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OOC Intros

Welcome, new players and old players with new characters! This is the OOC Introduction post, made specially as a gathering place to meet and greet and get to know each other and our characters! Please take a moment to introduce yourself. You may do it any way you like or, if you're a fan of structure, please feel free to use this handy dandy copy-paste:

<b>Player Name:</b> Whatever you want us to call you. <b>Contact:</b> Plurk, Discord, whatever it is you use. Don't forget to mention if it's OK for people to add you! <b>Pronouns:</b> Whatever they are, please include them so everyone can be respectful of who you are. <b>Other Characters?</b> Or are you so fresh they could sell you at the farmer's market? <b>Tell us about yourself:</b> Hobbies, favorite times to tag, pets, quirks, favorite times/styles to tag, anything you'd like us to know. <b>Character Name (Canon):</b> Character name (and what they're from!) <b>Tell us about them:</b> Give us a quick little introduction of your character, no more than a paragraph, to let us know a little about them. This will give people an idea of maybe how they can plot with their character and yours depending on potential interactions, but it also gives you a chance to gush about them to everyone. (We know you want to!) <b>Initial Ideas:</b> We know you're just getting started off here so you may not have any solid goals for where you want to go yet, but let us know if there's anything you're looking for to start off with! Types of CR, parts of the setting you want to play with, magic you want to have your character have a disaster with, whatever floats your boat. <b>Fall is upon us and there are a lot of flavors, in-season fruits and veg, and more. What's your favorite fall flavor?</b> This section is going to change for each OOC intro, we just want to put something fun each time. :) <b>Anything else:</b> Permissions, opt-outs, shitposting, etc.

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[forgarlemald]

Player Name: Corrine
Contact: atomictango, please feel free to add!
Pronouns: she/her
Other Characters? n/a
Tell us about yourself: I'm a marine electrician (boats, not the other Marine) with a work schedule that will randomly decide it hates free time every so often, so I usually end up doing tags late at night PST time. That aside, I like playing video games and pretending like I know how to draw, and my plurk tends to go between stretches of fandom nonsense and work bitching.

Character Name (Canon): Gaius van Baelsar (FFXIV)
Tell us about them: Remember the guy you spent fifteen intimate minutes trapped on an elevator with? While he monologued at length at you?? Gaius is a former general/villain/war criminal and current Very Sad Dad, who recently joined up with the good guys and is trying to make up for the awful shit he was responsible for while he served under the game's trademark ""Evil Empire"". He's also a skilled fighter despite the fact he's pushing 60, and a tanky bastard who lived through having a building blow up around him out of pure spite.

He's coming in as a CRAU from Noctium, which only means that he's been through the whole "dragged to another world" song and dance before and while he's not happy about it, he can tolerate it better than he would otherwise, and he'll just be glad that none of the transformation nonsense he's been dealing with for several months followed him to this world, too.

This also means he's gotten used to the idea of there being multiple Warriors of Light running around, which is still all kinds of Awkward to deal with and therefore means he needs to meet as many as possible.

(and editing to add he's being taken from post patch 5.5/Werlyt, but can avoid spoilers as needed!)
Initial Ideas: Only a few ideas to start with, until he can find his footing in game. Someone (or multiple someones) that would be willing to help him get used to the whole suddenly being able to use magic thing would be great, as he did absolutely nothing to play with his new capacity for magic in his previous game and would have much more reason to learn here. And since I'd love for him to eventually gain knighthood while he's here, making some friends to go adventuring and questing with would be wonderful. Hell, give him sparring buddies. He's going to want to keep from getting rusty.

And please let him adopt some kids while he's here. He needs people he can dad over so his daughter still not being here with him hurts a little less please and thanks ;w;

Fall is upon us and there are a lot of flavors, in-season fruits and veg, and more. What's your favorite fall flavor?
Tasty delicious caramel apple spice...

Anything else:
Permissions/opt-out for those that are interested!

[menphina]

Can't wait to have his speech parroted back at him. This is on the to-do list. In some form or the other!!

I'm just excited to have Gaius here and can't wait to see all the fun he'll get into. And trouble. And all the delicious things.

[forgarlemald]

SOMEONE better throw his dumb speech back at him, otherwise I'll forever mourn such a missed opportunity...

But yessss, I'm so looking forward to seeing what he gets up to ;w; And what kind of trouble Megu will happily drag him into, of course.

[inemeraldfaith]

I'm not playing anyone from the FFXIV crew, but I'm well familiar with the game and Gaius has quickly become one of my favourite characters, so I'm quite happy to see him here.

I look forward to seeing what kind of shenanigans he may get himself up to! (And welcome!)

[forgarlemald]

Right? I still find it hard to believe that this game made me love Gaius van Baelsar as much as I do, of all characters, but man he really became one of my favorites, too. And I'm both nervous and excited to see what else might be in store for him haha.

But Aerith <3 Thank you for the welcome, I'm looking forward to playing with everyone! And I'm really hoping I can have Gaius run into Aerith in the future, because everyone needs to have her in their lives.

[inemeraldfaith]

Aerith runs her own little dinky flower shop in the town proper, so I'm sure if Gaius has any kind of floral needs, she will be only too happy to accommodate him. (Or just be supremely annoying. Quite possibly both, knowing her.) ♥

[forgarlemald]

You know, a certain Miqo'te in his previous game actually got him mildly interested in gardening, so he just might have a reason to stop by at some point! And Aerith can be her wonderfully sunshine-y self at mister dour old man lmao

[inemeraldfaith]

She sure does have a thing for being all sunshine and rainbows outwardly toward the dour and the sour. I'm sure Gaius can just join the club of unwitting victims to her friendship. Hope he's ready for lots of plants (and fun).

[bakudan_bambino]

Welcome to Avalon, Corrine! I hope you have a great time here!

[forgarlemald]

Thank you!! Everyone has been really nice so far and I'm glad I apped c:

[mithrarin]

[forgarlemald]

Gaius van Wholesome <3 No but please someone hug this man sob

[mithrarin]

Dust is more in the "tragicomic misunderstanding" camp, since the xenocidal general he was literally created to defeat was named Gaius...

[worldsokayestdad]

would Gaius be interested in hanging out with another very old very sad dad with a sketchy past? because i have one and he needs more old friends

[forgarlemald]

akshgd I'm sorry for the late reply, work was really hectic for a few days there. But yes. Please yes.

Look, Kratos may or may not have been my introduction to the world of Sad Dads way back when, and I would absolutely love for him and Gaius to meet and maybe even be friends. Sad old men gotta stick together, right?

[worldsokayestdad]

NO WORRIES my job can be pretty nuts sometimes too, I know this feel.

Sad old men always need to stick together, they must hang and be old and sad.