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OOC INTRO/CR MEME

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Contact(s):
Time Zone:
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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?

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Player name: Faye
Player pronouns: they/them
Contact(s):

wingedvoices, or DM me here, or email at winged.voices @ gmail; whatever you prefer!
Time Zone: CST
Tagging habits/tagging speed: Generally/under normal circumstances it's every few days in groups, but right now I'm adjusting to a new gig-work-as-fulltime-job schedule and I'm also dealing with some health issues, so I've been very slow. I'm really excited about RP right now though so hopefully that changes very soon! I have always been someone who tags in spurts; sometimes I can boomerang (esp if tag partners don't mind me focusing on a particular thread) and sometimes need to just set reasonable goals.

I do write LONG tags, which can make tagging take a little while. I'm trying to edit! But.
Favorite types of characters to write against: I...don't think I really have a type? Just good CR! That's been friends, antagonistic relationships, people who get each other a little TOO much, romantic interests. I do have a little bit of a bias toward snarky characters and/or rebel types? But with Teddy, she will need a counterbalance to her already BEING anti-authoritarian.

Character Name: Teddy Roberts (Smith, apparently)
Character Age: 26
Canon: MY BRAIN (she's an OC)
Canonpoint: Present Day, first couple weeks of December
1 paragraph summary of character/canon: (*clears throat*) Teddy is a queer student and musician from the mountains of Central Appalachia. She spent most of her childhood and early-mid teens longing to get out by any means necessary...and spent most of the time they were gone realizing how much they loved and missed it and, eventually, that they wanted to make their life about improving their home. Teds is passionately political, but they will always value compassion and helpfulness on an individual level over theory or the "greater good". Teddy hates expectation and hates stereotype even more, but in a lot of ways, she's the epitome of a mountain kid: hard working, pragmatic, proud of getting her hands dirty, and deeply loyal.

A few "first impression" notes, in order of noticability:
-Teddy is 5'1" (and can occasionally be mistaken for younger than her age)
-She has a Central Appalachian (border of KY/WV) accent that gets stronger when she's (drunk/stressed/angry) or very comfortable with someone; she's very careful with elocution around complete strangers or speaking publicly, but it mostly mellows to 'slightly confusing and vague geographically', she cannot accomplish reporter neutral.
- She has epilepsy, and her seizure dog will most likely be with her if she's walking.
“Family” members: "Wife" to Wrench (

wwrench), uh, Smith! Personally I'm delighting myself thinking of them in formalwear and midcentury wedding portraiture.
Possible non-event hooks:
- Is your character also from the more mountainous South and might they recognize that accent? Always nice to bond over regional similarities.
- Do they need someone who's generally both helpful and pragmatic in an emergency? If they had had all their stuff, she would be the one with a multitool with everything and still open a beer bottle with her keys.
- Want to jam? Teddy only gets to have her guitar, but she plays a ton of instruments. She's going to be missing her bandmates from home AND her equipment for her solo stuff, so anyone who wants to play with her, teach her things from where they're from, or remind her that it's probably not a good idea to play things from post-1960 even if it would be funny -- all appreciated!
- DO YOU LIKE DOGS? :D (technically Scout is not supposed to be petted while she's working, but. If chances are low for a seizure she gets spoiled sometimes.)
- How do you feel about trying to figure out what the DEAL with this place is? (Depending on when this happens, at all, or more specifically in some way.)
- Relatedly: would you like to covertly discuss organizing some kind of...idk, new arrival neighborhood watch, only, for each other? Teddy is innately not a fan of being controlled, but she's also someone who wants to take care of those around her; I'd say she's neighborly, and at home she is: they're very communal-minded. Here, though...it probably won't extend to all the neighbors.
- Gender/sexuality feels, anybody? Or covert flirtation, tangentially (/possibly, less necessarily covert than usual, depending on how your gender is perceived). Local enby here to make you confused about what finding them attractive means about you.
- Probably later, after figuring out she a) can't leave b) this place is horrifying: anyone who's dealt with mental health issues? Teddy has a history of depression and anxiety, and that'll definitely spiral SOMETIME after she's exhausted by being We Can Do It! for a minute.
- At some point, the epileptic will have a seizure I'm sure; doctors and/or concerned onlookers welcome to help her and the dog.
What are they up to in Sweetwater?
Uh, that stuff! *points up* Probably mostly trying to solve the mystery: also, hopefully learning some sign language so she can talk to her new husband. Playing music, getting to drive a car again. Ssh.

Most Desired CR:
Anything! Definitely people on, let us say, the left of the political spectrum, since that particular element of her background is a fun one to toss in here, but I want everything! Friends, antagonists, people who think the name Teddy is stupid, whatever XD

Undesired CR: What with the who now? I don't know this thing you speak of.

Any threads you really want to play out?
Oh man. Um. Again, all of them? I have to go to bed but. I'll update this if I think of something SUPER "must-play".

Edited 2023-12-28 06:43 (UTC)

Neighborhood watch, that has some fun hooks for getting different characters to interact. Keeping watch for suspicious people loitering on the road will probably catch each other at first, until they all know roughly who's who...

Midcentury wedding portraiture or American Gothic complete with pitchfork?

YES. THE ANSWER IS YES.
(Teddy thinks that would be amazing, actually. Time to get a tripod and stage a few unsettling photos right back and just scatter them around the house to see if anyone notices.)

Neighborhood watch concept is genius!!

Gently registers my interest in shoving these two together. Maureen appreciates someone who's pragmatic and handy.

(yay @ OCs)

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