AUGUST CR MEME

[larkers]

> AUGUST CR MEME

It's heatwave weekend, friends! Welcome to early August, welcome to Meadowlark's second anniversary, and so forth! Your arrival log is now live, and here's our usual CR meme rundown.

So, here we go!

◉ Here's the August calendar, which provides a quick rundown of the month.

◉ Our most recent event aftermath is here! Check out our "Potential Paths/Plots" section for inspiration.

◉ The Arrival Log is up over here! Welcome our newbies. In addition, keep in mind that there isn't a safehouse, so you might want to plot some herding of new cats.

◉ For a rundown of everything that's happened so far in game, check out our The Story So Far page. This guy is your big ctrl+f friend. It hasn't been updated with the most recent event, but that'll be done soon!

◉ Check out our Setting Page for any ideas you might need about the world at large!

◉ We also recommend that you look over our JOBS PAGE and LOCATION PAGE to get the brain moving. As a quick note: everyone can add and create new locations for New Amsterdam (and develop other megacities)! We'll always review them and reach out to you if any changes need to be made.

Now, the form!

<div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0"><h2 style="padding:3px; background-color:#000; color:#fff; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font: bold 18pt courier new;">> PLAYER</b></h2> <b>NAME & PRONOUNS:</b> <b>CONTACT:</b> <b>AREAS OF INTEREST:</b> What fun things are you into that may not be reflected in your characters? What do you plurk about or love to chat about? This is optional, but here for the friending purposes! </div> <div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0"> <h2 style="padding:3px; background:#000; color:#fff; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font: bold 18pt courier new;">> CHARACTER</h2><b>NAME:</b> <b>CANON:</b> <b>JOURNAL:</b> <b>POWER:</b> <b>JOB:</b> Either their current job or where you'd like them to go! Do you want work CR? This is our all-purpose "Job" section! <b>SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH:</b> If you were in game, of course! <b>PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:</b> <b>AREAS OF INTEREST:</b> What things are you interested in or what would you like to get your character into in the future? <b>HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES:</b> This could just be ways for characters to meet up, pass through the intro opportunities, and get to business! Or it could be that Finn the beautiful fluffy black kitten is saccharine and sweet to everyone who pets him so he could dart out between their legs into the hallway, that jerk. <b>OVERALL GOALS:</b> Either IC or OOC! <b>ANYTHING ELSE:</b> Insert gif here! Or a witty comic book panel. </div>

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[ishotyouuu]

h-hey there bro

awesome that everything is normal and fine and we don't have to talk about any breakdowns in communication that happened recently amirite

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[ishotyouuu]

yeah dude it's totally fine we can just keep on keepin' on like we've always done

no problem


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HE'S NOT SURE ABOUT ANYTHING ANYMORE PLEASE FORGIVE HIM HE'S SORRY

Will

[sor]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Will | he
CONTACT: beoluve
AREAS OF INTEREST: Games, mostly RPGs and the like. Some random music, gushing about OCs, some new series I've finally decided to watch. I'm not really that much active these days.

> CHARACTER

NAME: Ava Silva
CANON: Netflix's Warrior Nin
JOURNAL: sor
POWER: Rapid Cell Regeneration
JOB: She's pretty useless, so probably something easy. More likely helping someone with simple things before she gets more savvy.
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: n/a
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Surviving. Making friends? Not dying. You get the idea.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Meeting all kinds of people, settling down. Really, if Ava manages to not annoy everyone she meets I'll call t a win.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: n/a I think?
OVERALL GOALS: Just like, figuring out what's going on dude.
ANYTHING ELSE:

one of the jays

[fossils]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Jay, she/her
CONTACT: PM or jayjayjayjayjayjay@plurk
AREAS OF INTEREST: My plurk is full of talk about my work, art, things I would like to buy if I had lots of money, animal stuff

> CHARACTER

NAME: Steve Rogers
CANON: Marvel Cinematic Universe
JOURNAL: fossils
POWER: Will Empowerment, right now giving him a very short strength boost when he needs it. He hasn't figured this out yet.
JOB: Construction!
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: Last month he arrived in New Amsterdam, met some new folks, moved into an apartment with Bucky (MCU) and Natasha right after getting out of the safe house and two days later the world was attacked by monsters! He spent a lot of that time doing supply runs, helping folks pinned down by monsters, joined in Gene's operation to save folks abducted by spiders, and ended up transforming into a giant panther thing on the last day.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: ICly he's throwing himself into the construction work + PRESERVE volunteering in his free time. He recently received his shield out of nowhere, which is currently sitting in a corner of the apartment with a nice sheet over it, because complicated stuff.
AREAS OF INTEREST: There was talk about preparing new folks for potential attacks, so he could possibly help train anyone who wants to learn to fight while also side-eyeing the military recruitment stuff happening re: the UN.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: Could meet him on a construction job, or working with PRESERVE!
OVERALL GOALS: I WAS GONNA COPYPASTE MY LAST ONE BUT I DIDN'T EVEN FILL IT OUT. I got a lot of personal CR things going on with him and I'm open for pretty much anything, it's still early for him!
ANYTHING ELSE: Got an august catch-all with a couple of open prompts!

alison

[strove]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Alison / she&her
CONTACT: medieval, alison#8996 on the Discords
AREAS OF INTEREST: Baseball, cats, cooking, stuff I'm watching, more about my cats, general Meadowlark stuff.

clarke griffin

[strove]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Clarke Griffin
CANON: The 100
JOURNAL: strove
POWER: Life steal (can cause pain, borrow someone's memories, heal herself, and heal others, either from her own life source or by stealing it from other people and passing it on).
JOB: Clarke's full time job is running Red Wings with Stephen Strange.
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: Clarke had the following happen:

→ Lexa: The love of her life showed up! This is complicated for many reasons, primarily the one where Lexa died and Clarke hasn't been with her for six plus years, so there's a lot of catching up and a lot of pain there.

→ Red Wings HQ: Building off of her plot in the simulation (Operation Hope), she made sure to restructure Red Wings into a headquarters during the monster attack. This is something that she and Stephen intend to build on.

→ Becoming a monster, and learning that Murphy is a Nightblood: Fifty percent of this is partially resolved. The other fifty percent is yet to be seen, in part because Clarke couldn't just bail on her responsibilities. Stephen is trying to get her to take time off. Clarke is actually worse when she gets time off, so it's probably better if she doesn't get it.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: The plans are:

→ Fallout from the monster stuff: There is a lot here, including the part where Murphy kept a secret that seems to have more going on. This may end up taking over Clarke's plot for the month.

→ Red Wings HQ: Permanent Edition: Stephen and Clarke are making PLANS for this.

→ Coming to Terms with the Disaster of this World: It started to happen during the monster plot, but Clarke is beginning to see similarities between this world and the apocalypse she knew all too well growing up. As it was the Solution for her people, that's bad.

→ Trying to Take Adora's Suggestion and Make it Actionable: This is a part of the Red Wings HQ plans that she and Stephen have, but she wants to move things forward. She's also going to be updating the newbie guide to reflect the increasing badness of the world, the situations people are walking into, and what to do next about it. If anyone would like to help me with this, I'd super, super appreciate it. Clarke is a leader who would ICly do a lot, but I also OOCly have a lot on my plate as a mod.

→ The Message from PM: Since PM also about their expensive ass festival tickets, Clarke will be very curious about this. I don't want to spearhead discussion, but I'd love to play in it!

AREAS OF INTEREST:

→ Leadership and long-term role: Clarke has been with the game since the beginning. She's been through all of the events (though one she sat out and heard about second hand). She also spearheads the bar with Stephen, so there will be areas there where she is people's boss. Clarke is very people-oriented and will help someone figure out what direction they may need in the world if they're feeling a little lost. If your character needs someone to boss them around, Clarke is their gal.

→ Red Wings: Clarke and Stephen Strange both run the bar! You can see the information on this here.

Medical stuff: Clarke can bandage someone up and I can pretend I know a single lick of anything about medicine. I don't. But good news: neither do the writers on The 100.

HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES:

→ Medical things! If the thread is just a quick patch up, we can easily handwave this. However, I am totally down for some hurt/comfort if you don't expect me to pay like any attention to the actual medical part of it.

→ Oldbie! Being here since day one, Clarke can help with knowing if someone else's CR has been around before, as long as they've been on the network.

→ Red Wings! If your character works at Red Wings, they know who Clarke is! She is their boss. She has been around a lot more since after the simulation, so she is a permanent fixture there. She helps with food prep in the morning, and does scheduling. If you'd like to work out someone's dynamic with Clarke, let me know.

OVERALL GOALS: Clarke's goals were to rewrite this world to make it better s

ANYTHING ELSE:
i just had to hit random 10+ times to find an icon where she didn't look like she was about to cry

goro akechi

[impede]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Goro Akechi
CANON: Persona 5 Royal
JOURNAL: impede
POWER: Mental inducement (berserking [5 minutes] and mind control [10 minutes]). I have a power up idea that involves either truth revealing or a way of clearing someone's mind for logic and rationale, but I haven't pieced together how to go about it yet.
JOB:
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH:

♠ Akechi had a canon update to the end of Royal, so there are officially spoilers there for that. This means that he's changed dramatically in a lot of ways. He's less likely to play games for the hell of it, and more likely to do it with a specific goal in mind. He'll also just tell someone he fucking hates them, because why skirt around it? He's more blunt, to the point, and brittle. But he's also more real as a person.

♠ He fought in the monster attack and mind controlled Daenerys for a brief while. So, there's that!

PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:

♠ Further developing his CR!

♠ Now that Akechi is more real, I believe it'll be easier to develop CR because he won't be trolling just to see what happens. While he still has that urge, he's largely curbed it because it's a lot of bullshit and he knows it.

♠ An election post!

AREAS OF INTEREST:

♠ Politics. Akechi worked for the now-deceased gubernatorial candidate, Katelin Jovavich.

♠ Negative CR. Akechi's style of negative CR will change since the canon update, making it so that he'll call someone an idiot instead of implying it. I can't imagine that this will make him more friends.

♠ Conspiracies and investigations. Akechi is naturally inquisitive and good at this stuff, so he'll challenge what someone came up with and poke holes in their logic. He's a natural detective and quite good at it, though not always great at the empathy side of it. Or ever. He's never good at the empathy side of it.

HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES:

♠ Akechi is a fake Food Snob, IE he'll go out to expensive restaurants and wait in line just to try it. He actually prefers junk food and sweets.

♠ Akechi keeps up a 2512 version of a Yelp account. He is That Annoying Yelper. You know what I mean.

♠ He rides a bike everywhere he can. Is your character a bike rider? Let's have them compare bike notes.

♠ He visits Ren's coffee shop and tries to pester him for free coffee and food, but he won't pay it forward to the other Displaced because he's a dickhead. It is known that the two of them are together, so anyone who works with Ren will know that Akechi is his boyfriend. Anyone can feel free to wonder how Ren puts up with this asshole.

OVERALL GOALS: Akechi's goals are, simply put, to watch the world burn because he thinks it's full of selfish, easily puppetted sheep. He is slowly beginning to learn that this isn't … correct …
ANYTHING ELSE:

[terra]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Alex (she/her)
CONTACT: elsinore (it's a new plurk), PMs
AREAS OF INTEREST: I like needless fancy layouts and pretentious quotes and I'm not even sorry about it. My plurk is v. digressive but I do at least try to be chill about it.

bucky barnes | marvel 616

[deadthenred]

> CHARACTER

NAME: James Buchanan Barnes
CANON: Marvel Comics
JOURNAL: deadthenred
POWER: cryokinesis
JOB: he's doing construction for a little bit, anyway
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: Fought monsters, lost an arm again, got a new arm. Basically his normal.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Bucky is finishing up a longterm project to get the Winter Soldier control phrases out of the other Bucky's head. He's also scoping out the fighting rings. I'd like to use this month to make some new CR and deepen existing connections.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Bucky is a superhero interested in superhero things, and also helping people escape coercive situations and/or brainwashing. Consequently, he's very interested in the UNA, but similar experiences among the Displaced would also ping him.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: He's working the construction sites for now, occasionally at Red Wings, if you fought monsters feel free to handwave a team-up.

lottie person | snotgirl

[antihistamine]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Lottie Person
CANON: Snotgirl (Image Comics)
JOURNAL: antihistamine
POWER: Illusions!!
JOB: Cooltalk Influencer
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: Hid from monsters!!
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Lottie is going to pitch in with the rebuilding of New Amsterdam mostly by posing in front of construction buildings and posting deep, insightful captions #awareness #activism
AREAS OF INTEREST: Lottie doesn't care about the events or other people, she just wants to go home, or failing that, seem pretty and together and effortless.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: You've seen her on cooltalk, right?
OVERALL GOALS: Will Lottie ever make a real friend?? Will she realize the major obstacle in making new friends is Lottie?? Who will love Lottie?? Who??

eugenides | queen's thief

[kleptocratic]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Eu "gen" ides
CANON: Queen's Thief
JOURNAL: kleptocratic
POWER: Phasing
JOB: Gen makes money by betting at the fighting rings, and also crime.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Stealing a library of physical books. He'll ask the network for some suggestions on what is good in this world of literature.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Crime team-ups!! Fellow teens!! Witty repartée!
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: Lives with Clarke et al, is a moody roommate, swipes stuff with impunity.
OVERALL GOALS: Long-term I am probably going to try updating him when the last book comes out in a few months. If it does actually come out in a few months, see below.
ANYTHING ELSE:

[bornrussian]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Jo (she/her)
CONTACT:  peerpressure 
AREAS OF INTEREST: Badass ladies and the boys who love them. Across all fandoms. Just watched Old Guard and all into that rn.

> CHARACTER

NAME: Natasha Romanoff
CANON: MCU
JOURNAL: bornrussian
POWER: Shapeshifting. Sorta. Uselessly.
JOB: Private security
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: Upon arrival, Natasha pretty immediately found Steve and Bucky. They all moved in together in Bucky's apartment, and Bucky set Natasha up with a job with a private security firm. Since arriving, Natasha's been having nightmares about Vormir. When monsters descended on New Amsterdam, she asked Bucky to remove the memory, but not before accidentally sharing it with Steve. She worked tirelessly to protect people until the monsters disappeared. Now, she needs five naps.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Work as much as she can (though most people seem to be going for the "physically intimidating look" at the moment), do some memory work with Bucky (she owes him), patch things up with Steve, make new friends, sit down with Strange and work through Vormir, make new friends, find someone to practice the empathy bond with (someone low stakes - aka not Steve or Bucky).
AREAS OF INTEREST: Would love to do more work stuff with Nat and push her into more dream share and empathy bond stuff.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: Anyone who was in the safehouse at the same time as she was, meeting at shelters or doing monster combat together.
OVERALL GOALS: Work through some of that trauma!
ANYTHING ELSE:
 

[requiemshark]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Fade (she/her)
CONTACT: mirrorfaded
AREAS OF INTEREST: Horror movies, my dog, weird shit. I don't go on plurk as much these days but I do try to respond promptly.

> CHARACTER

NAME: Terrence Ephemera
CANON: Red vs. Blue
JOURNAL: requiemshark
POWER: Projected Thermography - the power to imprint marks onto surfaces without the need of scribing tools. He can paint on stuff without touching it.
JOB: Participates in the Fight Clubs and also works security at Red Wings.
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: Took the whole monster invasion more or less in stride, got to break out his (not power) armor, and took another step on the long, fraught road of not trying to violently murdering his castmates.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Getting back into the swing of things. Currently I'm focused on deepening my existing CR and getting Ephemera to interact with more people.
AREAS OF INTEREST: More CR. Positive, negative, throw it at me. I'm also interested in getting him more involved in the art scene.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: He's around at Red Wings and is a regular at the fight clubs.
OVERALL GOALS: I've been struggling a bit to find my footing recently and would like to get settled again.

diana prince | dceu

[monomachy]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Diana Prince
CANON: DCEU
JOURNAL: monomachy
POWER: Inspiration manipulation, which she still has yet to discover! She also has the strength/speed/reflexes/longevity of an Amazon.
JOB: Diana is a gallery attendant at Lily & Moki art gallery.
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: I had to take an unexpected hiatus for health reasons, so Diana was on auto-pilot. It is safe to assume she fought monsters and did relief work!
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: More relief work! I'm going to take it pretty easy this month since I'm still recovering.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Just about anything! I feel a little disconnected since I was on hiatus for most of the month, so I'm kind of just looking to get back into things. I love when Diana gets to train with people and take on a mentor role, and also people she can just kinda shoot the shit with and be kind of a normal person. I'd also be open to a new displaced crashing on her couch until the safehouse is back up. Get up in her space! Remind her what roommates are like!
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: First meetings, setting up training sessions, getting your art assessed.
OVERALL GOALS: Diana is kind of learning how to be human which is sort of a weird thing to say, but she's spent a long time on her own just kind of going through life, fighting, and protecting people. She kinda just needs to chill a little.
ANYTHING ELSE:


howdy pardner
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nill | DOGS: BULLETS & CARNAGE and thisavrou CRAU

[culver]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Nill (Klein)
CANON: DOGS: BULLETS & CARNAGE & thisavrou CRAU
JOURNAL: culver
POWER: Density manipulation. Nill can increase/decrease the density of small space and objects around her, and can decrease the density of her own body.
JOB: Nill is the head line cook at the Red Wings bar.
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: I had to take an unexpected hiatus for health reasons, so Nill was on auto-pilot. It is safe to assume she provided medical support!
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Relief work and trying to get back to normal! She lost some pretty significant CR this month so she's going to be having a hard time. I'm going to take it pretty easy this month since I'm still recovering.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Just about anything! I feel a little disconnected since I was on hiatus for most of the month, so I'm kind of just looking to get back into things. Nill likes to cook for people, and is always interested in learning new skills. She's also available for first aid.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: First meetings, hanging out around town (she frequents HONEY♥HONEY), her knowing your favorite bar food because you frequent Red Wings.
OVERALL GOALS: Nill's time in Meadow Lark has been an exercise in building her self-confidence. It's been kind of a roller coaster! She's in a pretty good spot right now, but the aforementioned loss of close CR is going to fuck her up a little.
ANYTHING ELSE:


when the bae needs her sword so you gotta go fast

jay | roy harper & castiel

[stagethreeclinger]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: jay, they/them
CONTACT: wuzzafuzzle
AREAS OF INTEREST: my plurk is mostly job, pets, mostly tag commentary and rambling about characters and canons

roy harper (dc comics)

[stagethreeclinger]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Roy Harper
CANON: DC Comics
JOURNAL: stagethreeclinger
POWER: Magnetism Manipulation
JOB: Currently, he's bumming it on Loki and Jason's couch, burying himself under all the local technology he can get his hands on, tinkering away. plans are for him to hunt down an internship at a weapons development company so he can start learning how to Arsenal in this dimension, and make more than swords and bows.
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: still backtagging : D and my apologies for the slowness, RL became busy and demanding for a while there. Roy spent the first couple days of The Siege churning out swords and bows for people needing weapons, and the rest of it was/is helping out at the gates, so he may have had to take A Trek back to New Amsterdam after that. Anyway, I'm still catching up with event stuff, pls forgive
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Roy Gets A Job.
AREAS OF INTEREST: weaponry, technology, intel gathering, power training, but also hit me with shenanigans and any other plots, i'm still trying to get this boy settled in and set up, gimme cr :V
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: Roy spends most of his time in a few places: Jason and Loki's place, Red Wings, the black market (wherever he can dig for new tech and parts and weapons), and wherever jason's allowed him to do his tinkering. Other than that, he does some city wandering, usually later at night, probably on rooftops, as you do. any close cr can assume he's dropped by their place unexpected now and again to hang out, ramble at them, lounge on their couch for a while, etc. he won't stay long, but roy likes to check in on his people (disguised as "i'm bored, pay attention to me").
OVERALL GOALS: Roy's main interest right now is familiarizing himself with modern technology and weaponry so he can start making things and Being Useful (it's a thing, we don't talk about it). I'll also be trying to wedge him into some intel gathering and person of interest stalking, so if anyone wants Roy to creep on their character's sketchy business, hmu.
ANYTHING ELSE:

castiel (supernatural)

[unwings]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Castiel
CANON: Supernatural
JOURNAL: unwings
POWER: Possession!
JOB: this month i'll probably have him acquire a shitty corner store clerk job because of reasons. or something else if it comes up. we'll see.
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: Cas and Dean went about securing the hospital and some part of the stadium to house/defend civilians from all the monsters and chaos. Also went on Gene's mission into the caves to rescue some people and murder some spider-people.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: 100% going to be involved in relief work, but beyond that, i don't have much figured out yet fff i'll get back to you when i've caught up with the event
AREAS OF INTEREST: pls more cr pls. while he wouldn't join up with morningstar, i do want cas to continue working with the other displaced to keep the city safe, so he'll probably hang out around red wings and offer help with any relief or rebuilding or fortificationing?? i don't know what i'm talking about, hi. cas isn't terribly social, but he's hella efficient, so. please give him something to do with himself, ty.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: if your dude hangs around Dean Winchester often, assume they've met or at least seen Castiel. he was running around a whole freaking bunch during the monster siege, but he was in and out of Red Wings often too. this month, he'll still be hanging around red wings a lot, probably during dean's shifts, maybe grilling the staff/patrons with questions about the world/city while he's still trying to familiarize himself with it, so feel free to assume he might've abruptly asked your person a question related to the conversation they were just having with someone who isn't him. if you have a different idea for some handwaved stuff, feel free to shoot it at me!
OVERALL GOALS: [panicking yeti noises]
ANYTHING ELSE: