CR MEME #2

[unplug]

▶ MAKE FRIENDS, INFLUENCE PEOPLE



Welcome to our second CR Meme!

We have amended our original plans so that the CR meme will be posted every 2 months. As new players and characters arrive, they can hash out connections that came before their game play begins, as well as plot out new game play. Specifically, this could also be a good venue to find ship crews that are looking for new crew mates, and for prospective crew mates to find new ship crews.

Please fill out the form below for your character, and then comment around to other characters! Also be sure to check back as more people filter in.

<span style="font-family:courier new, monospace; font-size: 20px">▶ YOUR CHARACTER NAME</span> <span style="font-family:courier new, monospace; font-size: 14px">▼ OOC CONTACT</span> <b>Your name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <span style="font-family:courier new, monospace; font-size: 14px">▼ IC INFORMATION</span> <b>Character name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> Or specify if Free born. <b>Job/Role:</b> Either your character's official title, or something less formal. <b>General Reputation:</b> If you have one, anyway. Share the pertinent information of who your character is, what they are like, and what they do. If they have been free for a while or have been free all their life, you might want to share what they've done so far. <b>Looking For:</b> What CR are you after? What kind of RP would you like? Along with general RP wishes, we would also encourage setting down any shopping around you are doing for more crew mates or a ship to call home. <b>Notes:</b> Anything else of note that isn't already covered off in the above, such as future plans, specific hooks, or hidden character secrets relevant to CR.

For your reference, your previous CR meme is here.

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[last_ofthe_jedi]

▶ LUKE SKYWALKER

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Gen
Contact: bagof4grapes, bagof4grapes on Skype, PM this journal

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Luke Skywalker
Canon: Star Wars
Job/Role: Pilot trainee

General Reputation: The extraction process and recovery period was notoriously difficult for Luke. He's been reluctant to let go of his former life and has been rather open and stubborn about clinging to old habits and memories. The only thing he's been quite eager to get rid of is his status as a Jedi. The Force is no longer with him, it never even existed, and to Luke it was the one thing he could always count on. That's been the hardest thing for him to accept and Luke has a lot of anger and resentment attached to it.

Despite all that, Luke is kind and compassionate at his core and when he wasn't rocking in a corner he was helping people wherever he could.

It's been about two and a half months since his extraction. His outbursts and breakdowns are at a minimum these days and he's somehow managed to get himself a position on the hovercraft Phoenix, though the rumors are that he only got it because the captain is his best friend. Luke is eager to prove to them that he deserves to be there.

Looking For: Anything but especially friends. Luke could really use some friends in this place. And if your character is easily trolled, beware because Luke likes to troll. I'd also like to maybe establish who he first met when he was extracted since that wasn't played out.

It might be fun if Luke met some people who he can really relate to as far as Matrix experiences, losing family, fighting wars, etc... It also looks like he might be taking on a sort of counselor position on the Phoenix, lol. It just kinda happened. Come talk to him if you have troubles, I guess.

Notes: STRAP IN, PHOENIX CREW.

[sfoils]

▶ WEDGE ANTILLES

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Mao
Contact: togruta

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Wedge Antilles
Canon: Star Wars
Job/Role: Hovercraft Captain/Mechanic

General Reputation: No nonsense and militaristic, Wedge exudes leadership. In his Matrix, Wedge was a seasoned pilot who was promoted to general based on talent, not politics. Has a keen sense for people's skills, both how to bring them out and how to utilize them. Unlike what's typical for high-ranking officers, he genuinely cares about the welfare of his crew. He's also technically minded, purposely working as a mechanic for six months to be well acquainted with the hovercrafts he hoped to fly. Has a noted interest in rehabilitating problem cases.

However, he greatly dislikes politics, and easily chafes (and downright disobeys and, worst of cases, deserts) if he thinks an order is morally bankrupt/nonsensical/dangerous to the good of all. His only saving grace in this area is that he has great instincts, so he's usually right.

Has a habit of trolling as a coping mechanic, which can be infuriating because he's a fairly impassive person i.e his face is permanently stuck in neutral, which makes him hard to read.

Looking For:

• Phoenix Crew: Self-explanatory. I want Wedge to forge a deep camaraderie with his crew mates.


• Friendships: Nothing against Luke, but Wedge needs to spread out. Politically and military-savvy characters are a plus, as Wedge, as much as he dislikes politics, is actually fairly aware of the political climate around him.
  
  He's also a greasemonkey from the womb, so characters who are technologically inclined will find a great mechanic/engineer in Wedge.


• Rivalries: Wedge can get pretty grudgey/be downright nasty to people he doesn't respect/believes are not good people.


• Sims: You want a wing mate to improve your piloting skills? Wedge is your man.

Notes:

[sfoils]

[...] though the rumors are that he only got it because the captain is his best friend...

WHO DOES WEDGE GOTTA BEAT UP

UPTOWN FUCK YOU UP

[amber]

▶ ANDERS + NATASHA ROMANOFF

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Amber
Contact: amber@slack, pm journal, or pp ambles

[last_ofthe_jedi]

down boy

Luke will show them all soon enough

doing barrel rolls while holding a chocolate bar between his teeth

ANDERS

[dissent]

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Anders.
Canon: Dragon Age.
Job/Role: Medic. (Also helps to run a clinic.)

General Reputation: Anders has been unplugged for two years. A lot of that time has been spent adjusting to a world that is incredibly different from his swords-and-sorcery home Matrix. He has also been struggling severely with his mental health and is still of two minds about the philosophy of ethics in the Matrix. However! While he no longer has his spirit healing, Anders has spent a significant amount of time time learning more about treating patients without magic, and using simulations. He trained in a clinic for Zion citizens on the living levels, mostly general practice with a side focus on obstetrics and pathology, and has recently taken on more responsibility for the daily running of the clinic.

Within the last four months he has also started working sporadically with the Zion Defense Grid as a dockside medic. He has flown out with a couple of ships a couple of times and is always available for missions where injured people are highly likely (recovering crashed ships for instance.) It is, however, notable that he doesn't want to go back into the Matrix.

Anders himself is one part angry social justice mage, one part broody antihero, one part court jester. He's flirtatious (though he's cohabitating with Hawke and they've got a pretty serious relationship under their belt so good luck getting any further), passionate, capable of serious generosity and good bedside manner as well as sarcasm, selfishness and sharpness, and misses cats almost more than being able to shoot fireballs.

Looking For:
• Recruitment CR. Thedas Matrix is a mess but if your character is coming in with two years or more under their belt and could have been on the team that extracted Anders, hit me up.
• Sim Training CR. Anders may not jack in to the real Matrix but he enjoys sims. I'm also still cool if anyone wants to hit up his open log and accidentally plug into his kitten sim.
• Patients, or former patients.
• Fellow medics - The doctor who trained him is an NPC named Dr. Li but I don't have much headcanon for her.
• Hawke's CR and Hawke's crewmates. Points to eyes, points to you.
• Literally anyone to chat with.

Notes: In his own world, he had merged with a spirit of Justice that was the instigator of a fixed point of conflict in the Thedas Matrixes. Now aware that he is effectively carrying an AI with him at all times, Anders misses his magic but is wary of risking his autonomy by allowing Justice access to him again. In the real world, he's coping with being free but also has occasional hallucinations of the spirit still being within him.

While Anders has started to talk about Justice now that Fenris and Hawke are present, he hasn't really told anyone about Justice's ability to use his Matrix body for its own ends, even though it's obviously a huge security risk.

BLACK WIDOW

[ex_spins462]

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Natasha Romanoff, going by Black Widow.
Canon: MCU.
Job/Role: Operator (trainee) aboard the Phoenix.

General Reputation: Natasha proved very adaptable upon her extraction from the Matrix by Johanna, and dedicated nearly four months to intensive physical training in order to get back on her feet and recover some of her skills. She has a strong and marked interest in Zion politics and history, in native Zion culture, and has been integrating herself with people surrounding the council. Recently she signed up with the ZDG as an Operator as the first step in her ambition. Right now that means she's basically living, eating and breathing Matrix code.

Despite the fact that she immediately gave up her old name and life, and that she is definitely of the argument that the Matrix meant nothing and the freedom of the real world is far better, she's been heavily in communication with people from her own world, to the point that she deliberately investigates anyone who she discovers came from "her" Matrix. Her loyalty to Steve Rogers probably trumps just about anything else Zion has to offer, so it's probably a good thing they're on the same ship.

Finally, Natasha has also created an alternate persona named "Yaga" whose personality and appearance is still somewhat in a trial period but whose purpose is basically espionage, because old habits die hard.

Looking For:
• Mentor-mentee stuff could be fun, in either direction.
• People to train with in whatever area.
• Anyone who wants to do political machinations with me, any plots related to the Council NPCs, etc.
• NEW PEOPLE gimme new characters.
• Basically anything? She talks to a lot of people so if we already have vague CR she might show up in your life, especially if you have anything that's useful to her or she finds you interesting.

Notes: Avengers: AOU only dealt vaguely with Natasha's backstory, and so while I'm being very careful with spoilers out of consideration for anyone who hasn't seen the movie yet, unless we're getting into the details of her past it shouldn't come up. Her canonpoint is still post-Cap2.

[halatinous]

▶ FENRIS

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: lyn
Contact: PM; thornmallow

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Fenris
Canon: Dragon Age
Job/Role: Operative on the Atalanta

General Reputation: PROBABLY STILL TOO FRESH (to death) FOR THIS. It is coming on three months now, though, so a few people have probably seen him glare irritably at them / stumble into a wall / drink too much. In general he's standoffish, taciturn, and quick to leave a conversation he doesn't like. HOWEVER, if he's caught in a generally good mood (because he's a little drunk or because he made it through the day without tripping, an increasingly common occurrence), people would find him--well, still taciturn, but possessed of a decent sense of humor and an observant eye, at least.

Looking For:

CREW--While he may not be looking to make best friends out of everyone (he doesn't need that to work effectively in a team), he certainly wants to be more aware of his crewmates and who they are.

SIM--Fenris has been using the training sims to A, figure out what a gun is and B, presently, to learn how to shoot one effectively. However, he's also using the sim to stay brushed up on his swordsmanship. So combat with a side of combat, basically. LET'S FITE

GENERAL--He's not always the easiest guy to get along with, but he makes a damned loyal friend if you're willing to put in the effort. If he's not training/on a mission, he's at the bar. He likes playing cards and, more recently, reading. Because he taught himself how to do that via sim and he's pretty (quietly) excited about it.

I don't have any specific wants for CR, THOUGH I always like relationships that challenge a character's long-held beliefs and prejudices. There will be a glacial shift towards this even without outside assistance; being unplugged and going through the whole 'my life was a liiie' thing has forced Fenris to start developing an identity separate from his past. It's something he was trying to do even back in Thedas, but not with any particular rush--now he has no choice. Meeting more and different people will help speed that along, help him move on. Maybe help him be less of an antisocial jerk? Eventually.


Notes: When his hair fully grows back, he's going to leave it a bit long and wear it in a ponytail. Because he's glad it's black.

Chinatown (Tony Stark, William Tsang, Horse)

[servomotor]

▶ CHINATOWN

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Chinatown
Contact: pyg

[besmirches]

▶ DORIAN PAVUS - "GIDEON"

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Dee
Contact: afterwit

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Gideon (formerly "Dorian Pavus")
Canon: Dragon Age
Job/Role: Educator

General Reputation: Gideon is fresh to Zion, so he likely does not have a reputation yet! But spent a couple of years in Antioch. His first few months, he was a hot mess, but after he sorted himself out, he was a much-beloved member of the community and had a small school where he taught reading, writing, and arithmetic.

Looking For: No interest in joining a crew just yet. I'd like Gideon to be able to play at being just a normal man for a while. People to teach, people to meet and schmooze? People he can gently dance around his past with. Bring me all of the slice of life bullshit for the moment, I want to wallow in it.

Notes: Gideon looks/sounds roughly the same as Dorian, if a little worn around the edges and with not as much of the usual mirth all the time.

Also:

[dissent]

ill fite u asshole

[halatinous]

bring it, skinny

[r4bb1t]

▶ The Lone Wanderer + Saphir Gneiss

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Dana
Contact: pillbug

[r4bb1t]

▶ The Lone Wanderer

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Dana
Contact: pillbug

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Lily Cohen
Canon: Fallout 3
Job/Role: Doctor, thief, prospective DJ

General Reputation: This really depends on how well you know her, whether you think she's actually helpful, and what side of the law you happen to be on. She runs a free clinic, called the Warren Clinic, out of a few reclaimed apartments on the lowest level of the residential district of Zion; it runs partially on donations and partially on 'borrowed' things she can manage to snatch. In general, she's got very sticky fingers, as well as a low opinion of the Zion council and a strong belief in humanity's ability to collectively govern itself.

She is also decently acquainted with Irkalla and considers it her responsibility to keep tabs on the black market there and in Zion, less to actually police it and more for gossip and goods. She's always got a sharp ear for juicy details and is very good at filing information away to use later, if the opportunity arises.

In general, despite her less savory qualities, she goes out of her way to do good when she can; there's a reason most of her pilfered objects don't remain in her possession for long. She doesn't steal anything she can recognize as essential to its owners, and in general will not touch medical supplies if they've already been purchased(she won't rob a hospital or a private first aid kit). This does mean that she occasionally has to use makeshift things, but she's good at improvising.

Looking For: Any CR. All CR! I'd especially like some connections to both medically-oriented characters and shady types, especially since she's been unplugged for two years, so she'd have cultivated contacts there. Previous patients of hers would be cool too!

Also, I'd like to ask captains if it would be okay, sometimes, to have her sneak on board their ships, and thus participate in plots that need them. This wouldn't be all the time, and of course I'd ask first, but I wanted to mention it. She does stow away semi-regularly(usually with npcs to make it simpler), so if you've caught her on board a few times before that could be fun. c:

Regarding the 'prospective dj' bit: Lily is working on making a (mod-approved) radio station! Many of her setbacks on this have been with regards to infrastructure, but she'll want to go into the Matrix often to record songs from different worlds(meaning, anything [that she likes] i can get a youtube link for). CR in that general direction would be awesome too.

Notes: Lily will be pretty closed about potentially dangerous shenanigans; she trusts herself to get through pretty much anything unscathed, but doesn't like people to worry about/try and stop her. I would REALLY like to do this modplot, but it requires several people and would need some planning.

[forcemageure]

Ohno he's going to wear his hair like Malcolm's.

...OKAY BUT SERIOUSLY I actually do want combat with a side of combat, bc guess who needs to get better at hand-to-hand than just 'oh god emergency punch' now.

[dissent]

♥ ♥ ♥

seriously though i want a log sometime let's wreck shit up

samm (cage, benji, thor)

[berserkergang]

▶ SAMM

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Samm
Contact: neveryourmask

Tony Spark

[servomotor]

▶ TONY STARK

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Tony Stark
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Job/Role: Civilian Mechanic/Technologist, Operator/Trainer

General Reputation:

Around Zion, Tony is known for having been unplugged for a year and demonstrated remarkable mental acuity with technology, despite some suspicion that he's downplaying it. The Council has reportedly approached him a few times for something with regard to the Zion Defense Grid, which isn't very surprising considering the unplugged have a certain niche. What is probably slightly more noticeable is that he's diligently avoided all such attempts, in favor of meddling with crop and construction machines, and designing simulations and (non-intelligent) programs for civilians. Rumor has it that he's jacked in to the Matrix only once in the past year.

As of last month, he is contracting his services to the ZDG to assist with teaching operator trainees. It's certainly a far cry from enlisting, but it constitutes a surprising change for anyone who has been following his career. Lately, he has also made it known to anyone with network access, that he spies on the Council periodically. He's more or less behaving as a whistleblower, though certainly falling short of treason. These two events may well be related.

Looking For:

• Training new operators: not a patient teacher, but perhaps an entertaining one. Code-teaching is boring to read, I imagine, but study breaks, farewells, and banter could be fun!
  
• Barter relationships: he makes his living day-to-day by offering repair (and programming, invention, etc.) services for goods and other services. Tony is most often interested in scrap metal and parts, but he needs everything from food to drawing materials, alcohol, music, artwork, clothing, and information. Information about what, you say! Technology in your Matrix, what the Councilor's services might've bought from you, pictures of the new cables the ZDG is laying down, name it.
  
• Drankin: a vice that Tony's better about controlling these days, but a vice nonetheless.
  
• The car: he has one, collaboratively built by himself and Dean Winchester. It's a troubled old clunker, a rusted fuel-electric hybrid cobbled together from parts, four seat, and tops out at around 30 MPH. It is the only passenger vehicle in Zion for the time-being. Not impressive by the standards of 21st century Earth, it's nonetheless a remarkable feat of restoration. He can be seen zooming around, refining it, and breaking down often enough, and he offers people rides to test it out.
  
  Notes:

Re: Tony Spark

[r4bb1t]

YOU KNOW I could change a bit in the post I made of you want Tony and Lily to have a little bit of history. She's been in Zion a year longer than him but now that I think about it it's unlikely that they would have never crossed paths. XD

[forcemageure]

▶ Garrett Hawke

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Lynn!
Contact: silverycitibanklights; pm this journal

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Garrett "8D" Hawke
Canon: Dragon Age
Job/Role: Pilot (trainee) on the Atalanta; jack of all applicable trades

General Reputation: LESSEE UM. He's been unplugged for about 90 days at this poooint; the first point of 'reputation' he ever acquires anywhere is that he does not take anything seriously. Anything. The second is - I hope - that despite the flippancy he's invested in excelling at anything he tries, from piloting on down. If he doesn't have a niche where he feels useful he gets incredibly restless, so ...idk if you pay attention to his overall happiness/quality of life (in otherwise if you're Anders) that picked up significantly after he got a crew position, trainee or not. Umm let's see. He has an accent like a poncy BBC announcer, if that means anything to your character, except with more swearing.

TL;DR: gregarious, high-energy wiseass.

Looking For: Steals this from previous CR meme: Starter CR, so to speak--he's a babby in terms of the real world, so most already-established CR is going to center around what ship and extraction team approached him, who he'd have been in contact with during recovery on the Shangrila, what veteran/s put up with him doing the Jump program eight hundred times in a row until he got it right, etc.

As would just garden variety friends! Unless a person is utterly put off by staunch refusal to take things seriously - verbally, anyway - he's easy to get along with, and canonically his ability to Frand encompasses oh, fighting giant horned people, gathering gunpowder materials, acting as the world's long-sufferingest crush-go-between, etc.

ON THE OTHER HAND it is of course utterly reasonable to have written him off as a total goofball, too. Additionally although he's not really a debater unless absolutely pushed into it, he's pretty firm on the idea that if unplugging a person is going to hurt more than help, they should be left where they damn well are. S-o if you'd like negative, or at least fractious CR over ethics, there's a thing. It can actually be a thing in general, although Hawke likes most people and tends to find people disliking him just kind of. Funny. Unless you murdered his mom, he really didn't like that guy.

If you are on the Atalanta's crew I would really like at least a handwavey relationship, because Hawke is uh. Difficult to ignore.

Lastly he has a tendency to appear in the vicinity of that one blond medic dude, so if your character knows Anders they've probably at least met Hawke.

Notes: He does go pretty much universally by his surname; if you happen to know the full version for whatever reason, shouting 'Garrett' across a crowded room means you will probably get the attention of three people who aren't him. That's probably a sign that he hasn't shrugged of his ~Old Life~ quite yet, as is the fact that he lives with the dude he was essentially married to in his Matrix.

[dissent]

replying to this seems really pointless and yet, here i am.

William Tsang

[boffing]

▶ WILLIAM TSANG

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: William Tsang
Canon: Original (Unplugged)
Job/Role: Sex Worker/'Socialite', Operative (Shangrila/welcome wagoner primarily)

General Reputation:

In the 4 years since he was unplugged, William has gained an odd reputation that probably couldn't exist in a culture less socially liberal than Zion. He is a sex worker, who dabbles in socialite and charitable works on the side. He spends the majority of his time with Nero Jumane, an influential merchant who often hires hovercrews to move cargo between cities, with whom he has had a regularly-renewed arrangement of some years. Though he's generally kept out of the business side of things, he has been known to feature and put in a good word for whomever he likes.

The rest of his time, he spends throwing parties, bleeding goods and trade at the bazaar or card tables, visiting the Temples, accompanying other clientele (usually men), and helping out aboard the Shangrila. He may be one of the first faces that the unplugged ever see, and his story of that one time he blew an unnamed Captain on his command chair from under the nav console may have a memorable melancholy undertone to it. He really isn't very bright, but he's one of Zion's happier citizens. but/therefore, take your pick.

Since he was apped, William has assisted with training operatives in ZDG capacity. He continues to do do so. And he will probably

Looking For:

• Throw a party: it'll be awesome. I'M NOT SURE WHat kind, maybe a boat race in the reservoir as homage to the Dragon Boat Festival, traditionally late May to early June.
  
• Friends: he's friendly.
  
• Sex work: although he has a primary client, the NPC described above, he does engage others less regularly. He accepts all kinds of gifts, from trinkets to information. Most often, he does dudes, but he enjoys the company of women as well. He has an affectionate tack. I don't mind RPing some sex! However, I'm most interested in the sometimes odd, sometimes whimsical premises (i.e., I had an idea where they'd bang on canvas w food-safe paint at some point, hilarity ensues), pillow talk, etc.
  
• Export brokering: Said primary client, Nero Jumane, is a major exporter in Zion. Though William isn't officially part of the business, Nero is susceptible to influence from him-- as such, I'd be happy to build CR with crews wanting to make money off running (generally legal) goods between cities and other 'grey area' type deeds. Jumane is also involved in human smuggling, specifically refugees from Irkalla. We can plot about it!
  
• Manipulation/scandal: William's dumbness makes him vulnerable. I would be happy to see him duped, politicked, lied to, or taken advantage of in storyful ways. I would definitely like his economic connections (above) to factor in here. Note, Mr. Jumane is also suffering from gradual onset dementia, so that might be a scandal worth your exploitation at some point too.
  
  Notes:

[forcemageure]

HAHA WELL you're very sweet


So like ....do you want cr or



Anything

[dissent]

nah

[emptychamber]

▶ Emily Finch

▼ OOC CONTACT
Your name: Ammmy
Contact: prettiestwhistles or PM this journal

▼ IC INFORMATION
Character name: Emily Finch
Canon: Unplugged Original Character
Job/Role: newly minted operative with the Atalanta

General Reputation: About five months out from unplugging, Emily's taken the opportunity to chat with people when it comes up, but she's largely been watching and listening. Recently, she's been logging a lot of sim hours, too, trying to get herself up to speed on Matrix operations and picking up combat skills.

Looking For: I would love to keep developing cr with literally everyone Emily has talked with so far - this means you, for real. Overall, she's getting oriented enough now that she knows she's going to be needing some allies in her new reality. First order of business is getting to know Atalanta crew, but if you want her elsewhere, let me know and we can figure out a means of crossing paths. She's the cat curiosity will kill, she gets into everything.

Notes: Someone needs to teach her about the enjoyable parts of texting. Also, Bloom, I am so very sorry but you have her attention now. So... oops?