April CR Meme

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CR MEME

It’s CR Meme time! 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 during their time in game.


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

FORM

<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>Aurora Feat:</b> If applicable. Add any further notes here! <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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→ alien-infested cosmonaut

[sputnik]

Character Name: Konstantin Sergeyevich Veshnyakov. Depending on whom he's met and how, he's introduced himself different ways...
Canon: Sputnik
Note: This character comes with a parasitic alien entity that he unwillingly became host to while on a space mission... There is more information here on the alien, how the setting affects/nerfs parts of its functioning, and a link to more detailed warnings & an opt out, if anyone needs it!
Residence: In a small cabin on the outskirts of town, with Vasiliy Yegorovich Ardankin. They have a little grouse farm going in order to keep Kostya's alien... fed
Skills: As a Commander of the Cosmonaut Corps, Konstantin is well-accustomed to the role of leadership, and also has experience with the extremely vigorous physical and mental training required for both military and cosmonaut preparation. He has much knowledge of space science and technology, and plenty of experience being in confined environments. He's also extremely good with people, being a model of "social excellence" where he's from and regarded as the Exemplary Soviet Man... However, a lot of this is being tested since he is freshly infected with an entire alien and is weakened and sick due to the game effects
Aurora Feat: N/A, his possessed ass has enough going on atm

Wanted CR:

young folks — Kostya comes with heaping doses of Daddy Issues (having been abandoned by his own father as a child, being terrified to ever be a father himself, and ending up inadvertently abandoning his own 7-year-old son, whom he is now desperate to rescue from an orphanage)... I'd love for him to meet and inevitably get attached to some younger folks, for all the angsty fun. I'm down to explore anything organically, but in the long-term I'd love for him to develop some Dadly Feelings.... (Alternatively, if anyone were to dad him, that would also be a really interesting cr angle!)

fellow 'monsters' — Konstantin is regarded as a Hero back where he's from (80's Soviet Russia, literally, he has a medal....) and now deals with themes such as being a fallen hero, being a monster, "if the thing inside me feeds on humans, does that also make me A Cannibal & Murderer", etc.... In Singillatim, he will be keeping it satisfied with the brains/blood of animals, but that in itself will be very difficult for him to grapple with! I'd love to explore his newfound journey of "being a Monster" with other characters who might have experience or angsts with this kind of thing.

misc. things — folks around his own age (39); fellow folks from the 80's; fellow people with Suicide / I Shouldn't Still Be Alive themes; other Parents he could get to know (especially meaningful as he's someone who never identified as A Parent until very recently and doesn't know what to make of such a role); medical people (he comes with an undiscovered alien species, could be fun Talk??? but also he really needs to make connections with doctors probably); people he can Casually & Innocently Flirt With; people to chat about outer space or science-y things with; he's frequently Sick and Throwing Up Blood, so that could also be worked with; general "exploring the town / searching for information / a way out" shenanigans if anyone wants to join (or catch him); if anyone might want to meet his alien face to face sometime that could be a fun thing (y-yeah he.... hacks it up), although it won't be emerging as often here and would require a good deal of plotting, since he's making a lot of effort to keep it away from anyone; seeing how the alien reacts to his various cr is also always fun, given that it's sensitive to his physiological reactions (if he has positive experiences with someone then it would be more attached to them, if someone upsets him then it'd be aggressive towards them, etc...)

Unwanted CR:

romance — While Kostya can be an enormous flirt, he's not going to be letting it get further than anything surface level / friendly / "safe". He's also married to Vasiliy (platonically.... right? right? it's possible to platonically share a bed, men do it all the time). Currently experiencing a plethora of complicated feelings towards said housemate that he isn't certain how to identify.

Day to Day: puttering around the grouse farm, taking walks / jogging around town in attempt to stay in shape (and trying to rope others in to join him), trying to learn about the various people here and where they're from to draw any patterns or connections (he's still largely thinking that this is some sort of research / experimental facility going on), on Aurora Nights he's often out trying to work with the technology that temporarily functions and he's been bringing back various pieces of technology such as car, phone, & computer parts to tinker with.... trying to see what he can do with them

The Story So Far / Plans:

• trying to adjust.... recovering as best as he can from being brought back from a fatal gunshot wound to the gut, but also dealing with the fact His Worm can't heal him here and that his own condition is Consistently Bad
• having to learn how to feed the parasite himself, which has been a difficult & messy process. Wormy has his own struggles
• has been bumping into a few other people Feeding on Animals in Violent Ways
• in March, Vasiliy joined the expedition heading to Lakeside, which Konstantin very much wanted to go on (please let The Spaceman have a mission...) but had to stay behind through, due to his own condition. Devastated for the week he was separated from Vasiliy. Forced many people to jog with him around town as a distraction
• Vasiliy brought back an abandoned dog from Lakeside and has been trying to train him.... but it's not going gr8
• Vasiliy met The Alien face to face and helped it during an Aurora Night, which it is very frightened of
• smiling through The Horrors and probably due for a mental breakdown ab it
• thinking about finally trying to reach out to some of The Doctors around here about his "medical condition"... but very cautious about it
• suffering especially through April's fog, getting some help from Lightbringers
• soon I'm thinking about having The Alien munch on an NPC... Feeding from humans would stabilise its condition better than feeding from animals, so it could do with some People Brains... if anyone might want to be involved with that somehow

[thedreamer]

/slides in late!

Hello hello~ I want to mash these two together so much. "Alien-infested" is like shining the bat signal in the night sky for the Doctor, so he would latch on quickly. The Doctor is personable anyway, but yes, once he was aware of this, it would certainly draw him closer. Though prior to any knowledge of Konstantin's condition, the Doctor would just like him in general! I always hesitate saying "they'd get along" as I never want to assume until we get a chance to shove them at each other, but I do see so much potential for them.

Other points of shared interest:
→ Space science and technology
→ Status as a father = hahaha it's complicated and tragic let's ignore because his children are likely dead (let's not)
→ Fellow "Monster" - He's not technically, at least not in the way of Konstantin, but there's a recurring thread throughout his canon where the Doctor is referred to as 'the lonely monster,' i.e. monster in the sense of the things he's done. He often lives through real-life versions of the Trolley Problem and makes hard choices for the greater good that are...not always great. His self-loathing, it runs deep. This makes him, though, naturally so empathetic to "monsters" and creatures that others might ordinarily run from without taking a second look.
→ Other things — meeting his alien, "doctor-ing." In canon, the Doctor has the ability to diagnose diseases (sometimes, sometimes not, canon plays fast and loose with this) by looking at someone, so he's stripped of that here obviously, and he's not a traditional doctor Doctor in a certain sense of the word, but he'd be fascinated and want to help
→ Would love tinkering with any and all technology with him!

— I think I rambled at you enough, sorry! But yes, I'd love any excuse and chance to toss them together soon.

[sputnik]

Yes PLEASE, I am so here for this space-y cr!!! Absolutely itching to see how they might play out organically, but I can also see them getting on pretty well; Konstantin is very sociable and friendly, and I think he would be delighted by the Doctor in general!

I'm also rubbing my hands together gleefully at all of these thoughts, there's so much potential here ahhhh~ Very very much here for all of the space & technology themes; Kostya would be thrilled to chat with someone who has future knowledge / so much fascinating experience and absolutely want to pick his brain / form buddies to tinker with some technology together.

And the Sad Dad / Monster themes would all be very good food; a lot of Kostya's deal also involves making Difficult Decisions (tl;dr when he was being kept in the research facility, he knew they were feeding humans to his alien but he let it keep happening without challenging it because a. they were horrible criminals and b. he would do whatever it took to eventually escape so he could find & rescue his son.... but it led into a lot of Moral and Ethical Conundrums about Human Lives and whatnot....!) SO beyond just the literal Monstery Things going on with him, there is a plethora of fun "The Things I've Done" angsts there, too. I love that the Doctor has that "lonely monster" theme ahhhh that's so gut-wrenching and I think it'd be extremely fun to explore themes like that with these guys!

And definitely here for all the alien things / "doctoring"!!! Kostya is starting to cautiously open up more about the fact his "medical condition" goes a bit deeper than that, and I can totally see him being more apt to trust someone who isn't a typical ~Earth doctor~, actually / he would be so curious to learn if the Doctor ever encountered anything like this! One of his item slots is also an X-ray of the alien inside of his stomach, so he could potentially straight-up show the Doctor that at some point 👀

God and here I am rambling away full-force, but I'm very excited to get this cr going, and will be on the lookout for opportunities! I did see mention that the Doctor will be returning to Milton after being in Lakeside, so Kostya could bump into him there — and I think May event details will be dropping in the next coming week or so, so that might also give some fun food to play with!