All Purpose Plotting and CR Meme

[ourearth]

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.)

Comments

Easy Ins for prospective characters

[ourearth]

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

[catted]

Marja is a magic user in canon, and her first echo was indeed a tiny bit of magic, so magic buddies y/y?

[spaghettimonster]

Sounds like a plan! Demonstrations may be in order; Russell's is/will be pretty obvious, in that he's learned he can summon bones into existence. It looks like Marja's is more subtle than that?

[catted]

Well... Easier to explain away, at least.

But she can do some very obvious things, too, and I might echo her one of that back fairly early on (something like shapeshifting or healing or teleporting or such) just so she can freak out figure things out better.

Seeing Russell summon bones might actually be a good trigger for her to echo bits of teleportation or memories of moving between this side and the spirit world :|9

[spaghettimonster]

Those are fun options, and I don't envy you choosing between them. But even the life sense could be useful, as Russell wouldn't mind knowing for sure that he's not summoning bones out of people or anything terrible like that. These bones of magic made physical are a different thing, and would probably only ping as echoes of his own life than life of their own?

And then they enter into an echo rebound loop, as teleportation would absolutely set one off from Papyrus' memories.

[catted]

Her first echo will be a different one from the one that's currently in her info post, but she'd probably get the life sense back early on, so they could definitely look into that (alternatively, she could sent a sample of a bone off to a lab to see if it matches up with Russell's dna or not...)

lmao yes good

[spaghettimonster]

Ahh, then I'll keep an eye out for what she gets for the first echo instead. Please do science to the mysterious magic bones, he (and I) have no idea if it would match but that'd be fun to explore.

[vernal_miss]

Young magic buddy? So long as Russell doesn’t mind a 10 year old, she’ll be happy to practice magic with him!

[spaghettimonster]

He'll be hesitant, because his interactions with Kitty so far have featured her being Uncanny and Knowing and bickering at him...

But he does want to compare the sorts of magic people are gaining. As long as she doesn't get under his skin in the same way, he'd be okay with it.

[vernal_miss]

Nel can be blunt and insatiably curious, but bickering doesn’t work well in her family dynamic. Friendly teasing is fair game most times... If she comes with her mum however, she’ll be extra well behaved.

The bone magic will certainly impress her.

[spaghettimonster]

That sounds promising then, yeah! We can toss them at each other and see how the initial impressions go.

It's hard to say no to something that impresses people, especially when it's something seemingly harmless like this. Now just wait until he starts getting back the finesse control to spell things out...

[vernal_miss]

Sounds like a plan!

That day will be hilarious and especially fun!!! Is he getting back the ability to make the skateboarding bone?

[spaghettimonster]

not immediately, because you have to admit it's his most powerful ability, but in good time.

[vernal_miss]

Excellent point. It’ll be fun times when he does!