empatheias_ooc | Meme: Offscreen/Handwaved CR!

The game is getting pretty huge, and it's plot-heavy to boot. There's plenty of opportunity to meet other characters in the event or mingle logs, but what about the rest of the time? Surely there are characters who trip over each other once a week just because they visit the same grocery store, or characters who haunt the same places because they have the same hobbies. So, here are some questions to help you sort out what we're all up to when there aren't any giant mythical beings attempting to stomp the city flat, and how our characters might be attracting one another's attention from day to day. It may be that some of us need only a little push to fall into each other's fictional pretendy funtime arms.

1) Notable physical features: (Is there anything about your character's appearance that is likely to draw attention? Weird hair? Sword bigger than they are? Constantly wearing armor? Conga line of Pokemon following them down the street?)

2) Age: (Child? Grownup? Teenager? Ageless being with startlingly young features?)

3) What are some of their most common emotional effects?: (Do they leave trails of flowers in their wake everywhere they go, or are they prone to causing small thunderstorms in public?)

4) Where they live, and what their home is like: (Are they in the apartments in the standard residential area? Have they found a shifty hidey-hole for themselves in the slums, or have they moved into another neighborhood to live amongst the rich people? Who are their roommates?)

5) What they do during an average day in Verens: (Stay home, do chores, read, meet up with people, have a lot of feelings okaaaaaay, so on.)

6) Their general sense of fashion: (What they tend to wear when they're not wearing their usual canon getups.)

7) Hobbies: (Does your character like to draw? If so, maybe they cross paths with this other person who likes to draw in one of the local art stores. If they are a fighter, maybe other characters have seen them around the training grounds.)

8) Jobs: (Are they a clerk in a shop other characters might have reason to visit? Are they part of the waitstaff in a restaurant other characters might frequent? Do they deliver all over town, and meet up with several store owners?)

9) Do they have a weapon? If so, do they carry it at all times or just under certain circumstances?:

10) How long have they been in Empatheias? How has their time here impacted them?: (Do they hate it or want to stay? Are they invested in whatever's going on around them, or do they try not to get involved? How do they interact with the new folks?)

11) Their favorite areas/stores/hang-out locations?:

12) Is the way they act in person different from the way they act over the amulets?: (Are they articulate over the amulets, but hesitant and shy in person? Do they hate the amulets and avoid using them? Do they prefer image, voice, or text?)

13) Is Empatheias a technological upgrade, or downgrade for them? Have they adapted to these changes well?:

14) Do they have any special talents? If so, what are they?:

15) Do you have any goals for your character? Are there any hobbies you want them to discover or abilities you want them to learn?:

16) Anything else you want to note?:

With thanks to the Luceti Daily Meme that I blatantly stole and altered!

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1) Notable physical features: He wears a labcoat like all the time, just to make it obvious that he's a nerd. Also he likes to gel his hair up to look trendy.

2) Age: Teenager (though older than in canon now, he's been here long enough to turn 18)

3) What are some of their most common emotional effects?: Mostly mild things; wind, ice, that kind of thing. He's been here long enough to have a fairly good handle on his emotional output.

4) Where they live, and what their home is like: He recently moved into a small townhouse along with Milla.

5) What they do during an average day in Verens: (Stay home, do chores, read, meet up with people, have a lot of feelings okaaaaaay, so on.)

6) Their general sense of fashion: He'd wear dress shirts and waistcoats to try and blend in with the normal population/look professional.... but then again he ruins everything wearing the labcoat on top so yeah

7) Hobbies: aside from his research, he likes to go hang out at the airship docks and watch them because they are the coolest transportation Verens has

someone please build a train station so he can hang out there instead

8) Jobs: He is a doctor, and he runs the Asclepius Clinic which is next to the welcome center. There are other doctors there, but they're Verens natives so he's the one you'd see if you need magical healing.

9) Do they have a weapon? If so, do they carry it at all times or just under certain circumstances?: Jude's a martial artist. He fights with gauntlets (which somehow he can pull out of thin air in the game) but he probably doesn't carry them EVERYWHERE in Verens, or at least sticks them in his bag or something. Enough weird situations happen that he probably does have them around most of the time, though. He can fight barehanded if necessary.

10) How long have they been in Empatheias? How has their time here impacted them?: Jude's been here since the game began though he did briefly go home for a canon update. He's enjoying his time here, mostly because he gets to hang out with Milla all the time and actually date her which is an impossibility back home for at least the near future. Still, he knows he needs to get home and back to his research there. He believes that uncovering Empatheis' secrets and resolving its problems is the only way they'll truly get back home permanently.

11) Their favorite areas/stores/hang-out locations?: Coffee shops and the like, or the park when he needs to get outdoors. But he's usually carrying books and research papers with him. Also the library.

12) Is the way they act in person different from the way they act over the amulets?: He's basically the same. He's gotten pretty used to using the amulets by now.

13) Is Empatheias a technological upgrade, or downgrade for them? Have they adapted to these changes well?: An up and a downgrade, really. Verens and Rieze Maxia, Jude's home country, have fairly similar levels of technology, with some differences - a better comparison might be Sharnaath, with dunamis replacing spirit artes. But Jude was living in Elympios prior to this, which has technology almost equivalent to modern Earth, so in that sense it's a downgrade. Still he doesn't have much trouble adapting. The most troubling thing for him is the state of medical science which wasn't great before Naomi and he started providing some guidance in the past.

14) Do they have any special talents? If so, what are they?: Jude can use spirit artes, which are basically your rpg magic spells.

15) Do you have any goals for your character? Are there any hobbies you want them to discover or abilities you want them to learn?:
~~train station pls~~ Jude's just working on various projects, most primary being him wanting to develop ways to shield people from the Arehtei taking over and making them flip out and kill people - or vice versa. But he's a pretty open minded person who is also easy to rope into other things.

16) Anything else you want to note?: I couldn't find a funny image :(

Edited 2016-06-21 00:12 (UTC)

Amelia is a sorceress who's very good at healing magic, so his clinic would definitely get her attention. Maybe she comes over to check it out and they chat a little?

Definitely! He's always happy to meet other healers and interested in what they can do. They could probably also bond over martial arts, though Jude is really pretty pacifistic, he only fights when he has to.

Yes, martial arts is a good topic! Amelia is a bit too aggressive and rash to really be a pacifist, but she admires those who are (her dad's a big advocate for pacifism).

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