MARCH ATP/EMP

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Hello all prospective Drifters, and thank you for taking a look at Route 666! Our second TDM is going up on MARCH 15th/16th our Reserves open on MARCH 20th and Applications open on the March 25th through the 31st!

And in the meanwhile, this post is for potential players to introduce themselves and characters they’re thinking of playing! Get excited, get planning with other folks, talk about potential monsters you’re interested in, etc! We are also opening this up for current players to post ATPs to draw in some new castmates and the like!

New Players, if you would like a template, here is one:

<u>INFO!</u> <b>Player Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Info:</b> <u>PLOTTING!</u> <b>Monster Ideas:</b> Monster forms you’re eyeing up? Trait combos you might try out? <b>Vehicle Ideas:</b> Vehicles you might use? Qualities that catch your eye? <b>Game plans:</b> How will your character react to being on a spooky roadtrip, and what sort of trouble might they get into? <b>Desired CR:</b> What are some relationships you would like to build with you character? <b>Other:</b> Whatever else you want to list goes here!

Current players can use this template if they wish!


<B>Fandom:</b> (You may list this as either a singular fandom, or a series! We also recommend putting an ATP: CANON NAME in the subject bar!) <B>Current cast:</b> (Who is currently in the game?) <b>Wanted:</b> (Who would you like to see?) <b>Assorted About:</b> (A space to share what's been going in with the game cast lately, any ongoing plots with characters, or stuff you are currently plotting/looking forward to?) <b>Extra:</b> (Anything extra/memes/gifs/etc that you'd like to place here!)

And thank you again for checking out the game!

Comments

[discolouredwings]

'girl'

Excuse you, she's a grown woman.


I'm sorry in advance Jayce.....

[hexrot]

at least if all does not go according to plan i can still.... have u here........ touches your yakuzas

ATP: Sonic the Hedgehog

[airskate]

Fandom: Sonic the Hedgehog
Current cast: Shadow (movies)
Wanted: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Robotnik, Maria, Agent Stone, Tom, Maddie, Sally, Whisper, Bunnie, Tangle, Julie-Su, Lanolin, Lara-Su, Dr. Starline, Shard, and honestly if I keep going I'm just going to end up listing every character from the complete works of Sonic the Hedgehog! I am also perfectly happy to see movie, game, show, and comic versions of any character!

Assorted About: It's just Shadow right now, who has been very slowly making friends! But honestly, the most important thing you need to know is that he and Blake RWBY have been searching the ruins for music, and thus far they have discovered the Backstreet Boys, Evanescence, Spice Girls, and volume 8 of Now That's What I Call Music.

Extra: I don't have any funny memes, look at this hedgehogs fanart instead.

[qaw]

The cringe fashion sense is a Branwen family heirloom. (Yang inherited the Xiaolong cringe fashion sense instead.)

Honestly I'm in the same boat! I really am just gonna have to put them both on the TDM and see who clicks more at this point.

[qaw]

Oh no, they would be insufferably cute together... The shared sunny optimism in the face of all the objectively horrible stuff that's happened to them would be extremely endearing.

[kungfoods]

if not clean jayce, then stinky jayce

[airskate]

Please come feed us Zhao, we're all starving. Shadow has been eating whole coffee beans straight out of the bag.

[undyingcrow]

Vash, I present to you a traumatized, jaded eighteen year old with a bodycount who was also a severe victim of circumstance, a pawn of a malevolent god and his shitty father (even if he approached said shitty father), and who is also strangely self-sacrificing...

I have no idea how these two would gel, but something about it seems both amusing and intriguing.

[airskate]

Zero!! Man he's been a longtime favorite of mine so I'm super excited to see someone interested in him!

I think he and Shadow could have some fun CR, but I may be apping Penny from RWBY, another robot tasked with protecting the world! (Also the fandom likes to joke about her creator and his arch rival being Dr. Light and Dr. Wily, which is a sillier point of connection.)

[hexrot]

sorry he's really nasty over here 😔

[kungfoods]

you legend, that's so fucking feral.. . idk if fourthwalling's cool, but this guy has one-hundred percent played sonic adventure

[maidhem]

INFO!
Player Name: Basil
Contact: woodrift

Character Name: Felicia
Canon: Fire Emblem Fates (Hoshido Route)
Character Info: Disaster cutie maid is terrible at actually being a maid but is an excellent combatant instead-- which is good, because her liege is a royal on the run, torn between two families and in search of the truth.

What she lacks in proper etiquette she makes up for in her knife work

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas: My main thoughts are Mermaid! Mostly for the inherent comedy of it, a la those 90s Mermaid Films like Splash.

Vehicle Ideas: Something compact but tough-- like a Mini Cooper that she will eventually turn into a fish bowl.

It needs to be tough because-- we've got trouble! she's never seen a car before!

Game plans: TBH this will be a great distraction from the War Trauma that affects her personal life in Hoshido route. IYKYK.

Desired CR: Anything and Everything. Felicia is a helper and a healer, so she's going to want to feel Useful just so she can even try to cope with this madness.

Other: The Maid Mayhem has arrived!

[waypastcool]

Mentioned this on Plurk already, but sometimes...

Sometimes I think about how funny it'd be for my 90's cheese boy to interact with someone from the movieverse.

He's also from a rather dystopian world, too! So there's that.

I shall ruminate on this.

[kungfoods]

someone get a water elemental in here next bc y'all obviously super pressed for showers

[airskate]

Hedgehog spot the difference—

Honestly how long would it actually take SatAM Sonic to even realize he was in a different world

[airskate]

4th walling is totally cool! Sonic's such a cultural staple I figured it was only a matter of time before someone was like 'wtf shadow the hedgehog?'

Also Shadow is very likely to just be like, 'oh, of course, he recognizes me because of all those cars i exploded'

[refusefate]

I agree. Zero and Shadow could have fascinating cr! And I read about Penny. I feel like that could be super interesting! In a way it would be like the first days he talked to X.

But better because he has so much experience about compassionate people and how far they can go.

And yeah, I considered someone else at first but I was reviving Zero and this feels like a great spot to dig into his mind.

[rootlessly]

yesssssss i want this so much. i am so excited for vash to get an opportunity to share in his loneliness w someone. it's going to be so intense and so good. he will absolutely believe in john's potential for good no matter what, even if he fucks up and gives in to his more monstrous instincts

[rootlessly]

ahhh i love akechi! i look forward to seeing where their cr goes tbh

he will have a cheerleader in his corner for sure, even when he gets into his nastiest habits. he believes in ur inner robin hood :|b

ATP: BUFFYVERSE

[definitionofcrazy]

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Current cast: Just Faith here!
Wanted: Angel and Buffy are the two obvious choices, due to the depth of their interactions/dynamics with Faith! But also, I'd love to see anybody, there are no bad choices- Wesley would be great, Giles would be great, Spike would be great, Willow or Xander would be hilariously uncomfortable. Hell, I'd even be cool with castmates Faith didn't really meet in canon. Let's have some fun.
Assorted About: Right now, Faith is having a little bit of a crisis about her worth- she can't shake the feeling that this place is some sort of punishment and that her recent bout of monster transformation was saying something about her as a person. (Castmates might disabuse her of this assumption, since she tends to have a better opinion of some of them)

Extra:

[dancinghunter]

yes this is mostly the same ad i posted in december what about it. life happened. let's try this again

INFO!
Player Name: lilith
Pronouns: she/her
Contact: hexennacht

Character Name: cassandra cain / batgirl
Canon: dc comics
Character Info: whats up shes cass shes 19 and she never learned how to read. an awkward, arrogant, abrasive girl with a gigantic heart who happens to be the greatest hand-to-hand fighter on the planet and a favored protégé of the batman. all she wants to be when she's older is the batman. constantly, painfully aware of every single way to kill anyone around her. trained from birth as an assassin, before escaping at the age of 8 and living on the run until she was 16 and got trapped in gotham city after a devastating earthquake. literally cannot catch a break. this girl can fit so much guilt and self-loathing in her. currently going the hell through it because the horrors and torment are endless. come at her scrublord shes ripped

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas: infernal (demon), undead (vampire), or zoanthrope (bat creature) in descending order of preference. something cute was tempting, girl literally owns a unicorn kigu much later in canon, but i had to go for the aesthetics. its fuckin bats
Vehicle Ideas: this metal as hell lowrider motorcycle. it'd start with the Fast quality. gay thoughts can't catch her if she goes fast enough
Game plans: i'm probably taking her from after issue #73 of her first solo series, so given those current circumstances this whole situation is strictly an improvement. she's in dire need of a recovery arc, the only question is if she'll let herself take the time. this whole thing seems like a great excuse to avoid her problems! pass that monster kebab. also i'm honestly planning to see how long she can go on the tdm without unmasking or admitting to any name other than batgirl at all.
Desired CR: just about anything, if only because she's not likely to open up on her own at this point. friends, sparring partners, anyone who can help keep her supplied with gear and equipment. those batarangs aren't going to replace themselves. she could probably use help figuring out that whole "reading" thing but she's not about to ask.
Other: i have one or two other characters i'm considering, too, but not enough to write up ads for them right now. anyway it's a meme double feature

[forsakensun]

Hi, it's late and I got rambly because there's no canon wiki. Sorry 'bout that!

INFO!
Player Name: Picaro
Contact: ironykills

Character Name: Apophis (usually goes by "Djoser" or "Pharaoh of the Magai")
Canon: IM: Great Priest Imhotep
Character Info: Once there was a good prince who couldn't be saved from a cruel fate by his best friend and came back as a terribly twisted monster that threatens the world if said best friend doesn't kill him first (again).

Apophis both is and isn't that prince. He is actually the God of Darkness, who has merged his soul with the real prince Djoser's and has been taking the helm of their shared body ever since Imhotep's botched attempt of preventing Djoser from being sacrificed alive. Because of that and other reasons(tm) he shares a lot of characteristics with Djoser including the prince's memories of being Imhotep's best friend, speaking style and human habits.

Other stuff is all his own like his severe trauma of having been repeatedly rejected and repurposed as a god (he started out as a guardian deity against stuff that made Cthulhu look like a cuddly widdle puppy but then others decided that Darkness = EViL), his dislike for lies or his bad habit of being overly casual bros with just anybody he meets. Oh, and his revenge plan that includes destroying all of Creation so that he can finally escape his fate of being an eternally abused and hated scapegoat, of course!

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Personality: once a competent guardian with big moe energy and a cynical streak, nowadays swinging wildly between being unstable & hurt, a merciless sadistic villain, and a big puppy dog & real bro who just wants to do his best for others and'll be horribly embarrassed when that inevitably fails. (Like cooking. He's a big eater, but mortals need food more, so let him try to hunt and cook for you. Wait, what do you mean that's not supposed to be on fire?)

🐍

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas:
Serpens! I'm not going to do the snake tail build because he likes kicking people where it hurts too much, but one of my goals is to give him both a giant monster and a tiny pocket snake form for easier handling. Having him be weak to temperature would also be fun since he's a failed sun god with fire affinity.
Vehicle Ideas:
I honestly have no idea. Maybe an Ancient Egyptian Chariot with some golem magai horses (like this) that he will have to Ikea back together each time it rains? Honestly, this guy just black hole-teleports or uses public transport when he wants to go anywhere in canon, so I doubt he even knows how to drive.
Game plans:

• Since he'll be coming in from the end of the final fight, he's going to be a) very confused at being in a human body which he'll assume to be Djoser's real body aka. revitalized mummy, and b) scramble to pretend to be Djoser because ffffffffff Imhotep's around and he doesn't want to get locked up in solitary for another eternity again, thank you very much! (Place your bets for how long he'll actually manage to do that here.)
• His feelings on the whole monster thing will be mixed because on one hand, he'll be getting closer to his real looks and he's used to the whole turning people into magai thing. He'll have fun getting first row seeing it happening to others like they made it happen to him! On the other hand oh damn, that's still Djosers body? He thinks??? How is he going to explain that he took it for a drive and crashed it right into Monsterville if the real Djoser ever shows up here!?

Desired CR: Friends, enemies, frenemies and everything in between! Apophis is actually really into making bonds with people, but he's also really scared of it because he's been hit with a mantra of "you're no part of this world! begone!" while also being actively not allowed to do that his whole life so idk if you want to touch that.

Other things I can think off: CR to get into silly shenanigans with while he's pretending to be Djoser, CR to help work through the whole turning into a monster thing with and unwantingly get attached to while dealing with his own feelings about his canon monstrous appearance, CR to push into their personalized corruption arc and have a blast while being at it, CR to be the unintentional sane man in,.... The only character types he'll antagonize by default are parental types (bc of his own 'parents'), other gods and overly lawful heroic folks.

Other:

One of his canon powers is reviving the dead by connecting their souls to clay bodies. When he recruited Cleopatra this happened.

[bigplace]

INFO.

Player Name: Serge
Contact: sschindylryn

Character Name: Kaidan Alenko
Canon: Mass Effect

Character Info: Imagine being the most well-adjusted member in a team full of maniacs. You're a space wizard and you have a tragic backstory because of it *coughgovernmentchildtorturecampcough* but you went to therapy and, most importantly, have parents who love you and support you, so you're (mostly) over it. You knew the government was going to keep an eye on you for the rest of your life, however, so might as well get a paycheck and a pension. Worked your way up the military and now you're special ops space cop/detective who can be judge, jury and executioner of the galaxy's citizens. But it's cool, you're an emotionally competent guy who knows exactly who they are with a moral spine made out of steel. Oh, and you can cook.

That's Kaidan Alenko.

PLOTTING.

Monster Ideas: Raiju. He's already a walking static electricity hazard so I want go all in on that. Also eying Werewolf. No idea on the third yet. Angel? Maybe. He's certainly got the moral tendency for it.

Vehicle Ideas: Definitely the Mako. A nuclear warhead couldn't take this thing out. Let's do a barrel roll falling off cliffs.

Game plans: Kaidan resolved the whole, "I was scared of using my powers for most of my life," issue a bit too quickly for my liking in ME1, so I really want to explore how he's going to handle just losing it and, worse, enjoying it. Lots of potential for internal strife there, he prides himself in being so self-controlled.

Desired CR: Game for anything honestly. Above all Kaidan craves to be helpful, his class in-game is a jack-of-all-trades and he's personable, I don't foresee issues building CR with anyone, really. Unless they're actively genocidal or something, then he's absolutely going to die on that moral hill, Neutral Good to the death.

OTHER.

[electrifyking]

Well this is a blast from the past. I played so much Mega Man X1, 2, and 3. And yes, always been a huge fan of Zero. (Also spent an inordinate amount of time in Overdrive Ostrich's stage because IT GOT A COOL BIKE.)

[refusefate]

It does! I’m leaning harder and harder towards a hover bike. A van would be funny. But the bike is iconic.