OOC Intro #1

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OOC INTRO/CR MEME


Player name:
Player pronouns:
Contact(s):
Time Zone:
Tagging habits/tagging speed:
Favorite types of characters to write against:
About you:

Character Name:
Character Age:
Canon:
Canonpoint:
1 paragraph summary of character/canon: Imagine that the reader is canonblind. Lay out the basics someone needs to start a thread with your character, important things to know while interacting with them, etc.
“Family” members:
Possible non-event hooks:
What are they up to in Sweetwater?

Most Desired CR:
Undesired CR:
Any threads you really want to play out?

<b>Player name:</b> <b>Player pronouns:</b> <b>Contact(s):</b> <b>Time Zone:</b> <b>Tagging habits/tagging speed:</b> <b>Favorite types of characters to write against:</b> <b>About you:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Canonpoint:</b> <b>1 paragraph summary of character/canon:</b> Imagine that the reader is canonblind. Lay out the basics someone needs to start a thread with your character, important things to know while interacting with them, etc. <b>“Family” members:</b> <b>Possible non-event hooks:</b> <b>What are they up to in Sweetwater?</b> <b>Most Desired CR:</b> <b>Undesired CR:</b> <b>Any threads you really want to play out?</b>

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maureen robinson (park) / lost in space (2018)

[coefficiently]

OOC INFO

Player name: abby
Player pronouns: she/her
Contact(s): PM, prosodi, prosodi @ disco (plurk adds are welcome, but heads up that I mostly talk about boring RL stuff like hiking trips and work)
Time Zone: PST
Tagging habits/tagging speed: Steady, mostly evenings (I work 9-5...when I'm not working OT); I try to clear my inbox once a day-ish. I'm too slow to really be considered a boomeranger at the best of times, but I'm happy to prioritize important threads! Heads up that I slow down during the last week or so of the month for real life job reasons.
Favorite types of characters to write against: I tend to play characters who are very Goal Oriented Individuals, and gravitate to writing against characters who will either enable or oppose them (or can be willingly/unwillingly dragged along as a co-conspirator). I usually play real jerks so am a Negative CR enthusiast by trade, though Maureen is ostensibly surface level nicer than most of the characters I play sooooo 🤞

IC INFO

Character Name: Maureen Robinson Park???
Character Age: 48
Canon: Lost in Space (2018)
Canonpoint: "Danger, Will Robinson", S1E10; just got sucked into an alien rift in space. :(
1 paragraph summary of character/canon:

Maureen Robinson is a, quote unquote, "scary smart" aerospace engineer turned space explorer-slash-survivalist from the not so distant future. She and her family—three kids, one estranged-recently-reconciled husband—were part of a colony group bound for a distant planet when disaster struck, and their shuttle crash landed on an unknown planet. While Maureen didn't set out to get...lost in space..., she's wasn't exactly an unwilling adventurer either. Quick witted and ravenously curious about the universe at her fingertips, Maureen thrives under pressure and she thrills at a challenge. She loves reason, and lists, and math, and clever solutions to complicated problems that are trying very hard to kill you. It just so happens that she also expects everyone else to similarly flourish in the same circumstances; living up to those expectations is a sure fire way to earn her respect and affection. Crumpling under them is a great way to lose it.

“Family” members: Ricky Park (yupe), ""husband""
Possible non-event hooks:

• Want to spin conspiracy theories about the how's and why's you ended up here? Maureen's your gal.
  
• Want to do some less than conformist poking around? Let's get into some trouble.
  
• Willing to be a data point in a time/space distribution census, or other 'what do we all have in common?' type mystery solving? Maureen's interested.
  
• Maureen is a space faring science mom. This isn't her first rodeo with either showing up places she doesn't expect to OR nuclear family dynamics.
  
• Want to talk about the not so distant Earth future or space stuff? Let's compare notes.

What are they up to in Sweetwater? Emotionally: Freaking out, but also it's fine! She's seen worse! She has everything under control! Otherwise: Trouble. One of Maureen's first goal is going to be collecting materials to build a radio transmitter (she'll be initially operating under the assumption that her family is also somewhere in the surrounding area and needs to be flagged down). If/when that gets kiboshed.......watch this space.
Misc Notes: Maureen is a genius math and science nerd, while I as a person am Definitely Not Those Things. I do my best at faking it, but if you catch me beefing the science or math (which she unfortunately talks about A LOT) then please don't hesitate to reach out to me oocly to tell me I'm being dumb so I can fix it lol.

Most Desired CR: Any, all! That said, Maureen loves a mystery and loves Doing Something About It, and will happily recruit and/or expect other people to be just as interested in that as she is. But if you're well sick of the How Did We Get Here and Why type threads, let me know and I can gear her in a different direction. 👍
Undesired CR: Whomst?
Any threads you really want to play out? No specific desires, but if at some point we don't start a Bridge Club or something as cover for secret neighbor meetings then what are we doing here.

[regulararmybrat]

margaret is all for collaborating on Mystery Stuff--and also I feel like she'd be pleased to learn that women can be aerospace engineers in the future??? but anyways if she can count on another cool head in a crisis you bet margaret will be on board to help out

[coefficiently]

Heck yes.

Bonus: Maureen is pretty used to working with(/living/arguing/etc with...her husband was a navy seal) military regs-and-discipline type folks, and Maureen has a lot of faith in the institutions she's worked for, so I feel like they can probably vibe on a similar wave length as far as how the world is supposed to work.

(ps. thanks for giving me real motivation to finally get into M*A*S*H. It's been on my to do list forever.)

[regulararmybrat]

oh, hell yes. rules are there for a Reason, obviously, because that's the way it should be!!!

(Enjoy M*A*S*H! Took me a few months to putter my way through all 11 seasons but tbh it's pretty easy watching)

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At least know the rules so you can break them with intention!! -Maureen Lastname

(I just finished Murder She Wrote so it's an objectively perfect time to sub in something similarly long running.)

[carniravenous]

Sokka also likes reason and science and clever solutions to complicated problems, though his experience with these things won't hold a candle to Maureen's knowledge. But if she's interested in a teenager who wants to learn, he'd be all about it

[coefficiently]

Yessss. She will be missing having a youth in close proximity to enthusiastically lecture, so that would be terrific!

Also I wanted to say that I loved spying on your stuff in the tdm! You have such a great handle on Sokka's voice and mannerism, and I'm really looking forward to playing with you!

[carniravenous]

Oh, thank you so much for saying so!! I'm really looking forward to it, too!

[spaghettimonster]

I'd love to thread with Maureen again - especially now that it's threads based after Papyrus has had his initial panic session! Conspiracy theorizing about just what's going on, with her being sharply on topic and him being a bit odd about it, has some fun possibilities.

[coefficiently]

Right back at you, with apologies for me dropping off the tdm and into the yawning void of [THE HOLIDAYS]. Their dynamic was immediately so fun and good, and I'd love to do more with them.

Also— Looking at your hooks, and please lets find an opportunity to put Maureen in a car with Papyrus behind the wheel at some point actual lol

[spaghettimonster]

[THE HOLIDAYS] will do that, I completely understand! It's tricky doing multiple threads on the supposition of spouse when you don't know if any of them will stick, but it does give great chances for trying stuff low stakes.

Oh no, I love that but oh no. Does this end with Maureen being like, one of the upsides of life in space was not having to teach teenagers to drive on a busy town street, why is she now dealing with that and worse with this young man?

[coefficiently]

Driving instructor is fundamentally NOT in her wheelhouse.

[spaghettimonster]

Even better. He'll stay at the wheel, it can be a bonding experience of occasional screaming as equals - especially when he has to remember where to hit the brakes.

[coefficiently]

Perfect, 10/10, no notes.

[ribticklers]

When Sans finds out Maureen is from space (kind of) he is going to want to hear stories. Please tell him about what it's like.

[coefficiently]

Done deal. Trade her for stories about alien monster civilizations allegedly living under the Earth's surface so she can decide what brand of conspiracy theorist he is.

—But also: points to eyes points to you re: mutual science enthusiasts.

[wwrench]

Just me here with another apology for dropping out cold from the TDM. Obviously with Wrench and Maureen in different family units, nothing from there would really apply anyway. But I just wanted to say how much I did enjoy what we got through and how much I look forward to the opportunity for them to re-meet each other under whatever new circumstances get thrown at them.

Wrench might not be looking for a quick escape route from this place (his dead partner is here after all!) but he'd be happy to be a sacrificial body in anyone's efforts to poke around and learn more. (And hey, his dead partner is here. That's weird, right? Let's explore that rip in space and time please.)

[coefficiently]

No apologies necessary, I also fell off the TDM around the same time. It's almost like December is notoriously buckwild. 🤝 Also x2: big same! I really enjoyed that thread and their dynamic (+I'm just canon familiar enough to say hey, what the hell, your Wrench is so good!), and would love to do more with them in the changed up in-game circumstances. They had such good contrasting-but-also-complimentary energy.

Yes, let do explore that rip in space and time and talk about the very not dead partner. That is weird. Maureen has some serious qualms with the type of violence Wrench deals in (shocker, I know), but she appreciates people with ...technical skills... so I suspect all Wrench's survivalist know how is probably a good connection point.

[frauseufzen]

hi neighbor

[coefficiently]

hey girl hey