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Plotting Post: Brain Boggling
OOC INTRO(S) & PLOTTING
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This OOC post will be for all your introductory and/or plotting needs! For newcomers, we want to give a space to outline their initial thoughts and plans to get started strong. For established players, feel free to make your event and other plans for the future here!
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As a few quick notes:
Most of all, we want people to have fun and let us know if your character gets up to anything good, bad, or whatever! All of it will influence the world around them and potentially have benefits or consequences.
This OOC post will be for all your introductory and/or plotting needs! For newcomers, we want to give a space to outline their initial thoughts and plans to get started strong. For established players, feel free to make your event and other plans for the future here!
You can use the form below! If you play more than one character, you're free to make a top-level for just your relevant player information and comment beneath with each respective character.
OOC Into/Plotting Template
- ⁂ The Brain Boggling event log is up in its entirety! Use this post to plot for it, but feel free to top-level or tag into the actual event at your leisure.
⁂ We want to encourage people to continue to use the quest board to get themselves established in the community and building reputation if they want something to do!
⁂ Character claims are always open until we hit the player cap! So, please keep checking back on this post for new players or characters that might be added to ensure everyone receives a warm welcome!
Most of all, we want people to have fun and let us know if your character gets up to anything good, bad, or whatever! All of it will influence the world around them and potentially have benefits or consequences.
Angeal Hewley-Rhapsodos | Final Fantasy VII
Character: Angeal Hewley-Rhapsodos
Canon: Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core
Canon Point: oh he's dead (but on CRAU from Amani)
Age:28
Dragon Bond: Angeal has a Gold Dragon that is literally just Gordon Ramsey. His name is Voridin, and him and Dimitri the NPC have beef with each other.
His changes seem pretty in-line with things so far: slightly branching horns, scales all over his body (primarily his arms being the most visible, but also his forehead and framing his face), carefully manicured claws, and a pretty fat short tail. Some may note with interest that he doesn't appear to have wings! This is a lie, because Angeal is cheating in a way that only a very strange human-experiment can.
There are some other changes, but most won't be able to see them considering it's winter and he is wearing season appropriate clothing.
About Your Blorbo: Angeal is the owner of Annie's Bakes, which is the bakery in Town and holds around four other employees besides himself! Which means that it's easy for people to assume CR with him just by going to get the basic necessities of, like. bread or other pastry goods ha ha. Those who only know him passingly will pick up that he's a very relaxed and sociable person, and tends to pick up on other people's moods and such well. (Friendly, but not overbearing.... sometimes. Unless he feels a reason to be otherwise.)
However, people with experience and a good eye might be able to pick up that he has pretty good control/knowledge of his body and a certain stance at times which hints at his military background. (Angeal is pretty open about being former military if asked, too, although he won't always go into depth.)
...He is also a secret human experiment that was merged with a space virus mimicry creature, and he super doesn't talk about that if he can get away with it! But he's still a bit faster and stronger and resilient than a normal human (which is saying a lot considering FF's idea of "normal human"), which some may notice... especially with this event!
Game/Event Plan(s):
1. In response to the news of their new arrivals, Angeal will likely temporarily close the bakery. With the blizzard on the horizon, it's not like anyone is going to be walking around a lot anyway... However, before that happens, he will have a brief period at the bakery where he'll be making SO MUCH FOOD for people to hoard in their homes that will hopefully help, or even assist in giving the raw ingredients so they can make things at home. If anyone wants some domestic baking advice, he's the guy to come to!
2. With that done, Angeal will be on patrol duty to keep an eye out for the Intellect Devourers (IDs). Due to being a gold dragon, the natural heat in his body will help combat the chill of winter... which may be a bonus to anyone who partners up with him as well! He's also a good mentor to have (was the best back in SOLDIER in fact), and can respond well as a partner. So if anyone wants to work towards something in their patrols, he's not a bad choice!
3. So! While Angeal is pretty quick on the draw and responsible... That's no good for RP. :v
So for memory sharing, I'm fully willing to figure out some way for him to be on one end or the other. If there's a memory you want someone to explore with your character, I'm all for it! Alternatively, there are a few memories of Angeal's that other people could see as well!
Angeal was from a pretty poor rural family on an island, but with a loving family. He then joined the military, got REALLY GOOD at it, and then learned terrible truths about himself that lead to his death! Whee! What I'm saying is that depending on what you'd like to know about him, we can run the gauntlet from "pretty ok actually" (which can be used to show maybe your character "oh my life was fucked actually" if you like lol) to "oh! you sure were in a Final Fantasy game!"
Some Options:
-the first time he got the Buster Sword from his father
-times spent in SOLDIER
-realizing terrible truths about himself
If there's a particular kind of memory you'd like to get, just let me know, and I can throw out more specific ideas!
...However. Remember when I said that Angeal is a product from human experimentation with an alien space virus...? Angeal technically isn't a "perfect" product like Sephiroth is in that regard, but he was viewed far more favorably by BOTH asshole scientists involved in Crisis Core's particular arms race, and he's still got that space virus in him! So there is a non-zero chance that when/if Angeal is targeted, the ID in question may... lose a limb or some other thing. Jenova is a pretty aggressive little nightmare, even when nerfed. They won't explode (in contrast to being with Ardyn), but some interesting actions may be taken while asleep! So if you want to find a ID missing its leg wobbling around...
Interested In: Similarly, what specific types of CR are you looking for? What tropes are your favorite to explore? Any quests in particular that catch your eye you'd like to see about getting people to do?
Anything else? holds hands out for anything and everything
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Everyone loves showing off their blorbo's traumatic backstories and Popp hasn't seen tragic mad science up close at his canon point so I'm game to hit him with a dose of that and then yell about it to Angeal in person, possibly while on a patrol. It's bad timing ICly but Popp does not always make good choices.
Maybe he will even realize that Angeal's name isn't Annie?
Or to spare Angeal's dignity from being IDslurped he could get some of Popp's memories showing up in his nightmares instead! I gather child soldiers are something of a hot button for him and while Popp is not like, formally in the army, he goes into battles and gets the absolute stuffing beat out of him every single story arc.
They have also both died and had a miraculous second chance so that could be really fun to talk about in some capacity!
What sounds the most fun, or the most upsetting? The two things are very similar in DWRP...
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now it's just up for grabs on what terrible science backstory thing you'd like Popp to see
- angeal getting the revelation from genesis that he's actually a messed up science baby, including the revelation that he can pull wings out of his back! (which could be noticeable bc of how he's hiding wings right now)
- angeal getting to deal with genesis's rapid deterioration as a product of being a 'failed' science experiment
- did you know that angeal can infect other creatures with his DNA and put them under his control? this memory could show it!
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The revelation/wings sounds like it's got the most legs because Popp's going to think of that every time he sees Angeal going around without them, he can put two and two together and he'd probably end up bugging him about it!
It would be interesting for Angeal to talk about it with someone who isn't knee deep in science/monster horrors already (beyond the default of everyone here being dragonized).
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Once I start working on Angeal's top levels, I'll be sure to put something up for Popp!
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fortunately due to those messed up human experiments, Angeal can bounce back pretty quickly from otherwise messed up situations (see: able to get up in a minute from a giant fireball straight to the face), so he could probably definitely be chasing the ID in question and find it just a second too late to pass around his memories
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with that said, are there any particular kind of terrible science memories you'd want Avan to see? I listed a couple here for Popp, but I could come up with a few more if nothing caught your attention.
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"my guy, what the fuck is your taste"
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