MARCH CR MEME

[larkers]

> MARCH CR MEME

Happy March, Larkers! TIme to talk to you all again—though there isn't much that's too different from what we announced earlier today!

So, here we go!

◉ First off, in case you missed it: March Update. This covers AC (it's check-in only for March!), the Metaplot Engagement post for Monday, and Aftermath Power Up notes.

Our big catchup tool is our The Story So far page! No one needs to have this memorized, and hopefully our phrasing makes it easier to CTRL+F exactly what you need! The bullet points should cover the big meat, and it's up to you if you want to click to read further on anything. This will be updated again at the beginning of April!

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

◉ We also recommend that you check out 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, eventually, develop other megacities)! We'll always review them and reach out to you if any changes need to be made.

◉ Our monthly calendars are also a place where we do minimal worldbuilding, and it's where the mods leave monthly messages to our playerbase.

◉ The arrival log will be tomorrow! It's going to directly play into some larger metaplot elements while otherwise being low key, acting as a backdrop to the Opening Day for local baseball team, the New Amsterdam Koniki.

<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. Or a comment about how book characters don't have gifs. We see you, Alex.</div>

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[strove]

> PLAYER

NAME & PRONOUNS: Alison / she&her
CONTACT: medieval, alison#8996 on the Discords
AREAS OF INTEREST: Baseball, cats, Overwatch, Overwatch League, cooking, bad CW shows that I probably don't think are that bad, medieval history, other video games like the two JRPGs I play from. Also, teaching people about baseball. ⚾ The bullpen doesn't protect people from the buff men. Did you know?

[strove]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Clarke Griffin
CANON: The 100
JOURNAL: strove
POWER: Life steal (can cause pain, borrow someone's memories, and heal herself—the memories bit is not limited to the Displaced).
JOB: Clarke does the following: she works as a medical assistant, helps co-run Red Wings, and volunteers for PRESERVE. She is also a student. No, she does not sleep regularly. One of these is going to go in the future, possibly with her unable to juggle it all and possibly with someone realizing that she's doing this to repent for her past, so I'm looking for it to be a CR-related thing.
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: Last month:

→ Clarke settled back into her life, and started doing more Red Wings stuff.
→ Went to the music festival! She danced with Gene and had a good time with OA.
→ She also picked up her BFFL, Bellamy Blake, and proceeded to help him get settled in.
→ She also went to the charity auction! I don't mind late tags here. She also won a date with Klaus, so that would probably be common knowledge.

PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:

→ If not for the next month, I want to begin to have people notice that Clarke is pushing herself too hard by juggling too many plates, and perhaps begin to wonder about why she is doing that. The reason is: she feels like she needs to do as much as she's doing because of personal responsibility, having no chill, and wanting to Do Better. But things are going to suffer as a result.
→ I also want to deal with some of Clarke's heavier issues through an open log with some dreams and memory sharing. My goal is to set up a log where this begins to come out and people have to grapple with it. Some things that could come out:

1. That Clarke caused the genocide of an entire people.
2. That Clarke left her best friend to die after attempting to murder his sister.
3. The number of times Clarke has walked away from her people.
4. Why she's called Wanheda. She tells people about this from time to time ICly, but I want it to be dealt with in a very visual way. "Wanheda" means "Commander of Death," and it's a title she bears from the beginning of season three onward.
5. Why she's pushing herself so hard and the number of times she's decided to just die because people would be better off without her, as well as how this ties into her hallucinations of seeing herself as a cancer that needs to be cut loose.

These come with some pretty heavy themes: suicidal ideation, genocide, and even child abuse! But I want to mix things up, especially since Clarke is so stable. I welcome new CR who's not been exposed to her in a lot of ways, too.

AREAS OF INTEREST:

→ Leadership and long-term role: Clarke has been with the game since the beginning. She knows a lot and can relay a lot of information to anyone. She is also spearheading the bar with Stephen, so there will be areas there where she is people's boss. Clarke is the type of person you want as your leader in times of crisis because she will shoulder it all. She is likely going to be a terrible boss when it comes to actual capitalistic endeavors.

→ Red Wings: Clarke and Stephen Strange both run the bar! You can see the information on this here. Stephen is a little more hands on than Clarke because she's doing too much and is going to crumble under the weight of it all.

→ Charitable Stuff: Clarke is beginning to grow frustrated with how charity doesn't actually help most of the people in the world. She's doing her best to work with PRESERVE, but she's puzzled that there are goods in the world for people but not given to them when they're in need of it.

→ 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.

→ 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!

OVERALL GOALS: Clarke's goal is to get the power to rewrite the reality of this world into a better place (specifically: the planet itself so that it's not dying) so that she can bring her people to it afterward. This is a massive goal, but Clarke loves thinking she can do whatever she tries to set her mind to.

[feralist]

dream share.... murphy was in the room when lexa died

i think


also WANHEDA

[strove]

Welcome to Traumatic Moments with Clarke that Murphy Never Wanted.

[feralist]

lol right??

[feralist]

i'm gonna post on the arrival log tonight or tomoorrow and I AM COMING FOR YOU

[voktys]

i'm slow on our thread!! (and just in general, orz)

but: pls more clarke, i'm here to offer one eldritch mom friend. def down for dream/memshare style things, esp stuff involving clarke's walking-away (or the more horrible things tbh, mel's hard to freak out). maybe that could blend into talks about clarke needing to... slow down a bit. burnout is real, kid.

[inherited]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Riku
CANON: Kingdom Hearts
JOURNAL: inherited
POWER: Shadow transmutation (upgrades: turn shadow water into a potion, create shadow clones that can go out, seek information, and collapse into an element, sending the information back to him).
JOB: Riku is a trainee in the police force! I definitely want CR here, especially since there are plotting opportunities that I can't take on (since I'm a mod).
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH:

♥ Once I got off of hiatus, Riku went looking for Rey. He's being fairly demanding of Kylo Ren, and he's shown up where Rey is hiding to try to bring her back home.

♥ Still threading out Sora and Riku's Valentine's Day date.

♥ He went to the music festival! He mostly tried to help people come back home, and is trying to help with the settling in process.

♥ He's working with people on the Welcome Committee.

PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:

♥ Like with Clarke, I want to begin to dig into some of the darker aspects of Riku's past, as well as some of the issues that he's gone through to get to this point. Riku's issues are a lot less heavy in comparison to the horror show that The 100 can be at times, but I'd like the following to come out:

1. What he did to Roxas (came up with a plan to remove his autonomy and identity so he could justify snatching him and putting him back with Sora).
2. What he did to his home (destroyed it).
3. Some of his angst in wondering if some of the bad guys look the way they do because they're just older versions of him.
4. His viciousness in approaching his Replica and his ongoing angst dealing with that.
5. That he used to be a broody angst lord and how he handled that.
6. Hints that Sora is dead! I'd like to seed this a bit before I canon update him to realizing that being at home hasn't helped in finding out what happened to his best friend.

This can come out via Memory Share or Dreams. The latter would be necessary for new CR, but I'm very, very open to it.

♥ My goal, like with Clarke, is to do an open log dealing with this!

AREAS OF INTEREST:

♥ Getting his fellow kids to go to school without actually Going to School. Everyone is pretend aged up to 18, so he started a homework program. I'm debating a network post with this if people think it's the right time! I always have a hard time determining how many people would want to be brought in on this, so let me know/

♥ His personal goal is to find out what's Wrong with this world. He's interested in a lot of dream business and figuring out what's going on there, and thus finding the keyhole and (nonsense Kingdom Hearts business).

♥ He's joined the police force! His goal is to find a way to protect people and be a good dude.

♥ Find a way to get everyone home (who wants to go)!

♥ He sympathizes with El (because El did some Bad Shit in the past) and is his number one fan. El probably didn't agree to this. I have not had him join Morningstar yet.

♥ Riku is extremely evenhanded and good at seeing multiple points of view. I'm really interested in more opportunities where he can butt up against someone else's point of view and then work to understand it.

♥ He's also good for talking through redemption arcs or understanding where someone's coming from. Or seeing how someone could be redeemed if someone else doesn't understand.

♥ He's also just Chill, but in a way where it's forcibly so. He's mastered it in a lot of ways, but his mind is constantly threatening to undermine his chill and find a way to eat at it. Want to learn … positive … and productive reframing and rethinking tools? Kingdom Hearts made an entire game to ensure Riku learned those great CBT strategies. I wish I was kidding (not that it's phrased that way).

HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES:

♥ Sparring!

♥ Keeping active!

♥ The homework club is probably not fun to RP out, but we can make it happen!

♥ Find Riku alongside the river. He likes water a lot.

OVERALL GOALS: More friendships and more about Riku being more comfortable in his skin while challenging who he was before and who he is now. Riku is, generally, in a very good place mentally, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have flaws or blindspots, especially when it comes to his friends. Sometimes his chill is forced, too.

[impede]

> CHARACTER

NAME: Goro Akechi
CANON: Persona 5
JOURNAL: impede
POWER: Mental inducement (berserking [5 minutes] and mind control [10 minutes])
JOB: Working for Katelin Jovavich for now, but he's looking to move on. See below!
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH:

♠ I continued to tag a "politics and you" (sort of) post here, since that's where he's working! I have a plot available from this!

♠ Akechi went after and trolled Damian on his "superheroes should change the world" post here and here. I also showed a lot of Akechi's personal values here, so I'm fine with anyone having read these threads.

PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:

♠ My primary goal is to have someone take up the plot to go after Jovavich and ask her about JPG, as well as her connection to him. Akechi has access to her building during her campaign, and he knows that time is running out as Jovavich continues to poll poorly. If someone has a power that's good for this, let me know! Akechi is too cautious to let someone in without that, and I'd personally like to wrap up this plot. This will lead to metaplot information!

♠ More politics! Tifa put together a Google document for politics, and I'd like to get more people on board with this! I uh, cheerleaded her while she did this, but we wanted other people to have a clearer view on what was going on here.

♠ I would like to expand his CR! Akechi is the type of person who would recognize and remember most of the Displaced once he sees them once, so it's easy to springboard CR on him being creepy (if anyone would like that). He is naturally unsettling and a passive aggressive dick.

AREAS OF INTEREST:

♠ Politics. This is my unhealthy, self-destructive path for Akechi in game, but I believe it can yield some good for him and for other characters. It's not a good idea for him to be taking it, but he's on it. He's beginning to own it stubbornly as time goes on ICly.

♠ Negative CR. Akechi is a negative CR machine. He's bad at people. He's a midboss villain who believes the means justify the ends. He's also very punchable. He's trying to do better because of Ren, but he's also told Ren he'd kill people so Ren could save his conscience. He's a dick and once he's taken an interest in being a dick, he won't relent. He sees people as tools. I'm fine with retaliation, people trying to beat the shit out of him, etc. He's fine with it, too.

♠ 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, 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 doesn't have any personal goals, simply because he's learning how to live his life after spending the last two years gunning for revenge. He does have ambitions, but they're more unfocused than they were at home simply because he's not used to having a future. My goal is for him to cause some trouble and be a pain for people, as he doesn't know how to be genuine toward others and is mostly only able to accomplish it via being fake (and he isn't doing that so much anymore).

[batricide]

beat the shit out of him you say

[impede]

he deserves it.

[itsjiaheng]

he's terrible and annoying why do i love him so much.

akechi also happens to still be jongdae's most memorable cr up to the point they're at aiubwguibruie w hy

jongdae wouldn't retaliate as much as he's likely to expose himself to repeating the same experience. like he KNOWS it's annoying but also he's used to someone telling him what to do and putting him down at the same time it's uncomfortably familiar.

[impede]

That's really sad :( But sadly Akechi doesn't have the empathy for your good boy that I have, so I am down for more of the same moving forward. I really like the foundation off that thread and I'm glad you do, too. Akechi is a force of nature and uh, poor baby boy Jongdae

[itsjiaheng]

it's true there's a lot of sad. (｡•́︿•̀｡)
it is a great thread! as a terrible person who wants him to suffer a little more i adore negative cr
I'M SURE THIS WILL END JUST FINE RIGHT

[impede]

just fine.

akechi's not the villain of anything, right??