wellcome | Handwaved CR meme

Back by popular demand: handwaved CR! 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!
There are some suggested questions, answer as many or as few as you'd like:

What do they usually wear? Western or renaissance fair? Lots of fringe or puffy pants? All black or all sequined?
Where they hang out: Are they a parlor guy or a diner girlie? What gendered changing room do they gravitate toward at the baths?
Activities they often do: 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?
What they're like at mealtimes: Can you talk to them before they've had their coffee? Do they make horrific food based choices?
Does your character read the books? Which ones? Do they share the books? Self-help, or romance? Do they dogear the sex parts?
What do they do at night? Do they all hang out in the parlor? Do their drink the night away? Do they lurk in the shadows?
Is there anything unusual about them? Do they sleep somewhere other than the Staywell? Do they have a particular scent or appearance that might be off-putting? Are they just way too friendly?
What their current vibe is: Are they happy? Sad? Are you tormenting them with an awful, drawn out character arc?
What CR are you interested in: Low-key pals? Sparring buddies? Do they have a passive aggressive post-it based relationship?

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Player Name: Faye
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wingedvoices or same name at gmail, DM here, whatever works for you! With the caveat that I am trying to get better at Discord...key word trying D:

Character Name: Camilla Hect
What do they usually wear? Comfortable and movable, with considerable thought put into how to have everything she needs with her. She's been looking a bit knightly for the last few months. (Well. In Jan she was looking like statuary, but come with me here). Tunic or loose poet shirt; leggings/skinny pants/breeches; boots, though she does typically with a vest or some leather armor (and some metal armor that she and Flynn commandeered and that she's been trying very hard to improve herself ~~so if Darin has a twitch that won't go away, that's why~~). If the powers that be see fit to bless her with chainmail, you better believe that Joan of Arc haircut is stepping into the spotlight it knew it was born for.
This isn't actually that different in nature than what she wore in the desert, it's just different colors and materials and fewer wide-brimmed hats (though Palamedes is in love with weird hats so you never know).

Where they hang out: All over; often in the Mansion, but she likes to go to the Pub with Dax and/or if she's picking up a shift, the baths are a favorite to go unwind, and she also just has a habit of sort of...doing a perimeter: noticing things, keeping an eye on people, marking changes and scribbling them down later (or on the spot). Ever since the place has become very not desert-ed, Cam is also very fond of looking at and sometimes sketching flora and fauna she's not familiar with, though she isn't likely to wander into the forest alone unless compelled.

Activities they often do: If Palamedes is doing most anything, she's often at his elbow, and vice versa. The same has become true (to a much lesser degree) of Dax, although she's much more likely to be allowed to her own devices. (This is partly a cavalier thing and partly just knowing Pal.) That said, she is a touch less of his shadow in Well than she is at home with all her memories, and certainly so lately. Usually she can also be found getting one or another kind of workout or sparring session in at points during the week, but during March she's kind of, um. Recovering from her soul being used as a battery, which turns out ~~for everyone but Gideon~~ to be a little hard on the system.

Luckily (or possibly unluckily given the material) Cam also loves to read, sketch, and people-watch, so she's likely to be in a corner of a room drawing something or being enigmatic, or possibly trying to persuade any former sparring buddies to play easy defense while she ~~pushes herself way too hard~~ rehabs.

What they're like at mealtimes: Probably being a little taciturn and snarky with one or both of the aforementioned two, but she might be being taciturn and snarky with another different friend, you never know! Cam likes people a lot. She doesn't talk a lot, but it varies. Right now she can't hit things so she is both more and less talkative, in spurts.

Does your character read the books? Which ones? Do they share the books? Yes, because there's nothing else to read, and also because her necromancer has something of a thing for light romance/erotica and she might as well know what the hell he's talking about. Though, she's a little more likely to go for the supposed non-fiction.

She is finding the annotations people are leaving its own kind of fascinating sub-genre of study, though.

What do they do at night? Sleep extremely lightly, enjoy being snuggled or snuggling, occasionally have some traumatic nightmares and get up and wander around and come back. Can be a bit of a night owl although she's become much more diurnal in Well. Doesn't remember it being dark all the time in the Sixth!

Is there anything unusual about them? I mean, she Officially swore to be -- and had to earn her place as -- Palamedes' to-death-and-functionally-beyond protector at age 11 and had to know she wanted to do that years beforehand, that's probably slightly unusual.

When she's not recovering from soul-siphoning, Cam's sort of ridiculously skilled with knives, swords and acrobatics, and had finally had all of that skill regained! She's not starting from scratch as much as sludging through regaining the strength and stamina and finesse, but it's weird for her to not be able to, you know, flip a knife to herself, do a backflip down some stairs and catch it in the air (canon. I'd say she's OP but I watch some CRAZYASS Youtubers. And also that's just kinda impressive-but-not-ridiculous in TLT, it's written like a JRPG, you can just do shit).

In a more mundane sense -- and all the mannerisms are also canon, just not the label -- I do explicitly play her as neurodivergent. She rocks when she thinks, she's almost never still entirely; she's quiet and brief when she does talk (she and Pal communicate in body language and expressions a lot of the time, noticably to other people) and can be extremely blunt -- sometimes seriously, and sometimes because she cannot resist a wry joke. Cam leans toward a flattish affect that's juuust a little judgy of center: all this to say that if you don't know her, she may come off enigmatic or she may come off like kind of a bitch.

If she likes someone, she starts to tease a little more: she doesn't have time to spend on people she dislikes up until the point where she actively wants to hurt them.

What their current vibe is: Extremely stressed that her physical abilities are so nerfed, and both anxious and annoyed that the people she loves are FUSSING so much: she doesn't like worrying people or being a burden. Lots of internalized ableism cw this month. (Though if you poke hard enough [or possibly choke her with some flowers, idk, I'm deciding], she is proud of herself for making the choice she did, and unspeakably proud of Palamedes for pulling it off, and gladder than she knows how to say or that he probably could deal with hearing that Alec's okay, and she'd do it again.)

I do want to use this month to let her very underrated, very high intelligence take its turn in the spotlight and find her some nerdy things to do that aren't athletic.
The brain is still, if not more, active! Archive help for Cece? Mysteries to solve? Types of flowers to index? IDK!

(Also/including sketching! Which I'd like to poke at. TLT is a bizarre sci fi canon that has spaceships and NO PHOTOGRAPHY, so her drawing is generally practical. Cam has an interesting ability to draw from a reference and then be able to rotate it perfectly in her head and draw the same thing as if it were facing in different ways; we also know that she can kind of 'police-sketch'; ie draw a relatively accurate portrait from a good verbal description. I don't think she thinks of herself as creative so much as useful -- her own usefulness is the core of Cam, really, though, and that's an interesting thing to play with especially right now.)

What CR are you interested in: ALL OF IT. ALL THE CR. Especially: new people/any of y'all I keep saying "so I mean to tag you..." / people who have stuff they talk about with Pal (she will have probably heard it, lol). I'd love to handwave people having routines eg working out, sparring, bath gossip, whatever (especially if those are thrown off this month) -- I can be such a slow poster so having a consistent thing to reference is really awesome. But also, new ideas or threads people want are great!

Anything else?

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