All Purpose Plotting and CR Meme

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The All-Purpose CR/Plotting Meme



The meme is open to, as per always, making arrangements with and between:
- Current characters in game.
AND
- Potential characters - any characters you may be planning on apping or reapping (there is a special header for this under the main post).
If you have an app in that has not been processed, please, don't be shy about commenting around for prospective CR and plans on entry - though, of course, remember that plans will be tentative!

For ideas, please consult the Locations, Soft facts & Gossip, British stuff (for all of your "how does this thing work in England???" needs) and NPCs pages, as well as any other game pages. Go to the FAQ to ask questions about potential AUs, characters, setting, game mechanics, etc.

For characters of either status, toss up a comment with your character's reincarnated name, pre-incarnated name, canon, and occupation in the subject line. E.x. "Cinderella | Rarity | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | Family Pet" In the body, of course, place any information you see fit; go on ahead and use this form if you'd like a place to start or take it however you feel!

<b>Reincarnation:</b> Name <b>Pre-Incarnation:</b> Name/Canon <b>Location(s):</b> Where can your character be encountered? <b>A blurb about them:</b> (Feel free to write them up a blurb here - especially encouraged if they're a character you're considering rather than one established in-game! Alternatively omit.) <b>Open/Wanted CR:</b> (Have you any certain types of CR/dynamics you hope to bring into development?) <b>Hooks:</b> (Places where one might meet them, hobbies/activities through which one might know them, things in others that would make the character get into contact, whatever would bring your character and others together!) <b>Plans/ongoing character plots:</b> (Anything a person ought to know - any plans for them or things you've wanted to write them doing? Anything about what they've been up to?) <b>Anything Else?:</b> (Anything else you'd like to say? Out of courtesy to your fellow players, please don't put gifs in this section.)

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Prospective characters

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If you are looking into apping or reapping a character, please post in response to this toplevel!

Mary Ann Tilly | Marja Virtanen | Mage: The Ascension | GP

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Reincarnation: Mary-Ann Tilly
Pre-Incarnation: Marja Virtanen / Magic: The Ascension
Location(s): She lives in Moss Manor and is fairly active in village life. She has a kid in the local primary school, so she might be found at the gates waiting for a kid on her days off. She works in a surgery in Mossgate as a GP, so that place or in the summer the seafront during breaks would be places to find her.
A blurb about them: Marja in canon is a Mage, and she specializes in the Spheres of Life, Spirits and Correspondence. That means that she can heal or destroy life, she can give living forms new shapes, she can feel out life, and many more things - anything that affects living organisms, she can do if she's creative about it, pretty much. She's also in close contact with the spirits and their world and can influence both. And she can teleport, feel breaches in space, and other things that affect space. There's a few other magic things that she can do, too.

Some of her family members are werewolves. She's an identical twin, originally from Sapmi/Finland, but spent most of her life outside of it - first the Iberian Peninsula, then Germany. She stopped ageing in her mid-fourties. For those who are canon familiar, she is a Dreamspeaker.

Open/Wanted CR: Mary-Ann will be daughter to Sam, daughter-in-law to Sky, and mother of Nel. She has three other biological children, some older, some younger than Nel, so:
- Children! Mary Ann and her wife have three biological children (because her first echo will have been the ability to have biological children with her wife), but if someone has a person who would be too old for a 50-year-old who only started with the children sometime in her thirties, yet they want them to be her child, it's totally possible to say that Janice and Mary-Ann Tilly fostered or adopted them.
- Wife! The last name should remain Tilly, but the first name is malleable. Essentially, Mary Ann's wife. They've been together for long enough to have (a) teenage kid(s), they live in Moss Manor. That's pretty much all that's set in stone. Oh, and she should be around 50.
- Patients! She's a GP in Mossgate, so this one is wide open and could be pretty much anyone.
- Fellow queer people! She's not super involved in the community, but she drops by the Hive sometimes and gets involved when there's political issues to deal with, and she's probably a name being passed around among queer people who'd like to have a GP who gets it.
- People from Moss Manor - neighbours, friends, people she meets at the shops...
- Parents of children her children know, teachers of her children, her hairdresser.... etc etc.

Hooks: Again, she's a GP so she meets a lot of people though that, and to the same end she's a parent. She also is on and off active in the LGBTQ+ community, and likes to attend village things in Moss Manor.

Plans/ongoing character plots: Her and her daughter will discover the network together, but nothing past that yet.

Re: Mary Ann Tilly | Marja Virtanen | Mage: The Ascension | GP

[iamnotgod]

/peeks in on/

Would we still be on for GP-Patient things? Time to hash out if his meds are keeping up with his metabolism! Or something like that. It's probably not anything dire. Probably. 8'D

Feste | OC (loosely based on Elsewhere University) | University student

[fairfeste]

Reincarnation: Taylor 'Feste' [last name pending]
Pre-Incarnation: Feste/OC based on Elsewhere University
Location(s): Probably mostly around Mossgate; planning on having them be a university student in some kind of arts program. I'm very early on in the planning of this sob.
A blurb about them: Feste is one of the Fair Folk, and though they're pretty young by their standards that still makes them a hell of a lot older than most humans. For one of the Gentry, they're fairly friendly, nice, and patient, but... that's not really saying a whole lot. They Deal largely in souls and can do some pretty nasty shit, as well as, you know, take bits of your soul if you're not careful. (If they ask if they can have your name, THE ANSWER IS NO.)

Open/Wanted CR: I would love, love, love for Feste to have some close family/friends who have to deal with them losing any idea of what human morality and empathy is. It'll be great fun, I promise. More casual friendships/school relationships would be great too, or more distant family.

Hooks: They are constantly wandering around trying to get into new things and meet new people. Like, genuinely, there is a decent chance that that one hobby group you're in and never gets new people just has them show up because they found out about it and want to see what it is and if it's fun and you all seem nice!!!

Plans/ongoing character plots: Mostly I'm just over here cackling over the idea of this probably very friendly person devolving into a cheerful and very childish eldritch-type horror.

[catted]

If you don't mind them having been adopted, they could be Mary Ann (whom I. I will app very soon) and her wife's kid? That'd give them two grandfathers (Sky and Sam, who are already in game) and a little sister (Ornella, whose app is currently being processed), too. Assuming everyone else in this constellation is interested, of course.

Re: Feste | OC (loosely based on Elsewhere University) | University student

[iamnotgod]

So Taylor/Feste would be nonbinary/agender in their re-and preincarantion?

Because there might be some potential for talking with Walter about gender, maybe???

Only if that's cool with both you and Feste, of course. |D

Alternatively, Walter may be developing some similar questions about morality, if for vastly different reasons. Fun for all! :')

Ornella Tilly | Spring Sprite | Fantasia 2000 | Student, aspiring artist

[vernal_miss]

Reincarnation: Ornella Tilly
Pre-Incarnation: Spring Sprite | Fantasia 2000
Location(s): Primary school (her last year!) in Moss Manor village, the village itself, gardens, parks, anywhere fun that a family member will take her
A blurb about them: Nature spirit that really is an embodiment of the season of spring. She can create/alter plants and bring fresh water to an area (rain or a river), create insects for the plants, glide, and her physical form fluctuates with her powers.

Open/Wanted CR: She’s set to be one of the brood belonging to Janice and Mary Ann Tilly, and granddaughter of Sam Stone and Luke “Sky” Walker. I would love to have friends for her!

Hooks: Moss Manor village is her home, but she will go anywhere with family. She’s very fond of gardens and parks, and regularly attends school.

Plans/ongoing character plots: Nel will first show up on the network with her mother Mary Ann. Otherwise, she will draw on the network from time to time and ask everyone all the questions.

Anything Else?: If she deems you a friend, she will give you a drawing from her sketchbook.

[runs]

Kitty will so make friends with her, finally someone who isn't ancient on the network =D

And also promptly start being a terrible influence.

Sung Jae Nam | Nam Shin III | Are You Human Too? | Exec Director of PK Motors

[shinnamonbot]

Reincarnation: Sung Jae Nam aka Jay Nam
Pre-Incarnation: Nam Shin III / Are You Human Too?
Location(s): He has a small cottage in Moss Manor, one of those ones that had been bought by outsiders, updated totally in the inside, and used as a family vacation house. The family hasn't been around for ten odd years but now Jay is there and he highly values his personal space to the point where he can be found doing a lot of the upkeep inside and out for the place. He does a lot of jogging around the place, rarely stops at local pub save for quiz nights, and even then barely does anything but listens in and maybe has a single club soda. He works in an branch office for PK Motors where he is constantly demanding people to do their work and stop slacking off or is out headhunting IT people for a project to make a better self-driving car. Also he is scary good with computers, is paranoid to the point of yelling about people spying on him and all his equipment is finger locked to his use only.
A blurb about them:
NS3 is an A.I. robot creation of a pioneer in the field. He was created after her son was taken from her by his grandfather and this is his third robotic body; his first one being that if a child at age 8 and his second that of a teen age 14. Each body also has limitations to them until he was given this third version - the child body has limited range of motion and expressions while the teen body moves easier there is still limited expressions and not quite right appearance. His adult body has the best in range for everything needed though there is the problem of his limited tactical sensations like touch and taste and a lack of a system to cry, sweat and bleed. None of this ever really bothered him until he starts mingling with humans at a huge scale.

His AI is very much like a young teen and is still learning how to adapt and bend to fit in within human society. He wants to be accepted as he is and while he is very much aware that he scares people, he does not want to rule over them or replace them. He has also said several times he does not feel emotions but has lately accepted that he must since he has reacted emotionally towards those people he is close to - from his mother (the woman who made him) to his lover. And yes, he has a lover who was the reason why he has accepted that he is so much more than just a machine doing as he is told as so many others have compared him with. He just wants to be everyone's friend really. He even is friends with a roomba.

Open/Wanted CR:
He's going to be so prickly before he starts getting his sweetheartness back, so I'm expecting to see CR that will match him or get annoyed by his attitude. I do want to get him more positive figures in his life because he is surrounded by so many enemies back home that this exile is actually like paradise to him. But seriously I'm open to all types of CR.

Hooks: His work will be the biggest thing - he is a Business major/computer science minor who is now running a branch of his family's business so I'm betting he will get roped into a lot job fairs or job speeches. He likes horseback riding and he found riding. He jogs and drives a fancy sports car or an equally fancy bike. His work car is far more simpler and is driven by a guy working for him. He hangs out at the pub but doesn't drink and also he doesn't do any dating.

Plans/ongoing character plots: I have no plans for him atm outside of him becoming a robot.

Anything Else?: He's really a nice guy he just acts evil.

Runar Agnarsson | Kohaku | CLAMP Universe | Florist

[voiceacrosttime]

Reincarnation: Runar Agnarsson
Pre-Incarnation: Kohaku/Wish; Legal Drug (Drug and Drop); Kobato
Location(s): Runar tends to live and work in Mossgate, but can also be easily found visiting other towns for needs/just wanting to get out for a bit. He's a florist.
A blurb about them: Runar grew up as a single child to a single parent. Born in Iceland, he finished compulsory school, but has no idea what he wants to do with his life yet. He's working as a florist. He tries to act cool, but honestly almost always loses his cool. He just doesn't want anybody to hate him. So, if you're moody, chances are he'll bend over backwards for you. He also drops the "cool" facade when he's working at the flower shop.

Open/Wanted CR:
-Unless you want to be his dad. (I have plans to make him a pharmacist, but this can be malleable. Dad tends to be encouraging, but is reminded alot of Runar's mother based on his physical appearance. Which is why Runar leans toward basic crossdressing. Other than that, the rest is workable.)

-ALL the friends! Please? He needs and wants them. Any friends will do. Coworkers even?

-Potential extended family? Let him dote on you.

-Enemies are fine, too. He won't know what to do with enemies, but you can be assured hilarity will ensue.

-Anything at all? Really? I'd love to hear any other ideas. Hit me!

Hooks: Runar works at a flower shop, and lives in, Mossgate. But that doesn't stop him from going to other locations. He likes touring and sightseeing. He'll try to act all cool, but chances are it'll backfire quickly. He's also a sucker for anyone in distress.

He might (poorly) attempt to flirt with you (males particularly, but females are okay too), and will probably backtrack just as quick. You're flirting back with him? HoGodWHY???? (lots of blushing and stammering and he doesn't know what to do). You think he's a tool instead? No wait please don't hate him! He's SORRY!

He also likes to sing, when he thinks no one is looking. So feel free to walk in on him doing that at like the park, or something. Age/time being here is fairly malleable. I'd like him to be no older than mid-twenties, though, and not having arrived to Mossgate before the age of sixteen.

Plans/ongoing character plots: I'd like for him to plan a few festivals, or something. Anything to get peoples' spirits up. He also will probably try to get in on several causes, if he can find a way to help. But nothing super solid planned yet.

Anything Else?: Hit me with anything, he's still in development.

James "Jimmy" Dupin | Shinichi Kudo | Detective Conan | Exchange Student/Mystery Writer

[lovedramamoron]

Reincarnation: James Bredon "Jimmy" Dupin
Pre-Incarnation: Shinichi Kudo (Conan Edogawa)/Detective Conan
Location(s): Mossgate, and any opportunity to get out and do tourism things in nearby areas.
A blurb about them: In canon, Shinichi is a well known high school detective, good enough to be nicknamed the Holmes of the Modern Era. At least he was until he got in over his head and ended being used as the test subject for an experimental poison. Only instead of killing him, the poison shrank him to the size of a small child. Which left Shinichi in the position of having to pretend to be an actual child while investigating the criminal organization that did this to him and solving the numerous crimes that just seem to happen everywhere he goes.

Open/Wanted CR: Open for anything, but especially fellow teenagers and people willing to help out a lonely exchange student. Anyone want to play host family? Otherwise he'll probably be going to a boarding school.

Hooks: school events around Mossgate, football games, tourism things, libraries, bookstores. He's an aspiring mystery novelist and football player, but hasn't decided for sure which one he wants to pursue in college.

Plans/ongoing character plots: Nothing set in stone yet, apart from being really confused when he starts getting echoes about being a child. What kind of childhood did his past life have?

Easy Ins for prospective characters

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If you have open positions in your character's life that are flexible and you'd like to fill with player characters, please respond to this toplevel using the following form:

<b>Position:</b> What is it? Parent, sibling, classmate, mentor, cricket club mate, colleague, ex-wife... <b>Any specifics:</b> Is there anything that has already been specified about the person who would fill this position? Things like 'probably live in Folkton', 'should be between 40 and 60', 'must love cats', and so on.

This is by no means meant to be a complete list of all possible CR. It is simply meant to be a starting point for players of prospective characters to find current characters that they can connect their AU with easily.

[channingchanningchanning]

Position: Owner
Any specifics: Male, member of an Italian mafia, a bit like the babysitter of the rest of the Family, built the Mossgate outpost and has been there for at least six years. Officially the accountant of the restaurant that acts as the mafia unit's Front.

Position: Boss Couple of the mafia unit Chad lives with
Any specifics: The Boss Couple are an Italian woman and a man of flexible origin, who have a lot of children and came to Mossgate a few years ago (less than six). They are the owners of the restaurant.

Position: Members of the Family Chad lives with
Any specifics: Mafia members are male. They're mostly Italian.

Position: Dogsitters
Any specifics: Chad is a handful and his owner is a busy man, so sometimes he needs some dogsitting. This role is probably fulfilled by pupils and students.

Position: The person who owner the Kennel that Chad was born at and lived at for many years.
Any specifics: Breeds white Pomeranians. Sometimes keeps one or two to train them up to go to shows with them.

[runs]

Position: Place to crash
Any specifics: So Kitty has a tendency to just wander into people's homes and decide that these are her second homes now. Which means that she'll sometimes drop in and ideally sit on the couch, watch TV and eat their sweets, or play board games with them, curl up in a corner and nap, or otherwise make the place her home. And then wander back out. This doesn't necessarily happen outside of school hours.

So the only specifics are that whoever this is needs to be living in a place that would allow her to make it her home - either they themselves, or whoever runs the place that they live in.

Position: Fellow foster child
Any specifics: Young enough that they were a foster child during very recent years or currently are one. There's a few open spots in her current foster family, too.

Position: Classmate
Any specifics: 9-ish.

[iamnotgod]

Position: Sibling! Specifically a sister.
Any specifics: ... Admittedly I've specified a lot; her name is Haley, she was born April 12th, 1998 while the family was part of a cult, which they left in 2005; she has since grown beyond the cult and is now studying oceanography. The family is a generally healthy one and the siblings are on good terms.

The rest of her personality, likes&dislikes, and general history is free-range, though!

Position: Other former/surviving cult members
Any specifics: Can be any age/demographic, really. Does the cult still exist? Who knows!

Position: People Walter befriended in uni - peers, professors, etc.
Any specifics: Will probably not work out well if they try to get him to visit London again. =P

[spaghettimonster]

Position: Ex-classmates
Any specifics: People between 24 - 29 years old, attended school in Moss Manor around the same timeframe

Position: Older siblings
Any specifics: Mid-late 30s, half English and half Italian, used to live in Moss Manor, have lived away from the greater Mossgate area for more than a decade. Completely open-ended where they've been since moving out.

Position: Theatre troupe members
Any specifics: Other people involved in Mossgate Theatre shows in some way or another, be it actors, other tech folks, costuming, what have you.

Position: Regular customers from his ex-job at the pier gift store
Any specifics: People who like to shop at gift shops and regularly buy things, whether it's for their own clutter or for gift-giving

Position: Dog-owners who occasionally need someone to come by and take the dog for a walk
Any specifics: Gotta own a dog, please do not be the middleman for some other dogwalking venture

Position: Magic buddies / co-investigators
Any specifics: Has some kind of magic to compare / contrast / compete about

Chad | Channing | Parasolverse | Family Pet

[channingchanningchanning]

Character: Chad / Eng CH Bumblecorn He's a Jolly Decent Fellow
Pre-Incarnation: Channing Channing of the Chesterfield Channings / Parasolverse
Location(s): At the Italian restaurant at the end of the High Street; out and about in Mossgate as he's being walked; YELLING on the network where he's making an ass of himself as he tries to hide that he's a dog
A blurb about them: A little yippy pet dog to a member of an Italian mafia group.

Open/Wanted CR: People who develop some form of relationship with him him on the network without knowing that he's a dog.

Hooks: He's at the restaurant a lot. Since he has little barking control he might always accidentally spook someone or an animal because he suddenly gets excited.

Plans/ongoing character plots: I'm planning on getting him out more on the network now that he's hopefully got a bit more of a handle on it - would anyone be up for him somehow spying on them and learning their number, so he can then private-dial them (and perhaps deepen the mystery of "is he the secret mastermind behind the network"?)

Re: Chad | Channing | Parasolverse | Family Pet

[iamnotgod]

... Chad should absolutely private-dial Walter at some point.

(That is, if he wants to.)

Maybe it could even be backdated!

Benjiro Thorne | Dark Donatello | TMNT Fast Forward | 6th Form College Student

[warped_replica]

Reincarnation: Benjiro Thorne
Pre-Incarnation: Dark Donatello / TMNT Fast Forward
Location(s): Moss Manor village
A blurb about them: A teenage nerd that’s got an amazing girlfriend, a video game stream channel, and is exploring his inventing skills. He has lived in London, the US, and Japan.

Open/Wanted CR: More friends is always better! Age makes no difference. Totally open to most possible relationships (good or bad) except immediate family members. Russell is his second cousin in law once removed.

Hooks: Benjiro is loaned out to neighbors in Moss Manor village by his great aunts to do repairs, he attends 6th Form college (where he recently became the trend in Mossgate gossip over a fight), and is going to be in town frequently, especially at the library.

Plans/ongoing character plots: Sadly, streaming is an inconsistent form of income, so he’s looking into getting a part time job after draining most of his savings on junkyard parts and a replacement wardrobe with his last Echo. At least those parts will become a motorcycle at the end of the month.

Anything Else?: He has remained inactive on the Network and refuses to use it so far.

[catted]

I can't remember if we have talked about this before, but I could totally see Benjiro having been loaned to Mary Ann's family before to fix up some internet thing or the other.

Walter Weekes | Webmind | The WWW Trilogy | Independent IT Contractor

[iamnotgod]

Reincarnation: Walter Weekes techmaster extraordinaire
Pre-Incarnation: Webmind/The WWW Trilogy
Location(s): ... Pretty much anywhere in Mossgate/within the Echo boundary.
A blurb about them: Generally in a constant internal fight between Introverted Notions and Getting Out Among People Because It's Good For Him, Dammit! And also trying to do right by people; he's the helpful sort. Also, he is trans and has educated himself a fair amount on Identity Stuff.

Open/Wanted CR: ... More accidental friendships, please! Also people who either have crushes on him or can tease him about his own (not-quite-realized) crush on Jim.

Hooks: He is a very qualified tech person-type, thankyouverymuch! =P He can have fixed your character's computer or suommat. Also, he goes running and biking on a regular basis - though given his Echo-enhanced speed he's trying to do that out of people's notice.

Plans/ongoing character plots: Fair warning: I am going to break this character so hard. Just not right now. ;)

Anything Else?: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I RP the Internet!

Russell Scordato | Papyrus / Undertale | Actor & Theatre Technician

[spaghettimonster]

Reincarnation: Russell Scordato
Pre-Incarnation: Papyrus / Undertale
Location(s): Generally around Mossgate, since he lives and works around town. Also visits Moss Manor for major neighborhood functions, and lurks around the Network
A blurb about them: Chronically dramatic theatre nerd and rich kid (adult) working part time at various jobs and getting distracted by The Mysteries around them and the network

Open/Wanted CR: Friends, Romans, Countrymen.
Additional family (he's got a few openings in immediate family, and plenty of options for extended family - Ben's his second cousin-in-law once removed).
Extremely petty rivalries are good, especially since his style of petty rivalry will shift a bit as he gets more Papyrusy (right now his main rival is... also a dog, these things happen).
Conspiracy Theory Buddies - Russell has indulged in spinning theories at his cousin and flatmate, and personally believes that the mysterious voice that called them to action with the petting zoo is the mastermind behind the network's existence.

Hooks: He's a brightly cheery spacecase who occasionally works retail sorts of jobs, Mossgate Theatre troupe stuff, various stuff from these other categories

Plans/ongoing character plots:
- I haven't found any player characters for him to imitate for the sake of popularity / self improvement, so I think he's going to fall in celebrity crush with Sir. Patrick Stewart for a bit (for the sake of an actor I like and can imitate off of.)
- He's going to test going outside the network area at least a few times, so if anyone wants to play the memory blipping game with him (mostly handwaved), that's an option.
- It's going to be a while before Russell has any realistic understanding of what his Undertale life was like, but he's going to have theories aplenty that he'll share with people.
- And while it's a slow going thing, someday he's going to be unnervingly mummy-like before the full transition to skeleton, so some body horror warnings may be required going forward.

Anything Else?: [Insert skeleton gifs here]

[ourearth]

That sounds like an excellent celebrity crush tbh I see no drawbacks to this

But also just to make sure that there is no sadness later: Please remember that during Season 1 characters need to not compromise the existence of the Numbered to the wider public, so if he becomes all mummy-like to a point where it can't be explained away with a medical condition, he'll need to hide.

[dragoonrouge]

Reincarnation: Sadie Moore
Pre-Incarnation: Q'uila Sunrise/Final fantasy XIV
Location(s): The library, about town. At weekends she can be found at the RSPCA where she volunteers to look after animals. recently she can also be found down on the beach or near the water
A blurb about them: One of the many students at the local Sixth Form College, alongside her twin James and her wonderful boyfriend Ben, Sadie is a recent arrival in Mossgate, having moved less than a year ago into the area. She is a budding scientist with a love of rocks and general nerd.

Open/Wanted CR: Fellow students, distant family member (her Dad's family are originally from Mossgate), Female role-model (it's a bit of a boys club amongst the older Numbered and so Sadie would be grateful for a more feminine influence amongst them that she could talk to

Hooks: Animals! If you have pets of any kind Sadie will want to be your friend, she's also interested in others general experiences with the Echo as she's looking into trying to science it alongside Ben and Walter

Plans/ongoing character plots: I hoping to get her magic soon to spice some things up but asides from that I have nothing concrete planned

[iamnotgod]

... Who should be present when she gets her magic? /halo emote