November CR Meme

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CR MEME

Welcome to the another round of the CR Meme! It's time to touch base with where players are at with their characters in game and look towards the future! While not a requirement, CR Memes are helpful in forging connections with others, along with general housekeeping for what characters are up to in during their time in game.


Below is a helpful form to use in laying out your thoughts!

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<b>Player Name:</b> Your name here. <b>Player Contact:</b> What’s the best way to reach you? <b>OOC Limits:</b> Any hard limits for RP go here. <b>Character Name:</b> Your character name here. <b>Canon:</b> Your character canon here. <b>Residence:</b> Where are they currently staying? <b>Notable CR:</b> Any notable/close CR you want to mention? Roomies? Canonmates? Sworn enemies? <b>Skills:</b> From your application, what skills do they have? <b>Wanted CR:</b> Friends? Mentors? Hunting buddies? Lovers? State preferences here. <b>Unwanted CR:</b> Not keen on romance? Mortal enemies? State preferences here. <b>Day to Day:</b> Where can your character be found typically? Are they sitting in the old church? Out fishing in the Basin? What do they get up to? How do they try to pass the time? <b>The Story So Far / Plans:</b> What have they been up to lately? What are your plans for them? <b>Anything Else?:</b> You know what to do.

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Balsam | Jason McConnell

[triedtobelong]

Player Name: Balsam
Player Contact: PM; balsamandash; balsamandash on Discord
OOC Limits: No death and I want to discuss permanent injury before it happens; no extensive description of trauma to faces, especially eyes.

Character Name: Jason McConnell
Canon: bare: a pop opera
Residence: Solo in a small-ish cabin a little bit of a distance from the Community Hall
Notable CR: Everything's still getting off the ground, so...
Skills: He's athletic and intelligent, but nothing really suited to the situation -- he doesn't really have any skills you wouldn't expect from a mid-2000s high school senior.

Wanted CR: I'm open to pretty much anything -- friends, flirting, butting heads, interesting discussions with people from very different worlds, mutually freaking out with people whose lives have been super mundane before this, etc. For some specifics: He could really use a couple of people to help teach him useful skills -- hunting, foraging, cooking, sewing, basic first aid, basically anything, he doesn't do well with not having something to offer. He's not used to having adults who actually give a damn around, so it might be interesting for some mentor-y CR. And he's a closeted Catholic schoolboy with a lot of religion issues, so if anyone is interested in intense discussions about God and faith, I'm here for so many of those.
Unwanted CR: No negative coming out experiences til he's had a couple of decent ones, so that he doesn't just lock himself in the closet for the rest of time. Otherwise, I'm here for whatever.

Day to Day: Jason's just trying to keep busy so he doesn't get too in his own head. Anyone who spends a lot of time in the hot springs has probably exchanged friendly greetings at least, because he's been heading out there a lot since they opened up. Otherwise, he pops into the Community Hall for food and to see what's going on, especially after the storm, and does a lot of wandering, poking through stores, or occasionally jogging if paths are clear enough. He's pretty happy to lend a hand any time he sees someone needing help, but they might have to tell him what to do. He's also done very little to fix up the outside of his cabin (or anything but the one room he mostly lives in), so it could be mistaken for still abandoned for someone poking around.

The Story So Far / Plans: He's still new and shiny, pretty much. Other than a brief cold, nothing's really happened to him yet; but the storm made him very abruptly recognize how potentially dangerous his situation is, given he knows nothing about survival, and that's something he'll start looking to fix soon. Before the storm he would have been buzzing around the community center trying to be helpful despite his lack of knowledge, if that's something anyone might have filed away and make them more inclined to answer questions from the eager teenager. He'll also have tried to help out cleaning up the town after the storm and probably gotten into some snowball fights.

That's about it so far. I don't have a lot of specific plans at the moment, except that at some point he needs to stop ignoring the Issues he has from canon, but that may be a bit. Everything's kind of playing by ear, basically, so I'm open to any ideas.

Anything Else?: Current state of mind:

[salamanca]

I waffled a little bit on how to respond to this, because I'm not sure how negative is too negative for you, and this likely would not be intensely negative, but...

Lalo is bisexual and closeted about it. This is generally more because he's from 2004 when a lot of people were really homophobic (esp criminals like he is) than out of any personal shame, although he does have a little bit of personal shame about it as well since he worries his Tio might not accept it and his Tio's opinion is important to him. He doesn't think being gay/bi is morally wrong (and lbr he wouldn't care if he did), but he does struggle with feeling like his bisexuality makes him "less of a man."

What I'm saying is: Lalo would not be super negative or mean about it, and he wouldn't tell him being gay is wrong, and would prob tell him that a lot more people are prob gay/bi than he thinks - HOWEVER he would also be highly likely to say shit like, "but you have to be careful who you tell and some people will use it against you." He'd be open about not being straight himself but whether he'd share his own ambivalences about that with someone so much younger depends on how the conversation went, but it's not out of the question.

Tl;dr - I think it could be an interesting conversation! But I would also understand if it's maybe a little bit more complex or ambivalent for what you're looking for so early on, and would like to give him so more purely positive experiences first.

[triedtobelong]

That actually sounds like it could be super interesting! By negative mostly I'm not looking for outright rejection -- without babbling on too long, less than 12 hours before Jason turns up involves being first outed by a very judgemental friend to his entire school, and then told outright by a priest that it's not okay, so really that's my very low bar to clear here. XD And "be careful who you tell" is still a step up from Jason's own view of "no one will accept it ever unless they also struggle with it", too.

(Also, while Bare is pretty vague about when it's set, I tend towards using early-mid 2000s when the first couple of productions were done, so while he's used to a very different kind of people, the general level of social acceptance is a lot closer to Lalo's than it is to someone more circa 2023, which could also add an interesting element.)

ANYWAY the short version is yes, I would definitely be up for this. It is going to take either a little time or someone outright figuring him out for it to come up, because of everything mentioned above, but I'd be happy to shove them together some point soon and see how things develop from there. :D

[salamanca]

Oh, that's great! I'm so glad to hear that. :D I definitely agree it could be interesting, also agree it might take some time and I'm not sure 100% yet how it would come up, but! I'm sure we can figure something out eventually!

In the meantime, does Jason have any open posts anywhere/tls for the event? I'd be happy to try throwing them together for now just to see how they mesh.

[triedtobelong]

There's an event tl here! Don't mind all the owed tags Thanksgiving took it out of me. I'll probably hold off to see if there's anything I want to do with the TDM prompts in December before putting up anything else. :D