PRE GAME CR MEME!

[capitalm]

Establishing CR that already exists before the game starts is super important and also super fun so LETS DO IT

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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KATNISS EVERDEEN: "MOCKINGJAY"

[mockingjaded]

KATNISS "MOCKINGJAY" EVERDEEN
A political refugee sent back from the future for safe keeping. She is full of PTSD from being forced into multiple fights to the death and also from having her entire home burned to the ground/her good friend stolen by the evil government. She is antisocial and terse, but also strong and full of passion. She shoots arrows real good and can fly with technological wings she brought back from the future.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You are a part of the Trailblazers, mostly, because she has been in their membership for the 5 months she's been in the past. Besides that she has been moderately effective at being a super hero. She is sort of preoccupied from giving it her all, though. You may also know her if you are part of CONDOR because she is in their care while she is in the past due to alliances with the future (? comics). You may also know her if you are from the same future timeline she is.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: Basically the same stuff as stated previously, but MOSTLY the Trailblazers thing. She's been living in the shared dorms for five months.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I'm sort of winging it with Katniss, so I'm pretty much up for anything, though I would really like some awkward teenagering with the other Trailblazers. Katniss is SO difficult, my god.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing, really.
ANYTHING ELSE: Katniss is hilariously shit as cellphones, computers, and texting, because despite being from the future she was from the POOR future and had no access to such things. Also she finds really lavish living sort of offensive, because a lot of modern stuff is sort of reminiscent of the Capitol of her future.

[hellacold]

I REALLY WANT THESE TWO TO BE FRIENDS tho I'm not sure...how they'd get to that point.... they'd know each other from trailblazers at least!!! they can shoot arrows and miss their little sisters together.

CELESTIA

[sunmedallion]

CELESTIA
Queen of Equestria, a hidden island in the Pacific, by token of being its most wise and talented sorceress. Celestia carries the Sun Medallion, which grants her sun powers and immortality, and can do magic that's only powerful if she has friends with her. She is so big on friendship. She is kind of condescending about friendship. She is not a horse, but she sometimes rides a shining white horse into battle. It can fly, although she can't. She doesn't have a superhero codename for the same kind of reasons that Thor doesn't get called anything except Thor – where she comes from she is already an important public figure and everybody knows she can generate sun blasts and cast spells. She briefly cultivated a civilian identity when she first came to the US in the 60s but abandoned it soon after.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: you are aware of superheroes even a bit. Celestia has been a high profile superhero since the 1960s, and while she hasn't been consistently in action for all of those 50 years she has been for most of them. You can buy merchandise with her on. Some people probably straight up collect merchandise with just her on.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: Anybody who's been doing the superhero thing for a while is game for being on speaking terms with Celestia. Same for CONDOR agents who might liase with Alpha Force. She's very friendly, if in the kind of way where she calls people 'child' a lot. If anything she can be sort of inappropriately familiar with people.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I have nothing specific planned for Celestia! Mostly I would just really like the empty spots on Alpha Force filled – there are three potential vacancies on the team after the mysterious and shocking disappearance of Druid, Fissure and Zoom, but if nobody apps into those Celestia will be the sole remaining member of the team, which would probably shake her pretty bad. Either way Alpha Force is going to be seeking in-game to gather up some new members in the absence of the ones who've disappeared, and anybody on Alpha Force is going to wind up knowing Celestia. Alpha Force aside I'd kind of like it if she could force some people to write her letters about what they are learning about themselves. Celestia loves that shit
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing really! I'm open to pretty much everything with Celestia
ANYTHING ELSE: she isn't a horse

Re: CELESTIA

[monkeyseemonkeysmash]

Oh my god please try to recruit Sun Wukong.

[missinterference]

CHARACTER NAME/ALIAS IF APPLICABLE Flora Poste, socialite and busybody nuisance
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: Flora Poste is ON THE INTERNET. She has vague ambitions to start her own online advice blog but, lmao, that's work. She's more of a Twitter aficionado, and she definitely comments on other peoples' blogs a lot. She is probably known as associated with CONDOR & superheroes (especially the playboy millionaire sort who need parties organized), although I am not sure to what extent it's known just HOW close she is (the answer is Very).
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: CONDOR people will almost certainly know Flora; she noses in on human resource-y type stuff. She probably has some sort of clearance, given she is involved with Charles Fairford & his helicopter. It's likely other superheroes have heard of her horrible relatives (whom she made actually register). The Starkadders are............around, certainly. Nobody on earth would want to app them except for like maybe three of us, but even so, I'm probably going to leave things vague. Their name should at least inspire a noncommittal "ah" of recognition.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Silliness mostly. Personal life interfering. Getting into trouble and being very reasonable about it. Anything super-duper serious, Flora would probably just ruin--which, I mean, if you're up for that then why not.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: As I said, anything really serious!
ANYTHING ELSE: Flora's entire schtick in her canon is the application of logic to genre tropes. :)

[liberaition]

DID YOU SAY THE INTERNET.

actually Kit and Flora definitely inhabit different corners of the internet, but Kit totally casually follows superhero news, so probably she is vaguely aware of Flora's ~blogging exploits~

VANESSA GOLDPAW (OC)

[goldpaw]

VANESSA GOLDPAW
Vanessa also doesn't have an alias because she's a public figure and not a superhero oops! She's in charge of a generic superhero universe tech company, Goldpaw Technologies, which is one of the most successful in this universe, although it tends to deal mostly with gadgets rather than weapons and stuff – at least, so far, anyway. Its logo is a pawprint and there's a lot of stylised leopard print in its imagery, mainly because Vanessa Goldpaw herself is an anthropomorphic leopard. Publicly, the story is that she got trapped in this shape after a science accident at the company she worked for before she set out to do her own thing. Only she knows the truth: she actually gained shapeshifting abilities, but decided to use them to live the dream of being an anthropomorphic fucking leopard on account of how she is a god damn furry.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You're interested in the stuff her company does, or you're interested in furries.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You're another notable ~science genius~, or you work for her company.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Vanessa's going to found (and fund) her own superhero team fairly shortly after the game starts, partially because she thinks it would be cool and fun and partially because she thinks it would be good for her brand. She's been researching various solo heroes for a while, looking for ones who are fairly good at what they're doing but not already terrifically high profile, so if your character fits the bill and you'd like her to try to scout them – successfully or unsuccessfully – then let me know!
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Again, nothing particular. Vanessa's good for p much anything.
ANYTHING ELSE: this character started out as a joke about furries but now i care about her. i'm very sorry

[liberaition]

maybe kit has worked for goldpaw technologies in the past!!! or maybe, in the future? OuO she definitely follows company news and stuff

PLAID JACK CLARITY

[magicgasm]

PLAID JACK CLARITY
Jack was first introduced to wizardly when he accidentally transformed one of his roomate buddies into a demon by being careless with an ancient magical tome. He used said tome to learn magic in the hopes of restoring her human body, but he only really came into his true power as a mage when he ended up being the sole survivor of a small magical apocalypse - a more ancient, unscrupulous mage tricked a large number of promising young practitioners into attuning themself to his astral plane pocket dimension, which he eventually used to suck all their souls out to add to his own power. Jack was saved by his magical tome, but subsequently killed by the previously mentioned, now totally OP evil wizard. Thankfully, this just resulted in Jack spiritually ascending and becoming a full blown wizard, his magical totem ending up being the pattern of "plaid and intersecting lines." He used this gimmick to banish the evil wizard to several different hell dimensions, and in doing so, freed the souls of the young wizards, but unfortunately was unable to do anything but let them carry on to the afterlife.

Needless to say, he has some issues pertaining to seeing almost an entire generation of wizards wiped out at once. Also about the fact that he ended up having to banish his demon friend to another dimension a swell, once she turned evil. Basically Jack's life is just a lot of banishing people to other places, and at this point his feats have resulted in him becoming the most recent Sorcerer Supreme, even though leadership has never really been his bag and he is more inclined to just be buddy buddy with everyone.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You're part of the Enclave, because he is their leader. If you do any sort of magic, you also probably know him. If you are into demons, or are a demon, you may have also heard of him, because he is considered one of the resident magical experts when it comes to the infernal. Basically, if you have any foot in the magical, there is a good chance you have heard of this dude in recent years.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If you are a wizard, especially part of the Enclave. Also, Jack does magic shows for children in his spare time, in order to instill a sense of wonder into the modern world. He is a pretty chill guy so he really isn't hard to be on good terms with.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Jack is going to be actively looking for an apprentice in the near future, for someone he can train up to be the new Sorcerer Supreme because it isn't really his bag. He has a lot of feelings about young mages though so he could have been a teacher to many people.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing really, at the moment.
ANYTHING ELSE: His magic totem is plaid, and this results in the magical impression that his plaid shirt is impossibly long and endless and weird shit like that. Also his BFF is his magical tome named Tomie, who turned out to be sentient. Unfortunately Jack is the only one who can hear Tomie speak, so he spends a lot of time talking to his book.

Re: PLAID JACK CLARITY

[monkeyseemonkeysmash]

It'll be really interesting if Jack and Sun Wukong had CR since he banishes people a lot and Wukong was banished (ish) himself.

Metabee: Bronze Beetle

[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 doesn't have a superhero costume but will probably be trying to get one to look cooler. He is not CONDOR's favorite Medabot. He is a huge dork.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You are a member of the Trailblazers, an agent of CONDOR (especially in R&D stuff), an employee of the Medabots Corporation, or anyone who has connections to the super high tech scientific community. He hasn't been in the superhero circuit long so he doesn't have much notoriety as far as the media is concerned, but is getting more attention since joining up with the Trailblazers.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You are with the Trailblazers, since he has been living with the team for a few months. any CONDOR liaisons with the team and CONDOR scientists related to the Medabot Project would know him better. Any scientists who worked on the project and fellow Medabots would know him really well.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: No specific plans here, still trying to get my feet under me and Metabee is sort of my test. I am anticipating plenty of interactions with fellow Trailblazers though. CONDOR is still determining if Medabots are sentient so they would probably push different people and team mates to interact with Metabee and then report on what happened.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing off the top of my head.
ANYTHING ELSE: Metabee's alias doesn't really serve any purpose, since he doesn't really have a secret identity, he just thought it sounded cool. Probably just the media and general population would use it. For official business with he would probably be referred to by his project code, KBT-1.

[mockingjaded]

Him and Katniss would have been dorm mates for a few months at this point.

Katniss is pretty off put by the fact that he's a robot. This is not something she's accustomed to.

SOLLUX CAPTOR

[nitrodamus]

SOLLUX CAPTOR "PROJECT GEMINI"
Sollux is a teenaged troll, and a very powerful psionic. In an effort to escape the tyranny of his home planet, he and a bunch of other trolls tried to escape to Earth together, but unfortunately things got fucked up and they were separated. Sollux crash landed in the ocean, and was capture by TRIDENT before anyone else even knew of his arrival. He's spent the last year in their clutches being rigorously experimented on and tortured, and is very messed up as a result. After he escaped, CONDOR took him in and helped to remove all of the mechanical implants they could, and at game start he will just be being moved to the Trailblazer dorms instead of being kept in a top secret cell.

He's traumatized as all fuck, barely speaks English, and has an irrational suspicion and hatred of humans. He's going to be mucking up the Trailblazer dorms real good. The only reason he is there is because Karkat lives there, and Karkat is one of the few people that actually speaks Alternian, and basically the only person he trusts. He's not an official registered Trailblazer or anything, TO BE CLEAR.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: If you're a CONDOR person involved in his rehabilitation, if you're a troll that may have known him on Alternia or during the escape, a TRIDENT person involved in his experimentation, or one of the Trailblazers that are being told "oh btw this unhinged alien is your new roomate, have fun."
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: Any of the above, but probably only other troll escapees or people from Alternia will know him in any context that isn't him being a fucked up medical patient.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Sollux has a lot of issues to work through, and is going to be trying to learn English and adapt to the Earthly way of life. He has a lot of development ahead of him.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing really!
ANYTHING ELSE: Sollux is super antisocial at the moment, but I am not! I am all about finding ways to force him out of his shell.

Re: SOLLUX CAPTOR

[metabee]

I can definitely see Metabee turning 'getting Sollux to talk' into some sort of long term challenge. I imagine it would be very frustrating for the both of them but Metabee is persistent and stubborn.

KARKAT VANTAS

[10thingsihateaboutme]

NO SUPERHERO CODENAME AGAIN but religious tradition refers to him among other things as 'the Awakener' and if it was up to him he would call himself something like REAPHOOK or IRONCLAW
Karkat is the heir of the Sufferer, essentially Troll Jesus, and as such is a political refugee from the tyrannical Alternian Empire. He has been in CONDOR custody since he was delivered to Earth by , because they don't want to wheel him out to lead their revolution while he is still a stubby teen, and they feel Earth is safer than space. CONDOR stuck Karkat with the West Coast Trailblazers because troll kids don't deal well with adults. Due to taking personal offence at the fact that he is surrounded by people with superpowers or INTENSE! combat abilities, Karkat has been training very hard since he's been with the Trailblazers, but he's still only a trainee rather than an active member.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You are a troll peace cultist (unlikely). LA denizens may have noticed him around if Alternians are a thing they notice, on account of they are not super common, but for the most part Karkat actively avoids other trolls because he's worried about how they'll react to his blood colour, which is showing in his irises by now.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You are one of the trolls who escaped with him, or a CONDOR agent who's been involved in dealing with him, or are a member of the West Coast Trailblazers – in which case Karkat lives in the dorms at your base, eating really ill advised food combinations that he seems to think taste good, watching romance films on Netflix in an effort to "understand Earth culture", and generally being kind of rude despite the fact that he most likely super cares about a whole bunch of you guys by now.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I really want Karkat to have some ill advised crushes on people, whether that's crushes to develop in the future or crushes he already has. If you are open to this being a thing please let me know. I don't care if it's unrequited, I'm not looking for actual ships here (although I'm not ruling that out, either), I just want to assume he has at least a couple of stupid crushes on his sort-of-teammates.
Also, I like to imagine that Karkat gets kidnapped slightly more than is average by, for example, people who want to lure the Trailblazers into some kind of trap, because being a small space alien with no powers makes him both conspicuous and easy to manhandle.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nope!
ANYTHING ELSE: Having been on Earth for a year, speaking almost exclusively to people who don't speak Alternian, Karkat's English is pretty decent by now, but it's not perfect, and there are still words he doesn't understand. It probably took a while for it to get to this point, though, so anybody who's known him since he got there will remember him being completely fucking awful at it, and furious about how awful at it he was, for months.

[mockingjaded]

WE GOTTA MAKE THIS HAPPEN. WE MAKING THIS HAPPEN.

If you want Karkat can have a stupid unrequited crush on Katniss, she has a history of that sort of thing.

SUN WUKONG

[monkeyseemonkeysmash]

SUN WUKONG
A superpowered monkey that fucked up one of the tiers of Heaven back in China and got stuck beneath Buddha's hand for thousands of years. He has no idea how to function normally in this modern society and mostly just lingers around doing vaguely heroic things because of a magical headband he was tricked into wearing.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You have contacts in Heaven/with gods. He caused a PRETTY big commotion back in the day, so there's still some mention of him as "that rascally monkey who crashed the peach party" being spoken about in some circles.
Also, his weapon, the Ruyi Jingu Bang, used to be a holy pillar holding up the ocean, so characters interested in archaic weapons may have heard of him.
Also there's probably some conspiracy blogs on him. Insert IKEA MONKEY joke here.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You have dealt with supernatural enemies, since that's the one's he's the most equipped to fight. If you met him, he would have probably had made fun of you for a bit before flying off. Peeps in CONDOR may also know him due to a previous containment attempt that...did not go well.
Also you may have met a smelly old zookeeper. That's him.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: RECRUIT FOR ALPHA FORCE RECRUIT FOR ALPHA FORCE RECRUIT FOR ALPHA FORCE PLOT PLEASE. Also if there's a Lawful Good willing to try to instill better morals in him, that would be hilarious.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Not sure if anyone would even CONSIDER romancing a monkey but...no.
ANYTHING ELSE: I apologize for the occasional toilet humor. Also, he doesn't understand guns or computers.

Re: SUN WUKONG

[spitemancer]

We have to get him and Amaterasu to meet again. And/or call the dinosaur thread canon?

[hangedmagician]

JUNPEI "IGNITION" IORI
The Trailblazers' resident ascended fanboy. Or one of them, perhaps. He's from a 'normal' (if … unpleasant) home, and has been fascinated by superheroes since he was a kid. If you're a big name in the hero business, he's likely followed your activities at some point.
He's a cocky, silly goofball, though one with a lot of hidden insecurities, but he does at least know when to be serious on missions.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF:
If you keep an eye on the up and coming superheroes, there's an off chance you might've spotted his codename: he's very new to the business, but he doesn't shy away from the limelight if he gets the chance. He just hasn't… had many chances yet. If you're in any way connected with the Trailblazers, too.
As far as his civilian life goes, he's pretty social around school, if that's even a thing that's relevant here (that's a point, what kind of schooling do these kids get?), and he plays MMOs: anyone up for Innocent Sin Online?
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: Mostly, if you're in the Trailblazers: he's been with the team for a few months. He lives at the dorms because a) from out of town b) BAAAAD home life. If you're a Trailblazer girl, he has probably dropped some kind of cheesy flirty line in your direction… don't worry, though, that's as far as he'll take it. Also, he was rescued by a super when he first tried to do the hero thing himself, who talked him into registering: who is this mysterious person? Any of you?
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I haven't really got any set plans for this boy. Just following my nose. Perhaps something that'll shake his view on what he's gotten himself into, but that's for the future...
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: I can't think of anything yet.
ANYTHING ELSE: He's a baseball fiend! He'd have joined a team at school if he thought he could get away with it. Anyone for a game? He's also likely to propose other chances to be social where he can.
Also, apologies for his cheeseball-ness. And possibly the state of the HQ kitchens on occasion.

[mockingjaded]

The cold shoulder Katniss gave his flirtations was probably so frigid his flame powers probably went out for like five minutes. It's probably been sort of awkward since then.

CYNTHIA PINE

[civilizedcombat]

CYNTHIA PINE, "FLOURISH"
Cynthia is a young woman who decided she wanted to become a superhero after her superhero mother MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED while on a mission. She's incredibly enthusiastic about being a superhero, and she already has all her cool moves and stylish catchphrases planned out. However, she's only a trainee with the West Coast Trailblazers, and she has very little field experience. Cynthia is friendly, positive, and energetic. She is also kind of ridiculous and often a bit clueless about things.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You are a member of the Trailblazers, or are someone who comes into their building every so often (like CONDOR people or something). Also, if you personally knew her mother, Sumia, before she MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED, you'd likely at least know of Cynthia. Cynthia doesn't have much of her own reputation yet, though.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You are a member of the Trailblazers (she's lived in the dorms for maybe two months), you are someone who comes into contact with the Trailblazers in their building, or you were a friend of Sumia's.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: In terms of like CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, I do want Cynthia to grow up more eventually, so I'd love for her to have SOMETHING LIKE...a misguided ridiculous rivalry with someone where at some point maybe they both get to learn more about each other and themselves and perhaps that comes with a reconsideration of their relationship. Like a ridiculous rivalry that is not going to be the exact same "I HATE YOU" forever, or something (idk if that's too specific? that is just something I have been bouncing around in my head). OTHER THAN THAT THOUGH there are not many things I have in mind, I'm really open to anything!
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: hmm nothing that I can think of
ANYTHING ELSE: She's really keen on pegasi. She draws them and tapes printed pictures of them onto her walls. She's got a large pegasus stuffed animal. (someone should be her pegasus buddy)

Re: CYNTHIA PINE

[monkeyseemonkeysmash]

Once they meet, Sun Wukong and Cynthia could potentially have a shitty rivalry? Or at least I don't think she'll take his teasing well.

Plus they both like horses.

[liberaition]

RIELLE "KIT" PEDDLER
20 year old technopath from Boston living in LA, likes to steal information (and money) from corporations and governments. Kit is really into transcending the physical form, and is in the process of replacing her entire body with robot parts. She's FAMOUS ON THE INTERNET for hacking etc. She is really REALLY REALLY excited about robots and cybernetics. seriously don't let her start talking about AIs and what it means to be human. Kit also dropped out of college after one semester and can't hold down a job to save her life. Whoops.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: Kit runs an anonymous blog called The Uplink where she blogs about stuff like freedom of information and net neutrality and censorship and corporate corruption and also occasionally robotics and transhumanism, she hecka famous in hacker/internet activist circles for doing stuff like releasing secret sourcecodes and exposing secret government files from like nine different countries and for generally being very good at hacking! her work has been mentioned on various news shows several times (LOOK AT THESE TERRIBLE UNPATRIOTIC-NATIONAL-SECURITY-COMPROMISING COMMUNIST HACKTIVISTS). News agencies and other hackers/activists/whatever usually refer to her as "Uplink," but she's never called herself that. She has a small fan following on the internet, and Kit can never decide whether she's flattered or a little creeped out. A lot of people think Uplink is a man, probably.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: you're from Boston or went to MIT, you're one of Kit's internet friends (mostly hackers and people who are obsessed with robots), you're part of the Silicon Valley or LA tech communities (Kit's worked for a lot of startups etc over the past few years as herself, Kit Peddler the CS/engineering genius. Nobody there would know about her cybercrime), you live in her apartment building, or IF YOU'RE A TECHNOPATH OR SIMILAR. actually please just contact me if you're a technopath or similar so we can jam OuO

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I am sssso super excited to build CR with other hackers and computer and robotics and cybernetics people. Kit is still working on replacing her body with cyborg parts, so that's... going to be part of her arc definitely, but I would love to have her get involved in some kind of company or organization, preferably something not TOO far to the side of good or bad - she's a criminal, but Kit's not an evil person. I would also really like to have her make some meatspace friends!!

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: nah, nothing specific!

ANYTHING ELSE: kit is extremely well meaning but not great at most things involving meatspace.

[nothinbut_therain]

I'm reading this, and all I can think about is Starbuck leaving mean comments or something on her blog entries. Which is not very good CR. She is vaguely terrified! Perhaps she tells CONDOR about Kit's Blog, and CONDOR is like, "friend, it's a blog... it's a post on the internet .... chill out.... also like seventy AIs work for us .... "

JON (SNOW) STARK

[hellacold]

JON STARK: LONGCLAW
overly serious legacy hero with a healing factor and weird hangups (also weird claw protusions), likes sad music and martial arts. Jon joined Trailblazers extremely recently and is on the active duty roster, but probably not one of the first people you might call in an emergency. he is currently attending UC Berkeley and can usually be found looking for a ride from San Francisco to LA. he's p outdoorsy and athletic and enjoys hiking etc. on the internet he spends most of his time researching more adventure vacations than he can possibly take, reading annoying serious music blogs, and stalking his siblings' Facebook photos.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: you are from Chicago, where is a sort of member of the official batfamily, you go to UC Berkeley, where he gained some notoriety by killing a bunch of zombies during freshman orientation, you follow Trailblazers news extremely closely
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: you are a member of the West Coast Trailblazers--he doesn't live in the dorms or at all nearby but he pops in and out whenever he can, you are from Chicago--particularly the north suburbs, you played high school hockey somewhere within traveling distance of Chicago, you go to UC Berkeley or live in the bay area, you are or know one of his siblings, you are a teleporter or fly a plane for the West Coast Trailblazers
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Jon needs to come out of his shell a lot, and he super needs to learn how to be more of a team player and stop taking everything so seriously. really any close CR would be great, he's never been on his own before and generally spent most of his life awkwardly doing whatever his brother did socially. he also has a habit of taking charge of things, especially training programs, if you are at all interested in learning western martial arts or ice skating he will probably want to teach you.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: I don't think there's anything??
ANYTHING ELSE: he has a REALLY COOL DOG I'm hoping to bring into the game soon!!! ask him about his dog he will show you a million pictures, he really misses his dog ok

Re: JON (SNOW) STARK

[10thingsihateaboutme]

Karkat is keen to learn fighting techniques from people but he's also super obnoxious and I don't know how willing to deal with that Jon would be, lmao

[feelmyflames]

FLAME PRINCESS
Just an orange girl, living in a significantly less orange world. She's the ruler of the Fire Kingdom, back in her own time, but said time is about 1,000 years in the future, so her status as royalty doesn't mean nearly as much present day. Beating up bad guys is more of her thing now. Well, that and adjusting to life on Earth. Substituting shopping malls for dungeon crawls is a new concept.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You're a CONDOR member that was involved in her assimilation to the present (re: lessons on what and what not to set on fire), you're a fellow Trailblazer, or you just so happen to follow the news on up-and-coming superheroes. She's been on the job for about 2 months, which isn't that long in the grand scheme of things, but her blazing appearance tends to leave an impression that her bold attitude and brass approach serve to reinforce. Which is fine by her, because she likes the attention.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: The Trailblazer thing, mostly. She spends a lot of her free time in the base near the fireplace. Burning logs is both comforting and functional, in terms of central heating. Activities that involve flames like roasting marshmallows and setting off fireworks are also welcomed for bonding purposes.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Learning to work on a team and slowing down, for one. Someone needs to shake this girl by the shoulders and tell her that strategy and timing are actual concepts that exist. In terms of CR, anyone who isn't off-put by fiery hair is cool in her book. Please teach her Human Culture. She will be happy to regale tales of rainicorns and candy people in return. She's also really, really destructive, so buddies who will train with her or tag along on exciting missions would be rad.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing off the top of my head.
ANYTHING ELSE: She has major daddy issues.

[hangedmagician]

Fellow Trailblazer fireball (if ... rather more literally so than he is), woo! :)

MILLY BAELHEIT: "STARBREAKER"

[bombsheltered]

MILLIARDE "MILLY" BAELHEIT/STARBREAKER
Outgoing, somewhat bossy, upbeat and aggressively friendly superhero with a DARK SECRET, and that secret is that she is a TRAGIC TEEN CYBORG. It's all very sad. She's really into being a superhero and kicking butt, and maybe a little bit of a thrillseeker. She's your standard Flying Brick type superhero and is unregistererd, although she has always sorta dreamed about joining the Trailblazers.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: Milly started doing the solo superhero thing about a year ago, so while she isn't famous by any means, you might have heard of her if you are also active in the superhero circuit, or if you saw her on TV punching villains once in a while. Since she's unregistered, she goes to moderate lengths to keep her civilian identity separate from her superhero identity, Starbreaker. She isn't on any teams but she's always open to a team-up, so someone might know her from a team-up with a more famous/popular hero.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: Outside of superheroics, Milly used to go to a pretty hoity-toity private school in LA, so if your character also went to a hoity-toity private school, they very well may know each other. She's 19 and graduated high school a year ago, so any generic TEEN HANGOUTS are places your character might have run into Milly. Also, her dad is a pretty well-known scientist with rumored past ties to TRIDENT, so if your character is likely to know Baelheit, it is reasonable that they might also know Milly.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I would definitely like Milly to join the Trailblazers in the future; she just needs a sufficient push to be convinced it's worth risking her CYBORG SECRET to register as a superhero. I'd also like her CYBORG SECRET to become public at some vague point in the future. I'm also super down for Milly to join some other team besides the Trailblazers if it happens that way, or else partner up with another superhero or two on a regular basis because Milly is all about TEAMS so that she can feel like she BELONGS.
I am also 110% down for superhero teen rom ants with Milly. The more awkward the better. I am also totally okay with one-sided rom ants or rom ants that does not otherwise pan out.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD if it comes up I'll mention it though.
ANYTHING ELSE: Milly's app is here if you want to know anything else about her, also please feel free to ask me anything if you have questions!!

Re: MILLY BAELHEIT: "STARBREAKER"

[superskater]

I have an awkward teen hero of the same age, who also is not a trailblazer? I could see them having run into each other while crime-fighting before and sort of having an unofficial teaming-up dynamic going on

JM is gay but if you want horrible awkward unrequited romance I'm game for playing that, he'd probably be very nice about it

Apollo Justice

[nomorepantiesplz]

APOLLO JUSTICE, AKA "AUGE"
Apollo tried to be a teen superhero when he was younger, screwed up and got some people killed, and then decided it sucked and he'd never do it again. Then he went on to become a lawyer, and these days mainly only interacts with the superhero community through his maintained login on The Watch, where he posts as Auge to join in on discussions and the like, even if his views are usually about how dangerous superheroing is and when will you damn teen heroes get off of everyone's lawns and focus on school like NORMAL KIDS.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You read the newspaper. Apollo's been the defense attorney in a total of five murder trials over the past year, so while none of it was front-page news his name was definitely in there at least a few times.
It's also possible to have heard of Auge, but never in conjunction with Apollo's real name. He last operated with that codename six years ago, didn't do anything noteworthy even then, and otherwise has only been using that name on The Watch network where he can safely be opinionated.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You're involved in law enforcement or the legal system in any capacity. You could have also been involved in one of Apollo's past cases, or even hired him for legal help (or to get a cat out of a tree or something, his law office is pretty loosely operated like that). I'll also accept college/law school/childhood friends.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I don't have any real plans for Apollo, but I'm up for almost anything! In particular, I'm totally open to his identity as Auge being discovered, though I'd prefer it to happen in a way that doesn't prevent him from posting on The Watch. I'm also not opposed to the idea of him actually getting involved with a team somehow, though be warned that he'll be a hard sell, and he's only a lowly D ranked power level in the first place. He's got a time slowing power that would be far more useful in conjunction with someone else that can do awesome things... and he can also sense when someone's lying, which could be used to uncover any dirty little secrets your characters have hidden, should you want to use it that way. Apollo's a little nosy in general, especially if he thinks the law's being broken.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nada.
ANYTHING ELSE: Despite being a lawyer, Apollo is actually not doing so great financially. It's A Thing for defense attorneys in general in his canon, but for this game it's a combination of some crushing student loans and being in a tiny law office instead of one of those big awesome ones.

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace

[nothinbut_therain]

Kara “Starbuck” Thrace
Quick rundown of her canon since in this instance she went thru all of it: People make robots, robots do not like people, there is a war and then a truce, it’s forty years later and now the robots are sexy teens, robots blow everything up, humans are like, “ : ( “

Starbuck’s spent her entire life in the military, most notably as a pilot. After the destruction of the 12 Colonies (the planets that held all of humanity), she’s one of the few military personnel left, and the Best Pilot. Things happen, she dies, she gets better, and now strange Powers that Be (think Green Lantern style Guardians, but snappier dressers) have decided to drop her off in the here-and-now. She works for CONDOR, because it’s the closest she can get to home, and she thinks college basketball is way better than pro ball, though both pale in comparison to the Sports she played back in the day.

Short version: cocky, sometimes abrasive, often surprisingly upbeat in the face of terrible odds, was born 100,000 years ago. She’s been in LA for six months now, and still thinks the fact that cards on Earth are rectangles is weird.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You work with or for CONDOR, potentially if you’re a Trailblazer, you fly jets, you are into conspiracy theories about ancient astronauts and DNA and shit.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You do stuff for CONDOR on the less flashy more blow-shit-up side of things. Is that a side CONDOR has? If you unflashily blow things up, and also if you can fly a plane. She is also sometimes talkative on the internet, but not generally in places where the public has full access. I sort of want to have Starbuck be one of the people who goes and checks on the Trailblazers once in a while to make sure they’re playing nice, because a. it is hilarious 2 me b. she, in the past, worked as a flight instructor, and I think it would be kind of cool to explore that some more.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I started flailing my hands a little when I saw how many robots/cyborgs/AIs were in the game so far, because I would really like to get her into some CR with some Mechanical Friends. I don’t plan on Starbuck being as immediately hostile towards anybody robot-y as she is at the beginning of her canon (I mean, she does marry a robot and stuff I guess technically? cylons.) But still, she’s got a certain amount of healthy (“healthy” in heavy air quotes) paranoia about AIs and transhumanism and giving robots guns. I really want to do Character Arc things with Starbuck where she, again, is struggling with her ~destiny~, and why she was put in this time and place specifically, as well as her trying to move on from the life she used to have.

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: The Rom Ants. Starbuck’s husband died six months ago (or 100,000 years ago), and she’s got a pretty shitty romantic history, so I want to steer away from that, at least for now.

ANYTHING ELSE: She is a Sports, and not a very good poet.

Re: Kara "Starbuck" Thrace

[metabee]

I could totally see Starbuck as one of the CONDOR agents assigned to keep tabs on Metabee, especially if she is cynical of AIs, if that's something you would be interested in. Especially if she is a Trailblazer liaison.

Jean-Michel Delorme aka "Patina"

[superskater]

CHARACTER NAME/ALIAS IF APPLICABLE Jean-Michel Delorme/Patina
Jean-Michel is a competitive figure skater and a youthful hero! He is also a relatively recent (within the past year) transplant from the frozen wastes of central Canada, so not very plugged in to the LA Social Scene, as it were.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: As a hero, he's done some mid-profile work. He's not a big name but if someone pays attention to the antics of Teen Heroes he's probably known to them, especially since (~~gossip alert~~) he was until recently in a relationship with another Dreamy Teen Hero Lad (which one? IT COULD BE YOU). As a skater, only if you pay weird obsessive attention to Junior-level competitive skating for countries not your own. Which I do, but I'm not normal.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If you are a TEEN HERO! He's a friendly guy. He likes friends. Alternatively, if you are the sort of person who hangs out at ice rinks. Not necessarily a figure skater yourself, but possibly a Hockey or just someone who likes skating recreationally.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Jean-Michel needs an ex! Who he broke up with because while out of costume he has to stay closeted (figure skating is actually pretty conservative gender-norms wise? An out figure skater who doesn't already have a well-established career certainly isn't going to GET one). So if you're playing a queer dude in his late teens, consider that possibility. Other than that I'm looking for general CR and in particular someone to help JM learn his way around, both literally in terms of the city's geography and more metaphorically, in terms of helping him get used to the whole Heroing Business.

He's also gonna be really strenuously opposed to his civilian identity being linked to his hero one, again because as a hero he feels he can be out and open about being gay and as a civilian he can't. So if you're the sort of person who likes UNMASKING HEROES...
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: ennnhhh i dunno. I will inform people if/when something becomes an issue, but there's nothing unilaterally off the table.
ANYTHING ELSE: It's okay if you know jack shit about figure skating. I will teach you anything necessary. I will teach you far more than is necessary. I cannot be stopped.

Re: Jean-Michel Delorme aka "Patina"

[superskater]

yo also if you do icons by commission i might...talk to you about that once i get my next month disability money (which should be the 31st), because right now i have nothing

JAKE ENGLISH / "GOLGOTHA"

[tallyhope]

Jake English, alias Golgotha

Was pretty much your average superhero-idolizing kid until he developed powers of his own. Actually a reality warper; doesn't know this. Not a member of any teams or organizations.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: He's not very well-known as a hero but he HAS beaten up a few muggers so hey maybe you've seen him around. Alternatively his online alias golgothasTerror is well-known on IMDB for writing scathing, barely-legible diatribes against anyone who dares to insult the CH-verse equivalent of James Cameron's Avatar.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: He's a high school student so there's that. Or maybe you have run into him while he was superheroing!
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: Eventually I am interested in having him possibly join a team, maybe the Trailblazers, although for now Jake is not interested because he is a dork. Other than that I am pretty open to friendships, partnerships, rivalries, or whatever!
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Can't think of anything!
ANYTHING ELSE: If your hero (or villain even) is skull themed Jake probably thinks they are SO COOL.

NAGISA HAZUKI

[chrysocome]

NAGISA HAZUKI: ROCKHOPPER
A short 16-year-old Japanese kid who has a worrying tendency to get what he wants (that's his power). His ideas always mysteriously sound like really good ideas. He lives by himself in some quiet residential neighbourhood of LA and is attending high school! He's a fairly talented swimmer and is a member of the swim club.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You grew up with him or you attend the same school and you've seen him around. (Or if you keep an eye on the high school swim circuit for... some reason.) Due to the incredibly illegal stuff he's pulled, he's made efforts to stay as unknown as possible--though he just got hooked up to The Watch, so that could easily change very quickly.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: Again, if you grew up with him or if you go to school together! Or maybe they're neighbours in the same apartment building? He's only been in LA for two months, so there hasn't been much of an opportunity for ~meaningful~ connections yet, though.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: He really badly wants to start his own superhero team, so if you're an unregistered superpowered punk, come to me. Otherwise, my goals with Nagisa are fairly standard--I want him to work on refining his powers, and in the process learn to develop close friendships again. ALTERNATIVELY, I feel like he could be somewhat easily manipulated into working for a villainous team. He doesn't have a malicious bone in his body, but he'd definitely be an easy target for anyone who happens to need a kid who can charm his way with civilians into nearly anything.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: Nothing I can really think of! If you're aiming for negative CR though, I guess please try to talk to me one-on-one about it in detail since it'd be brand new territory for me.
ANYTHING ELSE: I mentioned it on that other post, but I have a permissions post set up due to the nature of his ability. If you intend on having CR with him, it would help a lot if you could look at it! Thank you.

Re: NAGISA HAZUKI

[purrsuit]

hi nagisa

be my friend

[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: You follow superhero news. Legion's been making some waves, being a fairly competent A-level superhero occasionally involved in major CONDOR operations. If you follow tech circles, they're a much bigger deal, as a rare example of functioning distributed intelligence.

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 keeps away from lower-level stuff. CONDOR's afraid they're 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.

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

ANYTHING ELSE: nothing much

[monkeyseemonkeysmash]

This semi-organic life form would love to be a bad influence on Legion. I don't think Sun Wukong follows many laws of physics to begin with, so feel free to punch him.

DR. JULIUS BAELHEIT

[baelhat]

JULIUS BAELHEIT
A brilliant scientist in the field of cybernetics; he has made a lot of advancements in the field and personally pioneered his own implant technology (using his daughter Milly as an ill-fated but sadly necessary test subject). He worked for TRIDENT up until about 12 years ago, where he and his wife Madelynn, a geneticist, worked together doing morally questionable experiments on orphans until a Tragic Accident killed Madelynn and severely injured Milly. After that he left TRIDENT (and pretty well covered up any hard evidence of his previous association with them) to continue his research on his own. He's about to launch a political campaign for senatorial office that will push cybernetic implants for everyday civilians and make them more widely available. He currently heads his own private R&D firm, Mintaka Industries.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: Plenty of rumors abound regarding Baelheit's past ties to TRIDENT (although no one has ever been able to prove them), but he's also a pretty big name in cybernetics and general R&D tech right now. Mintaka Industries produces all kinds of neat gadgets, from shield generators to sonic pistols, so he's got a bit of a brand attached to his name. You may also have heard of him regarding his newly announced intention to run for Senator of California.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: If your character worked for TRIDENT 12+ years ago, OR if your character was an unfortunate test subject around that time frame. Alternatively, if your character is big in the Science World, as Baelheit is fairly well-known in that field, or if they're a wealthy type who funds that sort of thing. He isn't terribly social, and doesn't really have much in the way of "friends", but he has plenty of colleagues.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I'm really looking forward to doing his big political campaign, as well as having him undergo some serious character development that makes him examine his actions and motivations. I am 110% behind his ugly past coming back to haunt him in the form of former TRIDENT colleagues or ex-subjects, so if your character has a vague "was experimented on as a child" backstory that needs some specifics, feel free to have had Baelheit be That Guy, and if we need to hammer out details for that let me know. I'd also like him to actually learn to make friends and/or have some sort of romance thing happen since he's been pining after his dead wife for over a decade.
I am definitely looking for SCIENCE CR. Fellow scientists and/or other characters who might further his research (especially robotic/synthetic type characters; he'd be very much interested in studying those types for his cybernetics research). I am open to a lot of things so if you have any ideas HMU :D
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ATM
ANYTHING ELSE: I'LL LET U KNOW hit me up pals i'm so down

[liberaition]

chinhands.

i heard you have cybernetics.

NESSA LLEWELLYN (Nepeta Leijon) "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: Nothing really! I'm up for pretty much ANYTHING. Though breaking her this early on isn't ideal.
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.

[hugling]

so how would you feel about the world's most adorable teamup.

[usedhammerarm]

AMANDA CAROLI
An Alternian troll who defected from the Empire in the 1996 invasion and has been living on Earth since then. She really likes whatever the thinly veiled analogue for Pokemon is in this universe and hates humanity a little more than she lets on, but will still probably fight for them if necessary.

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF:
• You saw the Japanese news coverage of her "sudden appearance" at an Akihabara video game store in 2002, where her status as a political refugee since 1997 was revealed
• You saw the news coverage of her arrival at LAX in 2005, which accused her of being an Alternian spy and mentioned her year-long detainment sentence
• You cared at all about professional Not-Pokemon tournaments in 2009, when she was kicked out of the local primaries in LA; in 2010, when she made it to nationals but was kicked out for similar BS bureaucratic reasons; or (most likely) in 2011, when she won the world championship
• You follow her on Twitter or read her Reddit AMA, both of which came into existence shortly after her victory at Worlds

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF:
• You patronized a certain video game store in Akihabara, Tokyo between 2002 and 2005
• You lived in Little Tokyo, LA at any point after 2006
• You competed against her in either of the two years she was allowed to compete in at least one stage of the Not-Pokemon World Championships

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I've written a good deal of microaggressions and discrimination into Amanda's backstory (or rather, the mods have done it into the universe's backstory), so I'm totally down with negative CR if your character's got a reason to hate trolls and/or girls. I'm honestly 50/50 on whether I want Amanda to fall on the hero or villain side of things, so if anyone's willing to drop some shades of grey on her (metaphorically or otherwise), that would be super cool for her development, I think.

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: FIRE AWAY

ANYTHING ELSE: Amanda's primary Earth language is Japanese, so if your character met her in America between 2006 and mid-2007, they'll probably remember her as "that weird Japanese-speaking troll" instead of anybody who could reliably hold a conversation in English.

[10thingsihateaboutme]

Karkat is almost definitely aware of her in like an internet capacity and he may have like tweeted at her once or twice or something but he actively avoids drawing any meatspace attention from other trolls even though he likes noticing them doing stuff

[hugling]

TEDDY ALTMAN | HULKLING
Alien hybrid unregistered teen hero who is incredibly unhappy about being Space Jesus. He's unreasonably friendly! He likes hugs!

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: you follow the TEEN HERO NEWS in LA, Hulkling has been heroing for about ten months now. He's also been on the regular news a couple times, mostly for good things. Sometimes they get his name right. He was also rumored to be involved with that whole 3 hour long alien battle in the middle of LA, though it's unconfirmed. Also, if you follow high school basketball closely I guess? Teddy played for his school's moderately successful team before he was kicked off for being superstrong.

YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You go to his public high school, live in his apartment building, or go the bakery/cafe he works at. OR if you are a superhero. Teddy has teamed up with various people around LA, so if you want to assume CR there just give me a heads up! If you were involved in that mini Kree/Skrull battle a few months back you might know that it was over Teddy.

PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: FRIENDS. Teddy needs friends SO BAD. Ideally I would love to get him on some kind of super team!

THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: nnnaaah I'm game for whatever.

ANYTHING ELSE: he's a giant sweetheart ok.

[chrysocome]

TEDDY

can we go to the same school

(alternatively, nagisa is probably a very frequent customer at the bakery he loves his sweet breads)