February Plotting Post

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FEBRUARY 2022 PLOTTING POST

Please use this post to plot with other players and keep track of your plans for this month's event! You can ask specific questions about the event down below. If you are ever waiting on a question, please feel free to reach out to Milk directly.

This post will be updated with the Live Event once it is posted. Plotting posts are always made on the 5th and events always go live on the 8th.

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PROMPT 1: BONDING PACTS

CONTENT WARNINGS: Blood ceremony, bodily ceremony, telepathic/empathetic connections, possible forced/coerced relationships.

[From BEGINNERS GUIDE FOR BLOOD PACTS. Found in the Archives:]

"There are a variety of blood pacts one can make, but the most popular are Bonding Pacts. Bonding Pacts should never be made on a whim: they are a serious commitment.

PROCEED WITH CAUTION!
We can thank the Doorway for Bonding Pacts. Everyone knows the story: the Reckoning was made to go fight the impossible battle against blood pollution, corruption, and beasthood. The Doorway vowed to wait for the Reckoning to return and has never moved since. This is ultimately believed to be the first Bonding Pact ever made in Trench and it is considered to have opened up Bonding Pacts as a possibility in general.

The most common misconception about Bonding Pacts is that they must be exclusively for romantic partners. This is not true The majority of Bonding Pacts, as a matter of fact, are actually familial and platonic in nature. Most romantic pairs decide that marriage is a safer option just in case someone gets a case of cold feet. On the other hand, this also means that the Bonding Pact can be the ultimate sign of devotion in a romantic relationship. We aren't interested in telling you what is right for your relationship, but the history is worth considering before taking that step.

So what is a Bonding Pact and how do you do it? Despite being one of the strongest pacts in this world, it is also one of the simplest to perform! Here's what you'll need:

1x Vial of blood per participant wishing to enter the pact
1x Small essence* of each participant
1x Live red rose
2x Live white roses
1x Pouch of ashes
1x Silver cup/container of some sort

*It was once believed that "essence" translated to organ, but we have since learned that this can be a single strand of hair, nail clipping, eyelash, teardrop, spit...You get the gist. It has to be something that came directly from your body that isn't blood.

You need to leave the silver cup out under the moonlight for at least one full night. You must complete this ceremony the evening after and only in the evening. Bonding Pacts cannot be made during the day. When you plan to begin the ceremony, you will need to perform it in a doorway or under any type of arch. This is to allow the Doorway to bless your pact and strengthen it permanently.

You will combine all the ingredients into the cup and thoroughly stir with a fragment of bone/antler. This concoction will thicken into a pastelike consistency and it should be black in color. If it smells like fresh roses, you did it right. If it smells like rancid food, you messed it up and will have to completely redo the ceremony.

Finally, each participant will cover one hand with the paste. To seal the bond, you will need to place your hand upon the one you wish to bond with. Where you place it matters and will determine the nature of your Bonding Pact. Each will have a drastically different consequence/benefit.

ROMANTIC BONDS: Place the hand somewhere on the face. This indicates a public relationship that is to be respected by all involved. This bond will create a telepathic connection between all participants. This telepathy cannot be heard by anyone else nor can it be interfered with from distance or chaos. It is possible to bring your romantic partner back from beasthood through this connection. Extreme cases of this bond have allowed romantic partners to take over one another's minds in severe situations. It can be difficult to shelter your thoughts from your Romantic Bond partner, but it is possible. They will know when you are keeping thoughts from them. Some partners have learned to respect each other's privacy while others have gone insane from the connection.

PLATONIC BONDS: Place the hand somewhere on the chest/shoulder area. This bond will create an This bond will create a physical connection. between all participants. This physical bond will allow participants to pick up on each other's physical pain or pleasure. You will be able to know when your friend is in physical harm. This creates a "phantom pain" of sorts. This can either weaken you substantially or give you an enormous boost during a fight. Best friends have been known to harness this ability well and use each other's pain to literally get stronger during a fight with monsters. On the other hand, a strained relationship can just cause you to feel the same debilitating pain as your friend. This cannot be used to bring someone back from beasthood.

FAMILIAL BONDS: Place the hand somewhere on an appendage whether arm, leg, tail or otherwise. This bond will create an empathetic connection between all participants. This empathetic bond will allow participants to naturally know what the other is feeling and may be able to sway one another's emotions through this connection. Like the romantic bond, it cannot be ruined by distance or chaos and has been used to bring people back from beasthood. Extreme situations have allowed partners to take total emotional control. You will always know when your Familial Bond partner is in emotional distress. You can send your Familial Bond emotional support when you can feel their stress, even at a distance. While this may not always work, many have reported it can greatly alleviate corruption and can even be used to recognize corruption patterns in order to prevent it.

HOSTILE BONDS: Place this bond exclusively on the neck or on anywhere on the back. While it may seem farfetched to make a bond with your enemy, there is some merit to the madness. This will create a unique power connection between all participants. This bond will allow one another to feel the ebb and flow of one another's powers. It is said the most well-forged Hostile Bonds may even allow characters to share abilities between one another. Hostile Bonds are known to drastically increase aggression and competitive behavior between participants. This has caused hostility to stir and may even lead to hatred. However, a successful Hostile Bond that is worked on with steady communication and agreement can be enormously successful and horrifically powerful.

Once you have left your handprint on your partner's skin, the spell will take hold. The handprint will glow and everyone will briefly have a vision of the Doorway standing before them. Don't be alarmed: they are only here to solidify the connection. You will feel great warmth and then the connection will be made. The handprint will stain your skin permanetly so choose wisely. The stain may be extremely light, barely visible. For others, it may be much darker. It is unknown what causes the variation.

This pact can be performed any time of year but is strongest when performed during or near the Egg Moon. While it is not required to have an audience for this ceremony, it is believed that an audience greatly strengthens the bond. It has become customary for people to make vows in combination with the ceremony for an additional layer of power.

As a further point of caution...These bonds can be forced on an individual."

FAQ
1. These bonds cannot be broken except by extreme magical interference such as through some sort of game event, a character being dropped from the game, or something like the Blade of Agency. Death will not disturb the bond.

2. There is no "limit" to the number of participants for the ceremony. Romantic bonds can be made between multiple people. The connection will only exist between those who partook in the ceremony at the same time.

3. People can be added into a Bonding Pact at any time.

4. Gender/species has no impact on the bond.

5. People can create different bonds with the same person.

6. These bonds are open-ended and can be translated to better fit your character.

PROMPT 2: IMPENDING INTIMACY

CONTENT WARNINGS: Intimacy-based monster, intense themes of stalking, jealousy, possession, guilt, shame, physically violent deaths, possible themes of adultery/cheating, some negative ideaology towards promiscuity.

[From History of Blood Crazed Zealots: Chapter 15 Caution About Curses found in the Lumenarium:]

"Do not be fooled by this seemingly passive curse. There are few things more potent than a Blood Crazed Zealot's magic, and few emotions are stronger than that of jealousy. The story goes that one Blood Crazed Zealot was in love with another and entered a sacred blood pact to unite their blood and souls. However, the other Blood Crazed Zealot's love was not as pure, and soon they strayed in body and in mind. Of course, no secrets can be kept in a blood pact, and one thing led to the other.

The jealous and betrayed Blood Crazed Zealot created a vicious curse that still plagues the world to this day. We know of no cures, no remedies, no way to beat it. We only know how to keep it at bay. But It is always around, It is always near, and It will always follow. We have not yet determined the exact way It is transmitted from one person to the next, but we believe it has to do with exchanging some form of intimacy. Whether that be with sex, words of love, or even just saying a loved one's name, the curse will follow.

It appears as a person walking directly towards you. At first, you might not even pick it out from the crowd, until it gets closer. Then you see oddities. Water spills from its body, or its arm looks broken, or many walk along completely naked. There is something off about the creature, and worse yet, no one sees It but you and anyone previously cursed by It. It moves slowly, and it would be easy to assume that it can't really hurt you. After all, if you shoot it with a gun or tear it down with powers, it breaks apart as easily as a human body...

But then It gets up. It reforms. It is impossible to kill. It doesn't react to pain. It doesn't react to words. It changes appearances when you lose sight of it, making it almost impossible to keep your guard up against it. The last time you saw it, it might have been a little girl, but now it looks like a six foot tall man. You might buy yourself some time, might be able to distance yourself by taking a swim or a fly...But It will find you. It will always find you. It can break through doors and windows. There are no wards against it.

When it finds you, it will kill you. It matters not what your powers are, what your blood is. This creature existed with the single purpose to destroy and it has perfected the art. Once it has a hold of you, you are powerless. You first lose all abilities, and then rapidly, your life follows in one crushing moment of paralyzing fear and agonizing pain. It throws its victims to the ground and breaks their bodies apart. No one wants to find the bodies of those it has consumed. It takes only seconds to kill you. Don't let it touch you. Don't let it get close enough to touch you. It will win.

When it has finished, it begins to stalk to the person that had passed it off. It's a never-ending cycle. Person A has it then gives it to Person B who gives it to Person C. Person C dies, so it goes back to Person B until person B can find someone new to give it to. Be wary of giving affection this month. You tenderly saying your beloved's name or engaging in sex or flirtation might just pass the curse along."

FAQ
1. The curse is meant to be severely undermined. The creature appears as an ordinary, unsettling-looking person with no obvious abilities. It can kill anyone regardless of their abilities or species.

2. The curse can be passed by saying a loved one's name (platonic/romantic/familial), sex, kissing, loving touches. To break the curse, one can sleep with a Trenchie or say the name of a loved one not present in Trench.

PROMPT 3: MOTHER'S MERCY

CONTENT WARNINGS: Religious based trauma/forced guilt/shame, extreme themes of self-mutilation and possible sucidial ideations, hexes, altered mental state, forced confessions.

[A sermon by Mother Mercy as recorded by an unnamed Disciple, followed by an attached document titled MOTHER'S FORGIVENESS. A misspelling or unusual wording throughout the sermon is intentional. Disciples debate whether the document was intended as support of Mother Mercy's hex or as a way to help people avoid it. The sermon and Mother's Forgiveness are written in different handwriting. The documents can be found at the Pale Sanctuary:]

THE SERMON
"It was in the midst of Febuawry that the Doorway suummoned me for council,
They had fallen in love with the Reckoning and desird to create an eternal bond,
They wanted to have me present at the seremony to [provide] blessings,
Yet it was with regret I [had to] deny them their wish and instead provide cawsion,
But you see, that is the role of a Mother. We tell our spawn what they do not want to hear but muust.
It is a Mother's Mercy to pass on wisdom, to show compassion and care.

I told the Doorway that we live in a cruuel world, a cruuel world that can rawt a gewd heart,
I told the Doorway that it would be kindr to leave bonds uuntethered,
That it would be a kindness to both to let their love lingr and fade,
Than to let it be subjected to the atrocities of this world's bluud lost.
For what is a strongr emotion than jealousy? I ask of you.
What is a strongr emotion than loneliness? I ask of you.
What is a strongr emotion than longing? I ask of you.
What drives people to insanity quickr than being denied their heart's desires?
No, I told them, they should let go, for a Pthumerian owes this world selflessness,
And a Pthumerian's love can permanently stain this world in a way no one else can.
It would be a kindness to all.

But the Doorway did not want to listen. The Doorway defied [my] advice and created bonds,
The Doorway opened an eternal connection to the Reckoning, The Doorway stained this earth with the consequence of love, of relationships.
Do not be fewled by the luuxury of these words.
There is suuch a thing as selfless love, and this was not it, And so the time came for me to regrettably be proven right.

The corruuption of our cruuel world festered as people created bonds,
For the bonds made the agony of loss so much greater.
With the Doorway's curse*1, people who lost their family, their spouses, their friends also lost themselves.
Loss is painful no matter how you enduure, but the Doorway's curse ensuured it would ruun*2 deep into your soul.
It would corrupt. It would ruun*2.
This was not merciful. This was not love.

And so I counseled the Reckoning to go and keep the corruption at bay,
The Reckoning will not return to the Doorway for corruption will never end,
For beasthewd will never end.
The Reckoning keeps her sword high, and the Doorway will wait for eternity for a lover who will never return.
This is a mother's mercy. Perhaps one day, the Doorway will dissolve their curse.

Now let us bow our heads and pray. And remember, my Disciples, abstain from the curse.
Regulate your desires. This is not to cast shame, but to cast cawsion."

*1: The "curse" refers to the Bonding Pacts that are now popular in Trench. There may be some logic to Mother Mercy's rhetoric given the intensity of corruption experienced post-Bonding Pact. However, one could argue there is an equally high chance of counter-corruption due to deepening relationships through blood magic.

*2: It would appear that the word "ruin" and "run" were spelled the same at this time.

[Footnotes are in the Wayward Watcher's handwriting and clearly added at a much later date than the original sermon was recorded due to the darker quality of the ink. The following document "Mother's Forgiveness" is in the Wayward Watcher's handwriting as well.]

MOTHER'S FORGIVENESS
"Thus shortly after the sermon, a hex began to spread throughout Trench. The source of which seemed to be people who were actively resisting personal desire in some shape. People who tried to resist lust or love or other basic desires began to experience convulsions of pain. The internal agony would rapidly escalate the more they resisted "temptation" and eventually, people found one of the only ways to alleviate this pain was to mutilate themselves. A small cut would bring some relief, but the more harm they brought themselves, the more relief they felt.

I have theorized that this may be the first incident of Sleepers transforming themselves into the Blood Crazed Zealots. This was the first time I began to experience Sleepers who had permanently modified their physical bodies in drastic ways. Many would seem content with the modifications but their personalities were distorted by exacerbated corruption. Those who avoided harming themselves would fall into beasthood in alarming numbers. For a while, the only solution the Hunters and I believed in was to mercifully put these creatures out of their misery.

I quickly learned that many people, especially Sleepers, had burrowed down so many desires that it became an outright plague of corruption throughout the city. We needed to do more than just hunting down those who fell to it. The bodies were piling in numbers and the blood pollution was creating more beasts than we were killing. I sought out Mother Mercy and demanded a solution. I reasoned with her that while she may want to avoid the Doorway's blood magic, it was unfair to allow Sleepers to go punished so severely for a Pthumerian's choices.

Eventually, we came to an agreement. She would purify those who came to the Pale Sanctuary and asked for her forgiveness. They must confess their desires to lift the hex. Mother Mercy will, fittingly, take mercy on those who wish to redeem themselves. Be careful of your desires, Sleeper, for if you keep them locked up, they may just be your ruin. Confessions to Mother Mercy should be a last resort. To avoid the hex, consider honesty.

Good Luck,
The Wayward Watcher."

FAQ
1. The "desires" do not need to be romantic or sexual. They can be someone who desires to resolve an issue, someone who wants to have more friends, the desire to be successful/powerful/famous etc. The "desires" should be prominent. Small desires like wanting a donut for breakfast will not cause harm.

2. Crippling feelings of guilt over desire will consume and corrupt. Characters can avoid the hex by admitting their desires to someone. It does not have to be to Mother Mercy.

3. Those who confess to others or Mother Mercy will feel immediate relief of the hex. People can experience the hex multiple times if they go back to hiding their desires.

4. Confessions can be given to anyone. If you're in love with someone, you can just confess it to a friend rather than the person you are in love with. Of course, it's not like Sleepers would know that...It would be easy to think you have to be forced to confess to your loved one.

5. Characters do not need to self-mutilate for this prompt. Many can just go through their usual corruption stages/beasthood that you would have planned for your characters ahead of time. This is intended to be a bit of history for the Blood Crazed Zealots. You can be flexible on how your character goes to extremes to alleviate their pain. This may include substance abuse, irrational behavior, etc.

PROMPT 4: THE CHOCOLATIER

CONTENT WARNINGS: Themes of temptation (non-sexual and/or sexual), addiction, blood sacrifice, severely warped personality/reality including temporary amnesia, inability to use body, paranoia, vomiting organs, homicidal feelings, mild body horror.

"What is the weight of your pleasure?"

You hear the gravely, sexless voice greet you somewhere in the streets of Trench. You knew the creature had not been there just a minute ago, but now you are no longer alone. A creature roughly the size of an elephant sits beside you, a chalice hovering in the air between its outstretched hands.

The scent of chocolate wafts from the creature. But this isn't just the smell of chocolate. It is the experience of pleasure itself. You can feel the warm melt of chocolate over your tongue, your body wrapped up in inexplicable warmth and silky softness, something whispering across your skin. Your scalp tingles as if someone were playing with your hair or you just heard the best song in your life. It's like sinking into your own bed after getting home from a long trip away.

It's nearly impossible to resist the stupor the creature puts you in. The Chocolatier gazes at you calmly. This is an infamous beast, rare to show its face, but known among locals as one of the most dangerous...For no one can bring themselves to slay it. They dare not even write about it in fear of this creature being capable of taking pleasure away from Trench altogether. Corruption has thoroughly consumed this soul, any sense of self lost, but is this truly the kind of beast that Hunters wish to bring down? It pacifies all those that meet it, even the most violent of souls. The desire to fight, to be hostile will be greatly diminished in its presence. Surely...Surely it cannot be bad.

"I only ask for a token of your blood. For that, I will give everything...Your pleasure, your desire...It is yours. In one single bite...Or perhaps...You may think to give one of my chocolates to someone you admire...For surely...Who could resist such a gift...?" It offers its chalice. "Just a drop will do, my friend..." It seems like such a reasonable request for such a grand gift. Common sense would normally be kicking in right about now, but the Chocolatier drives common sense from the mind and replaces it with sheer want. Someone with mental protection abilities, enchantments or blessed items may be able to resist the temptation and step away. Most people however will likely give over a drop (or more) of blood. The more blood you give, the more chocolates you receive...

And oh! Even if you dislike chocolate or typically can't eat it, you know that you can eat this piece. You know that you will like this chocolate. It's perfect in every way. It was made exactly for you...Or perhaps, even, a special someone in your life. A chocolate for your friend, your lover, your sibling, or...maybe even your enemy. Once you have been given the chocolate, the Chocolatier vanishes. You don't have to eat the chocolate right away, but the longer you resist, the greater the temptation will become. God forbid you lose the chocolate. Some have gone completely insane by the loss. Maybe you should just eat it or get it to your buddy!

There are a wide variety of chocolates you may be blessed with and each one has a different effect. The Chocolatier may seek you out multiple times, but it seems impossible to intentionally summon the Chocolatier.

All effects last a few hours to a few days. Consuming paleblood or darkblood will help alleviate symptoms. All chocolates may lead to corruption and beasthood if they get out of control. Resisting the symptoms worsens effects. While these chocolates are intended to set up new connections, the effects will be doubled if the effect is layering on a pre-existing situation (ie; if you eat a dark chocolate around the person you're sleeping with, you'll find them even more irresistible. If you eat a milk chocolate around your significant other, you'll feel even more in love). You can eat multiple chocolates at once to experience multiple effects at once.

Milk Chocolate: This will inspire extreme romantic attraction to the first person you interact with after eating this chocolate regardless of if you know them. Melted and consumed with other food, it will provide additional feelings of being loved.

Dark Chocolate: This will inspire extreme sexual attraction to the first person you interact with of your preferred gender(s) after consuming. This has been used as a powerful aphrodisiac. Melted and put directly on the skin, it can cause extreme pleasure.

White Chocolate: You desperately want to befriend the first person you interact with after consuming. Melted and consumed with other food, it will provide additional feelings of security in your relationships.

Caramel: You will feel deeply indebted to the first person you interact with after consuming. You will want to do anything they ask, be anything they ask, and follow every order or command they give you.

Almond: You will be extremely compelled to communicate exclusively through song to other people. You will also be compelled to randomly sing your inner monologue and overshare via a spontaneous, musical number.

Raspberry: This will cause you to start vomiting a variety of organs. They aren't your organs. Some of the organs may still be functioning when they come up.

Orange: You will begin to completely confuse people for each other. Their faces and names will swap around in your mind. You might mistake your best friend for your partner. You will have difficulty remembering who is who.

Strawberry: Your emotions will be projected from you without your control through an aura. This aura can provide visual cues (such as a golden light around you when you are happy or a blue when you are sad) as well as smells and possibly even sounds.

Cherry: This will make you extremely flirty and cheerful. You will find it difficult to be in a bad mood and wind up hitting on people regardless of your personal attraction to them.

Coconut: This will cause temporary amnesia either long-term or short-term. Some people may have false memories put in their heads by this chocolate, many of which will be better than the lives they originally lived.

Coffee: This will cause extremely erratic, irrational behavior. You will become reckless and arrogant, making moves in situations you normally never would. It can boast confidence and ego. The crash from this chocolate is terrible and feels worse than a hangover.

Hazelnut: Some physical marker will appear on your body to show that you are romantically and/or sexually compatible with someone. This may be their name appearing on your skin, the first words they ever said to you, or your eye color changing to theirs. This does not force sexual/romantic attraction but rather lets you know who you might make a good match with!

Peanutbutter: You now have animal features of some sort. Dog ears, wings, new eyes. This has been known to provide temporary abilities similar to the animal you have been combined with. Some have even been known to be able to transform completely into the animal at this time!

Peacan: You will drastically lose function over certain body parts. This can cause feelings like your arm is no longer there or under your control. It may cause a complete surrender of your bodily functions in general.

Truffle: You will feel a crushing sense of paranoia that something is controlling you, watching you, and dictating the experiences around you. You will become increasingly suspicious of interactions and start theorizing about little things.

Vanilla: You will become obsessed with specific individuals and begin to actively plot their murder and likely attempt to commit it. This isn't just bloodlust: it's plotting violence. It's about wanting to get away with murder as much as committing murder.

PLOTTING FORM

Feel free to use the following form as a general guidance for your ideas for this month's event. Tag around for new CR, build off old CR, or use this as a way of organizing your thoughts and plans.

<b>Player Name:</b> Your name <B>Player's Pronouns:</b> Your pronouns <b>Preferred Player Contact:</b> <user name=PLURKNAME site=plurk.com> or DISCORD##### or PM. <b>Monthly Pacing:</b> Will you be a little slow this month? Will you have more time than usual? Let people know what they can expect here! <b>OOC Limits:</b> Any limits you have - either things you're not currently interested in or things you cannot/don't want to play. <b>Opting-Out Prompts:</b> Any prompts you do not want to engage with at all whether out of disinterest or discomfort. You do not need to explain why you won't be engaging. <b>Character Name:</b> <B>Character Blood Type:</b> <b>Character Role:</b> <b>What CR you would like to develop for this event:</b> Do you want to get some enemies in the works? Find a lover? A best friend? A mentor? Let people know here! <b>Open/Closed to New CR this event:</b> Y/N <b>What CR you want to avoid this event:</b> What are you not interested in playing? <B>Timeline/Event Ideas:</b> Let people know any ideas you have for the month. If a timeline is important to you, let people know about when you plan to have things happening to your character.

CODING

Comments

Albert Wesker / Resident Evil

[subject_013]

Player Name: Ref
Player's Pronouns: She/her
Preferred Player Contact: PM to ye journal, plz?
Monthly Pacing: Slow to medium. I've had some personal hiccups recently.
OOC Limits: All bets are off this month
Opting-Out Prompts: Not really opting out, but there may be some prompts I don't do because time/energy constraints

Character Name: Albert Wesker
Character Blood Type: Vileblood (back to his usual type)
Character Role: Blood Minister/Hunter

What CR you would like to develop for this event: Open to most everything and anything, romance in particular.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Yes, oh so very much
What CR you want to avoid this event: Negative CR for its own sake.

Timeline/Event Ideas:

Bonding Pacts A little soon for that, but if someone he considers family offered the familial pact, he wouldn't say no.

Mother's Mercy This has Wes all over it. He was Mommy Superior's would-be champion, at least until she screwed him over. These days, he's been researching the BCZs, in a bid to know thy enemy better.

The Chocolatier (Chocola-Tier?? Since 'Tier' means 'beast' in German) Probably tagging around for this one, but I so want him to have someone eat some milk or dark chocolate and have him be the first one they see.

[onerthes]

*brandishes sword and giggles* I'm... tempted for her to talk to him about many things this month. This wierd magic sword that cuts relationships up... her vile blooded transformation... weird creepy mother superior shit and the zealots... possible platonic physical bonding...

So many options. It's hard to decide.

[demonicbeauty]

Airy's getting her wings back. Would he like to meet her in her "prime?"

[survivalthroughhate]

Something with either the bonding pacts or the chocolate? I imagine seeing Wesker after eating either of those types will end with Maul being very intense and also wanting to go hide in a hole after the effects wear off.

Childe/Tartaglia | Genshin Impact

[monoceroscaeli]

Player Name: Bean
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact: bucketsofbeans or Bean-rific#6020 or PM.
Monthly Pacing: I try to do at least a round of tags a night, but I will be on vacation next weekend so I'll be slow during that time
OOC Limits: Not much, just PM me if you're thinking it might need permission
Opting-Out Prompts: N/A

Character Name: Childe/Tartaglia
Character Blood Type: Vileblood
Character Role: he beats things up and kills things

What CR you would like to develop for this event: I'm probably going to use this event mostly to build upon current CR, but I am open to some shenanigans for new CR where chocolate is concerned
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Open
What CR you want to avoid this event: no romantic stuff, he's involved with someone else. If you want your character to hit on him, that's fine, but he's not gunna be interested lol. I also don't want him to die.

Timeline/Event Ideas:

BONDS: He's only willing to really do the hostile one, because of the potential and possibility he might be able to have access to someone else's powers. He'll pretty much take any kind of strength upgrade, lol. He's pretty used to being at odds with people anyway so the whole aggression and competitive behavior isn't gunna bug him in the slightest.

His powers are listed on my app here.

IMPENDING INTIMACY: I don't have anything planned for this but I'm open to threading it with someone else.

MOTHER'S MERCY: I also don't have anything planned here since if he desires something, he usually just does it or goes after it. But I'm down to thread this with someone if they have an idea.

THE CHOCOLATIER: I don't want to do milk or dark with anyone, and Childe won't be doing cherry either, though another character can eat cherry and make him feel uncomfortable lol. I also don't want him to eat a coconut one, I'm not a fan of amnesia for him right now. Your character can though, that's nps

All the rest are fine. I'm looking more specifically at Caramel, Almond, Peanut Butter, and Vanilla for him to eat, though he can eat any of them tbh. So yeah do you want your character to suffer having someone make an attempt on their life or straight murder them? He's your man.

alba | bigby the abomination

[enblightened]

Player Name: Alba
Player's Pronouns: She/her
Preferred Player Contact: albaaulbath or Alba#4125 or PM.
Monthly Pacing: I'm a little bit busier this month but generally I'm available for tagging after 3:00pm PST.
OOC Limits: N/A
Opting-Out Prompts: Impending intimacy.

Character Name: Bigby
Character Blood Type: Vileblood
Character Role: sad homeless man

What CR you would like to develop for this event: WELL i had meant for Bigby to work on becoming a mentor last month but then he ate some people so that really pushed things back for a bit. Fortunately, with how this month is focused on various kinds of loves, his familial desires will likely push him back into this. do you need a sad adoptive father he can do that. So really, I'm looking for him to strengthen his bonds (not literally for once) and I'm open to new ones.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Always yes
What CR you want to avoid this event: Directionless negative CR that does not develop.

Timeline/Event Ideas:

BONDING PACTS - Good lord I love this idea, but he would not proposition anyone for this as a personal choice. However, if your character wants to form one with him, he will be touched and likely accept. On his side, he will not reach out and instead prefers to keep his desires on the inside.

MOTHER'S MERCY - Bigby is an extremely repressed man, so he definitely has some confessions he could stand to make. Otherwise he will be very self-destructive at first and seeking ways to continue repressing his affections for others. So if you want to hear him confess, I'm for it! Alternatively, he would make for a good person to listen to your confessions, as he's fairly non-judgmental.

CHOCOLATIER - I'm not opposed to playing around with this prompt, but Bigby will actively work to refuse the chocolates out of fear of how they might make him act toward others. HOWEVER, if your character offers him a chocolate, he is less likely to refuse.

[devilmind]

Just want to let you know that this might be a good month for Bigby to meet the Operator since they'll be Going Through It with their own personal demon thanks to the paranoia chocolate! They'll end up in a corner somewhere with their eyes closed, face covered, and not speaking to anyone in order to prevent the aforementioned demon from seeing, hearing, or appearing to them and will probably need others' help to snap out of it.

If you'd like to have Bigby meet the Operator this way, maybe he can have an easier time figuring out what's wrong with them thanks to his own experiences :> Let me know if you're interested!

[shiro2hero]

bro do u need to talk

[morningstud]

Pretty late to this, but Lucifer would offer a familial— brotherly— bond in hopes that it might be able to help Bigby with his whole turns into a monster problem.

He's gotta do his budding therapist routine somehow!

Lysithea von Ordelia | Fire Emblem Three Houses

[notimeforfailure]

Player Name: Wighty
Player's Pronouns: he/him/his
Preferred Player Contact: Holsety
Monthly Pacing: There's nothing in particular this month happening apart from that I'm addicted to Pokemon Legends so there may admittedly be some nights I do not tag. (I am confessing my own desires.)
OOC Limits: No death this month.
Opting-Out Prompts: Not an opt-out, but I won't be subjecting Lysithea to most of the body horror possibilities.

Character Name: Lysithea
Character Blood Type: Darkblood
Character Role: Baker / Scholar

What CR you would like to develop for this event: I'd be up for Lysithea developing some stronger bonds with people - not necessarily romantic or familial, but just getting closer. As of right now, for instance, she finds the idea of making the pacts to be off-putting because she doesn't let people that close to her.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Y
What CR you want to avoid this event: I'm game for most things.

Timeline/Event Ideas:
1. Lysithea finds the idea of forming pacts to be a bit unsettling as she's still learning how to be open and close with people so she won't be initiating that. 2. Again, it's not too likely that she exchanges affection with people, although this is possible, so hit me up if you think you can imagine a situation where this occurs. 3. And in January, she became very open about her desires and has been working on more freely communicating and pursuing those, so the desires won't be a huge problem for her, either.

That brings us to
Chocolate
Lysithea will enthusiastically say YES to every type of chocolate offered to her, every time she sees the Chocolatier. She is going to have a bad time because she is so obsessed with sugar she made it her actual job, so............

Ones I can do with anyone:
White (befriending), caramel (feelings of indebtedness), orange (face confusion), strawberry (emotion aura)

Ones I would prefer to do with known CR:
Milk (romantic), cherry (flirtation), hazelnut (demonstration of compatibility)

Ones I would prefer not to do:
Vanilla (murder), dark (sexual), raspberry (organs)

[survivalthroughhate]

Maybe white or orange chocolate for these two?

anakin skywalker | star wars

[facultative]

Player Name: michele
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact: greenlantern or terrigenesis#7190 or PM.
Monthly Pacing: i live in a future timezone
OOC Limits: self harm
Opting-Out Prompts: any of the shippy options in the chocolate section as well as raspberry and peacan

Character Name: anakin skywalker
Character Blood Type: darkblood
Character Role: citizen

What CR you would like to develop for this event: friends, people to help him sort out his nonsense
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Y
What CR you want to avoid this event: anything that would make him worse, this isn't to say i don't want bad things to happen to him just nothing that would make him decide evil is the right way to go.

Timeline/Event Ideas: since he's darkblood he'll be focusing on self-love except that is what gets us vader in the first place so hm possibly not the best thing for him rn.

bonding pacts
he is personally not looking to form a bond with anyone now after seeing a certain accidental tinder post because what if it means he will know when his dad/brother/bff is getting laid. BUT if anyone wants to force him into one because they're under the influence of one of the chocolates or whatever 👀

mother's mercy
so there's a lot he'll need to get off his chest and he may or may not need someone to explain the connection between the pain and everything he's not saying. he's struggling with knowing about his future and yet still being tempted by the dark side, wanting to be better and wondering if it's too late to do so, etc etc. he'll be more receptive with strangers so it'll be a decent place to start new cr with!

the chocolatier
while he has the tools to avoid getting caught up in it he's still going to get some of these. looking at mostly white, caramel, orange, and coconut for him! the amnesia will be mostly about palpatine and that'll also give him the false memories to replace those. also if anyone is looking to have their characters die i would love to play out something with vanilla too, doesn't matter if he ends up failing either.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra's been haunting the Archives so I *think* he'd be fairly up on what's going on with mother's mercy? He could certainly spot that Anakin in pain and make guesses about what is going on if you want.

He's got some of his own stuff he'll resisting confessing - Anakin might find relatable the worries about being enough to carry on the legacy of the Jedi/getting some sort of path to Knighthood or closure on his training of some kind.

[stilljustyou]

Player Name: Jude
Player's Pronouns: They/Them
Preferred Player Contact: spellweaver, Jude 💖#0789, or PM.
Monthly Pacing: I should be tagging at a normal pace! Once a day or every other day.
OOC Limits: My biggest thing is that I ask that anyone who tags me keep in mind that Frisk is NB - please use they/them pronouns for them.
Opting-Out Prompts: Anything ship-related for obvious reasons.

Character Name: Frisk
Character Blood Type: Darkblood.
Character Role: n/a

What CR you would like to develop for this event: I'm pretty open to everything! CR is better when you sort of wing it/let threads flow naturally.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Y
What CR you want to avoid this event:

Timeline/Event Ideas: Skipping prompt one and two!

Prompt Three: Frisk isn't normally secretive about their feelings, however... Considering that Frisk feels extreme guilt over having killed countless monsters at home, that is something that will affect them drastically. They'll be fighting the urge to self-mutilate, which very well means that their corruption level will begin to rise during this part of the event.

Prompt Four: This is the prompt that I'm most interested in!! Frisk may not be super fond of chocolate, but they'll give into the temptation to try it regardless. I'm pretty open to just about everything, but I'm most interested in white, caramel, cherry (Frisk canonly playfully flirts in Undertale as it is...), coconut, coffee, and peanutbutter.

[mactirebeag]

The chocolate prompts seem interesting! Maybe we could do something with white chocolate, caramel or coffee? Peanut butter might also be fun since Mebh is used to having animal parts even if Frisk isn't.

[brokebitchmountain]

Player Name: Levy
Player's Pronouns: She/Her
Preferred Player Contact: pathogenic or levantholos#4601, or PM.
Monthly Pacing: Same as usual. Class just started up again but I only have one and it's Wednesdays expect there to be some slow points when I have exams, though~
OOC Limits: n/a for now~ I'm down for pretty much anything.
Opting-Out Prompts: Not really interested in prompts 2 or 3. But also don't really have much for Almond, Raspberry, Pecan or Truffle chocolates. Everything else is game chocolate wise!

Character Name: Zhongli
Character Blood Type: Darkblood
Character Role: He's still jobless ):

What CR you would like to develop for this event: I'm honestly down for new CR and existing CR. Zhongli has a lot of potential with a few of the chocolates and I'd be okay with romantic bonds and familial ones with crosscanon CR!

Open/Closed to New CR this event: Yes!!
What CR you want to avoid this event: Nothing! Give me everything!

Timeline/Event Ideas: Aside from helping with the Leviathan plot nothing much else has been planned for him. I'm totally open to event plotting! For chocolates I'd love to do Milk, Dark, White, Caramel, Peanut Butter or Vanilla for chocolate things. Depending on what you'd like to do I can make any of these work!

[albaedo]

so i definitely want them to meet! since i'm sure albedo would find zhongli super interesting with all the knowledge he has on #ancientthings. i've been eying the leviathan plot but haven't really came up with anything concrete to get albedo involved. so if you're up for it, maybe it's one of the many things zhongli and albedo can discuss, and perhaps, zhongli can possibly see a fellow geo comrade on the battlefield because of it?

if not, chocolate shenanigans can be a thing instead! if zhongli happens to receive chocolates from klee, i think albedo will feel less #sus about them, etc.

Nil ❧ Dungeons & Dragons

[nilheality]

Player Name: Argent
Player's Pronouns: They/them
Preferred Player Contact: argentbast or argent#9074 or PM.
Monthly Pacing: I tend to go from boomeranging to a post a day/every other day depending on the schedule. This month should be mostly okay except for a week here and there.
OOC Limits: This month she's just getting started, so I'd like to build up rather than tear down -- that can come later. c:
Opting-Out Prompts: For this month: death and sexual intimacy.

Character Name: Nil
Character Blood Type: Paleblood
Character Role: The road to self-discovery! Looking at hunter, night walker, or architect, maybe...

What CR you would like to develop for this event: Any, but leaning more towards friends right now! She just got here so let her have people to care for. :>
Open/Closed to New CR this event: ALL THE Y
What CR you want to avoid this event: Nothing comes to mind???

Timeline/Event Ideas: As a general rule, Nil is going to be out observing and getting the lay of the land. She is going to be trying to learn more of how the omni works and may be present to open prompts that catch her interest. Also she totally saw that Obi-Wan post and will be blushing something fierce if/when she runs into him...

Going to skip Prompt One and Two because she's still gathering her bearings and wouldn't feel right bonding with anybody she's just met, even in the platonic sense. She's a bit of a slow burn when it comes to relationships, and her last romantic partner... uh... CW: abuse, trauma, mental manipulation wanted to resummon the eldritch entity that caused her serious psychological and physical trauama... MOVING ON!!

Prompt Three: Nil has trained herself well to be cautious and withhold her desires, so she's going to feel this pretty bad. If anybody is interested, she would probably be in need of a kind ear to hear her desires and she would probably be struggling with mental pain and exhaustion. If you are okay with a bit of psychic screwery, another idea I had was to have her thoughts bleed out to those nearby/losing the ability to prevent herself from reading other's minds. Let me know if that would interest!

Prompt Four: Ohh yes please. I had the Chocolotier come to her three times, and she was resistant until the third, which was a critical fail (roll: 1). To me, that means she'd have eaten two simultaneously :>. The ones that I don't really want to do are milk/dark chocolate, coconut, hazelnut, peanut butter, and vanilla. Some fun combinations I wouldn't mind RPing would be caramel/coffee, truffle/white chocolate, and (because I'm horrible), pecan/raspberry.

[bookbrawler]

Hello! I wanted to toss Jake at poor Nil's food poisoning post RIP, would you be interested in a normal!Jake or a peanut-butter fool deer!centaur!Jake lmao?

L Lawliet | Death Note

[hearthebell]

Player Name: Lexil
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact: LexiL (feel free to add!) or ladylazarus#2235 or PM.
Monthly Pacing: I'll probably be about my usual tagging tempo in spite of the slow week I just had! I'll probably prioritize the new stuff and work towards resolving older threads since a LOT of things are moving this month, hot damn.
OOC Limits: I don't think this would come up this month but pregnancy loss and infant death are tough subjects for me. I also don't want romantic stuff with characters under 18. Otherwise I'm pretty easy to plot and play with, I hope to think!
Opting-Out Prompts: I'm doing it A L L.

Character Name: L Lawliet (BUT, you will know him as Lazarus Sauveterre).
Character Blood Type: Paleblood
Character Role: Jobless but thinking about opening a detective agency, at Shouyou's suggestion.

What CR you would like to develop for this event: I'm really just jonesing for every type of CR! I like cute stuff, spiny rivalries (especially with mutual respect), characters feeling indebted to others, mentor roles, and tough love. Since it's February I'm open to valentines type shenanigans.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Always open!
What CR you want to avoid this event: I honestly can't think of anything. Because of the effects of the chocolates etc I want to say that anything goes, so long as it plays out pretty organically.

Timeline/Event Ideas:

Fated Leviathan: L is involved in this. He has a mission control type role that will keep him occupied and helpful, but mostly protect his bitty bird body from bad breakage. That being said, a lot of his positive CR will be dying in this event, leaving him with some heavy survivor's guilt, leading to...

Dreamwalking Dumbassery: Following Fated Leviathan (very end of February) L will grow obsessed with replaying the events of the battle, eat a lot of sleeping herbs, and start a dream loop to rearrange things and find out exactly what could have gone differently, who might have lived and died in different scenarios etc. Eventually his omen will kick him out of this maddening cycle to protect his deteriorating sanity, and he could end up in your character's dream (and of course, anything goes, it's a dreamscape!) Closer CR is probably more likely for this, but it could also happen completely randomly with another Sleeper who happens to be dreaming at the time. This will occupy roughly the week after Fated Leviathan and leave L a bit corrupted. Physically, he'll be OK, since the disciples will take him to the hospital for fluids and stuff after he finally wakes up, which effectively takes him from late February to early March.

Bonding Pacts: I think there are only a few people that L would do this with at this point; that being said, I'd love it for him. If you think our characters have gotten to that point with their CR hit me up and we can talk about it! If that means expediting an earlier thread we're currently playing that could lead to their relationship kind of deepening, I'm down to boomerang as well.

It Follows Impending Intimacy: I totally want to do something with this prompt. L would find it so terribly inconvenient, more so because love is a complicated and inaccessible emotion for him and often presents weirdly or unintuitively. The typical advice he gets to get rid of it might not go so well for him. I don't want to kill him just yet but close shaves are *chef's kiss*. If worse comes to worse he can always talk about his great enemy for the ages and solve his little problem that way.

Mother's Mercy: L's a deeply lonely person who doesn't see a lot of normal, nice things as within reach for him. He's quite used to depriving himself of pleasure and gentle kindnesses, and Trench has brought out the plaintive pain in denying those things even before all this blarney. His desire is largely for his desires to be valid and things he can act upon, instead of things he has to suppress, or else for the desire to just not exist at all, and he vacillates between these things depending on the day. In short I think that this particular prompt will be existentially crushing for him and add to a preexisting heavy burden on his soul, and so it's safe to say he'll be hurting himself this month in little ways that escalate. This is actually a really nice (lol) segue to the fistful of sleeping herbs he chokes down to dream for like a week straight, since that's a good pinnacle to build to. There's always honesty, but have you seen this guy's canon? It'll be a hard road to walk to get there.

The Chocolatier: Yeah this prompt was just made to be bad for L, specifically. He has a weakness, probably stemming from a neglected early childhood, for nice people telling him that it's OK to feel good. With the accompanying aura, he will accept these chocolates pretty readily and gladly and give enough blood to make him a bit wobbly on his feet for a bit. I'm open to anyone and everyone giving L any type of chocolate (heck give him a whole box and turn him into a true chaos agent) but since I love writing in verse I want someone to please give him at least an almond candy, thanks. If no one does, he'll get his OWN almond candy, that's how much I want to write in song.

[peripheries]

HELLO. They're both doing the Leviathan plot and I think L would be a super interesting CR for Kaworu to have. Dumb weirdo meets smart weirdo...

Sabé | Star Wars

[decoyqueen]

Player Name: SSK
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact: swankified or swankified#6984 or PM.
Monthly Pacing: I should be clear to have a good pace all month. :D As far as I know, nothing should slow me down
OOC Limits: keeping death off the table for now- she only just arrived after all.
Opting-Out Prompts: I honestly would be fine with any of the prompts apart from like raspberry or vanilla chocolates. But also seeing as she's just arrived, some of the others might not be feasible for her.

Character Name: Sabé (may introduce herself as Tsabin for a while)
Character Blood Type: Paleblood
Character Role: Just arrived, hasn't taken up a role yet

What CR you would like to develop for this event: Yes. :D Honestly, and I know it seems so basic to say??? But I want everything. She's only just arrived and despite a brief moment of anonymously poking at the jedi she was stuck on a ship with **years ago**, she's still pretty sad and mad from recent events back home.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Absolutely open to new CR. That's pretty much all I'd get since she's fresh out of the water.
What CR you want to avoid this event: I'd say I want more positive than negative CR for sure, but I'm not completely closed off to negative CR if you want to make an enemy of a pretty badass spy/private bodyguard. ;)

Timeline/Event Ideas:

For the first three prompts: I am absolutely open to things if there's something you want to do with her for those. Like I've said, we're brand new here so I know things like the bonds won't be anyone's first choice??? She'd have to end up in an accidental bond- which I'm not opposed to honestly.

For chocolate prompt? I'm honestly down with all of them except a hard no on vanilla and raspberry... and a tentative no for peanut butter and almond- only because I worry I might not be able to write those as well as any of the other prompts. But really, this seems like the easiest one for meeting new people and I'm all about that!! I should add that while she has no problems with flings? Getting her to open up/show more emotion required for a romantic or deeper connection will be like pulling teeth. She's hella guarded y'all.

[survivalthroughhate]

Maybe something with the chocolates or Maul having to open up and be honest with the mother's mercy prompt? I love putting him in awkward situations!

Red's Lads

[shiro2hero]

Player Name: Red
Player's Pronouns: They/Them
Preferred Player Contact: redfirelight or PM.
Monthly Pacing: Probably same as usual! I don't foresee any major upsets this month, so. More active evenings/weekends as per usual, will backtag forever.

OOC Limits: No death for my guys this round.
Opting-Out Prompts: Will probably not be engaging with the "It Follows" inspired prompt, sorry!

Shiro Dorito Shirogane | Space Lion Misadventures

[shiro2hero]

Character Name: Shiro, aka: Takashi Shirogane, aka: Space Dad
Character Blood Type: Warmblood
Character Role: Waker / Koz's Volunteer

What CR you would like to develop for this event: Shiro is always up for friendships, for coworkers, and the like. Continuing CR, new CR, he's pretty much open for anything!

Open/Closed to New CR this event: Open! Always open!
What CR you want to avoid this event: Not interested in Romance, but everything else is fine!

Timeline/Event Ideas:

WARMBLOOD EFFECT - Warmbloods will be influenced by selfless love. They will have an increasing urge to help others for the sake of helping them - so it's technically just another Tuesday for Shiro. But this would mean he'll throw himself into helping his CR or random passersby with just about anything. If you ever need a hand, or a rescue or someone to give you a peptalk, he's there. Enthusiastically. Heck, he might even be around town just pitching in with random NPCs.

PTHUMERIAN FUN - more of a flavor note than anything, but catch Shiro on the shore occasionally, trying to talk with the Moon Presence. If your character wants a history lesson, feel free to hit him up there. He has some Big Feelings about the Moon Presence. ... And Julia Sodder. Shiro also has the Blade of Agency from Doorway, and will be shoving it under the bed unless someone convinces him it's absolutely necessary to use.

MOTHER MERCY - Toying with this one a bit! Shiro's real desire is to HELP and be USEFUL and keep his promises to his friends and family. To keep them safe. This might not come into play until certain things with his CR play out (like someone going beast mode) and will probably just end up in increasing his corruption more than anything. OR it will spur him on to do something more reckless than usual in order to be of use. Not sure exactly what I want to do yet, and might just keep it on the backburner.

BONDING - this will likely be closed to the closest CR (to save on headaches for everyone). He has one very important romantic connection, and... so many familial ones. But if anyone wants a witness to their ceremony for any reason, needs help with supplies for theirs or wants to talk about it, hit me up!!

CHOCOLATES - Going to probably have fun with this one. Looking at peanut butter and almond for sure. Strawberry might be fun as well, with coffee being kind of hilarious. I am also considering discussing the caramel option with someone.

Not much heavy stuff going on this month, so I'm open for plotting!!

[schoolingfish]

Player Name: Robin
Player's Pronouns: She/her
Preferred Player Contact: serpentcyborg or grasshoppermouse#3756 on Discord
Monthly Pacing: I'll probably reply between once a day or once every other day
OOC Limits: I mean, obviously I don't want to do any of the sexual plot things because Luca is a child, but other than that I'm up for whatever
Opting-Out Prompts: I'm open to any of the prompts as long as the sexual aspects of the prompt aren't in play.

Character Name: Luca Paguro
Character Blood Type: Vileblood
Character Role: Arcane Scholar (Student)

What CR you would like to develop for this event: Friends, concerned adults, people freaked out if they run into gollum!Luca guarding his candy
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Always open!
What CR you want to avoid this event: Romance/sex

Timeline/Event Ideas:
Vileblood effects: Luca will be especially interested in family bonds this month! If anyone's interested in doing the bonding ceremony with him, he'd definitely be up for creating a familial bond with someone, and he'll want to be close to the various parental and sibling figures he's formed in the Trench. Until he eats the amnesia candy, anyway.

Bonding: As previously mentioned, he'd definitely be up for a bonding ceremony! He'd mostly be interested in familial bonds. He might not think to suggest it, but anyone with close CR with him or any housemates regardless of how close they are could suggest it and he'd definitely say yes.

Mother's Mercy: While Luca isn't hiding his Vileblood related desire for blood as much as he did before, and he's been letting himself have all the animal blood he wants, he has been trying to fight the desire to drink sleeper blood. This will mostly come into play if he runs into a situation with a bleeding sleeper, but I'd be open to playing with that if anyone is interested.

Chocolates: Luca loves sweets, and he's going to make a terrible life choice here. At some point in the month, he will be approached by the Chocolatier, and he'll be so excited by the prospect of chocolate that he'll make a fairly sizeable blood donation. He'll initially set aside one piece of chocolate for each person that's important to him, then start scarfing down the rest. He'll be able to be found somewhere in town, still bleeding and guarding his pile of candy, because he'll be experiencing amnesia, paranoia, singing and have several animal body parts. Also the paranoia will have him slowly descending into corruption. Enjoy.

[imaglyphwitch]

Oh nooo, poor Luca!

And seeing as how Luz will BE corrupted this month...misery loves company?

However! If they happened to make a familial bond before this, would you be opposed?

sal fisher | sally face

[sallyface]

Player Name: nick
Player's Pronouns: they/them
Preferred Player Contact: nicknacked or dicktadora#8988 or PM.
Monthly Pacing: I have a job that's making my hours really WEIRD so my availability will be all sorts of spotty. My tagging speed however will be pretty decent at least!

OOC Limits: For this month, I think I'm cool with trying out most things. Just let me know. As long as I can come up with a reason to swing it I'm usually open.

Opting-Out Prompts: Prompts like the bonds stuff is still pretty early for him. That being said, if there's some crazy reason that I could swing something like that happening logically (at least from a narrative standpoint) then I'm open to it! Basically...exactly what I said up top oops.

Character Name: Sal Fisher/Sally/Sally Face
Character Blood Type: Pale blood
Character Role: He just got here but he can probably be seen around performing with his guitar wherever there's people willing to listen.

What CR you would like to develop for this event: Would always love friends for Sal. He's so aggressively friendly. I also think he makes a great emotional support, so putting him in CR where he can be just that is great! That being said I never really got to play him making enemies because...he just...it takes a whole lot. You can literally punch him and he'll brush it off (but at the same time he can be a sassy little shit). I'd really like to use the chocolates prompt for the most part, so hmu there for sure.


Open/Closed to New CR this event: All CR at this point is new CR so please!!

What CR you want to avoid this event: I don't think there's CR that I don't want to play or at least won't give a shot?

Timeline/Event Ideas: This isn't super rigid since so far the only thing I know he's doing is playing music for people like a creepy looking street performer, so! That being said though, I'm mostly interested in the chocolates, so here are some ideas I have (and am super open to things not listed if you've got a good idea)!

Milk Chocolate: I can swing this since when Sal is romantically interested in someone he just loses the ability to function and acts like an idiot.

White Chocolate: Sal is already huge on making friends in general, so this is perfect for him. I think he'd just be more aggressive about it than usual.

Almond: How could I not? He already travels everywhere with his guitar. His singing will likely be uh. Very metal/alternative rock. There will definitely be some screamo because he actually sings like that when no one is around. Also open to playing this with him not affected but not knowing what to do when people start singing other than providing them with their own theme song. Might as well?

Raspberry: I'm a sucker for this kind of thing sorry not sorry. Of course, this would require Sal to take off his mask, so he'll be really really defensive if anyone tries to help him because you know priorities. He would also drop everything to try and help someone in this position as well.

ALSO for a general thing, I'd love to play with Sal's blood powers below.

• Blood Power Manifestation: Precognition, getting visions more frequently about events of varying importance. Maybe he’ll foresee someone stepping in a puddle of mud and ruining their favorite shoes, or maybe he’ll see someone fall and twist their ankle, etc. His empathy will also increase, allowing him to get hints of how people around him are feeling (this can naturally overwhelm him if the feelings around him are too strong/in abundance).

[nothinglikea]

Would white chocolate with him and Rose work?

Kainé | Nier: Replicant 1.22

[foulhussy]

Player Name: Ava
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact: oersted or Miquna#1972 on discord!
Monthly Pacing: I generally try to do a few tags a day. I admit I'm not the fastest, but I will try to make steady progress on threads.
OOC Limits: Just the stuff in my permissions post!
Opting-Out Prompts: None in particular.

Character Name: Kainé
Character Blood Type: Vileblood
Character Role: Independent Hunter

What CR you would like to develop for this event: As a Vileblood, I'd really love her to make new CR that slots into a familial dynamic. Younger characters that she can mentally regard as sibling like! Older characters with a parental dynamic! She's 20 herself.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Bring on the new CR!
What CR you want to avoid this event: I have particular CR in mind for reciprocated romantic interest, but feel free to crush on her! Spontaneous non-romantic sexual intimacy is a maybe.

Timeline/Event Ideas:

Corruption General: For various reasons, Kainé will become corrupt throughout the month, though she won't approach full Beast mode. I need to make a proper chart but the upshot is that she has poorer control of emotions and impulses, and swings intensely between anger, depression/grief, and joy. She either dwells on the past or entirely in the present.

Physically, the symptoms that begin to appear are extremely pale skin, compulsive singing, and smelling like flowers. At higher levels, if it comes to that, salt crystals flake off of her. They'll disappear eventually, but consuming it will result in corruption spreading.

Bonds: Kainé is ICly wary about these, and I'm not the most interested in playing it but if you have interesting ideas, feel free to run them by me even if a bond doesn't actually end up by forged.

Impending Intimacy: No particular ideas here, and I'm admittedly weaker at playing NPC/Monster 3rd parties, but if you have a neat idea, run it by me! I don't think I want Kainé to die just yet, but I wouldn't mind a close call.

Mother's Forgiveness SIGN ME THE FUCK UP, i love this shit. Kainé has so many repressed desires! She wants to be understood, she wants companionship, she wants people to care about and accept her. But she's very bad at communicating her feelings and afraid of being vulnerable, so she'll try to bottle it up, and end up harming herself and racking up corruption, though she won't go full beast. I just want that angst and catharsis and soft comfort threads.

Chocolatier: No particular ideas but I'd really like this! HMU. She's more likely to receive than give these.

[stilljustyou]

If you'd like, we can see how Frisk and Kaine go CR wise? Undertale's big thing is found family, and Frisk has a friend at home who's also pretty rough around the edges... Maybe if you'd like, we can have them share chocolate with one another.

albedo | genshin impact

[albaedo]

Player Name: jessica
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact: pm.
Monthly Pacing: slow to medium.
OOC Limits: permissions.
Opting-Out Prompts: romance and sexual content, impending intimacy.

Character Name: albedo
Character Blood Type: darkblood
Character Role: if he's not at the archives, he's just exploring out in trenchwood.

What CR you would like to develop for this event: open to most things. would love for albedo to gain close acquaintances that'll gradually ease into an actual friendship.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: always open.
What CR you want to avoid this event: romance.

Timeline/Event Ideas:

the chocolatier: i'd rather not have albedo consume: dark, almond, raspberry, cherry, coffee, pecan, and vanilla. milk is on the table only because it'll literally not go anywhere; romantic feelings are unfamiliar and it may not be something he'll be able to register from the get-go. the most he'll feel is wanting to spend more time with the person.

mother's mercy: i'm open to albedo playing the supporting role in this aka lending an ear to those who decide to open up about their desires.

bonding pacts: tentatively adding this here; i'm open to brainstorm, though i'd like to opt him out of romantic and hostile bonds.

Mesi | Makoto Kino (Sailor Moon) & Winter Schnee (RWBY)

[thunderingcourage]

Player Name: Mesi
Preferred Player Contact: likethelibrary or likethelibrary#7742 or PM.
Monthly Pacing: Should be back to normal this month.
OOC Limits: None
Opting-Out Prompts: Open to all.

Character Name: Makoto Kino
Character Blood Type: Vileblood
Character Role: Arcitect (Shop Owner)

What CR you would like to develop for this event: I'm open to any new CR
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Yes
What CR you want to avoid this event: None

Timeline/Event Ideas: Makoto is going to open her shop Flour and Bloom on February 7, and shortly thereafter she will be making a Romantic pact with Atushi Nakajima, and a Platonic pact with Usagi Tsukino, and possible Minako Aino. I'd also like to play around a little with some of the prompts from the Chocolatier as well. That's really all that I have planned.

CW: Slef-harm, violence, body horror, beasthood
Character Name: Winter Schnee
Character Blood Type: Coldblood
Character Role: Hunter

What CR you would like to develop for this event: Any and all, Winter will be at her worst this month so she will need helpful CR but will likely make antagonistic CR as well.
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Open to new CR always
What CR you want to avoid this event: Romantic

Timeline/Event Ideas: Winter is beginning to manifest symptoms of corruption, her body temperature has fallen well below normal, she's taking a slight icy hue to her appearance, and is becoming less emotional and more callous and mission-oriented. Very much become the Ice Queen she's teased about being often. The Mother's Mercy prompt will lead her to self-flagellation, adopting wearing things such as cilice under her attire. But the corruption and pain will continue to grow as she tries to deny her feelings and desires, this will lead to more severe attempts to manage the pain through gashes to her torso arms, and legs. All leading to possible beasthood towards the end of the month if anyone would be interested in playing it out.

Re: Mesi | Makoto Kino (Sailor Moon) & Winter Schnee (RWBY)

[onerthes]

Vira-Lorr will almost certainly visit the new shop (And this is likely a good option for the two of them, other than possibly attending any of those bonding ceremonies that are public). So we have positive angles with them.

VL & Neo are possible angles with Winter. Neo wouldn't be a positive or negative influence so much as someone that could be ordered around as Winter struggles. VL would actively try to get her to come to her senses if she saw her self-harming.

Stiles Stilinski | Teen Wolf

[kingofsarcasm]

Player Name: charley
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact: spypigeon or PM.
Monthly Pacing: Medium pace seems to be where I'm at right now. Can go slower if stuff comes up, which because of health reasons, I can never predict for sure.
OOC Limits: None right now. Permissions has some detailed specifics, but I'm not worried about it.
Opting-Out Prompts: Love all of it

Character Name: Stiles Stilinski
Character Blood Type: Darkblood
Character Role: Civilian/Arcane Scholar-ish

What CR you would like to develop for this event: Stiles needs friends and he's not very good at letting people in so good luck. I'd also love to find him some mentors for fighting and magic etc. and he's a great character to have contentious CR with. Enemies are welcome as is some dating and light romance!
Open to New CR this event: Yes.
What CR you want to avoid this event: Committed long-term Romance.

Timeline/Event Ideas: Stiles will be stuck in the body of his female self and is temporarily paleblood as well since he can shapeshift as a darkblood and that would eliminate the point of keeping him female.

Bonding Pacts: Stiles has no cast and no especially close CR yet, so he's not going to be doing this willingly. But I am open to discussing something forced.

Impending Intimacy: I definitely plan to have him suffer this curse, and since we are able to tailor it to the individual, I am definitely down to use it to push smut. Giving him an existential gender and sexuality identity crisis and also blessing him with experiencing a female orgasm lmfao. lmk if you wanna bang him. But also down to do non-banging stuff with this prompt of course.

Mother's Mercy: Stiles won't be affected by this unless he eats a chocolate that inspires temporary desires? idk, I love the prompt, I just don't think he can engage with it right now.

The Chocolatier: I am into the majority of the chocolates. I have no specific ideas yet besides that I love all the ones that may push him to interact with people he normally wouldn't and in ways he normally wouldn't. Especially considering his continued female state, this should be very fun.

Winter Mournings: Still down to do stuff with this since February is the last month it's in effect. If you wanna see some sad and embarrassing moments of Stiles' life like his mom dying or being savagely rejected by a girl or something, or show him one of yours, I am down.

[nothinglikea]

Sorry for the previous comment, I misunderstood some stuff which made me slam on the breaks once I parsed it properly. /cries

Anyway! Chocolates with Tinya, Rose, or both would be enjoyed? Please let me know what you think!

owlie & the bird boys!

[grice]

Player Name: owlie
Player's Pronouns: she/her
Preferred Player Contact: liberos or owlie#3609 or PM.
Monthly Pacing: i'm a little slow this month because work this season is heavy, but i'm still getting to tags! there might just be a two/three day delay every now and then, though i'm trying my absolute best to get to one or more tags to one specific thread a day if it's priority/time sensitive!
OOC Limits: not keen on adultery, but other than that, fingerguns!
Opting-Out Prompts: n/a

falco grice (attack on titan + crau)

[grice]

Character Name: falco grice
Character Blood Type: vileblood
Character Role: beginning to follow veterans and learn about blood ministry and nursing, though it’s probably going to stay that way for a while! he is but a wee. characters can occasionally see him around as a stable boy, too.

What CR you would like to develop for this event: i’m keen on developing current cr and continuing to gather familial cr! i said it once . . . in this house, falco adopts you. this may be a shot in the dark too but— negative cr? anyone??
Open/Closed to New CR this event: of course i’m open!
What CR you want to avoid this event: romantic.

Timeline/Event Ideas:

🪶 FATED LEVIATHAN PLAYER PLOT: i have a top level planned for the big brawl, so i’ll be taking a step back from the game’s overall event month! falco will be helping the adults running the medical tents behind the scenes and at some point that might get run over or something (i’m not sure what should be the trigger— either medical getting trampled or too many downed attackers out there—!), and as a response falco will become an air ambulance, intervening in lost fights and helping the injured get to safety and heal accordingly before trying anything else! he may end up fighting if the situation demands it (like YOU’RE ABOUT TO DIE he can’t have that 😭), but his priority is going to be defense/backup for fighters having a difficult time. if you want to catch a ride to recovery, get rescued or team up with a huge bird, let me know!

🪶 BONDS: god my jam, my bread and butter. i’m open to creating either platonic or familial bonds at any time, though i ask that we have some significant cr built to do so!

🪶 MISC: for fun, there’re the blizzards to play around with, places to get stuck in or even you’re out there and falco just runs out to help u 🥲 — falco’s birthday is on the tenth, and he’ll be turning 13 too! finally! he’s going to start growing and his voice is gonna do the thing.

🪶 CORRUPTION: since it’s pretty high this month, i might throw in some fluctuating low levels of corruption on falco! this may include: flu symptoms & reacting aggressively to aggression 🤝

Tinya Wazzo | Legion of Super-Heroes & Rose Dawson | Titanic

[nothinglikea]

Player Name: argustar
Player's Pronouns: they/them
Preferred Player Contact: PM.
Monthly Pacing: I can usually be active all day and should be capable of boomeranging during slow periods at work or before/after dinner
OOC Limits: no harm to cats
Opting-Out Prompts: none that I see

Character Name: Tinya Wazzo
Character Blood Type: Coldblood
Character Role: shopgirl working at Michael's clothing store

What CR you would like to develop for this event: Any and all CR (friendly, attractions, sexual partners, give me all the CR, please!), I'm especially interested in playing out the chocolate effects with Tinya, especially dark chocolate so she can find partners. (what can I say, girl just left kink city and she's lonely)
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Y
What CR you want to avoid this event: I'm genuinely up for anything, let's throw some spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.

Timeline/Event Ideas: timeline is unimportant as I'm willing to backtag for ages

Character Name: Rose Dawson
Character Blood Type: Paleblood
Character Role: undetermined

What CR you would like to develop for this event: a best friend or a mentor would be great! she's never really had a best friend before and she misses Thomas Andrews, a friend and mentor on the Titanic
Open/Closed to New CR this event: Y
What CR you want to avoid this event: anything fighty? girl doesn't have much in the way of self-defense

Timeline/Event Ideas: Again, I'm open to whatever, whenever and I backtag for ages.