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[voidtreckermods]

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<b>Name:</b> [Your name] <b>Contact:</b> [plurk, discord etc] <b>About you:</b> [timezone, pronouns, hobbies, fandoms etc etc] <b>Character:</b> [your characters name] <b>Canon:</b> [where are they from, if they are an AU tell us a bit about that!] <b>Cabin and team:</b> [found on your acceptance letter] <b>Little bit about them:</b> [nothing huge, but a little bit about who they are and what they do. You might want to link to their <a href="https://voidtreckermods.dreamwidth.org/11479.html">permission thread</a> if it is relevant.] <b>Hopes and dreams:</b> [cr you want, what you are looking forward to etc etc]

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Phil Connors | Groundhog Day (Musical) | Orange Team

[theotherphil]

Name: Jordan (also nicknamed Pika)

Contact: Bakurapika#4565

About you: Mountain Time, they/them. I've burned through a lot of hobbies in my day - mostly creative things like writing, music, art - but am currently only actively writing in roleplay. I started off roleplaying on forums (yeah...), then social media in an ask-blog format (most of which no longer exist, like Formspring), and currently roleplay in private Discord servers. I have a couple other Dreamwidth accounts that are active when they need to be (heerequeerandfulloffear and rhy5w1nz for Be More Chill and Tales from the Borderlands respectively).

I'm excited to see so many yugiohs on here because I wrote Thief King Bakura from 2011 to 2017, so wow, nostalgia!

Character: Phil Connors

Canon: Phil is a weatherman from Pittsburgh. He's a bit of a jerk but has a normal life until he got sucked into an infinite time loop, whoops! He is taken from the point where he's exploring and taking advantage of his new time powers but is only a couple Groundhog Days away from a breakdown.

You may be familiar with the movie but not the musical - the storylines are identical but the canons are slightly different. My Phil, for instance, has no beef with the song "I Got You Babe," since he wakes up each morning to a charming groundhog-themed radio jingle instead.

Cabin and team: Cabin: Sleeper Lower One, Cabin E; Team Orange

Little bit about them: Phil at his worst is smarmy, self-obsessed, sleazy, sarcastic, and bitter. Phil at his best is passionate, hopeful, sweet, thoughtful, and... still sarcastic. But Phil's normal day, thanks to the time loop eliminating consequences for his actions, is an endless stream of donut-eating, salesman-punching, bank-robbing, drunk-driving, self-medicating, womanizing, and groundhog-hating. For this reason, his permissions are broad and I encourage you to check them out.

Hopes and dreams: I have no idea who is going to want CR with a late-30s meteorologist with unreality problems, but I'm open to absolutely anything. I know a couple people here OOC, so I expect that Phil will have a conversation with Rich Goranski and/or Handsome Jack. Everything else is open!

Phil will show up on the platformed overwhelmed and may do some crimes, but he's used to being the hero and villain of his own self-centered story. I'm curious how things will go when he meets some real heroes and villains for the first time.

He has villain permissions (see above) due to unreality issues, but he is never cruel for the sake of cruelty. He's not particularly dangerous, especially not to the children on the train.

Re: Phil Connors | Groundhog Day (Musical) | Orange Team

[acapriciousthing]

Ooh Death is going to love him ON PURPOSE.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed the cast album given that I never saw the movie.

[theotherphil]

Can't wait! ♫ Death will come to everyone! ♫

Be prepared for Phil to make a bunch of goth jokes and think he's flirting.

[acapriciousthing]

She'll be more amused than anything. Lucky for him, she likes people!

[zombiemessiah]

Murphy will at some point go on about how he wishes that he could have been a news anchor instead of what he is. There's an episode where they go into a post-apoc TV station and he makes a point of using anchorvoice and getting behind the desk and everything.

Much better job than 'Savior of Humanity', that one sucks.

I really, really wish James Gunn gave us more to go on with Yondu's old team because Stakar Ogord is stuck in a timeloop in the comics. If he dies he goes back to his birthday with his memories and relives everything. But I bet he's at least heard of such a thing existing.

[theotherphil]

I'm not familiar with the canon but I love the idea! (Although Phil might get a little defensive about how the job is harder than it looks...)

[zombiemessiah]

It's not as hard as Savior of Humanity okay! Or zombie messiah. He wants to be a news anchor okay!

Never mind that he changed colors four times over the course of the show.

[gentle_jim]

Someone else was on Formspring???? Holy hell. Wow. Me too.

Well, well, we're on the same team. Fancy that.

Sadly, I cannot steal your body.

Also how dare you tease me with a Rhys journal.

[theotherphil]

GET OUTTA TOWN?? That's so weird. I've literally never met anyone outside of our lil toxic RP group who used Formspring. With that and tumblr RP, I wonder if we have any friends-of-friends in common.

Yeah, Team Orange is shaping up to be one big happy family.

[gentle_jim]

We might???? It's REALLY strange. I believe I was Dirge (the transformer) on Formspring as well.

*Cough* Yeah. Sure.

[firewalled]

It's Phil Connors! From GOOOOOD WEATHER WITH PHIL CONNORS!

Still looking forward to Phil wondering why his cow therapist has shrunk and is now kicking his shin.

[theotherphil]

Heyyy, thanks for watching the show!

Doc, please stop kicking me for long enough to get some more of those cow tranqs, because I think I really need 'em!

[firewalled]

Back off, crazy weatherman! I don't sell drugs! ...Anymore!

[almukhtar]

Hooray for being old as dirt and starting on forums lmfao. I was also on tumblr with this fellah here and fuckin love me some TKB I wonder if we ever ran into one another. My brain is not great at remembering shit so who knows LOL. Anyway, I realize I need to actually say something worthwhile here so I'll just point at you and yell CRIME in some intimidating manner.

[theotherphil]

Very possibly! Although I didn't have a LOT of Atem/Atemu (we had a million Bakurae running around, so that could be a bad time for the Atem roleplayer haha). What was your url?

(And YES CRIME, HOORAY?)

[almukhtar]

Yeah there was weirdly a lot of Bakurae but very few Atem. loll. It was actually this for awhile and then I remade a blog and I cant remember that one LOL. But I think also its possible we missed one another. Iirc I wandered to tumblr for a brief while in 2017

ALAS. Here we are now.