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!

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[redhandedtailor]

INFO!
Player Name: Stanwick
Contact: dm or Stanwick

Character Name: Cal Zabo/Dr. Winslow/Cal Johnson
Canon: Agents of Shield/MCU
Character Info:

Cal has no memories of the many many many people he's killed. As far as he knows he’s always been Winslow, a veterinarian who has murdered zero people. He’s recently opened his own practice in the city (it's going to be a magical place) and things are going great for him. Adoptions are every Tuesday. Everything is fine. Nothing is amiss.

The truth is a lot more complicated than that, obviously. Winslow is in fact a bandaid stretched over the tattered remains of Cal's psyche, manufactured by SHIELD in attempt to offer him a humanitarian alternative to life in prison at the request of his daughter. Rehabilitation was always a tricky prospect for Cal. He has a good heart under all the murder but he also has a trauma induced hair trigger temper that makes him generally unsafe to be around. The goal of creating Winslow was to let the best of Cal's personality take the lead and plaster over all the trauma and neurological damage that made him so volatile.

The problem is this memory erasure/implanting process has a history of failure.

It might be helpful to think of Cal as a gothic horror character that got misplaced in a world of superheroes. He’s the MCU's take on Mr. Hyde. A kind hearted doctor turned mad scientist, drinking down strange homebrewed elixirs and going on murderous rampages in the name of revenge for his wife and long lost daughter.

Also he uh, brought his wife back from the dead and it was not a pretty or painless process. Fun fact! Zabo comes from the word for tailor in Hungarian.

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas:
Draugr or Cerberus would be such good fits for him. I want him to be undead, to really experience the pain Jiaying felt after he brought her back from the dead. She had to kill a lot of people to sustain her own life and it scarred her deeply. And a prey animal like a deer suits Cal. He was a doe eyed sweetie once upon a time.

On the other hand he is SO dog coded, and essentially was his wife's attack dog for years when they were murder rampaging together. And I love the idea of giving him one calm head and one snarling head that holds all the trauma and rage.

I actually commissioned a design like that years ago too. Though I’m leaning towards Draugr as of writing I gotta show it off!

Vehicle Ideas:
The van his daughter, Daisy lived out of when she was a homeless hacktivist, a 1983 GMC Conversion Van. Complete with little dancing hula figure on the dashboard.

Game plans:
He is going to be so confused. He’s just a normal guy! Why is this happening to him? As the pressure mounts and he’s exposed to more violence and trauma those fake memories will start to show their cracks as his memory is jogged. An extreme identity crisis will ensue. I want these two personas to really have to contend with one another. Can they coexist?

He has extensive knowledge of human and animal doctoring, which I think will be really helpful on the road. He's a very talented surgeon. Also he can cook up methamphetamines and other drugs if given the proper facilities.

Desired CR:
At his best Cal is nurturing, and very dorky. He just oozes Dad Charisma. I think it goes without saying that he’s a natural father/uncle figure type of guy. He even had a whole gaggle of teens under his care at one point. (It might’ve been a cult lowkey tbh.) But I’d also love for him to have friends who are a little more on his level. He was on the run, spree killing for 25 years and he’s missed out on all sorts of relationships. Also I’m not opposed to romance, he’s a cute guy with a big heart and a lot of love to give. But there's a lot of baggage there. He was absolutely dedicated to his wife even after she left him and carries the guilt of resurrecting her, effectively turning her into a monster. There’s a lot of pain there.

As for negative CR? It’s possible, even if he’s trying to behave! Cal despises SHIELD and any kind of surveillance state agency in general. If your character was part of a group that kept tabs on powered people and heaven forbid locked them up he will not like you.

Other:

[definitionofcrazy]

Nothing to offer but driveby props for playing this guy, I thought he was fantastic in Agents of SHIELD and I love the idea of him getting some love.

[redhandedtailor]

🫡 thank you! he was one of the first guys I ever rp'd back in the day

[thetatters]

OH MAN I am canonblind but fascinated and delighted. John is weirdly well-suited to, uh, this extremely specific form of identity horror! He's a fragment of an eldritch entity/malevolent god/Cthulhu-tier Great Old One who lost his memories and got shoved into the body of a mundane middle-aged detective. He spent a month helplessly, voicelessly bound to a hospital bed, where the kind nurses called him John Doe. He took that as his name, became buddies with the man he was possessing, and has been struggling between the identities of "John Doe, really into art and poetry, willful amnesiac" and "KING IN YELLOW, FEASTER FROM AFAR, DESTROYER OF WORLDS" ever since. It's hard to reconcile the repressed murder memories, he totally gets it. They can talk.

[redhandedtailor]

Oh I know this guy! I’ve been seeing Malevolent around for awhile and it’s very very up my alley from what I’ve gathered (big Lovecraftian horror fan here) I'm just terrible at podcasts now. 😔

I would absolutely love for them bond over Unrepressing The Horrors! I think having someone who Gets It would make such a huge difference for him.

[airskate]

Stanwick!! I admittedly don't know much about Cal (I saw Agents of Shield once when it was first airing) but I'd be thrilled to share a game with you again!

I also think Cal could have some neat CR potential with Shadow, since Shadow has his own baggage in regards to being experimented on an imprisoned.

[redhandedtailor]

Hiii! Me too <3

Yes, that would be great! I love the idea of them connecting, especially because his daughter is canonically a sonic fan 😭 Cal on the other hand probably has no idea what a sonic the hedgehog is