October 2023 OOC Intro

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October 2023 OOC Intro


Hello, Visitors, and welcome to Ashbrook!

This post is a place for you to introduce yourself and your new character to the game!

You can also use this post as an opportunity to coordinate roles with other players! Are your characters neighbors, or perhaps even roommates? Do they go to school together? Do NPCs insist that the two of them have a heated rivalry or a sordid romantic history? Discuss these scenarios and more here!

SOME QUICK REMINDERS

• The event will be posted on October 7th! The plotting post for the event will go up on the 6th.

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Comments

[ferrytale]

Hi hello it is I, Min (he/him) who is also Boo Boo the Fool, because I really wasn't planning on apping a second, but playing Ledo in this setting has been super fun so far! I also have Izō in-game as a total contrast to this nerd.

Ledo is from the anime Suisei no Gargantia or Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet in English, but now you see why I use the Japanese name lol. In canon, Ledo is a 17-year-old child soldier who pilots a mech in the forever war against a highly evolved species of space-faring squid called Hideauze. He has spent his entire life in the military and only knows how to fight and be a soldier because human society has been reduced to only what has been deemed necessary and efficient.

This means that Ledo doesn't know anything, especially about living on a planet. Or having personal relationships. Or feelings.

He has also been assigned peak nerd life. He is a top student, a Mathlete, in JROTC, and an intolerable HALL MONITOR. The Sheriff and Ranger Ortega think he's a pretty good kid! He's lived in Ashbrook for most of his life and has lived with a foster family. He volunteers sometimes for rescue efforts in the woods and on the ski slopes. Lily Wagner at the community centre will also just shove him into group activities in the hope that he'll make a friend or feel something.

He is gonna have a great time with the local squidman.

[protomartyr]

lottie does junior rangers stuff out in the woods but is a bad student who sometimes cuts class, so i'd be down for their AU counterparts to know each other but also have a silly little teen feud going if you are! canon lottie and ledo's cr doesn't have to be negative of course but i do think the au rivalry could be funny lol

[ferrytale]

omg an AU rivalry would be cute! he's going to end up taking his AU stuff super seriously (because he takes everything super seriously....), but he means well when he nitpicks people and I can see him bugging her about things lol. I'M DOWN.

[protomartyr]

honestly, lottie could use some good, old-fashioned nitpicking.... things are getting real wild in her life back in canon and it'll be weirdly reassuring for some guy to go "hey you actually have to go to class!!" looking forward to them!

[heartsnatcher]

Naito is friends with Lily, since he contributes a lot in the community and often helps organize or supervise events, so I feel like he's definitely one of the people she would throw Ledo at. It might be cute if they were friends, or at least knew each other!

[draconisrose]

Rastaban being a reluctant magic mentor for Ledo has been great and I would love for these two to have a role connection so he's stuck with him.

In Ashbrook Rastaban works as a gardener for for various non-profit local establishments, such as the Community Center and he was roped into helping out with the community theatre if either of those interest you. He's also an introvert so maybe Lily shoved them into group activities together? Let me know your thoughts. I love this CR already!

[ferrytale]

YES. They're super cute together I'm really enjoying it!

Lily can definitely shove them together to do things! I imagine if she ever caught on that they'd met before she'd keep trying to encourage them to hang around together too.

If Rastaban is a gardener that probably aligns well with magic stuff anyway given what goes into spells, so he could always rope Ledo into helping with that if he wanted to. Put his ass to work lmao. He wouldn't mind because he literally has never seen growing things....

[draconisrose]

lol the poor introverts will never know peace. Also, if Ledo continues with his mindset that only efficiency matters Rastaban will probably get into whatever activity they are forced into just to prove him wrong. He will learn to enjoy life!

ooh that's a good point! I hadn't thought about the magic connection since Rastaban will probably stop practicing witchcraft when he notices it interferes with his own magic, but he will still be happy to help Ledo and learn vicariously through him. And yes, he will definitely make Ledo do all the work. It's the student's job to do all the heavy lifting while the mentor guides them after all. Plus he might have to give Ledo a boost with his own magic for a bit until he believes in magic more, so it's only fair to let him rest.