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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I imagine to make life easier Kevin's been conveniently elsewhere whenever possible since the incident with the lights. But is there any particular flavor of tension you'd like to have had going on offscreen, since it's been a while since then? And any ideas as to following up on that, or not? I am here for your plot stuff.

Fffft, uh... Well the most direct thing (I don't know if Kevin would, but...) would be to just go up to Bobby and call him out on what happened there. If Kevin weasels hard enough, he'd at least explain the apathy thing.

Well, he wouldn't have done it right after the light incident, because Bobby had a chance to explain things then and didn't, and Kevin was willing to respect that. That he's claiming he was conveniently knocked out for the possession event is also a little weird, but he wouldn't go at him for that either, because it's bad form to do that to your boss right when they wake up and when their co-commander is suddenly missing.

Third time's the charm and he'll definitely go the weasel route next time, especially depending on what happens with Edea. So unless you'd like to thread some other exciting incident, I guess I'll go with "still side-eying" until we've had a chance to convene for the next chapter of life at large.

I'm all for threading exciting incidents, to be honest! Let's throw some shit at a fan!

As a somewhat side-question, do you think that Kevin might've made the link from the limited amount of emotional effects that Bobby produces (tiny holes, color draining, etc.) to apathy?

I thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink by now he might be thinking that, yes. It depends on how much of those things Bobby leaves behind when Kevin's around, and he may still be uncertain whether it's apathy or despair or whatnot. He's definitely noticed the discrepancy between Bobby's actions and the emotional manifestations, but that's actually another reason he's left Bobby alone so long. It's not polite to comment on people's negative emotional manifestations!!!!

Hahahaha, bless u Kevin for being polite.

If all else fails, we stage another thing in which Bobby should be happy or terrified or whatever and not much happens, so Kevin could maybe question it when it happens?

It is sometimes difficult to tell, but he is very well-trained and his manners are impeccable when he bothers, okok.

And yeah, that sounds like the easiest way. Since the month's about to turn over, let's see what sorts of plots we can get up to.

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