EVENT PLOTTING - Event #13: Who Are You, What Could You Be?

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Who Are You, What Could You Be?
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Something Old, Something New

Part 1

Nightwake is buzzing with excitement. The Dragon Lord, Opallios, has sent a proxy to Nightwake. This young dragon is an ivory colored, medium sized dragon, perfect for mingling with regular people. After a meeting with the guild leaders, the dragon addresses everyone with a booming voice, almost like it's coming from loudspeakers throughout the city.

"Otherworlders", he says. "My name is Einnainth and I'm here on the behalf of the Dragon Lord. You have been invited to the Abandoned Castle by Lord Opallios. We have worked hard to repurpose the place into sanctuary for all dragons and power holders. There, you may participate in a ritual to unlock completely new powers with our help. If you wish to hear details, I will be at the Solarpeak Beach."

The same message is also send to each device, just in case someone missed the announcement.

Those who come to meet Einnainth can see him enjoying affectionate pets from the local children. He will be explain that it was finally time to entrust ancient power holder magic to the otherworlders, as well as the four guild leaders. Dragons have always been the guardians of the powers so it was their duty to pass it on when the time was right.

He also requests to get some supplies for the castle, such as wood and stone, if they're able to spare them. They still have a lot of work to be done in the castle. While they can fix most things with magic, just conjuring materials from thin air is very taxing.

Part 2

New teleport crystals have been installed near the Abandoned Castle. All of the four guilds have counterparts for quick travel. Of course otherworlders are allowed to travel to the castle however they want. The crystals lead to a gazebo; those arriving from the summer and spring guilds end up near the summer side entrance, while autumn and winter arrive at the autumn side. It doesn't matter which side someone ends up in, as both entrances lead into the same area.

Those who have visited the Abandoned Castle before can notice a huge change. The walls that separated the two sides before have been knocked down. The only thing separating them is the way they're decorated and their general architecture: summer side is made more of stone and has no furniture or decorations left, while the autumn side has warm, wooden tones and plenty of dusty furniture and decorations in autumn colors.

Dragons have brought in plenty of moss and other soft natural materials for people to sit on. Their own sleeping quarters are in the rooms or outside on the roof. Peeking into them will reveal some of them have started hoarding different things in the middle of their rooms. Leaving them something they collect will result in the dragon becoming their friend.

There's plenty of time to socialize with the dragons before the main event begins. Plenty of berries, vegetables and fruit have been gathered for anyone to eat. Some dragons even have meat and fish.

Part 3

Once everyone is gathered and settled down, Opallios makes an appearance. He's larger than most of the dragons present, white with gold accents. Many might remember him from the Frozen Falls.

"Welcome, everyone. We have gathered you here to help you unlock ancient abilities that we have been safekeeping. These powers are more difficult to master and some of them are even dangerous. However, we have full fate in you, hence why we are ready to pass the powers back into your hands."

He explains that the ritual will happen in special mindscapes, shaped by their minds. It will done in pairs and there's no rush. They can work on the unlocking as long as they need. No one has to do this right now either, as the dragons will remain here and help them anytime they want.

After that, he conjures very old-looking parchments from the air for everyone. They have a list of abilities they're about to unlock, written by the people of old.

Between the Truths and Lies

Part 1

The ritual to unlock the powers starts off simple. There are several small fires in the main room set up. Otherworlders are tasked with finding a partner and then sitting with them by one of them. However, the dragons warn that the more familiar the partner they choose is, the more dangerous the ritual would be. It's better to pick someone who they aren't so deeply bonded with for this.

Once the pair has settled down, one of the dragons approaches them. Next step is to hold hands or otherwise form a physical contact and close their eyes. The dragon will then breathe out a veil of mist that surrounds them. It feels comfortable, making it easier to relax. Slowly, the physical world starts feeling more distant.

Suddenly the pair will feel like they're floating. If they open their eyes they will be greeted with clear blue skies and a vast meadow they're about to gently land on. However, the moment they land the scenery changes; the scenery shifts according to what fits their states of mind. It splits neatly into half, one side for each person.

The state of mind can be visualized in different ways. Someone who has no problems or burdens may just have the same meadow with the blue skies while those with heavy burdens may have an approaching storm on the horizon. The meadow could also be withered and gray instead of the lush bright green, or even on fire.

Even if the two would have similar minds, there are still obvious changes. However if the pair is very close to one another the scenery will seem like it fits together seamlessly, no matter how different their minds are. They even have the risk of melding completely together, which can end up with both of them dead. They have to be constantly focusing on their sense of self to keep the two mindscapes separate. Whenever they stop doing so they will feel it as an ache all over their body.

Part 2

Several different colored energy lines travel across the mindscapes. All of them have a different purpose. The bright golden ones are their touch energy, which are currently actively burning. Other colors vary between what season they represent; blue for winter, pink for spring, green for summer and orange for autumn. They have several different shades, representing all kinds of different abilities. Those with special powers from home will also notice an energy line for them.

The pair must follow the right colored lines through a variety of different landscapes; forests, mountains, rivers, and so on. Their lines follow the same path; straight in the middle of the two mindscapes. There's even a chance of enemy counters (representing enemies from home or from Ellipsa), depending on just how dark their state of mind is. All of their powers, seasonal or otherwise, work here so they are able to fight the enemies off. Dying means failing the ritual, injuries will reflects as unpleasant pain for a while after.

At the end of the lines they will find a wall with a gate. Only by touching the gate at the same time will it open and behind it they will find several illusions of themselves. Approaching them will have them tell them something that is either a complete lie or the absolute truth about the person.

Their next task is to find the ones that tell the truth. Accepting the truths, no matter how unpleasant, will the the person absorb energy; this energy will feel like they're unlocking something new. Denying the truth will break the mindscape around them, causing cracks. Too many cracks will completely break it down, waking them up from the mindscape and ending the ritual in a failure.

Accepting a lie as the truth will also result in absorbing energy, but this energy will result in a minor injury in the real body and feels unpleasant.

The amount of accepted truths needed to unlock the abilities varies between each person, but there has to be at least five different ones. These can be just simple things like "he has brown hair" or "she sucks at karaoke", but also truths they necessarily don't want anyone to find out.

Optionally, characters can also capture a floating ball of energy inside the gate that will unlock the ability to do emotion magic. However, this can either be completely ignored or just unnoticed.

Part 3

After the pair has gathered all the possible energy, they are ready to wake up again. To do this, they must join their hands together and focus on the physical feeling of their own bodies. Their mind starts feeling more distant and eventually, they can feel like they're sitting once again.

The dragons congratulate them on their success and offer to tell them all about their season's abilities in more detail. Some even enthusiastically tell them all about emotion magic that may become something like a wildcard for them in battles.

People can redo the ritual with others, should they wish to help them unlock these abilities as well. However, they do not gain anything by doing it (unless they missed the emotional magic part) - other than possibly a deeper connection with the other person.

Do You Remember When Days Were Like That?

Part 1

With all this excitement, don't forget that all around the city, the End-of-Winter Festival is in full swing! Ever since long ago, this festival has been a cultural mainstay to say goodbye to winter and bring in spring (on the calendar, at least, since the seasons all stay in their places).

In every district, there are bonfires set up here and there. They're all in places far from the centre and away from anything particularly flammable, for the sake of anyone uncomfortable with fire -- but they're all festival hubs for people to gather. Just like last year, all the traditional activities are back: dressing in costumes and masks to symbolize winter and spring; singing and dancing around the fire; dramatic improvised plays where people are asked to act out a battle between winter and spring; and, of course, the pancake breakfasts! Thanks to the recent quests, most of them even have real maple syrup instead of the cheap golden corn syrup in the packet. Or berry syrup, if you're not into maple.

The jellycats (cats that have jelly-like shells protecting them. The shells wiggle everytime they purr and they can retreat back into them whenever they're uncomfortable) also make another appearance, staring at anyone eating pancakes and hoping they'll share a bite. They come in various colors and scents (each jellycat smells different to different people). The scent becomes stronger the more a jellycat likes and trusts a person.

Part 2

The traditional festivities aren't the only festivities this time around. After a very successful showing at last year's Arts Festival, the fanclubs of assorted otherworlders who have become minor or major celebrities through quests, missions, or even just plain social media presence are back. Not just that, but they've gotten serious and have opened an Otherworlder Fan Merch Store down a side street in Nightwake near one of the festival hubs.

They've certainly gone all out, even compared to when they just had festival merch booths. Otherworlders can find themselves on all kinds of merchandise like buttons, keychains, mugs, art prints, acrylic stands, and even 3D mouse pads and body pillow covers. Further back in the store are more esoteric goods. How many people are buying collector plates with the city's heroes on them? Who would buy a wallet with their face on it? Pasta shapes in a can?! Someone's gotten creative.

Past a curtain (wait, no, that's a shower curtain with life-sized images of characters, also available for sale), there's a section advertising "Unauthorized Biographies." Flipping through the comics and novels, one thing is clear -- this is the doujin section. How much of a market is there for RPF of the otherworlders? It's not even all dirty; at least half of these are coffee shop AUs shipping people with their friends or overly personal gushing about the time the subject of the story saved the author during a quest or a time monsters got into the city.

Part 3

The Amberfall Library doesn't have a bonfire (for obvious reasons), but it's also running as an event hub of a different sort. Following the Dragon Lord's announcement, they've brought up some archived books for people to peruse about the old days of the now unsealed season magic.

There aren't very many, owing to how long ago it was, but a few still remain. The biggest feature is a book of short stories, where two specific stories are bookmarked.

In "The Tale of Spring and Autumn," two lovers on a mission, a Spring and an Autumn power user, find a massive and powerful monster beyond description that threatens their home. Pushed to the brink, the Spring mage increases her own magic over and over, disregarding her own safety, to wound the monster gravely, but the overuse of that ability turns her into a tree, and the monster knocks the tree down. The Autumn mage breaks down in a fit of grief and uses her wood powers to kill the monster with the wood of the tree.

In "The Tale of Winter and Summer," a Summer power user is guarding a Winter exorcist when they come upon a spirit searching for help. The Winter channels them to fulfill their last wish to save their town from the pirates that killed them, but the spirit turns out to be lying and is actually a ghost pirate themself, and the Winter struggles and ultimately fails to take back his body from the ghost. The Summer, seeing the rest of the ghost crew gaining on them, causes a landslide with a magical explosion.

Thankfully, they're not all that depressing. Any would-be scholars can read gathered information about their new abilities, though these ancient sources might not always be the easiest to parse.

And as a festival activity, the library has also provided paper and writing utensils for attendees to write about what season magic means to them. They can be anything the writer wants and will be posted up in the library for the duration of the event!

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Summary of the prompts [ Click to Expand ]

SECTION 1
• The proxy for Dragon Lord Opallios arrives to Nightwake
• Dragons are ready to bestow new powers for the power holders
• There is a request for wood, stone and other materials for the dragons

• Quick travel has been unlocked to the Abandoned Castle
• Dragons have redecorated the castle and provided natural cushions to sit down on
• Some dragons have started hoarding and will become friends with people who contribute to their hoard

• Opallios explains the ritual
• He also provides lists of abilities they're about to unlock

SECTION 2
• The rituals begin with holding hands and dragons breathing mist
• They ascend to a mindscape meadow that will take shape based on the pair's state of mind
• Those bonded closely together have to focus on their sense of self

• Several different colored energy lines appear
• The pair has to follow the right ones through different sceneries
• Enemies may appear
• They encounter a gate that has illusions of themselves inside
• They have to find the truths from the lies and accept them to learn a new power

• Waking up means holding both hands
• Characters may help others to unlock these powers as well

Do You Remember When Days Were Like That?
•Nightwake City is celebrating the spring equinox with bonfires, festival games, plays, dancing, and costumes
•Pancake breakfasts pop up around the city, and stray jellycats appear more often trying to get people to share

•Fanclubs open a merch store for unauthorized otherworlder fan merch
•Fan merch can be anything from common types (think artist alley/fan shop offerings) to weirder things that have been offered as merch (anything from pasta shapes to ice cube trays or fancy plates)
•A section in the back of the store sells fanfiction and fancomics written by Ellipsan fans of otherworlders

•The Amberfall Library is participating in the festival with a display related to the ancient powers in the dragon ritual
•Some old short stories are tragic cautionary tales about the risk involved with the stronger powers
•Nonfiction also exists to figure out things about the new powers
•A related activity is for attendees to write what season magic means to them

• Ask event related questions here

• The new abilities can be learned by anyone, even those who have just started learning their regular ones. They're separate from the original powers, despite both being seasonal abilities.

• The ritual can be done anytime after the event as well and it can be handwaved. However, NPCs can't help with the rituals in this one so everyone should have a playable character to plot with.

• Characters are free to help the dragons repair the castle and otherwise just hang out with the dragons.

• Smut is not allowed on the event post, so if your thread is heading that way, please move it to a separate entry (like to your musebox or characters' journal).

• Remember to content and spoiler and content warn as necessary!

• Reminder to players that this month is Activity Check-in month and check-in ends on March 31st, at 23:59 PST.

Here's an Event Plotting form:

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Season:</b> <b>Event Plans:</b> <b>Other:</b>

code bases by tricklet

Comments

Questions

[seasonsmods]

Re: Questions

[abnormalizes]

Does the doujinshi section have any angst? Horror? Gore? Bad Things Happening To People You Know Personally?

DR Spoilers

[asyourleader]

So how does that whole 'focusing on their sense of self' thing work when someone has basically no sense of self to start with, asking for a friend-

Also I may have missed it because it's late but what date is the announcement and initial gathering at the Castle happening?

Re: Questions

[yersavior]

Actually going to ask just in case: would Megumi's psychic powers be able to ping anything regarding the mindscape at all if she tries to reach out mentally to attempt and figure anything out about it?

Re: Questions

[boombam]

are the illusions of themselves physical or not? could someone, for example, slap a version of themself if they don't like the lie or truth they tell them?

Re: Questions

[hometown]

do characters get discounts if they buy merch featuring themselves?

[starwill]

Just thought of another couple of questions, I'm so sorry...

If Stelle threatened for royalties (and, uh, potential sueing) to any of merch that has her likeness, what would the reaction be?

Mini

[abnormalizes]

Player Name: Mini
Contact: Misheard

Kantera | END ROLL (Imeeji CRAU) | Spring

[happydreamed]

Character Name: Kantera
Canon: END ROLL (Imeeji CRAU)
Season: Spring

Event Plans: Kantera will definitely want to unlock the new powers (shield? yes please) and will probably have a relatively stable mindscape with few enemies, but the truths part will be difficult for him... If anyone wants to help him wrestle with 'Kantera is a real person' and 'Kantera killed his grandfather' as whether they're even technically true or not, absolutely hit him up! I do want him to succeed in the end, though it may take him a couple tries.

Also uh the fan merch section is going to make him panic and he may need a hug. Just little idol hell things.

Other:

Kira

[bluediligence]

Player Name: Kira
Contact: This journal, or Twirlquest on the discord

Nakamori "Choco Korone" Aoko

[bluediligence]

Character Name: Nakamori "Choco Korone" Aoko
Canon: Detective Conan/Magic Kaito (+CRAUs)
Season: Summer

Event Plans: Korone is absolutely down for helping people unlock new powers! ... Shhhhe's a generally honest, earnest person who just so happens to be a bit (sometimes a lot lmao) retiscent to trust and open up, but listen, she's gonna try. She is going to try really, really hard.

Her mindscape can go all sorts of places, from super light and stable to, uh, kinda super not. Some possible enemy encounters include the speciesist criminals/bad science gang her CR has been having a time with in Ellipsa; glamour monsters; other monsters; a murderous shadow monkey; a weird asshole in a fedora; crocodiles ... the list goes on.

The fan merch store is going to wig her the hell out for murder idol hell reasons. She may or may not buy everything featuring her for the sole and express purposes of lighting it on fire. Who wants s'mores?

[ghostfromthemachine]

Player Name: Opal
Contact: opalinesque

[ghostfromthemachine]

Character Name: Kaiko
Canon: OC
Season: Autumn

Event Plans: Kaiko will be very interested in unlocking emotion magic specifically (since it's kind of an extension of some of her natural talents), but will be very awkwardly upfront that her mindscape is not likely to be pleasant or safe and generally behave like a spooked cat about letting someone else in if she's not sure they can handle it. No problems with uncomfortable truths, though; she knows who and what she is at this point and values self-honesty, at least.

Will also be available around the library to help with researching. TAKE HER MIND OFF OF HAVING TO PACRIM IT UP WITH SOMEONE ELSE,

Other: uhhh let me put possible CWs for Magic Unlock Adventures Here: references to body horror (specifically of the "dealing with dysphoria" type, gun violence (and death by it), potential mentions of suicide attempts/ideation. Let me know if you're interested but want to avoid some (or all) of these and I'll definitely do my best to accomodate.

katsuki bakugo // my hero academia // winter

[boombam]

Player Name: blake
Contact: dynaamight @ discord or zombrains

Character Name: Katsuki Bakugo
Canon: My Hero Academia
Season: Winter

Event Plans: I'm so into the ritual stuff you have no idea---

Since Katsuki is a hero and is into helping people where he can, he can help with the ritual as many times as he needs to if anyone wants to do it with him!! As much as he'll hate the accepting truths part, and the whole mindscape reflecting your mind state... gross!! This is a great way to get a good start on CR or continue to flesh out CR with Katsuki, though! His mindscape definitely looks like the aftermath of a wildfire, with some embers still burning.... he's a mess and I'm so excited tbh

Also, for Summers, when characters begin learning how to make explosions Katsuki will offer his help to give advice and train characters to use their explosions affectively!! He'll also be so mad that other people can do it too (and that he isn't a summer himself) but being a mentor will help with that :')

Other: im so excited about the skeleton transformation yall 💀

Re: katsuki bakugo // my hero academia // winter

[symptomof]

Wrong journal but-- I feel like Katsuki and Naruto trying to do the ritual would be 10/10

Aimoto Rinku | D4DJ (Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ) | Summer

[roundandaround]

Player Name: Jisu
Contact: jisusushi @ Plurk, sanajisu @ Discord

Character Name: Aimoto Rinku
Canon: D4DJ (Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ)
Season: Summer

Event Plans:
-Material gathering! Time to gather up scrap metal and wood like a wartime child trying to earn points for school.
-Rinku is absolutely going for the new-power ritual, and given she's always trying to make new friends anyway, will be more than happy to try it with someone she doesn't know or doesn't know well. She's doing pretty well these days so her mindscape might not have many enemies (...although I might bring back Literally Just Real-World Mosquitoes) and she probably won't struggle much with truths... though she does have some insecurities that have been played on in the past.
-She'll also be all over the festivities! Eating pancakes, befriending jellycats, singing and dancing...
-...and trying to figure out what to say about what season powers mean to her. She might solicit some advice.

Other: Rinku has a permissions post for fourth-walling. Otherwise, go wild.

Re: Aimoto Rinku | D4DJ (Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ) | Summer

[bluediligence]

POINTS AT RINKU

let's bond

Len 🌸

[yersavior]

Player Name: Len
Contact: tsundereban ; contact me via PMs or the unofficial Discord! Feel free to add me if you plan on having CR!

megumi aikawa / heaven burns red

[yersavior]

Character Name: Megumi Aikawa
Canon: Heaven Burns Red
Season: Summer

Event Plans: SO, UH.

This girl can hold so many Identity Issue problems in a small teenage body it isn't funny. A lot of her stuff will contain major spoilers for 4.1 and 4.2 so it's gonna be under the spoiler warning tag:

⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️

First and foremost, Megumi is not human; she is an alien blob-like creature called a Narby, which have swallowed human corpses to essentially become living clones for humans to use to win their war against aliens.

Her self identity is still a bit shaky in spite of having most of her issues resolved from her canon point, so that might reflect in mindscape stuff. She is also a psychic (she can do some electrical creations/manipulation, levitation and even restore memories) and military recruit for any dangers that might show up and can assist in both peaceful and Less Peaceful ways.

Also she's new, so I would 100% love to use this event to establish her character as well as share her lore. She's a silly Kansai-ben gal who will also be extremely baffled by the merch and willing to help people set things on fire, as she canonically can do that.

Other: nah

Knux

[freedomfighterhammer]

Player Name: Knux
Contact: AshBlaze

Amy "Rascal" Rose | Archie Sonic

[freedomfighterhammer]

Character Name: Amy Rose
Canon: Archie Sonic
Season: Spring

Event Plans: Oh, Amy’s gonna want to help out and participate because she is totally interested in unlocking these new powers. Also, there might be others who need help.

Totally gonna boggle that there are people who have made merchandise of her… or is it the new girl?

Other:

[exaltruistic]

Player Name: vandal
Contact: PM or vandalisto @ discord

Note: just want to say i fell off a little bit this winter but i'm picking up my tags again; for those who i wanted to thread with or those who have expressed interest in playing with me, i promise it's a me issue, not you! i'll be hitting people up soon!

[exaltruistic]

Character Name: ko tenjin
Canon: handead anthem
Season: summer

Event Plans:

🌟 something old, something new: ko is still a little worthless with physical labor ( though he is getting better ), but he's also willing and able to help. so come save his tiny ass from getting hurt or something. ko might go picking flowers or something for a dragon's hoard.

🌟 between the truths and lies: very open to new CR, but also open to deepening extant CR. ko has some tough truths he's faced before, but i think he might have some left to go through still. he's very good at encouraging others though since he's, you know, an actual psychologist. also open to multiple rounds.

🌟 do you remember when days were like that?: ko will be out with his boys partying and having fun. he'll be looking for merch of ... himself, because his partner ( takakage kurosaki, banshiii ) is a collector of his merch even where they come from. yes, i'm serious.

reiner braun | attack on titan

[hometown]

Player Name: kas
Contact: pm, @ me in the game discord, or bicepsbrigade

Character Name: reiner braun
Canon: attack on titan
Season: autumn

Event Plans:

Between the Truths and Lies

Reiner's mindscape will be fractured! It will be very clear that there are two sides at war within him, on a very deep level. His truths will primarily concern his own self-image and how much he loathes himself.

I'm mostly interested in the exploration of the joint mindscape & the truth/lies bit. Would prefer to handwave any fighting.

Do You Remember When Days Were Like That?

I'm interested in festival shenanigans! Food! Dancing! Dramatic reenactments! Petting cats! All sound very fun.

Also interested in the fan store! Merchandise of Reiner will likely feature a lot of shirtless art. Body pillows, tiddy-mousepads, beach towels, acrylic standees, sultry closeups on keychains, etc. His fans are Thirsty. The doujin section probably features stories about him and Eren, him and Bert, or him as part of Ozy's harem.

Other: Also interested in playing with new powers! Reiner will not receive emotion magic at this time, but he will want to do things like jump off a building to see if he actually suffers no fall damage. Maybe stop him??? Or help him experiment!

[oftheazure]

What if this is the moment they form a closer bond by unlocking powers together.

Amy 💖

[asyourleader]

Player Name: Amy
Contact: PM / Discord @ archangelamy

Byakuya Twogami | Danganronpa 2 | Winter

[asyourleader]

Character Name: Byakuya Togami
Canon: Danganronpa 2
Season: Winter

Event Plans:

He'll help gather supplies for the castle of course, after having a mild panic at the whole dragons are real are we sure they're not robots summoned by Monokuma thing.

Despite being new, he'll want to give the ritual a try all the same- even if it's just helping other people. His mindscape will be a bit stormy, but not too unstable to begin with. It'll almost seem fuzzy and poorly detailed...

Spoilers:
The problems will come with focusing on his entirely non-existent sense of self- but as he hasn't built many bonds yet, he should hopefully be alright. If anyone wants to start getting hints that he's not who he says he is early on via the truth-finding exercise, here's a good chance to do that! I'm not sure if I'll have his actual title come out, but there'll certainly be clues around to spot.
End spoilers

Twogami'll also be at the festivities, enjoying some much deserved pancakes... and doing research in the library of course.

Mizi | Alien Stage

[yourclematis]

Player Name: Jen
Contact: magentaskies

Character Name: Mizi
Canon: Alien Stage
Season: Spring

Event Plans: New character exploring things! She's very, very inexperienced with actually having the freedom to explore, and is also from a world where it can very easily get you killed. This means Mizi is going to be a mix of excited and also looking over her shoulder to make sure no one is shooting at her. She may stumble into new powers and try and figure them out! She may also be really surprised at seeing merch of her.

Other: Let's build some CR ♥

[roundandaround]

new frieeeeeeeend, Rinku will excitedly welcome her!!

Silver the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW/Games) | Spring

[manifesthope]

Player Name: Vic
Contact: PM’ing manifesthope, Doublevisionary@Discord, Doublevisionary (PM'ing or Discord is fastest)

Character Name: Silver the Hedgehog
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW/Games)
Season: Spring

Event Plans: Considering that Silver just arrived, I as a player am not sure whether it’s a good idea for him to go rushing off to try learning the Dragon abilities since he has barely started learning about his seasonal powers yet. But then again, Silver is absolutely the type to go balls to the wall and dive in head first and bite off more than he can chew. What can go wrong right? lol

He doesn’t have to die or anything, but I can see him failing this attempt so he’ll have to come back at a later time to try again. It sounds like some of the failing options can be pretty painful or not pleasant so I don’t mind if he gets negatively affected or injured depending on what happens.

I’m totally down for plotting ideas with anyone who wants to pair up with him!

If I don’t toss him into the deep end without a life jacket with this ritual, I was definitely thinking I’d at least have him enjoying the festivities in the city with the End of Winter festival. He’d probably freaking love the pancakes and maple syrup.

Other: Info and Permissions for Seasons HERE! You can PM me if you have any questions! <3

eren jaeger | attack on titan | summer

[dreamsofwings]

Player Name: Lyn
Contact: boywonder, DM, ask for discord

Character Name: Eren Jaeger
Canon: Attack on Titan
Season: Summer

Event Plans:

• Something Old, Something New: Of course Eren will get new dragon powers, but he needs a partner (someone he's not terribly familiar with) to do so! For a fun time(???) if you were here at the end of 2023, your character might have ended up in The Paths. Guess what Eren's field looks like! :'))) This is better than any alternative, which would be death and horror, so…small victories I guess. I'm up for any level of the truth telling thing, though Eren's big truths won't mean much to people who don't know him, but we can hash some of that out if you want to play this route with him :3
  Also acquiring emotion magic bc definitely nothing could go wrong with an unstable terrible boy getting mad and accidentally setting things on fire or whatever.
  
• Do You Remember? Feel free to have found absolutely any absurd merch of Eren and bring it to his attention. (Honestly just do a google search for weird aot merch, it's all out there for inspiration lollll)
  Someone will have to explain those body pillow things and big booba mousepads to him.
  There are also probably doujinshi of him and Reiner, though if you want your character to have noticed that, lmk and I'll check with Kas on what they might have found (any rating is fine).
  He probably won't be super into reading library things bc he's not much of a reader, but we can handwave that he heard about the stories and can talk about them or whatever.

Other: overall content warnings for aot and opt out here.

[heartofmetal]

I can offer you a very short-tempered alchemist who does remember the paths incident and the drama it caused. At least they aren't very familiar with each other.

KJ & A Boy Collection

[sextoying]

Player Name: KJ
Contact: agalio | Undercuts @ Discord

Other: For all I am glad to write starters/top levels/whatevers. I'm also open to all parts of the event with all of mine, but I'm listing specific ideas.

eiden | nucarnival | summer

[sextoying]

Character Name: Eiden
Canon: nu: Carnival
Season: Summer

Event Plans:
- He's helpful by nature and would be glad to assist in gathering supplies.
- He's curious and interested in doing the new abilities thing. His mindscape is also undecided and his state of mind can be influenced by his companion. SO it can vary!
- Catch him in the smut section of the doujins. Sorry??? Nah. Also his brand new him/Edmond Itabag. :)

levi ackerman // attack on titan // winter

[wingbound]

Player Name: Dem
Contact: @ me in game discord, PM or jigglyballs

Character Name: Levi Ackerman
Canon: Attack On Titan
Season: Winter

Event Plans:

• Between the Truths and Lies: While Levi isn't necessarily hell-bent on getting to the new abilities immediately, he's also determined to be Useful which means learning to wield as much of the local magic as he can. So if anybody would like to partner up, let me know! For the record, I'm good with the familiarity dangers, but this could be a chance for new CR as well!
  
  His mindscape is probably not too different from the default meadow - lush green land with forests in the distance, and open blue sky with some white cumulus clouds.
  
  
• Do You Remember When Days Were Like That?: Levi might end up adopting a jellycat this time around, because I clearly need to let him gather ALL the weird cats. (He already has a voidcat, a ghost cat, and an inherited pokemon plantcat.)
  
  Considering his fights usually look pretty cool and he gets shit done while being mindful of the locals, he's likely quite popular and there's probably an abundance of merch of him, from cleaning supplies to mugs and body pillows (lol). As far as the doujinshi section goes, while there's a respectable amount of (mostly fluff of) him with his actual husband (thank the seasons), the Nightwake rivalshippers appear to have gotten busy and produced a rather hefty Levi+Hijikata section*, complete with some intense top/bottom discourse that occasionally gets violent irl between fans browsing the shelves. If you know one of them and spot the other after witnessing such a confrontation it certainly makes for an interesting icebreaker, but it's probably best not to get involved... right?
  
  *Established with approval from Schmitt/Hiji-player!

Other:
Seasons powers, info & permissions :: CWs & opt-out

Fish with Movie!Shadow

[lightremains]

Player Name: Fish
Contact: DrFishbone, memento.moray @ discord

Character Name: Shadow! The Keanu version
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog (live action)
Season: Autumn

Event Plans: Shadow is definitely interested in unlocking more power! And finding someone who he isn't very close with should be PRETTY EASY since he isn't really close with anyone other than his universe's Sonic... and after their dream sharing adventure, he's probably not a good choice. He may also be willing to help other after he unlocks his own... maybe. He'll also be found at the library reading the newly unarchived books, and training with his seasons powers. Why? Well... maybe he wants to help this world a little, after all. He may also just be gawking at the dragons. They're cool :0

[roundandaround]

Rinku knows how it feels to want to get Stronger!! She will definitely want to help with training.

falin touden | dungeon meshi | autumn

[chimaerically]

Player Name: avery
Contact: comment here, PM on this journal, or catch me on the discord

Character Name: Falin Touden
Canon: Dungeon Meshi
Season: autumn

Event Plans: i've got plans for falin's own unlocking-dragon-magic ritual, but she'd be happy to help anyone through the ritual after she's done her own, including complete strangers! her mindscape will be relatively peaceful, but might contain a few enemies here and there, mostly smaller monsters from home -- walking mushrooms, slimes, that sort of stuff.

she's also really interested in the dragons and will hang out around them a lot, so you can catch her talking to one or gathering some stuff for repairing the castle or for their hoards (likely wood and plants).

the end-of-winter festival is 100% her jam and she'll happily spend a bunch of time there, singing, dancing, and eating pancakes. the otherworlder merch store won't be of much interest to her, since she barely knows anyone here, but she'll definitely swing by the library, read the books on display, and can also be found thinking very hard about how to answer the question of what season magic means to her.