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CR WORKSHIP: MARCH 2026

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.

To help coordinate specific plots for players, we have a few designated toplevels that can be used to highlight particular plots, scenarios, etc. These can be useful for players who may not want to write a full comment but have ideas. Players who do write full CR comments can still use these toplevels and link their comment if you have your ideas in there instead.

• Crew Recruitment. Players can make OOC ad posts for others to join, looking to join, or make a crew. This is all for OOC coordination, so you'll have to figure out how it works ICly.
  
• Side Plotting. This is for any personal plots or MANTA Board quests that require more coordination, perhaps to bring about a resolution or make an important discovery of some kind. Like with the Event toplevel, this is NOT for generic plotting that would fit a general meme comment.
  
• Help Me Plot! Have a plot idea you want to do but have no idea how to go about and do it? You can try and workshop it here!

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?

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.

IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE CHARACTERS, create your own toplevel and comment with each character separately to it. Include your name in the subject line. Although not specifically included, you are more than welcome to write up a greeting message along with the form! SUBJECT LINE: CHARACTER | CANON | ARMADA <font style="font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: #8e492f; border-bottom: 2px solid #827662;">PLAYER INFO</font> <div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;"><b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> Preferred means of contact </div> <font style="font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: #8e492f; border-bottom: 2px solid #827662;">CHARACTER INFO</font> <div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;"><b>Character:</b> Character <b>Canon:</b> Include canon point <b>Armada:</b> Paladin or Corsair <b>About:</b> 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. <b>Abilities:</b> Include both canon and abilities you'd like to develop through the tattoo. </div> <font style="font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: #8e492f; border-bottom: 2px solid #827662;">PLANS</font> <div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;"><b>General:</b> Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term. <b>MANTA Board:</b> Any plans for the MANTA Board? DELETE IF NOT USING <b>CR Dreams:</b> What kind of CR do you wish to have? Include what you can offer with your character as well. <b>Etc.:</b> Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. IF POSTING AN IMAGE OR GIF, USE THE FOLLOWING CODE. We want all images to be MAX 400px in width or it's going to screw up the page. <img src="IMGURL" width="400"> </div>

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CREW RECRUITMENT AD

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Looking to recruit or join a crew? Then comment here! Include in the subject line where you are Recruiting or Looking for a crew, and fill out the following form:

FOR RECRUITING:
<b>Player:</b> <b>Character(s):</b> All characters in the crew so far <b>Crew:</b> Name of crew <b>About:</b> What y'all do <b>Pitch:</b> If you have any requirements or looking for certain character types, be sure to note it here!

LOOKING TO JOIN:
<b>Player:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>Looking For:</b> What kind of crew are you looking for? Alternatively, what kind of crew would you like to see established? Maybe others might also be interested and could form one!

Recruiting: PLUS ULTRA

[stillarhino]

Player: Mart
Character(s):

Crew List:

Roxas | seasaltkeys
Namine | obliviscere
Nico di Angelo | refantasma
Kieran | ohwowzers
Futaba Sakura | mwehehe
Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito | stillarhino

Crew: PLUS ULTRA | Crew Page! (needs updating)
About: Made up of a group teenagers with big hearts, Plus Ultra is a mixed Armada crew that focuses on exploration and various hero duties and living up that ✨Sunny Tropical Island life!✨ Made up of a crew of people who focus on helping others, rescue missions and patrols. They also focus on researching & exploring islands, while collecting materials and samples for archives and records.

The crew always works for the good of others, make allies and fight for others when they can’t protect themselves.

Pitch: Plus Ultra has it's own island, Hero's Rest, that's equipped with a cottage where the whole crew lives, an onsen, a skate park made from the refurbished coliseum, training grounds, a beach, and multiple swimming holes. We've got moogles, Pokémon, a number of Cerberi, and... apparently a bear that needs dealing with somewhere in the woods. Have I mentioned that it's made up of mostly rowdy teenagers who barely cook? We need someone to make sure they don't die.

Yes, that's the pitch. Interested in joining? Reply here or approach one of the crew!

Recruiting: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARTS

[emet_sulk]

Player: Chips
Character(s):
- Emet-Selch (emet_sulk) [Captain]
- Professor Turo (fractales)
- Ryotaro Dojima (detectiveforheirophant)
- Hythlodaeus (weenwoon)
- Erichthonios (beshackled)
- Shadow (wherethereislight) [Mercenary]

Crew: Raiders of the Lost Arts
About:
Magic, Science, and all-the-ways-they-mix Research Team!

There are a lot of forgotten relics, forsaken lands, and forbidden arts lost to the waves and time. The Raiders of the Lost Arts are dedicated to finding, researching, and potentially utilising whatever they can find. Legal methods of acquiring information and research materials may or may not be followed.

Pitch: Interested characters merely need to have a desire for adventure and learning new things! There is no judgement here.

SIDE PLOTTING

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For specific plotting or other discoveries made through the MANTA Board or elsewhere not event related. Note: general plotting and plans such as "I will be doing A, B, and C" should be kept to full CR comments.

HELP ME PLOT!

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Have a general idea for a plot but not sure how to go about it? Workshop it here!

Meghann's no last names (Arkady, Lune, Namine)

[esquim]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Meghann
Contact: PM or add me on discord! I've been having a rough time with a familial health issue that turned into them passing. So I haven't been around much or communicating much. Trying to get a bit back into things!

lune | expedition 33 | paladin

[esquim]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Lune
Canon: End game (Verso's ending) so just a LOT of spoilers
Armada: Paladin

About: Basic elevator pitch: Born to be a scholar, dreams of being a musician.

Lune comes from Paint Dystopia where everyone dies at increasingly younger years because of the Paintress. This is her last year and she's on an Expedition to save not Paris live up to her parents Expectations because they may have just had a kid to carry on their research. That's about all that can be said without massive Spoilers upon Spoilers

She's very focused on learning, research, exploration, but despite how serious she may seem she does have a certain sense of wonder and whimsy inside of her. She previously cut off all her friends because Emotions Are Hard and semi-regrets that. Granted she also got betrayed like 14 different times by Someone so she's not entirely keen on trust.

Abilities: Elemental magic. Can manipulate ice, fire, lightning, and earth (allegedly, sometimes, but that doesn't do 90million damage so why would you pick it???). She can store those elements in her weapon and then unleash super elemental attacks. Can kick with lightning while having bare feet! Can also fly because walking is too lame for her.

Healing is also evidently an element and she can manipulate that too for a variety of healing spells and removing status ailments.

PLANS

General: Learning. One thing I'd love for her to find more out about is the Rifts. The idea of taking control of them would be fascinating to her and she'd really quickly become attached to the idea that maybe she could bring her friends HERE with them and save them that way. So, some way for her to figure that out? Granted, she's very obsessive and singularly focused, and willing to do whatever it takes for goals, so she there's a lot of morally gray potential.

The mysteries of this place in general would fascinate her, especially as a way to avoid thinking about what happened to her own world. I have found it a bit hard to get involved in those as a new character though so I'll just be looking for opportunities as they come. Or sticking to more fringe things.

She and Verso did find an artifact that she'll be looking for more information into, particularly on the language.

Also music buddies! I want her to play her songs, write more songs, maybe find places to play!
MANTA Board: Music boxes and maybe the Lonely Lighthouse??? She's a bit downcast on Expeditions rn so something that succeeds would be cool.

CR Dreams:
Honestly? Just friends. She's had it rough and isn't in the best headspace to let people in or trust people, but she desperately needs to. She'll need people to help convince her to not just decide to bury her emotions in discovering ~mysteries~ of this place.

Or on the flip side, people who will give her information on puzzles she can solve about this place that will allow her to ignore all her bottled up emotions!

Etc.:

Arkady

[hellofishies]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Arkady
Canon: Freakangels
Armada: Paladin

About:
Manic Pixie Dream Girl but secretly just a super depressed god.

Arkady and her friends were born with weird powers and then their parents sold them to the government because they suck. Being really wild children that had access to godlike powers they did the logical thing: broke the entire world while trying to tell the government to fuck off.

Now she exists in a state of massive depression over accidentally fucking up the world when all she wanted to do was be free.

Abilities: General telekinesis/telepaty, teleportation, vague post/pre-cognition, just basically a lot of psychic stuff.

PLANS

General: Arkady's got a post up wanting to try poking around with her powers. She can sometimes see the future, so if you'd like anything revealed to your character we could maybe figure something out. She's also able to use her telepathy to help people recover lost memories or deal with major issues and she's willing to try helping people out here. Like therapy from the least likely therapist.

idk just something to feel more useful!

MANTA Board: Drink Like a Fish: she will go get drunk there okay

CR Dreams: People she can help with the powers she does have. So basically people who may need mental help or psychic help. Or just someone to talk to.

Etc.: She has a chicken now and will give you free eggs.

Namine

[obliviscere]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Namine
Canon: KH3 ending
Armada: Paladin

About:Basic elevator pitch: Nobody of Kairi born from Sora's heart. IDK don't ask.

Whether or not she's a real girl is a constant struggle to really figure out. Namine used her powers for memory wiping bad times in a card game. She's actually a really good girl but Organization 13 sucks and used her to use other people. At her heart she just wants to help, make up for the pain she's caused, learn how to use her powers maybe, and learn more about drawing and being a real girl.

Abilities: Whatever Nomura wants. Basically memory alteration that she's actually interested in starting to play around with. Water based magic she got from here that she's getting super good at.

PLANS

General: Namine has lost a lot recently with both Sora and Axel going so =( she's super duper sad. Trying to not be so sad though! She may need to lean a bit on some friends. I'm not entirely sure about doing any MANTA or anything, really I just want to focus on catching up with CR or maybe making some new CR

CR Dreams: Catching up with older CR about what's gone on with people disappearing. Art buddies! People she can send her baked goods she's learned to cook to! I'll probably try reaching out to a few people in regards to her maybe needing some people to talk to!

VG (Oswald, Wriothesley, Rosalia)

[icefangrush]

PLAYER INFO

Player: VG
Contact: Discord or DM

Wriothesley | Genshin Impact | Corsair

[icefangrush]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Wriothesley
Canon: Patch 6.2, Post-Luna III
Armada: Corsair

About: Administrator (or Warden) of the Fortress of Meropide. Even though he's technically a prison warden, he's normally easy-going and gets along with people, inviting them to take a moment and share some tea with him. He has some history, some scars that go with that history mentally and physically, but he doesn't find it all that necessary to talk about. As long as everyone's getting along, there's no problem.

Abilities: Wriothesley is a fighter by nature, scrapping since his childhood only to learn boxing formally when he was a bit older and imprisoned in the Fortress. He's also learned small life skills like cooking, sewing, and engineering just to incorporate them into his person.

His main abilities, however, are his Cryo/ice abilities which he can further enhance through his gauntlets. He's rarely shown using his abilities outside of combat, but is quite versatile in combat that it wouldn't be surprising if he tries being subtle about his uses.

PLANS

General: He's starting to get into the gist of things going on in this world... and plans on helping. Of course, this is with the intention of returning (he does have a Fortress that needs him after all). That being said, he's still making time for tea and serving it at the Cafe so stop by for a visit!
MANTA Board: EVERYTHING! I mean... here's his Shiver Me Tinders post. Meanwhile, I'm eyeing... Shadow Ice, Hoard & Order, Hot Paws, and Lonely Lighthouse. Oh, and he might look into that Bounty: Bobby Twinfists! I'll probably post an open log later this month!

CR Dreams: Gimme all the CR! No, I'm serious. Wrio's a chill guy that gets along with most people, buuut not really out of trust for them? Just to get by you see. I'd like him to find people he does trust here.

Etc.:

Oswald | Odin Sphere Leifthrasir | Corsair

[ashadowofhope]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Oswald
Canon: Armageddon - Post-Chapter 2 Fight
Armada: Corsair

About: The 'Shadow Knight' once loyal to the Vanir turned basically mercenary, Oswald's known as being a ruthless killer that has brought many Aesir (and others) to their deaths. Though quiet, he's often thinking to himself or acting on his own, most often in defiance of Death attempting to claim his soul since he was blood contracted to the Netherworld. And when he is not killing things, he's keeps to himself unless prompted.. or unless it's someone he knows/needs to engage in conversation. He's getting better about socializing. Holding back in combat... we'll get back to folks on that one.

Abilities: Oswald's a trained knight and was previously part of the Vanir Army.
That being said, his soul was sold to enhance his strength and magic, granting him Shadow/Dark Magic that carries into this world through his tattoo. This magic manifests as dark fire which he either enshrouds himself in or summons to hunt his enemies. Here's his app to get a better idea of them.

Outside of that, Oswald knows a limited amount of his own alchemy.

PLANS

General: Now that the Honses have disappeared, Oswald's back in stand-by mode for the most part. That being said, it means he's just out and about, not doing much by the looks of it, but always taking note.
MANTA Board: Oooh... I'm eyeing the Bounty: Crescent Reaper and also thinking about Shadow Ice for him. Might be an odd one too, but Lonely Lighthouse could catch his interest.

CR Dreams: More CR. He's very much not a chatty fellow... which is why I'll put him on "Shiver Me Tinders" in a bit. Still, he has spoken to some people that he could see himself getting along with if he speaks to them again.

Etc.:

Rosalia Rossellini | Trauma Team | Paladin

[bloodinbloom]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Rosalia Rossellini
Canon: Post-Game
Armada: Paladin

About: Rosalia is a very sweet girl that grew up isolated from the world, and it wasn't for her safety. Most of her childhood was being bullied in an orphanage until a Professor at a nearby college noticed she had some unique properties in her blood and adopted her. She goes through life inside with a smile, enduring tests that can really hurt, but she doesn't mind. Because one day, she'll be able to go outside and make friends.

Abilities: While Rosalia has no canon abilities magically to speak of, she's a good homebody that great at chores like cooking and cleaning, and she enjoys reading and gardening! Oh, and she likes bugs, but butterflies are her favorite. And here, she'll be able to garden more with her green magic, but it might be a little out of control at first.

Of course, her real 'ability' (if one can call it that) is that she's a natural host to a deadly virus. It doesn't harm her in any way, but if someone else catches it, it doesn't often end very well. Feel free to get an idea from the wikia page.

PLANS

General: Immediately, it's just getting to know people! There was a plan to just do a simple intro post on the Shellphones, but I might tag into "Shiver Me Tinders" with her. Will everything be correct? Probably not, but will she meet people? Likely!
MANTA Board: Funny enough, if she sees the post about Pandora's Tower, she would want to help break the curse and maybe get mixed up in a Bounty along the way. And now that she's in too, she's ready for the Tomayto? Tomahto argument by... cooking tomatoes! She doesn't really get the huge deal with classifying them as fruit or vegetable as long as they're healthy and tasty! She'd also be interested in helping Professor Turo in Hot Paws, studying the Wisps in Who Let the Wisps Out and finally, Sea & Sweetness sounds just right for her. So... I think that means time for an open log.

CR Dreams: Befriend everyone! And... and maybe make friends with the wrong people. Rosalia's not familiar with being used by people, but she's also unfamiliar with people being people. She just wants everyone to be happy.

Etc.:
On her way to make friends!

Heather's Final Fantasies (Dion, Vincent, and Thancred)

[haveaflare]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Heather
Contact: Discord or PM

Dion Lesage | Final Fantasy XVI | Paladin

[haveaflare]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Dion Lesage
Canon: Post fall from Origin
Armada: Paladin

About: You know the earnest, stalwart, kind, righteous, and selfless persona the idea of a "Paladin" calls to mind? That's pretty much Dion in a nutshell. Seriously. People sang songs about that guy. He's also a literal Prince in shining armor, a knight, the embodiment of a demigod in his world...you know, the usual. Basically, if you need a strong arm, an able body, or a kind hand, Dion is your man.

Abilities: Dion can turn into a giant dragon demigod of Light known as Bahamut. Okay, in Escordvi, Bahamut is roughly the size of a bull terrier, but he's really intimidating, okay?! Aside from that, he has all the usual Final Fantasy Dragoon abilities (he can jump. reall. high.) and he uses a spear. He can also channel Bahamut's light into his weapons for extra explosive damage, can manifest Bahamut's wings and tail to fly, and generally a lot of light-based magic.

His tattoo affords him the ability to use Escordvi-based light magic, which he's just starting to experiment with as he enters is literal Paladin era. Read: he's starting to learn how to used a sword and board.

Aside from magic-based abilities, Dion is a master tactician and strategist who has led armies, and is still learning how to live like a normal person.

PLANS

General: Dion has two primary focuses at the moment: further hone his skills as a paladin and assist Joshua in his very important project of curing the Dominants of his world of their Crystal curse which is slowly turning them to stone as they use their Eikonic abilities.

I will probably be throwing him on the Shiver Me Timbers because why the hell not?

MANTA Board: I'm probably not going to be posting a top level as I was just on hiatus last month and I'm still getting back into the swing of things BUT if you want Dion for anything at all, at ALL you just let me know, because I am really flexible!

CR Dreams: I'm always open to new CR, continuing old CR, etc. I WOULD REALLY LOVE SOME NEGATIVE CR FOR HIM. You know this guy can be annoying with his eagerness to help. Someone hate him for it!

Etc.:

Vincent Valentine | Final Fantasy VII Compilation | Corsair

[chaosvessel]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Vincent Valentine
Canon: Assault on the WRO, Dirge of Cerberus
Armada: Corsair

About: Edge Lord who likes sleeping in coffins and feels like the world-devouring entity trapped in his body is his punishment for allowing the scientists he was bodyguarding do a lot of questionable human experiments on their own unborn child. He's quiet. He will, at times, just walk away from a conversation, and shows he cares by standing there silently with his glowing red eyes.

People think he's "cold" and "aloof" and he is both of those things, but he's also very socially awkward, so the whole "cold and aloof" persona really does it for him.

Abilities: Due to a lot of experimentation, Vincent's body is a tad unstable. He can turn into a variety of things, but in Escordvi, he just turns into a massive, hulking beast called the Galean Beast. The entity that's trapped inside him also makes him very fast, able to heal from things that should kill a man (it's how he's not dead in the first place).

He's also a crack shot. He does have his tattoo, but he has no idea what magic it affords him. He just relies on the two materia that came with him, which allow him to fuse the bullets in his gun with lightning or fire.

PLANS

General: It's canon that Vincent simply lurks. He hangs out in weird places, and as such knows things that happen in those weird places where someone might not have known they were being observed. Speaking of, if you'd like Vincent to be lurking when your character gets up to something they don't want people to know, or to swoop in to save them from a situation they shouldn't have been trapped in, hit me up!
MANTA Board: There are some good ones, but I'm trying not to take on too much with top levels this month and I'm going to throw this guy on the Shiver Me Tinders meme, too. That being said, if you want the gun hobo along on a mission, he does quests for coin on the regular, so let me know!

CR Dreams: While a socially awkward guy with big Vampire energy, Vincent is very protective when the situation calls for it, particularly if he's protecting the innocent (read: children) or very naive people. This is usually in the form of swooping, sometimes they hide under his cape BUT if you want a slightly monstrous pale protector who has a hard time with technology, here he is!

Etc.:

Thancred Waters | Final Fantasy XIV | Paladin

[rathertalented]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Thancred Waters
Canon: Post Dawntrail, current to patch 7.4
Armada: Paladin or Corsair

About: Thancred's friends know him as the stalwart guardian who is willing to stand toe to toe with gods and square off against universe-ending entities without quaking, often with a crass comment or at least a snide one. He's been all over the world, those beyond his own, and to the ends of the universe, and he will continue to do so until his body gives out.

He wasn't always that way, but he's made enough mistakes to know what's at stake, and he's always ready to add some levity to a tense situation, as well as forthrightness and simple logic. He also has a lot of Big Dad Energy.

Abilities: As Thancred is very new, he hasn't explored what his tattoo can do or even really thought about being able to use it at all. Due to an accident in his own world, he's unable to manipulate magic as far as he knows. Thus does he rely upon his gunblade and the magic-infused ammunition it uses to compensate for his handicap.

He's a tank, and has cartridges that allow him to heal minor wounds, endure blows that would strike down lesser men, and command the attention of foes.

He's also a master of wilderness and urban survival and espionage. No, really. Evidently his Alma Mater had a masters degree in "Survival and Espionage" and his neck tattoos mark him as one.

PLANS

General: As he's only just arrived, I'm focusing really on just getting him acclimated, meeting others here and doing what he does best; that is learning everything there is to know about this new star he's to call home for however long he's been brought here for.
MANTA Board: I probably won't be doing a top level for him either, but I'll be looking around at other's MANTA logs when they go up and if you're game, I'll throw him at them!

CR Dreams: I'm opening to all kinds right now! Seriously. Bring me everything.

Etc.:

Flynn Scifo | Tales of Vesperia | Paladin

[radiantdragonfang]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Megan
Contact: urbaninja

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Flynn Scifo
Canon: Tales of Vesperia; Post-Game
Armada: Paladin

About: Flynn is the childhood best friend/narrative foil of the game's protagonist, Yuri Lowell. He's a capital K Knight, embodying everything about chivalry and goodness and is just a really good guy. Who is also a workaholic and stringent rule follower and really should probably learn how to take a vacation. Please help this guy learn to lighten up?

Abilities: Flynn is proficient with a sword and shield and a variety of Artes. He probably won't be too thrilled about a tattoo, but the things one has to do to get his abilities back? But I'd like for him to learn something new to. Maybe it's time to learn magic.

PLANS

General: Flynn's brand new so I am open to anything! I definitely want him to learn how to lighten up and relax and be curious about the world. But also to be confronted about his being a workaholic first. He's definitely going to be up late patrolling and probably getting into how the Paladins work here. He may have some suggestions? I do apologize to the Corsairs. He's probably going to be annoying.

But yeah, I want to get him into the world and making friends and all that fun stuff! Get him into a crew!

MANTA Board: Pretty much open to anything on the MANTA Board. If there is something that Paladins are supposed to investigate, Flynn is going to be there.

CR Dreams: All kinds! I would love for Flynn to make friends and especially the types that challenge him or force him to relax. People he can learn from, or be annoying to. I'd love to get him on a crew.
maybe find someone to smooch. eventually.

Etc.: No Roxas this time because hiatus.

Mart

[musicien]

PLAYER INFO

Player:
Contact: riyuji on discord, DMs, riyuji. Discord is best.

verso | clair obscur: expedition 33 | corsair

[musicien]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Verso
Canon: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, beginning of Act 3.
Armada: Corsair

About: Because I believe Expedition 33 is a game best experienced blind, my opt-out can be found here.

Verso is an Expeditioner who has been living separate from the only other living human civilization in his world. Expeditions are sent out to the Continent to deal with the entity called the Paintress, who causes the Gommage, an event that wipes out everyone of the age painted on the monolith.

He is a complicated man with a lot of baggage and many walls up that he's put up throughout his very long life. It will take a lot of work and trust from him to even begin breaking it down, giving him a lot of "I can fix him" potential. He tends to be mysterious and evasive when it comes to himself, but boy is the man charming as hell. He'll get on your good side before you know it and he's far more unserious than he looks.

Abilities: A duelist, adept with a sword and dagger, with the ability to manipulate chroma and pictos to summon his weapons or an instrument and use magic. Verso has is essentially immortal, able to heal grave wounds in a matter of time, as if nothing had happened. He can even be bisected and have full control of his separate limbs despite it, but he will feel pain during the process of getting chopped up. In Escordvi, his healing capabilities will be stunted slightly as part of my own exploration of his character.

Verso is also a musician with a passion for the piano.

PLANS

General: In the short term, Verso will be continue pursing his passion for music whenever he has free time outside of the quests and bounties that he takes on. To add, now that Lune is around, he has to start... facing the consequences of things that he might've done back home, but in his own uniquely Verso way as usual. He will continue to be a coward avoidant until he figures out his next steps moving forward.

In the long term, I'd like Verso to learn to be a bit more trusting of others, to be less guarded and to maybe open up more about himself, without any ulterior motives. This is going to be a long road for him, as he likes to keep things close to his chest and people at arm's length. Maybe have people he can actually call friends. Besides that, he will also become a bit more invested in learning more about Escordvi and how it ticks.

MANTA Board: You wouldn't expect it but this man has a sweet tooth, so of course he has to do Sea and Sweetness, even if it's a Paladin quest. I'm also interested in the Lonely Lighthouse and the bounty for Crescent Reaper. Incredibly interested in the bounty considering it's gaze forces prey to tell the truth. Verso only knows how to deflect things.

I'll have all three of these on an open post for him soon. He's also on the Shiver Me Tinders post if anyone want to hear his slutty voice.

CR Dreams:
🔪 This hot, depressed man needs friends who will help him not take life for granted.
🔪 Musicians he can share his passion with.
🔪 Maybe a sparring partner or someone he can go on quests with!
🔪 People he can get information from. He's curious to learn more about how the world works and gather more information that he might be able to use along the way.
🔪 Does anyone else like trains? Just him? Okay.

Etc.:

Ser

[deepstar]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Ser
Contact: Discord: verthunder | verthunder

Claude von Riegan | FE: Three Houses | Corsair

[deepstar]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Claude von Riegan | Khalid
Canon: Fire Emblem: 3 Houses | Post Verdant Wind route
Armada: Corsair

About:

Claude/Khalid is a guy with a lot of secrets, but also likes to solve puzzles and mysteries. He's not very open about himself or what his ambitions are ( *cough*worldpeaceandacceptance*cough* ). Not someone who trusts easily, even though he carries himself with a light, almost breezy demeanor. Pretty easy to get along with though! Claude is the name that he had used while in his mother's country, Fodlan, but his birthname is Khalid and he's currently the king of his father's country, Almyra. The thing is, Almyra and Fodlan don't get along. There's a lot of racism and discrimination and hate. Which is something that Claude/Khalid very much is against. It's what motives his personal goals and ambitions, the driving force of his overall grander scheme. The guy has a really sharp mind and purposefully comes across as a schemer so people don't always take him as seriously as they probably should.

Abilities:

🏹 Excels in Bows, Swords and decent in Axes
🏹 Wyvern Rider!
🏹 Tactics and Scheming
🏹 Poisons
🏹 Crest of Riegan: heals self for a percentage of damage done to target
🏹 Working on developing wind magic

PLANS

General:

Mostly what I am looking for is getting Claude involved with others. He's a very open, but closed off sort of guy. Friendly, but doesn't actually talk too much about himself. I'd like to see that kind of change and shift a bit. While he's opened up a bit to some, he's been here over a year and developing deeper friendships that have some meaning would be A+. I won't be doing an open log, but I'll write closed starters for anyone who wants them.

MANTA Board:

🏹 Shiver Me Timbers
🏹 Lonely Light House
🏹 Sea and Sweetness
🏹 Hatching Tide
🏹 Crescent Reaper
🏹 Tomato Discourse

CR Dreams:

🏹 Making new CR/building current CR
🏹 Positive/Negative friendships
🏹 Tea drinking buddies
🏹 People with interesting secrets
🏹 People to tease and annoy

Etc.:

Emet-Selch | Final Fantasy XIV | Paladin

[emet_sulk]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Chips
Contact: DM, ch1ps0h0y

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Emet-Selch
Canon: Post-Shadowbringers (5.0) and early on into Endwalker (6.0)
Armada: Paladin

About: Short of the actual gods, Emet-Selch is one of the most powerful adversaries the Warrior of Light faces in FF14. To the average mortal/human, he WOULD be considered one - however, he considers himself a regular man and he lives and dies the same way (even if said life is practically indefinite). Amongst his own people, he was known as a powerful and competent mage with particularly sharp Soulsight: the ability to perceive things at the aetherial level.

As an individual, he's rather solitary and standoffish and doesn't make friends easily. But he cares more than he lets on.

Abilities: As Emet-Selch doesn't have access to Creation magicks here in Escordvi, he's simply just a powerful mage. This ranges from the typical elemental spells to healing spells to more esoteric things like aether-imbued weapon arts. He can also transform into a boss form second form, but here it's restricted by intense emotion.

PLANS

General: Going to ration my time carefully this month since Emet's involved in the exploration plot! But I'm very down to do closed threads with people for MANTA prompts or otherwise.

Potential interest: The Sea and Sweetness Paladin prompt if you want to see an embarrassing childhood memory. Also the bounties because he's always down to hunt something interesting and powerful. As for the specials, Emet has witnessed the shadow ice personally having been with the Ainomiad expedition, so he can be quite helpful for fighting the big dragon snake thing.

CR Dreams: I'd love to expand his circle generally. Emet is captain of a crew known as the Raiders of the Lost Arts, whose members focus on exploration and discovery of strange artefacts and the like. But anyone with special/niche interests is welcome!

Etc.:

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I WANT THE OLD MEN TO OFFICIALLY MEET!!! Ulpianus will be hunting the owl monster bounty, so they could cooperate there (and then Ulpianus can ask Emet to murder him Just In Case Anything Happens)

Faulkner | The Silt Verses | Corsair

[withermarked]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Ilya
Contact: Discord @ strixoid or badgirlcoven

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Character
Canon: The Silt Verses, finale
Armada: Corsair

About: Former cult leader for a terrible water god. Adorable little guy who really doesn’t want anyone to find out that first part.

Faulkner presents himself as very friendly and earnest and maybe a little lost or naive. Though these days he’s settling into coming off somewhat more confident than he did at first. In reality he’s a more calculating and deeply troubled person, but also desperate for approval and love.

He spends a good deal of his time gardening and caring for animals at Cosmo Conservatory, and cooks part time at Azul’s lounge.

Abilities: Not letting his canon abilities work, but he’s acquired plant magic and water magic here. Would love to explore those more!

PLANS

General: His own goals are largely to lean into having a redemption arc and trying to make the most of this second chance. And to look for ways to avoid ever having to leave! Which might mean getting more into trying to study the rifts.

Shorter term goals involve fixing up the cottage he bought right before winter hit.

MANTA Board: I’m most interested in Lonely Lighthouse. Let him investigate a spooky water mystery! He’ll probably also test the Hot Paws, and collect some clams from the Hatching Tide. It could also be fun to do something with the dragons and their silly hoards, and maybe Sea & Sweetness—it’s a paladin quest but he loves a chocolate pastry. I also don’t think he’d intentionally set out to hunt the Crescent Reaper but I think it’d be fun to have him run into it.

CR Dreams: Friends, found family, etc. He gets attached to anyone who’s nice to him pretty easily. Maybe some mentor figures that are healthier than he had back home. Negative CR is also great!

Etc.: <3

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greetings cultist child would u like a whale man to try to murder you over the whole cult leader thing :)

That said, Ulpianus will also be investigating the lighthouse! :D Perfect time to run into the guy he is very suspicious about!

Miriam | Bloodstained: RotN | Paladin

[crystalrepose]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Blueraven
Contact: blueraven

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Miriam
Canon: Bloodstained: RotN, post-game, before DLC
Armada: Paladin

About: Application!
Miriam's a young woman who's seen and been through some shit, but hasn't lost her kindness or sense of justice. Sure, she might be full of demonic rocks, but she's using that power to do good things. She wants to be helpful and prove that she's still human, let her be helpful!!

Those roses and petals on her aren't tattoos; they're part of a cursed crystal that lets Miriam use said phenomenal demonic power, but will eventually turn her into a crystal statue and kill her, or corrupt her mind and delete her sense of self and free will. Either or. The curse's spread is currently halted, but using her power too much or absorbing too many Shards (fragments of a demon's power) at once could cause it to start advancing again. So Miriam's in a constant balancing act of needing to use her powers to best help others but not so much that she crystalizes. No pressure.

Abilities: For canon ones, she's got all the ridiculously OP abilities of an endgame Castlevania protagonist—which she's usually fairly mindful about using, with such severe consequences for their overuse. She can do so much shit, though.

PLANS

General/Event: Miriam’s a standard Very Helpful Protagonist Character who also isn’t shy about fighting; solving monster or human-caused problems with weapons or magic was her day job before the Rifts. She’s once again doublebooking herself with the Nilatast quest and Manta quests. Someone make her sit down for more than five minutes.

MANTA Board:
Lonely Lighthouse—hi hello I am responsible for this quest’s existence. This is the main open Manta thing I’m doing this month, as I do plan on using this as a springboard to set up some details of the player plot I’m starting! But, I wanted others to enjoy the set dressing and do their own things with it, so releasing it out into the open seemed like a better idea.

tl;dr yes, Miriam will be exploring the mass missing persons case, and while I'm going to incorporate findings from it into a later player plot participation in that isn't mandatory; I Just Think This Is Neat.

CR Dreams: Friends, sparring friends, music friends, friends she'll probably leave a care package of cookies for, etc (she's actually decent at cooking, especially when she has instructions more specific than an old lady's abstract nostalgia). Connections good! Miriam's also reasonably good with a piano, and has brought one into the Seventh Heaven bar. It's available for anyone to play if they're interested, not only crewmates. Her fairy familiar might come over if Carabosse likes you. She's a frequent Ring of Returning user and is often all over the place when the ship is docked, and is available for hire as a bodyguard for squishier scholarly types (fee waived for CR, people who are reasonably friendly, or just tell her they can't pay, she mostly just wants to help people). Miriam's usually fairly reserved, but bits of her past are starting to poke out now, particularly after the crystal island broke open her trauma and existential dread. Normal Tuesday things.

tonake; Hythlodaeus and Ulpianus

[encoreinthedeep]

PLAYER INFO

Player: tonake
Contact: DM my character accs, or message me at tonake on Discord, or inepticons on Plurk!

Ulpianus | Arknights | Paladin

[encoreinthedeep]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Ulpianus
Canon: After the events of Stultifera Navis, but before Path of Life
Armada: Paladin

About: I have a very useful collection of his canon quotes which totally describes Ulpi as a person--

Tall, dark, arguably handsome, taciturn, rude, spicy fish autism. Comes from a race of underwater-dwelling people who look human but descend from various sea creatures. Ulpi himself is based on the humpback whale, and is a very good singer and composer. (Get it. because whales sing,)

His home is a technocratic near-utopia, which is also under attack by Evil Sea Monsters. Ulpianus is a genetically self-engineered supersoldier mixed with a sea monster, created to fight them, and a former leader of the program to make more supersoldiers. He's also the former captain of a supersoldier suicide squad (99% of them are dead). Part of his job was executing his subordinates who started mutating, which is not exactly conducive to having a nice personality.

Ulpianus is hard to converse with, because he says little, rarely (if ever) explains himself, easily resorts to threats, and is often a snob about other civilizations, art, and technology. When he does talk, he tends to talk about the sea monsters, the human condition and the demise of humanity. He rarely forms proper connections with people, because his brain is full of martyring himself for his homeland.

Despite everything, he's not actually a bad person, nor an inherently violent one (ignore the time he kinda tried to kill Jill). As a former teacher, he has a soft spot for the young'uns, and is ready to protect and guide them, even if in his grumpy way.

Abilities:
Canon: superstrength et cetera, breathing underwater and being able to withstand Really Big Pressure (more than any others of his race), regeneration, extremely acute sense of smell, really good singing (he's a whale).
Escordvi: most of those, but he needs the tattoo for the strength buff (diminished) and regeneration (slowed down).

PLANS

General: In general, I would love to explore Ulpianus's softer side and particularly his care for his daughter figure (who is also his subordinate AND almost possessed by sea monsters, so he has to be ready to kill her). And the fact that he generally cares about the younger generation and wants a better world for them.

For Ulpianus's own plans: he's extremely wary of the rifts, so he would both get involved with their study AND be ready to trash it all if he deems it dangerous. He also wants to investigate the Leviathans to see if they are close to the sea monsters from his home - and if yes, find ways to kill them.
Ulpianus is also generally interested in learning How To Kill God-Like Things (That May Be Possessing Your Daughter) and, if he does find anything, he'll be looking for a way to bring the knowledge back with him.

MANTA Board: He's going to investigate Elena's tower. His own hunch is that the monster flesh does NOT help her, and that she's a potential danger that needs to be put down, but he at least won't immediately resort to murder if another cure is available. He doesn't believe in magic, though, so he will try to solve this through SCIENCE and GENETICS (he's originally a geneticist).

He is also definitely investigating the lighthouse! Very suspicious! Ulpianus can breathe and move underwater even without potions, so he'll be looking around there.

He will also go after the owl monstrosity, less for the bounty and more for the sake of making things safer. If anyone else is gathering a squad, he'll join!

(And I guess now he's going to trash a random tavern with Fenris over fish alcohol.)

CR Dreams: THIS IS ACTUALLY HARD. Anything goes! He does not have many relations in canon, so I am curious to explore how his relationships with people might develop when he is... the kind of person he is. Slowburn kinda-enemies-to-friends? Actual negative CR? Ideological rivals? People who are impervious to his grumpiness? I'm here for everything! \o/