how Tony will take that.

Devon's mess of people (this will take a while)

[itsamysterio]

Player Name: Devon
Contact: pm any journal, discord Devon#4359, plurk silversomber. Discord will usually reach me fastest
OOC Yays!: Conflict is super fun for me (in RP only, lol)! Manipulation, hate, betrayal. I also like the fluffy stuff, but I think that's pretty universal, so if you are looking for drama I am happy to provide.
OOC Nopes!: I'm having trouble articulating them? I generally am very open to stuff that some people might balk at, so try me.
My jars for what I'm into look like this still.

Quentin Beck

[itsamysterio]

Character name: Quentin Beck, Mysterio
Expertise/Ship: Engineering/Cake Dance
Current residence: In or near 25 Pink ✧ Transport Station
Typical activities: Diner, working on his satelite, working on....something else (hmmm), repair visits around town for engineering issues.

Character themes: BETRAYAL. MANIPULATION. Beck is not a nice guy, but will work very hard to convince you he is! It will come to a head soon, I promise, I know I've been saying that forever, but I mean it.

Can do the father/uncle figure for people looking to have the rug pulled out from them.

Ongoing: He's been working very hard to establish himself as a guy you can trust, which has been hard with the Marvel Comics ppl knowing him as an open villain. He's setting up connections and being friendly as he sets up his web without the help of a whole team behind him.
Future: He's going to actually do the bad guy shit. I failed to get that going once before, so I'm not going to say too much about my plan/timeline, but it is in the works, and he will be outed so...get your manipulation in now I guess? lol

CR You Want: People to manipulate, people to rescue, people to hurt.
CR You Don't Want: Anything where someone will be OOC upset about the eventual breakdown. Communication is very important, please set your boundaries, I will assume you are looking for a bad time with this character, and I never want to make people uncomfortable or upset.
Anything else? His gift was the Eye of Agamotto, but no magic just jewelry so he might melt it down at the forge if anyone wants to be horrified?

Catra

[heeeyadora]

Character name: Catra
Expertise/Ship: Security/Bloodsport
Current residence: Orange 16 ✧ Factory
Typical activities: Normally skulking about, climbing and spying. Currently she has a dictator in her head, so a lot less of that until the chip is removed. You might find her trying to build something, though without engineering it isn't going well.

Character themes: Abuse, lashing out, violence. Catra grew up in a very bad environment, and has in turn become very much like her abusers. Currently she is under the control of an ancient dictator controlling her via hive mind/a chip in her neck, and there is a lot of cultish stuff and war and colonialism wrapped up in all of that. She's a tough character to get close too, and when you are it may be hard to know as she will rarely be particularly nice for fear of seeming weak, so be prepared for that.

Ongoing: Evil man in her brain. Tony and friends are working to get the chip out!
Future: Once that's removed there is going to be some traaaauma. She won't be super willing to deal with it, but if determined characters want to help her, she will need a push to work through what's happened to her.

CR You Want: Frenemies. People to fight with. People to bully
CR You Don't Want: Not super interested in romance. She only has eyes for Adora.

Anything else? Her gift was a Stun Baton. So watch out.

Rey

[provenforce]

Player Name: Valkryie
Contact: Valkrieblue#4890 on discord and humanspectre
OOC Yays!: idk I'm in EST I like writing prose and I enjoy doing stuff that i am currently too tired to think of doing
OOC Nopes!: if i'm not comfortable with something i'll usually let you know

Character name: Rey
Expertise/Ship: Pilot most commonly but also Engineer depending on what she's doing / Starduck
Current residence: she stays on the Starduck bc she's used to sleeping on ships and that's where she feels safe rn
Typical activities: She kind of sticks around her ship a lot but also ventures out and tries to help with odd jobs and fixing stuff around the community. She also goes by where the Jedi used to be to train

Character themes: lots of childhood issues and PTSD having literally half of her soul die in her arms, also not great trauma processing after finding out her grandpa is the most evil person in the galaxy. not that she's shared that with. anyone.

Ongoing: I am still kind of trying to get her into a groove, mostly she's just awkward around new people so it's taking a minute for her to really develop strong bonds.
Future: I am not a planner? I like to just see what happens, I feel like whenever I make plans they don't happen.

CR You Want: Everything, I'm super happy exploring anything with her! Good friends would be especially good for her.
CR You Don't Want: idk I can't think of anything.

Anything else?


if she cut her hair she'd be so cute

Poe Dameron

[imnotleia]

Character name: Poe Dameron
Expertise/Ship: Pilot/Flygood
Current residence: Flygood
Typical activities: Offers flights/transport back and forth between Temba and Sh'Ka, feel free to arrange in game or handwave.

Character themes: War. Adorable droids. Hot man. Argumentative man. Man.

Ongoing: He's back, he's happy to have a sort of routine involving flying. He is very much NOT processing everything that happened back home.
Future: ...still looking for a real purpose here. Flying is close, but it's still very tame/low stakes. Maybe get him back in a position of some kind of leadership?

CR You Want: Friends. People to bicker with. I'd love to bring out that side more. He's mostly just got along with everyone. Whether it's friendly arguing or full 'I loathe this person' feud.
CR You Don't Want: No

Anything else? Poe's presents were Leia's Ring and a pair of Binocs.

Bucky

[thestaremaster]

Character name: Bucky Barnes
Expertise/Ship: N/A (will not touch)/Twin Roses
Current residence: Hotel, sharing a space with Steve
Typical activities: Patrolling, running, looking in on or after the glownies because he misses the damn goats (shut up), making sure Steve doesn't die

Character themes: PTSD, recovery, self discovery.

Ongoing: Steve! This has been both good and bad for Bucky. He is definitely happy, but it probably has stunted some of the growth he achieved in finding a life after Steve/the last bit of his past disappearing.
Future: No big plans in motion. Would love some drama but don't have any in the works at the moment.

CR You Want:Friends. People to flirt with. Annoying people to side eye/stare at. People to be grumpy with. Therapy?? People to seriously fuck with him??? Do we have anyone interest that? It's kind of Bucky's lot in life to be fucked with.
CR You Don't Want: No?

Anything else? Bucky's gifts were Sarah's number and the Lucky Cat.