wellcome | November OOC intro

Player Name: Zen
Player Pronouns: She/her
Player Contact:

divinesaber or PM
Player intro: Hello, new player here! Canadian and currently working on finishing my PhD thesis, I'm into some JRPGs (like Tales of, naturally!) and other games, as well as some anime. Mostly I plurk about either RP or cat pictures because the boy is just too cute. If I stop tagging in the evenings, it's almost certainly because he's in my lap and there's no more space for the laptop.

Character Name: Estellise "Estelle" Sidos Heurassein
Canon: Tales of Vesperia
Vibes: Absolutely negative street smarts. A combination of polite, friendly, extremely sheltered, and a little hesitant, but also a bit stubborn when she sets her mind to something. She's not sure what to make of herself--the few memories she can recall versus what Yuri seems to think of her--and is both eager and afraid to find out. She's really happy to get to know people, explore, and experience things, though! In fact, she's known to like unusual experiences such as...dog food. For clothing, a mixture of cute, elegant, and modest; I picked up a few examples: one, two, three, four, five.
Memories: She knows she liked to read and share books with someone (Flynn), that she was trying to hide something about herself, and that she did some illegal stuff, possibly with Yuri involved, since she remembers his wanted poster. She's very unsure what to make of all this, together with Yuri telling her that he was a knight and thinks he was protecting her. Is she an imposter??? She does remember being given the nickname "Estelle", though, and that is a precious memory to her.
Initial Plans: Although she isn't sure what to make of all this, she is taking it somewhat in stride. Maybe because she hasn't heard about all the horrific stuff yet! She'll be willing to try and explore, but would prefer to avoid anything overly risky if they can help it... She can be indecisive, but if she sees someone in trouble, she will jump right in to try and assist! Since she's new, I imagine she'll take some time to get to know people and learn about the shenanigens that have been going on up until this point.
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LADY ESTELLISE IS HERE........ good thing flynn doesn't remember that he's supposed to call her that!!! I've been thinking it's gonna be so fun to let them develop a proper friendship without all of flynn's weird politeness baggage getting in the way!! welcome to the game I am SOOOO excited to play with you again

Oh gosh yessss it's very timely too since I also came across this and Flynn's so cute trying to be more casual and failing... It'll be so nice to see them develop naturally and see where they go from here!!

NOOO that's so cute I love her trying to get him to forcibly code-switch. like flynn I KNOW I've heard you be normal around yuri come on man

it will be incredible to start them off on a more normal foot!! princess shmincess he's just excited for a book friend

RIGHT she knows and now she'll get him to be normal around her too!!

Book friends yesss even if they don't have any books to read...I'm sure they'll find other things to do!!

welcome!!! so excited to get to know her!!!

Thank you!! I'm excited to toss her in and get to know everyone!

The best girl has arrived!

I can't wait for more of the girl. I adore her and Ruby so far!

She is here!! Rita is my fave but it's a nice change of pace to play someone who isn't full of attitude all the time.

I'm canon unfamiliar with Ruby but their thread is sooo cute so far! I can't wait to see more of her ♥

Look- Rita is also fantastic. But yeah, sometimes you need a change!

She will be here causing trouble!

Exactly! And it's fun to have characters getting into shenanigens in RP, haha. Ruby is always going to be Maze Master from now on! Also, if they have trouble with the vines in their current thread, there's always Estelle accidentally using her power on the plants.

I'm down for that!

Ruby also has some super speed/turning herself and others into rose petals to speed off that she can also accidentally whip at some point.

I think Estelle using her powers is a good idea here though.

Wrong account but still me! Ooh that's a neat power Ruby has, so I'm good with either option if you have any preference for whether Ruby saves them both or gets rescued!

Let’s let estelle do the rescuing this time!

Sounds like a plan!

Estelle sounds like such a sweetheart! Excited for the chance to get to know her!

She is very sweet, which will make it extra fun when she eventually recalls the fun traumatic memories! In the meantime, she'd love to make new nerdy friends!

Already said this on plurk, but I am sooooo excited to rp with you again and for these two to meet. Yay!!

Yesss me too! Someone who will just be nice and friendly and non-judgemental of his powers this time.

Player Name: Caitlin
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact:

gripyfish or PM
Player intro: Hello hello! Extremely excited to be here, as evidenced by the fact I stayed up until midnight on the 27th just to get my app in right as the app period opened. Grew up in the Pacific NW, now living on the East Coast, working in university admissions for a slate of professional-level master's programs. In my spare time, I read a lot, knit a little, and see as much theatre as I can afford. Also, married to Becca, so it's like 45% her fault I'm here. But in the best way.

Character Name: Daniel Tabor Arlington V. Please just call him Daniel. Or Darlington, but he won't quite remember that (yet).
Canon: the Alex Stern series, which is the disappointingly unimaginative collective name for the books Ninth House and Hell Bent, by Leigh Bardugo.

Vibes: Handsome, well-put-together WASP from Connecticut, with an overlay of more than mildly intense interest in learning everything. This boy craves knowledge, has a currently-mysterious-to-him high tolerance for the weird and magical, and looks like he does about three sports and runs six miles a day. He's polite, likely to be more open and friendly than he might be with all his memories, and projects the general vibe of being a little old-fashioned. There's also the not-so-small matter of him having gone to hell and Come Back ~~Wrong~~ Demonic, but we don't have to talk about that, do we?

Fashion-wise, his Well closet is largely going to be a combination of vaguely medieval scholar-prince (velvet! fine linen! jewel tones!) and western wear (jeans! duster coat! at least one pair of boots that still have spurs for an inexplicable reason!). There may be some armor that sneaks in there on occasion too, because Danny is and will always be a knight at heart. Thanks to my evil choices in the TDM, he also has the hideous fusion garment that is the bandana-print cloak, which he may be ritually burning at the first opportunity, thanks.

Memories: Lots of fragments: he remembers grieving people he tried and failed not to love and can't forgive, he knows he worked with/was disappointed by someone with the unfortunate name of Galaxy Stern, and at some point he had a cat. He also recalls being younger and...cooking something? that smelled awful but was going to be the first step in something wonderful. He also remembers trying to build--or rebuild--something important, but he can't quite tell what it was, or should be.

He also retained a basic knowledge of Latin, so at least that's potentially helpful.

Initial Plans: Anyone and everyone currently on the Well Mystery Investigation Squad, please expect a new member post-haste. Danny will be all about digging into the weirdness of Well, especially the more supernatural/magical aspects even if he doesn't know why he's so drawn to that in particular. When the danger starts to make itself known again, he'll be there to help out--he's got a baked-in lack of self-preservation and a chivalric willingness to defend the people and places he cares about. Come be his friend!

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(that's it, that's the book series; credit for this one goes to noobsydraws on tumblr!)

hello new intense nerd friend who definitely isn't replacing anyone in particular

it's just so nice John's going to get a new friend after such a weird friend breakup with some people, don't know what that's all about, probably nothing to worry about though

HOW WAS SPAIN, DARLINGTON.

At least it's not hot here anymore.

a knight at heart you say!!!!! welcome to the game here is a knight in both heart and reality, which would be great if he remembered how to use a sword but he doesn't!! oops. anyway truly glad to have you here and excited for more of this nerd, what a life he has had

He has had such a life, truly, my poor little rich boy

Excited for more of him and Flynn! I think they'll get along. Hopefully with the new setting, they'll both get some sword knowledge back one way or another...

i gasped out loud when i saw darlington on the TDM!

This makes me so happy! I love him so much, and it's been very encouraging to have so many people in the game already so interested in/excited for him and his canon <333

Hi!

I know we chatted a little on Plurk and I'm zooming in late, but I wanna say that the reference to Leigh Bardugo has my interest. I have NOT read the books of this series, but Six of Crows was one of the books that got me back into reading after a very long dry spell-- so SoC is up there with TLT and Murderbot Diaries on the list of Books That Helped Me Find My Inner Bookworm Again.

This is gonna be fun.

Hi! I am also a Six of Crows fan--Darlington's canon has very different vibes from those books, but it's definitely worth a try! If SoC's heist squad shenanigans were part of the draw for you, I can also confirm that Hell Bent has its own kind of heist plot going on, though there's also a lot more to the story.

Also, yay for finding your inner bookworm! Always a good feeling.

Hijacking this thread a little to add that although it is definitely a different tone than Six of Crows, the Alex Stern / Ninth House books do share certain dark academia and/or shades of gothic horror/romance strands with The Locked Tomb* so I feel like they belong on the same lists in a lot of ways even though their tones are also different.

(Also it's fun to explain that you enjoy "Ninth House, well, no, the other Ninth House but that too" and/or get indignant when one of those fan merch places that clearly just grabs the most popular phrase from every series on bookstagram tags them wrong because they both have Ninth Houses).

*also, a preoccupation with death and ghosts and the self, and a healthy grasp on social inequity running along in the background, not to mention a HUGE NERD and his ~~cavalier~~ badass female partner** in...stuff

**oh no I've just realized that "enormous nerd (particularly about magic and history, prone to near-death experiences) and his badass dark-haired girl partner (snarky, underestimated, canonically carries a knife) who are incredibly normal about each other" is a thing in my last THREE favorite series

Player Name: Min
Player Pronouns: he/him
Player Contact:

koutenko or PM (discord is same as plurk)
Player intro:

Hi hello! Super excited to be here! I'm bad at intros, so I'll try to cover the basics — I was born and raised on the East Coast, but then I moved to California a couple of years ago after the global panini, and I'm still getting used to it! I'm a technical writer for a game company that you might have heard of, and I have terrible taste in horrible (affectionate) fictional men. I'm actually still semi-new to DWRP since I only started in 2020, but despite Battlestar Galactica being my canon of all time, I haven't played anyone from it until now! Which is fine; I welcome any excuse to get back on my BSG bullshit!! I've been feral about this canon for twenty years and now you all have to put up with me!!

Character Name: Gaius Baltar
Canon: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Vibes:

What he wants you to believe: articulate, cultured genius who has his shit together.

Reality: kind of an asshole, selfish, and cowardly. Described by several different people in canon as "a strange little man". Enjoys drinking, smoking, and casual hookups. Lies like a rug. He's still paranoid despite having no memories of important events (like that time he (unintentionally) caused the destruction of 99% of humanity ~~because he wanted to get laid~~ or whatever, it's FINE), but since he doesn't expect everyone to find out and kill him here, he'll at least find it a bit easier to deal with other people.

Aesthetic-wise, I have been poking around pinterest a bit, but I mostly have a great desire to force him into copious amounts of fringe because he will not love it but will have no choice.

Memories:

Gaius has his academic skills, so he remembers that he has a doctorate (and will probably make sure anyone who questions his intellect knows that, too, because he's annoying). Otherwise, he has some nebulous memory fragments that hint at what he's done in canon, but they're mostly a lot of uncomfortable feelings. Naturally, this has wiped out all of that good character development he had despite his canon point being post-canon. The big one is that he knows he did something very significant, and whatever it is no one can find out about it or else. He also kinda remembers being in love with a mysterious woman in a red dress who was scary and manipulated him, but was also the only person who protected him so??? It's complicated???

Initial Plans:

He is not loving it here so far haha. He wants nothing to do with anything spooky or horrific and has no problem saying so. He will also not rush to anyone's aid if he can help it, but barring other options, he will very reluctantly get involved because he's not a monster. He is capable of making more of an effort and taking a stand, but definitely not without coaxing or being backed into a corner.

I don't have any other specific plans otherwise, so I'm mostly open to whatever!

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i am pleased to be able to sum him up in a couple of gifs:

I really need to rewatch BSG but also had a minor meltdown at realizing that you were not exaggerating about the 20 years thing..............

Anyway hi I feel like our boys are going to get mistaken for each other a lot lmfao

YES UNFORTUNATELY LOL my bones turn to DUST.

also yes: they probably will and I HOPE they will because it will be really funny

"no the OTHER tall lean british(?) swishy guy"

neither of them are actually british but neither know that, whoops

Player Name: hermy
Player Pronouns: she/they
Player Contact:

hermyish or PM
Player intro: hey, howdy, hello! i'm from the US on east coast and spend way too much time watching anime, moderately succeeding at cooking, and playing video games when i can. i've been watching a ton of movies lately to gain more appreciation for them and broaden my horizons, but i keep falling into horror movies. oops lol

Character Name: suletta mercury
Canon: mobile suit gundam: the witch from mercury
Vibes: imagine the world's smallest, most anxious red panda that gets scared by loud noises and hides behind trees that don't provide enough cover. there you go, there's suletta. she is polite, formal, and very down to help with whatever's giving your character trouble. however, this desire is hampered by her abysmal people skills which i'd generously score a 0 out of 10.

you better believe i am putting her in a little cape that has a bandana print on the inside.

Memories: suletta remembers she made a very important promise to someone, that she went to school, she knows first aid, and that she's one heck of a gardener. beyond that, she's got nothing.
Initial Plans: this is suletta's first time on earth and she's pumped to explore. the manor, the town, the sword that's out there in the forest...who knows. the sky's the limit. she may not know what's going on or who she is, but if there's anything she can do to make well a better place, she'll do it! she'll be terrified the whole time, though.
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if you're ever mean to her, this is who you're being mean to; fanart source here

I don’t know how but SOMEHOW we have to do something with the fact that this makes three people (two canons) from Mercury. (Made more complicated by the fact that Cam and Pal don’t know the Sixth IS Mercury. Well. Unless either of them noticed the VERY SIMILAR VIBES depictions of the solar system have, since the theme was space last cycle and some random notebook must have been cheerily decorated with the planets.)

Anyway it’s 3am and I’m being random but welcome! I am super canonblind but Suletta sounds adorable. I know she’s not THAT much younger but I feel like Cam will have ‘protecc’ urge about her lol.

One day, I have to finally read/listen to The Locked Tomb. All of my friends have said I'm going to consume me. I cannot wait to lose my mind over it.

And thank you for the welcome! They should compare notes from home at some point. Wait until Suletta remembers they have big robots and tells Cam and Pal.

This is a VERY good attitude to go into The Locked Tomb with. Like, if your friends aren't trying to awkwardly pitch it around the part where it destroys your soul while making you incapable of not continuing to think about it, and have skipped right past to going "you will be eaten alive by these books, please read them", you are exactly the kind of person who SHOULD be reading them!

(The audiobooks are reportedly awesome, I have never listened but I do actually own them bc of a free month of Audible? And I just keep forgetting. Oops. But Moira Quirk is apparently phenomenal.)

You're ...welcome for the welcome? Lol. They absolutely should! Also both she and Cam got big ~~pretty~~ actually functional swords so they should definitely be spar buddies at some point. (Cam's going to start a fight club for more organized sparring of various kinds at some point -- the sword quest might be a great kick-off for that actually.)

I'm canonblind for her, but: a small anxious ginger who's big on helping? Darlington's not going to know why, but I feel like he's going to gravitate towards this Dawes-esque energy bigtime.

Suletta would *love* helping with whatever research Darlington gets into. Count her in!

...These two should be friends. Don't let anything happen to Suletta though or Ruby will hold herself personally responsible.

okie dokie boss i will not let anything bad happen to suletta in this rp game with horror elements, i promise

Good.

Player Name: Kels
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact:

aninkywisp (same on Discord)
Player intro:
Hello! I'm Kelsey and I'm super excited to be playing in a game again! I'm a bit rusty at DWRP shit so bear with me as I get used to it all again ahahaha. I've been playing Loki in some capacity for a few years and well, the TV show came back and all, soooo. I've never played in a memloss game and I'm hype to probably just keep making myself sad about how bad Loki's normal life has gone ahahahahaha.

A little about me! I'm currently working at a library and live alone with my two cats. I like to play video games and crochet and sing along to broadway soundtracks. I'm a homebody, what can ya do?

Character Name: Loki
Canon: MCU/Loki D+
Vibes: Loki carries himself like royalty most of the time, and while that might be the first impression you get-- the British baritone doesn't hurt there either --he pretty quickly slips into theatrics, whether intentionally or not. He likes attention, and he loves being right, so he often comes off as a pompous know-it-all. Unfortunately for him, the things he usually lectures on are things he no longer remembers, so his anxious side is going to peek out a bit more just by virtue of him having nothing to be a know-it-all about now! He'll also likely compensate by instead trying to be the life of the party, though whether that will be a successful tact remains to be seen.
Memories: Loki knows how to do one (1) magic and it is sparklies. That is it. He's got a couple vague recollections of important people and an odd fondness for the concept of jetskis, but that's all pretty muddled. The most clear memory he has is of choosing to fall from the Bifrost after Odin rejected his attempts to prove himself worthy, so. That's a little harrowing.
Initial Plans: He sure as hell doesn't enjoy not knowing what's going on, so he'll probably be talking to people and trying to put some sort of theory together. And when that doesn't work, he'll probably be seeking distractions in the form of partying, when possible, so hopefully he can convince some folks to get drunk with him or else things are going to get Real Sad Real Fast.
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