Handwaved & Assumed CR Meme July 2021

[jingyeets]

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.)

Below is the form to copy and paste into a comment below; if you'd like to have line breaks or paragraphs, either use <br /> or <p></p>. Dreamwidth default formatting will not work in the below.

The sleeper cabins can be found here. For the top image in this code, images (animated or still) of around 500 pixels in width are recommended.

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Have they personalised their bunk in any notable way? </blockquote><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Room use habits?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> 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? </blockquote><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Bathing habits?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> 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? </blockquote></blockquote><div style="padding: 5px; margin: 0 0 0 0; font-variant: small-caps; background-color: #bfbfbf; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 600; width: 100%; text-align: left;"> 🚆 What are choo up to?</div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 15px; padding: 5px; border: 0;"><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Chore habits?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> Does your character do team chores? Do they help out individual friends instead? Have they ignored chores? Do they do only their personal chores? </blockquote><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Eating habits?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> Does your character eat regularly? Cook regularly? Regularly forget meals? Eat in the dining carriage? Haul food back to their location of choice? </blockquote><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Exercise habits?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> 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? </blockquote><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Entertainment habits?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> 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? </blockquote><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Media preferences?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> Does your character have any preference for the kind of media they consume, if any? 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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? </blockquote><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Notable non-physical traits?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> 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? </blockquote><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Fun train-related character trivia tidbit(s)?</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> 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? </blockquote><div style="text-align: left; color: black;"><strong> ✨ Free space!</strong></div><blockquote style="margin: 10px 30px 10px 15px; padding: 7px; border: 1px solid #ccc; color: black; border-radius: 15px; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word;"> Anything else you'd like to say about your character's notable habits, or any petty vengeance they may be enacting, even as this very moment! Link to abilities permissions, give us word on animal companions, or anything else here! </blockquote></blockquote><div style="padding: 5px; margin: 0 auto; font-variant: small-caps; background-color: #bfbfbf; border-bottom: 1px solid black;">🚆 Welcome to the Voidtrecker Express!<br />We hope you enjoy your stay.</div></div></div></div></div></center></raw-code>

Comments

[weifinder]

Also tossing in as someone willing to spar with him and also to watch his arrow practise, as a guy with a vested interest in archery himself. He still loves what Yondu can do with this! And likely's chatted with him about it when he spies him practising.

... So about the whistling. Wei Wuxian also has this habit, so he may be unconsciously whistling when he's sharing spaces with Yondu, either in harmony or counterpoint, because it's Not About Necromancy all the time! Probably!

[yondu]

He'd probably really appreciate that 'cause Centaurians whistle to talk, so whistling and having someone whistle with him would be super nice sometimes.

If he's there when he's training Madoka, btw, he's doing Centaurian archery. Which means because she has Yaka tipped arrows now, shooting and aiming involves whistling too. The way he'd describe it is that Centaurians never stop aiming even after the arrow's out, even if they're using the traditional bow.

[weifinder]

And whistling is one of the ways Wei Wuxian can control and direct resentful energies/spirits, so the concept would be pretty familiar to him, even if back home he had to invent it for himself, sobs and laughs. He'd thus be curious on any "words" Yondu might want to teach him: whistling and musically inclined things are things he picks up near immediately, and with his native tongue he's also good at picking up intonation differences, most likely!

... Oh he'd love that, though also be like "so hey do you take on adults for training too or is this a young people only thing" /laughs into hands

Wei Wuxian is the guy who, blindfolded, shot five arrows at the same time, hitting bullseye on five targets, simultaneously, he loves extra archery stuff

[yondu]

Oh yeah he would! He'd have to make him some yaka tipped arrows and add a small modification to his bow, but he'd show him how to do it because hooray culture sharing.

They're normal arrow speed and not Mach Point Nightmare like his arrow but they'll veer in the air and you can chase a target with them. He'd definitely compliment Wuxian on his existing aim.

Also if booze is ever available, Wuxians on the 'drinking buddy' list.

[weifinder]

I'm guessing we might have bows in the armoury, Wei Wuxian was, ah. Cursed (by me) to only have his flute with him when he arrived, and unlike his spiritual sword (that he cannot use anyway as it drains him too fast) he never had a spiritual bow weapon, so it's always been standard bows! The chasing arrow is enough to keep him curious and interested, and probably coming up with a talisman to do something similar (sobs).

Oh good, when he gets Emperor's Smile he'll have Yondu share with him, because that's good stuff okay, sharing is caring? Sharing is caring!

[yondu]

He got some alien brandy in the last post I did with him. Eventually he should get some more when he has some spare change (he's got stuff I need to mention on the plotting post when it goes up in mind).

Absolutely get this alien drunk thanks.

[weifinder]

Consider this done as soon as alcohol homes into his happy, grubby hands. Which are clean. But grabby for the wine.