CR MEME (JANUARY)

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Welcome to Exsilium's Monthly CR Meme! This will be for the month of January, and participation is completely optional. Leave a comment below with the following format and you can get in touch with other players for all sorts of plans for the future, for CR and plots for your characters.



<b>Character:</b> character name ★ <i>canon or original</i> ★ <user name="JOURNAL"> <b>Character Info:</b> Give us a brief overview of your character, so people unfamiliar with canon can know the basics at a glance. <b>Upcoming Plans:</b> Tell us what your character has planned for next month. <b>CR/Plotting Desired:</b> If you're looking for plotting or CR for next month, here's where you can let people know. <b>Additional Notes:</b> Anything else.

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Thank you everyone!

Also, while the timing is still a little wibbly, we're trying posting the CR meme as AC check comes to a close so that there's a defined time.

Comments

[speakveryclearly]

At least one of us can be thankful that the sun on this planet is not quite scorching, right?

Man Kanaya works night shifts with the transporter-maintenance NPCs, is he going to go in at some ungodly hour, because if that wouldn't fit what you're going for, the layout is flexible enough to work around, but if it would, she'd react

Loudly

[crab]

it doesnt really fit what im going for, like, if she caught him chances are he'd just give up on the whole endeavor and just say fuck it and go back

although im interested in what loudly entails from a hypothetical perspective

[speakveryclearly]

This recent thread is a good exploration of the ideas involved in a hypothetical reaction; she's experimenting with taking the ideas expressed by Karkat himself Ruka certain transports seriously and accepting onto herself the burden of immorality involved in a form of time travel that incurs erasures - however, that acceptance is a sword that only gets sharper the deeper you plunge it in. Are you erasing only the lives you deliberately changed as a part of your mission's parameters, or by purchasing a few items here and there, do you fork the timelines of everyone who ever entered that store? Or is every single mission one that generates a new world, annihilating the old one? She accepted long ago that missions are the only way out of this war, she can't turn around this train, at least not right away; so she has to do what she can to make sure the missions are going through purposefully, changing the world all at once instead of destroying two or three worlds as intermediate steps. Aside from reaping transports, the Initiative leaves other worlds alone, barring the doubts about what happens to Transports who go back (i.e. whether they are doomed or amnesiac zombies) - therefore, keeping those worlds, the people left behind, untouched by the United Earth is something to fight for at all costs, in Kanaya's view, erasures included in those costs.

So if she were allowed to get going she could denounce his actions as those of a hypocrite and a thief. (She would be assuming that, like most Transports who publicly denounce missions and go on them anyway, he is going to New York to obtain Stuff and still suffers from a severely low "Money" attribute, particularly "Acceptable In The Past" money.) Recall the rejected line "lying and stealing are the only things humans can do"

[crab]

well he wouldn't deny being a hypocrite and a thief!! he's well aware that his field trip will probably end up dooming some hapless civilians, he just... doesn't... care... all that much. his moral compass has always been kind of battered and the bulk of his compassion is reserved for people he knows/is attached to. so he likely wouldn't really defend himself from kanaya's denouncement, just give her a bunch of miserable crap about being already doomed himself and failing to give a shit about the pointless personal timelines of a couple of npcs.

he'd still give up on the whole endeavor (calling him out would make him feel guilty) but he wouldn't deny any of the accusations she made.