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CATCHUP MEME

HEY GANG

A good few people have had stuff going on recently that has left them feeling out of the loop or not sure what’s going on – so we thought it would be a good idea to have a meme for clarifying what has been going on with our characters. Hopefully this will be a good way to get a look at what’s been going on with the rest of the game as well as to get a better handle on what your own characters have been doing by writing it up.

If you’re just plain lost, feel free to just say you’re not sure what your character’s been doing and invite other people to offer suggestions (involving their own characters or otherwise). You’re also encouraged to reply to other people’s characters with more general plot or CR suggestions.

TO PARTICIPATE, fill out the following for each of your characters:

And then reply to other people as necessary!

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KATNISS EVERDEEN/MOCKINGJAY
Katniss Everdeen is the girl from the future, who is currently part of the Trailblazers. Constantly bewildered about her place in the universe. Is simultaneously desperate to remain to LA and desperate to return to her loved ones in the future.
LAST SEEN: Punching Finnick in the face at Sea World.
SIGNIFICANT PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: IDK probably busting people out of the creepy cyborg hell spires with Karkat and Jon Stark.
WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING LATELY: Existential dread. Beyond that, I have no idea.
IC GOALS: ??? Make up with Finnick for punching his face, maybe.
OOC GOALS & IDEAS: I've been neglecting Katniss for way too long, and since I just came back from watching Mockingjay Part 1, I figure now is as good of time as any to change that. Katniss needs her turn. Also, for the future plot, I'm intending on having her future self come back to the present possibly.
ANYTHING ELSE: She is very attached to Jon Stark and Karkat Vantas, and is blessedly lacking in romantic tension with either of them. BUT WILL THAT CHANGE?

Edited 2014-11-30 00:59 (UTC)

Queen of the magical pacific island nation of Equestria, Celestia is also a talented sorceress and bearer of the legendary Sun Medallion, which grants her immortality and an array of sun-based powers. She was a founding member of Alpha Force way back in 1964, and is currently its leader. Really big on the power of friendship.
LAST SEEN: Attempting to comfort Steven Universe in the absence of his usual mums.
SIGNIFICANT PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Over the last 50 years Celestia has accomplished many tremendous things, like helping to deter multiple alien invasions, defeating numerous supervillains, sealing monstrously powerful energy beings in pocket dimensions, thwarting disasters both natural and unnatural – if you can think of a ridiculous superhero thing for someone to have done, she has probably done it at some point (although the threats she deals with tend towards the massive in scope, rather than street-level – at least things that threaten the entire city, if not the entire nation, world, or universe, rather than individual muggings). However, over the course of the game Celestia has not been up to a whole lot of on-screen business.
WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING LATELY: Trying to stop Lina Inverse and Wanda Maximoff from blowing up Alpha Tower, mostly
IC GOALS: To continue protecting the world from any significant threats! To encourage everyone around her to value friendship. To ensure the safety and prosperity of Equestria as best she can when not actively present in the country. To look after this kid her old buddies the Crystal Gems left with her. Also, to find out what led to the disappearances of her teammates Druid, Fissure and Zoom.
OOC GOALS & IDEAS: Celestia is a fairly static character, being as ageless and benevolent as she is, and I don't really have an arc in mind for her or anything – most of the things I want to do with her are more along the lines of encouraging people to write her letters about what they've learned about friendship than significant character moments. I'd like to do more with her mischievous tendencies (remember when in canon she invited all of her student's friends to a serious & important party in the full knowledge that they'd completely wreck it and traumatise half the attendants purely because she thought it would liven things up), but don't have any specific ideas at the moment!
If anybody needs an authority figure for anything, though, or someone to Impart some Wisdom, Celestia is your magic sun queen.
ANYTHING ELSE: nope!

SOLLUX CAPTOR/GEMINI
Alternian refugee turned TRIDENT lab experiment turned CONDOR ward turned Decepticon fugitive. He is becoming increasingly anti-establishment, and increasingly attached to Knock Out and Breakdown as his weird robot parents.
LAST SEEN: Getting drunk with Knock Out, following Megatron's wacky Orion Pax adventures.
SIGNIFICANT PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Breaking out of TRIDENT imprisonment, and then running away from CONDOR. We've got a wild child here.
WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING LATELY: Probably just hanging out with the Decepticons following the Great Robot Meltdown of 2014. Sporadically being gay at Karkat.
IC GOALS: To gather power and influence off the grid. To establish self sufficiency. TO GET REVENGE ON HIS OPPRESSORS, MEGATRON STYLE.
OOC GOALS & IDEAS: Presently I'm sort of going the route of having Sollux break bad, as it were, but I don't know that it'll keep on that path. Having Breakdown and Knock Out as dads isn't the best influence.
ANYTHING ELSE: Always in favour of having him get in the shit.

Edited 2014-11-30 01:13 (UTC)

The West Coast Trailblazers' angry, stubby Token Alien Friend. Karkat came to Earth to escape persecution on his home planet only to have half his friends die on the way and then find out he was the second coming of the troll messiah. He has no superpowers and is kind of sullen about it.
LAST SEEN: Getting accosted by his ancestor somewhere on the edge of town and ending up awkwardly hugging him, or something.
SIGNIFICANT PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: During the run of the game Karkat has been kidnapped only once, so far, which is probably some kind of record for him. In fact he has gotten to rescue his friends two whole other times, although on balance it turns out this isn't really any more fun than getting kidnapped himself, especially when the reason they're getting kidnapped is to lure you into a trap? Who knew.
Most of what he's been doing besides that has been being stressed out by the other trolls in his life and trying to get them not to kill either him, or other people. Thanks Signless. Thanks Sollux. You're both pals.
WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING LATELY: Recently Karkat has been a little bit less reclusive on account of Signless no longer being out to murder him, but he is as grouchy as ever. He is a bit more committed to the whole revolutionary thing now, though, than he has been in the past – he's kind of been going back and forth on that for a while. Not that he's talking to anyone about it; he still thinks that whole thing is kind of embarrassing.
IC GOALS: Remaining alive for long enough to at least make an effort at starting a revolution on his homeworld.
OOC GOALS & IDEAS: I WANT MORE SHIPPING DRAMA. The ships don't have to involve Karkat. I mean, they can do, but I'm equally thirsty for him having opinions about romances that are absolutely none of his business
ANYTHING ELSE: NAH

SIGNLESS/THE SUFFERER
Former villain, present hobo. Was resurrected and brainwashed by the Condesce for the purpose of assassinating Karkat Vantas. Ran around doing crimes for a while until he eventually managed to shrug off his conditioning enough to get captures by CONDOR during a failed murder attempt. Later broke out of CONDOR jail with Starscream, who abandoned him in the wild. Managed to get back to LA and has been living in holes being sad ever since.
LAST SEEN: Crying on Karkat.
SIGNIFICANT PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Kidnapping three members of the Trailblazers and holding them hostage in an attempt to lure Karkat out and kill him. It didn't work.
WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING LATELY: Crying and having small emotional breakthroughs.
IC GOALS: To figure out what to do besides being dead.
OOC GOALS & IDEAS: Mostly Signless needs to find some kind of direction, some kind of foot hold to work with. He's basically a fugitive at the moment, and has nowhere to go.
ANYTHING ELSE: The Disciple was dropped so I'm still working out what to do with that. I'm presently thinking "captured by the Empire" as a way to give him some purpose.

WHATUP, SUCKERS!?!?!

CHARACTER NAME/ALIAS IF APPLICABLE It's Shitscream. Starcream. STARSCREAM. Rightful lord and master of Gay Baby Jail.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTER: Thirteen foot tall asshole alien jet robot variously. Thin, kinda pointy and screechy. He's the second in command of the Decepticons and an overall obnoxious villain type who likes to get his filthy little claws into all kinds of shit. He has no hobbies except plotting different ways to seize power and advance his position in galactic society and watching cat videos on the internet. Has no friends. First Cybertronian in the game, suckas

Some in-game testimonials:
"Cloyingly sycophantic" -- Julius Baelheit
"Has a... forceful personality." --Orion Pax
"Wait, Commander? What's he commander of, sarcastic jackasses?" --Miko Nakadai
(A) "bottom-feeding, slag-licking coward" --Arcee

LAST SEEN: Finally being freed from jail after an incredibly lengthy stay in the slammers of three different prisons. He's very thrilled about this, except Megatron has him doing piddly awful little chores just to fuck with him and see how long it takes for him to snap. Nice.

SIGNIFICANT PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: (“significant”) (“accomplishments”) EVERYTHING HE DOES IS SIGNIFICANT. No uh. Not true but he does have... quite a storied past in Cap H. This includes: getting separated from his fellow decepticons while fleeing from battle and winding up on earth, getting wounded so that he can no longer transform and then being stuck in jet mode as a result, having to rely on humans to fix that injury, losing a very important artifact to a sea lion, fighting an 18 year old cyborg and ripping her arm off to regain the respect of his boss, lying to his boss excessively about various things, hate-fucking his boss whenever he can get the opportunity, getting kidnapped and horribly physically and mentally fucked up by a vicious alien hating AI, trying to pull of an eXTREMELY POORLY THOUGHT OUT coup, landing himself in jail pretty much from IRL July-November. He's kind of an extreme trouble maker, what can I say.

WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING LATELY: Lately, in un-threaded news, Starscream has mostly been doing shitty errands for Megatron in the hopes of earning his trust back after trying to kill him and defecting for a while. Nothing much more exciting than that. He got to go on a field trip to a foreign country and loom ominously behind Megatron alongside Soundwave. That was pretty exciting. Highlight of his month right there.

IC GOALS: Right now Starscream's main thing is getting his old job and responsibilities back. He's trying to figure out where he stands with Megatron and the Decepticons, too. If it seems like I'm mentioning Megatron a lot it's because Starscream's the kind of guy that's driven by denial of his weaknesses and problems, and man does he have a massive inferiority complex over the big M there. It literally consumes his existence. That poorly thought out coup basically came as a result of him being really fed up with Megatrons GAY EMOTIONS and faltering temporarily as a leader, so he's kind of testing the waters to see where he should go from there. After being separated from the Decepticons for so long, he knows sticking with them is the safest bet for him... the real question is if he's going to be content to let things stay as they are, or if he's gonna start stirring up shit again. I'm hoping that this grimdark future event that's upcoming will give him some shit to think about, in terms of finding himself or w/e.

OOC GOALS & IDEAS: Right now, what I really need to do is cement Starscream as a semi-trusted and efficient partner with Megatron again... which is probably going to have to come from saving Megatron's life or something like that. The Decepticons need an active enemy or smth aside from the Autobots, someone that's actually a considerable match for them, an outside force that the two of them can unite against. My ultimate LONG TERM GOAL is to do the extremely difficult to pull of sort of "redemption" route with him. Y'know... not a total turn around, but basically come to a point where he realizes how awful and unfulfilling his life is and he has no one but himself to blame for it.

ANYTHING ELSE: Honestly I'm open to all kinds of threads and CR, if you have a character that you want to interact with Starscream I will work out some way to make it happen for you.

Edited 2014-11-30 01:40 (UTC)

radical idea: have a plot where he ends up in jail.

think about it. think about the possibilities.

CHARACTER NAME/ALIAS IF APPLICABLE: Neku Sakuraba

18 year old vigilante empath/psychic. Pretty anti-social, not a big people person.

LAST SEEN: Working with a rag-tag band of vigilantes to stop the musical plague and take down Swan Song.

SIGNIFICANT PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Honestly the swan song thing is the most notable. Besides that he got... kidnapped by cyborgs? they didn't do anything to him, fortunately.

WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING LATELY: Probably waffling over joining the trailblazers. His involvement in this game thus far has been minimal and I'd like to change that.

IC GOALS: UUUUUHHHHHhhhhhhh. He doesn't have many goals, which is the problem. He's trying to find his feet and decide if he wants to go the full hero or not. Milly is really the only person he trusts in any capacity and if she's joining the trailblazers, he will likely follow.

OOC GOALS & IDEAS: I do want to get him into the trailblazers. Mainly I need people who are willing to try and get close to him, butt heads with him, go on missions where they have to learn to work together so that he can grow as a person and learn not to hate other people so much etc etc. You're gonna have to be OK with your character possibly getting stuck in the middle of dealing with Neku being manipulated/jerked around by Joshua.

ANYTHING ELSE: I'M DESPERATE TO MAKE THIS LOSER WORK so if you think you have a character who's really tenacious and good for dealing with shitty teens and being a positive influence on his life plz plz plz hit me up.

Holds up Neku and stares. I think these two could have some bitter CR if I get this loser psychic into trailblazers.

Radical idea: GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU GROSS LITTLE BUG >B(

How's disappointment lake treating you

YOU: ALSO NEKU CR.

Karkat's emotional signature would probably drive the poor kid's empath powers fucking crazy. Why are you so intense karkat. WHY.

Ruthless and vicious leader of the Decepticons. Instigator of the seven thousand year civil war that has devastated his home planet and made his species basically an embarrassing joke amongst other alien races who are familiar with their history. Despite this, he remains the most over-the-top, melodramatic and full of himself space robot you will ever meet. Was forged in the pits of Kaon.
LAST SEEN: Negotiating with Sovereign; giving Starscream a second chance.
SIGNIFICANT PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Since crash landing in the desert outside LA, Megatron has: briefly convinced his amnesiac arch-enemy that the Autobots are evil; gotten in a fight with the Autobots in the middle of LA; sung more songs than he would really like to have sung; made enemies with CONDOR, TRIDENT and Mintaka industries; admirably refrained from seriously injuring any of his shitty underlings.
WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING LATELY: Megatron is currently trying to find firmer footing on this world, on the basis that as long as Optimus Prime remains here then he needs to as well – especially if Unicron is headed this way, which he is. Thanks to Shockwave, his battleship, the Conquest, is currently operational, drifting around Earth's skies, and the Decepticons also have access to a space bridge link to Cybertron, which gives them a bit of an advantage when it comes to supplies, but the Autobots are in a better position when it comes to allies...
He's trying really hard to pretend that his interactions with Orion Pax have not made him question what he's doing in any way, but, lmao
IC GOALS: Destroy the Autobots, bend the universe to his will, look really cool doing it
OOC GOALS & IDEAS: hell fucking yeah
like, the griffin specifically, but also a whole bunch of dumb G1 style bullshit
in the long term I would kind of Megatron to actually realise that he fucked up really bad
ANYTHING ELSE: DID.. we ever decide where the space bridge actually is. Like presumably there wouldn't be room on the Conquest. It's gotta be somewhere.

Can she show Grimlock around LA and try to teach him basic right and wrongs :'|

Optimus Prime/Orion Pax
The leader of the Autobots. When he first arrived on Earth he had amnesia due to Megatron stealing the Matrix of Leadership, but after being a younger version of himself for months he has since regained his memories and a number of psychological problems with them. Presently he is dealing with having an awkward combination of bother personalities, as he struggles to keep his team together and also prepare Earth to deal with Unicron's oncoming onslaught.
LAST SEEN: Tolerating the Trailblazer visiting the robot HQ. Being incapable of healthily processing emotional trauma.
SIGNIFICANT PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Participating in the ROBOT THROW DOWN at City Hall, unlocking the Romance option with Arcee in the Robot Dating Simulator, regaining his memories, kicking the shit out of Megatron, and then fucking Megatron while also kicking the shit out of Megatron. (Two separate events.)
WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING LATELY: Struggling emotionally, while attempting to put on a brave face.
IC GOALS: Settle things with Arcee. (???) Stop Unicron. (???) Deciding whether or not he needs to die to accomplish these things. (???)
OOC GOALS & IDEAS: Nothing in particular, to be honest, Optimus has been in the spotlight a lot lately. There are some people I'd like to have him catch up with though.
ANYTHING ELSE: I got pretty burnt out on him at the end there, BUT THAT IS NO LONGER THE CASE. I am all about Optimus Prime.

I WOULD LOVE NOTHING MORE THAN THIS

THIS IS JUST HOW HE ROLLS OKAY GEEZ

HE'S NOT EVEN AT DISAPPOINTMENT LAKE ANYMORE THANK YOU VERY MUCH

BUT IT WAS GREAT. IT WAS AWESOME.

no, no, i think he's onto something

"refrained from seriously injuring" YOU ALMOST KILLED HIM THAT TIME OUT IN THE DESERT >B(

you got better

Yeah I honestly suffer from the same problem with Katniss that you do with Neku - she is pretty reclusive and anti social when given the option. But if he was in with the Trailblazers it would be pretty easy for them to get some CR.

YES GOOD

I'll try and get an intro log up tomorrow but. Thought: Potentially we could do a group thing where people have the choice of running into grimlock by himself or grimlock with celestia, maybe? bc he's probably gonna need a mediator when first making CR, good lor.d.

Even if they just briefly butt heads and maybe end up on some missions together, that might be a good start.

Shipping drama you say.

I have two perfect avenues of shipping drama, because hell if Karkat will ever not be ganged on by all of my characters simultaneously.

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