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Mask or Menace | MODERATORS ([personal profile] maskormods) wrote in [community profile] etcelsior2020-06-15 03:39 pm

CR MEME • JUNE 2020

Welcome to [community profile] maskormenace's

CR MEME!

How does this work? It's easy!


1.
Make a thread for yourself or a comment with your character's name on it. Reply to that post with your filled out forms for organization's sake.
2.
Comment to other people! See if their answers fit anything you're looking for and if yours fit anything they are. Don't be intimidated, carpe diem, we like to party.
3.
Keep checking back! We strongly encourage you to track top-levels even, if possible. New characters may get accepted and post to this meme after today and we want to make sure everyone gets their fair shot.
4.
Play nice and have fun!


THE COPYPASTA FORM:

AND HOW TO FILL IT OUT HERE!
( THE BASICS )
Name: Your character!
Canon: Self-explanatory!!
Character's (approximate) age: Or how old they appear.
Character's powers: List and describe them!
Is your character registered/will they be?: Why or why not! Maybe unsettled heroes will want to make connections with each other. Maybe registered heroes will want to team up. So on!
Where does your character live?: What housing residence are they in? Meet your roommates if you haven't already, make plans!
Are you looking for roommates?: If your character is currently housing alone, or planning to move out of their assigned housing. Is your character considering moving to one of our other cities? See who else might be doing the same!
What is your character's job?: And are they sticking with it? Enjoying it? Coordinate with potential coworkers, employers, or patrons -- why not!

( THE DETAILS )
RUNDOWN -- what are your character's skills, likes/dislikes, urgent needs?: What are they good at, what do they hate, what do they need (and so on) so that others know what they can offer you.
What are your character's plans?: Either what they're doing as we speak or what you'd like to do with them!
Does your character have a secret identity?: Since this can get confusing at times. Is your character a superhero with a public identity or do just a few people know who they are? List them, even!
Where can your character commonly be found? Places that might enable chance meetings, or give a basis for common ground!
Is your character open for pairings?: Useful to know! Possibly.
Are you open to having your character get hurt? Or, for villains, hurt others?: If yes, how much and in what circumstances?
Is your character interested in teams?: Registered hero teams are very well-received around these parts, as you might guess. If yes, coordinate with possible teammates and see if you can put something together!
What kind of plots are you after?: Let the brainstorming commence. This can be as vague, specific, or "big picture" as you'd like.
Anything else?: If you have anything else to add!
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KYLO REN

[personal profile] photophobic 2020-06-15 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
( THE BASICS )
Name: Kylo Ren
Canon: Star Wars
Character's (approximate) age: 29
Character's powers:
  • OP assholery using ~the Force~, specifically: telekinesis, enhanced senses, strength and endurance, mind reading/memory retrieval;
  • a MoM power that transfers any suppressed rage he is not acting on into a zone of irritability around him that makes others angry;
  • being a dramatic asshole who takes himself way too seriously 24/7
Is your character registered/will they be?:
NO GODS AND NO MASTERS (no)
Where does your character live?:
Kylo lives at the Meadows aka the magic dream farm in Virginia... though not so much recently??
Are you looking for roommates?:
He is not.
What is your character's job?:
Kylo writes dramatic blank verse for a zine called THE VERSE HEARSE and occasionally performs his work... and yes he will take you on in a poetry slam (please)

( THE DETAILS )
RUNDOWN -- what are your character's skills, likes/dislikes, urgent needs?:
Skills:
Fighting, Edgelording, Retrieving secrets, Fucking Shit Up
Likes:
Mastering skills, teaching. Secretly enjoys calligraphy, poetry, and listening to nu-post-prog-rock concept albums on vinyl. Recently discovered he actually really likes making things.
Dislikes:
Luke Skywalker. Luke Skywalker. Luke Skywalker. (& Declan Lynch.)
Urgent needs:
to chill, develop an immunity to the dread horror of power-nullification, prevent himself and his chosen from being ported out— various impossibilities

What are your character's plans?:
Kylo's come to believe that whatever he is here will not be returning to the galaxy far far away he came from, which not only means he's cut loose from his Purpose, but also that his existence here is all he's going to get. Having only recently learned what it means to have everything to lose, he plans to defend the life he's made for himself on Earth with anything and everything at his disposal, which really should worry you.
Kylo's more than willing to utterly destroy reality (he very nearly did, during the dreamfuckery event, and again just before the averted apocalypse!) to hold onto the part of it he wants more than anything.

Does your character have a secret identity?:
Kind of, in that the longer he remains here in MoM the less and less connected to Kylo Ren's purpose he becomes, but he's decidedly not moving back towards becoming his pre-Kylo self either. His attempts to develop a new, integrated identity are going on in relative secret— he's got no intention of making another name change.

Where can your character commonly be found?:
Ordinarily, the answer would be the Meadows, with outings to De Chima for arguing with self check-outs and stocking up on his favourite Weet-i-Crunch breakfast cereal at the supermarket, battling writer's block at his favourite cafe, or satisfying his craving for froyo at the few remaining froyo places that haven't banned him for threatening the employees yet... but he's been notably absent lately. De Chima might be breathing a sigh of relief, but should you be?

Is your character open for pairings?:
Kylo is deep in an intensely obsessive and frankly horrifically codependent relationship (is he capable of any other kind? No.) with Ronan Lynch, and isn't looking for anyone else.
However, he's far from immune to catching complicated feelings or tumbling into bed with someone who makes him feel powerful, desired or heard, because he's terrible. He's also a terrible flirt, though he isn't always aware that's what he's doing. He may well put a lightsaber through your heart if you get close enough, but if you want to play with fire and have your character flirt with this ridiculous monster (or have him Notice them!) let me know, because I love it...

Are you open to having your character get hurt? Or, for villains, hurt others?:
Absolutely yes. Kylo hasn't done a good murder in forever, sacrificing the love of his life and murdering a couple dozen aborted dreams doesn't count, and he's frankly itching for an excuse to let loose and lay waste.
PLEASE NOTE: I'm not really looking for playful harrassment where Kylo can't retaliate in kind or wanting to have him attack others without reason/provocation. What I'm hoping for is a genuine, balanced kind of rivalry, where our characters can make each other's lives hell and develop a true hatemance. P L E A S E.

Is your character interested in teams?:
Thanks to Ronan he's in one which came as a huge surprise to him, because he's not great with teamwork—though he's willing to lend his resources and make use of others where necessary if it will align with his goals, namely, keeping his existence here from being obliterated.

What kind of plots are you after?:
DRAMA AND CONFLICT, the more terrible the better. I love using Kylo, his unusual stance on morality and unique abilities as a device to get other characters to confront their own views on forgiveness, revenge, punishment, redemption, free will and determinism, nature vs nurture, all that tasty deep development stuff. I HUNGER for IC conflict and genuine negative CR. Give it to meeee.

Some possible entry points, by no means an exhaustive list:

  • Your character has a power they can't control and they need a teacher
  • Your character has unresolved issues with a mentor/parent who betrayed or abandoned them  ...or they betrayed or abandoned someone in their care
  • Your character has high stake investment in remaining here in this world ...or they have an equally strong desire to return home
  • Your character committed heinous crimes back in their own canon ...or fought someone who did
  • Your character just wants to know what the fuck Kylo's deal even is


Hit me up! I'm excited!
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[personal profile] tagential 2020-06-15 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean if there's one thing Edwon does well, it's conflict.
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[personal profile] photophobic 2020-06-15 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I chinhands excitedly!! Having read through your thingy below I feel like there's a potential spark soooomewhere in the region of brainwashing/mind-control that could be fun to explore, though I haven't got anything specific in mind...

...yet...
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[personal profile] tagential 2020-06-15 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Edwon will of course keep the brainwashing thing a secret, not least because the brainwashing itself actually won’t let him talk about it. But! Eventually I am hoping it can be discovered and used against him.

Though he’s also very easy to get some fun and hatefilled interaction out of, especially if you’re Sith and even remotely arrogant (or any force user, really). Because he just gotta. Piss em off. It’s a fun game to be a dick. He thinks they’re mostly idiots.

He does try to stop short of like, getting himself killed, or at least losing his job... But it actually does get him a little bit killed at one point so.
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[personal profile] dragony 2020-06-19 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
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SO WHILE I CANNOT PROMISE NEGATIVE CR, ruka is obviously very much in the high stake investment in STAYING PUT club — if i remember right, may(???) have been partial inspiration in the more recent of kylo's near-attempts at breaking reality?? — and would do literally anything to preserve this world/her+bae's presence in it.

PLUS I LOVE THIS CR it's so delightfully off-kilter i want to see... where it can go (especially now that she's not literally falling to pieces every other month). lmk!! if you have a direction you'd like to go!!