Daily Routines & Handwaved CR Meme, VOLUME 4: this time it's PLOT-SONAL

[light_mischief]

Handwaved CR Meme:
Get it? Like "personal," but PLOT... Oh, don't give me that look!

The Serena Eterna has some fun new idiosyncrasies these days, from repairs becoming monthly to food being in inconvenient supply, but routines are routines, baby! Standing dinner dates with friends, favorite hangouts, and extremely rational blood feuds are common occurrences for people who have been living at sea for upwards of a year now! And even new passengers may find themselves with their own habits, if they haven't been absorbed into those of their fellow passengers.

This meme is here to help flesh out the background moments that help fuel character relationships. Post your characters and their routines, then see who else might be stalking the buffet at 2 AM or who you might run into on laundry day. After all, the ship is home to a whole host of strange people; you're rarely the only one around.

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 might 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 us!
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!

SURPRISE, IT'S A PLOTTING MEME: If you're looking for specific things to do with your character, from finding like-minded individuals to work towards escape to looking for romance in all the right places, let people know! You never know, two people who eat dinner at the same time may find that they have a lot of shared dreams and desires! Bait your plot hooks and snag a big one, or something, whatever, metaphors are dumb!

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

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

Comments

[angrycrabnoises]

Karkat definitely gets really sugary coffees from Sand Dollars (which he probably shouldn’t be drinking at his age but he has a lot of issues with sleep). He also has a tendency to gripe and vent about drama and would probably do so while ordering his drink. Also he gets scared of a lot of things, but I don’t think heights are a specific fear for him though.

[yourexoduslaughing]

Oh she loves him already, happy to gossip and also a huge fan of sugary coffees and drinks. Flan will settle for him being a buddy instead of a source of food, though she might let April jumpscare him!

[angrycrabnoises]

April can definitely jumpscare him.