March Information and CR meme!

[voidtreckermods]

We hope everyone had a fun month! Some information for your ongoing journey.

IC Month

This month is the month of Kazoo. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is "A journey well shared is a journey well enjoyed".

This means: Varied CR. The first thread with each character set in the month of Kazoo will earn you two bonus points during March and April.

Threads that fulfil this criteria can be submitted during April AC. You may find it easier to keep a tracking list of threads for easy compiling of bonus AC!

The ingredient of the month is tomato. Recipes are here. All the ingredients can be found in the storeroom and characters are welcome to make other food with them.

This month’s chore assignments are:
Blue: Laundry
Purple: Cleaning kitchen and bathrooms
Red: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas
Orange: Meal Preparation

The Train

As the month moves onto the month of Kazoo, the train will stop to pick up new passengers. When everyone rejoins the train they will find a new sleeper carriage.

As a reminder, you can list things that characters have added to the train here. Just comment under the header of the carriage you are adding to!

Important Dates

This month’s event will be a world event on the 11th - 25th of March. (An info and plotting post will go up on the 7th)

The TDM will be posted on the 16th. Reserves will open on the 18th. Apps are between the 22nd and the 29th. AC will run from the 23rd to the 30th of March.

Other Info

We now have a Permissions Directory page for character permissions posts that have specific requirements or warnings, or need opt-ins or information from other players.

As it is a mission month we would like to remind you about our NPC handler roles. Sign up is here!

Also for those wanting to plan things in game,please remember the player plot calender to help make sure everyone knows what is happening and when!

Monthly Plotting

Feel free to use this post to plot anything you want for the next month! Here’s a structure you can use!

<b>Name:</b> [your name] <b>Contact info:</b> [anything you want to share] <b>Character:</b> [name] <b>About them:</b> [canon, a brief description of who they are] <b>Plans:</b> [got anything in the works?] <b>CR wanted:</b> [anything specific?] <b>Things to avoid:</b> [just so lines can be drawn]

Comments

[obliviouspatriarch]

Name: Ren
Contact info: TsundereShadow#6350 | TsundereShadow (Both are welcome to add and plot with me! Prefer disco but I'm up for plurk plotting)

My two below!

Wei Wuxian (MDZS, Slumscape CRAU)

[obliviouspatriarch]

Character: Wei Wuxian (BLUE team), who comes from the novel that The Untamed was based on: Mo Dao Zu Shi. However he's also a crau from a game called Slumscape. Information found here about that game.

About them: Simply put, Wei Wuxian is a character who puts on a bright and happy front to disguise the near-constant hell of hurt he's been through. He doesn't want others to fret or worry about him so he just laughs it off and waves it away most times, but not always. Everyone has their breaking points and even he isn't immune to that. Especially after his time in a place known as Hakagemachi, an unstable pocket of reality & time where the overall theme is horror, both of the mental and physical/body horror variety. Being in that place also changed his appearance just a bit as he now looks like this.

He's much sharper than he lets on and can figure some things out before others do, and he never says no to a drink.

Due to being CRAU, he's got some differences than his canon counterpart, shown here and a set of permissions questions here

Plans: Nothing solid aside from settling in on the train and potentially mistaking a person or two from where he was crau'd from (afaik it's just Masumi Sera he would 100% recognise)

CR wanted: Any and all, preferably some family/friends to call him out on being not as ok as he feigns being. Negative cr to rile his temper up would be pretty funny too.

Things to avoid: You don't have to outright avoid anything, but a heads up about self-harm, sexual assault, suicide (unless I'm canon familiar /gestures to MDZS/Untamed), car related deaths (I've witnessed more than a few of those), or cancer would be GREATLY appreciated! So long as I'm warned ahead of time oocly or in a subject header, we're good. Just don't drop that on me without warning.

[hashtagparkerluck]

Name: Kinz
Contact info: discord: kinz#6592 or throw something at me on kinziekay

Character: Peter Parker
About them: MCU. resident Spider-Kid one team purple. He's a mess but very friendly and loves meeting new people. He's often in the dressing car lounging in webs, sometimes in the lab, could be in the game car or even in cinema car. He's really all over the place.
Plans: He ordered DnD stuff to start a campaign because he's a huge nerd. Also he's gonna ask a girl out to the party thing. He's very nervous.
CR wanted: Everything. give it.
Things to avoid: Don't call him Einstein unless you just want to give him a panic attack.

[fivemilesdeep]

Siebren needs to meet Peter, because he needs to know every member of Team Science (assuming Peter is on Team Science).

Also, Ryo is from a low-tech monsters and magic world, so please introduce him to D&D, just for the sheer "wait what" of it all.

[fivemilesdeep]

Name: Kia
Contact info: Kiaxet

Character: Siebren de Kuiper (Sigma)
About them: Cabin 5A, orange team, from Overwatch. A brilliant astrophysicist who experienced a lab accident that gave him gravity powers and shattered his sanity. He's generally kind and interested in others' work, and he's doing his absolute best not to let anyone know about his mental health issues. He's a shield tank, so he's absolutely the protective type.
Plans: He's going to try to be supportive of people who've lost someone at this current platform, since that utterly wrecked him last platform. He's also gotten a Good Long Look at his mental health thanks to last month's event and will be reaching out to his close CR to try to get another perspective and a little stability. Aside from that, he's still working on dividing his focus while using his powers, and he's fairly happy to help new people acclimate to the train. Also, board games. Please play board games with grandpa.
CR wanted: Anything! Let's do this let's go
Things to avoid: OOCly, you don't need to avoid anything with me (aside from pictures of spiders, I guess). ICly, I'm trying not to mentally break Siebren, so if a thread starts pushing too far in that direction, I may ask for a direction change or a rewrite.

Character: Ryo
About them: Cabin 4B, orange team, OC from a fantasy/magic-heavy world! 16-year-old healer who has a weird contradiction of really liking people and also being terrified they'll hate him for absolutely no reason. (His world took a perfectly good healer and gave him a tragic backstory and now he has anxiety.) He's still working on coming out of his shell, but he's got a ways to go. The exception here is, if he meets someone in pain or needing help, he goes into healer mode and that's all confidence and authority. He knows what he's doing and he wants to help. Basically, he's a little ball of compassion and anxiety. Please be his friend.
Plans: Ryo's getting better at not second-guessing his every interaction with people, but he still has a ways to go before he really gets some confidence. He's working on getting to know people better and to expand his cooking skills, which works pretty well with orange's chores this month. Aside from that, he's pretty much just getting used to train life. That said, losing Nita this platform will throw him, so he might be reaching out a bit more after that, just to try to replace some of that upturned stability.
CR wanted: All of it! Adopt him, befriend him, show up injured in front of him and get healed and fussed at, anything. He really does need people to get him out of his shell, and he needs someone to unlock that tragic backstory. That said, if he starts with negative CR with someone, it'll be difficult to turn that around; he holds grudges.
Things to avoid: None!
Notes: Please fill out his permissions post! Ryo's Sense allows him to pick up on life energy and a few details, and having that information helps me out quite a bit.

[obliviouspatriarch]

I'm on the wrong journal for Willow response rn but! I volunteer birdmom to continue to be A Good to him and console him with Nita's departure. Nita was a sister to her practically, she'll be upset herself.

I also offer a fox boy to adopt him because he's already a dad and has a soft spot for kids. If you want someone who is willing to lay down his life for family, Wei Wuxian is your guy Ryo

[10billionpercent]

Name: Nat
Contact info: Ammeschan, Discord: Ammeschan#5385

Senku Ishigami | Dr. Stone

[10billionpercent]

Character: Senku Ishigami - ORANGE TEAM

About them: Senku is a genius from a post-apocalyptic wasteland that uses his encyclopaedic knowledge of the hard sciences to play a real life version of Civilization. He's a workaholic and has a wide range of jobs in his kingdom including being the Chief of Ishigami Village, doctor, engineer, community planner, general and Scientific Leader.

He has expert proficiency in mathematics, engineering, programming and hacking, biology, geology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, cosmology, medicine, botany, astrophysics..if it's hard sciences he's studied it with a hyperfocused vigor. He has a few other varied skills such as sewing and clothing construction, master survival skills, as well as cooking which is really just chemistry in the kitchen. He speaks Japanese, English and Russian. He lacks social skills, strength, stamina and luck.

In the game: He is signed up to teaching STEM classes to all ages, he's going to be taking up shifts in the medical car proper, he's often cooking because he doesn't have a lab to get out his SCIENCE. He's someone deeply invested in the mystery of the train and why they're all here - and he's conducting various experiments to that effect.

Plans: Senku has the materials on hand still to make chocolate, so that's going to be something he does early in the month. Chocolate and cocoa. Aside from that, he's stepping up to assist in the medical car with Ichigo with Wen Qing's departure, as she was the only reason he wasn't doing so, they had it covered. He is learning magic from a book he bought so he'll be trying that out, he's teaching Roland Japanese and learning Dutch from Siebren. He feels he's only working at 30% capacity, so more things to do would be great.

CR wanted: I like any and all CR, really and truly and he's by far my most active character. He likes to know what's going on with everyone, force of habit from being in charge even though he's not in charge here. Also you're all under his tsundere level of care now. You're welcome.

Things to avoid: OOC, I'm up for anything. A good way to get Senku to be mad at you - and it is hard - is to ignore his physical boundaries. Senku is very very touch averse.

[shadowslipping]

Name: Usagi
Contact info: usagisquared + Usagi#9605 for discord

Character: Katsuya Jonouchi
About them: AU Jonouchi from a world where things are Kinda Different (on MANY LEVELS, he's actually a seer, I'm adding his permissions to the directory)- and then a CRAU from a Pokemon Game at that! Jou's a little more responsible than his canon counterpart, but the trade off is somehow that he's gathered a lot more scars... ...He's also got a pastlife it turns out, but he's handled that like a champ!

Notable for going from standard teen things one minute to fiddling with a drop spindle while holding a puppy sized ponyta the next. Also for finishing sentences.

Jou is on Team Blue, and typically goes with Blue too. He's also cabin 1:E.

Plans: Jou's purchasing a pokemon for someone else, and candies for yet another someone else, but the biggest plan of the month is roomie related and CR related- aside from the usual branching around, he just lost a roomate he was close to, and in the same breath, it's about to be filled in with someone else too.
CR wanted: For now, we're seeing where the chips fall! There's a lot of new folk after all.
Things to avoid: It's not an 'avoid', but rather a warning! As a heads up- and this goes for all four of the muses, even Potato- I'll be taking things rather slow and easy where I can, as one of my games is actually having their closing event this month! So if it takes a bit for me to reply back, don't worry! That's just...that.

Character: Emporio Alniño
About them: From JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Stone Ocean), Emporio is a young boy who came from a pretty gnarly end-series moment- as a walking spoiler, his permissions are going up in the directory soon enough.

Outside of spoilers though, he grew up hiding around a prison- and somehow came out pretty 'normal' if not fairly intelligent. This kid held the braincell in a cast of adults for a reason after all! He can even fly a chopper somehow...

Despite being on team Orange, Emporio typically runs with Red Team- in fact, he swapped sweaters with someone on Red. He's in cabin 1:A.
Plans: Nope! For the most part, just Emporio getting to know his CR ring and more.
CR wanted: More friends! More connections! Maybe someone who figures out his background isn't quite so typical?
Things to avoid: Aside from the note on Jonouchi's, there's nothing really coming to mind here.

Character: Yuume Souryuu/Kaiba
About them: An OC, from an alternate timeline a full century or so ahead of YGO DM Canon. Mokuba's great-great-great-granddaughter, she's a university student whose current career specializes in entering soulrooms (soulscapes really) to solve related issues. Due to the shadow- kinda like a daemon, or a superpower- she herself has, she can make use of abilities normally specific to those domains while on the typical field. Comes in handy! (Essentially that means pulling on an armor and using a really big sword. Also sliding around in the shadows)

Overall, she's a rather selfless (TOO SELFLESS) woman, who tends to think about the safety and thoughts of others before herself.

Yuume is in team Purple, and while she's gone with Purple for the most part, is just as likely to assist the smaller teams in theory, depending on where she feels she'd be of use. She's in cabin 2:E.
Plans: Right now, Yuume's going to be working with Roland on a few things- though how far that goes, who knows just yet.
CR wanted: Currently, we're just looking to solidify some close CR- which of course means new is very welcome (and good thing there's a lot of new folk)
Things to avoid: None right now, but keep in mind that Yuume herself is incredibly nyctophobic. Which you wouldn't expect given her powerset, but here we are.

Character: 'Potato' (listed as Mondial Ribbok Vardaman on the roster)
About them: A Fate/ OC, from an original grail war! Potato is a uniquely formed homunculus, and is only about 3 feet tall, resembling a sort of plush animal with a large tail. She's entirely indestructible- literally- but the trade off is she can't really do much harm, even while armed.

Not that she wants to do any harm! Potato is pretty much a walking learning AI who picked up her morals off cartoons- while she can be reasoned with on the idea that maybe a fight is necessary, she's more likely to focus on the power of friendship and the like if anything.

As part of team Orange, she's probably gonna go with Orange! It's a hard call to tell where she'd be of use, let alone where she'd expect to be of use. Potato is in cabin 7:E.
Plans: This is Potato's intro platform! The plans are to get going, get settled, and get happy. And maybe make a contract with Caster, for both their sakes.
CR wanted: ALL
Things to avoid: None coming to mind beyond the blanket warning I noted with Jou's blurb!

[fivemilesdeep]

Dear Jou, Ryo would like to pet your pokemon again please. They are fluffy and soothing and it's been a very long month.

Siebren needs to talk with Yuume again. I don't really have any ideas - just that. :Db

And both of them need to meet Potato, because Potato sounds amazing.

[bakegarasu]

Name: Matt
Contact info: atrypical, Matt#6266 on Discord

[bakegarasu]

Character: Yosuke Otoha (Room 1:A, Red team.)
About them: Karas. A former yakuza enforcer turned guardian of the city of Shinjuku. He can't feel pain and he's very socially awkward. His past is kind of terrible and he comes off as uncaring sometimes but he's got a good heart. He's already adopted two brothers and he has been on the train for a month.
Plans: 'Family' picnic with Ryo, Rich, and Yurine. Hopefully awesome in-armor shenanigans now that Yurine is here and he can use his more badass abilities. More... learning how to domestic. More awkward. More feels? Also Rich signed him up for the blind date event so lmao.
CR wanted: Feels. Give him feelings. Also anyone who comes from a similarly sort of 'dirty' background who has a heart, he needs someone to talk to.
Things to avoid: /shrug emoji

[wisdominshadows]

Name: Mary
Contact info: delatour

Character: Zelda of Hyrule, Princess, Sage, and Serial Kidnapee
About them: a young elfin boy dressed in gree-ahem, so sorry, easy mistake to make. A princess from a kingdom with unfortunate and highly regulated naming conventions for its daughters, Zelda has spent nearly half her life on the run from the sorcerer-warlord-pig-god-thing who killed her father and usurped the throne. Also sometimes turns into a harp-playing gender-ambiguous ninja, which after two decades and four Super Smash Bros games probably doesn’t count as a spoiler anymore.
Plans: Looks like Zelda will need to permanently take over the records of visions on the train, so I’ll be putting together yet another prophecy alert post before the mission. Come if the train gives you weird dreams, or if you’ve decided to draw very arbitrary lines about what’s possible on a multiverse-travelling, kidnapping train
CR wanted: Anything works
Things to avoid: I’m pretty flexible, generally.

[sciencegirl]

Entrapta would be interested in knowing more about the dreams, and also in talking to another Princess from another planet. She's been super into hearing about other kinds of magic.

[worthallthis]

Name: Gail
Contact info: cacopheny @ plurk

Character: Bucky Barnes AKA Soldat
About them: MCU with a canonpoint from RIGHT during the helicarrier fight, CRAU from a horror survival game where upon death they got yoinked into a world of darkness to try and save it from eldritch monsters... They're a former brainwashed assassin, they're technically some kinda pseudoscience lich, they're heavily disassociated, they don't quite consider themselves a person (hence the "they" pronouns), and they're a big fat mother hen about feeding and protecting people. Honestly, a great guy, very kind and helpful, just don't get into the whole personhood thing. Or the used-to-murder-people thing. Or talk about mind control.
Plans: Once the platform stuff has settled, Soldat's gonna teach some people how to do the Lindy Hop! I'll be doing a catch-all log. No major plans beyond that yet!
CR wanted: People to try and break through their "I'm the best Asset, so helpful to my team, no problems or needs here at all!" front. Friends. People to adopt, because they need people to fuss over and keep safe. Open to positive and negative CR, though negative CR will be harder due to the afore-mentioned "I'm going to be the most helpful Asset to my team ever" mindset they've got right now. Need somebody on orange team willing to swap with them for cooking chores? Soldat loves to cook and is good at it.
Things to avoid: Nothing OOCly, but ICly calling them a person or talking about mind control will net you a great big panic attack. Just to make one aware. Not super interested in romance at this time, they're too fucked up in the head for it to be healthy and also they don't like being touched, but maybe in a year or so if you feel like a slow burn that slow :B And don't mind competing with the memory of some of their CR from their last game, and with Steven Grant Rogers.

[securityconsultant]

SLAMS IN TO THIS

I've got a personal toplevel for ya ready as soon as platform comes up, but yes. Please. Same Hat with the used-to-murder-but-now-protecc-and-not-a-person!

[controlsthedie]

Name: Avie
Contact info: (Pacific Time) aviekokyre, aviekokyre, Discord: aviekokyre#3411

Character: Thanatos
About them: From Hades, Red Team, Death Incarnate who is actually a nice guy (but also tsundere) but is still learning how to be his own person instead of just his job as God of Death. He's been here since the start of Jelly and carries around a plush mouse (Mort). Than can often be found in the quiet car, giving himself a break from feeling ill and overwhelmed by all the sensations he feels on the surface (vs the Underworld). He's getting more used to things though. Yes, he does float/hover around while wearing his canon outfit most of the time. Chthonic gods are extra.

Plans: Finally having calmed down from panicking over death not occurring at home and alternate worlds with Zagreus, Thanatos can start to explore more about life on the train. He's going to be practicing using his sword without also using his powers of Death and floaty. He's also going to adorkably nerd out over his poppies finally sprouting in the greenhouse car. Maybe he'll start to learn more about feeling things, who knows?
CR wanted: More friends, more people who continue to push him to be more himself than Death, people to teach him things, people who know of Greek mythologies or whatever, people to recognize that he's a disaster demi because he sure doesn't understand his own feelings....
Things to avoid: Do not try to restrain him, especially by grabbing his wrists. Thanks, Sisyphus. You took a perfectly good death godling, gave him a month shackled in a box, and now he has trauma. Semi-related, don't burst his bubble about the possibility of returning home to the point he left. He's had like 4 or 5 mental breaks in a month. Let him hope ;~;

Than also has a permissions post for characters who have connections to death (though more for potential thread/CR ideas as Than has given up trying to understand this train) and also for Hades game spoilers if that's something you're worried about. He's taken from after the 1st win, all nectar given, favor completed, but no ambrosia.

[worthallthis]

More origami. More cooking. Board games? Card games? Dancing? You wanna learn the Lindy Hop, Than?

[its_dad_sanzo]

Name: Aro
Contact info: Aroihkin, Aroihkin#4667

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Character: Koumyou Sanzo ( its_dad_sanzo | BLUE TEAM )
About them: From Saiyuki, a Buddhist high priest whose last memory on his world is his own death to save his adopted son's life. He's a total troll, and loves to act the fool. "I can't tell if you're a genius or a moron" is something that's been said to him more than a few times in canon. You can get more info about him on his journal, including his app!

Plans: Koumyou's going to start teaching Devero how to meditate, as a precursor to chi magic lessons. And possibly some martial arts...? And he's going to continue working on getting Devero less scared of the Seiten sutra, all of which is going to be a gradual and ongoing process.

More immediately, of course he's going to the dance with Devero.

I don't... really have ideas outside of this one very tight CR right now. Please help. I want to inflict him on everyone.

Unfortunately he probably won't teach anyone else anything dangerous, for many reasons, although I am considering the idea of him teaching one (1) group class on basic meditation open to anyone...? Depending on OOC interest?

He just suspects the whole train could use with knowing how to hit reset on their brains. Lots of trauma around here, you know.

And if it goes well and characters actually give a shit ICly, he could possibly be talked into it being an ongoing thing? IDK. He has a lot of issues around teaching, but meditation is pretty harmless, so it could happen.

CR wanted: All of it! Please hit me up so we can plan shit.
Things to avoid: I can't think of anything, but I'm not shy about speaking up before something's a problem if that changes!

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Character: Alleyana Tabris ( inquisitor_lavellan | RED TEAM )
About them: From Dragon Age, Alley is a Tabris (a potential protagonist origin of the first game) who never met Duncan, and never became the Grey Warden. Instead, after butchering her way free of the Arl's estate, she ran off to join the Dalish in the Free Marches.

Fast forward to the start of Inquisition, and she was a full-fledged member of Clan Lavellan, including bearing a full face tattoo in the pattern of Elgar'nan (it's gone now). She was a natural choice for the Clan to pick to send to the Conclave to spy on the humans, with her experience with them and her history of carving her way free if she had to.

The rest is Dragon Age Inquisition history.

You can get more info about her on her journal, including her app!

Plans: Alley's missing arm is probably going to keep fucking her up so IDK if anyone wants to like, tell her what phantom limb pain is or how to deal with it. I don't really have anything else going on for her ICly.

She's getting her shield back finally! So she'll be ready to kick lots of ass on the upcoming mission. It's too big for a locker and with the lack of hammerspace items being purchasable... she's going to be sleeping with this thing in her bunk. Spikes and all. But hey, it super duper won't be the first time. Like, at all.

I'm planning to focus on her on the mission if there's chances to tag out a lot this time. We'll see how that goes. She's a tanky tanky tank who will absolutely fling herself between danger and other people, given half the chance, so that could be a useful hook?

I need to get her lots of points so she can get her giant mabari puppy, who will in turn make shoving her into non-combat RP situations a lot easier.

CR wanted: All of it! Please hit me up so we can plan shit.
Things to avoid: I can't think of anything, but I'm not shy about speaking up before something's a problem if that changes!

[helborn]

Let Casper talk to Koumyou... he is always interested in religious professionals tbh. He's also interested in meditation, he has trouble clearing his brain. Casper can also be a troll though so like... shenanigans can ensue.

Also Otoha will continue to pester Koumyou.


Casper can talk to Alley about phantom limb pain, he knows it well. And Ken is willing to keep dragging her to medical until she talks to a medic proper.

[adregem]

Haven't done these in a while, so might as well!

Name: Lexi
Contact info: Message this journal or hit me up on Discord (Titallenial#7701).

Character: Roland Crane
About them: From Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom. The isekai'd President of an alternate United States, saved from certain death after his nation was nuked and transported into the Second World where he regains his physical youth while retaining the cool-headed maturity of his older self. Acted as the Chief Consul to a budding king, and on the train, comprises one-half of the current Purple Team's Lead roster.

Plans:
- Plotting something interesting regarding souls and exploration thereof with Yuume; nothing concrete yet, we'll see where the thread will take us! Interested in this dynamic too, since Roland has a soulmate in canon and soulmates are a big part of his lore.
- OOCly, will put up another catch-all log this March if anyone wants to chat about SOL things, cute things, or just to build positive CR!
- Also planning on helping organize things for Purple, but that will be an OOC post. More to come soon.
- Apart from that, anything goes. Will be participating in mission things as always.

CR wanted: Any and all, let's play away!
Things to avoid: Can't think of anything right now :)

[helborn]

Yes hello mister President. One of your new purples is here and ready to jump into organization and leadership if requested. Casper's a good all 'rounder and will be happy to help... and also to talk to Roland just in general.

(Another of his new purples comes from the same RP as him so Casper will point to her for some things.)

On top of that I'm happy to have more roommate shenanigans as Ken's loosened up a little bit and is willing to actually stay in the room after he gets the teleport and get some more sleep. Not always restful, but still... more of a chance for him and Roland to be in the same place at the same time.

[ourtomorrow]

Name: Mari
Contact info: ghoulfriend

Character: Ken Ichijouji, orange team
About them: Ken is a digikid like Takato, except in his canon the monsters are destined to be partners with the kids. He used to be EEEEEVIL but has since realized things like People Do Care About Me, Actually and It's Best To Be Me. So now he is much happier and open to CR, though he still tends to blame himself for stuff and needs to understand the meaning behind people's actions (be prepared to hear the words "why me" an indecent amount).
He is coming with Wormmon, who is a scaredy-bug that nonetheless will be brave and strong and tough for his beloved Ken-chan! Believe in the Wormmon who believes in you, Ken-chan.
Plans: He's arriving! I would like to get him sorted through the emotional baggage of the situation as quickly as possible so he, and I, can focus on him throwing himself into train life. For Justice.
CR wanted: Ken tends not to make the first move in his friendships, though he melts all over from a proffered hand. Children, please absorb this nerd. Parents, here is one (1) good boy. Villains, please antagonize this nerd. He is the world's most trollable kid. Enjoy yourselves!
Things to avoid: Permanent damage. Aside from that, I was typing up "he's gonna be nerfed for this mission b/c he won't have his Digivice back, please keep him from doing a stupid" but I'm not averse to Ken waking up in the luggage car.

[kumoko]

ABSORBS NERD and also bugge, please don't die kid.

Zoki's (Seto Kaiba/Mami Tomoe)

[magicurls]

Name: Zoki
Contact info: kharamagic, discord: zokiblu #5949, or PM me at either journal!

Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Purple)

[magicurls]

Character: Mami Tomoe (magicurls), Purple team
About them: From Puella Magi Madoka Magica. She's a magical girl, supreme chef and baker, but mostly works on the train as a healer! Her small Shaymin, Rosetta, is always at her side.
Plans: Platform is a big day for her, with the arrival of two Kyokos and a Homura! She'll be a little overwhelmed with nostalgia and regret, but she'll do her best! She's not planning to attend the ball, but she might be at the kids' gaming event that night---and then there's mission! She's recovered from her identity crisis for the most part, and should be okay to make new friends and hang out.
CR wanted: More friends! Please, she needs them. Food buddies, healer team...
Things to avoid: Nothing specific!

Elle

[enthunder]

Name: Elle
Contact info: evildoers or Elle#2335

Lightning - Final Fantasy XIII - red

[enthunder]

Character: Lightning / Roster: Claire Farron
About them: Cabin 1-A, Red team. From Final Fantasy XIII by way of Dissidia 012, Light's a ex-soldier, ex-magical slave who's now on her third unwilling heroic crusade in as many worlds. This'll be the eleventh month she's been on-board. She's so tired. Big Sister extraordinaire.
Plans: Wen Qing is leaving on this platform so she's going to backslide and commit herself to managing Red team and keeping an eye on people. Red leadership is something she's thinking of assigning out, or just opening the idea of a rotating leader for the group since they're all pretty independent. She's still working to collect and distribute supplies with rest of Team Quartermaster so if your character wants to help out, she's findable either in the Gym, the Armoury, or Sleeper 1-A. Or Dining, during meals. She's still teaching in Fight Club, too, mostly magic and anti-magic combat and anti-grav.
CR wanted: People to organise with, strengthening of existing CR, combat partners, etc. She probably needs some emotional support this month.
Things to avoid: shrug emoji

[bodyoftheseus]

Name: Coop
Contact info: coopyey and ofc I'm in the discord server.
Feel free to add me on either and chat me up on either - that's what they're there for!!

V | Cyberpunk 2077

[bodyoftheseus]

Character: V(incent) (Blue Team)
About them: Malleable protag from Cyberpunk 2077, this is a streetkid lifepath V who has so much trauma that I just wish I could pull him out of the game and give him the biggest hug. He's got a netrunner build and is generally more tech and computer focused, but he does have the iconic mantis blades for arms because like who the heck wouldn't want those? People loving and caring for him is nice but they always leave or die so clearly the answer to that is to not allow himself to feel to much and get too close. We witness trauma? That's fine, pack it to the back of the brain box and don't think about it ever again. It's fine. Ultimately he's a bit of an endurance run for CR unless he corners himself in a place he can't talk himself out of or he has a big fat crush on ya.
Plans: My hands keep making him flirt with Handsome Jack and I hate it. The adoption papers for Rich are continuing to be filled out over time, he and Soldat discussed working on creating holographic targets for the training area. My main focus is to get him the points back to get his clothes from home because he misses highly synthetic weird fibers. I have some other specific CR with specific people on the train but I'd enjoy some more longer term plans with him!
CR wanted: I want everything for him. I'd really like to force him to start to build what he personally considers meaningful relationships here. As long as the people he seems to latch onto don't leave I think we'll have a good shot of helping this guy deal with his anxiety and depression.
Things to avoid: I can just about guarentee he's seen more than either of us together can think of. Nothing shocks him anymore. Nothing for me.

Also he has a permissions post (for scanning/hacking cybernetic people + robits - if we've chatted about things in discord you're not required to fill it out, but you can if you want) and an opt-out post for dark themes. As a note I will never bring up dark topics without a CW and without checking your own permissions/reaching out to you first, but this just allows me to track big hard nos across games.

[securityconsultant]

Name: Toni
Contact info: artoni and artoni#1824; there's also journal DMs!

Character: Murderbot
About them: The Murderbot Diaries; socially anxious construct just wants to watch TV but has people to protecc
Plans: Soldat's going to help calm it down on the train, but other than that, I'm fairly open in terms of planning! Expect it in the cinema car a ton, though.
CR wanted: People who can help it accumulate without outright overwhelming it. People to treat it as a person. People to treat it as not a person. People to rescue/be rescued by, if combat happens; Murderbot tends to. Literally throw itself in to the fray, sometimes, because that's what SecUnits do.
Things to avoid: PERSONALLY I get squicked for threads that go in to excessive gore (though roboinjuries are fine); I also would appreciate a warning for anything dealing with suicide or self-harm. OTHER THAN THAT, pretty much everything is fair game; Murderbot itself is asexual sex-repulsed and aromantic, so don't expect much in the shipping department. It also doesn't like people staring at it.

[kumoko]

The spider is also a fan of the 'throw yourself into danger because you can just heal the damage' strategy, enjoys media more than people, and hates eye contact. She's also very happy to treat it as not human. Let's be friends.

[yondu]

Name: Bianca
Contact info: disc crotchetyneanderthal#4935 or Journal PM

Entrapta

[sciencegirl]

Character: Entrapta
About them: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
- Cabin: 4:D
- Mad scientist with the ability to move her hair.
- Likely to occasionally miss some social cues, especially when she's excited on missions.
- A scientist who comes from a magical world so she sees it as an integral part of invention.
- Will use her hair to both get around and do stuff. It's constantly moving
Plans: She's working on a robot to engage people in training if they want with a battle monster personality. I'm looking for people to help advise her in building it. So far I plan to have her talk to Bulma about monitoring some of impact activities in the gym and she's consulting with others on things like shielding, programming, and self-reconstruction. It's a long haul project and I want to show my work. End game plan is a cute dinosaur-shaped friendbot who likes to play hard if invited to OR chase laser pointers.

After talking with Guri (and will probably be driven more by other robots joining) she wants to make or order some specialized 'medkits' for the medical car and for missions.

She wants to consult with the magical types about their ideas on magical healing. Being that she made weapons for the Horde, she thinks that with a little research they could probable develop some ranged healing rifles and bombs/grenades that the crew would be capable of using during missions that might require it. She'd leave anything developed in the armory.

She is still studying the hard light holograms from the Helpmate parts she took from the one mission, and coming up with applications.

CR wanted: Basically I want any CR. I don't have anything particular in mind, but Entrapta is a good character to know if you want problems fixed or if you want distractions. The way she deals with emotions and feelings of inadequacy is with action and solutions. She's also the type that wouldn't judge someone for their past unless they were Horde Prime levels of heinous. She sees value and importance in almost everyone.
Things to avoid: If someone comes at her hard with negative CR she'll just avoid them. It's not productive to engage with someone like that.

Lel

[schrodingersghost]

Name: Lel
Contact info: leloipa on plurk,Lel#8770 in discord when I remember it exists

Danny Fenton

[schrodingersghost]

Character: Danny Fenton
About them: Half ghost teenager and self taught superhero. He likes space,video games and bad jokes. Makes lots of terrible decisions.
Plans: Danny's actually in a pretty good place right now. He's still working on improving his fighting abilities, so you can catch him training in the gym fairly often.
CR wanted:
Fellow superheroes, other supernatural themed characters, people afraid of ghosts, other teenagers to do dumb things with.... I would really like to get him some more adult mentor types and work towards getting him past his hangups about trusting adults (Thanks Vlad).

[dragoonrouge]

Name: Lottie
Contact info: dragoonrouge or in the Discord!

Character: Q'uila Sunrise
About them: Dragoon main and Warrior of Light from a multi-WoL version of Eorzea. Q'uila is an upbeat and proactive miqo'te who enjoys travelling to new places, meeting new people and getting into shenanigans along the way.
Plans: Q'uila will be arriving alongside Casper and will also be found fussing over Cherry for a bit. Mostly she's going to exploring and chatting with the various other passengers and finding out about this particular place's deal.
CR wanted: Any and all!
Things to avoid: Nothing that I can think of at the moment

[fightcreamsundae]

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[foxyou]

Name: Kes
Contact info: rikoren

Character: AU Shen Qingqiu (Purple)
About them: The fantasy Chinese equivalent of Professor Snape, who after kicking his least favorite disciple into a demonic abyss, accidentally fell in after him. Also he turned into a fox? Don't ask.

He was an antisocial, vaguely androphobic jerk with a traumatic backstory, but after getting treated like a pet for a few months he's rather less repressed than he used to be - and now that he's in teen form he's gradually starting to let himself live the childhood he never had. (Still kind of a jerk though, it's ingrained at this point.)
Plans: No concrete plans outside of having him open up more and maybe learn the magic of friendship? Give him headpats, treat him like a kid, he'll hate it but he probably needs it. Also figuring out his fox powers, because he's nothing if not a level grinder.
CR wanted: All the CR!! Negative CR is probably pretty easy to build, but anyone who wants to bully him into friendship, parent him, or otherwise invade his personal space is absolutely welcome.
Things to avoid: Nothing I can think of!

[adropofsunlight]

Name: Lisa
Contact info: Plurk: faysdarkangel

Rapunzel | Tangled

[adropofsunlight]

Character: Rapunzel
About them: Tangled, Orange Team, Sleeper 4 Cabin E. A little ball of sunshine who lived in a tower for nearly 18 years of her life so didn't know much about the outside world until she came onto the train.
Plans: At the moment Rapunzel is in pretty much a funk since the event and when she put two and two together and has been playing the fun game of just keeping to herself and keeping herself occupied. So my plans are more for others to try and get her really out of said funk or people could do the exact opposite if they want and make it worse.

But she also has her hair back so healing any injuries to the point it's like they don't exist, or at least that will happen once blips don't happen due to being scared and again the whole blaming herself thing.
CR wanted: Any and all. Rapunzel is usually a really friendly girl who will attempt to make friends with anyone. I still also kinda want her to have a one sided crush for if anyone ever wants to do that.
Things to avoid: At the moment it's all free real estate... I mean game.

[eatenbyagrue]

Name: the panther
Contact info: https://www.plurk.com/panther3751 or find me in the discord channel!

[fun_thementalist]

Character: Asagiri Gen

About them:
A “Mentalist” - former magician before his world got sent back to the literal Stone Age - Gen is a natural trickster who means well, really. Think of him as Loki but without the powers or the backstabbing tendencies. He lies, he swindles, and he will trick you into taking care of yourself and helping the train, damn it.

Plans:
Gen’s going to help Senku make chocolate and probably act as an assistant in the medical car - and they’ll bake a cake with Romeo. He’s going to go with his scientist boyfriend to the dance, too, damn it. :D

Otherwise, I’ve got tentative thoughts about getting him hurt on the mission, since it’s decidedly his turn.

If anyone would like to rope him into schemes, HMU!

CR wanted:
Gen knows so many nice people, he could always know more! But it’d be amusing if he had a trickster friend, a devious person to befriend or perhaps berival?

Things to avoid: Not that I can think of!

[averyusefultray]

Name: Yubsie
Contact info: yubsie, Yubsie#4558 on discord

Character: Hera Syndulla
About them: Purple team, Sleeper 7D. SHe's from Star Wars, roughly a year before the original trilogy starts. Hera has been rapidly gaining leadership roles within the Rebel Alliance ever since her small crew joined up with the actual alliance after spending years running missions more independently. In her other role as Space Mom she tends to adopt people, especially ridiculous teenagers who make questionable choices.
Plans: Well she's going to show up on the platform, that's fun. Not quite what she had planned for that night SERIOUSLY UNIVERSE?
CR wanted: RIdiculous teenagers are a good distraction but also seriously let her make some grownup friends.
Things to avoid: Nothing comes to mind from an OOC perspective. ICly touching the lekku is not a good idea.

[helborn]

Casper... knows Jaina... and OG Star Wars. He will contain his nerdery but I'm all up for him being either a grown-up friend or teenager depending on how they interact. xD He will take older sibling, he won't take Mom.

[cureofmanyworlds]

Name: Knux
Contact info: AshBlaze (I got a Discord, but I forgot what my contact name was there!)

Character: Nozomi Yumehara
About them: Hails from the anime Yes! Pretty Cure 5, Team Purple, is actually a computer construct created by the world of Mayfield based on the actual Nozomi. She's a magical girl known as Cure Dream who can kick tons of butt. She's also been to a variation of Equestria and a Final Fantasy-type world, so she's been around the block a bit. She's still full of energy and clumsiness, but she also has a bad habit of enjoying a little too much power to overcompensate.

(Also, this poor girl gets friendzoned a lot. Maybe this world will change it?)
Plans: Nothing big. Since she arrives this go-round, she'll need time to settle in, so she won't participate in that party. However, seeing as there are quite a few magical girls showing up, maybe she can buddy-buddy with them? *shrugs* Beyond that, let's see what happens!
CR wanted: All the CR! Good, bad, shippy, whatever! Hit me with your best shot!
Things to avoid: Ahhh... nothing that I can think of?

jiang cheng ( the untamed )

[fennu]

Name: Rachel
Contact info: aziraphale, PM or msg for discord!

Character: Jiang Cheng (more likely to go by Jiang Wanyin for people not from his canon), in Blue team!
About them: The angry brother of the many Wei Wuxians currently on the ship. He's filled with grief and hurt and shows that off in anger and rage, but he's getting better at it. He's good with a sword (but doesn't have his) and is pretty talented in a fight but comes across as 100% asshole until you get to know him.
Plans: Nothing yet! He's going to be an emotional wreck about his brother(s) but otherwise I am here to do everything! He'll definitely do some laundry (mostly to keep his hands busy) and take part in any off-train related things, so he'll get involved that way as well!
CR wanted: Negative CR is going to be pretty easy with this guy, who is a jerk who bites at politeness as much as possible, so if you want someone to be bitter and angry he's the one to go to! Otherwise anyone who might be able to tolerate a grouchy grinch type man and deal with him then I'd love to see him making some friends!
Things to avoid: N/A at the moment, but I'll update if anything comes up!