Elevator Pitch

[memester]

Elevator Pitch - The Meme

Don't have a good wiki to rely on? Not up for writing out a huge amount of lore for your character, but you want to give people a little something something to go on? Then this is the meme for you. Rules: 🌟 Post a top comment with your character/series/preferences. 🌟 Tell the people a little something about your character: Occupation. Hobbies. What they might do on their day off. A little about their personality/likes/dislikes. Something to give someone potentially canon blind enough of a stepping stone to be able to see if there's a potential to smash barbies. Likes, dislikes, dating yays or nays, anything that you can't tell by just that 100x100 image. Sell your character as a pitch and why they'd be fun to tag. 🌟 Don't be shy to put down what you might really be looking for (a specific set of characters to play with, certain characters you'd rather avoid). Even a scenario you're up for if that's what's got your engine revving. Have fun!

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Delia Battista ✨ Star Trek OC ✨OTA, 21+ for any shipping or smut

[attackpatternbattista]

So it's a little long, but I think I'm justified since she's an OC 🤔

Delia Battista is something of an Orion mercenary often in the employ of various government bodies, such as the Federation or Klingon Empire. Delia often operates as a mercenary privateer, diplomat, and/or cargo runner, as she has no specific ties to any particular organization (though most of her equipment is Klingon in origin), she often can get or have connections where other people don't (many of whom are on various sides of various laws).

In Earth terms, she's around 36 years of age, born and raised largely in space.

She tends to dress in comfortable clothing when her version of a uniform isn't needed, allowing for ease of movement, and catching the eye. Often forgoes shoes.

Delia is flirty, easygoing, playful, and friendly. But this all belies the fact that she's the daughter of a ruthless pirate queen and thus trained in a great many skills regarding this. Delia herself can be similarly ruthless, but generally prefers not to be, as she more naturally wants to wheel, deal, and let everyone come off the situation better and at least alive. Delia tends to treat sex as something she does extremely casually, with people she likes, or to help in whatever she's doing.

This is not, however, to say her soft touch is weak. Delia is and can, absolutely, be extremely dangerous when she needs to be. She just prefers not to be.

Delia's skills largely lie in her being an extremely observant reader of people, a tactician with a flair for the unconventional, and is a fairly effective pilot with an innate understanding of most ship controls.

Speaking as her player, I'm also willing to AU her into various universes or scenarios as needed (such as changing her timeframe ranging from STO's to somewhere in TOS/NuTrek, TNG/DS9, or pushing her forward into the 31st century, etc).

[needsasnickers]

I wonder how she would feel crossing paths with a (multi)universal threat who basically an angry grandpa bent on revenge. Because of differences in personality, I think they'll be drinking buddies at best, lol.

Steve Rogers : Winter Soldier AU | OTA

[onedegreeofseparation]

Fast and loose, because this is purely self-indulgence

Canon events through the end of First Avenger. Got taken out of the ice by Hydra not too long after. This is not a 'Bucky and Steve swap places' scenario. Unless told otherwise, Bucky still fell unless I'm asked to do otherwise. Also by default, I'm still going to have him found by the Avengers somewhere before AoU and play him _after_ that point so he is actually playable and has a personality. Still flexible, though, depending on character.

Mostly, I want to play with the idea/concept and impacts on Steve who signed up for one thing, started doing it, and then got used for something very different.

Also know I'm not likely to tag out with him (because lol, this cliche bs), but castmates, cross-canon, assumed CR, your own AUs, whatever are very welcome. I also play imperfectsoldier - I got 'enabled' by a friend and a hypothetical discussion.

[coldsong]

Heyyyy. I have been super flaky with my MCUs lately so I'm half afraid to offer because I suck--BUT I just wanted to say I have played with your other Steve and he's excellent, so I for one would be happy to indulge you.

[theknightshift]

leans in here

Angel | OC

[graveling]

Angel is vaguely inspired by the Promethean: the Created 2e TTRPG, but you don't need to know anything about it in order to play with him. Here's the hook:

Polite walking corpse seeks purpose and found family.

After crawling out of a shallow ditch in the woods, this dead body started wandering. He doesn't remember the life that body lived. He doesn't know why he was raised, or by whom, or if it was even a deliberate act. So it's a journey to figure out what to do with time when one is functionally immortal, but not someone who can ever fit into human society.

What I want: other urban fantasy/modern horror/supernatural/World of Darkness (including nWoD/Chronicles of Darkness)/necromancers to toss the boy against. Meme continuity storylines. Can AU him into more pure fantasy easily.

Edited to add: Shipping, yes, any gender. No smut, I'm not looking to write necrophilia.

Fumihiko Takaba 😂 Jujutsu Kaisen - OTA *Spoilers for Anime Only Viewers!*

[youlaughyoulose]

the gist

A failed comedian who has gained the power to make jokes a reality. A sad clown type who wants to be friends with everyone, and is working on turning his career around.

He can be serious if he has to be, but only when he has to be. When I say he wants to be friends with everyone, that's totally true.

I'd like for him to interact with people who need some laughs in their life, or villains who he can basically annoy into reforming.

Richard Stuhmp | OC| OTA

[ruff_patch]

World's most pathetic werewolf.

Turns out supernatural powers don't make you cool and sexy, they actually make your life a living hell. Richard is a 42 year old nerd/loser who can't hold down a job because every full moon he turns into a wild beast, to cope with his monthly transformation he drinks too much and hides all his trauma behind sarcastic remarks and bad jokes.

Open to shipping m/f or m/m and to smut so long as it's not the sole purpose, I love building a good rapport through dialogue and texting tags.

[lycandsubscribe]

Lone wolves find pack together?

Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin | GOTHAM (m/m)

[hobblepot]

(A wise man once asked, what if Batman Villain but twink? Then, what if Batman Villain but twink, born poor, and who generates more sympathy, sometimes, than the protagonists of the show despite being Bratman a snarkastic little shit?

Enter Oswald - the human embodiment of what happens when mommy never says 'no'. Also what happens when a boy is bullied aggressively into adulthood, internalizing the lesson that it takes cunning and cruelty to survive. Oswald makes for an excellent crime boss. However, due to his paranoia, penchant for stabby man-trums, and the dangerous nature of his profession, he struggles to make connections. Which is tough when he's desperate to love and be loved and feel safe. As someone who has given into his pain and doubled down on his darkest impulses, he's a foil to the young Bruce Wayne from his canon - a cautionary tale of what Bruce might've become if he never had an Alfred. Still, Oswald *is* capable of doing the Right Thing, now and again... sometimes even for slightly unselfish reasons.

Things I'm looking for: Grimdark situations, such as fuck or die, where Os is out of his comfort zone. Others 'out-villaining' him. Found 'family' with other broken characters. Maybe love for him, if it happens organically. Friends he can bitch and bicker with. Trapped in a situation/reluctant cooperation with a hero type or someone he doesn't get along with. AU shenanigans where Os gets to be a vampire. Scratching things off the kink list. Meaty threads that move at a steady pace. I love geeking out and chatting oocly, as it keeps the tag mojo strong.

I'm not great with heavy plotting/worldbuilding, alas, and do best just winging things with a handful of details. Also, just a warning that because Oswald is such a reactive character, I can't promise/predict the outcome of any given thread. I'd love for it to go a certain way, sometimes, but the trajectory of a scene can change wildly with a single word, so... yeah. Winging things, you know? Canon, crossmedium and crosscanon are welcome! I'm open to hearing about OCs, too.)

phyre | bloodlines 2

[nomadicflame]

The short of it: Phyre is from the ill-fated sequel to Bloodlines; he's a deeply complex character with a lot of room to grow. He has been a vampire for the last 400 years and has disconnected heavily from humanity. After waking up from 100 years of sleep he is learning how to Human again.

The longer: I want to explore lines with this! My favorites are friends to lovers and slow burn romances as well as Phyre rediscovering his humanity and how to feel again. When he wakes up he is a complete sociopath and has no empathy for anyone or anything. Through the course of the game his soul begins to merge with another vampire who lives in his head (unfortunate accident, that one!) and he begins to regain some of his humanity. I absolutely love this kind of trope and would love to explore him feeling out feelings he hasn't felt in centuries, especially with someone he's started developing feelings for.

I feel like there could be equal amounts of slowburn that leads into angst, soft feelings, slice of life, gentle attentions that turn into lovemaking, and all sorts of things.

I am more than happy to provide any sort of canon information if you'd like to play in the WoD world or flex/AU/fit him into your universe. I am just super keen to explore him and let him bounce off other characters. I love, love lines that develop organically as the characters interact and grow with one another's interactions. Even if there's no romance there just two people having a dialogue that explores the depths of their character is just fun. Even if it's two enemies having a verbal fencing match! I love pushing and feeling out new things with Phyre. Give me any interactions!

This is a bit long for an elevator pitch isn't it. :| Sorry. Also, I understand his canon can be quite problematic with its darker themes so I completely understand if it's not your jam. No hard feelings at all if he's a pass! The character himself is basically a walking content warning given what's in his history.

The only thing is I would prefer to keep extensive plotting to a minimum, just start with a general "hey you want to X?" and fill in some minor details if need be and let the characters run with it. I find that works out the best for me and lets everything develop as the characters play off one another.

I am down for just about anything. Hit me up, just bear with me as I'm brushing off some rust from not having written daily in about two or three years. Just gotta get my groove back.

copia ( ghost )

[sacramenta]

ISN'T GHOST A BAND?
- sure is!! it's also a fictional series of characters created by the man behind the lead singer, tobias forge. tobias forge plays copia, the way an actor plays their character in a movie/tv series. this is not rp of rl people.

OKAY, WHO IS COPIA?
- in the band's lore (yeah, there's lore!! it technically goes back decades or even centuries, depending on how you interpret shit!), copia is technically the leader of the satanic church known as the Ministry, but he was the lead singer of ghost before his twin brother perpetua took over. that's why you'll see the ghost singers with different skull paint/masks/hairstyles/general style. i have some basic info/hc for him here, and you can check out the ghost wiki here.

WOAH, THE LORE LOOKS COMPLICATED.
- it can be! tobias forge forgets his own backstory for his OCs sometimes, so we get conflicting info. the great thing about it is that no one who plays from ghost seems to take it all that seriously, so you can take it and sort of make what you want of it as long as you stick to the broad strokes. i'm more than happy to talk you through my special interest blorbos, including copia and his brothers (or brother and uncles, depending on what you subscribe to), the ghouls, the ministry, whatever. pm me if you're interested in any of it.

WHAT IF I WANNA PLAY FROM GHOST?
- please, i think the terzo writer and i would do many unholy things to convince you to do so. the great thing is that other than a few notes here and there, copia's probably??? the most fleshed-out character??? sister imperator and papa nihil are right up there, too, but like.. otherwise, you can take an outline of a character and fill it in more or less the way you want!! this is especially true of the ghouls!!! they almost never speak, and though they have interactions on stage (and some fandom-accepted names/basic hc), their personalities are largely up to you!!
- ... seriously, please pick up ghouls. terzo would love omega and alpha, and i'd love to see some earth ghouls around and AETHER. please... big boy banana man...

I DON'T WANNA PLAY FROM GHOST, BUT I WANNA TAG GHOST CHARACTERS.
- also cool! i mention some rp prefs in copia's journal, but generally i'll tag with most anyone! is your character interested in our unholy lord and savior lucifer??? do they like metal music?? do they have a reason to visit a satanic abbey? are they magic and they can sense demonic influence?? are they a demon themself??? genuinely, i'm down to clown, and copia's just a weird little guy. despite the skull makeup and stuff, he's just a sad sweet man (that can also be a petty little bitch, sorry again to perpetua), so feel free to hit him up on memes if you see him. (and tag other ghost characters, too!!)

pls play with us

[popestar]

thx

lonán burke — oc

[athambia]

Lonán Burke is the 44-year-old firstborn son of a North Side Irish Catholic family from Chicago. While his family all pursued careers as public servants — (cop dad, firefighter brother, paramedic brother, 911 dispatcher sister) — Lonán decided the calling of his life was to become a desk jockey for the federal government.

Okay no, not really. But after several years as a practicing attorney specializing in international law for the Department of Justice, he found himself aggressively headhunted by a member of Cabinet for the newly-formed federal Bureau of Anomalous Research.

Officially:

The Bureau of Anomalous Research (BAR) advances the United States’ capacity to understand, assess, and responsibly manage unconventional phenomena that may impact public safety, national security, and scientific inquiry. Through international cooperation, conscientious research, and ethical oversight, BAR supports informed decision-making in sensitive and emergent domains.

Lonán works in the Ethics and Oversight Directorate. Essentially, it is his job to recruit, orient, and liaise with laypeople who have demonstrated expertise in Bureau-relevant phenomena. This often involves individuals who are considered "crackpots" in their real lives due to being self-professed "experiencers," but also people native to cultures for whom the sacred existence of certain creatures has been a part of their folklore for generations. This also may include vampire familiars and those with metahuman contacts.

---

I am eager to play him against any such individuals or characters who are themselves a little bit anomalous. Also fellow federal employees or potential contractors, or genuinely anyone at all. Lonán is deeply fascinated by all manner of people. He is a frequent patron of live performance (theatre, live music, ballet, comedy shows, etc.) because he loves to see people excelling at things they love to do. He's got a tendency to come off a little supercilious at first blush and will absolutely respond in kind to whatever energy he's given. Happy to ship him M/M, M/F, and M/NB if a romantic bend interests, but also very open to friends, colleagues, professional contacts, playful adversaries and debate partners, found family, etc.

If he sounds cool, here's his permissions page.

[graveling]

When you say characters who are a little bit anomalous, does that include werewolves, vampires, Cecil Gershwin Palmer, magical girls or...where you aiming, for the weird things to study?

Darryl Van Horne | Eastwick (2009) | OTA, 25+ for smut

[screwme]

40 or 50 year old dark, handsome millionaire who might be the actual devil seeks magical people to corrupt.

That's about it, this dude is drawn to powerful people who may need a little push to grow into their powers, he will encourage irresponsible magic usage for fun and profit and will not mind if other people get hurt in the process. Relationships can be platonic/mentory though he's likely to hit on anyone 25+.

I'm new to both the canon and the character so any help voice-testing would be welcome.

[unpavemypaths]

Oh man, Eastwick! Not enough love for that show, ever. I swear, every time I rewatch I have the itch to pick up Kat. :D I have a few characters with magical powers who could be fun to corrupt, most of them OCs -- if that's something you're cool with, I'll have to keep an eye out for him.

Yuri | Gnosia

[softreboot]

I put lots of information about Yuri in their journal, so feel free to browse through, but to sum it up:

18 years old | Genderfluid Male | Libra | 5'2"

Personality: Generally calm, seemingly innocent and peace-loving... which is true, but as much as Yuri wants to be the responsible mom-like figure of a dynamic, they are also very much down to do hoodrat stuff with friends if the bond is strong enough. They're intensely loyal once they open up and latch on to someone who is willing to extend a friendly hand towards them first.

Backstory: A human from the future, taken from a post-game universe where Yuri just got through going through the very rough experience of looping through time, over and over again, across multiple universes. After conquering this ordeal, Yuri was eventually spit out and dumped off all alone in a completely different timeline, dimension, and planet (Earth).

Yuri has no memory of their past, and will likely try to keep the fact that they're not from Earth to themselves, in order to avoid alarming people. For the most part, when asked about themselves, they'll simply reiterate the fact that they're an amnesiac and "not from around here" without being specific... unless someone presses Yuri to spill more than that.

I'm mostly looking for CR with someone who will help Yuri adapt to Earthling lifestyle; show him the ropes, hook him up with a job, whatever. Doesn't have to be romantic, though I do admit that I love a good romantic ship if the chemistry is right. But playing out platonic friendship- or even some kind of enemy dynamic could be fun, too. 16+ age minimum for anything that has hope of being romantic. Equally open to eventual Smut/Fade to Black/Whatever, with slowburn generally preferred before intimacy happens.

Edward Mordrake | AHS: Freak Show

[evocandum]

As I casually pull from my pocket perhaps the most obscure and bizarre character choice of my track record, lmao... but I've gotten serious brainworms to voicetest this guy more, and I think there's some really fun potential for him in the world of rp!

There's more detailed information to be found in his journal, but basically he's the (extremely cursed) ghost of a charming yet somewhat sinister and unhinged Victorian aristocrat who now collects souls of the lost, broken, depraved, ""freakish"", etc. In life, Edward was afflicted with a bloodthirsty second face of supernatural and Hellish origin, on the back of his skull. After death, said second face feeds off of the souls that Edward is damned to collect (which involves killing a victim via stabbing). This is both horrific but kind of sweet, given that he then welcomes those broken, lost souls to join him for eternity, giving them the home and family they may have lacked before.

I'm honestly here for anything, but some specific desires:

— all the horror with any side amount of angst, fluff, complications, etc; I'm wide open for general, found family, and shipping / romance alike! I think some spooky dark romance shenanigans could be extremely fun to play around with (Edward coming to collect a soul, maybe we fall in love instead 😌, angst ensues), but I'm also forever down to see what grows organically, too. I'd really like to dive in deeper to this character, as he doesn't have much canon screentime and yet is full of so much fun lore and possibility that I'm itching to explore further.

— fellow "monsters"; Edward is drawn the most towards those who are tormented, lost, broken, lonely, and also those who are depraved, violent, dark, etc. Give me all the cursed creatures, the oddities, the unloved! I'd love any kind of spooky team-ups or him adopting your character (in any capacity, and we can definitely work around him actually having to kill them, lmao)

— summonings; I'd really love to play around with Edward's "urban legend" status as a ghost / vindictive spirit / reaper. People who summon him intentionally or by accident — for a purpose or who end up suddenly responsible for a very spooky Victorian ghost who can't leave until he collects a soul? Him getting "trapped" in the living world this way would be fun (I'm forever weak for the trope of period characters having to adapt to the modern world). I'm also wide open to play around with mashing together settings / working him into your character's world / etc.

Basically I'm down to clown and indulge! I'd love to pick up some psls for him, but am also happy to play around on memes too, whether to test out how characters might vibe or just do some little snippet threads.

[graveling]

So, uh, wanna adopt a corpse?

Claurant Masaud | OC

[fathersonspirit]

[ Sorry if this gets a touch long, but he is an OC so I feel I need to explain some things. ]

Who is Claurant Masaud?
Claurant is a 40-year-old private investigator and one-time author who recently moved to [Insert Haunted Small Town Of Your Choice Here] after the mysterious and sudden death of his father Aleksander Jane. Aleksander was a lot of things, but first and foremost was he a stalwart member of the Cult of Cthulhu, fully entrenched in the belief of eldritch gods, much like members of their family before him. Claurant, having suffered a terrible childhood at the hands of having a cultist for a father, wants nothing more than to find answers for his own strange powers and to finally close the book on a long and painful chapter of his life, except the damn book doesn't want to close. While he meddles around in his father's arcane past, he's also on a side quest to keep his investigations a secret from his quiet, yet irritatingly perceptive daughter lucieinthesky (yes I play the daughter as well, I'll write her pitch later) out of his and his father's business, trying to spare her the same fate that he seems doomed to follow. Unfortunately for him, protecting her isn't as simple as it sounds, not as he learns more about both his own world and the worlds of the people he meets.

What are you looking for?
Anything, honestly. Especially searching for people who have supernatural backgrounds of their own that I can weave in with Claurant's, so he's fighting the war against keeping his daughter safe on multiple fronts (and I guess keeping himself safe). More than happy to roleplay platonic/gen situations and complicated romantic ones (Claurant's not really one for commitment and I'm shy, so a genuine romance would likely be a slow burn) and very happy to work with both OCs and canons. Be kind to me though, I'm canonblind to a lot of things, but I'll be happy to hear out/read what you have going for your character's lore.

Anything else?
Claurant's more in-depth backstory and character have TWs for alcoholism, drug abuse, and parental abuse. He's also... not the best father to his daughter. It may seem like it, but he really hasn't been because of the aforementioned alcoholism and drug use. If that's potentially triggering for you, it's best not to engage with him as a character because that's a critical part of him once we get deeper in, I'm afraid. His partying and TFLN prompts are funny up until you realize he has a problem!

Lucina Masaud | OC

[lucieinthesky]

[Hi, it's later!]

Who is Lucina Masaud?
Lucina is an 18-year-old journalism major/aspiring journalism major (depends on if she's a freshman in college or a senior in high school, I can place her in either) recently uprooted to [Insert Haunted Small Town Of Your Choice Here] by her father fathersonspirit (yes I play the father too, he's up above) after her grandfather's abrupt death. She's not ignorant to the tension between her grandfather and her father, but she's noticed that her dad hasn't been quite the same after the move, plagued by something he just won't open up to her about. She's on the verge of letting him do what he wants because she's plagued by her own strange happenings — she's had unusually vivid dreams her entire life, but as she gets older and starts to push the boundaries of her dreams, she finds that she's not just dreaming. No, she's entering the dreams of others, dreaming what they dream, making them dream what she dreams, and she swears if she words things a certain way, people just do as she asks...

What are you looking for?
Again, anything. Especially searching for people around her age with supernatural backgrounds to weave in with hers or people who don't mind a little supernatural happenings in their lives; I do want to explore her powers with them. (I know I'm canonblind to it but hi Stranger Things folks.) More than happy with just platonic/gen interactions, I'd be a bit picky about a romance with her given her age and the aforementioned shyness, so again expect a slow burn out of me for her. I would love a long plot where she does start to get to the bottom of what's going on with her family/father/grandfather, but I understand that would be a plot very centered on her and a bit of a tough sell because of that.
Also just as a fun thing for me: the last time I roleplayed her, I couldn't think of a past friend group for her, so I had her befriend Sam, Abigail, Sebastian, and Maru of Stardew Valley. I'd LOVE to see them again to actually befriend them with her.

Anything else?
Lucina carries the same TWs as her father mostly because of him (so alcoholism, drug abuse, and parental abuse), though she does drink herself. There's also the matter of Claurant's vices leading to parental neglect on his part, which is a major part of why she's as independent as she is. Reiterating that if this is triggering to you, it may be best not to play with her because it is important.

[not_yet_screaming]

OOC: I think Lydia here could work well with Lucina; she's a young (either high school or early college) banshee and member of a werewolf pack. She's also had experience being mind controlled and had her dreams controlled, which might make her easy to control and might just make her sensitive. And she's a walking trouble magnet.

Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter | MCU

[ricochetingbullets]

The elevator pitch... You know how the MCU has all these fantastic elements to it like witches & wizards, talking raccoons & trees from space, and like who knows how many Avengers running around at this point saving the world on like a weekly basis? Yeah, Dex ain't from that side of it. He's from a more grounded corner of the MCU where there's more superheroes and supervillains on the streets taking each other on instead of trying to cause or prevent world destruction, specifically the original Daredevil show and its sequel Daredevil: Born Again. While he doesn't have any actual superpowers, what he does have is an uncanny ability to shoot guns and throw things, doing things like ricocheting bullets to hit targets and using pretty much everything from office supplies to the contents of a cutlery drawer to lethally murder people with. It's just on the right side of physics even if it seems insane. Here is his opening scene and fighting Daredevil in DD's own suit to show off some of those abilities

Dex goes through a prolonged supervillain origin story to become the equivalent of the 616 comic book villain Bullseye in the last season of the original show where he undergoes the worst week of his entire life (no seriously, according to the wiki the entirety of Season Three mostly plays out over 9 days), his life gets ruined, and he falls into supervillainy by the end after being corrupted by a much worse villain than he could ever be in the form of Kingpin. Thing is, he actually doesn't like being a villain all that much. Dex has spent most of his life struggling to, if not be a good person, than at least one who doesn't always cause harm to others. He's got canonly got Borderline Personality Disorder and was diagnosed with psychopathic tendencies as well, so he's got almost no empathy or conscience, but still tries to follow his own code of morals. Mostly he does that by fixating on a good person as his 'North Star' and following their example. So he hates himself if he does give into his darkest tendencies and hates himself if he doesn't.

By DD: BA, he's just starting to enter his supervillain era, and by the end of the season he's public enemy number one in NYC (you try to assassinate one little mayor even though he's a known criminal who has been to jail multiple times and suddenly everyone hates you) and the mayor has sent his personal goon squad in the form of the Anti Vigilante Task Force to hunt him down. So he's not in a good spot mentally or physically as he stays one step ahead of them while still plotting revenge on everyone who has wronged him.

So what am I looking for? Characters from DD or the Defenders corner of the universe in general. Friends. Enemies. People he can stalk as his North Star. Other supervillains to bond with. Superheroes he can fight. Random other MCU characters he will never in a million years meet because this franchise is frigging HUGE. Always open to shipping, I play him as bisexual, so unless there's something I've specifically stated in his preferences I'm up for most things, though I prefer a few getting to know each other threads as opposed to just immediately going right to sex.

What am I not looking for? Love interests that are determined to fix him through most of their personality revolving around being a nice person, the power of love, and a magical vagina/dick. Had this happen a number of times now and it's just not my cup of tea because there is nothing to fix here because he's not broken and you can't fix mental illness, so these threads get tiresome and boring for me real quick.

Anything else? Much love to everyone who has done a thread with me over the past year, since I had no idea if anyone was going to want to play with some random MCU supervillain for even one thread, let alone multiples!

[henchgal]

No magic vagina and power of love here. Meredith is just snark and exhaustion stuffed into a human suit. We've had a couple of pickup threads, notably the Hanukkah one. If you wanna build more depth with a coworker who would be a minor character at best in the MCU, I got you.

Barcus Wroot | Baldur's Gate 3

[lost_and_foundry]

I am very small and I have no money, so you can imagine the kind of stress that I am under.

That's it, that's the pitch.

...except it isn't because this guy is my hyperfixation right now. Barcus is a hobbit-coded deep gnome from Baldur's Gate (the city and the game, v. 3), who runs on loyalty, homoerotic UST, and explosives. He's a mechanic, an alchemist, a miner, a jeweler, and a curmudgeon. His many talents include the inability to keep his mouth shut when face to face with someone who'd as soon kill him as look at him, and an outright refusal to learn how to fly.

What I'm looking for: I always enjoy shipping him (m/m and m/nb, maybe slow burn with female castmates, because he is wayyyyy up there on that fantasy Kinsey scale) but action/adventure gen would be equally amazing. Also on my list are adorable lavender marriage scenarios and found family everything. I tend to lean into humor with opening tags and new CR but I'm fine with angsty and smutty things, I just don't like to lead with that because I know he's not going to be everyone's cup of tea.

Please bring me cross-canon and OCs, especially ttrpg OCs! I'm a slow tagger but I'm real flexible with scenarios. Obviously, I always want castmates of all stripes.

(Also, if anyone is crazy enough to play Fandom's Most Hated Gnome, Wulbren Bongle, hmu. I'm up for anything from corrosive toxic awfulness to fix-it fluff.)

[galacticambition]

Marx will have a lot of fun with Barcus if they meet in a future meme on Bakerstreet, I think. The two would probably fit well in the found family department and/or light-heart stuff as potential buddies(frenemies?).

Emily Pope | Control

[sidekickpopesnoop]

Researcher for a secret government agency that studies and hides paranatural occurrences. She's the basic lore-giver NPC, telling the player where to go next while also being in the dark about the plot. She learns along with us! Smart, curious, practical, rational. Dislikes bureaucracy but loves the subject matter she works with. She's so curious that the non-human entity-group that effectively runs the Bureau wants her to knock it off, actually, and stop trying to figure out stuff about them.

I thirst for castmates. Darling for silliness and aggravation! Arish for grumbling about the invasion and lockdown! Langston for chats about literally anything he's so funny! Underhill for awkward but professional mutual sniping! Jesse for literally anything, esp shipping, if that's your thing! Dylan for ??? getting to know him, are you okay there?

Dottore / Genshin Impact

[sohreh]

“People don't want to mention his name, nor do they want to remember his words or deeds.” — Before My Time ( in-game achievement in Dar Al-Shifa in Sumeru, after reading hospital notes. )

Zandik is originally from Sumeru, though details of his childhood and family are obscure. As a child, he was chased out of his hometown with pitchforks and clubs. Or later on when he was enrolled in the Akademiya, where his name was etched off from author lists, expelled and thrown out in the desert based on some … conjectures. He has always been secretive about what is most important to him and he enjoys a widespread range of things: like machines, mechanical lifeforms, elemental effects on the human body, the moon, dreams, the subconscious, aranara, truth, and different types of energies interacting with other lifeforms. His labs are littered with evidence that range from animal to human experimentation.

He believes that his ability to play a role or a villain is what makes his research optimally objective. He’s a tragic genius, fated to live up to his name as a heretic and outcasted by society. He currently lives as “Dottore” or “The Doctor” as the second of the eleven Fatui Harbingers, but if you’ve caught up with the story in 6.3, then you know this may or may not longer be the case. Who knows.

So anyway.
I love to see Dottore interacting with people opposite of him to highlight his incapacity to function as a normal human. He pretends he doesn’t have emotions but there are some things on screen that visibly irritates him. His bad temper is mostly seen on his segment from the webtoon, and he claims he has since matured. I wouldn’t mind playing out this segment in a thread or two.

He is a master manipulator, so it’s always fun seeing his way to rationalize and try to convince others by twisting their reality or using their words against them. The iceberg goes deep with him, as he’s not just a “evil for no reason” character. Everything he does is calculated.

His idea of family or friends is completely fucked and being in the Fatui didn’t help. He has always wanted a family. His way to connect with others does not fit normal standards. Exploring “family” dynamics would be hilarious. I always want to put him on some fluffy memes and not for the fluff but to see him fail at trying to emulate his humanity.

I wouldn’t mind using some open post to take those ideas for a whirl, since I guarantee it will not end up adorable or fluffy or “romantic” by today’s definitions. He exploits, he uses, and abuses in the name of research. That said I’m not opposed to some domestic moments, but they still need to be Dottore flavored if that makes sense. I’ll try my best with what I think this means because who knows with him.

He has been on record killing a subordinate, turning him into a robot, calling him “perfect and beautiful” and then saying to “leave him alone.”

I’d prefer to stick with Genshin castmates, although I’m down to play some other timeline. Fatui things, Akademiya, Mondstadt, he’s the actual Mr. Worldwide atp but I will generally keep the characterization we see in his Omega build.

No travelers/protags.

Down for smut as well, but don’t expect him to know how to rizz or be romantic. See journal for other specifics!

"A human is nothing more than a machine of a certain level of complexity."

That said he has admitted he learns best by doing ;)

PM me if you wanna do something, I love chatting about this man.

Shinobu Jacobs | No More Heroes 3

[rippedoff]

Probably about the most tl;dr way to describe Shinobu is that she's an incredibly straightforward (good news: she's honest af! bad news: there is nothing to hold back the endless amount of shit talk) dojo owner/assassin who really loves fighting. And most definitely watched too many samurai movies. 30 years old at her current canonpoint.

But to give a little bit of background on her history, she started out as an assassin, while still in high school, to try to find the person who killed her father. After being defeated (but not killed, as the victor took pity on her young age at the time), she seemingly gave up on the quest of vengeance and instead went on a journey to improve herself, and then eventually started a dojo for kids in a bad neighborhood. Of which she funds by continuing to do assassination jobs, but on her own terms.

CR I'M LOOKING FOR:

- She's someone who takes a lot of pride in being a capable fighter (particularly her skill in the blade, even if she studies in martial arts and recently took on wrestling as well), so the easiest way to gain her respect is probably facing off against her in a fight. However, if one can put up with her snarky, barrage of insults and dish it back, one could probably gain her respect that way too. I'm down for rivals or just plain enemies, I'm not afraid of negative CR (especially since Shinobu herself is described as being incredibly rude sometimes IN canon).

- As someone that's typically p stoic (when she's not on a shit-talking spiel), it's always fun to pit her up against more lively and/or extroverted folks who will drag her into more fun scenarios, being just as (or more) stubborn than she will probably be about it.

- But on the opposite end, sometimes it's funny to put her with other stoic types to bitch about things.

- Both of her arms are prosthetic (from two separate incidents across all the games), so having someone that can upgrade them somehow could be an easy in for CR.

- Ship-wise, she'll only go for 25+ males (but willing to go younger, if you want her 21 year old version canonpoint). But as far as that goes, she's going to be drawn more toward more of a power couple thing, rather than one party being the dominant one. However, having a lame ass boyfriend would also be true to canon, but it'd need more slowburn, since she seems pretty burnt out by that type of ex in canon. But also, enemies to lovers is kind of a fun avenue to explore with her.

Bucky Barnes | MCU | m/m 25+ ota, although open to m/f if the f is Bucky's handler

[missionreport]

I play Bucky, mostly as some variation of the Winter Soldier! Here's a brief info post.

What I'm looking for is generally dark stuff, open to Dead Dove and trash smut if that crops up. What I'm especially interested to play right now is Bucky as a merman, since I haven't RPed it too much before and I'm interested in AU worldbuilding and having the challenge of writing characters who are pretty much entirely underwater, as well as play up the non-human elements of him being a merman. The bare bones of his character would be the same, like he's a merman captured and brainwashed/magicked into obedience, and then run with it from there with the setting. Mostly would like to keep it loose without referencing too much MCU!

H-Clan |High Fantasy OCs | OTA

[h_dungeoneers]

A fairly large cast herd of classic high fantasy women, more personally introduced over here. While the initial concept was for silly hentai tropes and they're still geared that way (as that summary page shows), they've got their own lore and personalities and I love playing them in more SFW plot of shippy stuff too. In short, they're great for your typical fantasy adventure stuff, but I'm also more than happy to AU them.

So in short: A one-account adventure party ready to go delve through some ruins, hunt for treasure, bring down monsters, and enjoy a victory afterparty. All with whatever level of innocence or smut strikes your fancy.

Oh, and their native setting's hook: the world they live in is Hell after being colonized and terraformed. This is neither ironic nor a secret, and has interesting ontonological implications, in addition to explaining why the remaining Gods are a hot mess.

Joe Saturn -OC- OtA M/M shipping

[damnedduke]

Joe Saturn is a gangster kingpin from the school of Arnold Rothstein and Meyer Lansky. He grew up in abject poverty and built a semi-legal financial empire out of casino gambling, smuggling, shipping and construction. Although built like a brick shithouse he's much more brainy than physical, having supplemented the education he never got by being a voracious reader of impenetrable books on economics and history.

Sometimes a vampire, sometimes not depending on the AU. As a vampire he is more intense and picky, with vampire OCD kicking his adding machine brain into overdrive. The change is only slight, however, because he is always an extremely tightly controlled person.

His title Damned Duke was bestowed post-mortem when, as a resident of Hell, he used his vampirism as a loophole to run for office in the 2nd Circle's capital of Dis and won in a major political shake up. He is the first Damned soul to hold public office, and although he is a cold hearted bastard by anyone's measure he is the closest thing Hell has to a competent government official. Sometimes the labor rights leader you get is a mafiosa who will have his opponent's kneecaps shattered, and sometimes that bold mentality can help force important conversations to the fore.

When not in Hell Joe is the head of a criminal network with a Byzantine structure. He is cold and remote, having remained alone since the death of his twin sister by suicide and the killing of his nephew. Although glacial in personality he is always interested in new opportunities for advancement and keenly disdains any authority over him.

M/M for shipping but always open to general rp with any gender! Smut is great after some plotting and a little rapport building.