Daily Routines & Handwaved CR Meme, VOLUME 2

[light_mischief]

Handwaved CR Meme

The passengers have been living on this ship for a while now, and it's likely that they've fallen into certain habits and routines. Little things have become part of their day, from lunch dates with friends, to quiet nights in the library, or long-standing blood feuds. Even the newest passengers have likely found themselves some common haunts and familiar faces. This is a meme to talk about, flesh out, and collaborate on some of those behind-the-scenes moments and routines!

1. Post a comment with your character's name & cabin number in the header, and give us an idea of what sort of things they get up to around the ship! Be as detailed or as vague as you'd like.
2. Talk about what kind of handwaved CR you can inspire! Is your character the type to stop and chat with friends on the promenade? Are they consistently the highest score on multiple arcade cabinets? IDK, you tell me!
3. When you look at other characters' routines, you might notice some moments that line up! Even if your characters are total strangers, they might see each other at the buffet every day, or maybe they're unwittingly competing for the high score on DDR. And close CR might mean weekly dinners, book clubs, sparring sessions every morning... like I said, this is where you shine!!
4. This is also a good chance to handwave characters exchanging contact information, generating some more inbox threads!

TLDR: write about your character's life on the ship and then compare notes with other people, find CR, ???, profit

(Last meme, for those who might need it!)

Comments

[skaikru]

i love and immediately accept all of this as game canon! ari gets to catch sight of clarke's half-disgusted, half-entirely on edge trepidation with horror movies because she half expects a clown to pop up around the corner. but still somehow finds the energy to be disheartened with the gory special effects bc blood doesn't gush like that from that area, there's no main artery, etc! countdown to when they boo and throw popcorn at the space-based campy sci-fi flicks together!!!

also their first interaction was tense but i fully believe an odd sort of respect would emerge from clarke watching ari doomsday prep like her. some folks don't take to heart that all these resources could stop magically restocking and we could all be left high and dry! gotta prepare while the beef jerky and prepackaged peanuts are still around! pls feel free to imagine any competition would end in clarke conceding and letting ari have the last bottle of advil, bc she appreciates she's not the only one around. (also bc she has 8+ months of stock in her room, like a true apocalypse rat)

and i almost don't wanna handwave a stair based interaction, what if we held onto that idea for a future thread and they could, idk, race or something. a lil bonding moment potentially???

[astrogator]

Brilliant! At this point I don't think their first interaction is going to end well at all - but it's fine, Ari doesn't hold grudges over petty things, and the Earth skills advice on game day will make up for it, especially if they're having positive little handwavy interactions in the meantime too!

She'd definitely respect Clarke a lot more for the prepping! Ari was told that she didn't need to worry because the ship restocks 'by magic' and her thought process was just omg you're like children who have never been through a shortage. So frustrating for her. Clarke gets all the beef jerky, though - vegetarian Ari's survival instincts don't go quite that far ;)

And yes, let's save the stair interaction! You're right, it would makea fun thread.

[skaikru]

I'm imagining these lil handwave interactions are a lot of ~significant and profound~ nods of recognition, space kid style and it's making me chuckle. And YES, ya can't take the girls from space outta space and expect them to rely on magic to feed themselves (ignore Clarke's intense magic envy, or don't it might be a fun thing for them to chat about later!). I saw that Ari's a vegetarian and admittedly snorted, since by default Clarke was vegan (soybean paste from what I could gather from canon) for the first 17 years of her life and is now just going wild on the meats.

rubbing my hands together for this future stair interaction. dependent on what December event timing pans out to be, maybe early next month??

[astrogator]

Yes, absolutely! I love their different reactions to meat. Ari had 'lab-grown protein blocks' so she can relate, but to her meat just doesn't register as food. Just ew, why would you? But Clarke likely grew up knowing that people had eaten meat on Earth, so different perspective!

Early December sounds great, barring event-related shenanigans!

[skaikru]

you see protein blocks here, ari? no? get yaself some prime rib!!

it's gonna be so fun once they get past initial sour first impressions and can actually compare and contrast the space experience! bonus points for pulling (checks notes) crichton, gideon, and pal into the space life debate lmfao

and yes! we'll see what the future holds and go from there, but in the meantime know i'm hype!

[astrogator]

Oh yes! Space club! I'm looking forward to all this too and I'm glad they'll get past their disaster of a first meeting.

Although after their first positive handwave interaction Clarke's totally going to get a friendly little greeting from Ari when they pass in the corridors. Little nod and 'Commander.' Sorry Clarke.

[skaikru]

hahahahahaha! oh the INSTANT regret for trying to flex, it will not take long for a "ok pls just call me Clarke, I beg ;;"