Potential CR Planning/ATP: August 2015

[undergroundmods]

Potential CR Planning

Thinking of joining the Underground? Come tell us all about it. This post is for prospective players to discuss their characters' AU backgrounds with canonmates and other characters, and to establish pre-existing CR (character relations). The aim is to help you figure out what to write in the background section of your application and to give you a starting point for building CR when you join the game.

You can use this post to:

• Share your ideas on how you'd like to adapt your character's background to the game.
• Ask questions and request feedback on your AU plans.
• Discuss potential shared history with canonmates and build in cross-canon CR.

Please note that nothing discussed here is guaranteed, since not all prospective players will submit an app or be accepted into the game, while others will app without having commented to this post. After the next round of applications have been processed, there will be a follow-up CR planning post for accepted players to confirm initial plans, make changes, and look for new CR.

This post is intended to be an open discussion between current and prospective players, but I'm happy to answer any mod questions you might have too. Our next test drive is due to be posted tomorrow, Saturday 29th August, so look out for that!

For current players
Are there any characters that you'd love to see in the game? Post your requests here! I'll add them to the ATP advert, and who knows, they might inspire someone...

Comments

Nepeta Leijon | Homestuck | Hillingdon shapeshifter

[tacklepounce]

hhOKAY this one is just to gauge interest I swear I am not trying to encourage a cast flood here

Rona (ochrona) again, presenting the Giles-antithesis known as Nepeta Leijon.

Personality | Playful, delights over bad puns, cheerfully brutal in her love of hunting, paints with the blood of her kills. Snoops in everyone's love life.

Canon Background | Raised by a literal cat; half-feral kid hunting monsters in the forest; friendly with everyone; ships her friends together. Chat-roleplays as a cat, disregards all mockery. Relies on [soulmate] to keep her from flinging herself at trouble.

AU Background | Raised by a sometimes-literal cat; half-feral kid hunting vampires and fae in rural areas; trusts no one but tries to get along with everyone. Except fae and vampires. Spends about half her time as a mountain lion, to the point of nearly being seen by humans. Wears a pelt alongside normal clothing, since unlike clothing it transforms with her. Prrrobably half of Hillingdon has seen her wearing nothing but that and it covers no relevant areas.

Loves adventure and exploring; completely disregards faction borders.

Looking for | People to keep her out of trouble; friends to invite her on adventures; friends to get stuck on her adventures, which probably end in blood; people whose romantic lives she can snoop in; people who are deeply exasperated by her but she just keeps coming; friends to play pretend/explore/be animals with. Enemies to hiss and glare at. Literally everything.

[beleague_red]

i dont even go here (much) but OOOH MY GOOOODDDD

[watchher]

YYESSS who doesn't want a slightly feral hunter girl crushing on them. Beautiful

[beleague_red]

always here to sigh and awkwardly side step, this is a good

nep is my all time fav and im so glad youve got her as a crazy cat lady wearing an animal pelt

truly, what could be better

[watchher]

also wow I apologize that was the wrong account and the wrong icon

in theory I should start with Giles and not app her right now but it is very tempting oh man

[beleague_red]

in theory you say
i'm not here to tempt you, but... tempt. tempt.


no no no, i kid really. if we manage to app this cycle we'll probably be here for a while, there's no rush! but i would love to tdm with you sometime!

[tacklepounce]

that is some very good tempting I can't lie

I'll absolutely toss her on the TDM sometime today or tomorrow!

[beleague_red]

NICE.
i finally got around to writing my own tdm post today, which is here, if you're interested! /o/

[tacklepounce]

okay so "today or tomorrow" was overly hopeful but I'm on it. have a Giles, too.

also: I might have skimmed your app while picking at my own, and seen that you want a Daybreak mentor, potentially. I have a guy who adopts shitty teenagers. you have a shitty teenager. it could be beautiful.

[beleague_red]

YOU DID? god it looks and contains so much awful currently, i'm so sorry about that. it's a big work in progress spread across like four entries.
but oh my god that could be beautiful. karkat is a very shitty brand of shitty teenager. (/*u*\)

[tacklepounce]

NO WORRIES MAN I was just honestly curious how everyone else is doing things like birthdays and parents, I didn't give it a proper read your wips are safe with me.

yes indeed he is, I don't know if you're familiar with Buffy at all but Giles is basically Accidental Dad to a band of variously difficult people. he has literally parented worse. they can not talk about feelings together and be stupidly heroic in bad situations and Giles will just roll his eyes at most of Karkat's life but never actually leave, it'll be great.

you can even convince him to unironically watch terrible movies if he's really, really bored.

[megidoomed]

brace yourselves, homestuck is coming

If you do end up bringing the Nepster in - adventure buddies? Bad pun buddies? Both? :D

[watchher]

Absolutely 100% both of these things, they were good adventure buddy friends before she died and now Nepeta just cheerfully drops by in Midnight territory to hang out with her ghost self. Good friendship A+

[megidoomed]

Yessss I approve of everything in this post. Especially since Aradia's Haunt is actually stuck in Fae territory right now - so hey, Nepeta'd get to hunt and play, all on the same trip. Win/win.

[phonophilia]

/bursts down door
/puts door back into place
/continues to vibrate excitedly

Dave can know her! Since the latest update I last checked in on, I totally see them as being friends. He's going to be part of the hillingdon clan so he's probably the half that's seen her and seen her.

[watchher]

oohhhh my god I FORGOT about Recent Updates. Now we really need this cr. He can be her best badass hunter bro and they can just feed into each other's terrible decisions and also he will see things he has presumably never seen before.

[phonophilia]

How can you forget such beauty. They were purrfectly willing to spit out some sickbeasts. Purrfectly willing.

Dave goes out of his way to be a super shitty hunter but for her? Just for her, he's willing to actually be competent so they can kick ass and chew bubblegum. I'm so excited for this because just

She can show him the world
Furry, glittering, and daaaangerous.

Come on Dave
Get your ass outside
Nepeta has a plan for a wild ride.

A whole new Londoooooon
A dangerous place they've always known
But they're boooooth bros
They're ready for the show
Nepeta holy shit don't transform here the magical girl popo are nearby

[tacklepounce]

okay so that delay was a brief hiatus and I have to apologize

for not immediately making clear that this is the best comment I've ever received

I'm tossing her on the TDM and it is 100% your fault, I need this in my life.

[phonophilia]

This is what happens when I play Dave. This is what happens.

!!!! oh Goood please toss her on the TMD if you do and if you can! I'll tag that faster than the fastest tagger alive during a life-and-death match of tag, trust me.

[hemomorphic]

Would you like a friend who is constantly throwing clothes at you and getting flustered at all that nudity?

[tacklepounce]

YES ABSOLUTELY she thinks this is dumb she clearly just got done being a cat what's the big deal!!

She'll definitely need sensible friends.