June 2022 Story of Us

[folkie]

Story of Us: June

Announcements and Feedback

Hello Folkies! This is our monthly Story of Us post where we get together to make game announcements, ask for any feedback or suggestions, partake in character relationship memes and open up our invites for the upcoming application cycle!

Check out the bottom of this post for important dates to keep an eye on!

Announcements
We will be holding bi-monthly Texts From Last Night posts on our OOC community. Both players and non-players are welcome to tag into this. Players can use these posts for their spoons and tentative new players can use these posts for samples on their applications. If accepted into the game, you can also use your TFLN posts for spoons!

The upcoming event for July will have an element that will extend between July and August. This will involve characters feeling heavily pressured to gravitate to a unique location known as Camp Camelot located nearby the Lakes in Willow.

This location will not be accessible until the event begins. Characters will be able to go to and from the camp at will but most will feel enormously pressured by the general state of the game to actively attend the camp either as campers or counselors! Most of July and August's events will have to do with the camp, but fear not! There will still be prompts available in both July and August for those who might want to do things beyond the camp.

From July 1st to July 12th, characters throughout Folkmore will be gifted a fox beret with a matching orange Camp Camelot shirt, a pair of orange shorts, an optional clip-on orange fox tail, and some nifty knee-high white socks with orange bands at the top. You will be provided with a set of orange hiking boots that, instead of ridges on the feet, have paw prints. These outfits will appear in a neat pile somewhere in your character's home and will be custom fit to their exact measurements and body types!

Feel Free to Comment
If you have any questions about anything going on in the game or need an update on a question that might have gotten lost between the cracks please use this space to ask down below!

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Character Relationship Meme

It's that time of month to organize your thoughts and compile some plans with each other! This is an optional meme for players to get to know each other and draft up some ideas and keep up to speed on what everyone else is doing!

Copy and paste the following form and reply to the appropriate section down below. Have fun!

<B>Player Name:</b> <B>Player Pronouns:</b> <b>Player Contact:</b> <user name=PLURKNAME site=plurk.com> or other <b>Preferred Tag Style:</b> Action/Prose <b>Monthly Pacing:</b> Let others know if you might be a bit slow this month or your usual speed! <B>OOC Limitations/Disinterests:</b> Personal limitations you have or prompts you will opt out of. Maybe you have no interest in romantic or sexual or violent CR etc. <B>Permissions:</b> Link to your permissions here! Or any other valuable information pages like power opt-ins/opt-outs if you like! <B>Character Name:</b> <B>Character Age:</b> <B>Characer Species:</b> <B>Character Details:</b> Anything unique about them to immediately know? Maybe that they have a prosthetic, details about their voice, etc. <B>Character Summary:</b> Give a simple summary of your character, their history maybe, personality, things that you would want people to know right off the bat! <b>Character Role:</b> Familiar, Myth, Legend. <B>Character Role Deets:</b> Anything unique about your character's role and how it manifests? Things you'd like to explore through it? <B>Character Living Quarters:</b> Where is your character living? <B>Character Schools:</b> Where do they teach or go to school? <B>Day to Day Life:</b> What can they usually be seen doing? Do they have a job? Run errands? Explain here! <B>Current Mindset/Health:</b> What is your character's current mindset/state of being/etc. Let people know where your character will be mentally and otherwise for this event including things like current injuries/etc. <B>Recent Developments:</b> Anything major or significant that your character has experienced that may be important to established or new CR. <b>Goals For Your Character:</b> What are things YOU as a player want to accomplish for your character? What storylines are you hoping to achieve? <B>Problems With Your Character:</b> What are struggles your character is going through right now? Physical or mental! <B>Wanted CR:</b> Romances? Mentors? Family figures? Let people know here! <B>Unwanted CR:</b> Against enemies? Friends? Fill it out here. <B>Open/Closed to New CR:</b> Will you be focusing on your current CR or interested in developing new?

Invitations

Our game is invite-only which means in order to make a reserve or apply, you must have an invite from a current player in-game! Players are not required to give invites. Invites are open between the 22nd of every month and close on the 5th of the following month when applications open. All invites expire after that application cycle ends.

Players are limited to one invite per round unless they have purchased an additional invite slot through Spoons. If using an additional invite slot, please make sure to link to your purchase in your invite form.

Invites allow new players to reserve/apply to the game. Invites do not guarantee that new players will get in. Some invites may not be accepted and we will message players on a case-by-case basis if necessary.

Players only require an invite for their first application. Once they are a player in the game, they can apply as more characters at a later date. If a player drops completely from the game, they will require a new invite to get back in.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW A PLAYER IN OUR GAME BUT ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND OUR MOD JOURNAL A PM WITH YOUR HANDLE AND CONTACT INFORMATION FOR A REQUEST TO AN INVITE.
Fill out the following form and place it down below in the appropriate section.

<B>Your Handle:</b> <B>Your Contact:</b> <user name=USERNAME site=plurk.com> <b>Invite Slot:</b> Monthly invite or one purchased through spoons. Link to spoons purchase if applicable. <B>Player You're Inviting:</b> <B>Player Contact:</b> <user name=USERNAME site=plurk.com>

CALENDAR

Calendar dates may be subject to change due to real world circumstances. Please follow us on our plurk to keep up to date! We will update this section accordingly. Remember to set your journal to EST as we will always pay attention to timestamps.

TDM
JUNE 22-25th
ANY TIME

RESERVES OPEN
JULY 1st
12:01 AM EST

RESERVES CLOSE
JULY 5th
12:01 AM EST

INVITES CLOSE
JULY 5th
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN OPEN
JULY 1st
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN CLOSE
JULY 5th
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS OPEN
JULY 5th
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS CLOSE
JULY 10th
11:59 PM EST

TRIAL PLOT
JULY 11th
ANY TIME

TRIAL LIVE
JULY 13th
ANY TIME

INVITES-CR MEME BEGIN
JULY 22nd
ANY TIME

Comments

Questions

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Mod Invites

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Player Invites

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Please respond to this comment if you, a player, are interested in inviting a friend for this upcoming application cycle. All players are permitted one invite per cycle unless they have purchased an additional slot through Spoons.

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CHARACTER CR BENEATH THIS POINT

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CHARACTER RELATIONSHIP BENEATH MEME THIS POINT. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS COMMENT OR THE COMMENTS ABOVE FOR CR MEMES. POST YOUR CR MEME AS A REGULAR COMMENT TO THIS PAGE. THANK YOU!

[usedhuntersmark]

Player Name: Gigi
Player Pronouns: She/Her
Player Contact: makochan, PM or nothlir#9497 on discord
Preferred Tag Style: Either, will match
Monthly Pacing: I'm usually fairly quick to reply, unless I've hurt myself. (I'm very accident prone sadly.)
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: No romance unless you're Percy.
Permissions: Permissions and Opt-Outs

Character Name: Vex'ahlia Vessar
Character Age: 27
Characer Species: half-elf/Othlir
Character Details: Vex always wears her dark hair in a braid with 1 blue feather behind her ear. She has her bow and arrows at all times, now that she has them back.
Character Summary: Vex is a ranger/rogue multiclass. A LOT has happened to her, so she has a cautious and pragmatic façade but she's very flirty and friendly for the most part. She prefers forests to towns but she loves shopping and hugging.

Character Role: Legend.
Character Role Deets: She manifest pretty wings and a golden aura
Character Living Quarters: The apartments with her twin brother
Character Schools: Where do they teach or go to school? Nowhere, I should fix this.
Day to Day Life: Vex spends a lot of time in the forest. It's where she feels most comfortable while she's still adjusting. I'm up for changing this if someone can give her something to do.

Current Mindset/Health: She's struggling with some loneliness and needs to fill her days but she's healthy and relatively happy
Recent Developments: Trinket has shown up, thanks to all the craziness of The Wildest Dreams saga, so expect to see her running around with her first child all the time.
Goals For Your Character: I want her to open up a bakery eventually and just enjoy things without stressing out over fighting, dying and meddling deities... So much for the last one, eh?
Problems With Your Character: Again, some loneliness and a little guilt and worry, but for the first time in a while, she feels like she can rest. It's weird.

Wanted CR: Everything but romance! Flirty friends would be excellent
Unwanted CR: No shipping, sorry
Open/Closed to New CR: Open, for sure

venti | genshin impact

[winespiration]

Player Name: ru
Player Pronouns: they/them
Player Contact: worldtype
Preferred Tag Style: I tend to default to action but either is really fine
Monthly Pacing: A bit slower this month! I have been doing job things and hosting events that have been taking up my brain space. Also I have been tagging on my iPad which has caused some weird autocorrect issues I didn't notice at first so uh... sorry if any tags were weird.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: I'm not disinterested per se but Venti is very flighty and also waaaay older than he looks. So despite his playful attitude, shipping with him is unlikely.
Permissions: Here!

Character Name: Venti
Character Age: 5000+
Characer Species: Archon (God) in a mortal vessel.
Character Details: Anything unique about them to immediately know? Maybe that they have a prosthetic, details about their voice, etc.
Character Summary: Give a simple summary of your character, their history maybe, personality, things that you would want people to know right off the bat!

Character Role: Legend
Character Role Deets: Anything unique about your character's role and how it manifests? Things you'd like to explore through it?
Character Living Quarters: Leshy! Gotta be with the other musically inclined
Character Schools: Venti does not want a job. Though, he might go with Baba Yaga and then immediately declare himself to be on indefinite sabbatical.
Day to Day Life: Hanging out in random places playing the lyre but absolutely at the Prancing Pony like... almost every night.

Current Mindset/Health: Venti is quite the lonely guy, having lost many close friends thousands of years ago. However, he has started to make new friends back home and it's bringing him back to remembering the importance of connections with mortals.
Recent Developments: Anything major or significant that your character has experienced that may be important to established or new CR.
Goals For Your Character: For Venti to be able to be more open about his true feelings instead of always leaning on his cheerful front. Also for him to realize that he is not resigned to be stagnant due to his long-lived status. He is also capable of change and growth because it's a never ending journey.
Problems With Your Character: Basically Venti is a god and most of the original gods of his land are no longer around and Venti is largely absent from his role as the Anemo Archon. He believes he is not particularly needed nor is there much left for him to do aside from help the Traveler with their (his) journey.

He has also participated in war and seen the fallout from them and the pain. So he is quite resistant to opening up to mortals because he knows they are short lived beings.

Also, he drinks too much.

Wanted CR: All sorts of friends! Venti is really chill and makes friends easily. Also, he can be sort of tone deaf though not hostile so it can be fun to play that off as not quite enemies but a WTF MAN sort of thing.
Unwanted CR: Nothing really. I mentioned the difficulties with shipping above but I'm not opposed to it if things worked out!
Open/Closed to New CR: New! He is brand new and I came in at the end of the round so I would love all CR.

Yuri Lowell | Tales of Vesperia

[vibing]

Player Name: Mads
Player Pronouns: they/them
Player Contact: spudbud
Preferred Tag Style: Action preferred
Monthly Pacing: Been slow-ish, but I'll hit you back in a day or two (or three... it's summer) usually
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Romantic CR outside of Flynn
Permissions: perms

Character Name: Yuri Lowell
Character Age: 21
Characer Species: Human
Character Details: His most notable feature is his long black hair. He has a deeper voice than one might expect, and a general relaxed aura.
Character Summary: Yuri is a JRPG protag, the trope of guy has a weird day, becomes a hero on accident. His chill exterior hides a deep mistrust of authority and optimism that the world can and should be better and more equal than it is. If you're canon familiar, he's from before his whole vigilante arc, and has not yet killed anyone for the Greater Good.

Character Role: Familiar
Character Role Deets: Yuri has black cat ears and a tail that are always there. His pupils are catlike too, and he can turn into all types of cats and cat-related creatures.
Character Living Quarters: In a shitty treehouse in Leshy
Character Schools: Fighting academy as a student, but he doesn't go all that often
Day to Day Life: Yuri's mostly around Gram. He helps out the local spirits with various errands, and has a job at a tea house making pastries a couple days a week. He's mostly found cooking, sparring, and wandering the woods in Willow.

Current Mindset/Health: Yuri's still getting his footing in Folkmore, and starting to try things out and figure out what he wants to do, and how his potential might manifest. He's solidifying his thoughts about being a Familiar, and is taking it in maybe a less-than-healthy direction of seeing himself as less than the Legends and Myths he knows.
Recent Developments: No big arcs yet
Goals For Your Character: I want Yuri to make friends, and find mutually supportive relationships. I want him to learn that relying on other people is strength, and not weakness. I also want him to start to see potential in himself as a leader and an agent of change.
Problems With Your Character: Yuri's main issue is his self-esteem. He doesn't believe that his own life has any inherent value, and tends to try and show value by being of service to others.

Wanted CR: Friends! I'd like Yuri to have deep relationships with folks of all ilks. He's a lowkey, down for anything friend, the kind of guy who will help you move even if it's highly inconvenient for him. Also down for ill-advised, event-based trysts, or low stakes flirting.
Unwanted CR: Just romance, he's emotional taken.
Open/Closed to New CR: Both! Would love new CR, and to deepen what he already has.

Flynn Scifo | Tales of Vesperia

[thinkfirst]

Player Name: Jordan
Player Pronouns: they/them
Player Contact: interplanetary
Preferred Tag Style: Action, but I'll match!
Monthly Pacing: Figuring that out, aim to clear inbox every 2-3 days as I settle into a new life routine!
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Deep romantic CR that is not Yuri
Permissions: Here!

Character Name: Flynn Scifo
Character Age: 21
Characer Species: Human
Character Details: Even though he doesn't spend ALL his time in his full plate armor anymore, Flynn's pretty stacked because of it. He has a lighter voice than you might expect, given how tall he is (5'11"). He also moves with a great deal of containment & control.
Character Summary: A JRPG magic knight who in any other game would have been the protagonist, Flynn is a friendly, polite golden retriever wrapped up in armor and layers of duty & obligation. He's great with a sword and less great with words, he's a workaholic who takes on way too much responsiblilty for the world, and he wants! to be! your friend!

Character Role: Legend
Character Role Deets: Flynn's got little white wings (currently non-functional, flying-wise) and a golden halo, very much your textbook Legend, and he's trying to feel like he's earned that role, but it's tough.
Character Living Quarters: In a little cottage in Willow
Character Schools: Flynn: teaches a class at the fighting school and attends at least one class at every other school because he's a tired overachiever. Catch him running between classes with food in his mouth like an anime kid
Day to Day Life: Class! Homework! Training! Teaching! Literally just that on repeat, he is constantly busy doing Important Class Things to try and reach his potential. Hard to get him to take a break.

Current Mindset/Health: Flynn is making his peace with what it means to be a Legend and doing absolutely everything possible to both live up to the designation and maximize his potential. He's taken the chance Folkmore offers to better yourself as a directive and is convinced that if he doesn't, his world at home is about to get a lot worse. "Hey Flynn where is that pressure coming from" trick question, himself, he's excellent at putting pressure on himself.
Recent Developments: He decided this month with Yuri that they're going to work together to try and find a way to fix some of the large problems at home, so he's more committed to this journey than ever.

Goals For Your Character: I would like Flynn to get some real, mutually-supportive friendships. He's basically never had this outside of Yuri. Ultimately, my goal is to get him to understand that he doesn't actually have to try SO hard all the time, and to consistently be his real, goofy, 21-year-old self without feeling the need to cover himself up or hold the entire world on his shoulders.
Problems With Your Character: Flynn's been hiding himself and code-switching now for YEARS. He's fluent in every language but his own, he's great at faking it until he makes it, he absolutely just powers through whatever discomfort he's got going on. He's also kind of judgy about other people's life choices.

Wanted CR: Friends, particularly ones who are also dealing with a lot of responsibility and feeling like they don't fit in! Mentor figures, and younger folks he can help guide. Down for ill-advised shallow event-based hookups, too!
Unwanted CR: Deep romantic CR, he's emotionally taken
Open/Closed to New CR: OPEN HIT MEEEEEEE

Vax’ildan Vessar | Critical Role

[foundpurpose]

Player Name: Samuel
Player Pronouns: He/him
Player Contact: Skyheron or other
Preferred Tag Style: I match whatever tag style my thread partner does tbh.
Monthly Pacing: Been at least once a day but got hit by a snag recently. This is a personally difficult month. Should be back to usual speed soon
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: No romance here, Vax is devoted to his home relationship.
Permissions: Permissions

Character Name: Vax’ildan Vessar
Character Age: 27
Characer Species: Half elf
Character Details: Vax is a tall, lanky half elf with a tapering of his ears but not as much as a full elf. Moves light on his feet. Long dark hair that’s usually pulled back with braids in it.
Character Summary: Vax is the more serious and depressed of the twins. He started as a rogue but dabbles in Paladin as a servant and champion of a death god, the matron of ravens. A risk taker who does his best to help those who need it. He can seem devil may care and self destructive.

Character Role: Legend
Character Role Deets: He has wings that give off a darkness and are patterned like the moment of dusk.
Character Living Quarters: In the apartments with his twin, Vex.
Character Schools: No where so far.
Day to Day Life: Usually goes with his twin. But sometimes he takes time to walk around town and explore what is available. Can be seen training with his daggers or flying with two or four wings.

Current Mindset/Health: While relieved to have his twin around he has a loneliness he is trying to figure out. And some stuff to sort out that he knows about the future.
Recent Developments: The how one perceives the self situation has given him a lot to think of.
Goals For Your Character: I want Vax to open up to more people and come to grips with his own death wish. He is taking his first steps on that but it is a long road full of issues.
Problems With Your Character: He is struggling with what he knows of the future. And frankly some of that good hard look at himself. It’s a lot to realize how he sees things and what lingers in his own mind.

Wanted CR: Friends, sparring partners, people he can open up to. Generally everything!
Unwanted CR: Romance
Open/Closed to New CR: Completely and utterly open, he came in last round.

Reko Yabusame | Your Turn to Die

[musicaldemon]

Player Name: Starfighter
Player Pronouns: She/her
Player Contact: goodluckstarfighter, starfighter#0480 (when I remember to load up Discord lol) or PMs
Preferred Tag Style: I'll do both action and prose. I tend to default to action though.
Monthly Pacing: I try to do at least one round of tags a day but sometimes I'll wander off doing wtf ever for a few days.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: At the moment I don't have any interest in violent CR. Reko came from a very violent canon full of death games and I just have no interest at present in repeating that. Anything else -- action, gen, romance, sexual, etc. -- I'm cool with
Permissions: Info | Permissions

Character Name: Reko Yabusame
Character Age: 23
Character Species: Human
Character Details: Reko talks like a yankee (the anime / manga kind). Typically she'll talk pretty neutrally but if she gets flustered / shows weakness / just tries to be nice she'll lapse into way rougher yankee talk.

Character Summary: Okay so Reko looks like the rough, mean type and for most of her life she really was. In the past two years Reko has done a 180 though and has sought to change her personality and the way she interacts with other people. "Harsh to the strong, kind to the weak" is how about character in-game summarizes her and it really fits well. Reko's had enough of fighting and being an asshole to others if she doesn't have to be and wants to amend for her past mistakes.

Character Role: Myth
Character Role Deets:
* Horns. Red accented with black.
* Fairly short claws, black with red accented tips. Don't want to get in the way of playing any instruments!
* A slick black-furred tail with a tuft of fur on it's end that likes to react to her emotions. It puffs out when angry or scared and flicks around when she's content. Looks more or less like a lion's tail.
* Smaller fangs much like in the above image as well.
* Seeing in the dark & detecting incoming threats.
* While she is typically selfless, she's very vulnerable to becoming hyperfocused on a goal already and that's only amplified by her being a Myth now.

Character Living Quarters: Currently she lives Satori Hills.
Character Schools: Not at the moment, no. I wouldn't mind her teaching music at one of them maybe, the gags about the real punk looking teacher could be hilarious.
Day to Day Life: She's been decompressing. She's spent the last several days ... maybe a week just enduring rounds of not just Death Games but these little side Death Games. Plus she saw her brother die so let the girl sit and contemplate life for a while, particularly now that she's got the bongos her brother gifted her back.

Current Mindset/Health: She ain't doing so hot mentally. While she didn't take Safalin up on her mind-wiping techniques to get rid of the trauma of Alice's death she did have people to lean on. Now in her mind she doesn't have that and she probably doesn't deserve it either.
Recent Developments: She had a lot of fun at the parade! Got to meet a lot of people, forget about shit for a while.

Goals For Your Character: So eventually I'd like Reko to feel she's worth going over to Willow and really indulging in the music there. Originally I wanted her to move to a treehouse in Leshy because of the music aspect -- Reko pretty much lives and breathes all forms of music she can get her hands on. However Epiphany with it's aura of regret drew her in more and is probably contributing to her having a rough time at the moment. Eventually she won't blame herself quite so much.

Problems With Your Character: Definitely mental. She isn't sleeping well and probably hasn't been for a bit. Without the focus of staying alive in the Death Games she's sort of left to confront her own demons and it's terrible.

Wanted CR: Hell if you think you can romance her then let's go. I play her as pansexual and while she won't shy away from casual things, if you hit her with the real actual romance she'll turn into a flustered, angry mess even if she likes it. She just has noooo experience in it. That said I do want general things, found family (she's a great big sister / aunt type), etc.
Unwanted CR: I'd rather not do enemies at the moment.
Open/Closed to New CR: Bring me the CR, I craves it.

nill | DOGS: BULLETS & CARNAGE | crau

[culver]

Player Name: iola
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: watchet (feel free to add me!) or pm
Preferred Tag Style: i don't have a preference! i usually start brackets, but i'll match whatever style.
Monthly Pacing: i do most of my tagging on the weekends, but otherwise i try and tag at a pretty steady pace during the week. note: i will be on hiatus for about half of july, so tags will be very slow and i'll be keeping deep plotting to a minimum.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: N/A
Permissions: permissions | ic contact | housing | schooling

Character Name: Nill
Character Age: 18/19; she has about 4 years of CRAU under her belt and picked her birthday herself (Sept. 20).
Character Species: Genetically-modified human.
Character Details: Nill is a smol bean clocking in at about 5'4", and she has equally small, white-feathered wings growing out of her back. They are too small for her to use to fly, but they help her keep her balance in precarious situations. Nill is also mute, which is a byproduct of her genetic modifications, but knows American Sign Language. From her Meadowlark CRAU, she has a "piece of a god" inside her, which gives her the ability to manipulate density, and also causes her chest to glow with a blue light when she uses her powers.
Character Summary: cw: mentions of physical and sexual abuse of a minor, violence

Winscott, Heaven (heavenwinscott). “My toxic trait? I want to face everything on my own because I don’t want to feel like I’m burdening people with my problems or struggles.” August 19, 2018, 2:41 PM. Tweet.

Nill likes to help people, full stop. She tries to tell herself she doesn't, but if she sees someone in need, she'll always help them out if it's in her power to do so. The counterpoint to that is that she's really bad at accepting any help offered to her! She has become pretty morally gray in her teen years, partly because the first instance of kindness ever shown to her was a dude killing another dude on her behalf. If it helps, it helps! The past few years of dimension-hopping have left her a little jaded and kinda bitter at TPTB for jerking her around the universe, but she's really good at keeping that all inside.

She's always wanted her life to be simple and uncomplicated, but it turns out the universe decided everything has to be painful and messy for her instead. She has survived sexual and physical abuse, more shootouts than she can count, explosions, spaceshipwrecks, kidnappings, and a few save-the-world-type battles. All of this has left her a little jumpy and extremely cautious, and she always likes to take her time making decisions, trying to see a situation from every angle before jumping in. The exception to this is if she sees someone in immediate danger, which will turn off the self-preservation part of her brain and turn on the throw-myself-into-danger-to-save-them part.

She's in the midst of her Rebellious Teen™ phase (she's a late bloomer), but is on the path to figuring out what kind of person she actually wants to be. At this point, that pretty much includes settling down somewhere in a place where nobody would bother her, where she can cook for the people she loves and tend a little garden. Is that so much to ask??? Apparently, yes.

Further information can be found on her app page!

Character Role: Familiar; she manifests as a hainu.
Character Role Deets: Nill already likes to help other people, and I think she'd be a great familiar for either a Myth or a Legend because of her tendency to see situations from every angle! The only problem will be convincing her to accept such an intimate bond, when she already has such a hard time opening up to people she considers friends.
Character Living Quarters: In a burrow in Lapine! Check out her housing here.
Character Schools: She is attending Amrita Academy as basically a freshman in college. She is majoring in herblore, foraging, and horticulture. Check out her page here!
Day to Day Life: Nill is still getting settled, but will eventually get a job a The Prancing Pony in Willow. She worked as a line cook in a pc-run bar in Meadowlark, and will promote herself to bartender (tavern wench?) at TPP.

Current Mindset/Health: Nill is in fairly good physical and mental health! She just got here so she's kind of cautious, but is willing to explore the area so she can feel more comfortable. She has spent a few years hopping between dimensions, so this is nothing new for her (except it's really all new).
Recent Developments: She learned about gender and sexuality at the parades and also got her ass handed to her a few times in this month's trial :') But she mostly had a good time!
Goals For Your Character: Short-term goals include enrolling her in school and getting a job because she is really bad at sitting still and doing nothing. Long-term goals include having her realize that making friends is okay, even if they might not stay around forever. She'll also probably slowly take up training with knife-fighting again, and might be convinced to have a sparring partner or two.
Problems With Your Character: Having just learned about the bond a Myth/Legend can make with a Familiar (thanks, Dirk) she is sort of not pumped for that! Nill is a private person, and values her personal autonomy. The idea of linking up psychically with someone is scary for her (because of the Trauma), and it'll take some work for her to be okay with doing so. At this time, she has pretty much decided to Never Do That.

Wanted CR: Anything! Nill still struggles with having Feelings™, and is prone to getting attached to other people pretty quickly even if she tries not to. She's a friendly person, and likes to help out other people whenever she can. Any kind of family figures (parental, cool aunt, siblings, weird cousins, etc.) are welcome. She has a tendency to latch on to people who make her feel safe, so anyone who might do that would be cool.
Unwanted CR: N/A, give it to me, baby.
Open/Closed to New CR: Gathers you all up into my arms, let's be friends.

Natsume Takashi | Natsume Yuujinchou

[natzoom]

Player Name: Cee or Jolie
Player Pronouns: She/her
Player Contact: ceedawkes
Preferred Tag Style: I default to brackets, but I'll match~
Monthly Pacing: Should be pretty consistent this month -- I usually tag daily and can boomerang a bit in the evenings.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: I'm down for pretty much anything short of like...brutal violent torture I guess?
Permissions: Here~

Character Name: Natsume Takashi
Character Age: 17 (on July 1st, happy birthday buddy)
Characer Species: Human*
Character Details: In Folkmore being a Familiar has given him cat ears, a tail and claws. Outside of that, anyone who can sense spiritual/supernatural abilities would be able to see that he's not a normal guy. Anyone who can't would be like "haha short."
Character Summary: Natsume's canon is a slice-of-life anime set in rural Japan in the early 2000s, following his hijinks with the spirits/creatures of the forest and fields and mountains that only he can see. It's both adorable and devastatingly sad.

Character Role: Familiar!
Character Role Deets: Right now Natsume has just been adjusting to the physical changes (see above re: cat ears), but his natural compassion plus the role has been pushing him to be more of an emotional support to people he meets.
Character Living Quarters: Lapine, in one of the hobbit holes.
Character Schools: Nowhere yet, but I want him to end up in magic school.
Day to Day Life: Natsume takes a lot of walks through the woods around the Lakes, and either sits in trees or reads under them. He's fairly introverted and shy, but he'll be very polite to anyone who passes. Loner woodland spirit vibes, u see.

Current Mindset/Health: Somewhere between the "this is fine" dog meme and actually fine? He had a good time (mostly) during the last event, though he sprained his wrist falling off a cliff (lol). He's also trying to sort out lots of Emotional Feelings right now.
Recent Developments: Despite firmly resisting getting attached to Folkmore or anyone in it, Natsume has, in fact, made several close friends who he already cares deeply about. In light of that, he's trying to recreate some protective wards he was taught in his world, to keep these specific people safe. Hence eventual magic school! He also has two crushes and it's driving him insane.
Goals For Your Character: Talk about your emotions and abandonment issues, Natsume!!! It's not that hard!!! Also kiss someone without magic lightning or drinks involved!!!!
Problems With Your Character: Chronic feelings of unworthiness and the belief that he causes/creates misery is really what's keeping him at arms length from others, despite wanting to care for and protect them. It's gonna be a Process unpacking that.

Wanted CR: FRIENDS good god this kid needs friends. Here for paternal/mentor types too, because he thinks he's extremely self-sufficient and capable but he is Not. Also people who can lovingly irritate him is always a plus.
Unwanted CR: Long-term romantic CR is in the works, even though it's a slow burn and he has no idea~~~
Open/Closed to New CR: Always open!!

[mysteljournal]

Player Name: AF
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: hotandcoldaf
Preferred Tag Style: I tend to default to action, but I'm flexible!
Monthly Pacing: I've actually been faster than I was expecting to be here, but I'll be slower next month, since I'll be participating in artfight and I'll have a family vacation about halfway through the month
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Nothing in particular!
Permissions: Permissions!

Character Name: G'raha Tia/The Crystal Exarch
Character Age: ~124, disregarding time spent in stasis
Characer Species: Miqo'te/Mystel, aka he's a catboy. Ears, tail, and slit pupils
Character Details: He's partially made of blue crystal, that's the big one! His entire right arm, some amount of his chest, and creeping up his neck up to his face. His eyes are also noticeably unnaturally bright red. And he's an absolutely towering 5'3", very important.
Character Summary: G'raha's been through three apocalypses so far and has come of them with Strong Opinions about hope and the resilience of mankind. Namely that people are great and he loves them a lot. He's spent the past hundred years leading a city and planning his upcoming heroic sacrifice, so he's ended up pretty even-keeled in his demeanor, but lurking not all that far below the surface is a huge nerd who just wants to go on adventures.

Character Role: Familiar
Character Role Deets: he was already a catboy so nothing changed, next question

Jokes aside, he really doesn't utilize his new shapeshifting abilities much just because they don't really offer much advantage over his existing abilities as a powerful mage.
Character Living Quarters: A treehouse in Leshy
Character Schools: G'raha is a self-directed learner and would make a terrible teacher, so while he can often be seen hitting up the libraries of each school, he doesn't actually attend any of them.
Day to Day Life: G'raha spends most of his time right now familiarizing himself with Folkmore's layout and the like and hitting up the various school libraries for delicious knowledge. He just wants to read Every Book.

Current Mindset/Health: he's just vibing, man. His default state is wanting to help and encourage people, so that's what he's here for
Recent Developments: He got a memento from home in July's trial and he's currently looking for help getting it back in working order if any tech-y types would like to take a look at it. Otherwise he is again just vibing at this point.
Goals For Your Character: I want him to figure out how to live for himself again without all the myriad responsibilities he has at home
Problems With Your Character: He keeps getting reminded of his many, many dead friends and feeling sad about it. Y'know, typical immortal/time traveller problems, he's used to it.

Wanted CR: His canon vibe is that everyone in his city is like "this is our weird grandpa, he won't tell us his name but he would move heaven and earth for us and we love him very much" and I love that and want to reproduce it as much as possible. That said, I also want people poking at why won't he tell anyone his real name, why so sketchy because he is so sketchy even with the weird grandpa vibes.
Unwanted CR: just a note that casual sex is off the table for G'raha just because there is A Lot To Unpack First
Open/Closed to New CR: gimme all the CR

Ariadne | Original

[demonicbeauty]

Player Name: Wizera
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: wizera or PM
Preferred Tag Style: Prose (but I'll do action, I'll just mess it up a lot)
Monthly Pacing: Should be at my usual pace this month. As a practice, I strive to never leave a tag hanging longer than 24 hours.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: While I love romance, I don't actually write smut. I'll just do foreplay and aftercare, with a fade-to-black in the middle.
Permissions: Permissions meme here.

Character Name: Ariadne
Character Age: Nineteen
Character Species: Alastrian (Feel free to read my essay on Alastrian biology here.)
Character Details: She has knee-length hair, usually braided. And if it's at all applicable to you...she looks like Natalie Portman, with gray eyes.
Character Summary: Link to her application here. Basically, she's what would happen if Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Kes from Star Trek: Voyager and Trance Gemini from Andromeda had a child together. Sweet and curious, but with a dangerous side. Super eager to pass for Human and be part of your woooooorld! She comes from a fantasy-medieval kingdom, so she's going to be doing a lot of curtsying until she learns better.

Character Role: Legend
Character Role Deets: Ariadne glows when she's happy. And she's also slowly learning that she can manifest wings, but she hasn't quite figured that out yet.
Character Living Quarters: She's got a house in Leshy. Details are here.
Character Schools: She's a part-time music teacher at Kuma Lisa. And will probably start taking classes when she figures out how that works.
Day to Day Life: Ariadne's such a new arrival that most of her day-to-day is still being spent exploring.

Current Mindset/Health: Her health is good! Her mindset is mostly confusion and wonderment. She's excited to meet new people and learn new things, but she still hasn't figured out how everything works yet, especially as a new arrival from a fantasy-medieval setting.
Recent Developments: Arriving!
Goals For Your Character: My ultimate goal is always to get the character to a place where she knows for sure that she doesn't need to go back to her own world. This could mean wanting to stay in the game setting forever, or eventually going home with someone she grows close with. That's a very long-term goal. In the short term, I want to just get a lot of CR for her, gradually making her more comfortable with telling people that she isn't Human. And, of course, romance is always a definite desire!
Problems With Your Character: Ariadne's still trying to figure out how people feel about non-Humans here.

Wanted CR: ROMANCE (F/M), found family, especially father or mother figures, non-Human friends, people who need to learn that non-Humans are all right.
Unwanted CR: No negative CR for the sake of negative CR. Happy to have someone hate her, there just needs to be a good and interesting reason. Not just...coz.
Open/Closed to New CR: Permanently open, I suspect!

[heirlift]

Player Name: Tyrian
Player Pronouns: they/them
Player Contact: nauticals (add away!) Tyrian#8117 (free to add, just let me know who you are.)
Preferred Tag Style: Prose preferred but I can match!
Monthly Pacing: I should be clear for the foreseeable future, unless I start a new job in July. I try to clear out my inbox once a day, to variable success. I'm always happy to prioritize impactful threads on request!
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Nothing immediately comes to mind!
Permissions: permissions and more on his nav

Character Name: John Egbert
Character Age: 20
Characer Species: human
Character Details: Nothing exceptionally noteworthy -- he wears glasses and has a bit of an overbite but is otherwise pretty average.
Character Summary: Where do I even start. Homestuck is an isekai anime a webcomic starring four kids, then twelve aliens, then four more kids, trying to save existence as we know it, in the form of a really wild video game. They do manage to save the everything, so that's good. Everyone is traumatized and no one is happy, so that's bad. (Arguably, some of them are happy, but there's plenty of angst to go around.) John in particular has an integral role in all of this. Suffering from main character syndrome, he's actually the only one to get to the end of the story as his "original" self. Everyone else gets pushed and prodded through various branching timelines, and we just don't think too hard about the versions left behind in the dead timelines.

Character Role: Familiar
Character Role Deets: Thus far, this has manifested itself in very cute bunny ears and a little bunny tail, very adorable.
Character Living Quarters: An apartment in Satori Hills
Character Schools: Nowhere, as of yet, but he will probably start exploring this soon.
Day to Day Life: Thus far, he's just been trying to get his footing, and really doesn't stray too far from his apartment, unless forced. My goal for the next month or two is to get him out and exploring the setting more!

Current Mindset/Health: Physically, he's perfectly healthy. Emotionally, not so much. He had a very abnormal teenagehood which has led to a severe lack of knowledge on how to interact with other people and plenty of trauma that he is still repressing. He suffers from depression and a lack of identity -- losing out on that teenage experience of exploring yourself really set him back. He doesn't really let on about most of this, but those who get close to him can probably start to recognize the patterns.
Recent Developments: He's learning about sexuality and identity! That's a big thing for him. His view on these things heretofore has been very binary -- as a 13-year-old coming from the year 2009, he didn't really have a lot of exposure. But he's learning that there are things like bisexuality, pansexuality, nonbinary, ace spectrum, etc.
Goals For Your Character: I would love to keep exploring the theme of self-discovery and learning how to bond with new people.
Problems With Your Character: See all of the above! He's also struggling to accept this as his new life for now, even if he should be used to universe-hopping by now. That's actually the problem -- he's kind of tired and just would Rather Not™.

Wanted CR:
🐇 John can always use more friends, tbqh.
🐇 People to push him into uncomfortable situations or self-reflection. The kind who don't really take "no" for an answer.
🐇 Non-castmates willing to share their interdimensional trauma? It would be nice for him to learn there are others out there.
🐇 Musical buddies! John plays piano and would enjoy a jam session or two.
🐇 Smooches?! He's pretty unlikely to initiate this himself, but please. A smooch, a hug, anything. Please aggressively introduce him to physical affection.
Unwanted CR: Can't think of anything I actively don't want! As is usually the case with seeking 'pushy' CR, he might not react well, depending entirely on context, but as a player I'm interested in exploring that, too.
Open/Closed to New CR: I'd like to balance both, deepening existing CR, and making new pals too.

[rupertstear]

Player Name: Tseil
Player Pronouns: He/Him
Player Contact: plurk
Preferred Tag Style: I'm a prose guy, but I don't mind matching anything
Monthly Pacing: Just got a new job, so I might be a bit slow until the schedule is sorted out. But I will do my best to stay on top of things.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Excessive abuse (especially verbal and emotional), in-depth gore and torture.
Permissions: here

Character Name: Lan Bo
Character Age: Unknown, looks to be about early twenties
Characer Species: Merman
Character Details: He does not understand common very well, so he will have difficulty talking with other characters. The most fluent of conversation you might get from him would probably be with morse code. But even then, it needs to be simple words for him to understand. He'll be able to slowly learn and understand more as interactions progress. But also has a weird level of selective learning. So the things that stick might not always make sense.

Character Summary: Lan Bo became an experiment in a laboratory, in an effort to find the extent of his skills, limits, and create even stronger children for war. His stay in the laboratory was unpleasant, to say the least, but he finally escaped with the help of an Alpha he was paired with a handful of years ago.

Lan Bo is considered extremely dangerous and is prone to violence, especially when he feels threatened. He even can be vindictive. But he generally comes acrost as naive, having difficulty understanding a lot of the conversations around him, but also approaching things with a childlike curiosity and cluelessness. He also will eat anything and everything within arm's reach if left unattended.

Character Role: Myth
Character Role Deets: No manifestations currently; unsure if I'll be interested in some later. He's already got enough weird stuff.
Character Living Quarters: House #3 in Gram
Character Schools: N/A, but I'd be down for someone dragging him to one.
Day to Day Life: What can they usually be seen doing? Do they have a job? Run errands? Explain here!

Current Mindset/Health: Lan Bo is currently hurt a bit emotionally, because of Bai's coldness towards him before he got yoinked here. He may have moments of grumpiness, but overall, you can expect him to be relatively neutral unless he feels threatened.

Physically, he's suffering from a NSFW injury in the pelvis area. The details of which aren't yet disclosed, but it is probably from triggering content. He keeps it covered with his forefins, so it certainly won't be noticeable unless otherwise revealed intentionally.

Recent Developments: Traumatised from being a lab experiment, so he may spook under certain conditions and has no qualms about trying to outright murder someone. So just a heads up there. If you need plotting to avoid certain reactions, hmu.
Goals For Your Character: Honestly, I'm mostly here to play a merman brat and see how his life goes. I have no solid plans, but I'm absolutely down to just plot whatever. I'm also new here, so ideas may develop later.
Problems With Your Character: He's mad at Bai, but also misses him a lot. Also, see above for injury. But that's about the worst of it.

Wanted CR: Honestly, just about anything. I'd love to see what kind of relationships this brat could make. Friends, enemies, potential romantic interests, bad influences, attempted good influences.
Unwanted CR: IC, he's going to be against anything sexual, due to an injury.
Open/Closed to New CR: Open

(CW: depression, PTSD, co-dependent relationship, bullying)

[desiretoplease]

Player Name: argustar
Player Pronouns: they/them
Player Contact: argustar or PM a character journal
Preferred Tag Style: A slight preference for prose, but I can do either.
Monthly Pacing: My boss lets me tag at work! Best. Boss. EVER. So most of my posting tends to happen when people are busy, but sometimes I give a second run-through in the early evening. I do tend to take Sunday off to rest and recharge, though.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: I would prefer not sexual as most of mine are teenagers and Misty's ace. If a Sorata or an Alistair were apped, though, and their players were okay with it, I'm willing to have their respective girlfriends open to the idea of/mind-whammied and then sex (which would be warned for since both Arashi and Mariane are seventeen). Tinya's too young, though, if either of her possible boyfriends were apped, I'd set a strict Second Base and Second Base Only (with a ton of warnings) rule in place.
Permissions: Misty, Arashi, Tinya, Mariane

Character Name: Mariane Cousland, Misty Day, Arashi Kishuu, Tinya Wazzo
Character Age: seventeen, early twenties, seventeen, fifteen
Character Species: Misty is a witch, Mariane is from Ferelden, and Tinya is from Bgztl
Character Details: Mariane is the Hero of Ferelden for slaying the Archdemon and ending the Blight. She is profoundly uncomfortable with this as much of the time, she was fighting back serious depression on top of PTSD after what happened to her family. Alistair had made her more approachable, but she's going to start missing him terribly soon.

Misty is a witch and apparently a naturally-born one, rather than a descendent of Salem. She's very powerful and she knows it, so she tries to be careful to not overstep her boundaries. She's also very eager to make friends since she'd been relatively alone as a child and actively picked on by her peers while she was at school for seeming weird.

Arashi is a mess. She, too, is struggling with PTSD and likely depression brought about by her time living on the streets and eating thrown-out food to survive. She also knows that she screwed herself and Sorata over to an absurd degree, so she's torn between wanting to go home (which runs the risk of Sorata's destiny kicking in), having Sorata come here (which would also potentially run the risk of Sorata's destiny), and staying here forever alone because she believes she would only be a liability to the other Dragons of Heaven.

Tinya is having fun! As much fun as she can, as often as she can! She lives in exclamation points and Manic Pixie Dream Girl-ing for as many people as possible. She usually puts the happiness of others first, so while pretty much everyone knows that she wants two boyfriends from her new home, she's trying to focus on other people's problems, rather than confront the idea that she may never leave and see anyone from home--either her new one or her old one--ever again.
Character Summary: Hmm. I think I covered most of that in Details. Whoops?

Character Role: Mariane is a Legend, Misty is a Familiar, Arashi is a Myth, and Tinya is a Legend.
Character Role Deets: Tinya is pretty much set in her role as a Legend.

Mariane could easily backslide into Familiar or even Myth depending on what kind of support structure she has when she fully confronts the fact that she's here and Alistair is there and there's no way of knowing what might happen in the future.

Arashi could be brought back up from Myth to Familiar to Legend if she learns how to forgive herself but like that's going to happen!

Misty could go either way or stay as a Familiar forever, it depends on how things pan out for her.
Character Living Quarters: Mariane lives in a cottage, Misty lives in a treehouse, and both Arashi and Tinya live in apartments
Character Schools: Arashi and Tinya go to Kuma Lisa. Tinya also goes to Baba Yaga along with Misty. Arashi and Mariane go to Agrona. Eventually, Arashi can be talked into going to Baba Yaga to see if she can develop skills outside of being the hidden maiden of Ise.
Day to Day Life: Tinya goes to school and pretty much enjoys as much as she possibly can. Misty is focusing on strengthening her magic. Mariane is putting herself through brutal fight training using a sword and a dagger and eventually will start learning hand-to-hand combat. And Arashi mopes.

Current Mindset/Health: All of them have something in the back of their mind that they don't really want to address, but much of it's been covered above. They're all in prime physical health, though!
Recent Developments: Tinya wants to adopt Deku as her BFF/brother figure. Misty is fascinated by the differences in magic she's been learning of. Mariane is doing her best to compartmentalize like a champ because that's healthy! And Arashi is attempting the same, though most of her thoughts go back to Sorata.
Goals For Your Character: Make friends, mentors, found family! Hope that someone apps Alistair and/or Sorata (or Tinya's boyfriends, Brainiac 5 or Jo Nah, though that's a bit of a stretch)!
Problems With Your Character: LOL, all of mine are secret basket cases. Mariane and Arashi hide theirs the best, Tinya and Misty are trying to focus on the cool new things here, but eventually, all of them will crack under the strain of trying to maintain their fronts. Oh yeah, and Arashi's still a vampire and needs to lock down a steady food source.

Wanted CR: Family figures! Mentors! Friends! Lord knows all of my girls could use all of the above.
Unwanted CR: I'm never open to negative CR for the sake of negative CR. It's just not fun for me to play.
Open/Closed to New CR: Give me all of the CR! All of it!

[astralera]

Player Name: Neth
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: froakie | feel free to add me
Preferred Tag Style: No preference
Monthly Pacing: starting a new job, so likely slow overall but with bursts of boomeranging
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Negative CR for the sake of negative CR, and smut.
Permissions: permissions + impressions | opt-out

Character Name: Era
Character Age: 25-26
Characer Species: Au Ra
Character Details:
• On the shorter end of 4'7", very slim, and sporting horns in place of ears, a tail, and patches of scales. Her eyes are a bright, ethereal blue that have an inner luminescence. There is a thin ring of light around the rim of her pupils.
• Good posture, quick to blush, and does her best to maintain eye contact when conversing with someone new or of a higher standing than herself. Is less strict about propriety with close friends in casual settings. A part of her is always moving—usually her tail. Carries herself like the warrior she is, though in strictly social settings she is less confident in her movements.
• She is soft-spoken and her voice is melodic, lilting; accented by a mixture of something RP British with a faint Irish undertone.
• Her soul is very dense; at least nine times more so than the average mortal. It is an ethereal, vibrant shade of celeste blue not unlike that of her eyes, streaked with golden tones, and is very, very old.
• She has a pact with the monarch of the fae folk, and thus is effectively 'fae-touched' for those sensitive to such magic. She also has a protective covenant with the Father of Dragons, Midgardsormr.
• Most notable to the magically-sensitive is the powerful blessing placed on her that protects her essence from being corrupted by external, elementally imbalanced magical forces (up to a certain extent).

▷ While she is skilled in all available combat jobs, her proficiency in each discipline varies and her talent lies primarily in magic. Her primary job roles are: Summoner, Sage, Dark Knight, Dragoon, Dancer, and Blue Mage. (Powers & abilities can be found here)

Character Summary: (from the end of patch 6.0)
• Era is very compassionate, and helpful to a fault. She tends to be very literal, straightforward, and honest with her communication, which has helped her in many ways, but has been a hindrance in others. She is strong and independent, and confident in her skills, and while largely a benefit, it does often lead to her tackling things on her own when it would be better to ask for help.
• She is polite and friendly, though doesn't suffer rudeness. She has a good amount of sass and a dry sense of humour that occasionally runs dark. She has a notoriously calm disposition, though she is quite good at masking any internal distress, and is also known to let her temper flare occassionally.
• She is curious and eager to learn about most anything, but particularly anything pertaining to magic. Staying still is not something she can handle for very long, and it is part of the reason why she's always on the go—always learning something new, or improving on what she already knows.
• Her concern for the safety and well-being of others tends to be what causes her to butt heads with others the most, and while she may seem to treat everything as black and white, she sees the world as shades of grey and is always open to a shift in perspective.

Character Role: Familiar
Character Role Deets: Primarily manifests as an ivory dragonet that is about the size of a domestic housecat, though as of yet she hasn't done much at all with the ability.
Character Living Quarters: A burrow in Lapine
Character Schools: n/a as of yet
Day to Day Life: Currently her time is spent trying to thoroughly explore every last inch she can find of the realm, noting down the flora and fauna she finds.

Current Mindset/Health: Very homesick, and trying to process recent canon events—what it means about her identity, and her future. She's still recovering from a severe injury, but aside from restrictions to physical combat jobs it doesn't impact her much anymore.
Recent Developments: Newly arrived! Still debating whether or not she got her chocobo from the June trial or her unusually lustrous magic dog.
Goals For Your Character: I want her to have the chance to live for herself, learn who she is as a person. So much of her identity was tied up with being the 'Warrior of Light', she doesn't know what to do with herself now that she doesn't have to be a hero.
Problems With Your Character: Lonely, but more than a bit overwhelmed by everything, which leaves her struggling to open up to others. Also still mourning a few losses, especially with how Folkmore reminds her of a certain somewhere.

Wanted CR: Friends and found family. I'm fine with whatever develops, really.
Unwanted CR: No pointlessly negative CR
Open/Closed to New CR: Open! If anyone is open/interested in CR just let me know and I'll keep an eye out for posts/top levels.

[overnightoaks]

Player Name: Chris
Player Pronouns: she/they
Player Contact: millennialfalcon + ©hris#1234
Preferred Tag Style: I prefer brackets, but if you would rather do prose then I'll switch to match
Monthly Pacing: I'm usually pretty slow, mostly poking at threads during the week and then clearing my inbox on weekends. starting this Saturday, I am going on vacation for 2 weeks, so I may be slower than usual.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: I do not play smut, not even FTB/handwaved.
Permissions: here!

Character Name: Henry Oak
Character Age: ~37
Characer Species: 75% human, 25% wood elf (functionally human, just with sightly pointy ears)
Character Details: Henry is blonde, white, cismale. He wears glasses but he doesn't actually need them to see, he just thinks they make him look smarter. He is also a vegan, which he WILL bring up at any opportunity.
Character Summary: If Ned Flanders was an unwashed hippie druid who's simultaneously from the d&d universe and also San Dimas, California, but instead of perfect little angels his kids were literal embodiments of an eldritch god of pure chaos... That would be Henry.

Character Role: Legend
Character Role Deets: Henry has two mismatched wings: one of a Horned Lark, and one of an Arabian Golden Sparrow. (I have commissioned art but it is still in progress.) Every time he casts a spell of 1st level or higher, a halo appears over his head. The halo is made of static you might see on a CRT TV, or dust on an old fashioned film reel. It kind of hurts to look at. When he gets emotional, his eyes glow and change color. I haven't my decided fully what emotions go with what colors, but every time he is angry, they go black and every time he is feeling extremely paternal, they glow purple.
Character Living Quarters: tiny house in Talaria, with a rooftop garden.
Character Schools: Mon/Wed, high school level Earth Sciences at Kuma Lisa. Tues/Thurs, beginner druid magic lessons at Baba Yaga. Details are here!
Day to Day Life: Henry spends most of his time either teaching the above classes, practicing his own druidic magic skills, or checking in on his CR, especially the teens/young adults. He's happy to cook (vegan) meals for anyone who is having trouble feeding themselves.

Current Mindset/Health: Henry is in a fairly positive mindset, though he is a little wary of the trials after the disaster scenarios this month. He is in good health, having healed from the stab wound he had when he entered game.
Recent Developments: Henry has recently had to face the fact that the teenagers around here are horny little fuckers, and there's nothing he can do about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ He's trying to work up the nerve to be more supportive about it, and to make himself available as a source of nonjudgmental wisdom and guidance.
Goals For Your Character: I 👏 WANT 👏 HENRY 👏 TO 👏 ADOPT 👏 THE 👏 YOUTHS!! My main goals for Henry are to have him train people in druid magic, and have him be a father figure for anyone who needs one.
Problems With Your Character: Henry's main struggle right now is missing his wife and kids. And then also the aforementioned struggle with trying not to narc on all these teens having sex.

Wanted CR: Potential adoptees, students, other adults for him to have some friendly relationships with where they're on more even footing.
Unwanted CR: I'm not particularly interested in romance for Henry. While he and his wife are polyamorous, he would not want to take a new partner without being able to run it by her first.
Open/Closed to New CR: Henry's still new here, so I'm very open to new CR!

varen avegos | original | familiar

[unvocalized]

Player Name: Megan
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: fairandbright
Preferred Tag Style: Action
Monthly Pacing: It's kind of up in the air. I've been hitting tags hard this past week so I took yesterday off. There may be more days like that.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: No non con or mentions of suicide.
Permissions: here

Character Name: Varen Avegos
Character Age: 36
Characer Species: Werewolf
Character Details: Brown hair, blue eyes that shift to yellow during the full moon because he's a werewolf. His senses are stronger, he can shift outside of full moon times, and he's pretty athletic. Catch him doing parkour sometimes.
Character Summary: Varen is a loyal and dedicated individual who has settled himself into a life of service as a bodyguard to the royal family in his native land. He's quiet, thoughtful, and is trying to lay low after the recent heartache of losing his love (the princess he was guarding) to a political marriage in a foreign land. Ordinarily he tries for a stoic, calm demeanor but werewolves are emotional creatures and right before the full moon is when that's the most intense. He's protective, cautious, and a little bit of a buzzkill because of it, though experience has proven that someone with enough charm can convince him to do nearly anything.

Character Role: Familiar
Character Role Deets: It will mainly be a wolf for simplicity's sake, but he'll also have a bird form for scouting things out overhead and a horse form in case he needs to rush anyone to safety.
Character Living Quarters: a cottage in Gram
Character Schools: N/A
Day to Day Life: A lot of exploring so far. He's not quite settled yet.

Current Mindset/Health: He's pretty quiet and thoughtful after the trial. He knows a version of him was left at home but dying and coming back a bunch of times seems to have kickstarted his brain into wondering if he'll merge with his other self when he gets back or how it'll go. Obviously he's meant to learn something here to take back with him so this version of himself can't cease to be on achieving what he needs to do, right?
Recent Developments: N/A; still too new, I feel.
Goals For Your Character: I'm still playing it by ear, but it'd be nice for him to heal from his heartbreak and learn better emotional control.
Problems With Your Character: He's a bit depressed losing his love since werewolves go hard on the mate for life deal. So he's trying not to think of her and yet everything is reminding him of her! He's also missing the support of his pack but that's what being here and forming a new one is all about!

Wanted CR: Friendship and family dynamics for now. Flirting is fine, but he's really in no place to reciprocate.
Unwanted CR: Negative CR. Let's keep it friendly.
Open/Closed to New CR: Open to it!

[blackmothwings]

Player Name: Clari
Player Pronouns: She/Her
Player Contact: awakened. PM is okay too!
Preferred Tag Style: Action, typically, but I'm happy to match!
Monthly Pacing: Slower than usual this month due to some IRL and work stuff. Typically, I'm slow during the week due to work, but I try to speed things up on weekends.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: I'm open to most things!
Permissions: Lucille's is here, and Dee's is here. They both serve as an opt-out too, if you'd rather not receive Lucille or Dee tags.

Maggie (Izuku Midoriya, Minato Arisato, Nico di Angelo)

[defendure]

Player Name: Maggie
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: roseburst! Feel free to add me.
Preferred Tag Style: Action, but I don't mind prose if you really don't like action.
Monthly Pacing: I will be a hair slow at the start of July, just until the 5th - I'll be mobile-only, so that somewhat effects my tagging speed.
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Nothing serious! Izuku isn't open for romantic/sexual CR, but Minato and Nico are if something develops.
Permissions: Izuku, Minato, Nico.