CR MEME AGAIN

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You want CR? Pre-established CR? Future CR?

here is how to CR meme

STEP ONE: Reply to this post using the following:

<b>CHARACTER NAME/ALIAS IF APPLICABLE</b> BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTER <b>YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF:</b> this is useful to know for this sort of setting – a lot of superheroes are inevitably sort of celebrities even if (as is the case for most of them) they're only known to the public by their codename. If your character is a superhero, indicate how well known they are; if they're not, indicate under what circumstances someone might be aware of them, even if it's just "they write very popular Drarry fan fiction on the internet that your character may have read" or something <b>YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF:</b> Like the above but under what circumstances a person might have actually spoken to them. <b>PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER:</b> in terms of both plot things and any specific kinds of CR you'd be looking for, either in terms of established pre-game CR or CR that you'd like to unfold in the future. <b>THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID:</b> what it says on the tin! <b>ANYTHING ELSE:</b> anything else you think would be good to mention!

STEP TWO: Reply to other people to suggest CR, whether pre-established or planned for the future.

STEP THREE: Brainstorm! Discuss! Have fun!

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If you come up with something really good in this meme, or just in general discussion with other players, that contradicts an element of the backstory you wrote in your app, that's totally fine. Just let the mods know if the difference is a really big one that changes things significantly.

PLEASE NOTE: you can only use this meme once you've been accepted! This is because we don't want people to get invested in connections based on information that may not make it through the app process! Thanks!

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[chapterfiveversenine]

LEGION
Compound AI from space seeking to make a good impression of their people so when the main fleet arrives in a few centuries, humanity won't shoot them out of the sky.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: Legion is now a member of the Alpha Force and is reasonably famous, and also a big deal in tech circles. They have a blog.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You are a superhero or CONDOR operative who has been involved in high-level crime, the kind of stuff where enemy death is deemed to be a tragic but not particularly surprising event. Drug cartels, private security firms gone rogue, the occasional TRIDENT operation - Legion kept away from lower-level stuff. CONDOR was afraid they were going to start killing a little bit too easily.


PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Legion is here mostly to learn about organic life, so the kinds of people who are willing to teach them things are great, but what's also great are the kinds of people who try and fail to teach them things, thus resulting in Legion utterly failing to understand organic life in any way, shape, or form.

Legion is ostensibly here to establish some kind of Diplomatic Relations with Earth, but given the lack of unified planetary government and the quarians guarding their only escape route, that's a low priority.

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing comes to mind.

ANYTHING ELSE: nothing much

CELESTIA

[sunmedallion]

Celestia is the sun-themed queen of Equestria, a hidden island in the Pacific that's really big on magic, friendship and horses, and which was largely unknown to the outside world until Celestia's sister Princess Luna tried to plunge the world into eternal night in 1964. Celestia was part of the original Alpha Force team formed in reaction to this event. She has been a member of Alpha Force on and off ever since, throughout many configurations of the team. She has taken a break a few times in the past to devote more of her time to governing her country: he spent almost the whole of the 80s governing Equestria rather than and only rejoined Alpha Force intermittently during the 90s for crises and crossover events. She has been back on the team on a long term basis since 2006, leaving the direct ruling of Equestria mainly to the younger Princess Cadance, and, more recently, Princess Twilight Sparkle, her personal protege with whom she frequently exchanges correspondence. When she came back to the team 8 years ago it was a really big deal.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You pay even the most cursory attention to anything to do with superheroes. Celestia has been a celebrity for decades. Your mother probably had an action figure of her. She probably saved your grandmother from a supervillain in the 1960s, and gave her advice on interpersonal relationships afterwards. If she did, she almost definitely remembers your grandmother's name. She is that kind of superhero.
She posts on the Watch and Herolink quite a bit. She uses emoticons fairly frequently :)
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You have been active as a superhero in any capacity in the last 50 years, excepting the 80s and 90s – Celestia has been involved in all manner of teamups and crossover events – or if you are working for CONDOR in a capacity that involves interaction with Alpha Force, or if she rescued you one time, or if you are a supervillain who has engaged her in the past, or if you are a subject of her magic friendship horse kingdom (does not necessitate being a horse)
Note that in recent years you're not likely to have run into Celestia in the course of the average coincidental teamup – she tends not to spend a lot of time on your usual sort of crime-fighting so much as large-scale catastrophe aversion type stuff.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Celestia is pretty much just benevolence-ing along as the de facto leader of Alpha Force at the moment; she's sort of functionally a glorified NPC at this point so I'm not prioritising getting her Important CR & Character Development but I wouldn't say no.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothin really!
ANYTHING ELSE: NAH

[cyborged]

RAIDEN
A cryborg who has worked for CONDOR for about six or seven years now. Inexplicably keeps falling into the thick of TRIDENT plots what with his forgotten godfather being the head of a TRIDENT cell and his ex-girlfriend being a double-agent and that time he got captured and turned into a cyborg. Kinda gone from being a huge dork to being all serious and business all the time. (He's still a huge dork deep down inside don't let the sword fool you.)

He's kind of in a bit of recovery right now but also super keen to start working again.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: if you're just super into cyborgs. If you're a member of TRIDENT who's super up on what Dead Cell were into. Honestly he's not that noteworthy.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You've been a member of CONDOR at the same time as him during his, admittedly spotty, time as an agent over the last six years. (If, perchance, you helped to rescue him from TRIDENT after he got all robotted up.) If you're the kind of person who gets into arguments in the street about Godzilla with strangers because you picked out the wrong building. If you're Solid Snake.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: In terms of CR I'd super love general friends, esp. people who can coax a bit of his old, dorky self out of him. Potentially people who knew him when he was a Major Nerd before getting all cyborged and shit? Also cyborg friends, hmu.

(also? huge soft spot for kids.)

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing comes to mind! I mean obvs anything that would have significant long-term ramifications is stuff that I'd like to talk about beforehand, but I'm fairly easygoing.

ANYTHING ELSE: Uhhh, Raiden's history can be kind of super-triggery on some points, (was a child soldier, experimented on at various points in his life, made into a cyborg against his will, personhood and unreality issues) so. Heads up. Do let me know if any of that is a thing to be avoided for you.

I am on hiatus but w/e I am doing the thing!

[withhercleverhead]

CHARACTER NAME/ALIAS IF APPLICABLE Annabel McAlistair
Awkward necromancer tech girl who is living in warehouses because its just so much easier to get corpses and spare parts and fit them through doors that way. She has priorities.
Also, Bartholomew the cat is with her. He is a robot. And a cat. He almost assuredly thinks he's better than you.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF:
She's known for bringing back the dead and putting them in robot bodies, for goodness sake. She never publicized it but I expect word got around at some point.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF:
If you hang around the morgues/any place one can get cadavers or if you happen to deal in robotics of any kind.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER:
Okay, I have Annabel down as a villain but she's a good-natured one? She's going to start bringing back dead folks and giving them bodies soon enough and those dead may or may nto be pleased by it. Basically? ROBOT ZOMBIE ATTACK OH MY! :D You know you wanna join in the thing.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: I'm good with just about anything? Frankly, the only thing I don't wanna do is ill her off yet.
ANYTHING ELSE: Not at the moment! :D

[neonmonstrosity]

CHRIS MILES || NEON
Obnoxious party teen with ill-advised robot arms and even more ill-advised hero status. He is literally a ray of sunshine and refuses to see people being down if he can help it.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: If you pay attention to teen trash heroes who get thrown out of clubs, or if you've seen this hideous "costume" around and about. He hasn't really done anything of note honestly.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If you're really into loud parties featuring copious amounts of booze, drugs & sex. If you happen to also be from the same part of Bristol. If you're also a Trailblazer.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Give me every teen trash hero you've got, let's make them be buds. Also maybe some more ~~responsible friends to help Chris not go too far off the rails would be cool. Beyond that? I am totally amenable to anything.

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing that comes to mind. Obviously we'd have to talk it out if we wanna do something with serious/long lasting effects so if anything comes to mind then, I will let you know!
ANYTHING ELSE: Uh. Drinks/drugs/sex are kind of central to who Chris is, so if these are issues for you let me know and we can try to work around it or I can just try not to tag you if you'd prefer! Also parental abandonment, sibling death, and a chronic lack of self-worth are things, so same applies.

[10thingsihateaboutme]

I really want him and Karkat to be friends

[scribes]

MAGDAL LEIJON / THE DISCIPLE
2000 years ago was part of a revolution on Alternia to try and spread the ideals of love, compassion, and equality. Turned into an outright rebellion which was eventually destroyed. Was the sole escapee of her core group and began to pick up the pieces only to be put into a 2000 year sleep by people who were worried about permanently losing their last symbol.

Since then she has been working with the Sufferists, is part of Vanessa's group of heroes and I guess at this point the Autobots as well?
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: Your character could have heard of someone who went by the title of The Disciple roughly 2000 years ago if they are a) incredibly invested in Alternian history and b) can actually get a hold of accurate texts and not just the propaganda you find in most Alternian 'history' books.

Though there is no way this young looking thing could be the same one, right? Right. If your character does fill the two aforementioned criteria, or somehow came across some accurate history books (or even her own writing) they will know she was part of a rebellion on Alternia to try and bring forth ideas of compassion and equality.

I also plan for her to be a guest at some sort of lecture on Alternia/universal rights/aliens in general where she will speak about Alternia, the Sufferists and their history and goals. I want to try and do this sometime soon so feel free to assume that there have been advertisements about it.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If they associate with the Sufferists, Vanessa, or the Autobots it's possible they have heard of her since she spends so much time with Orion.

She always runs in the morning and has a workout routine in the gym, and on weekdays she paints in the park.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: As mention above I do have a plan for there be some sorta ritzy lecture which I will turn into an open mingle log for people to have fun in a more formal setting.

As she is a Leijon I also want to have her get a tail as some point like her alternate self and Nepeta have and Vanessa is capable of making it but seeing as how Di is more practical then the aforementioned, as much as she'd like it I don't think she'd get one unless it was necessary. Soooo she is going to have to get some sort of spinal injury so if you want in on that (whether it be on purpose or accidentally) let me know!

Otherwise I'm pretty open.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing comes to mind aside.
ANYTHING ELSE: anything else you think would be good to mention!

[alienheroes]

I so want to keep developing Ben and Di's friendship, they are so cute

VANESSA GOLDPAW

[goldpaw]

Vanessa Goldpaw used to be a regular science genius human until a lab accident 10 years ago turned her into a sexy leopard. That's the official story, anyway – actually the accident gave her shapeshifting powers and the young scientist, a secret furry, hit on the idea of using her new abilities to take the physical form of her fursona and then tell everybody that she was stuck that way because of science. She has kept this charade up ever since. Nobody suspects a thing. With the newfound confidence that came with having become a sexy leopard, along with the compensation money the R&D company she was working for at the time paid her for having been turned into a sexy leopard, she started her own science business, which over the last 10 years has become tremendously successful. Today Goldpaw Technologies is at the forefront of scientific and technological innovation thanks to Vanessa's own science genius and the fact that being headed up by a leopard person makes for a really convenient marketing gimmick. You may have a Goldpaw smartphone.

Vanessa divides her time between important science research, running her company, and lounging around. She is very friendly in person, and although she isn't exactly a philanthropist and doesn't go out of her way to ally herself with superhero business or CONDOR, she generally falls more on the 'good' side of comic book science – if only because she goes out of her way to avoid things that look too much like evil science on the grounds that it's bad publicity, not to mention tacky.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: Vanessa is a fairly notable celebrity – think Tony Stark minus the superhero double life (also minus the alcohol problem, and plus a lot more fur). You might not have heard of her if you're not from around here, but it's likely. Being an actual furry sort of draws attention. Speaking of which she also has a noticeable but very Official & Impersonal presence in furry fandom (like posts pinup photos to her vastly popular furaffinity account but doesn't really interact with people, will make the odd appearance at a convention)
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You're involved in the ABSURD COMIC BOOK SCIENCE scene! You work for her. You have interviewed her before, perhaps! She doesn't got time for a lot of socialising outside of her work though.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Vanessa is always looking for New Talent; lately she has been scouting out potential members of a superhero team that she wants to have, but she is also very interested in accumulating more Science Geniuses to give her the edge against THE COMPETITION (Baelheit) speaking of which they're both going to be trying to buy the Medabot company in the near future
ALSO i am always up for character backstories that involve some kind of in-company science experiment that has resulted in someone who works for her getting powers, OR, her getting someone (someones?) to test some kind of gadgetry or serum or something with the intent of their using it to do superhero stuff
It'd be cool for someone to DISCOVER HER SECRET at some point but. w/e
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: NUTHIN
ANYTHING ELSE: nuthin really!

Re: VANESSA GOLDPAW

[nailsandglass]

I keep forgetting to do ask about this BUT I'd like Vanessa and Di to have a ladies night out and get to know each other beyond their business partnership :>

[nailsandglass]

MATILDA WORMWOOD
Matilda Wormwood is a super genius six year old with immense telekinetic powers. She is also a runaway and playing vigilante.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: Uhh. You might have heard of this character if you care about kids or schools? She pretty much led an uprising at her Elementary school--driving out the headmistress who was revealed to have been quite literally abusing both students and teachers alike. Some of her teachers/friends might have started wondering about where she is.

The name Wormwood might have also gotten out as the name of the car dealer who was selling cars with illegal parts and that were shoddily put together.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If your character attends an Elementary school? If they frequent libraries/bookstores? Matilda's first person sample was set before she ran away and was of her asking if there was any kind of help for people with powers below the TB age group so that is an opportunity.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Right now I do not have any plans in particular for her. I guess I would like someone who could help her see the extent of her abilities since she has yet to fully test them out.

The only other thing I've vaguely been working on is actually (re)reading some classics and have her comment/ask questions about them to form a sorta ooc/ic book club? Would anyone be interested in that sorta thing?
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Any serious injuries.

METABEE

[metabee]

METABEE / BRONZE BEETLE
A prototype weapon designed by the Medabot Corporation and under CONDOR supervision, Metabee is a small robot specializing in mid-long range combat and is armed with lasers and missiles. He is pretty stubborn and hot headed, has problems with authority, and thinks he is the greatest invention since sliced bread. He was recently brainwashed by the rogue AI but is now back to normal. He is a huge dork.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: He's gotten some notoriety as a member of the Trailblazers so if you follow superhero news you would have heard of him. He's been mentioned in the recent fallout of the rogue AI and theories linking that to the Medabot Corporation so if you follow tech bussness news you might have seen that.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You're a member of the Trailblazers, you work for CONDOR or the Medabot Corporation, you were kidnapped by the rogue AI back in March
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Mostly just trying to get some more CR, maybe do some more stuff with the Trailblazers too
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Not that I can think of
ANYTHING ELSE: He's pretty interesting in other robots. Particularly robots that turn into cars.

Re: METABEE

[makethatwork]

METABEE AND CLINT AWKWARD BONDING TIMES.

We can thread it or handwave it. But Clint would totally try.

KARKAT VANTAS

[10thingsihateaboutme]

Karkat is a rude little Alternian guy who is on Earth as a political refugee because of his importance to the Sufferist movement, a religious revolutionary sect who follow the teachings of Karkat's ancestor, who he did not know about until these guys picked him up, after he got separated from the group of trolls with whom he was escaping Alternia, and brought him to Earth. He has been on Earth for about a year, and has been a trainee with the West Coast Trailblazers for most of that time because CONDOR didn't have anywhere better to put him than the Trailblazers base and he got sulky about the fact that everybody else got to fight stuff while he just kind of sat around doin fuck all. He is extremely invested in romance and extremely insecure about his blood colour, which is the same colour as human blood but non-standard for his species. His English is a bit wonky in places but it COULD BE WORSE. He is currently sort of paranoid about the fact that a guy who claims to be the revived Sufferer is running around threatening to kill him and making space robots fight each other and shit.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You pay a LOT of attention to the West Coast Trailblazers roster. He's only a trainee, so while the fact that he's a space alien makes him more conspicuous than the average super teen, he tends not to be present for, like, stuff the Trailblazers are involved in that actually makes the news – he's been involved in a few recent Events but lots of minor superguys have been involved in those and he hasn't got the kind of participation levels that would stand out. Even so, though, for the most part the only people who would know who he was off the top of their heads are the people who are actively posting to West Coast Trailblazers fan forums. He doesn't even have cool super powers.
ALTERNATIVELY, if you are a troll, you may have heard of him if you follow the teachings of the Sufferer, since he is the second coming of that guy. But you probably wouldn't know who he was at a glance because he wears sunglasses most of the time when he goes outside, to disguise his distinctive eye colour.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You're a member of the Trailblazers or you've actually interacted in them in any capacity, OR you were involved in his group's escape from Alternia, OR for people from space it is possible that he could have run into you in some capacity after his group got separated from each other, he spent a few months lurking around backwater planets full of Dubious Types
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: No concrete plans but he's probably going to be having some kind of terrible confrontation with Signless at some point. HOWEVER, I am ready and willing for Karkat to have a horrible awkward crush on your character
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: nah
ANYTHING ELSE: nope

[redbanded]

I BELIEVE WE SHOULD HAVE THESE KIDS HAVE A CONVERSATION AT SOME POINT. SOCIALLY AWKWARD TRAINEES FTW.

ULTRA MAGNUS

[ultramatum]

ULTRA MAGNUS
Autobot Second in Command. Obsessive, serious, workaholic lawyer/soldier who is very good at his job. Has pretty much no sense of humor, cannot stand rules being broken, supposedly likes music. Stands about 15ft and turns into a blue assault vehicle.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You know basic info about the Cybertronian War (Ultra Magnus has been a key player as Optimus' second in command), keep up with intergalactic politics (Magnus has facilitated a number of Autobot negotiations), If you watched the news during the recent robot fight in downtown LA you would have seen him punching some of the other robots
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You knew him on Cybertron before the War, are a high ranking Autobot or served under his command at one point, are a Decepticon he didn't get around to killing, were arrested by him, are one of the few people he had spoken with since arriving on Earth
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: With the cybertronians' recent reveal as alien robots, Magnus is going to be handling damage control with CONDOR and trying to get the Autobots in the clear as Not Evil. If you're a CONDOR guy who would be interested in that, let me know.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing I can think of.
ANYTHING ELSE: He's still getting the hang of Earth stuff

[escapefromincarcecon]

I just want to say that I am very much looking forward to the encounter in the woods

BLACK GHOST

[cyborgskull]

BLACK GHOST / SIMON SKULL
One of TRIDENTS leaders, and evil superpowered cyborg who likes lasers and holographic projects. Primarily handles the cybernetics and weapons research and development organizations of TRIDENT. Loves causing tragic cyborg drama and laughing ominously. Owns the legitimate weapons development empire Skulltech which is one of the world's leading suppliers in combat weaponry.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF:
Black Ghost - You're a member of CONDOR who is in the know on confidential TRIDENT files, you follow obscure supervillain rumors and sightings, you work for TRIDENT, were abducted by TRIDENT
Simon Skull - you keep up with the wealthy business community, you have reasons to deal with the sale or distributions of weapons
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF:
Black Ghost - You work for or previously worked for TRIDENT, especially if you are into cyborgs and robotics, If you were a TRIDENT abductee he might have visited to gloat, You are someone TRIDENT may have approach to recruit
Simon Skull - you have business dealings with Skulltech
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: No real plans at this point, he's here to spread evil and make dramatic entrances.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing I can think of at the moment
ANYTHING ELSE: He is all about having random people kidnapped for questionable experimentation so if you are up for some kidnappings he is your guy.

[cyborged]

HEY so fun fact, I'm actually in the middle of writing up a reply to your log and, looking at this I realised there is An Opportunity. Raiden has kind of a Complex History with TRIDENT, but moreover he's not long back from a year being experimented on and cyborged by them. So I mean, if you're interested in doing something with that I would super down with it.

MEGATRON

[bigfuckinggun]

Megatron is a 16 foot tall robot gladiator with a gun the size of a man mounted on his arm and a really short temper. He started out as the leader of a rebellion against an oppressive social order, but in the thousand years since then his priorities have shifted fairly significantly and these days he mostly only cares about conquering things, claiming power for himself, and destroying his enemies, although interacting with Orion Pax has been causing him some uncomfortable doubt about this. It is making him really angry.
He came to Earth because a robot macguffin that he wants is here. He is currently operating out of a crashed spaceship in the desert with a bunch of inept underlings.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You're familiar with the Cybertronian civil war – his name is sort of synonymous with the Decepticon cause for obvious reasons. Autobot/Decepticon business has yet to become common knowledge on Earth, but Cybertronians and their ridiculous civil war are regarded throughout the galaxy with a sort of weary eye-rolling disdain by other spacefaring races. (Not that you'd want to exhibit that weary eye-rolling disdain if you were stuck in a room with Megatron.)
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: Like the above but under what circumstances a person might have actually spoken to them.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Once his initial plan fails and Optimus Prime has his memories back, my main goal for Megatron and the Decepticons is for them to just start falling back on ridiculous supervillain bullshit. Do you have a cool, recently developed and potentially dangerous science device? Megatron wants to steal it
Someone's probably going to find the desert spaceship at some point, too, at which point I'm fully willing to have them relocate to the literal ocean to continue carrying out their dastardly plans
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Obviously Megatron isn't the kind of character for whom casual CR is really practical unless you're actually directly working for him, so plans with him are pretty limited to i) DO YOU WANT TO FIGHT MEGATRON ii) DO YOU WANT MEGATRON TO KIDNAP YOU AND/OR YOUR SCIENCE PROJECT FOR SOME PROBABLY KIND OF CONTRIVED REASON iii) DO YOU WANT TO BAD GUY TEAM UP WITH THE DECEPTICONS
ANYTHING ELSE: im excited for the dance club

[twistedtalisman]

how the hell do i work bad guy team up with you

talk to me

Aña Corazon

[cazamitad]

Baby spider cyborg hobo who has a crush on like five different girls, and recently "adopted" a six-year-old telekinetic with her brother.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You have any knowledge of the NYC vigilante scene, though you'd probably know her as the Hunter. If you're friends with Tommy. If you're friends with someone she saved from a mugging or a holdup or whatever.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You have been saved from a mugging by her (or her-and-Speed). You were a Trailblazer during the Cyborg event. You would try to strike up a conversation with a defiant-looking teenager with a metal arm. You were part of the Spider Society in the past 4.5 years or so. You want to say they do, just ask.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Character-wise, she's currently trying to come to terms with the horrible invasion of her body that she suffered at the hands of the Crazy AI who took her arm and replaced it with something metal, and trying to figure out if she actually WANTS to be a superhero or if she just feels like she HAS to be or SHOULD be.

Plot-wise, there is some Spider Society stuff looming on the horizon, but it's not close enough to poke at yet. As of now, she's just trying to get by.

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Um... nothing off the top of my head? Hit me up!

ANYTHING ELSE: Not that I can think of.

Re: Aña Corazon

[nailsandglass]

I'd love to do more with Aña and Matilda! Maybe just have them going out somewhere and talking about what they might want to do with their futures?

[pullingamiko]

MIKO NAKADAI
Overenthusiastic, rude, reckless journalistic intern. Has a fondness for loud, extremely large things, and little patience for any attempt to get her to calm the heck down. Also has luck powers that she's not aware of and that mostly just serve to get her into the awful situations she wants to be in, and then get her out alive.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: If you pay close attention to the photographer credits in the paper you may have seen her mentioned a couple times. She also published a confusing and poorly-written article about the cyborg kidnappings in March, which she only got away with because she was there (getting kidnapped in true comic-book reporter fashion).

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If you work for the Los Angeles times or spend a lot of time around disaster areas or crime scenes (in the latter case you may have had to drag her out/save her at some point. She is also drawn to places she shouldn't be.) If you're a superhero she may have tried to interview you at some point, likely at a bad time. Miko can also occasionally be found just kind of hanging out in various parts of the city, so anyone who's out and about a lot may have encountered her at some point.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Mostly at this point just for her to keep on running around doing journalist-y things, though I'm pretty much always open to new CR for her, or developing what she's already got. I've thought occasionally that writing romantic CR with her might be fun but it is not in any way a priority (partly because, for much the same reasons it would be fun, setting it up would be kind of really difficult).

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing in particular as long as she doesn't die or something - go for it!

ANYTHING ELSE: Though Miko isn't actually a bad person, she can be super rude and immature. Just a word of warning.

[ravirn]

We need to cause trouble or something. Somehow. Because this guy is essentially Trouble Incarnate and Miko is...Miko.

Clint Barton

[makethatwork]

MANEYE (or Hawkeye, as he is more widely known) is a member of the current flagship superhero team, Alpha Force. He is a badass normal, also secretly a CONDOR agent, and is kind of a shitbaby (though not as much of a shitbaby as Marshal Underwood). He really likes his totally ridiculous skill of shooting arrows at things. He has a ridiculous amount of trick arrows, including one that showers flowers down on his unsuspecting "victim". (Next up - Wanda Maximoff! He's coming for ya, pretty lady.)

He is a gigantic dork and failboat.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You have followed the news ever. He's been in Alpha Force for a few years now, it's pretty hard NOT to have heard of Hawkeye.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You're on Alpha Force (obvs), you work for CONDOR, you're a Trailblazer (he has a soft spot for the kids), you are a food delivery person anywhere in the vicinity of Alpha Force tower. If you've had any interaction with Alpha Force for any reason.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Man, idek. He's currently awkwardly dancing around maybe asking out his teammate but he's not sure if he should because Bobbi (light of his life, his sun and moon, that lady he married after knowing her 9 days) has only been dead for like. 7 months. (to be fair, he did a lot of intense grieving on that glacier. And he falls in love SO easy.)

I'm thinking about setting up a camping trip with Wanda and the Trailblazers later in the year OOCly, which will of course go horribly wrong in every way, but will totally be a bonding experience.

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nnnnnno?

ANYTHING ELSE: He was Captain Victory's pet delinquent for a while there, out on the east coast, when he was younger. He still misses the guy.

Re: Clint Barton

[kaijugrrroupie]

Tommy delivering Clint a pizza y/mfy??

Lyra Belacqua

[alethiometry]

LYRA BELACQUA/SILVERTONGUE, PANTALAIMON

horrible fortune-telling trenchcoat brigade child with a sassy pine marten manifestation

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: you are magic, you are part of the magic community, you were part of the quest to defeat REX MUNDI a a little under a year ago

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: you assisted her and Will on their quest, you went to or worked at Oxford University, you lived or worked in the city of Oxford, you were friends with her parents, you attended some Tory fundraisers a about a year and a half ago

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: FIRST THINGS FIRST Lyra is planning on crashing at the Enclave headquarters, largely because the British branch lets her do whatever she wants and so she assumes the American version will too. SECONDLY she will be working the boardwalks of the beach towns, reading cards and i ching as LADY SILVERTONGUE, vagabond heir to a lost fortune, in a lot of scarves and jewelry. THIRDLY she will offer to assist any superheroes with finding or fighting evil. FOURTHLY she is prone to wandering around and talking to strangers.

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: romance is unlikely, she's p hung up on someone back home

ANYTHING ELSE: I'm sorry..... . . .if you didn't like the amber spyglass. . ...

[redbanded]

PEOPLE WHO NEED TO MEET: THESE TWO.

[withoutaworld]

RIKKI BARNES/NOMAD
Nonpowered former sidekick of the now-deceased Captain Victory, related to several high-level CONDOR agents and trained by the best. She is a tiny ninja with some cool government-funded gadgets. Currently a new member of the Trailblazers, and kind of questioning her life choices tbh.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: If you're in CONDOR, you've probably at least heard of her - she was raised by a pair of high-ranking former agents, her Aunt Sharon is still in CONDOR, and she's been trained by CONDOR agents since she was ten. If you pay attention to East Coast heroes for some reason, she worked as a sidekick over there for four years, and she's obviously known as a Trailblazer.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If you're a Traiblazer, obviously. If you're in CONDOR, you may have met or trained her. If you're in Alpha Force, you may have run into her once or twice - she visits Clint at the Tower regularly. She goes on morning/late night runs, both on street level and around the rooftops, so you may have run into her there. She goes to school at UCLA, so any students there may share a class with her or have run into her at the library or something. If you hang out on superhero message boards, she is on them often and is Really Really Earnest (she's been on less since Cap died, but is still around).

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: More friends, please! I've been thinking about having her run occasional hand-to-hand combat lessons/sparring sessions for any of the Trailblazers who want them, since some of them are newbies and she's extremely well-trained at that sort of thing. (Hawkeye may occasionally guest star in these lessons.)

I'm also planning an actual long-term plot-thing, but A) still on hiatus and not ready to initiate anything and B) need to check in with the mods on that. 8|||

Claire Belacqua

[redbanded]

Tiny baby autistic trainee Trailblazer who always wears red and can do the windy thing.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You saw the little blurb in the paper about a new Trailblazer trainee. You frequent autism and/or superhero message boards. You are in the fandom for the series The Afterhumans.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You're a Trailblazer. You were active on any of those boards/in that fandom.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Nothing in particular just yet. She's finding her feet as a trainee Trailblazer and trying to keep her routine to "things she does a certain way" rather than "does things on certain days at certain times" so she doesn't have a meltdown if things have to get changed up because of heroing.

Anybody willing to be patient with her awkward socialization is more than welcome to befriend her. She could use it.

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Anything too traumatic or violent.

ANYTHING ELSE: Ummmmmm... no? I don't think so. Other than Spoilers.

ORION PAX / OPTIMUS PRIME

[thanksoptimus]

ORION PAX: OPTIMUS PRIME
Orion Pax is Optimus Prime but with AMNESIA~. He doesn't remember anything since before the Cybertronian war started, when he still basically in love with Megatron. Initially Megatron lied to him and said that Optimus Prime had been a brutal oppressive warlord but since then he has fallen in with the Autobots, and is becoming sort of gay for Arcee as well.

In July he is going to be REGAINING HIS MEMORIES so he will be Optimus instead of Orion once more. If you want CR with Orion then it is your last chance. (He will remember everything that happened as Orion, unlike how it worked in canon.)

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: If you are an alien who knows about space politics or if you're a Cybertronian, period.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: Autobot, mostly.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Orion will be Optimus soon, during the musical event. Anybody who wants to participate in that shindig please hit me up.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: no.
ANYTHING ELSE: He is pretty fucked up physically at the moment.

[kaijugrrroupie]

I'd love to thread some repairing stuff if you'd be up for it! Newt certainly would be interested in trying to help/learn as much as he can about SPACE ROBOTS so he'd DEF like to help Orion out!

[teamsad]

JESSICA DREW / SPIDER-WOMAN / ARACHNE
Tragic superspy with spider genes, raised and trained by crazy terrorists. Agent of CONDOR and four-year member of Alpha Force.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You are in TRIDENT or WebCorp, you're part of the espionage community, you're from San Francisco (she was an independent hero there a few years ago), or you pay attention to major costumed heroes (she's not the most prominent of Alpha Force members, but she's still pretty well known nevertheless).

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You're in TRIDENT, WebCorp, CONDOR or Alpha Force, or if you've had a run-in with her as a hero or villain (in LA or SF). She has no personal friends because how do you make friends she just doesn't know.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Jessica desperately needs friends and people to teach her how to be a person. She is not good at it. I'd like her to run into some TRIDENT people from her past, if anyone is inclined to app them (or already has someone around who might work?). Other than that, idk, man. Give her something to punch and she will do it (especially if it's TRIDENT or TRIDENT-related).

[kaijugrrroupie]

Newt was involved in CONDOR back in the day so maybe they have some preexisting??

Jon Snow

[hellacold]

JON STARK/LONGCLAW

Ned Stark's legitimately adopted son,West Coast Trailblazers onii-sama

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: you are from Chicago, particularly the suburbs, you followed the Stark family saga from nineteen or so years back, under which circumstances he was mysteriously adopted, you go to Berkeley or live in the Bay Area, where he has some acclaim for stopping a minor zombie outbreak during freshman orientation, you played high school hockey in Northern Illinois. alternatively, you might have seen him around on the Watch.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: you are from Chicago, especially the North suburbs, you were on the Great Lakes Trailblazers, you are a freshman at Berkeley, you are a Stark or friend of the family, you go to the Stark's temple or country club, you are a CONDOR agent that flies a plane.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Jon is v comfortable in his role with the Trailblazers and other teen heroes. it's soooo hard to get him to talk to anyone else. he really needs people to challenge him and his ideas about the world. he' still kind of a sheltered kid, albeit one who has been fighting crime since his early teens and was kidnapped by supervillains periodically throughout his childhood. also he has a crush on his teammate Highlander.

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: daggers in the dark

ANYTHING ELSE: he has a distressingly large, distressingly smart white wolfish dog of mysterious origins, who opens doors by himself and never makes a sound unless Jon's in immediate danger

[cazamitad]

As thanks for helping her get out of cyborg captivity (and loaning her the TB showers), Ana will totally prod at him and make him buy her coffee and tell him all about how her mom was murdered by a drug cartel in mexico city when she was six! :D

[sufferist]

SIGNLESS / THE SUFFERER
Troll Jesus brought back from the dead by the Empire that killed him to be their brainwashed assassin, basically. Pure comic book bullshit. He's sworn that he is going to kill Karkat, the kid who would be his successor, because he says that he doesn't believe that trolls deserve salvation. He also doesn't seem to care if anyone else gets hurt in the process, which is a complete 180 on his past personality.

He had a period were he was starting to go pretty screwy due to psychological conflict over having been dead and doubting his assignment, but then he was captured and re-brainwashed. He is presently back to being super cold and angry, and went on to lure out a bunch of robots to punch each other all over City Hall and everyone hates him, basically.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You are troll religious. If you were at the robot slug out it could be pretty obvious that this troll asshole was the one egging them on.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If you were on Alternia 2000 years ago. If you are part of TRIDENT, because they have been working with the Empire over this whole thing.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: From this point on I am basically winging it and don't intend for there to be any more reprogramming, so it's basically up to see where he goes with things due to the way other people interact with him. He's probably gotta make at least one proper attempt on Karkat's life, though.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Any over the top villainy that would mess with him recuperating a little.
ANYTHING ELSE: He used to be a really good guy but he is super messed up. He needs someone to save him, basically, and I am super open to them doing so at this point.

[purrsuit]

hi alluring adult version of my top crush

[magicgasm]

JACK THE PLAID / SORCERER SUPREME
He is presently the KING WIZARD of the Enclave, which means he is the boss of most magical phenomenon, despite being quite young as it goes. (Like 26 + untold millenia of wandering spacetime during his ascension.) He is really chill and laid back, and lazy about most things that aren't magic. His best friend is his magical tome, named Tomie, who sometimes is a person. He became the Sorcerer Supreme after being a really rad community member but he doesn't really LIKE leading and he's starting to contemplate stepping down from the whole thing.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: If you are any kind of powerful wizard, you most likely have.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If you are a wizard in the Enclave. If you come to his magic shows in the park.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: He's probably going to step down from being Sorcerer Supreme soon, though he's sort of ashamed of it. He feels like he would do better in the Alpha Force, though, because he's kind of sick of holding back and making some pretense of being neutral when he really isn't. Also, being super serious and leaderly makes him uncomfortable.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: No.
ANYTHING ELSE: He is frequently a backburner kind of character due to being sort of a recluse but if you ever want a thread with him I will enthusiastically hit you up, even if I don't thrust him out there a lot without provocation.

[ravirn]

So hey, I'm loosely tying this guy in to the Enclave with the whole 'he was fking around with how magic works in here, ended up contacting/being contacted by the Enclave, now he occasionally drops by to see if they've got free food'.

I would definitely be up for something if you'd be- especially with them both being youngish. Comparatively.

WILDCAT

[purrsuit]

NESSA LLEWELLYN / WILDCAT
Nessa is a shapeshifter that specialises in feline animals and is most often seen as a tiger or a sabre-toothed cat. She's extremely cheerful and friendly, uses far too many cat puns for her own good and is constantly trying to come up with more. She's incredibly loyal, loves drawing and superhero shipping, as well as romance films and hunting. Nessa spends a lot of time outside and is pretty well versed in a few different martial arts. She also has a 'tragic past' and spent almost a year as a feral tiger in the woods of Oregon.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: If you follow superhero news! She's an active member of the West Coast Trailblazers, and frequently goes on missions. If you've seen a big cat prowling the streets of LA, that's her! She was also the big cat roaming the forests of Oregon a couple of years ago, so if your character follows weird news, they may have seen that. She's also pretty prevalent in several online communities (mostly superhero websites and fanfiction websites where she's pretty much a BNF) and occasionally roleplays as a furry under the username "PounceDeLeon".
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You have had any run ins with the West Coast Trailblazers! She's been on the team a few days longer than Karkat (about a year now!) and has seen a lot of people come and go. She lives in dorms and trains a lot to try and keep her powers in control. She also has been to powers rehab, so if your character went there to get their powers under control they may have bumped into her during her stay. Also if your character reads Superhero Fan Fiction, they've probably read something by Nessa.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Anyone in the Trail Blazers is welcome to bring your preestablished CR to me :3 She's almost been there the longest, and unless your character actively avoids her, there's probably no way she'd not greet them. Superhero Shippers are fun, and she also likes to know shapeshifters. But to be honest, unless you're a bad guy, she's pretty much easy to get on with! Come at me bro!
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Anything overly traumatic would be great to avoid right now since she's just overcoming some trauma!
ANYTHING ELSE: when she shapeshifts into any of her cat forms she still has her domino mask on. Nobody is quite sure where her other clothes go, and she'd rather not answer it. Also if you have her on any internet device, prepare to have cat memes spammed at you.

[redbanded]

Gale and Wildcat NEEEEED to have bonding times.

Also it's likely they've run into each other on one of the superhero or fanfic sites, though I think Claire runs in different fandoms (unless Nessa's dabbled in Afterhumans or The Last Windmolder fic) but she is definitely around online. Her handle is honestly probably "redbanded" which makes this journal name both ridiculous and perfect for her. XD