Plot and CR With Me: November

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— PLOT AND CR WITH ME —

Welcome to Empatheias' plotting and CR meme! Please fill out the form below with all of the necessary information. Then go forth and reply to others, plot, make friends, have shenanigans!

The Plot and CR meme will be posted on the first of each month, and will be posted once the intro posts have been posted, and again during the mid-month announcement. We highly encourage everyone to check the post from time to time, even if a week has passed. You never know what kind of opportunities you could be missing!

INSTRUCTIONS

• Feel free to use the "Open Mingling Announcements" and "Task Board Recruitment" top levels for better focused organisation. Note: Any large scale group plots should still be posted to the OOC community proper.

• For more general plotting and to talk about CR you wish to build, create your own top level following the format below. Put your character's name in the subject line, or your name in the subject line if you have more than one character.

• Fill out the form and comment away! The top level relating to the task board has a different form, catered specifically to task board related things, as well.

• Tip! If mentioning tasks, include both the task ID and a brief two-word blurb to easily identify (eg., ST0602 Giant Fish).

• Here is the link to the Task Board for easy access!

FORM

SUBJECT LINE: CHARACTER NAME <b>Your Name:</b> <b>Preferred Contact:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Brief Personality:</b> (this doesn't have to be long, list some of the more interesting character personality traits that set them apart from the crowd!) <b>Appearance:</b> (Is there anything striking about their appearance? Strange limbs, features or other such things that would stick out? Even fashion choice! Please don't use images here, though you can link to them in your description) <b>Slice of Life or ADVENTURE:</b> (Empatheias is a good mix of both, and it's not always an either or thing. What kinds of thing are you interested in doing with this character? Are they the type to be happy developing a life in Empatheias or has the wanderlust set in? Are they more likely to be involved in the overarching plot and exploration? Do they want to go exploring?) <b>Current Activities/Developments:</b> (What's your character going through right now? What's gone on in recent past? What are they doing in their day to day life? Are they looking for a job or are they currently in the middle of planning an expedition? A link to a recent post or a top-level can also go here!) <b>Future Developments:</b> (Where are you wanting to take your character going forward? This could be serious character development, or general slice of life developments! Are they going to pack up and become a nomadic wanderer and explore the world or maybe you want to get them more involved in something else. Talk about the kind of emotions you want your character to work through, as well! Good or bad, or if they're focusing on Dunamis. All future plans go here!) <b>Shipping/Romance:</b> (let's face it, ship happens. in a general sense are your characters interested in romance? something permanent, or a fling or two maybe? Even unrequited love is something that can be fun to play out!) <b>Seeking:</b> (What kind of CR are you looking for? For anything related to the task board, see the Task Board Recruitment top level.) <b>Offering:</b> (What kind of CR can you offer? Is your character the doting uncle type, or are they the kind of character who will bring trouble to anybody nearby? Or could they possibly be the best friend of everyone ever?) <b>Not Interested In/Avoiding:</b> (If there's anything you're looking to avoid, list it here! Negative CR, violence, anything too slice of life, etc. the more information you give, the better!) <b>Anything Else:</b> (gifs are fine too.)

Post away and have fun!

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Tigerlily | Buffy Summers

[theladylazarus]

Your Name: Tigerlily or Gabriela, whichever you prefer
Preferred Contact: alwaystraveling on plurk, Discord at LittleRaven #4364 (ping me if it seems I'm not online! I'll see the notif!), Fluff Nugget at AIM, or PM this journal

Character Name: Buffy Summers
Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Brief Personality: Buffy's a brave, resourceful hero who takes on the job because she can't watch people suffer when she's been given the power to do something about it, despite resenting that she's been made the plan to fight off darkness every night until an early grave. Right now she's also having an identity crisis; having accepted her fate and turning it into a gift of love for others, she's been forced back amongst the living and expected to just be happy and keep fighting the fight like an energizer bunny. Being unable to do this makes her feel inferior to who she was before, and undeserving of the world, even as she resents being in it because she thought she earned her rest. Yet the fact that anyone could actually take her from heaven also makes her question if she even deserves that peace, and think of herself as being expelled from it. She dan poke fun at her relationship with deadness, however, to the point of sometimes being oblivious to any discomfort arising from it, and will do things like change her hair or prank people to feel better.

Appearance: Short, thin, green-eyed blonde with long hair. She'll often carry a stake, and occasionally other dated weapons such as swords, axes, crossbows, maces, a good old-fashioned knife; though in her hands, anything can be made into a weapon. Buffy tries to dress nice, and lately it tends to be in neutral colors.

Slice of Life or ADVENTURE: Buffy, as in canon, is good for both slice of live and adventure! If the community or the world needs help, particularly if it falls within her skillset, she'll want to give that help. She tends to patrol the place out of habit, although not every night as she'd do at home, considering all the other people she's seen here who can protect others with their powers.

But she also does try to find a place in the day to day workings of this world. She'll take on odd jobs, go shopping, and explore, all while trying to manage her emotional state so the magical effects can stop.

Current Activities/Developments: (What's your character going through right now? What's gone on in recent past? What are they doing in their day to day life? Are they looking for a job or are they currently in the middle of planning an expedition? A link to a recent post or a top-level can also go here!)

Buffy's depressed and going through an identity crisis, both as Buffy and as the Slayer. She can't be the happy, perky girl, and even her Slaying doesn't really feel like it justifies her continued existence. Her heart's not in it, and there are others here who can do the job. She's been here for three months, and begun to make friends, though she's not sure how to handle it. Jane Foster hired her as a bodyguard for scientific expeditions; other than that she has no regular job, and wouldn't mind one. During the last Aiada event, Anakin helped Buffy to loosen a stone with her jealousy of how everyone else seems to be happier and belong more than she does.

For day to day stuff, see above!

Future Developments:

I want to use this world's emotion=magic mechanic to stir her up. Buffy's a depressed mess and she doesn't want to show it, generally. The way events can heighten emotions, and the magical effects from emotions in general, don't let her. Frustration, self-loathing, despair, longing--sometimes they're behind a wall, other times they rush out. I'd like her to learn Dunamis to help manage them; they would help her recover her sense of self. Buffy wants to rediscover herself and learn self-love again.

On another note, Buffy has to go ice-skating sometime, since that's a thing she used to love, and she'll continue to get involved in plots/events that affect the greater community if she finds a place for herself in them.

Shipping/Romance: I enjoy shipping! However, at this canon point, Buffy doesn't look for relationships. The one she does have during the show is an unhappy arrangement motivated largely by her own self-loathing and isolation, and the other person's determination to keep her by reinforcing the feeling that she's got no one but him who'll be comfortable with the person she is now. It's mostly sex, which she uses to try to feel something and forget herself. She's not in a state to casually find people attractive and be interested in following up on that herself, but if your character connects with her in some other way--or you think they could--and you're interested, we could talk. It doesn't even necessarily have to be healthy. Unrequited crushes on her are welcome.

Here's a general sketch of she might get invested in a relationship, whether platonic or romantic: Buffy can be distant and find it hard to talk about herself, but when she gets rolling she can keep going, and if she gets emotional or has a breakdown (which can be provoked by an event, or because your character is so nice for so long and she feels safe with them, or otherwise gets under her skin) and finds some kind of support, that would get her interested in spending more time with your character later on, even to the point of her being proactive about it.

Seeking: Someone to teach her dunamis, friends, someone to vent at with a minimum of guilt, supportive and understanding CR, CR that doesn't understand how to help her but supports her anyway, people to poke at her and get under her skin, maybe some older figures for her to look up to. She's missing her parent figures! I'm open to other things too, if you want them.

Offering: If you want a big sister or somewhat reserved friend who can't help but help you even if she's not feeling all bright and peppy about it, Buffy can do that! She's nothing if not committed to those who need her support. If you need a protector, a sparring buddy, just a character for yours to fight; that works too! If you want your character to mentor Buffy on dunamis or this world, she'd appreciate that.

Not Interested In/Avoiding: I don't want to give her outright antagonistic CR, where one or both characters go out of their way to hurt the other.

Anything Else: Oocly, I was on hiatus for October thanks to the double blow of hurricanes Irma and Maria in September (and became inactive for a good part of the last week of that month too.) Now I'm back! Tags might still be slow, but I could do at least one round a day (maybe more, depending on time zone alignment) five days a week--until my Internet comes back at home.