OOC Intro!

[voidtreckermods]

Welcome all new passengers to the Voidtrecker Express! Come and say hello here so we can get to know you! This post is for new players (and old players with new characters) to say hello and introduce themselves and everyone else to welcome them!

<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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jake peralta | team orange | lower 4C

[monkeyinthewrench]

Name: Zoki
Contact: kharamagic, zokiblu #5949, or PM me here
About you: she/her, in EST. Loves silly sitcoms, card game anime, magical girl shows, and baking. Also plays Seto Kaiba.

Character: Detective Jake Peralta
Canon: Brooklyn Nine Nine! A somewhat fantastical and idealistic comedy show about a police precinct.
Cabin and team: Team Orange, cabin 4C Lower
Little bit about them: Jake is a somewhat idealistic and immature detective in the NYPD. He cracks silly jokes and doesn't act his age most of the time, but he's great at finding clues and getting along with people.

His permissions/opt out post is here. First, I want to highlight the opt out option. If you don't want to deal with cop characters, please let me know and I'll gladly avoid you.

I'd like to add a special note about fourth walling, also covered in that permissions post. Jake is a huge, huge pop culture nerd. He regularly references Harry Potter, Transformers, Nintendo games...basically anything targeted at his demographic (late gen x/older millennial guys) from the 80s onward is likely to get a geek-out reaction from him.

By default I will have him fudge the knowledge to a similar franchise that's entirely fictional (Pogglemon, the Avengerboys), but if you opt in to him having played/watch the thing he will absolutely not call anyone fictional (instead he'll believe they were real all along and the universes are finally converging), any fond geeking-out about how cool a character is will be entirely opt in.

Hopes and dreams: More people to solve mysteries with! He's actually good with kids because he gets on their level instinctively, though he doesn't get the chance to do that much in canon. Fellow adults need to call him on this---but he's actually competent and will surprise them in a good way, I hope. I'm also expecting him to be treated suspiciously by some characters due to his profession, and that's no problem.

Re: jake peralta | team orange | lower 4C

[averyusefultray]

So... how much does Jake want to learn to fly an X-Wing?

[monkeyinthewrench]

So much it's one of his greatest wishes. He'll be thrilled.

[averyusefultray]

She will ultimately be getting most of the alphabet for the flight simulator but... X-Wing. Sadly she can't hook him up with the Millennium Falcon since that rivalry has not yet started.

[yondu]

As it's Jake I do not mind him knowing who Yondu is. He might also note that (if he talks 80s stuff) that he references some of the same things Peter Quill did.

Murphy will probably just be delighted someone might get his damn references even if Murphy's meme familiarity ends at like, 2012, 2013 or something (he was in prison on Postal Fraud and the apocalypse happened in 2016).

[monkeyinthewrench]

Excellent on both counts! Jake will definitely make an effort not to fanboy too much.

And he will absolutely join the meme team.