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sail_ooc2023-07-01 11:10 pm
Daily Routines & Handwaved CR Meme, VOLUME 4: this time it's PLOT-SONAL
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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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!!
- 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 and plot hooks, ???, profit
(Last meme, for those who might need it!)
Sharky Boshaw - Cabin 131
-- Sharky's a pretty chill dude and it's reflected in his favorite hangouts. the promenade is his favorite spot, since there are plenty of bars, restaurants, and places to lounge while eating or drinking. he rotates between bars on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis, and can often be found with a fruity drink or bottle of beer in hand. he will happily shoot the shit with anyone who sits near him, and is great at general small talk. if you've talked to him even once, there's a good chance you've heard a story about him and/or his cousin Hurk back home, usually involving missile launchers or monkeys. teens only need ask for good old Momcle Sharky to order them a drink, no questions asked!!!
-- about once or twice a week, Sharky spends a day hiking deep into the Tommy Bahama. he's gone so deep that he's found countless treasures, like procedurally generated clothing and the secret, bros-only bar and grill that marks the halfway point between infinity and beyond. he's only ever stayed one night inside, and will warn people against doing that. since things aren't repairing as often, he'll often leave the words "SHARKY WAS HERE" in permanent marker at random intervals.
-- he can be found almost every night at the hot tubs, loudly warning approaching parties that this is Pants Off Time before inviting them to join. he never questions people who join, whether they choose to wear their suits or not, but for the hour-long basting process, he will refuse to put on his own shorts.
-- as of June, he's gotten back into the habit of roller skating around the decks as a form of "exercise."
-- he goes to bed pretty late, between 3 and 5 AM, and usually isn't up until 2 PM. he spends a lot of time hanging out with his friends, especially Pratt and Ava, usually getting his hot goss on. there's also a good chance that you've seen him talking to Ossie and/or Giles, looking like a TOTAL GOON while he's doing it.
stuff and things:
-- he wears TB almost exclusively, although he sometimes swaps in pieces from other excursions.
-- he can almost always be found with a ship-branded tote, which contains snacks from the sundries shop, a big ship-branded water bottle, and sunscreen. this is especially true when he's traveling deep into the TB.
-- as of July, he's wearing his hair & beard long again, thanks to an extremely cursed copy of Disney's The Santa Clause.
plotting stuff:
-- Sharky isn't a COP, okay, he doesn't go ~patrolling~ like SOME PEOPLE... but he'll interfere if he sees two people trying to kill each other. this hasn't come up at all, but i wanna put him out there as a potential mediator if anyone needs it.
-- he's pretty ambivalent toward the plot. the ship is a step up for him, but the whole death and horror thing isn't his jam. he doesn't get why the Captain can't just turn the game into a sex rp TBH. however, he has some big hangups about magic in general (ironic considering he's mad crushing on actual changelings), and will usually talk mad shit about it, the Captain, and that stupid skeleton boyfriend of his. like, fuck that guy, seriously. he can offer some decent perspective on why the ship isn't the worst thing ever, but so long as he and Pratt get to live their lives, he's hard-pressed to change anything about the ship itself.
-- he's a mom through and through, so if anyone needs one of those in their lives, he's up for grabs. he's especially good at talking about family back home, given that he left his cousin's baby behind coming here.
-- ALSO I AM 100% DOING ANOTHER RADIO POST AT SOME POINT I JUST HAVE BEEN BUSY...
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Probably because he lost his super strength and speed and is paranoid over the impending Horrors
Anyway please help him upgrade his flamethrower, Arson-sempai
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i didn't wanna assume but i am 100% down to assume that they have dates, probably lots of dinner/lunch plans considering the venues huh (maybe sharky's even dragged him ten feet into the tommy bahama LMAO)
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Love the concept of a Tommy Bahama date tbh, Giles would try very hard to keep his opinions on the clothes to himself and absolutely fail
too lazy to log out on mobile
also theres the spa i just remembered, which means sharky would absolutely wanna hit the sauna with him ;)
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The sauna will take a Lot more convincing to get Giles into tho, bc of the whole "doesn't like his skin being on show in public" thing.
Maybe they can jury rig a lock for the doorno subject