Handwaved CR meme

[wellie]

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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[sighsheavily]

Player Name: Elle
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: whyellewhy

Character Name: Cecelia
Where they hang out: Staywell manor (like pre-dawn early & mornings thru lunch), the tavern
Activities they often do:
Super early riser, often sitting with tea and something light while taking notes/transcribing old ones/struggling through relearning a language. Anywhere she goes she has her notebook and quill handy, but if she doesn't...she's at the store procuring exactly those things.
What they're like at mealtimes:
Curt and quiet, speaking only when spoken to or a clear eye-contact tell is given (or you're like. making a mess that DEMANDS comment).
What their current vibe is:
Mixed bag. Sometimes content to explore, sometimes impatient to explore, but never keen to be idle for too long without purpose.
Anything else? If you bring animals into the buildings she WILL fucking judge you for it

Flynn Scifo | Tales of Vesperia

[thinkfirst]

Player Name: Jordan
Player Pronouns: he/they
Player Contact: interplanetary mostly!

Character Name: Flynn Scifo
Where they hang out: Where ISN'T Flynn is the better question— he is a busybody who has to keep moving or he'll die. He's like a shark if a shark was a dog with anxiety. He has a pretty set schedule, though, and can be found largely in the manor in the mornings and evenings and vibing around town exploring in the day. He goes to the Starlite for breakfast, usually to the General Store to take inventory, and can often be found in the Cactus Pad drinking anything nonalcoholic and being friendly in the evenings. Also catch him just like. In? the woods?

Activities they often do: lmao Mads wrote this and somehow clocked both of Flynn's daily activities!!

His schedule, roughly:

Morning run at the crack of dawn, he WILL try to bully anyone awake and around into joining him
Breakfast either in the manor or at the diner, he'll sit down near someone to chat most of the time
General store inventory, gotta keep that list updated, and once that's done,
Sword training time! This happens in the Staywell's courtyard and is very intense. It goes for like an hour and a half and usually ends with Flynn shirtless and some hastily-assembled training dummy in pieces.
Town perimeter check after lunch, he'll chat with anyone he sees about anything, he is so friendly
Cleaning time! What does this mean? Flynn keeps himself busy sweeping the courtyard, tidying up the Staywell's entry hall, cleaning his and Yuri's room, sweeping around other businesses... does he need to do this? No, of course not. It makes him feel better don't @ him.
Bath time! He picks the circle door because it seems??? the least offensive???? and stays there for, let's be real, a while. Flynn loves bathtime.
Dinner usually at the Staywell, and then an early bed.

What they're like at mealtimes: If you're in this town and have ever eaten in public, Flynn has sat down with you for a chat. He is so friendly, he wants to be friends so bad, he wants to ask all the questions. This is a great way to assume they met, especially because he DOES make horrible food choices. We are talking capital-C Crimes. Mustard on waffles. Burgers dipped into milkshakes. Mashed potatoes topped with maple syrup, molasses, and spicy pepper. Eggs with coffee on them.

What their current vibe is: STRESSED and also a little blessed. Flynn doesn't like the change, he thinks maybe they broke something, so he's a ball of nervous energy trying to Understand both himself and the town and keep things from collapsing. Also he has a boyfriend and a regular bath so like, he's not TOO too bad.

What CR are you interested in: Would love some sparring / training pals, as well as anyone interested in butting up against Flynn's more snotty stubborn qualities—he can be kind of a judgmental jerk and I'm probably gonna put up a passive-aggressive post-it asking people to please wipe their shoes before coming inside because he's a controlling clean boy like that.

He's also currently in a weird intense quasi-mentorship situation with John Lockedtomb so if anyone needs to side-eye that please feel free.

Anything else?

ALSO......... basically everyone probably knows he and Yuri are a thing because he's a mushy asshole and smiles dopily at his bf and holds his hand in public. He also (canonically) finds a way to work Yuri into basically every conversation. Feel free to ambiently know this about him.

[thinkfirst]

ELLE........ can they be daily tea-time buddies

[sighsheavily]

ofc!! c: he has to take turns with diluc (or join? tea for three including thee??)

[thinkfirst]

cece diluc flynn daily tea time sounds?? amazing??????

[sighsheavily]

two redheads and their golden retriever

[vibing]

Player Name: Mads
Player Pronouns: they/them
Player Contact: spudbud or huckl @ disco

Character Name: Yuri Lowell
Where they hang out: Yuri loves the tavern, he is often in the tavern eating something sweet or drinking coffee. He's also wandering the woods or the maze, or on the roof of the Staywell.
Activities they often do: He's a late riser who bops out of the Staywell in the late morning. He cooks in the tavern kitchen every few days and shares whatever he makes with anyone who shows up. Sometimes there might be cookies on the reception desk, or curry on the tavern counter.

He also spars, mostly by himself, shadow boxing or beating up barrels or other insundry objects.

He also does go to the General Store and pick up little knickknacks that he thinks are cute or that will annoy Flynn. He might bring you one as a little treat.
What they're like at mealtimes: Coffee, sweets, protein. He mostly eats at the tavern, but might grab a muffin or a sausage at the Staywell before breakfast disappears. Usually gets brunch/lunch with Flynn in the tavern.
What their current vibe is: He's in a sort of floaty I-can't-believe-I'm-still-alive sort of place. After the kidnapping and being impaled by Flynn's double, he's amazed he's still around and he's sort of zen for the moment. He's annoyed that his sword fighting abilities are gone.

General arc vibes are to help him realize he has value outside of his fighting abilities, and working to repair his abysmal self-esteem. He has a lot of questions about who he was, and about who Flynn and Estelle were to him, and if he really was a knight and a good person (currently conflated in his mind).

Also generally happy and embarrassed about Flynn and their relationship. He loves it but also it's so embarrassing to love it and also it's confusing and scary.

What CR are you interested in: People to cook with or for, people who like to joke around despite the horrors, people whose relationships he can get invested in, people who think he has inherent value outside of his sword-fighting abilities.
Anything else?

[searingwing]

That sounds absolutely fab!

John Gaius | The Locked Tomb

[necrolord]

Player Name: Rona
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: ochrona

Character Name: John Gaius
Where they hang out: The pub, the tavern, the bathhouse. Sometimes gets a nosebleed deliberating between Aqunid or Chrono.
Activities they often do: Poring over notebooks, fidgeting with bits of bone or tree bark, or sitting among the ferns and trees outside.
What they're like at mealtimes: Dry humor, amused by any available chaos, willing to partake in horrible food combinations.

What their current vibe is: In Cycle 3, he was everyone's eccentric scientist friend with spooky eyes. After his double killed or maimed most of his friends in a big skeleton battle— you are welcome to have witnessed or heard about that— shit is awkward! In Cycle 4, he now sits alone at mealtimes and is more distant. The smiles don't reach his eyes. Strap in for an absolutely wild redemption arc.

What CR are you interested in: Researchers and nerds; divine-associated characters; villains, reformed or otherwise; wholesome shonen friends who will believe in him; dislikers of necromancy; dislikers of violent space imperialism. Friends, enemies, ill-advised hookups.

Anything else? imagine you condensed both sides of this image into one undead asshole

[thinkfirst]

okay now importantly what do they mostly talk about at tea-time

conversational topics from flynn include:
-yuri
-asking them their opinions about various foods & vibes in the town
-wondering aloud if they should just start writing books for entertainment since there is literally nothing else
-"should we invite estelle to tea time, she's very nice"
-ideas for diluc's encampment

[vibing]

It's pretty apparent from our various threads but Yuri definitely bothers her at mealtimes and gets her talking, when she's amenable.

[thinkfirst]

Flynn deffo joins Yuri for meal cooking time and cleans up after him and offers horrendous seasoning ideas

[sighsheavily]

yes c: she can tell him abt the renovations she and darin are doing to her old room (tho bringing that up means she gotta tell him shes staying in HIS room now!!! even though...he has a brain and figured that already)

[vibing]

flynn your life is exhausting, imagine yuri just watching him do all this on the daily with that little smile of his like "oh you, someday you'll realize you're an idiot"

[vibing]

yuri like lets him have his own little project he can fuck up and lets him make one muffin with his horror flavors that's just for him

[vibing]

o yeah darin already let it slip but yuri is pretending he doesn't know so she can keep up the ruse is she so wishes

[sighsheavily]

shit that can't be handwaved
show me your "im pretending im surprised" face yuri

[vibing]

youre so right ok we will do this
yuri just like omg really? you? him??? i had no idea you're so subtle

[sighsheavily]

she's gonna slap the shit out of him
luckily she has 0 str so it's nothing

Re: John Gaius | The Locked Tomb

[lunartes]

Okay but now Estelle thinks he might be shy and wants to help him out of his shell so she will happily come hang out with him at mealtimes if she sees him sitting alone!!

[d9x]

Would love to say Dax has been regularly going with Flynn for runs after their breakfast chat abut it!

Also: Dax doesn’t do swords, and this is a kind-of ‘not a secret but she’ll never bring it up on purpose because she doesn’t like violence’ secret only Pal and Camilla know about ICly, but she can spar hand-to-hand / wrestle! I can imagine this coming up eventually… potential bonding thing… step 7 in the therapy plan or something smh

Ryan Akagi | Infinity Train

[chickenchoicejudy]

Player Name: Billie Sue
Player Pronouns: She/her
Player Contact: goodhotcocoa

Character Name: Ryan Akagi

Where they hang out: Ryan's all over the place! The manor, the tavern, the pub, just vibing outside in the greenery. He also hangs out with Min-Gi a lot - you've almost certainly seen them together at this point, they are very much dating.

Activities they often do: Ryan is a late riser, you'll never catch him at the crack of dawn willingly. He'll grab coffee late morning and either bother people he knows or find something to do on his own (for better or worse). Later in the day you can sometimes catch him at the pub. Teacher pending but he's acquired a Sword and would like to learn how to do that. He also knows he played guitar in the Before Well Times, but doesn't remember how to play, so lately you might see him trying to figure out if he can get an instrument somewhere.

Sometimes he still gets migraines if he pushes himself too hard about memories, and when that happens he disappears for a day or so, but! People who have known him for a while might notice this happens to him a little less frequently than it used to!

What they're like at mealtimes: Friendly and chatty! He might get so interested in the conversation that he flat out forgets to actually eat, but he'll remember eventually. It's fun to eat with other people though, and he never minds the company. If he's upset about something though, his appetite is the first thing to go. As of the mini-event for 4.1, Ryan has gotten extremely uncomfortable about eating the provided food for fear that it will abruptly turn moldy or into eyeballs on him, so you will probably catch him with just a glass of water, or a drink at the pub. Please feed him, is what I'm saying. This isn't sustainable long-term, Ryan.

What their current vibe is: He's somewhere in the middle right now! He's very happy in his relationship, extra happy that he now has some idea of how he knew Min-Gi before, and he thinks he likes this forest setting more. That being said, he wasn't a fan of the most recent party and the eyes and the shadows and mold, and he was even less a fan of getting abducted last cycle, so morale in the setting is extremely low. Though, that might be because he's remembered he's in a band with the love of his life back home and compared to that this...kind of sucks? This kind of sucks actually.

For more literal vibes, have a Pinterest board for Ryan in the new setting!

What CR are you interested in: Everything, I want everything (except romance). Ryan's a social butterfly and happy to chat with anyone. Also again, he needs to learn how to Sword - we don't have to RP out full lessons, lmao I know that can be kind of hard to make fun, but I'd still love the CR. Give me all the things!!

Anything else?

Ruby Rose | RWBY

[guidemyway]

B>Player Name: Josh
Player Pronouns: He/Him
Player Contact: jjabarrett or other

Character Name: Ruby Rose
Where they hang out: Staywell Manor, The Maze, Graveyard
Activities they often do: Generally up early. Moping around a little less than in the past. Still pulling the occasional pranks on people. Occasional destruction of property, occassionally just chilling out and being a teenager. Up early, but not super active.
What they're like at mealtimes: Self Deprecating, sometimes moody, sometimes easier to talk to.
What their current vibe is: Slowly working her way out of depression. She is making an effort but often times still finds herself sad. Definitely way willing to go out of her way for other people over her own well being.

What CR are you interested in: Low-key pals! Sparring buddies! passive aggressive post-it note wars!
Anything else? Place your shitposts right here!

[chickenchoicejudy]

I feel like Ryan just pops up at random moments on her like ":D" as though they're best friends and chats her up whether she seems like she wants to chat or not. He's a menace, a hurricane of friendship threatening to blow her house down.

But he does also bring gossip and that's totally worth it, right?

[guidemyway]

Ruby always steals the cookies before anyone else can get any.