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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[hellsgatekeeper]

INFO!
Player Name: Elfmind (current player)
Player Pronouns: she/her
Contact: evilbo

Character Name: Imhotep
Canon: Im: Great Priest Imhotep

Character Info:
Once upon a time during Egypt's Old Kingdom period, there lived a high priest of Thoth named Imhotep, who was praised as a genius who could do anything. But all his genius couldn't keep his best friend, the prince Djoser, from becoming a human sacrifice. In fact, Imhotep fucked up rescuing him so badly that he destroyed the Hell's Gate that had been keeping the god Apophis contained, and also released a host of false-god monsters called magai into the world. The gods of the Ennead punished Imhotep by putting him into stasis for approximately three thousand years, but he was later awoken in the modern day to fight back against the magai running rampant, and to finally face down the so-called 'Pharaoh of the Magai', none other than his corrupted friend Djoser.

SO that's a lot of serious background, but the tl;dr is that for being a heretic priest and a skilled spellcaster, Im is also a teenager that's dealt with a lot of tragic, earth-shattering events in a short period of time. He tends to put on a proud, stoic air as befitting a former high priest, but he's very dedicated to the few friends he has and can still get pretty silly every now and then. He'll be coming from near the end of the manga after a lot of plot twists and a huge battle has gone down, and since he's coming in with a canonmate he will be overjoyed that his best friend is inexplicably alive and well again. :')

(oh yeah it's worth noting that Im is uhhh actually the human personality of Thoth, one of many over the years created to continue recording history while the gods had withdrawn from the mortal world. While Im's great abilities stem from this heritage, he's lived his whole life as a human and doesn't have direct access to Thoth's power.)

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas: Definitely eying harpy for him, specifically one fashioned on the African sacred ibis. Don't worry he's not getting the big long beak
Vehicle Ideas: In canon Imhotep has a spell that can summon Ra's solar barque to shoot lasers at people. I'm thinking he's going to be getting a smaller version of that ship on wheels, without any laser-shooting abilities. Aside from looking very fancy, it'll have a little hut on top for sleeping or storage ala the Khufu ship.

Game plans: Im is a priest of a moon god, and seeing the moon in the state it's in here is going to mildly freak him out. He's going to assume that Thoth brought him here for a reason even if he doesn't know quite what that is yet. Also, Im is likely to see the monster transformations that are more animal-esque in nature as some sort of blessing. In a weird way he can kind of vibe with the lore we know of the setting so far, just because from his perspective animal traits are a symbol of godly power. Which gods, though, is a good question...

Otherwise Im will be coming in with a healing spell for sure, though his other two abilities will probably be more combat-worthy spells. I'd really just love for him to get to know the other characters and to take the time to sit and process all the crazy shit that's happened to him tbh.

Desired CR: Anything! Positive, negative, throw it at me. I'd love for Imhotep to get to know other people near his age, but he can also get along fine with adults given how super-competent he tends to be.

Other: I discovered ancient egypt memes, send help

[andnevermore]

as an ancient egypt nerd I groaned out loud at that meme, A+

[kungfoods]

INFO!
Player Name: Jackal
Player Pronouns: They/Any
Contact: sleeptalk

Character Name: Tianyou Zhao
Canon: Yakuza/Like A Dragon
Character Info:

Zhao is a chef! And the former leader of Yokohama's Chinese mafia, who stepped down after a coup type of situation got out of control. You may think he looks a bit young for that, and you'd be right: he's a nepo-baby, taught in all the skills he'd need to take up his father's mantle from a young age, even though he may have preferred to spend his time playing more dreamcast. Nowadays he's kinda grateful for the relief from duty, 'cause it means he can run his restaurant full time. Just don't leave him a bad review. 😤

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas: I'm really gunning for Elemental. Fire-themed of course, your friendly neighborhood calcifer. I think he should get to be his own stovetop sometimes, as a treat. If not that, then a Volare with Fenghuang theming, to be combined with Elemental later to create a mythical firebird. Lastly, option C is a Yokai with a leopard look.

Vehicle Ideas: A rundown food truck, with working albeit wonky, unreliable appliances. A real fixer-upper. Throw some roaches in there, too. And I'm thinkin' giant decals of greasy burgers on the exterior.

Game plans: Aside from wondering what in the world is going on, Zhao's MO would be trying to feed people food that doesn't taste like shit. While y'all study runes, he'll study how long to cook gorgon meat for. 👍👍

Desired CR: CUSTOMERS.

Other: Big tentative, since I'm looking at multiple games this month ;;;; but I'm very, very drawn to the mystery & liminal horror vibes this place is serving!

[refusefate]

INFO!
Player Name: Samuel
Contact: skyheron, discord - technicolorskies, pm

Character Name: Zero
Canon: Megaman X
Character Info: Zero is a thinking and feeling robot that’s one of the two keeping the earth from drowning in a virus. His timeframe is pretty bleak and he’s mostly used to talking to and reacting to other robots.

Fairly straight forward and driven, he doesn’t bother himself with doubt. Doubt can kill. Being one possibly the only robot will be a switch and something to navigate.

On the flip side he was originally made to destroy any creation of his creator’s rival. The virus Wiley made to ruin things (because he is why this canon can’t have good things) actually turned Zero good. The funniest fact from the interviews, I swear.

Deep down that old fight X and slaughter programming is in there. And he recently became aware of it. Not his favorite thing to know.

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas: Youkai, specifically Kitsune. It felt like a pretty neat one to explore and also I load up some fun reflection in a future canon update.

My other ideas are for Infernal (Demon), and elemental (Genasi). I’ve got fun reasons for each. But Kitsune is the one I really want.

Vehicle Ideas: I’ve been considering either some kind of van like outpost set up or a hover bike for fast movement and being a good scout. I’m still on the fence and figuring that part out.

Game plans: The game plan is to pull him from the start of X6 after he got rebuilt but with no idea who or why. Fresh to some unpleasant knowledge and memories, he’ll struggle with changing and consider he might need put down. While defending the caravan and looking into what happened to this world. Because sure looks like earth did after some certain actions.
Desired CR: I’m game for anything. I haven’t played Zero in years and returning to him feels great.
Other: I considered end of X5 but he is just a torso there. Long story.

ATP: RWBY

[andnevermore]

Fandom: RWBY
Current cast: Ruby Rose, Yang Xiao Long, Blake Belladonna
Wanted: Weiss Schnee, JNPR, CFVY, Qrow, Raven, Ozpin, Winter, Penny, anybody!

Assorted About: The game's still new so RBY are still settling into traveling with the convoy. Ruby has a red Beetle, Yang has the sportiest sports car ever, and Blake is stuck with a bumbling campervan. As for transformations, Ruby's on her way to looking draconic, Yang recently had a run-in with her full werewolf form, and Blake's about to start biting people to feed on their blood, so everything's going swimmingly and there's no problems at all.

Canonpoint wise, Blake and Yang are both from mid-V6 (just before they reach Argus, and kill Adam), and Ruby's from early V7. But, obviously, any potential applicants can take their characters from whenever in the series.

Anyway, we'd all love more RWBYs, no matter who you want to play!

Extra:

[andnevermore]

in one of the game plurks we were literally recently joking about the various cooking skills of the characters and coming up with tier lists



the point is, this convoy DESPERATELY needs someone on the level of master chef, especially since they recently discovered beef (in the form of bull monsters) and vegetables from abandoned farmer's fields, so Zhao would literally be a perfect fit lmao

[hellsgatekeeper]

I can't go back now that I know there's history memes, most of them are perfect

PERSONA SERIES

[undyingcrow]

Fandom: Persona Series
Current cast: Goro Akechi, Akihiko Sanada
Wanted:

Persona 5 - JOKER, above all else, as I love their dynamic, and I think there's a lot of interesting stuff to explore, since I go with Akechi being alive in the postcredits. Yoshizawa, Sae, and any of the Phantom Thieves would be amazing (with special mention to Haru and Futaba for that drama, Morgana because he can already turn into a car, and Yusuke because he's delightful). The spinoff characters from Tactica and Strikers are also neat! If anyone has a Guernica muse, that would be a fun dynamic to explore.

Persona 3 - Having talked about it with Kaysper, Mitsuru, Shinji, and Ken came up, but any SEES members would be fire, and I personally think Chidori would also be quite fun to bounce Akechi off of.

Other Persona Games - Any of the Investigation Team from P4 would be delightful, with Naoto and Kanji being my big favs, and Adachi or Dojima would be fascinating for different reasons. I'd also adore Sho or Labrys from the Arena games, and I actually quite like the P1 and P2 cast. Jun or Reiji and Akechi CR would be juicy in particular, but tl;dr: we love all the Persona game casts!

Assorted About: Akechi is very fixated on uncovering the truth behind their trip to Nirvana and has strong suspicions that this is an ongoing cycle and that the Husk monsters were like them once. This has given him deep existential dread as he fears a lack of control and loss of humanity, all while acknowledging that the powers that come from their monster forms may be necessary to survive.

He's made some connections but is still pretty guarded and really misses Joker. Finding Calling Cards by the power lines also has him extremely on edge.

While I can't speak for everything Akihiko is up to, he and Akechi know they're Persona users and have shared some information on things like the Dark Hour and have thus established that Personas aren't a new thing. Akechi has yet to fully unpack this, however.

Alas, he did not get to learn Naoto is a Persona user before she left.
Extra:


Morgana here would be so good, actually.

Also, a friend is considering Maruki! o:

[undyingcrow]

I haven't played a ton of the X series outside of X5, but Zero is a really cool character, and I'd definitely love to see him around!

ATP: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[faceguy]

Fandom: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (all of 'em!)
Current cast: Rise Leonardo
Wanted: LITERALLY ANYONE! Obviously would love to see other Rise characters in the game, including April, Splinter, Draxum, etc, but I would also loooove to play off turtles (and assorted others) from the other series! I would love for Leo to get to know other versions of his family from other universes.
Assorted About: Leo is taken from close to the end of the movie, after he got locked in a prison dimension with a homicidal alien, and his monster is Undead: Ghost, so you can imagine how he's doing mentally right now. But he's still trucking! Having other turtles/assorted friends and villains can only help... or hurt! Who knows! We'll see!
Extra:

[undyingcrow]

This trash boy really needs to eat more. In canon, he's mostly prone to just grabbing an apple on the go.

...also, I think Akechi would be intrigued by his experiences in the mafia. He's a curious one.

[kungfoods]

i'd be lying if i said the survival aspect of the setting wasn't influencing my character choice 1 0 0 %.... don't worry, babes, you'll taste umami again soon

[thetatters]

Eldritch entity turned "normal human" John Doe has never experienced most human food. He still thinks gas station snacks are the peak culinary experience. Zhao will soon have a VERY loyal customer.

[refusefate]

They’re a blast! I got to replaying them via the collections and did a think over mmx or mmz era Zero. X series felt the best. Lots of fun threads to look at and explore.

[rootlessly]

INFO!
Player Name: Batty
Contact: goodluckmodes

Character Name: Vash the Stampede
Canon: Trigun Stampede
Character Info: You know that meme of "looks like a cinnamon roll/could actually kill you" vs "looks like they could kill you/actually a cinnamon roll"? Vash is the fusion of these extremes into "looks like a cinnamon roll, could easily kill you, is a cinnamon roll anyway". He's a fun contradiction of expert gunslinger who is nonetheless an extreme pacifist, with a mountain of survivor guilt for a spaceship crash his brother caused 150 years ago that stranded all the humans on an nigh-unlivable desert planet, so the whole spooky roadtrip situation will be, uh. Very Uncomfortably Familiar in some ways.

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas: Fae!! Plant speech/magic and nature affinity because HELLO, and I'm also delighted by the notion of the oath and formality compulsions, the need to be invited to buildings, and perhaps some butterfly wings for The Aesthetic

Vehicle Ideas: Motorcycle that zooms so fast!!!

Game plans: Vash is pretty used to being on the road and making do with minimal supplies, so he's mostly going to be trying to look out for other people, and also share what little he has because it's how he do lol. He's also going to have an interesting time with the whole concept of people "becoming monsters"... he's been hiding the fact that he's not human while living adjacent to them for 150+ years, so he will have some complicated feelings about that!

Desired CR: - Kindhearted idealists and optimists
- Wolfwood types who are kind at heart but have been burned by life and grown cynical
- Ppl with sibling baggage in general, especially of the traumatic variety
- People who desperately need someone to see the best in them despite all evidence to the contrary
- People who will get heartburn about his constant self-sacrificing

Other: Whatever else you want to list goes here!

[discolouredwings]

INFO!
It Kitty, I played Naoto before being obliterated by either covid or a chest infection.

Character Name: Natsuhi Ushiromiya
Canon: Umineko no Naku Koro ni
Character Info: A long ass time ago Natsuhi was the naive and sweet daughter of a priest. Then said priest got into a lot of debt. The guy he was in debt to told him to give up Natsuhi as a bride for his son. And that was the last time she ever saw her birth family....

That's how Natsuhi became a part of the Ushiromiya. They're not the great and I'm still working on my CW page for her. But to sum it up, Natsuhi is outright called a 'borrowed womb' and 'inccubator for the next heir' by other characters, to her face. Her husband has this gem.

So after 30 years of this, she's just a little bit bitter. She's also not had any friends for those 30 years because the Ushiromiya head house is on a remote island. Her social skills are gone, she's constantly on guard and stressed out from being bullied, she's got chronic depression(understandable really).

There is still something noble and she tries to be a good person. But she's kinda forgotten how to people.

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas:
Yokai - Main one I'm gunning for tbh, after going through the options I've kinda fallen in love with the idea of Kitsune Natsuhi. There's the whole shrine miko and inari shrine foxes thing. Along with four other reasons that are spoiler related lmao.
Celestial - Not sure if Angel or Unicorn here. Probably a combo of both, but making her a paladin type and giving her wings would be pretty fitting because reasons.
Taurus - Kind of the shitpost option. But goat-taur sounds fun and I think I could do something with hedonistic trait again her being super strict.
Vehicle Ideas: Vehicles you might use? Qualities that catch your eye?
Game plans: Unsure, but I do know that she won't be able to drive.
Maybe a class mom minivan though. For extra chaos when she inevitably runs someone over.
Desired CR:...All? Friends? Friends would be nice, she's so lonely ;-;

Real talk though. Natsuhi is kind of a bitch and not great with people so CR might be a bit of a slow road. She is all bark and no bite though. She does have a soft spot for children though...sort of. She's also going to be wary around male characters closer to her in age because, housewife from a time period where being friends with a guy would get an affair accusation. Basically, she's all prim and proper, and not built for a road trip at all.ac

Word of warning though. I'm not really open to the idea of her 'adopting' child characters. I like the idea of her building CR and growing attached. BUT she is not a great mom, plz do not expect loving doting middle aged lady.
Other: 'Sucker merry barrels'

[kungfoods]

why so interested in ✳✶ 🎀 𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓂𝑒 🎀 ✶✳, akechi-kun? 👀 big teasing incoming because zhao is a cheshire like that

[kungfoods]

there are flavors other than MSG!!

[hacktivated]

INFO!
Player Name: Kei (Currently playing Shadow / airskate)
Contact: begleiter

Got two different RWBYs I'm considering...

Character Name: Penny Polendina
Canon: RWBY
Character Info: A magic robot who wants friends! Penny is kind, sincere, and dealing with a little bit of existential despair over a lot of people only viewing her as a tool. But she is a very enthusiastic and helpful person, and does her best to be relentlessly optimistic. She can also fly, and dissolves into hiccups whenever she tries to lie!

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas: Werestoat c: Could also do Merfolk, though.

Vehicle Ideas: Not certain yet, but definitely something roomy. More space for friends...!

Game plans: She's going to genuinely be so excited. She's only been allowed to leave her home town once, and it was under strict supervision. The idea of just freely cruising through the wasteland will be thrilling.

Desired CR: Friends! Other robots! People to teach her about human things!

Other:




Character Name: Qrow Branwen
Canon: RWBY
Character Info: 40 something spy, professional monster hunter, and recovering alcoholic! He's a lifelong pessimist who acts aloof and grumpy, but he's actually suffering from anxiety and keeps becoming the acting legal guardian of a bunch of teenagers with super powers. His own super power is being cursed with bad luck. He never outgrew his Hot Topic phase. He can also turn into a crow.

PLOTTING!
Monster Ideas: A harpy (since, you know, bird), demon (giving a man with this much anxiety doom sense is very funny), swarm (Qrow would hate it), or zoanthrope (i just think werewolves are cool)

Vehicle Ideas: A hearse with the 'tough' quality

Game plans: Mostly he's just going to be tremendously relieved to see his castmates again! Things are going pretty terribly for him at my planned canon point, so honestly the road trip through a doomed world will be a relaxing change of pace.

Desired CR: More kids for him to unwillingly adopt. Other adults who are constantly Going Through It. People he can annoy the shit out of while he's in bird form.

Other:

[andnevermore]

"he never outgrew his hot topic phase" LMAO PLEASE (he also 100% passed this trait on to Ruby)

Either character would genuinely be so good. Qrow would have both his nieces here, and Penny would have three of her bestest friends, two of which haven't gotten to the canon point of knowing she's alive again (I THINK Ruby does know, though, since she's early v7, I might be wrong on that). I can't decide which I'd like more 😔😭

[thetatters]

Soooo excited for John and Vash to learn each other's "secret nonhuman" deal and have a long talk about humanity. John will inevitably need a pep talk from someone who can fully comprehend just how dangerous he is and chooses to trust him anyway.

Also: fully expect Vash to give him constant heartburn with the self-sacrificing tbh

[hexrot]

JACKAL?????

[hexrot]

bring da girl

[rootlessly]

kei kei kei imagine

vash and penny cr. the bubbliest friendliest most exuberant duo having big feelings about the nature of humanity/personhood and what it means to turn into "monsters", with a side bonus of knowing what it's like for humans to see them/others like them (in vash's case) as tools.

[kungfoods]

behold my game-shopping taking me all across the dwrps