Hello, Trainlings! Checking back through the comms, it looks like the last time we had a "Handwave/Assume CR" Meme was back in January, so here we are almost in July, bringing the information forward!

New Players and New Characters, this means you, too! We want you in on this meme as it's forward facing for what your characters will do during train-bound downtime!

Handwaved & Assumed CR Meme

Our characters are blessed, or cursed, with confined living spaces, and have all their own schedules and rhythms to dictate their daily lives. So how do they all interact with each other? What do characters with pets or companion animals do? What do those pets or animal companions themselves do?

This meme is a chance to see how characters may recognise each other or their pets/companions in passing, where they may be sharing spaces at similar times, or have met other passengers, allowing the kickstarting of CR without having to play out every first meeting or smaller interaction on train. Who has the time for that? (Not me, I cry emphatically, not me.)

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What are your character's sleep habits like? Do they make their bed? Do they avoid it outside of when they wake up in it after enforced train "down" time? Have they personalised their bunk in any notable way?

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Is your character ever home? Do they leave things all over? Do they compulsively clean up after everyone else? Do they fold their bed up/away/into a bench each day? Are they never found in room outside of obligated wake-up? Have they decorated the room at all?

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Does your character need to bathe? Do they use the hall-shower every day? Do they head to the hot springs? Do they use anything other than basic shampoo/conditioner/body lotion for their scent?

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Does your character do team chores? Do they help out individual friends instead? Have they ignored chores? Do they do only their personal chores?

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Does your character eat regularly? Cook regularly? Regularly forget meals? Eat in the dining carriage? Haul food back to their location of choice?

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Does your character exercise in any form? Do they practise anything in particular, from swordplay to hackey sack? Do they meditate on the regular, or attempt to run up the walls of the more open carriages? Do they regularly garden?

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What does your character do for fun? Do they read? Write? Attempt to slam dunk a ball into people's heads? What carriages are they most often found in for the purpose of their entertainment?

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Does your character have any preference for the kind of media they consume, if any? Be it in the movie carriage, books read, or... extensive... letting their minds wander?

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Does your character play music loudly in the morning, do they race through the trans-gates, do they haunt the ceilings, do they lurk outside of friend's doors waiting for them to come out, do they like to dance through the train?

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Is there anything in particular which stands out about them physically? Height? Hair colour? Non-train-issued clothing? Their love of socks and sandals? Do they carry the scent of a chainsmoker on them? Always seem to smell of alcohol? Smell like soap and nothing else notable?

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Does your character have a presence felt by people spiritually sensitive? What about to people, regardless of spiritual sense? Does your character register as human? Non-human? Human+, the second playthrough? Do they feel like life, or death, or something else entirely?

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Are they regularly sending feedback? Do they lobby for particular new carriages? What are things other characters on train may have noticed your character habitually doing?

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Senku Ishigami

Orange Team

White Squad

🚆 They were roommates!

Sleeper Upper Double| Cabin A
✨ Sleeping habits?
Senku's would be terrible, except that Gen drags him to bed at a decent hour, unless he has some compelling reason he can't go sleep at the moment. He does make the bed in the morning, and their room is completely personalized at this point.
✨ Room use habits?
Senku's probably only in his room to sleep most of the time, unless he and Gen want to have a private conversation or something. The top shelf has books, clothes and various things for Orion to shed on, and the cubbies have things that were normally in the arms band but they now have room to spread out. Notably they have a lamp that allows for the stars to project on the walls and ceiling.
✨ Bathing habits?
Senku definitely showers daily because it's a luxury he's admittedly indulging in. He was only using basic shampoo, but since Gen seems so intent on styling his hair for him, he's been using conditioner now as well. He hasn't really spent much time soaking in the spa, but he should.

🚆 What are choo up to?

✨ Chore habits?
Senku always does the team chores, among other things, and he constantly cleans up after himself. If there are dishes waiting to get to when he goes to wash his, he'll do them even if it's not his job. Part of it is boredom and less things to do than normal, and part of it is the fact he's incredibly neat overall. If he hadn't been neat and organized, his room would've been a disaster constantly growing up.
✨ Eating habits?
Senku will have one meal, once a day. He'll eat it wherever, but usually the dining car. He probably eats around dinner time. If he has a snack, it's in the morning, but this isn't a daily thing. Some people may want him to eat at other times, and he will just shift his one meal to that meal. As such, he eats a decent amount of food, with a higher caloric intake. He also eats incredibly fast, like someone who doesn't have time to eat normally. He can eat a meal in less than three minutes.
✨ Exercise habits?
Big pass on the exercise. His exercise is walking up and down the train and he always looks like this is incredibly difficult for him, it leaves him breathless. He's been working on meditation now because of the illusions, and he does practice his magic, but you won't catch him in the gym doing physical things if he can help it.
✨ Entertainment habits?
Senku does read for fun. He's often in the standard car or the dining car where he can have a table. This is usually primarily at night, and surprisingly, he doesn't spend much time in the library. Or, he's reading on his shift in medical when there's nothing going on at the moment.
✨ Media preferences?
Senku would watch documentaries if the train allowed them.

As they do not, Senku is stuck reading the books he orders, and the majority are textbooks and nonfiction, although if he's reading fition, it's science fiction.

🚆 A day in the life of...?

✨ Notable train-bound activities?
Senku is constantly working on some project or another. He wakes up in the morning, makes himself a cup of tea and goes to settle somewhere to work. Depending on what it is, he's probably mostly in the standard car. Over the course of the day, he'll drink water or cook something for other people, and he'll have dinner with Gen and whoever else wants to sit with him at the time. He continues to work on his project until he has tea again, maybe an hour before bed and then he might get his reading done.
✨ Notable physical traits/scents?
Senku's hair is no longer standing upright because he's grown it out at Gen's request and hasn't cut it in six months. It's always in a ponytail of some kind and always tied off with rope. He has scars on his forehead that appear to cut through his eyes, with a bit of scarring beneath them. Now he's never seen without the necklace he wears dangling from his neck, nor the circlet brand on his wrist that is decorated with a flower, both signifiers of his marriage to Gen.

He only wears orange on platform days/missions.

Senku is most often found in his leather tunic he has now recovered from his world, but occasionally he'll be wearing a kilt and some other shirt, all things he ordered from the store. He wears a lot of neutral colours. His taste in clothing is extremely boring, and if he can get away without wearing pants, he will.

He doesn't smell like anything most of the time, although his clothes from his world when he's wearing them do smell of a mixture of being well worn leather, chemicals from the lab, grass and a salty note from living on the ocean.
✨ Notable non-physical traits?
Senku looks and often behaves in a manner of a 20 year old, ordinary young adult. It's his eyes really, that give him away. He's always had an intense look, but he's a lot older than that by thousands of years. Every so often the weight of the world will be on his shoulders and that becomes evident. He is psychically linked to Eva, thanks to an event forever ago. Those who are perceptive might note he has died before, but the roster won't show that, so it wasn't on the train.
✨ Fun train-related character trivia tidbit(s)?
Before missions - Senku can always be found in the kitchen, preparing food for the orange team. He's often in medical, taking shifts frequently as a doctor just in case something comes up. He can read there as well as anywhere else.

Senku prefers to work with his hands over sitting around and he never goes near the cinema or music cars. He has been seen making weapons, practicing magic, sewing clothes and blankets...but the cooking is probably something he does the most. He might help out when it's not their turn for the fact he can.
✨ Free space!
I jazzed up his permissions this week.

Senku has a pokemon named Orion, who is a very sweet, pink Espurr which is essentially a small kitten with two tails. People may feel a tiny mental touch from Orion only to ascertain their identity. Orion will be spending more time with Gen and Senku out of the carriage in the future. Senku prepares Orion food for every meal, this kitten is really spoiled.

Senku has been working hard on his magic studies above all else and he's probably going to be found doing more of that over many other things. The exception being his constant attempts at getting the heck out of here.

🚆 Welcome to the Voidtrecker Express!
We hope you enjoy your stay.

Entrapta probably does come to him for help finishing some stuff up so it gets done twice as quickly. And just because she likes working with friends.

He's more than happy to help with her projects, and she's welcome to help his if she likes, but most of his tend to be lower on the technology scale at the moment.

Speaking of which you may assume she gave him a jar of carefully ground stone residue. With a big ol' "handle with care" warning and a list of all the things that have made the rocks react dangerously.