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CR WORKSHIP: MAY 2025


Our CR Meme CR Workship is where players can drop all the cool info for their characters and try to plot with others to continue existing or create new CR. Be sure to look over the MANTA Board as well as current events if you'd like to include them in your post.

We also include a designated toplevel for Crew Recruitment where players can make OOC ad posts for others to either join or request to join or make a crew. This is all for OOC coordination, so you'll have to figure out how it works ICly.

If you have multiple characters, make an individual toplevel for yourself with your player info and comment to it with each character separately.

PLAYER INFO

Player:
Contact: Preferred means of contact


CHARACTER INFO

Character: Character
Canon: Include canon point
Armada: Paladin or Corsair

About: Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits—whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.

Abilities: Include both canon and abilities you'd like to develop through the tattoo.


PLANS

General: Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term.
MANTA Board: Any plans for the MANTA Board?
Event: Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?

CR Dreams: What kind of CR do you wish to have? Include what you can offer with your character as well.

Etc.: Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. NOTE: we have an image code for players to use as it will fix the width of the image to 400px. This is so large images don't take up entire pages. If your image is smaller than that you can remove the code, otherwise please use the code.



garudas: (🗡️ 047)

benedikta harman 🗡️ final fantasy xvi 🗡️ corsair

[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-06 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
CHARACTER INFO

Character: Benedikta Harman
Canon: Final Fantasy XVI, post Wings of Change.
Armada: Corsair

About: Benedikta Harman is a woman who is all about her survival and self-preservation first and foremost. Having climbed out of the depths of a cruel and terrible youth, she ascended to a place of power within the Kingdom of Waloed after being rescued, thanks to her talents in subterfuge and swordplay, as well as being the Dominant of the Eikon Garuda. Now the Head of the Elite Intelligencers, Waloed's spies, she is—or was, in the case of Escordvi—fiercely loyal to her king. However, not everything is as it seems with her.

She is loyal, but to a fault. And although things have changed for her since coming to Escordvi, she can still be the ruthless, cold-hearted, guarded woman that she has grown up to be. Deep down, however, she is merely a woman who has sought love and validation all her life, and a need to be useful, and once found it in all the wrong places. And now, after recent developments and revelations, she has found it and is working on healing those old wounds born from betrayal and loneliness, as well as trying to live a life that she was robbed of in the past.

Abilities:
🗡️ MAGIC: In canon, she can wield strong wind magic, such as summoning tornadoes and violent gales, and can also teleport herself and anyone else she chooses to another location. Benedikta can also summon her egis, Suparna and Chirada (wind-based elementals). Over time, she's developed her own magic separate of Garuda's that don't require her aether to use, such as wings, healing winds, and most recently, transforming her arms into claws similar to those that she uses in canon.

🗡️ GARUDA: Being the Dominant of Garuda, she is able to take on two forms of the Eikon: semi-primed and fully primed by drawing upon her aether. When she is semi-primed, she grows a set of large feathered wings, has glowing green marks over her skin, and bright blue eyes. She is fast, agile, and powerful, and can summon claws that are large enough to tear apart buildings. When she is primed, she transforms into the much larger version of her Eikon. Under Garuda's influence, she can summon powerful, devastating wind storms. At the moment, she refuses to use too much of Garuda's power, and though Garuda is present again, Benedikta only uses her magic under dire circumstances.



PLANS

General: I have quite a few general things lined up for her that I am (tentatively) excited about! Just need to get them off the ground!
🗡️ First things first, Benedikta's sanctuary on the Hideaway's island, The Roost. She has been taking in women mostly at the moment who need a safe place to stay or who had been in bad circumstances, but that will likely expand in the future to children should the opportunity arise. There will likely be "quests" involved, such as helping with remodelling, training, supply fetching, and of course saving people. I am just putting feelers out at the moment, but if anyone would be interested in helping her with this, I'm open to discussion! I'd only ask that anyone who does gets CR with her first before going any further with it, whether it be bringing people there or assisting with other tasks.

🗡️ She is still looking into the rifts, so any place where there is potential to find something, she will be there. She'd like to close them forever, everyone else be damned, so... :)

🗡️ Because her FFXVI curse has worsened due to recent events, she's going to be looking for more ways to cure it. Alfyn was able to lessen the pain that comes with it, but she would like to cure it completely.

🗡️ After the abductions last month, she is currently laying low while looking into the other half of a merchant couple who escaped. She doesn't know where she is, but she is trying to find her.

🗡️ She kind of ruined the chocobo stables on the Roost last month, so if anyone wants to help her fix those... :(

🗡️ Except I'm making her take a vacation. No more stress for a month.

MANTA Board:
🗡️ She'll be helping arrange and going on the treasure hunt with Cid and co. this month, so I'll likely be poking around that log.

🗡️ I think Feather Me This would be hilarious.

🗡️ I also think some rift shenanigans would be hilarious, so if anyone wants an angry birdie dropping in on them, I am game.

🗡️ She could be convinced to do Eltrut Snap with someone. 100 dubloons per photo is not a bad payout.

🗡️ The Things We Do for Cheese! Honestly, she'd be pissed about it at first, but who doesn't like cheese???

🗡️ Corsairs of Victory. While she can't shoot a gun, she would be a great partner for anyone who would like to cheat with guns!

🗡️ Also open to the No Sin Unpunished and Cat Kneads bounties!

🗡️ And any of the special quests as well (including crew quests for Hideaway people!)

Event: I'm going to be turning her into a mermaid this year OR SO HELP ME. She didn't get to go to Pearlhaven last year after she primed into Garuda, so I get to do it this year! So she'll be down in the water looking for Elah. She does feel a little bad for the whale. Not really sure what else yet, but I'll be open to plotting once the log goes up!

CR Dreams: Honestly, I'm great with any kind of CR but Benedikta isn't the most pleasant person sometimes so anyone who is okay with possibly negative CR would be ideal. To a much lesser extent these days but still possible: people she can manipulate into doing her bidding, or people she can team up with and then betray later, whether they are paladin or corsair, she will take them. She does have a bit of a soft and protective spot for younger girls (especially any who have had troubled pasts), so I would adore exploring that, if any want to come rest under her wings. Also, I love pitting her against people who are really good at getting under her skin. But honestly, just give me all kinds of CR, I'm here for it. She does get along with like-minded people, so anyone who is just as ruthless and cutthroat as she is, and willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done.

And some other gal pals would be super cool.
Edited 2025-05-06 01:12 (UTC)
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[personal profile] coldjustice 2025-05-06 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
we talked a little about things we could do with these two. i am still very much interested in cr with both of your girls. i think they could both be very good for neve and she for them! any kind of cr with neve takes Time, but she will offer her services as investigator to the world at large as soon as i get my butt in gear for a shellphone post, so that could be a decent place to start.

the only thing i will say is neve doesn't take well to being betrayed - she has a lot of abandonment issues - but she's good with grumpy people and is in the same "will literally do (almost) anything it takes to protect and save people / get the job done" boat. ANYWAY i will gladly throw neve at benna, or i'd love to have benna thrown at neve, and we can see what happens!
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[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-06 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm gonna be honest and say that my desired CR has been copied and pasted for so long and I never bother to change it LOL. She's less likely to betray now, even if she still would if the circumstances called for it, but I don't think Neve will fall into that category at all. (It's usually smelly boys.)

But I am definitely excited for these two and seeing where they go, especially after all that I have heard about Neve so far. :D
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[personal profile] coldjustice 2025-05-06 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
LMAO that's so real though XD

Yes!! They've both been betrayed a bunch from the sound of it, so i think they'll have a lot to bond over re: life sucks!!! I'm gonna touch that benna tag when i get back home! There's juicy stuff she gave neve and I'm looking forward to their cr
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[personal profile] activatingcombatmode 2025-05-06 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Also how do you feel about Zack taking Benna up in her magic lessons and him totally biffing it... Or maybe they can meet underwater LMAO
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[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-06 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I think we should totally do this, and Benna would be such a hardass teacher.

Smacking her pointer stick on his desk like AGAIN!!!

okay no I'm kidding, a little
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[personal profile] refantasma 2025-05-07 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
So... I at some point, I want Nico to shadow travel in front of her, because it's basically the same as Barnabas' shadow teleportation-thing. And he kinda looks like a little Barnabas.
garudas: (🗡️ 049)

[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-08 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
AHAH oh my god... she's going to be "what's with this sassy lost child" at him. But I'd love for these two to meet, and I can definitely see the similarities. She'd definitely be a little weirded out at first by it.
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[personal profile] refantasma 2025-05-09 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what I'm aiming for lol. Give the FFXVI cast some heebeejeebees.
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[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-10 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
We could maybe plan something for the event? Or next month could do something with the MANTA board :) I might be full up on threads at the moment, I'm just debating on whether I still want to top level on that treasure hunt log or not HAHA. But for sure we can arrange something!
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[personal profile] refantasma 2025-05-11 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure! Let me know what you'd like. Nico's easy to plane around, he can just shadow travel in front of her.
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[personal profile] deepstar 2025-05-08 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Bene Raha rifts!!!!
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[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-08 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes!!! I don't have anything planned atm with the rifts, just more of a general thing, but as soon as they do come up... points at eyes, points at you
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[personal profile] deepstar 2025-05-10 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
honestly... if g'raha can figure that a person is behind them and not the artifact going nuts...

he would probably address the network going 'DO NOT'
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[personal profile] serendipitously 2025-05-08 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
Benedikta was one of my favorite characters from 16 and I'll die on the hill that she had so much wasted potential. So I'm so happy to see her being played!

I imagine she and Betsy might actually be able to get along pretty well eventually. She'd be very supportive of a place for women becasue she's spent a lot of her life being fucked over/used. Would def be someone who would jump at a chance to help with training or something like that.

But really I'd just love her to have female friends =( She used to have a ton back in her own world but circumstances (editorial) separated them and has been stuck with boys for so long. She's also going to be looking for MANTA board stuff because she will need things to do to keep distracted from thinking about life so maybe they could do one of those or run into one another while doing one?
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[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-09 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my gosh hello!!! I am so here for the Benedikta appreciation!! 🙌💚 We will die on this wasted potential hill together!

Benedikta is surrounded by boys so having some ladies around would be SO NICE. I'd love for them to get some CR, and for sure if Betsy wants to come along and help with sanctuary stuff, that would be amazing! I already have a few different quests in mind for later so I'll for sure hit you up when it comes.

In the meantime, do you have a log that I could hit up? Alternatively, she's going to be going underwater for the event so they could always meet there too!
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[personal profile] serendipitously 2025-05-09 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
I've written essays to my friends about how wasted both her and Jill's potential was =( Love the game but just...yeeeeah

Oh no they can talk about what it's like to constantly be surrounded by icky boys and testosterone too haha

I do not, I'm usually a weenie at weenie hut jr thats shy and awkward about putting up things in new games. BUT I can always throw something up sometime with her just exploring places to get a better feel for things.
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[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-10 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I feel that, believe me... That is what RP is for... TO FIX THINGS.

But no worries haha!! I totally get it. Were there any MANTA board things that interested you on my list? We could always start there with a closed log or something! :)
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[personal profile] serendipitously 2025-05-11 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
truth! i use rp for many fixing of canons

and I was thinking she'd be pretty good for Drowned in Silence so was looking at that
And also the Rifts because she's stuck on thinking about home hardcore so being teleported somewhere would be...hilarious. She was a part of this ridiculous team in canon that involved being teleported to other dimensions in rifts so she'd just be like no not again :(

if something like that would interest you?
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[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-12 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, something with the rifts might be a fun way to start some CR!! It could drop her off somewhere ridiculous like up on the clifftops of her crew's island in the middle of a herd of gryphons.... :D
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[personal profile] serendipitously 2025-05-12 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
haha omg that would work for me. It'd be double hilarious because as a teenager she was sent to herd sheep by her parents. She'll just find herself exhasperated that now it's a herd of gryphons. why's it always weird stuff?
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[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-12 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL it will definitely be very weird...

But I can set something up for us if that would work for you? :) I'll drop it here once it's up!
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[personal profile] serendipitously 2025-05-13 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds great to me if you'd like! And no rush on getting it up!
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[personal profile] garudas 2025-05-14 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Here you go! I hope this works :D