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PRE GAME CR MEME!

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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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.

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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.

Edited 2014-01-18 22:18 (UTC)

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.

good lord he totally does

They probably combat train and stuff while being all determined and fierce.

But then Katniss just painstakingly tried to tolerate the romcoms and never wants to talk about the boys. Or girls, even.

the combat training is enough
for his stupid crush
he is so intense about combat training but like even more so out of trying to impress her

she's already basically a troll, really.

Junpei's probably TRIED to watch the movies Karkat's put on, just out of sheer 'trying to be a bro'. But damn, dude, he can't get his head around it.

He appreciates that you tried, Junpei. That goes a long way in a buddy.

Karkat just insists that it's no wonder this stuff's not for him, Earth movies are of course way inferior to Alternian ones...

Please don't make this another quadrant talk, man. Please. He's just fine sticking with flushed.

please don't let flora get her hands on him

(please do)

ha ha oh god what would she do about Gross Space Teens

Edited 2014-01-19 08:16 (UTC)

try to fix them.

:)

oh

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i am definitely open to karkat having a ridiculous crush on cynthia, if she is his ridiculous crush type

and idk how secret he keeps his romance movie watching, but if she's ever caught him, she has totally offered to watch one with him because she LOVES romance movies

its not secret at all, he probably does it in the common area and demands people's assistance in explaining what is going on

if she loves romance movies he loves her

hahaha karkat....cynthia will explain the intricacies of human courtship but she requires an explanation of alien courtship in return (she doesn't know what she's getting into)

she probably thinks at first that he is just a grumpy and rude space alien but then she finds out that he has really good taste in movies and he is actually pleasant to be around sometimes. WHO WOULD HAVE KNOWN

CYNTHIA YOU ARE GETTING THE EXPLANATION OF ALIEN COURTSHIP OF YOUR LIFE

especially since Cynthia's a relatively recent addition to the team, so he won't even struggle with English that much while explaining it to her

he'll just

keep talking

for ever

she... probs is his ridiculous crush type tho lmao. especially if they've got in an argument or two despite generally getting on, because that's... how karkat do... which I can see having happened, since they're both pretty stubborn and karkat is prone to saying casually derisive stuff about human cultural values (although a bit less so than he was when he first arrived..)

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Metabee has probably invited himself to many of Karkat's "understanding humans" activities and is very vocal about his opinions on things like Karkat's movie preferences and such. I imagine giving Karkat a hard time is a favorite pastime.

ahaha oh man yes Karkat is extremely easy to rile up, he would spend so much of his time yelling at Metabee

harry i want CR with everyone. EVERYONE. but especially milly and karkat.

especially ill-advised crushes.

i'm planning on having milly join the trailblazers at some point and i'm down for CR that leads her in that direction too, SO,

karkats so down for an awful crush on milly good lord

i cant hold all these awful crushes

yes. yes. yes

reluctant space jesus club

Danny and Karkat are probably Vitriolic Acquaintances by this point. Danny has little to no issue with Alternians, but if Karkat still wears Cancer-symbol t-shirts, Danny would've made crab puns by now, since he's an astronomy geek.

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