ximiliugh | OOC INTRO 7.0 + CR MEME 3.0

● ● ● CR MEME

Hello Orbers and welcome to our OOC intro + gamewide CR meme! We hope you're all excited for the upcoming sixth mission, the mission file and plotting post for which will be coming out just a couple of days. Other such important dates are noted in our updated calendar page.

In the meantime, we'd like to invite new players and characters to comment under this header to introduce themselves and their characters. Meanwhile, existing players are highly encouraged to make their own comments and mingle!

ooc information
PLAYER: your handle
CONTACT: your preferred method of contact
ETC: timezone? hobbies? fun fact? favorite internet cat?

ic information
CHARACTER: character name
CANON: their canon
CANON POINT: canon point
INFO: tell us a lil bit about your char!
REGRET: what is it that brought your character here? is this something they're willing to share with others? how willing are they to undo this at the cost of other things like their morals, etc?

GAME PLANS: for newbies, what do you hope to accomplish with your character through ximilia? what do you hope ximilia can provide for your character?
CR WISHLIST: are there any specific (or general) types of cr you're hoping for? any you're hoping to avoid? feel free to also take this opportunity to put out ads for roommates.

RECAP: for the oldbies out there, what's your character been up to since joining the team? how was their first/second/third mission? any personal goal highlights?

ETC: opt-outs, permissions post, open log links, roommate finder, and anything else we might have missed (cool gif not obligatory)

INTRO FORM:

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ooc information
PLAYER: Ireth
CONTACT: PM or plurk? Come find me at

ireth
ETC: I plurk about knitting A LOT! I'm an RN and I manage a medical clinic, I work from home also a whole lot because I have kids. I talk about rp and wax poetically about my characters when I'm not sighing gently about tags or my latest knitting project.

Also, I am ESL. Just in case my turn of phrase might look weird or off in some way, I probably translated it wrong from my native language to english.

ic information
CHARACTER: The Darkling / General Kirigan / Aleksander Morozova
CANON: Shadow and Bone
CANON POINT: Season 1, episode 8. No Mourners, after Alina betrayed him and just as he's pulled in to the shadow Fold.

INFO: 500+ year old man who has made a few mistakes in his (unnatural) long life - like enslaving someone or threatening to murder a shit-ton of people. He is the general of the Second Army of Ravka (think Russia, but make it fantasy). He controls shadows, is very powerful and also just a smidgen evil. Has seen his people (the Grisha - people who can do magic except they call it something else) tortured and killed for centuries and is very, very done with it.

He is the antagonist of the story, and while his motivation for keeping his people safe, is understandable, the fact that he is willing to murder everyone else in the world to get that - is not.

REGRET: That he created the Shadow Fold 400 years ago, after the murder of his wife and the betrayal of his tsar (king).

CR WISHLIST: Since just adding 'all the things' is not helpful, how about

positive cr - anyone to show him, slowly, that not all people suck. That there's more to life than suffering and then you die. That sometimes, it's the journey and not the destination that matters. He thinks that most people are dust - they will die soon (compared to his own very long life) and why mourn what is just human nature? Dust doesn't matter, it doesn't inspire more than a snort of disgust. At this point, after almost a year in space, he would still burn everyone and everything to the ground to get his way. I would love to explore him being less like that.

Negative cr - hate him? Want to talk about the grey morality of enslaving a young woman just to get your way? How about 'how many people are you willing to sacrifice to save everyone else?'? Or just hate on him for being a bag of dicks? I am up for all of this!

RECAP: Aleksander has been here since the beginning, fulfilling every last personal goal to find his way back home and undo his regret. Ever mission has been filled with personal drama and heartbreak, and I love that for him.

He does not understand most of earth-customs and at this point, he's not really trying to anymore. Earthlings are strange (and earth girls are easy?)

Mission 1 - killed a lot of monsters, got infected and turned in to a monster himself. Killed guards when they were attacked and growled at a lot of people at the sanctuary. Honorable mention: Was burned across the face by Alina Starkov before the mission really started.

Mission 2 - undercover mission to the magical house, and he went with Daisy as a couple. The beginning of a beautiful friendship with boob-touching started and also stopped since the Darkling was a dick and almost ruined the mission while being busy sticking his tongue in to someone else's mouth. He got poisoned while trying to get to the orb, still made it to the top and along with Alina, helped set the orb-owner on fire. A little. Honorable mention: he found out that seeing in the dark with goggles was a thing.

Mission 3 - Saw a lot of nightmares in Kilnan, too many people got to see his terrible past and there were emotions all over the place. As the orb started to siphon power from the people from the station who had offered it up (and started to attack the group), the Darkling protected Alina as much as he could, accidentally also protecting the princess of the magical palace.

Mission 4 - Scorpion's Bend. He was Gleb / Dick Midnight for most of that and secretly loved it. Solitude, a tent, Alina. What's not to love? Did very little to find the orb, like - the absolute minimum- and was super depressed about the ending for Ford. Very depressed. That was too close to home, for him.

Mission 5 - Upstairs, downstairs. He ended up in hell (Sedorum) and did nothing except fuck around and he didn't even find out. He helped break orbers out of heaven-prison and joined the war on Giva just to get those cool wings and flap around like a big black bird.

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