JANUARY CR MEME

[larkers]

> JANUARY CR MEME

Happy New Year, Larkerinos! Though we're now a couple of weeks into the year, we're probably all pretending that it's still new. Or hasn't started yet. December 46th, am I right?

Anyway, jokes we ripped off of Twitter aside, here's the CR meme!

Without further ado:

◉ Here's the the Aftermath post, which covers not only our final notes on our 11th event, but notes on any status quo shifts and a rundown of the State of the Game. It's rather long, so feel free to read it at your leisure and ask any questions as needed!

◉ Coming out of the AU, we've added a section on the survey so you can communicate what's changed about your character. Do they have new scars? A Kestrel tattoo? Their hair back? What about their emotional state or any personality shifts? Anything you can think of, it goes here.

◉ The Arrival Log/Aftermath Log is up! New arrivals will be turning up in New Tokyo. We have a special anime section for people coming back from the Aerie. In addition, for anyone who's looking for a quick catch up before they dive into playing, please check out our summary section under "Last Time on Namsterdam" to get a rundown on what's gone down over the past two years of Meadowlark. We would like this to be a less intimidating summary so you can get started where you need.

◉ For a more thorough 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.

◉ 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 AERIE CHANGES:</b> If your character was in the Aerie, outline what might be different about them coming out! Scars, hair back, emotional shifts—you name it! <b>PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:</b> A lot of this will be contingent on OOC voting as laid out in the logs, and what comes about in the aftermath of the event, but feel free to give a general idea of how your character might be handling things post-AU. <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 comic book panel, or a meme -- whatever you want! </div>

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[mahem]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Carly, she/her
CONTACT: favoritings or disco:carly#5387 or DW PM.
AREAS OF INTEREST: mostly RP or fandom-related things, not-so-subtle thirsting, occasional RL talk!

> CHARACTER

NAME: Harley Quinn
CANON: DCEU (post-Birds of Prey)
JOURNAL: mahem
POWER: Madness manipulation
JOB: Harley isn't looking for gainful employment so much as she'll be keeping her ear to the ground and maybe seeing where she can apply her rather unique set of skills, but she's not opposed to getting involved with some particularly unsavory characters if anyone has an in for her on something a little... seedier.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: N/A.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: In terms of the event aftermath and game-related changes, Harley was directly involved with the explosion at Pulsar HQ. Technically, she was wearing a face scrambler and wouldn't have been recognized, but she also has a tendency to run her mouth off sometimes and could end up being overheard by the wrong person (or someone who can put two-and-two together if she's not being as subtle as she thinks she is). She's definitely been seen most often in the company of one Killian Jones if anyone would've had reason to see them hanging out together in New Amsterdam.

Apart from that, my number one goal for her is really just continuing to let her meet people! I have no in-depth wishes apart from wanting her to have as much CR as possible and she's relatively easy to throw at anyone because she has no concept of boundaries and will gladly dominate any conversation over a more taciturn type. Come clubbing with her! Accompany her on a shopping trip! Let her talk you into some bad decisions!
AREAS OF INTEREST: I'm really into the idea of diverse and varied CR as a player — the wider, the better. This is a character who's prone to negative CR for sure if you don't mind that, but she also manages to endear herself to other people in the same vein so it really depends on how they gel together. A few specifics I'd love to explore in-game in terms of CR types to bounce her off of: fellow criminals, fellow slightly reformed criminals, bad boys and girls, people who want an enabler to show them how to loosen up and have a good time, people who want to see if they can catch her in a more vulnerable moment, people she can try to wear down with her sparkling personality and/or shameless flirting, folks who might be interested in being psychoanalyzed at random, more hero types, more non-humans! You name it, I probably want it.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: She's very forward and won't hesitate to approach anyone, so we can always skip intros there or just assume she's already at least semi-annoyed your character by her mere nature.
OVERALL GOALS: Plot! Come at me! I am genuinely open to whatever and really just operate under the philosophy of "let's smash these two internet barbies together and see what happens" most of the time.
ANYTHING ELSE:

[lifetothefullest]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Ami, she/her
CONTACT: amiasha, Discord at Ami#8741, or PM!
AREAS OF INTEREST: I'm hopefully completing my thesis this semester; catch me rambling on about space as I work on research. That'll probably be most of what I talk about, but I also rock climb, do some music production, play video games, etc.

> CHARACTER

NAME: Lance Sweets
CANON: Bones
JOURNAL: lifetothefullest
POWER: Sound/Pressure wave manipulation
JOB: Currently none; he'd been making money through completely destroying unsuspecting people at poker in the casinos, but now that he's pretty well-known due to the Aerie that probably won't keep working out for him.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: Lance's hair isn't long, exactly, but it's long enough to be a little wild and clearly a bit curly. Otherwise he looks mostly the same; new and old scars are all hidden from view the vast majority of the time. As for emotional shifts, his personality hasn't really changed, but he's just generally having a terrible time dealing with everything.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Since he returned from the Aerie he's been working on relief efforts in New Amsterdam, as well as trying to figure out moon adventures. This month will probably be more of that; he'll be focused primarily on trying to help with individual people (displaced or native citizens) deal with their experiences and get the help they need, while also trying to deal with moon plans part two (if they happen) and the whole uh... Issue of the Displaced's continued notoriety.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Metaplot! CR! Social intrigue stuff with the world at large! I'm into all of it. Thankfully since Lance is nosy af I have excuse to get him involved in just about anything, and sometimes too much anything.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: If your character's been back from the Aerie before the aftermath, there's handwaving opportunity there!
OVERALL GOALS: Since the mystery of things is winding down a little, focus can shift to be less 'what' and 'who' and more to 'how' when it comes to handling stuff, so he'll be in on all of that. He's very focused on trying to help get the Displaced in general into a position where they can better control what's happening to them, especially in regard to coming and going.
ANYTHING ELSE: The current mood:

[thebluewraith]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Nick (she/her)
CONTACT: nicknacked
AREAS OF INTEREST: I mostly plurk about art, horror, video games, and RP. Oh and bugs.

> CHARACTER

NAME: Fenris (aka, The Blue Wraith)
CANON: Dragon Age (Blue Wraith)
JOURNAL: thebluewraith
POWER: Authority Manipulation: Fenris will have the ability to, upon making and holding eye contact for three seconds, give the illusion that he has significant enough authority to force a command. The target will feel compelled to obey if he tells them to back off, leave him be, or respect his space. This is purely a defensive ability, meaning it's only activated when he feels as if his agency is being threatened or if he feels particularly steamrolled. The effect will only last from the moment it's activated to a couple of seconds after the target has stood down. This isn't a mind control ability in the sense that he can make someone do whatever he wants. Obviously this is not done without player permission!

JOB: Listen I have no idea. I'm just gonna wing it.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: n/a
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Still just winging it. I intend to be very CR focused though, so Fenris meeting a bunch of people would be good?
AREAS OF INTEREST: Since again I intend to be vary CR focused, I'm always interested in people who challenge his worldviews. OR people who are a lot like him. His app is here if that helps. Otherwise, uh, IDK he's new so we'll see.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: Fenris is very standoffish and prickly and is def one of those people that you see and you're like, "did he just fucking glare at me? who are you? I don't even KNOW you wtf" and he was probably just thinking about what to have for lunch because his face is just stuck like that. He also has the potential to be shockingly conversational if you don't immediately piss him off? Probably seen drinking a lot. Too early to tell, but that's usually a thing.
OVERALL GOALS: LOTS OF CONNECTIONS
ANYTHING ELSE: TRUE LOVE

kas | maine & kisame

[bloodbathing]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Kas, they/them
CONTACT: pm or add me @ twofouroneten
AREAS OF INTEREST: i'm super into naruto, sorry not sorry. i mostly use plurk to chat about rp. feel free to add me if you're interested in cr!

[insect]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Ame, she/her
CONTACT: PM or wooloos
AREAS OF INTEREST: i don't plurk too often but it's mainly for rp and occasionally rl things! i've also been playing a lot of hades lately when i'm not trying to catch up on sleep.

> CHARACTER

NAME: Shinobu Kocho
CANON: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
JOURNAL: insect
POWER: insect manipulation, mostly in using them to be her eyes and ears around the city.
JOB: she is new and unemployed, but i'll likely have her go down the medical field! she'll start as lab tech but with the hospitals being the way they are after the aerie event, i'd like for her to help out there once she's able to leave the safe house.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: none
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: mostly just to get her situated! she's very, very new and all this technology is very, very wild. for reference, she's from early 1900s japan so she is a ye olde. she's the type to throw herself into whatever work she can find so, like, expect this tiny lady popping up everywhere and poking her nose into whatever and wherever she can. also not afraid to get her hands dirty.
AREAS OF INTEREST: this is such a copout but honestly anything and everything. i mostly want to get her out there and try to meet everyone; shinobu isn't shy or taciturn and is all about learning whatever she can whenever she can, especially in this setting that's completely different from her own world. she typically gets along with most people and is pretty perceptive, so i'm really interested to see what kinds of cr comes out of it! here is her app, if you'd like more info!
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: i'm always cool with handwaving intros! shinobu is polite and professional, so if your character has been hurt at some point, chances are she would have offered to assist. she's a former field medic and pharmacologist, so she's used to dealing with all kinds of injuries and also all kinds of people/patients.
OVERALL GOALS: see.... above lmfao i'm down for whatever ok, come at me.
ANYTHING ELSE:

2021 energy

[myfavoritemurder]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Iddy, she/her/hers
CONTACT: ihdreniel
AREAS OF INTEREST: My plurk is largely RP, shitposts, RP shitposts, well-tagged politics posts (that are also often shitposts) LESS NOW THAN IN THE PAST even I am getting sick of this bullshit, and the occasional bit of lighthearted RL babble. My three main passions are books, languages, and travel, so those things tend to crop up, too.

> CHARACTER

NAME: Callisto
CANON: Xena: Warrior Princess
JOURNAL: myfavoritemurder
POWER:
Blue power: She can turn things into ash, which she has not discovered yet because doing it requires time and patience.
Gold power: Telekinesis! Being the fight-y person that she is, she'll discover this much more quickly.
JOB: She'll be discovering the underground fighting rings this month! Her unabashed willingness to go absolutely bugfuck will make her very popular with certain audiences, though she'll occasionally need to be pulled from the ring before she kills her opponent and/or gets herself killed. #justcallistothings
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: She has her full-length hair back (see icons), and she'll be keeping her tattoo! She may, uh, try to cut it off at some point, but it's there for now.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: She will be handling things by attempting to destroy people in the fighting rings and not thinking about what her weird-ass reaction to the AU event says about her :) She'll scream at anyone who tries to talk to her about it :) :) :)
AREAS OF INTEREST: OH BOY EVERYTHING. She's a BCE gal suddenly finding herself in a 26th century world, so very many things are unfamiliar to her, and that's a trope I love to play around with. She's violent, has a strong penchant for cruelty, and is prone to explosive outbursts and meltdowns, so if anyone wants to deal with that in any form hmu. She has discovered that she likes using the empathy bond to make other people feel her own pain and anger, but hates when it makes her feel other people's nice and pleasant feelings instead. She's also fairly interested in efforts being made to get home, so for those with strong stomachs and a high tolerance for her flavor of bullshit, it'll be possible to work with her - but she's still volatile at best, even with allies.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: Feel free to have your character spot her wandering the city (she sometimes uses public transportation, but mostly she just walks), carrying her belongings in a ratty duffle that doubles as a sleeping bag holder. She also has a titanium bat, because so far everyone has been smart enough not to give her access to swords/knives. She generally tucks herself into out-of-the-way alleys for the night, but rests, eats, etc. in more public places during the day. She's homeless nomadic, tyvm, and while she might eventually nab one of the teeny pod apartments, it's not a big priority for her right now.
OVERALL GOALS: ICly, she wants to go home so she can continue her prolonged and obsessive quest for vengeance against the woman she's earmarked as her rival (said rival is less than thrilled about this earmarking and just wants her to go away); it's literally all that keeps her going and is what she's built her entire life around, and she feels that without it she has nothing. OOCly, I don't really have any concrete plans; I'm just here to delve into her fucked-up psychology because I find it fascinating. Honestly, she's still kind of settling in; she was only in the game for one OOC month before the AU event kicked off, so.
ANYTHING ELSE:

[withmeinparadise]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: dove, she/her
CONTACT: PM this journal, PP prettydoes or disco me at dove#9906
AREAS OF INTEREST: My plurk's a mess of memes, rl bitching, cooking/baking (not much ice-cream making atm), pirate stuff, and books/comics. I love the detritus of history, especially when it's terrible (let's talk about aspics), and have two cats. I prefer to keep my plurk list small/limited to people who are interested in interacting ooc, so while you're welcome to friend, please don't feel like you have to just for plotting stuff--my PPs are always open, and I'm happy to discuss things wherever.

> CHARACTER

NAME: sam drake
CANON: uncharted
JOURNAL: withmeinparadise
POWERS: probability observation, diamond fists/feets
JOB: he tends bar and runs tables for a swanky, mob-owned casino and lowkey is, you know, working for the mob in ways beyond that. he'll take interesting one-off gigs as they come up, especially if they involve danger and new places, so if your character needs a thief, bodyguard, whatever, he's your man for a price.

if your character was in the aerie, they might know him ass a two-time victor and the agent to his extremely successful quarry snipe brother, nathan. he's probably getting the cold shoulder from the general populace for being, you know, both a murderer and a purveyor of Big Murder Energy - though it's not nearly as bad as what nate's getting.

SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: well, his hair's as long as it is in his icons, so that's nice. (the hairline didn't come back, alas.) he's adopted the viewpoint of "it happened, but that doesn't mean it's real" and is frankly, probably spending too much time alone. you know, like a healthy guy with no trauma and no issues that need dealing with. slept outside on a rooftop for his first couple nights back. don't ask him about it or do.

PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: a short list of things that sound like fun to me includes:
• figuring out he has diamond appendages and proceeding to show off like the asshole he is
• flirting massively because he's fine and nothing's wrong
• plenty of hanging out at bars, drinking, shooting pool
• being a sweaty gross middle-aged weirdo who climbs up buildings and gets into places he's not supposed to be? this weather's fine, he likes it, just wait until it turns cold and he starts bitching
• working at the casino once things are up and running enough for that, slinging drinks and stuff like that
• maybe getting another tattoo? like a sensible guy
• moon stuff tho
• and hell if he doesn't want a cigarette right about now

that said, i'm not overly married to much! if something else strikes you, i'm here for it. about the only thing he won't be doing is helping rebuild, haha.

AREAS OF INTEREST:
• i'm really enjoying the cr he's making, and i'd love to keep working on what he's got and keep building more. especially interested in characters who aren't particularly close with his brother, because he needs to go out and make his own friends!!!
• if your character would sleep with him, please advise and let's make that happen, lmfao. samuel drake: open for one-night stands and potential fwb with beautiful women who are interested in him. especially if you want to deal with him not calling after, lmfao.
• if your character would NOT sleep with him but would flirt endlessly with him, please also advise. generally only interested in flirting with women, flirting with men would require longterm cr goals, lmao.
• i love: arguments, interpersonal drama, complicated CR, tension (positive or negative) in what would otherwise be mundane settings, and the occasional bit of actiony nonsense. i am less your best bet for curtain-shopping levels of slice of life.

HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: sam works at a casino, bums around red wings and a variety of other bars, and lives in the same apartment as nathan drake and wade wilson. beyond that, it's reasonable to have seen/encountered him on the underground fighting circuit, in the red-light district, wandering around rooftops, climbing buildings, fucking around on the network, and anywhere a party's happening. if you want to handwave any of these possibilities, please just lmk first.

OVERALL GOALS: get sam to be less of a selfish dick? sam's goals are, generally, to get paid, get laid, and do something incredible.

ANYTHING ELSE:

[requiemshark]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Fade (she/her)
CONTACT: mirrorfaded or mirrorfade#7509 on discord. Or a pm on this journal if you prefer.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Movies, TV that I'm watching, or my animals. Come nerd out with me about horror. I don't go on plurk a ton, but I try to respond promptly when I'm messaged.

> CHARACTER

NAME:
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. And! He can now give tattoos.
JOB: Bounces between the fight clubs and working security at Red Wings.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: Has a brand new scar where he got shot in the head. It's faint right between his eyes.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: He'll be settling back in and recovering from the AU, which was Not Fun.
AREAS OF INTEREST: New CR! Also, please let him give someone a tattoo.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: He hangs out a lot at the fight clubs and has probably eyeballed everyone who comes into Red Wings at least once. In the AU, he showed up at a lot of parties and can be recognized from his Quarry.
OVERALL GOALS: More CR opportunities, positive and negative! He's got some deep friendships and connections that are going in interesting directions, but I would love to throw him at some new characters and see what happens. He'd also be interesting in finding more sparring partners, people to talk about art with, or possibly discussing power armor. He has a set of in-universe body armor that he stole from one of the mercenaries way back when, but it is not his beloved power armor.
ANYTHING ELSE:

[schwayed]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: exxie!! (she/her)
CONTACT: metamorphmagus | manxome#3644
AREAS OF INTEREST: fandom stuff (star wars, the raven cycle, the magnus archives, Eldritch Horror in general), my dumb OCs, my frankly adorable doggo.. etc

> CHARACTER

NAME: Terry McGinnis
CANON: Batman Beyond
JOURNAL: schwayed
POWER: Weaponized sarcasm. He will literally snark you into submission.
JOB: Obvs he doesn't have one yet, but Terry has the Curse of the Bat in that his personal life will fall to the wayside in favor of his night shift. Still, he's pretty flexible, so he can theoretically fit himself into any job position that'll take him.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: N/A
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: He's a brand new batbaby, so I guess I'm just gonna be getting him settled in, acquainted with his big brothers, and probably starting his night shift somehow. Lookin at u Damian.
AREAS OF INTEREST: He's a tough little punk shithead who WILL get into trouble bc he can't help himself. Otherwise right now I'm open to ideas.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: He will be jittery, bored, and frustrated until he's allowed to exit the safehouse, so catch his ass working out at awkward times of the night because he Doesn't Sleep. Idk hmu.
OVERALL GOALS: Uhh.. gain CR! Be the One Sorta' Well-Adjusted member of the batfam.
ANYTHING ELSE: The sass of this child.

[sparklequeen]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Emmy, she/her
CONTACT: DW pm, gravenrose or KoboldLibrarian#2091 on Discord
AREAS OF INTEREST: I mostly talk about RP stuff on my plurk, with some fandom plurks about the stuff I'm into, which includes history, speculative fiction, tabletop games, and some RL talk.

> CHARACTER

NAME: Glimmer
CANON: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
JOURNAL: sparklequeen
POWER: Phasing through objects.
JOB: Works as a barista at a fancy cafe. Or did before this whole Aerie thing.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: Glimmer is noticeably a bit jumpier and more paranoid.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: She's going to be trying to pick up the pieces of her ML life. Both of her canonmates are gone and losing Adora and Catra and not knowing what happened to them is goign to hit her hard. She's going to need some support from people and will probably be throwing herself into anything she can find that involves helping people in order keep herself busy and sane.
AREAS OF INTEREST: I'd like Glimmer to get involved in helping others in some way. Whether that's finding a way home or just helping take care of other people in New Amsterdan, she's a helper and a doer who needs goals and something to work towards. She may get involved with the Kestrels if she finds them justified or work towards independence for the colonies.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: She's a barista, went to New Tokyo to help with the recovery effort there, and has helped organize some stuff at Red Wings in the past. She's also the one running the self-defense program started back before the AU, so any of those would be a good place they could have run into each other.
OVERALL GOALS: I'd like to expand Glimmer's circle of CR and meet some new people! Also find ways to get more involved in plot and what not. I am usually not super great at plot involvement because I never quite know what to do or where to go, but I want to try!
ANYTHING ELSE:

[malta]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: emma, she/her
CONTACT: baleinette @ plurk, baleinette#3692 @ disco
AREAS OF INTEREST: marwan kenzari's curls, languages, my most recent plurk was about the great molasses flood of 1919 but it's mostly about rp. also i recently hurt my wrist so i'm much slower than molasses (it was 35mph/56kmh!) and will be for a while as a get a handle on typing one handed until the pain lessens enough to use my pinky lmao

[filloryfanatic]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Dee & She/Her
CONTACT: waftingcurtains on plurk
AREAS OF INTEREST: I love books (135 last year haha animorphs re-read), video games (FF14 now but love all Bioware and a whole lot of games), and all things geek related. I am the capper capseroo for people who know about those things and I run wikicon on IJ, so I often can find icons for people.

[strove]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Alison / she&her
CONTACT: medieval, alison#8996 on the Discords
AREAS OF INTEREST: My cats, video games, baseball, cooking, etc.

[baltimores]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Ari, she/her
CONTACT: cadiai or arii#6412 on discord
AREAS OF INTEREST: since we've got another few weeks of new Expanse episodes, that's still all I'm really about at this time. watching The Stand and WandaVision too now, though! also hockey's back (Flames, not Red Wings, sorry), but that'll hopefully stay mostly on Twitter (@thirtyfourseven, if you really wanna subject yourself to that)

> CHARACTER

NAME: Amos Burton
CANON: The Expanse (post-S4, pre-S5)
JOURNAL: baltimores
POWER: darkness manipulation + berserker physiology if approved!
JOB: he's a mechanic in-canon so it'd be nice for him to end up in a similar position at some point, but due to the current state of the world that point is not now. he's definitely fight clubbin' though!
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES:
- S4/S5 hair back because I want it! casually ignores any references I may have made to short hair post-Aerie/pre-aftermath!!
- couple of new scars (getting stabbed in the throat; little a lightning scar off-centre on his chest branching out more towards the right pec, as a treat), but he's already been scarred up a bit in canon/doesn't care about these ones, they're just there
- is of the opinion that who you were in the Aerie is reflective, on some level, of who you are in real life; no emotional shifts though because emotions? we ain't acknowledging those ha ha
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:
- CR!! deepening what he's got going and adding some new stuff, hopefully. and using that to springboard him into the plot a little more, since he wouldn't really get into it on his own, but he can be convinced to take part
-- one possible avenue for this is I believe he meets the criteria to be recruited in the UN's criminal investigation task force - former public Shrike who only just arrived in the game a couple of days before the Aerie kicked off, so he's got no established connections to the Displaced/Red Wings - which he really wouldn't care about on his own buuuut
- also depending on how her arrival goes, Naomi is here!! so he's probably going to be sticking around her a lot
AREAS OF INTEREST:
- just types the letters "c" and "r" over and over and over
-- specifically though, I'd like him to 1. build on what he's already got going and 2. interact with more morally grey/jerk characters who can test his already-shaky sense of morality, because he hasn't gotten enough of that post-Aerie yet!
- literally anything to do with powers stuff, blue or gold. he's only tested out the empathy bond like, once (and hates it but is trying not to shut the door on it completely, but he hates it and will be wearing gloves for the foreseeable future) and knows nothing about his own individual abilities but I really wanna go there
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES:
- he was publicly a Shrike in the Aerie so if your character would have recognized him from that, that's great, let's do something with it
- spending a lot of time at fight club because we're processing our emotions in normal, healthy ways
- Red... Wings...? he's barely spent any time in New Amsterdam lmao he barely knows what anything is
- if you've got anything built up with Naomi, there's a chance that positive/negative CR could extend to him as well/name dropping her would work; seriously, he's gonna be clingy
OVERALL GOALS:
- gotta get him involved in more network/text stuff honestly, personal inboxes and the like. I think there's like a 50/25/25 split on why I haven't done any of this yet: my own social anxiety which I will get over once I do it like, literally once/he's not particularly chatty so it has been ic to not do anything there yet/the world has been a mess since he arrived so you know
- CR, powers, getting involved in the plot, just to tl;dr a bunch of nonsense from up above
ANYTHING ELSE:

[tekimetexeng]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Ana
CONTACT: cuddlebug, koutavi#1461
AREAS OF INTEREST: Outside of rp I plurk a lot about pets (mine and clients') and love to cook and bake and feed people. My favorite media is horror and sci-fi and I play a lot of d&d and like to host watch parties and game nights. Feel free to add!

> CHARACTER

NAME: Washington
CANON: Red vs Blue
JOURNAL: hardwearing
POWER: applied regeneration - for himself and other people and objects!
JOB: Wash works at Red Wings, mostly he's security but he also cleans and buses whenever needed.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: Wash has new scars, both physical and emotional. Mostly he's questioning if he's still the type of person he used to be deep down, because in the Aerie when he lost everything he went on a murderous rampage not entirely dissimilar to his past canon self. (He was briefly a villain! Shock!)
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Mostly re-establishing CR and figuring out where they're at considering their new memories of each other/what they've done to one another. I'm looking forward to hitting up new characters as well, and likely joining up with PRESERVE and fighting the roving bands of UNA soldiers to protect the general populus. Before everyone returned from the Aerie he was hopping around to other major cities using the Gates to help as many traumatized returning NPCs as he could and he wants to continue to help. And and and getting in on the Judas stuff.
AREAS OF INTEREST: He could use an in joining PRESERVE, and I plan to level up his power again following this event so if anyone needs patching up after a UNA encounter or something, he could make himself useful there. He's also experienced a full lifetime of memories crammed into his head all at once before, so will be hanging out at Red Wings a lot offering to talk to people who are struggling to reconcile things. Need help readjusting/figuring out who you are? Wash is there to help!
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: Workout buddies are always welcome, Wash can be seen around the city running/doing bodyweight exercises and yoga/being a terrible insomniac. Red Wings workers can assume they know each other, as can Fight Club denizens -- he isn't often in the ring these days but has friends who are so sometimes he places careful bets for extra cash.
OVERALL GOALS: More CR!!! That's basically it. Trying to get him more deeply involved with the world and not just his own drama.
ANYTHING ELSE:

> CHARACTER

NAME: Drake Holloway
CANON: iZombie
JOURNAL: braveoff
POWER: calmness empowerment - at this stage Drake can radiate a calming aura!
JOB: Drake is currently a sober companion (with fancypants clientele at this point) looking to go into social work in this world.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: Drake has a new stab wound scar next to his old gutshot one, y-yay... emotionally he didn't do anything he regrets but he's struggling a bit with the memories it brought up of his questionable past.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Working to fix the city up -- Drake's part of PRESERVE and also pretty good with plumbing so I'm going to try and get him in on the repairs and such, and he'll be around to help anyone traumatized by the Aerie.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Drake's big thing is protecting people so the roving bands of UNA are an opening there. Also if anyone knows more about the Gods stuff that's relevant to his interests due to past game experience. I am personally a bit out of that loop so an IC in on world lore for him would be much appreciated. And if anyone just needs a hug and to talk about their trauma, come to this guy.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: He hangs out at Red Wings a lot, and stocks the Safehouse so anyone who lives there should recognize him from his grocery and essentials runs. If anyone else is working on the plumbing feel free to assume they've met during orientation type things as well, he'll have that in his top level this month. He also does city patrols out of habit and they'll actually be useful now!
OVERALL GOALS: All the CR. Drake is extremely friendly and chill and gets along with just about anyone, so feel free to hit me up if you want to meet him and we can figure something out.
ANYTHING ELSE:

> CHARACTER

NAME: Naomi Nagata
CANON: The Expanse
JOURNAL: tekimetexeng
POWER: human compass - Naomi can track and find people and objects, right now she has to start out somewhere they've been in the past 24 hours. She doesn't know that this is her power!
JOB: None yet, she's brand new! Suggestions welcome, she's a space engineer so I'm currently planning to have her prove herself in city repair and look for an in somewhere she doesn't need an extensive education and work her way up techwise.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: n/a
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Just getting her acclimated and some new friends! Right now all I have planned for her for sure is learning to swim with Will.
AREAS OF INTEREST: I'm playing it by ear right now, since she's brand new but I'm down for any and all CR. Anyone want to nerd out about space? And of course she wants to meet Amos' CR and thank them for looking after him while she wasn't around!
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: She's at the Safehouse right now, and managing her stress by cooking for people so if you want to sample some Belter food that's an in.
OVERALL GOALS: Just building CR right now!!
ANYTHING ELSE:

[unmoor]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: franni she/her
CONTACT: juanferrari
AREAS OF INTEREST: mostly rp and whatever i watch at the moment. i have a sad ouat rewatch going on now that the mandalorian is on a break. :(

> CHARACTER

NAME: killian jones/captain hook
CANON: once upon a time
JOURNAL: unmoor
POWER: wind generation
JOB: jason todd hired him once.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: -
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: hook wasn't in the au. he's busy setting up his pirate lifestyle in new amsterdam, but i still need to decide what he's actually gonna do. he was involved with the pulsar explosion, so he has some money now.
AREAS OF INTEREST: cr!! a lot of it. criminal activities. anyone out there who deals with stolen goods? also if anyone wants to laugh at his identity as a fairy tale character since he has a hook for a hand now, that's fine too. fourthwalling happens a lot in his canon. is it even fourthwalling when it's canon?
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: he loves to stir up trouble wherever he goes, but he isn't aggressive or bloodthirsty, so he's approachable. in fact he's quite chatty. he spends his free time drinking and flirting with women. last month he was in a Mood because he was dragged here against his will, but becoming friends with harley quinn and coming to terms with the situation has made him less likely to act like he wants to be punched in the face. maybe.
OVERALL GOALS: hook's plan is to make a name for himself in the criminal circles and start building his reputation from the ground up so he can eventually get himself a crew and a ship of some sort. he wants to be free (and rich) and travel the world. ooc: i'm very cr driven when it comes to rp, so i'd like him to meet a lot of people. maybe he'll eventually care enough about the world to be helpful? feel free to have your characters assume there's something suspicious/annoying about him, negative cr is great.
ANYTHING ELSE:

[righteously]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Em - she/her/no strong preference
CONTACT: rifting
AREAS OF INTEREST: I go real hard on plurk memes about meta, so there's a buttload of that. I typically do live-plurk reactions when I watch shit -- Critical Role especially, but it's bound to happen with all the MCU stuff coming out on Disney+. I play a shitload of League of Legends and I dig Bethesda games. You'll probably also periodically see uspol plurks because I have Strong Opinion Very Mad. I also do fanvid and image spam so I'm a good place for pretty pictures and videos where the sound effects match the music because I'm a nerd and think that's Cool.

[livrer]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: zelly, she/her
CONTACT: thwip | PM
AREAS OF INTEREST: mostly rp things tbh! also i talk a lot about ships (not the boating kind), miscellaneous fandom things, my thirst, etc. to keep things interesting, i'll sometimes talk about the breads i bake, the stationery i'm accumulating, fountain pens/ink, idk i like to throw gifs around too

[angerberg]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: tifa (she/they)
CONTACT: dm character journal, protects, or tifa#8285 on discord
AREAS OF INTEREST: teaching, original fiction writing

> CHARACTER

NAME: yennefer of vengerberg
CANON: witcher (netflix)
JOURNAL: angerberg
POWER: shapeshifting
JOB: library research assistant (for now)
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: yennefer was a cardinal in the aerie and through that experience discovered that no amount of power in the world can make her feel loved, which ... really sucks!!! even if she becomes a literal god!! so she's gonna be reeling from that for a while and going on a bender related to power/relationships.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: yennefer will be collecting a cult and looking into the gates.
AREAS OF INTEREST: she'll be progressively looking more into north america and the gates, hoping to build one that can get the displaced to north america so they have a safe harbor when/if the un comes at them. the long game is to bring her cult there and set up a society. she's also interested in eventually prying the blue shard from her cold dead body and getting her magic back because fuck gods she PAID for that chaos.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: yennefer hangs out around red wings mostly for networking purposes because she collects people who seem useful.
OVERALL GOALS: covered in areas of interest
ANYTHING ELSE:

> CHARACTER

NAME: rey solo
CANON: star wars
JOURNAL: forcevisions
POWER: gravity manipulation & chlorokinesis
JOB: robotics engineer for riverstone
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: while zerzura really fucked rey up, the aerie hasn't entirely because it's put her a little more at peace with some of her fears about the future. there are multiple universe and multiple outcomes and a million different possibilities of who she might be!!! none are certain!! it's like a comforting millennial nihilism, applied to fear of turning to the dark side. so she's weirdly emotionally healthy coming off being sent into the hunger games and dying, again. can be of support to others about this topic.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: gonna get married??? that'll be a thing.
AREAS OF INTEREST: she's probably going to get specifically into the metaphysical side of things with dreams and gods, with a side of helping the rebellion efforts of the kestrels and morningstar when she can.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: feel free to say rey recruited your character to morningstar or got them a job in riverstone. she's mostly in new beijing, but she comes to hang out at red wings around the time new arrivals roll in and tries to provide supplies and context for people (also happy to play these out). she's always using the chlorokinesis to detangle the cities, so there's an in.
OVERALL GOALS: understand the metaphysical role of the displaced in the larger universe.
ANYTHING ELSE:

[reproached]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Pana (any pronoun)
CONTACT: pana or pana#3353
AREAS OF INTEREST:

I'm an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. I spend an unreasonable amount of time making icons, gifs, aesthetic boards, and playlists. I just bought a house and that's probably going to be the only thing I talk about for the next two months.

> CHARACTER

NAME: John Murphy
CANON: The 100
JOURNAL: reproached
POWER:

SCAPEGOAT:

Directs the blame for any discord or misfortune to a target in Murphy's vicinity (or Murphy himself) and convinces everyone around him of its truth, even when all evidence points to the contrary.

WILDCARD: (pending approval)

Randomizes the probability of events around Murphy, twisting the outcome to his favor through an extraordinarily unlikely series of accidents, missed shots, and close calls. The collateral damage might be worse than the initial threat.

JOB: Line Cook at Red Wings
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES:

Unfortunately, the Cardinal version of John Murphy isn't all that different from the regular flavor. Given the same set of opportunities, Murphy would have made the same exact choices. And he knows it. That's a truth he has to reckon with now, because he certainly wasn't happy with the way it all panned out.

PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:

Murphy already feels like an outcast among the Displaced and that perception is going to worsen now that everyone has memories of a version of him that was overtly closer to his inner nature. He's going to keep his head down and avoid the people who were close to him in the AU. And whenever he gets a chance he'll be reconnecting with Riverstone to secure his position with them.

AREAS OF INTEREST:

RED WINGS:

Murphy practically lives here but he hasn't gotten to socialize much with his coworkers. It would be nice to make some friends! He takes a lot of pride in his cooking (which is actually really good) and really warms to someone if they compliment the food.

SEINGEDAKRU:

Murphy, Clarke, Bellamy, and Lexa make up a sort of family unit with a bond that's nigh unbreakable. Their loyalty to one another can be… extreme. To put it lightly. Anyone who gets into some business with one of them is likely to get tangled up with all of them. So if you've got CR with any of his kru, tap me to get Murphy by extension.

RIVERSTONE:

Murphy is secretly spying on the Displaced and reporting back to this shady corporation in exchange for a large paycheck and a sense of security. If there's any particularly juicy information you'd like him to catch onto and pass along, I'd love to hear it.

CULTS:

Believe it or not, this isn't the first time Murphy's been revered as a god. He's a Nightblood (resistant to high levels of radiation thanks to his genetically-engineered black blood) and a Prime (an immortal bodysnatcher worshiped by fanatics who didn't know any better), plus he was a Cardinal and part of the original Conclave in the Aerie, and he… hates all of it. Not the power, but the reverence. He may be a snake but he has a guilty conscience. The last thing he wants is to be idolized by the innocent masses. Which of course means I have to carry on the tradition and give him a growing base of followers. Please resent him for it.

HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES:

Murphy lives with Clarke, Bellamy, and Lexa, so anyone who hangs around their place might run into him. He's usually in the kitchen at Red Wings, but when his shift is over, he's been known to hang around and drink for a few hours. We can also work out AU things! Murphy was a close friend to Stephen Strange (who eventually killed him for his betrayal) and godfather to John/Homelander. He was taken hostage by the Kestrels after being lured by Bellamy and provided the information that led to the bombing and the revelation about the gods.

OVERALL GOALS:

Murphy is constantly wrestling with morality and loyalty. I love putting him in positions that challenge him there. His #1 goal is to stay alive, and while he's learning to be less selfish, he makes bad decisions when he's scared. Since he's an actual (yet undiscovered) traitor to the Displaced and was a straight-up villain in the Aerie, I'm open to the consequences of his choices. And remember: His thirst is the reason the Volary fell! Love him or hate him for it.

ANYTHING ELSE:

[laserbeams]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Cass, she/her
CONTACT: vellocet#7191 or dandymott
AREAS OF INTEREST: My plurk is mostly the fandoms I'm into (currently: The Boys, Stephen King novels especially The Stand and The Dark Tower, Stranger Things, and American Horror Story are the big ones) and RP talk.

> CHARACTER

NAME: Homelander / John
CANON: The Boys
JOURNAL: laserbeams
POWER: Authority Manipulation (aka he can tell people what to do) & Heat Vision if approved (aka laser eyes)
JOB: He didn't have a job before the AU (he was a fairly new arrival) and he was a Cardinal in the AU so he's going to have some trouble finding one now. Whoops!
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES:
-He has his full head of hair back.
-For the first time ever he knows what it's like to have deeper personal connections with people and, more drastically, an actual family. This is going to make his emotional state even more fragile than it usually is while he processes all of that.
-On a smaller level, he's somewhat fine with being referred to as John now whereas before he strongly preferred Homelander. It's still a little weird to him when people call him by his civilian name but he won't correct them.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Once he learns that the option of being a corporate sellout is pretty much closed off to him because he was a Cardinal, he'll be very interested in pursuing the religion/worshipers angle because he has to feed that god complex of his somehow. He'll also be trying to touch base with anyone he had a significant relationship with in the Aerie.
AREAS OF INTEREST: I have a lot of potential areas of interest with him, and which direction he pursues will just depend on who he gets CR with and where his development goes. Some potential things I'm really interested in exploring are:

• Learning how to be an actual human being now that he's not an invincible super-being capable of destroying the world. Regardless of what else happens to him this will likely be his primary struggle. He could learn to cope with it on some level and be a (slightly) better person, he could try and fail and backslide into being very awful, or he could go the denial route and give in to his delusions of grandeur. Either way it will be fun and involve lots of angst and going to terrible places mentally.


• He's absolutely going to pursue the religion/worshipers aspects so anyone that will also be doing that or would be against that would be some interesting CR!


• He liked his life in the Aerie and has lingering anger towards the Kestrels for destroying it, and he just doesn't like rebels in general so I'm down for some conflict.


• CR-wise, he's very emotionally stunted and due to his isolated upbringing he has a hard time making connections with other people. Here he's forced to try and relate to them on some level (and has his experience in the Aerie to contrast with his actual lab rat childhood), so I'm interested in that and in situations where he'd get to drop his public persona. Though he's really reluctant to use the empathy bond right now (because surprise surprise he's an absolutely terrible person underneath all that fake smiling) I'd like to push him into it because it could open up some interesting possibilities. Dream sharing and the chest objects interest me a lot as well. Basically anyone who'd be willing to try and connect with him even though he's awful (also worth noting that while he does have an insufferable superiority complex, he respects other supers much more than ordinary humans, and all of the Displaced have powers and fit in the super category in his mind so he'll be less awful).


• He doesn't consider himself a villain but he definitely is one so horrible villain CR, please!


• Also interested in having him chat about the business of being a superhero and how it works in other worlds compared to his own (where superheroes are basically corporate-controlled money-makers that do what the company tells them and cynically try to profit off of saving the world).

HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: He is very extroverted and likes to be up in everyone's business, especially the other Displaced, so there's plenty of opportunity to run into him. If he has positive CR with your character he will absolutely encourage them to come spend some time with him because he's needy and likes attention.
OVERALL GOALS: ICly he wants to establish himself in a position of power again because his time in the AU only made him hungrier for that. OOCly I absolutely want to force him to confront his messed up emotional state and hurt him a lot (empathy bonds anyone??).
ANYTHING ELSE:

[halfbloodhatchling]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Snow, she/her
CONTACT: snowishness, Discord: snow#8554
AREAS OF INTEREST: Mostly RP, some RL talks, pictures of the pets, gardening

> CHARACTER

NAME: Kai Gracen
CANON: Kai Gracen Series
JOURNAL: halfbloodhatchling
POWER: Metal manipulation - he needs to find out he can bend spoons. He'll be so unimpressed...
JOB: Kai's brand new and has no job. Back at home he's a monster hunter/bounty hunter licensed with the local government. I could see him wanting to work toward police officer, but I'm also still thinking through and figuring it out.
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: N/A
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Settling in, meeting all the people. Kai is an elfin (he's got pointy ears and purple eyes and fangs) who dislikes all the other elfin, distrusts magic and likes human technology. Mostly he's going to be missing his cat and his guns, trying not to think about the fact that he always knew he'd outlive all his (human) friends (since he assumes that's at play here).

He's a lot feisty and impulsive, a pretty big flirt, but he tends to take his friendships super seriously and is pretty loyal - although he also has no tolerance for being on the receiving end of betrayal. He'll be checking out the bar scene to start and to try to gather a better feeling for what's going on, how people react, and getting to know them.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Again mostly getting into things - want to get him involved in the game and getting to know people, for better and for worse.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: None right now - Kai is usually pretty willing to chat.
OVERALL GOALS: Settle in. Get to know people and things. Eventually cause some trouble
ANYTHING ELSE:

Kai is the kitten

[evasives]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: tomato, she/her
CONTACT: romanitas#5368 @ disco, communism
AREAS OF INTEREST: idk lots of star wars, history, chatter about my cats, complaining about my job in education in a pandemic, any books or tv shows i might get into. i've been trying to read more?? so??

[kinkprofessor]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Rose, she/they
CONTACT: soulblossom, tentamenace#5341 @ discord
AREAS OF INTEREST: Obscure sci-fi horror shows that get cancelled after 1-2 seasons, tentacles, FFXIV, JRPGS. lately, I have been swept up by Fire Emblem: Three Houses & Hades!

> CHARACTER

NAME: Cal Amari (Quintalian)
CANON: Original
JOURNAL: kinkprofessor
POWER: Charmspeak
JOB: Lab technician, specializing in the genetics department
SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES: Quin showed a lot of his true colors in the Aerie to people. He's gross, sleazy, and manipulative. While he will try to work on re-establishing his image as 'good,' it's totally fine for characters that interacted with him to have sharper eyes/sense for his actually awful ways.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: Post-AU, Quin won't feel any remorse for what he's done/the people he'd hurt. He'll chalk it up to 'that sure was weird, right? back to business as usual' and try to dismiss things. I'm totally up for people not being okay with this, trying to explain to him why he needs to apologize (though he will politely decline) and see just how emotionally inept he can be.

AREAS OF INTEREST: While I feel a little overwhelmed by metaplot personally, I do want to find more ways to integrate Quin into things since he's a character who would be interested in it all! He's offered to use his Xenobiology skillz for stuff but I'm still looking for other ways to get him those connections.
HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: He's a busybody, always out and about, so feel free to have your character seen him around! He likes to pick up people at bars or write notes (and terrible poetry) in a quiet setting somewhere too.
OVERALL GOALS: Get more involved in metaplot! Have Quin be creepy and awful at more people!
ANYTHING ELSE: a summary of quin post-AU to all his CR:

[nonscriptum]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Alex, She/Her
CONTACT: uncalendula and on discord @ uncalendula#5439
AREAS OF INTEREST: I love podcasts, drawing, embroidering, playing video games and yelling about history! I bake a lot and tend to see lots of creepy buildings in my line of work, so I post those fairly often. :)

> CHARACTER

NAME: Nathan Drake
CANON: Uncharted
JOURNAL: nonscriptum
POWER: Tychokinesis is his primary power! He'll acquire a seed power of autonomic nervous system control from Stephen Strange lending him his anime chest object (pending approval), and his new offensive power will be metallokinesis (pending getting into a fight).
JOB: Currently works as a gambler-on-payroll at Riverside Casino, and a few shifts helping to manage Red Wings and train up new people. Also pulls occasional freelance work (read: theft) with his older brother, Sam Drake.

SUMMARY OF AERIE CHANGES:
• Nate has one or two new scars from it, the deepest and worst of his injuries from the many Quarries he participated in.
• Struggling to deal with two decades of being under mental, emotional, and physical control by others and having no autonomy.
• Rectifying the relationships he had there with the relationships here.

PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:
• Nate's original intent to get to the moon was a little stymied, but he's still hoping to make contact with Henries, who he estimated was alive up there a while ago!
• Learn that he can bend metal.
• Currently lying very low, however, because he was a well-known celebrity face in The Aerie - partly for branding, movies, advertising, and partly because he was adept at surviving in the Quarries - and is easily recognizable. He spent twenty years being blackmailed by Cardinals in The Aerie, and he's just looking for air now. Wherever he can get it. But the lack of anonymity is really, really hard for him.

AREAS OF INTEREST:
• Nate has two years of experience living in another alternate world before he spent the last three-quarters of a year here, so he's got a pretty wide breadth of knowledge on this sort of thing now, for anyone who's got questions!
• Any new CR! He's a genuinely friendly guy who comes across as a meathead until you hit that sweet spot of pinging his History Nerd button and then you can't shut him up.
• Getting him to open up to people, holy shit. He's notorious for bricking everything up all the time, which is also why people get the impression he's kind of a goober most of the time.

HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES:
• He was a career thief and very, very good at it. Used to be more reserved, but is fairly open about it now so pulling jobs with him is a good bet, if you're into that.
• Catch him at the casino or a local fight club late into the evening (more frequently), Red Wings (less frequently), and often on the side of or on top of a building. PARKOUR!!!!!!

OVERALL GOALS: Nate is fairly convinced he died in his own world, and ultimately I'd like for him to really accept and acknowledge that on a deeper level. With that in mind, he understands this may be the last place he can be, and he wants to make the most of it and contribute, make a mark, feel like he has a purpose. Vague and esoteric, I know.
ANYTHING ELSE: