handwave / cr workshop meme

[finalbows]

Hi, Austice!! We've been running a while and haven't done one of these, iirc, so I figured it'd be a good time now that we're at the halfway mark!

hopefully this isn't too redundant considering we do plotting posts, but idk, i like the idea of explicitly setting out for handwaving and the mindset that puts me in.

I for one know there's characters I would love to have more scenes with where the wiles of time and circumstance haven't really played ball with getting threads done, so this would be super helpful for me, at least. Everyone's living in the same small town, after all!

Outline information they may have learned about each other, and dynamics we'd like to handwave our characters having built where threads might not have let us get it down yet! Get past sticking points in your CR, or identify standing emotional notes you're excited to sit down and thread -- idk just. vibes. go with the vibes.

here's a lil form to get started if you want a form. i like forms.


<b>PLAYER:</b> it's you! <b>CHARACTER(S):</b> who you play <b>RESIDENCE:</b> where they livin <b>SURFACE LEVEL INFO:</b> stuff that's really obvious just living in helltown with them. <b>DAY-TO-DAY:</b> we can identify who might commonly run into each other~ <b>HOBBIES:</b> stuff that could be easy to bond over!! <b>PLANS & SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:</b> give us the wishlist!!! <b>ANYTHING ELSE:</b> whatever didn't fit elsewhere.

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[eidxiety]

PLAYER: Wolfie / wolfchan
CHARACTER(S): Ain
RESIDENCE: Datura - sharing an apartment space with Add!
SURFACE LEVEL INFO: The man has 0 fashion sense. Has absolutely zero social skills as well. Also, fond of people-watching. You would think this improves his social skills. Trust me when I say it does not.
DAY-TO-DAY: He's normally investigating something (the forest, the markets, somewhere else in town??) and sometimes can be seen at the train station crystal just. Staring at it. Don't worry about this.
HOBBIES: Other than adventuring and combat, he's taken up cooking (trying to, anyway) to try to keep Add fed. Unfortunately he is very bad at this, but he's making an Attempt.
PLANS & SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I'm new so! Not too many plans, but since Ain has healing magic I always crave him being the local mom friend and taking care of people. Also someone please help him learn emotions. He hasn't figured those out yet, it's hard. He's got like three of them down solidly and the rest are just ?? they're there but what do you call them. SOS.
ANYTHING ELSE:

[finalbows]

PLAYER: Zazo / matchre on plurk
CHARACTER(S): Kuja & Qiqi

RESIDENCE: Kuja has a formerly abandoned, two-story house with a bright red door. Qiqi has no permanent residence, and leaves her things either in communal residence hall areas, or at Taibani's house.

SURFACE LEVEL INFO: Kuja is the actual tallest person in town by far, and often floats instead of walking. He's always extremely well put-together unless otherwise noted, and is best described as 'some kind of evil wizard furry.' At least he's pretty. The easiest thing to know about him is he is very vain, _{and doesn't wear pants,} but also compared to the past he's very... subdued... now. The vaguely manic edge is gone.

Qiqi is a small jiangshi girl, and has some days where she's a bit stiff and struggles to move. She is forgetful, calm, and sedate. She is very self-sufficient. And has a sword.

Both of them Talk Funny. Kuja's always speaking in chiming sing-song, and Qiqi is very... airy... monotone... and... deliberative.

DAY-TO-DAY: Qiqi has an extremely rigorous daily routine. Pick up Anya from home. Exercises in the morning. Say bye to Anya unless they're going to play together that day. Herb hunting and preparation. Exercises in the evening. Re-reading her notebook. Repeat.

Kuja is generally quite restless right now, and has started going out more now that his powers have almost completely returned _{(like one more week, he's back up to par)}. He'll often linger quietly in public venues like the bakery-turned-tavern, though he doesn't really go around the residence halls. He hasn't quite resumed his usual rooftop-creeping habits yet, but like, give it a couple weeks and he's back to that. He drops in at Yuri's house often, and spends some time in his horrible sciencecrimes lab occasionally though his heart just isn't in it nowadays.

HOBBIES: Qiqi likes identifying plants, making medicine, and generally any silly little thing you can think to do with flowers. She also likes playing, because she is a child.

Kuja is obsessed with pretty much all artistic pursuits, but he has basically no talent for any of them. _{If you sing or play music loud enough, without fail he sidles up like a stray cat and listens. It's like casting a spell of Summon Kuja.} also fucking nerd likes the library.

PLANS & SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Kuja's in a place where he's primed to be less aggravatingly cavalier to people, and is a lot more open to being.. like.. emotionally invested in life here. Last month he got everyone's inner worlds beamed into his brain due to causing the memshare, so he knows about a lot of characters' big emotional moments that were shared then, unless you'd like to note 'nah I'd rather he didn't see that;' I pulled from open memories for him for everyone who got involved basically.

I want him to interact with the Nest at large more, to make his shift in character more obvious, and in general I want to deepen his connections with people & figure out what the vibe is for folks I haven't been able to keep up threading with.

I want Qiqi to do hijinks and be helpful in her own meandering way. She's not a high impact character usually but I love her anyway. Anyone who wants to know Qiqi as the absolute character about town that she is I welcome with open arms.

ANYTHING ELSE: i have.. so many.. backtags... if there's any standing threads between us you wanna have a conclusion for come at me let's figure something out and whether we wanna finish it out or handwave

[hanikamu]

PLAYER: Yana
CHARACTER(S): Rinne Amagi
RESIDENCE: Poppy Hall, with Niki Shiina and Nazuna Nito

SURFACE LEVEL INFO: If you hear Hiiro Amagi yelling "I LOVE YOU NII-SAN" at Poppy Hall every morning, Rinne's the guy who yells "QUIT IT, STUPID" back. He's loud and vulgar in places where there are a lot of people, and surprisingly sweet in places where there are a lot of kids. He's very friendly and social! Confident, but not stuck up. He does not bother to make himself sound likable, though.

He is prone to inserting himself in groups that look fun or interesting. It doesn't matter if he wasn't invited. Let him hang out with you.

He has a good sense of fashion that shows off his rebellious streak. He's a ripped jeans kind of guy. He has piercings and wears a lot of rings.

DAY-TO-DAY: Since it's unavoidable in Helltown, he and Hiiro spar every morning. They are both surprisingly good at martial arts. Rinne is the better one, especially at dodging and parrying, though he doesn't like showing his skills off. You're not likely to witness this unless you're up early.

Around lunchtime, all the idols gather at their house because Niki's cooking, so Rinne's there early, being generally useless like "Niki, make me a sandwich!" and "Niki, give me food (to barter with)!". Niki never seriously shoos him away, though.

In the afternoon, he goes "Gyahahaha! I'm gonna go uptown and fuck shit up!", but he's actually either at a random trade school or at the library, reading books. He loves learning. He also loves a good story. He hides in a corner so no one can find him.

At night, he's at the bar, drinking and performing. He can play the guitar.

HOBBIES: singing and dancing are obvious since he's an idol, but he also likes arts and crafts. he can make you a mug or something. he made a mahjong set for himself that i've never brought up because idk how to play mahjong, and he's helped tsukasa make a chess set.

on that note, he likes games! he likes any sort of game. arm wrestling? yeah. chess? yeah. poker? fuck yeah. he usually has game nights at his place every friday, but i assume it's just him and niki and sometimes nazuna in the yard playing mahjong with a random fourth player for the nth time. if your character would get in on this, please let me know! and feel free to assume they're poker/mahjong/whatever buddies.

PLANS & SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:
- He's checking out the school with Niki this month.
- He's been too good and pensive. I know he did all that in Hot or Not, but Hiiro made him delete the pic so he needs to be terrible again.
- I want to write him learning/playing a trading card game please. He'd be serious about learning it, and he'd be seriously obnoxious while playing it. He'd be a Yu-Gi-Oh villain.
- I wanna see him watch someone die. Make him see what it feels like.
- Shopping for accessories... Making accessories. Let him make a studded collar. It'll be fun.
- Rinne suddenly, randomly joining two people because he feels lonely/left out.
- I just want him to be obnoxious and annoying while making it fun for everybody. This is not his actual personality. He does it on purpose. Help me annoy you on purpose.

ANYTHING ELSE: I left my memes at home.

[worldbent]

PLAYER: Kit
CHARACTER(S): Matoba Seiji
RESIDENCE: he stole a cottage
SURFACE LEVEL INFO: Creepy exorcist weirdo that won't mind his business and is perfectly fine casually whipping out a dagger. Hates non-humans. He takes his job seriously even though he always has the same extremely offputting smile. His right eye is covered by a weird looking spellpaper. By the way he's only 22 which apparently shocked some people so HEY
DAY-TO-DAY: He just wanders around stalking people and bothering people tbh. Think about how sad his life is now that he doesn't have his clan to manage.

HOBBIES:

• Archery
• Speaking in riddles specifically to piss you off
• Murdering demons/spirits
• Eating dozens of sweets at a time like a fatass
• Cats. Why won't you let him hug every cat

PLANS & SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

• What if one day you just found Matoba eating an ice cream cone in a sweatsuit, because that's actually his True Form (I need to regain his sweats)
• He has a curse that tries to steal his right eye once a month so be on the lookout for that!!
• He secretly RESENTS THE IDOLS because his stupid ex-not-ex is a famous romance actor/idol who is WASTING his NOBLE BLOODLINE'S EXORCISM TALENT!!!!! more people should find out about this


ANYTHING ELSE:
I've been really sick for the last week so apologies for memshare stuff that got left by the wayside!

[umurice]

PLAYER: March
CHARACTER(S): Hiiro Amagi
RESIDENCE: Poppy Hall with Tsukasa/Kohaku/Leo/Mayoi/Tatsumi... don't worry about it they fit
SURFACE LEVEL INFO:
- Poppy hall rooster. Always calling out 'I love you, nii-san!!' before the sun rises.
- Exercises every morning. If he's not running around, he can be found doing calisthenics, something similar to parkour, and also regular martial arts training. It's not any identifiable form because it's their village special: Amaterasu Ookami Ken.
- Cheerful and friendly! He is a little less cheerful these days, but he's recovering from heartache of losing many friends, especially one friend in particular.
- He will probably approach any new face easily and will talk to them, so not a lot of reason is needed to make contact.
- He's average sports anime height, so 174cm.
- He tends to wear loose shirts and comfortable pants, also rubber shoes.
- Often seen moving around. His favorite spots seem to be the forest, the lake, and the library.
- Often seen talking to the locals and befriending them.
- When talking to him, it's obvious how much he doesn't know, like he was very sheltered and doesn't know twitter exists.

DAY-TO-DAY:
Before the sun rises:
- Early morning exercises
- "I LOVE YOU, NII-SAN!"
- Going to the forest to disable his traps, sometimes might still hunt

Morning:
- Probably Alkaloid song and dance practice (need to confirm)
- Cleaning old traps
- Making new arrows
- Cleaning up around the house (they have no blood rain stains anymore)
- Eating breakfast
- Visiting the local market to bring home things for lunch

Afternoon:
- Can be found at the library or lake
- Can also be found practicing old dance moves while singing any of the Alkaloid songs, but somewhere less crowded
- Possibly napping somewhere
- All other things he needs to do

HOBBIES:
Please spar with him. He loves sparring. He loves surprise attacks. He also loves exercising, singing, dancing, listening to stories, hugging his friends, learning new things, etc etc. He will do anything, because he's a bit of a sheltered guy.

PLANS & SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Honestly just tell me "I want to play with Hiiro" and I will throw him at you. I'll figure it out.
ANYTHING ELSE:

[selfloveable]

PLAYER: Bella
CHARACTER(S): Arashi Narukami
RESIDENCE: With the facetwins (HiMERU and Kaname)

SURFACE LEVEL INFO: She's extremely obviously a social butterfly—she's out and about everywhere from late morning to early evening, shopping and chatting and doing just about anything... Very beautiful and obviously takes care of herself, very fashionable, speaks in a fairly feminine way normally. Could be mistaken as a very pretty boy until she opens her mouth and dispels that immediately. She's definitely keeping too many secrets right now and she's lowkey dying about it but she's really good at hiding it. Big smiles, everyone.
DAY-TO-DAY: As mentioned above, she's basically everywhere all of the time. If you want to skip the first meeting stuff and just already have them already be acquaintances at minimum, go ahead and assume they've met! She never hesitates to chat people up, especially if they're on their own. She'll always introduce herself as Arashi Narukami, then offer a choice of three nicknames they can call her instead if they want: Naruko-chan, Aranee, or Ranran. Much cuter names!! No need to actually choose one though, she'll respond to Arashi and Narukami too.

At least once a week Kaname joins her for sure when she's shopping, I like imagining if she meets someone she knows it's that "your mom met her friend she hasn't seen in months so now they're catching up and you have to stand there awkwardly at the supermarket" vibe...

Other than that, sheeee has plans to open a little flower shop! They'll be paper flowers and have nice little arrangements and everything. Officially(?) it'll probably open sometime midmonth unless something happens (like she dies, again), so feel free to handwave stopping in or learning some flower language and so on. She's happy to teach anyone who's interested, and she's happy to make custom bouquets too. Her price is just "who is this for?" so be ready to confess (:

Also I guess she does sword training with anyone who's offering it. She started with Kara but if sensei isn't in she's not picky. She just wants basics so she... can protect the people important to her, at minimum.
HOBBIES: Shopping, gardening, sewing, making sweets, flower arrangements, singing and dancing because she's an idol, photography (mostly of the selfie and food/fashion variety), makeup, skincare... She's on the track and field team back in canon, so she probably still goes for a light jog. Arashi doesn't like sweating for no reason but on the other hand... kind of has to keep it up
PLANS & SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:
○ Sleepovers... Girltalk... Gossip...!!
○
○ no actually I think that's my only big desire. I like anything that drops in my lap but sleepovers and/or girltalk is her favorite bonding activity, so. Bitch to her, cry on her shoulder, talk about your little joys, shit like that. She'll do the same.
ANYTHING ELSE: girls who say hiiiiiiiiii rise up. If you want to talk shop about anything in particular you can DM this journal or pp me coordination. I usually only add people I have CR with though so that's just a heads up.

[selfloveable]

i want to play with hiiro

[selfloveable]

matoba is one of the two people arashi doesn't deliberately go out of her way to talk to but on the other hand i enjoy him, what a little freak.

[selfloveable]

hi yanachi i already told you this on plurk but yeah come crash arashi and kaname's shopping trips. actually he can just harass arashi whenever he sees she's out (all the time) i think they're funny. he'll just be convinced into carrying her stuff and telling her she's pretty or whatever

also rinne is so cute what the fuck... his little library adventures...

[disagree]

PLAYER: blair

CHARACTER(S): eula lawrence

RESIDENCE: datura hall. formerly had a roommate, but she hasn't renovated her room even after azusa had disappeared. ill look for refs later bc i like doing that but it's basically a studio apartment kinda thing.

SURFACE LEVEL INFO: while eula is starting to warm up to people now that she's not being hated on for petty reasons, she still remains cool, calm, and collected for the most part. she still likes doling out "vengeance", but her definition of it kinda varies on the situation. she's a very talented swordswoman and dancer and it shows in how she incorporates the latter in her swordplay without slowing her down. now that she can let down some of her guard here, she's quite friendly and unexpectedly freespirited for someone associated with ice.

she's also very fashionable without trying. she has a penchant for shorts and heels, even when she's out patrolling in the woods.

DAY-TO-DAY: she wakes up pretty early to patrol the woods! that's pretty much her main job, so people can spot her outside town just exploring/investigating what's out there. she's also seen practicing her swordwork whenever she has free time, and people are definitely welcome for a sparring/practice session with her. and lastly, she can be seen practicing all sorts of dance on her lonesome at night. she sleeps pretty late because you never know what's going to happen past midnight.

HOBBIES:
- she looooooves to drink. she's practically a wine connoisseur, and often hangs out at the tavern for breaks
- she's an insanely good cook, and is known for making moon pies taste delicious even with cheap, canned products. very resourceful.
- she has a bone whistle with her, but she doesn't remember how to use it. she can also be found trying to use it in the forest as a distraction.
- she also plays genius invokation TCG! need to find people to play/teach this game too, LMAO
- and of course, dance. she's an amazing dancer and can easily master whatever steps given to her

PLANS & SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:
- gonna fucking fight the bear fr again, wish her luck
- she wants to dance.... please teach her yall's dances, she'd really love it. time to expand her horizons and stuff like that
- i want eula to have a near-death experience (or maybe even straight-up die, who knows) and have someone take care of her. im a sucker for that
- sparring lessons! she's taken tsukasa in as her kouhai but she'd love more students.
- she just wants more friends, but honestly i'd like someone to have an EHHH reaction to her just so it could feel like home.

ANYTHING ELSE:

[worldbent]

Okay but in seriousness Matoba does probably meet Hiiro or try to run into him while he's out on his hunting rounds fairly often to help with that stuff as promised, get more arrows, help with bow maintenance etc.! It's like, one of the one bits of his daily life back home he can spend time on here. Hanging out with the teenager that shares your hobby isn't a pathetic thing to do, what do you mean

[worldbent]

that is extremely fair and I guarantee she is not alone

that will not save her, however

[finalbows]

i want kuja to be a game night attendee so bad. do you want to learn tetra master, rinne. give me another reason to larkbother asking for more cards so the winner can do the 'you take one of your opponent's cards' thing.

[worldbent]

reading is absolutely fucking shit up, wdym

[finalbows]

WE HAVEN'T THREADED IN A MINUTE but in my heart the vibes are absolutely abominable because of how much of a loud loathsome ayakashi Kuja is

[perfectlie]

PLAYER: peace! its me
CHARACTER(S): Kaname "Yodaka" Tojo
RESIDENCE: In a house at Polly Hall along with his brother, HiMERU (meiq), and Arashi Narukami (selfloveable)!
SURFACE LEVEL INFO: Strikingly good looking and smart to boot, but the minute he opens his mouth it ruins the illusion. Once an errand boy for various townsfolk while on the island (giving him a somewhat okay reputation with them) to pass the time, he seems quite the busybody and is always going someplace. Does he rest? He doesn't need to. Easily influenced, particularly by people he likes.

Looks near-identical at first glance like HiMERU, but his hair is a little shorter and so is he -- but you'd be fine mistaking them at first apart, since it's about 8cm and from behind who can really tell... but Kaname does have a bit more of a youthful face and is very expressive, from his body to how he says things to even his face when he doesn't want to say a word. Unlike HiMERU. it's very funny. When he opens his mouth, it's obvious even outside his first-person usage it isn't HiMERU...
DAY-TO-DAY: Trade school... He'll be working part-time at a restaurant called Nightingale's Roost as a singer until darkness begins to creep over the town, just a few hours a day. Sometimes he'll walk by the woods. Usually he's finding someone to spend time with, so Yodaka's rarely alone, but when he is it's because he's choosing to be... bother him anyway.

thanks for the reminder bella HE GOES SHOPPING ONCE A WEEK WITH ARASHI... he hangs around his brother not as often as before but it's obvious that he adores him... ala... maybe leona... again his days are more people-focused than group-activity focused he needs a social life that isn't one-on-one
HOBBIES: Singing, dancing, practicing those, drawing... He's been sewing just to keep his hands busy, and he's been doing part-time cooking lessons with Niki and the trade school. Does walking count as a hobby.
PLANS & SCENARIOS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: you can just tell me "i want to play with kaname" and something will happen tbh he's really fun to just throw at people
ANYTHING ELSE:
- reacts well to praise
- hates being ignored and will make his displeasure known in different ways. one of which is saying loudly that he doesn't care... another is getting in your face...
- house cat...

[worldbent]

GOD Matoba hasn't even gotten to taunt him about what a sad little heartless puppet he is, must remedy this when he gets sufficiently bitchy

[perfectlie]

going to start coming by rinne's house and just asking if he wants to come on their damn shopping trips at some point if he says no kaname's going to throw a shoe at him

[perfectlie]

wolfie... would you like him to learn how to make a carrot cake

[eidxiety]

what YES of COURSE

[eidxiety]

oh girl ain will BITCH to you—

[perfectlie]

great. so he will during a cooking class but it's going to be using this thread as reference with every bit of confidence baked into his very soul

trust him. add will love it

[eidxiety]

I'm sorry "he stole a cottage" made me laugh out loud good for him tbh

"murdering demons" is a shared hobby hit up Ain if you want to talk about how much you both hate demons—

[eidxiety]

ohhh fuck Ain is also annoying, they can annoy each other perhaps especially after their network fiasco???

[perfectlie]

can kaname join him in grocery shopping........ he wants to spend time with hiiro. if he could spend every minute of the day with hiiro he would. this is something normal friends want

though seriously after his little incidents kaname Is coming to check on him more often, be it at home or when he sees him out, even if it's just to sit for a little while and spend time like a cat, because you worry him. it's like not seeing a spider.........