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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[pharadyne]

Player name: Rafe
Player pronouns: usually he/him, but good with whatever
Contact(s): blackletter
Time Zone: Mountain Time Zone
Tagging habits/tagging speed: I try to reply to tags within a day (although recently I've failed to keep up as fast as I'd like). I work 8-4:30 on weekdays so tagging time is mostly evenings and weekends.
Favorite types of characters to write against: Oh gosh, I like variety.

Character Name: Norton Folgate
Character Age: 30ish
Canon: Torchwood: Soho
Canonpoint: After The Black Knight
1 paragraph summary of character/canon: Torchwood Soho is an audio play spin-off of Torchwood, which itself was a spin-off of Doctor Who. Torchwood is an organization founded by Queen Victoria to protect the British Empire from alien threats. Norton Folgate is a Torchwood agent in the 1950s. He is also very gay. As the series progresses, it delves into the tension involved in Norton basically working for a government that would seek to throw him in jail for his sexuality. He's cynical, manipulative, and very ruthless, although he often presents himself as rather silly and harmless. A lot of his mannerisms come from his participation in 1950s London gay subculture. (Rather effeminate, use of Polari slang, a lot of things that later on got exaggerated into The Gay Stereotype.) Although he's careful to just toe the line to not get himself arrested, he's not remotely closeted, which results in social stigma that has made him rather suspicious and hardhearted.
House number and “family” members: Norton's currently enjoying a bachelor pad housing situation. Household of just him.
Possible non-event hooks:

• Need help with the manual choke on a car, or filling the ink cartridge in a fountain pen, or instruction on how not to look like a member of the Comintern? Norton is from 1954 so if he sees someone struggling with mid-century problems, he might lend a hand. Unless you look like a member of the Comintern, then he might do suspicious snooping instead.


• Interested in some exploration and tossing around theories how you got here? Norton is also interested in those things!


• Norton was rather recently trapped in a different Stepford Suburb that involved evil alien eels bodysnatching people, so he's probably going to try to assess if y'all are actual people or evil alien pod people.

What are they up to in Sweetwater?:

• Exploring the area, trying to familiarize himself with the town and the personalities therein.


• Eating most meals at the nearest cafe because he's incapable of cooking anything more complicated than toast and fried eggs.

Most Desired CR: I like variety! Friends, both nice friends and snarky friends. I love negative CR, too. Norton's probably going to flirt with at least one attractive man at some point despite that being unwise in 1960 conformity town. (It doesn't stop him in 1954 either.)
Undesired CR: Nothing I can think of.
Any threads you really want to play out? Right now just planning to bounce around and see what sticks.

[lestercraft]

RAFE HELLO!! 8D

[pharadyne]

HELLO, YOU!

[lestercraft]

God I would love for Arthur and Norton to get up to shit together. Almost-same-time-period buddies!

Or for Norton to throw Arthur under a bus, metaphorical or literal. Both beautiful.

[pharadyne]

If Norton ever has to choose between benefitting himself versus Arthur not being under a bus, he will absolutely throw Arthur under a bus, possibly literally. But until then, he'd be happy to be buddies!

[freakymagoo]

I enjoyed Torchwood but did not know about Torchwood: Soho, I need to check this out. Bucky is also bachelor padding. He could offer homecooked food, but the situation has to come up for it. Maybe let's see what happens at the next event?

He may also be one of the minority who wouldn't blink if any evil alien eel bodysnatching talk comes up...

[pharadyne]

Torchwood: Soho is an audio play series! Tucked away in a semi-obscure corner of Doctor Who canon.

I'd love to toss these two together. Norton is usually pretty perky and talkative so could be a fun foil for Bucky's more quiet temperament. Norton can offer cocktails in exchange for homecooked food.

(Plus, between being from roughly the same era, having involvement in WWII, fighting aliens, terrible and traumatic experience being brainwashed (although Norton not nearly as long as Bucky was), they have a lot in common. Although they both would probably refuse to talk about, like, half of those things.)

[freakymagoo]

I mean, that's the healthiest way to deal with everything right? Just cocktails and not talking about it. Debating the cardinal sin of putting tabasco in drinks is far more important!

[pharadyne]

Trauma doesn't exist if you don't acknowledge it, right? Right???

[regulararmybrat]

i loved margaret and norton's TDM thread, i'd love to continue bouncing margaret off norton and see where that goes? especially since they're from approximately the same era

[pharadyne]

I loved their thread too, and would be thrilled to throw them together again and see what happens.

And since you mentioned in your post wanting CR with people who have Opinions about the USA and politics, Norton is full of opinions (some of them more reasonable than others) and at this point in his canon, a whole lot of cynicism about both the US and the UK government.

[regulararmybrat]

Oh, hell yes. eventually, with enough people badgering her about it, something might get through her thick skull, right...?

[frauseufzen]

Let's! Talk!! Conspiracy!!!

[pharadyne]

Investigate weirdness!