Handwaved CR meme

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HANDWAVED CR MEME

We're all settling in just right to the new, improved Wellstone. But what is your character up to outside of the horrors? How do they persist? Use this form to brainstorm how you're characters have been vibing on the day-to-day!

<B>Player Name:</b> <B>Player Pronouns:</b> <b>Player Contact:</b> <user name=PLURKNAME site=plurk.com> or other <B>Character Name:</b> <B>Where they hang out:</b> Are they a parlor guy or a diner girlie? What gendered changing room do they gravitate toward at the baths? <B>Activities they often do:</b> Do they wake at the crack of dawn to do a cute little run? Do they prefer to inventory the general store on the daily? <B>What they're like at mealtimes:</b> Can you talk to them before they've had their coffee? Do they make horrific food based choices? <b>What their current vibe is:</b> Are they happy? Sad? Are you tormenting them with an awful, drawn out character arc? <b>What CR are you interested in:</b> Low-key pals? Sparring buddies? Do they have a passive aggressive post-it based relationship? <b>Anything else?</b> Place your shitposts right here!

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[outofsynth]

Yeah, I think especially with the other doubles drama going on it wouldn't be super obvious.

That sounds good though! I think maybe it might be something that gets picked up over time, so maybe if she's had a few other casual encounters with him where he's been kind of avoidant and cut things a little short.

[necrolord]

PLEASE... John looks deeply awkward about this every time

[thinkfirst]

yesssss, maybe a thing they can get started on in the future, wrestling and strategizing!!

also, what sorts of things does Dax mostly like to chat about afterwards? I think generally, she'd know at this point that Flynn
-is / was a pretty high-ranking official and also a literal fantasy knight
-grew up pretty poor
-loves to clean for fun and not at all for profit lmao

[thinkfirst]

Omg general store buddies.. maybe they keep inventory together and then also have tea together afterwards, sometimes with Cece and Diluc and sometimes just with them!! It's Yuri Gossip Time, you know how it goes

Estelle by now definitely knows that Flynn thinks they're from the same world, and that he grew up in a pretty poor city he doesn't remember the name of and also that he's a knight

ALSO...... Mads just made the executive choice that there are in fact books here, they're just... bad so book club can be real and horrifying

[thinkfirst]

it's cool flynn's gonna very kindly bully him into Swords Time

[thinkfirst]

dskfjs I love all of this

Flynn reports on the perimeter with all the military seriousness befitting a Knight Captain, which by now he has certainly told John that he is

and frankly he's thrilled about the training dummies, especially because he keeps breaking them and feels bad about that, and they splinter fascinatingly even though the sap takes forever to clean off his sword (that's what he gets for using a wooden one!!!)

I think he also probably brings John bits of bone he finds in the woods like a particularly motivated golden retriever, partially to ask what this is a piece of and whether it wants to be a whole skeleton again??

[thinkfirst]

Breakfast buddies!!!! I feel like their conversations are probably so nerdy..... Flynn's like, here are the ways I have found through the forest and also the best cleaning tips for getting blood out of stuff, don't ask me how I know that I just do!! Min-Gi also probably knows some like, Flynn Basics i.e. he's a literal fantasy knight with armor and desperately wants to find armor pieces to make into a full set, he used to know how to use a sword, etc etc

And he WILL get bullied into joining Sword Time.

[thinkfirst]

JOIN USSS I think it's Flynn, Dax, and when Jaune is around Jaune too, I should really do a roll-call to see all who's in

But yes they're absolutely social buddies who have the most intensely nerdy conversations I think, and Flynn's probably shared all his usual friend basics— he used to know how to use a sword but forgot, he remembers being a knight and keeps wondering if he knew how to ride a horse, he thinks the dances and parties here are kind of fun actually, he feels bad about all the NPCs. stuff like that. and he'll absolutely welcome a sword-sparring buddy, especially since all his half-remembered forms are like, very military-training perfect, so fencing muscle-memory probably feels very familiar!

[thinkfirst]

Hell yeah, let's do it! That'll be like, end of this month and early next month that he'll be good at sword again, thank god

but seriously when they're chatting it's like, the Ryan and Flynn laughter corner and everyone else is like ????? what are they even talking about.... Probably he drags Yuri over to sit with them as often as possible too

[outofsynth]

Flynn probably knows a lot of Min-Gi basics too! He used to be a diner cook but now has zero idea how to actually do that. He is (was?) a finance student at university, but it isn't something he enjoyed. Obviously that he is in a band with Ryan back home. Some less basic knowledge he might get to know is that even though Min didn't play it in their band, he does remember how to play viola.

Bullying him into sword time will likely take a while, but if he's really pushing it's not impossible. I think he will dig his feet in and first and then even when he is convinced his nervousness will make him extra bad. And he will. Probably not be consistent whether it's something he wants to do or not.

[searingwing]

I could see a lot of tossing around what to do with the outpost. Town vibes. Also Diluc would support Estelle coming to tea time.

[searingwing]

Heck yes! Cooking buddies and collabing. Diluc would make good on his promise to teach Yuri all he knows about mixing drinks and bartending.

[searingwing]

He would absolutely be willing to teach him! He’s a pretty chill and patient teacher.

[necrolord]

oh NO.... Flynn almost singlehandedly keeping John's skeleton pet collection growing. Flynn can help him name them

[phished]

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

Character Name: Gaius Baltar

Where they hang out: The tavern, the pub, the bathhouse. He probably wanders into the General Store every so often, hoping it will magically start carrying something he can smoke (but it never does, to his ongoing disappointment lmao).

Activities they often do: Drinking (tea and booze), joining in any card games that pop up, going outside just to see what he can see — he hates it here, but he's still a scientist so he's gonna science.

What they're like at mealtimes: He's probably not a morning person. He's comfortably social but doesn't always go out of his way to talk to people because he has a tendency to be twitchy and paranoid sometimes (he doesn't know why either, it's just a feeling). He is not going to try any weird food combinations because he's wary about the food in general, so it's best to stick with what seems nice and normal and unlikely to contain any unwelcome surprises.

What their current vibe is: He's new and painfully aware that he's a non-magic non-combatant in a place where other people have weird powers and fighting skills and currently feels extremely out of his depth. He has also been struggling with suspending his disbelief about magic, but he's starting to get over that.

What CR are you interested in: Anything honestly! Gaius is slowly settling into a place where he's not having so much of a hard time with the reality of where he is now (mostly) and is going to be trying to study it more because something, something you feel more in control of things you sorta understand? Who knows. He's hanging around with John Gaius despite John's uncomfortable vibes because a) he's a science guy too and b) John seems like someone he can hide behind when and if things go sideways lmao.

Glad to put him into situations where he can make bad, cowardly choices and piss people off or strike up very unexpected friendships!

He is also a massive slut canonically and has a tendency to flirt with attractive women who can definitely kill him, but he is definitely in it 100% for the sex and would prefer there to be no strings and no feelings attached, so that's a CR angle that can actually be handwaved! That saves all the awkward intimacy (regardless of gender) and unexpected feelings (the real lewdness tbh) for threads!

Anything else?

[necrolord]

- John waves him over for a cup of tea or a pint of ale regularly. Feel free to assume he tells all these stories from prior cycles.

- Dax has challenged John to prove the existence of the soul to a non-necromancer. For probably no reason, John's usual lab partner Palamedes doesn't want to hang out anymore???? And Gaius is also a skeptic, but one that John can amiably bully into going along with him anyway. So Gaius gets to hear about John's efforts to make thanergy and spirit magic measurable to the layperson.

- He continues to go "Yes?" when anyone addresses "Gaius." This joke has been beaten into the ground by the end of the first day, which is why he likes it. It's so fucking dumb.

- He continues to intermittently reassure Gaius, unprompted, that his food and drink does not contain blood. Hope that helps.

[thinkfirst]

oh good I hope he's ready for names as creative as "Boney" and "Mr. Bones Oh Wait Maybe It's a Girl Wolf What about Miss Bones" and "Horse"

[necrolord]

ALL OF THESE ARE APPROVED John happily cycles from Mr Bones to Miss Bones to Mx Bones to Admiral Bones and just keeps running thru titles

[oniicursed]

Putting Satoko here for a villain that doesn't remember that she's a villain yet and is trying her best to convince herself that she's normal. If she notices John looking alone, she'll feel bad on account of how awful her own double was and would try to talk to him, at which point he would probably notice that she is a thanergic nuclear bomb in human form as a result of having died horribly and then having her soul populating an alternate version of herself like. 500-ish times if we're being generous.

[necrolord]

Love this very much, John is adding her to his secret "fucked up gods" collecting with him and Ariane. I think they should 1. be friends and 2. talk about doubles at some point, because I am reasonably sure DDax plans to sic John on Satoko's double as part of her project to make John worse.

[d9x]

Yooooou know what, I am setting Dax up for an arc of thinking that the memories they have in Wellstone can be faked... I think her current 'it's a possibility, if this is a big memory experiment it would be a plausible variable, but we have no actual evidence' line of thought is something she would absolutely be talking to Flynn about one on one like this (as long as it the idea doesn't freak him out - she'd drop this immediately if it did!)

would entail telling Flynn:

- about Olympia's comments that they could be being lied to, such as about their crimes in the wanted posters (and a note not to repeat it to Olympia, who had seemed very spooked about the idea)
- not understanding how they can be watching, but not remembering, their memories
- her related theories that their memories were basically pulled out of their brains and are being projected. (she explained in this tag)

otherwise:

- she was a captain of a starship and they were at war
- almost all of her memories are related to being on space stations or starships. she'd be really interested to compare notes on what he can remember about being planet-side!
- she's going to explain joining to him in our current thread, and she's super open about everything she knows about this, so he can know whatever here

[thinkfirst]

Oh my god not only does the idea not freak him out, he's had versions of this very thought and would be VERY interested to hear the evidence for this theory!! If you're game that would actually be fun to thread out sometime because he has Thoughts and Ideas re: that

he's also gonna absolutely fascinated at the idea that she lives in space, which is not at ALL a possibility in his world. completely out there as far as he's concerned but he loves the stars and will have 1 million questions over the course of this CR I guarantee you that!!

[d9x]

YES yes yes I'd love to thread this, let's do something in 4.2!! We can say she's waiting to get to know him a little better before bringing it up (she hasn't mentioned this to anyone yet)? Maybe during post-running chat, but I'll wait to pitch a scenario until the 4.2 prompts drop

[oniicursed]

Wow, you kill someone a few dozen times and they take it personally :/

Satoko absolutely would see similarities between John's double and her own - since she really doesn't want to believe that her double is a reflection of her as a person but other people trying to convince her of this also just makes her feel like she's lying to them.

[lunartes]

Yeeesss keeping inventory and just marvelling at the cool weird stuff!! Finding something new and discussing what it might be for... Also yes so much Yuri Gossip Time. Please give her the relationship deets, Flynn.

Also HELP THOSE BOOKS amazing...they finally have material, but it's bad...AND YET you know Estelle will take plenty of it seriously.