cr meme | july/august

[groundrules]

Hey guys! Can it be, a scheduled CR meme, on time two months in a row? A summer miracle.

Just a small heads up that some of our newbies will not be physically with the cast at sea, and will instead be working hard to secure entry for the incomers into the main Arc IV location, Serthica. But they'll be available on the network throughout!

JULY/AUGUST CR MEME

o1. Make your own shiny ad or use the form below to help finally find your character someone who'll swipe right. Or at least won't leave them screaming in a ditch. Again.

o2. Spam like your life depends on it.

o3. Profit at 0.00% interest rates, in honour of the ECB!

<b><small>PLAYER</small>:</b> <b><small>PREFERRED CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><small>CHARACTER & CANON</small>:</b> <b><small>THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH</small>:</b> <b><small>THE SAME PITCH, BUT IT'S AN ENTHUSIASTIC FRIEND HOOKING THEM WITH A JOB/BLIND DATE</small>:</b> <b><small>HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER RUIN FAMILY DINNER?</small></b> <b><small>THEIR TV TROPE</small>:</b> <b><small>WHAT CAN YOUR CHARACTER BRING TO THE TABLE?</small></b> asset-wise. Unless they make a killer pie. <b><small>WHAT ARE THEY UP TO</small>?</b> <b><small>CR/SCENARIOS YOU WANT</small>:</b> be specific! <b><small>THROW A GIF IN, YOU DESERVE IT</small>:</b>

Comments

[blackscales]

Is there something you particularly wanted to achieve with Marcos? Like even in generic terms. I'll need to see the detail of the new arc location next week, but iirc it has dragons so may be a gateway to dragon backstory stuff on Wrathion's part which I could probably rope Marcos into.

[soloritur]

Marcos is a good counterbalance to Five, but he really only seems like a saint in comparison and I don't think I've done enough to show his range. He's great in a team, but he's also an extremely emotional guy who is at the point where he's been missing his baby daughter for months. I could make allowances for being dramatic if plot permitted just from the stress of it all. (TBH when I picked him up I was prepared to go full soap opera, don't judge me.) I'm really up for whatever with him, so if he can have any interesting story impact or help along someone's plot, I'm for it!

He's also good for getting information from seedy types, if you need a hand with that. He used to smuggle drugs and torture people before he switched to smuggling mutants, we don't talk about it. He's firmly against torture now, but he retained he knows how to talk to people and get them on his side if any of this comes up.

[blackscales]

Listen, I don't judge, you can get a lot of fun mileage from going full soap opera!

Though honestly if you want to have a full soap opera moment, Wrathion is pretty good for taking part in and provoking that because dragons are high drama characters, and Wrathion can and will turtle into an argument and try to stay reasonable up until he has a total abrupt outburst that he then tries to play off like a cat who fell of a table. He's an absolute nightmare to navigate anything that involves having an emotion with because he thinks vulnerability is what gets you killed so he does all the absolutely most unreasonable things to try and pretend he's never felt an emotion in his life lmao.

And as we all know, suppressing emotions is healthy and completely fine and never has consequences!

[soloritur]

*take out that words 'he retained' lmao when you change what you were going to say and forget to make it make sense! tired today, give me my edit button dreamwidth

We can completely play with that! There is a Highly Likely scenario that if there is a bar in this new location, Marcos will fully be there spending all his hard earned evil!village dollars they shipped him off with, so we have an easy excuse. It's a toss up if that ends in tears or a brawl but that's life.

Generally he's here for defending Wrathion for his visible mutations (sorry that's what it is to him) so you know he is already sympathetic.