May Event Information and Signups!

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▼ If I walked in your shoes...

 

Hello and welcome players, both old and new, to the event planning for the memory exchange!

We hope that new players will be tantalized by the effects this event offers and give interesting insight into different characters.

▼ What is the Event About?

 

Basically, a memory exchange/swap event. However, this is Strings, so it's much more than that! There are consequences and side effects...

Starting the 15th of May, characters participating will get their Destiny Strings tangled together. At first it will be barely noticeable; just odd memories that as a player, you know your character didn't have, but your character will think is actually theirs. Their brains/cpus/etc will assimilate these new memories as their own. What this does for a character can depend immensely. A character who has always hated fish but gains a memory about loving sushi might go out to eat sushi that night and then go "Wow I really hate this! But I remember liking it a lot...". Characters who have the ability to view the Strings may start to notice that the Strings are intertwined, but it will take some time for that to be completely visible.

By the end, the characters will be in terrible pain, as their minds try to access these full memories, but with their brains realizing that these are not there after all; many of them no doubt painful and private for the other player. The Government will do their best to aid them during this time, and sort them in a level of the hospital and figure out what they can do to fix it.

Yet in the end, the solution will not be from the Government nor players, but the Strings themselves. With so much tension between both characters, the Strings will, like rubber-bands, snap back into place. This will cause a MASSIVE drain of energy, as it's not a physical snapping, but rather a soul snap and drain. Thus even characters who are strong physically and mentally will be in the hospital for a day or two, drained.

The memories of the others will slowly fade, like dreams...but there are some interesting side-effects to this...

▼ What do you need from players?

 

If you are interested in swapping and participating we will need from you the following:

▶ 7 "mundane" or semi-important memories your character has. This can be anything from "Went to a music concert with a friend and saw flowers for the first time," to "had ice-cream and fell in love with it." Anything, anytime in your character's life that they remember is fair game. These should be more like tiny little things, not memories that last a day. Just something that the other person can remember and think is their memory.

▶ 4 Traumatic or important memories your character has. These will be for the last four days of the event. These, usually, should be the most life-changing memories your character has had in their lives. For example, one of Eikichi's memories might be when they fought against Nyralthotep. These do not have to be 'bad' memories per-say these can be joyful memories too! But they are usually very private and not something characters would share willingly.

▶ As many routine traits and personality quirks that define them. These can be words they commonly say (Eikichi would be Babe, Hooooo!), things that they tend to do during the day (urge to put on visual-kei makeup and dye their hair, hates sushi, bad singing). This section is to give flavor to the exchange, as the other character starts using them too.

But here's the fun part...even after the event is over, you'll be allowed to keep some of these! It's a memory lingering effect, and not something your characters can completely control.

▶ Four skills the character has. Two should be mundane things (drawing, cooking, guitar, good with plants, etc), and two should be unique skills the character has (martial artist, boxer, lightsaber fighting, etc.)

When the event is over, players will be allowed to pick ONE Mundane and ONE unique skill from the list as muscle and lingering mind memory. Keep in mind that these skills would be more as side effects and no, your character would not suddenly be a jedi master.

An example is if someone listed martial artist as one of their two their unique skills, the other character, once the event is over, might suddenly stop an attack with a reflex block. A person who switched with a Jedi master would be able to hold a Lightsaber without cutting their arm off, but wouldn't be able do actual lightsaber dueling.

These may, however, cause the character to be much more interested in that skill and slowly work on them! Someone who ended up with cooking might start to peruse more complicated recipes. And what better than the person who you shared a few memories from...if they want to teach you.

▶ This will be asked near the end of the event, but everyone who does a memory swap will automatically gain a dual persona with that person. This is the major side effect from the exchange.

▼ Okay, I got all of that, what now?

 

Reply below either in either the preplaned exchanges (meaning you talked with someone and you already agreed you'd be exchanging with them) with your list of memories and who you are changing it with OR the roulette exchange, which will close on May 15th, 11L59pm and you will get randomly paired with someone else.

▼ Can I have a simple timeline of what's happening?

 

No problem!

▶ 15th of May, any character participating will have their String start to get tangled with someone else's. This will lead to memory bleeding, with their own brains trying to assimilate those memories as their own. No one thinks anything is wrong for now.
▶ Characters will start to act odder than normal, and adopt behavior and quirks from the other person.
▶ The last four days will end with very emotionally important memories from the other person, as they begin to suspect something is wrong. It will become much more painful.
▶ On the last day, the Government will try to round up everyone affected in the hospital in a hope to cure them.
▶ However the Strings themselves will snap back into place, causing a massive energy loss and soul draining, meaning anyone involved will be in the hospital for the next few days to regain their strength.
▶ The memories they experienced will linger like dreams; they may remember the more traumatic ones, but not fully and, as time goes on, will remember less and less.
▶ They will gain a dual persona with the other person
▶ They can also have lingering memories of a mundane and one unique skill the other character has. What they do with these is up to them; it might pique their curiosity about the subject or it might just end up being muscle reflexes later on.
▶ But who caused this and why? The Government have no leads, so some digging may be necessary...

▼ Signups

 

Copy this and post it below in the proper section (either planned or roulette):

Your Nickname:
Character's Name: Name (Series)
Exchanging With: (only if you have an exchanged planned with someone. Remove this if you are doing the roulette option.)
Comfort Level: (ROULETTE PEOPLE ONLY. Reply here with either yes or no if you are comfortable getting someone whose memories may be triggery, or list your triggers.)

Normal Memories: (List 7. You can be as detailed as you want, remember this is for the other player!)
Traumatic/Important Memories: (List 4. Same as above, but these should be more detailed as these will be the ones the other character will remember the most. IF THE EVENT IS TRIGGERY, PLEASE CLEARLY MARK THIS BEFORE THE EVENT DESCRIPTION.)
Character Quirks: (List as many as you want. These are traits that define the character, either speech patters, hand movements they do, things they really really like, etc.)
Mundane Skills: (List 2. Mundane skills are cooking, singing, drawing, and so on).
Unique Skills (List 2. These skills have to do more with your character, such as basic fire magic, martial arts, summoning, force manipulation and so on. When you list a unique skill, make sure you list it in its most beginners form possible.)

▼ Have fun!

 

Cause it's going to be awesome!

Comments

Additional Questions

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If you have additional questions about the event, feel free to ask it here!

Additional Questions

[blessed_by_the_world]

For relatively minor characters, it might be hard to come up with four traumatic or important memories. Any advice on how to handle this?

Also, what about characters who happen to be normal humans without special abilities?

[all_wound_up]

For characters like Nano where all of their potential Unique Skills are part of their body, how would this work? It's just memory swaps, so listing stuff like ROKETTO PUNCH probably doesn't make much sense.

Re: Additional Questions

[forcebonded]

SO I GOTTA ASK. Amnesiac character with both implanted memories of a fake life, and vague imprecise recollections of what really happened. What memories are they going to impart to their partner?

[bondsofsuffering]

...Would being able to pick up whatever skill you attempt with ease count as a unique skill, or would that be too... vague?

[all_wound_up]

Can 'mundane skills' encompass knowledge or practical experience as well? Examples I'm thinking of:

-DeDeDe knows how to manage a business and navigate the underworld
-Fumi is a wealth of knowledge about demons and the occult

[trainwrecking]

So! I'm playing a character who is mostly an amnesiac. He remembers everything from after he died up until his canon point, but not his past. What I've been doing is having him think that certain things feel "familiar" or having small flashes: so more of a natural, slow regaining of memory than we see him get in canon.

If someone swapped with him, would the other person slowly regain his memories the same way he has been? Or could the person who gains his regain them more quickly? The memory of his past is there, I think, it's just that he can't access it the way normal, non-amnesiacs do.

(For mod reference, in canon... all that happens to sort of "pull" his memories out of him is someone sits down and hypnotizes him, forcing him to remember. It's pretty deus ex machina, weh.)

PLANNED SWAPS

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Reply in this section if you have a swap planned with someone in particular. Remember, to make sure the both of you post your lists for mod approval!

Nano Shinonome [OU] & Xion [OU]

[all_wound_up]

Your Nickname: Brantron
Character's Name: Nano Shinonome (Nichijou) all_wound_up
Exchanging With: Xion [OU] (Kingdom Hearts) poppetstrings

Normal Memories: 1) Catching a cockroach under a bowl and having a dramatic standoff after realizing to get rid of it she would have to lift the bowl again, 2) Playing baseball with a little girl and a cat and having no idea what the rules are, 3) Getting stuck in a super glue trap in the hallway of her house, 4) Waking up in the middle of the night terrified of a thunderstorm, 5) Buying a miniature snowman at the marketplace, 6) Extreme embarrassment at seeing a yaoi doujin for the first time, 7) Playing a trumpet extremely poorly
Traumatic/Important Memories: The first day of her activation and meeting the Professor for the first time, the day Nano and the Professor found and adopted their cat Sakamoto, the day the Professor gave Nano a school uniform and told her she could go to high school, and being told by her best friend Yukko that she likes her whether she's a robot or not
Character Quirks: Polite speech (lastname-san for people she's just meeting or authority figures, firstname-san for friends and closer acquaintances), nervous fidgeting when in an uncomfortable or unfamiliar situation, always sleeping on her side, turning chairs sideways before sitting in them.
Mundane Skills: Cooking and cleaning.
Unique Skills: Gun installed in right hand which fires grapes instead of bullets, toes detach and act as USB drives. Per the mods, since Nano's swap partner does not actually have these attachments, they will act as a sort of 'phantom limb' scenario as detailed here.

Lucy/Kaede [AU1] & Revan [AU1]

[saudadist]

Your Nickname: Rachael
Character's Name: Lucy/Kaede [AU1] | Elfen Lied | mitochondrialeve
Exchanging With: Revan [AU1] | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | forcebonded

Normal Memories:
1. Harry admitting he loves Lucy like a daughter after her trek through the razor wire maze
2. Meeting Kouta
3. Overhearing the women at the orphanage while ill
4. Painting scenery for Yukina's birthday
5. [WARNING: Violence] Ripping off Kakine's arm and beating him to death with it until his heart exploded
6. Going to the zoo with Kouta
7. Meeting Aiko

Traumatic/Important Memories:
[ CONTENT WARNING: Memories below contain descriptions of animal abuse, the deaths of underage children and adults. ]
1. Death of the puppy/orphanage massacre
2. The murder of Kanae
3. The death of Aiko
4. Alex's proposal in Manhattan

Character Quirks: Severe distrust and resentment toward human beings, suspicion toward sudden kindness, aversion to wide open spaces and heavily populated spaces, preference for more closed-in environments, fondness for animals (particularly dogs), longing to be considered human

Mundane Skills: Drawing, singing

Unique Skills: Precision and accuracy with projectile weapons/items (Lucy's vectors can throw with great accuracy, but determining where to throw and how hard is a mental effort, so I feel it is something she can do with her own hands as well; her personal training in the Facility has helped this somewhat too), standard hand-to-hand combat skills.

Fumi Kanno [OU] & Senri [OU]

[terminally_clever]

Your Nickname: Brantron
Character's Name: Fumi Kanno (Devil Survivor 2) terminally_clever
Exchanging With: Senri (+Anima) bear_necessities

Normal Memories: 1) Earning her PhD, 2) Being hired by Yamato Hotsuin to work at JP's, 3) Tasting Yorkshire pudding for the first time at dinner with her host family in England, 4) Studying demon summoning, 5) Scanning her own brainwaves with an EEG machine, 6) Building machines, 7) Visiting famous locations in London with her host family
Traumatic/Important Memories: Deciding human lives are more important than research data after nearly killing Jungo with an experiment gone awry, fighting and defeating Polaris alongside her allies to change the world into a meritocracy, a conversation with her host father Charles where she was told not to work so hard all the time and to find time to enjoy life, and subduing the demon Trumpeter by hurling half a dozen laptops at him.
Character Quirks: Speaks in short sentences when busy or annoyed, but very verbose and with unnecessarily complicated large words when explaining something or talking about science. Has only three terribly dominant facial expressions: neutral lineface, troll!smile, and irritation. Very curious and scientific mind, with a desire to learn as much as she can about the world around her.
Mundane Skills: Computer hacking, advanced reading comprehension.
Unique Skills: Two healing spells (equivalent of Media and Recarm for purposes of this event).

Xion [OU] & Nano Shinonome [OU]

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Your Nickname: Yak
Character's Name: Xion (OU) Kingdom Hearts poppetstrings
Exchanging With: Nano Shinonome [OU] (Nichijou) all_wound_up

Normal Memories:
- Fighting lots of heartless
- Icecream with Roxas and Axel on top of the clocktower in Twilight Town
- More fighting heartless
- Collecting Seashells for Roxas when he was in a coma.
- insert more collection of heartless hearts
- ADOPTING PLUTO BECAUSE SHE FOUND HIM ON THE STREET.
- Popping off to different worlds to do missions of course (killing heartless can I say that enough)
Traumatic/Important Memories:
- The fact her first word was Roxas's name
- Having icecream with Roxas for the first time and learning about what friends are
- Loosing her keyblade
- Riku beating her down an calling her keyblade a fake at Beast's Castle.
Character Quirks: Xion firmly believes she doesn't have a heart, so she tries not to show emotion too much. She's very polite, though slightly emotionally fragile and prone to anger with the right words.
Mundane Skills: Swordsmanship (is this even mundane). Cooking. REALLY BAD COOKING.
Unique Skills: Basic magic. (Fire/Blizzard/Thunder/Cure). Keyblade summoning.

Aqua [AU1] and Garviel Loken [OU]

[destinedwaters]

Your Nickname: Twi
Character's Name: Aqua [AU1] (Kingdom Hearts) destinedwaters
Exchanging With: Garviel Loken [OU] (Horus Heresy) greyerrant

Normal Memories:
1. Baking for her master and brother-pupils.
2. Practicing magic.
3. Taking care of Ven while in his coma/zombie days.
4. World Order, not speaking of other worlds to residents of the worlds visited.
5. Practicing with wooden swords with her boys.
6. Teasing her friends on the mountain summit.
7. Stargazing with her friends/brothers on the summer days...
Traumatic/Important Memories:
1. Keyblade Graveyard (TW: Suicide, war, loss): Having heard news of their Master/father's death, Aqua travels alone to the Keyblade Graveyard in search of her friends. Promising that their hearts would always be one as she arrives to the world where the ancient battle that was only talked of in whisper was fought, she soon finds Terra standing alone. She confronts him about their Master's death, to which he admits to being used by Master Xehanort to weaken him to the point where a final deathblow would be easy, also saying that he was tryingto protect Ven. Warning him against fighting out of anger and vengence - of how it would not honor Master Eraqus' memory - Ven arrives, explaining that Xehanort intends to make the x-blade using him. Ven then asks his two best friends to "put an end" to him.

Yet they are unable to in time, as Xehanort arrives to initiate the Keyblade War...
(Here, have the cutscenes and heart pains.)
2. A Fight Among "Friends" (TW: Possession, loss, self-sacrifice): Having left Ven's comatose body in a secret chamber within the newly transformed Kingdom Hearts, Aqua heard the voice of her only remaining family member inside her Heart, asking her to eliminate himself as well. She follows the voice to Radiant Garden, where she finds him...
3. Friendly Reminder (TW: Death): A child NPC grew annoyed with how the populace "didn't understand" what all the puppethead King and Queen of the dream city did for them and "put them to sleep" for a week, causing an eternal night and endless nightmares. Many died and destruction was rampant. The most triggering of these were her friends and students, of whom she watched, unable to save them. Names of those who she watched helplessly as they died are Ventus, Roxas, and Sora. The other she felt die due to having been using their Dimension Link at the time was Charles Xavier.
Yet with all this pain and sorrow, light began to grow in strengthened bonds between the souls that braved the long night... those that come after them.
4. A Fond Memory... (this predates the others): After a long day of training and study, the three friends sat together as they relaxed. Ven sat there, his beat-up wooden practice sword in his lap. Noticing this and how down Ven seemed in his zombie-like state, Terra pulled out his latest creation-a wooden Keyblade. Pretending that it was a real one, he teased Ven with a play-Rite of Succession. When Aqua called him on it in a teasing manner, he retorts that they all share the same dream: to become Keyblade Masters.

This made Ven smile as Terra gave him the wooden Keyblade--his best work--from the heart.
Character Quirks:

• Likes sweets.
  
• Is a little bossy, but means well.
  
• Codependency that all Keyderps have to some extent.
  
• Friends come first mentality.

Mundane Skills:

• Excels in cooking, mostly baking sweets.
  
• Dextrous in crafts
  
• Obligatory good singer because Disney.

Unique Skills

• Magic (here have a link i apologize for long list!).
  
• Skilled Swordsmanship (see above list).

Naoya & Agatha Sheridan

[meaningdies]

Your Nickname: Matt
Character's Name: Naoya | Devil Survivor | meaningdies
Exchanging With: Agatha Sheridan | Original Character | badluckhealer

Normal Memories:
- Being super ultra bored in a high school class this incarnation because he already knows all the things.
- Being a princess in an incarnation and Loki trying to fit him in all the terrible dresses.
- Sitting in the sun and watching children play in a village in Europe (early medieval era).
- Being sick and cold in a hide tent in very old Greenland.
- Being woken up by screaming little kids climbing on him and pulling his hair.
- Playing in the hills with demons as a child (first incarnation).
- Riding on her (at that point) uncle's shoulders and laughing (WWII incarnation - Japan).
Traumatic/Important Memories:
[These are all gonna be triggery let's be real here.]
- Killing Abel + being cursed.
- Watching his/her uncle shield him from the blast of the atom bomb.
- Fighting Kazuya.
- Rotting away in a late-medieval era prison as a child.

Character Quirks: Mixes formal and informal speech, says 'heh' often, is rather removed from people emotionally, doesn't lie (just doesn't tell all of the truth), loves sweet foods, is a bit of a ninja. Also has severe migraines.
Mundane Skills: Computer coding, being multilingual.
Unique Skills: Encyclopedic knowledge of demons native to his world, demon summoning.

Plantbane the idk-how-many and Plantbane the First

[badluckhealer]

Your Nickname: Delphi
Character's Name: Agatha Sheridan (OC)
Exchanging With: Naoya, because Kajimatt and I are the last people who should be allowed to decide who to memory swap with. Expect freakouts from both parties once this is over.

Normal Memories:
1) A tired-looking albino woman with a bandage over one eye and gloves on her hands. Her visible eye is a pale gray. She is resting on a hospital cot, wearing a hospital gown, and the room is darkened; despite this, she looks dignified and strong. Agatha addresses her as "Mother."
2) A man in loose-fitting clothing, gloves on his hands. He pats Agatha on the head and smiles gently. He's as tan as she is, with matted brown hair and dark eyes behind thick glasses. Agatha addresses him as "Uncle Jack."
3) Receiving an email stating that she's been banned from a religious forum for "inflammatory and inciting language".
4) Agatha's mother setting up a pot full of paper flowers in fake dirt.
5) Going to class.
6) Typing up a post on a computer - one can presume it's the one that got her banned in Normal Memory 3.
7) Removing her gloves to touch an injured hunter and take on their injuries.
Traumatic/Important Memories:
1) In this memory, Agatha can't be older than three or four. She is wandering around in the back yard, and touches a flower because it's pretty. --- The flower wilts and dies the moment she touches it, and she runs screaming to her mother. As of this memory, her mother still has both eyes, and just gives her a look of cool sorrow. "I'm so sorry, Agatha. I'd hoped to spare you this for a few more years."
2) Agatha's mother explains to her the truth of their family. Uncle Jack is nearby, holding Agatha's hand through the explanation. When it's over, he gives her her gloves.
3) Training with the Injury Transfer skill. It hurts a lot, and near the beginning Agatha is nearly always in tears. She starts to toughen up after a while.
4) Idly scribbling in a journal. After a few minutes of this, she writes out the sentence: "Either we cling to a path in life, or we fall into despair from the weight on our shoulders." She thinks about it for a minute, then nods, circling the sentence.
Character Quirks: Shifts between talking formally and talking casually, kind of like she can't decide on how to address others. Doesn't talk much either. Actually very bitter and emotional, but keeps it down 24/7 due to family history of emotions being bad mmkay. Never complains about any of the things, including the injuries she came to Hinoto-Ri with.
Mundane Skills:
1) Cooking - When she's not sleeping off the injuries, Agatha's actually a decent cook. Not very experimental, but the rest of the household doesn't complain when she's on cooking duty. (Then again they don't complain about things period.)
2) Pain Threshold - Agatha's got a high tolerance for pain. Not to the point of "feel no pain at all", but to the point that the injury transfer doesn't make her cry.
Unique Skills:
1) Earth Bane - Absolutely cannot touch plants or else they will die.
2) Injury Transfer - Absolutely can hold another person's hand and take their injuries unto self. Entirely possible to die from overuse, though. Don't overdo it.

Judas Iscariot [OU] & Tohru Adachi [AU}

[silvercoins]

Your Nickname: Mini
Character's Name: Judas Iscariot (Saint Young Men)
Exchanging With: Tohru Adachi (Persona 4)

Normal Memories: When he learned how to play video games and turned out to be pretty good. Listening to Jesus preach. When he moved into a Japanese apartment with Peter and Andrew. First tasting fast food. Commenting on Jesus's blog about J-dramas. Meeting Buddha. And fainting from hunger.
Traumatic/Important Memories: 1. Judas is being handed a bag of coins. He opens them to count - thirty silver ones. He nods, and takes the bag. (i.e. you betrayed Jesus you jerk)
2. SUICIDE TRIGGER: Judas hung himself in an open field, no further description needed moving on.
3. Hell. Hell is basically feeling the utmost pain and torment in every layer of your soul, and knowing with complete certainty that you deserved it. Forever and ever there's no escape-
4. -except at one point it stops, and a guy who looks kind of like a hooker with bat wings marches up to you. "Indulgences," he says. "Kid, you're getting out."
Character Quirks: Judas apologizes. A lot. And blames himself a lot. And is really passive aggressive. And forgets to eat.
Mundane Skills: Money handling and video/computer games.
Unique Skills: Judas can recite the Old Testament and Jesus's preaching pretty much offhand, and isn't a bad preacher himself. He never uses these skills for obvious reasons, but ahaha... have fun, Adachi...

King DeDeDe [AU1] & Samus Aran [OU]

[emperor_penguin]

Your Nickname: Brantron
Character's Name: King DeDeDe (There Will Be Brawl) emperor_penguin
Exchanging With: Samus Aran (Metroid) screwattack

Normal Memories: 1) Peacefully ruling as King of Dream Land, 2) Being abandoned by Meta Knight as Dream Land crumbled around him, 3) Chasing Kirby to the Mushroom Kingdom, 4) Opening his nightclub, 5) Rigging a boxing match, 6) Negotiating territory with Samus Aran, a freelance prostitute, 7) Calling a meeting with Police Chief Link (he was killed before it happened)
Traumatic/Important Memories: SEVERAL OF THESE ARE GOING TO BE TRIGGERY FOR HORRIBLE SCENES OF VIOLENCE AND GORE. Watching the Coral Cannibal devour and murder the citizens of Dream Land, bitterness and anger at the Mario Brothers for capturing Kirby before he could kill Kirby himself, the conversation he had with Luigi just before his death, and being murdered by blunt force trauma to the back of the head followed by having his body violently turned inside out by unseen psychic assassins.
Character Quirks: Speaks in a very colloquial tone with a slight southern drawl, pacifism by way of hardline negotiation in place of violence, intimidating but lazy posture.
Mundane Skills: Business management, underworld politics.
Unique Skills: Immense strength, hammer-based fighting style.

Garviel Loken and Aqua

[greyerrant]

Your Nickname:Bill
Character's Name: Garviel Loken (HOrus Heresy)
Exchanging With: Aqua

Normal Memories: 1)Garviel being raised to the Mournival by Abaddon, Aximand, and Torgaddon. Basically he stands in moonlight and undergoes an odd little ceremony to show he is a member of the brotherhood. 2)Garviel's talk with Kyril Sindermann, where he confesses doubts about the righteousness of coming and bringing compliance to cultures that reject the Imperial truth. 3) Garviel awkwardly walking in on Euphrati Keeler and her lover Leif, and him being somewhat confused by the whole of their interaction.
4) Garviel talking to a poet Ignace Karkasy, asking him to promise to always tell the truth about what he saw of the Imperium of Man.
5) Garviel's first meeting with his Remembrancer Mersadie Oliton, with him telling her about the strange festival of Hats with huge, multi-person hats being carried around during the celebration of a planet coming to compliance.
6) Garviel's quiet talk with Horus about the nature of the Warp and Daemons, and what he saw in the Whisperheads.
7) Garviel defeating Lucius in the sparring cages by punching the best swordsman in all of the Space Marine legions in the nose during a sword duel.


Traumatic/Important Memories: 1) THe Whisperheads incident: One of Garviel's 10th company is possessed by a daemon and becomes a raging madman, slaughtering 2 squads of Space marines and several remembrancers before being killed by a combined volley of bolter fire and flamethrowers. HIs first brush with the warp. 2) Horus' comatose body being brought into the Serpent Lodge, and Garviel's brothers Aximand and Abaddon barring him from entering it and saving him from the strange priests of Davin. Them waiting 2 weeks only to find a completely recovered horus coming out of it, and the strange change in his father's mood that was apparent afterwards.
3) The start of the Virus Bombardment at Istvaan, where a planet of several billion people were turned into ash in a few minutes, as garviel was forced to watch from a bunker.
4) The final duel with Abaddon and Aximand, where his best friend Torgaddon is slain, and his own chest is shattered, before having the temple collapse on him AND being hit by an orbital strike. And he lived through it all.

More detail on these events is found here, http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Garviel_Loken or through plrurking me
Character Quirks: Garviel tends to be rather quiet when not forced to speak, and is very, very blunt,
Mundane Skills: Storytelling, Garviel is a renowned storyteller, and survival, in the sense of hunting and finding food.
Unique Skills: Skilled tactician. You will know how to lead and command troops in battle
Bolter use: You will know how to use, maintain, and reload a bolter, which are strange projectile weapons used by the adeptus Astartes

Shiki Misaki [AU] & Joshua Kiryu [AU]

[nyantan]

Your Nickname: Katie
Character's Name: Shiki Misaki [AU] (The World Ends With You)
Exchanging With: Joshua Kiryu [AU] (The World Ends With You)

Normal Memories:
-Finishing her first ever sewing project, Mr. Mew.
-Meeting Eri for the first time.
-Her argument with Eri that led to her believing Eri was telling her she would never be a good seamstress.
-Teaching Neku how it was important to be a good listener when meeting 777.
-Coming out to Neku about how she had been lying to him and that she had been imitating Eri, and Neku telling her that he liked her for who she is.
-First arriving in Facility.
-Finally getting together with Neku in Facility.

Traumatic/Important Memories:
-TRIGGER WARNING SUICIDE/SELF HARM Her cutting and subsequent accidental death from blood loss, and her introduction to the Reapers Game.
-Week 1 Day 7, from the beginning of the day until she is brought back to life.
-End of Week 3 Day 7.
-Her death at the hands of Justin in Facility.

Character Quirks:
-Her feelings for Neku
-Love of clothes and fashion
-Lingering self esteem issues
-Slight fear and anxiety of strangers
-HUGE CLONE DENIAL
-Desire to listen to peoples problems and help if she can
-Desire to be kind to others and make them happy
-Fondness and attachment for her cat
-A knee-jerk reaction to having Mr. Mew called a 'pig' to proclaim that he's a cat
-A lack of hesitance to strip Neku down and fix his outfit if he's dressed horribly
-BUTTONS. MUST FIX THE BUTTONS. LOSE BUTTONS WILL DRIVE HER CRAZZYY.

Mundane Skills:
-Her skills with drafting designs
-Her understanding of fabric and colors and how to utilize them properly when putting together designs

Unique Skills:
-Psychomancy control over Mr. Mew
-Her specific fusion skills with Neku

Kotoha (OU) & Atomic Robo (OU)

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Your Nickname:Walker
Character's Name: Kotoha (Pokemon) unbroken_chain
Exchanging With: Atomic Robo Tesla (Atomic Robo) square_cubelaw

Normal Memories:
1. Exploring ancient ruins in a trackless desert.
2. Biking over the Driftveil Drawbridge and pausing at the halfway point to let the wind blow through her hair.
3. Fishing.
4. Flying on the back of a giant six-winged moth.
5. Exploring Chargestone Cave.
6. Competing in the Pokemon World Tournament.
7. Shopping at Join Avenue.

Traumatic/Important Memories:
1. Receiving her Oshawott and naming her Tomoe in Aspertia City
2. Leaving the Opelucid Gym only for the entire town to be frozen over by Team Plasma
3. Catching and naming Solar Logos, her Volcarona.
4. Being saved from Kyurem's Glaciate attack by N and Zekrom and proceeding to demolish Ghetsis

Character Quirks:
1. Prefers running to walking.
2. Adjusts her visor as a nervous habit.
3. Enjoys making flashy entrances.

Mundane Skills:
1. Ballet dancing.
2. Acting.

Unique Skills
1. Instinctive grasp of small-unit tactics with Pokemon (i.e., super powered non-human allies).
2. Extensive experience with reading and manipulating the flow of battle.

Atomic Robo (ou) and Kotoha (ou)

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Your Nickname: Spazzy
Character's Name: Atomic Robo
Exchanging With: Kotoha | unbroken_chain

Normal Memories:
- He has met Stephen Hawking and they both had a bit of an ego clash. Stephen Hawking and Robo are both assholes to each other.
- He got a PhD in Physics from Columbia University and spent the early decades of his life studying and mastering advanced sciences.
- He fought against super soldiers and other strange sciences the Nazi's tried using in WW2.
- He met Dr. Dinosaur, who is very insane and very annoying. Somehow, he keeps coming back.
- Met HP Lovecraft. The man was insane and rude, but mostly insane.
- Once trained with Bruce Lee. Mostly learned the joys of running at least once a day and how not hit things harder than you want to.
- Enjoyed old style science-fiction comics (Think like Flash Gordan).

Traumatic/Important Memories:
- His father was Nikola Tesla, the man created him and treated him with respect. He learned that science should be advanced for the betterment of humanity. Technology can make life better for people and it should be focused on protecting and preserving life. Of course, that might mean doing some dangerous things to advance knowledge. Nikola died in a mysterious explosion, attributed to an experiment gone wrong. Robo was off fighting Nazi's during that time.
- He once trained under a masked vigilante/hero called Jack Tarrot. He also had a sort of puppy crush/romantic relationship with his daughter. He learned the art of Zen shooting from Jack. He also learned Tesla used to fight the bad guys in his youth.
- He learned that Edison is a crazy, selfish man with the goal of immortality at the expense of millions of lives. His plan backfired on him when Nikola, Jack Tarrot and Robo all converged on Edison. Edison came back as a ghost closer to modern day. Robo still can't figure out how Edison's ghost could exist.
- Robo once was sent to a dimension full of vampires. Basically people that drink blood and are stronger than normal thanks to a virus. It mostly involved them drooling on him. He went back again to rescue people who went there and found Jenkins, a man who would work for Robo from that day forward and be a great asset. Jenkins is a capable soldier and employee who is ready for any situation. Robo does not presume he could take Jenkins in a fight. (And makes jokes like "Jenkins doesn't sleep, he holds back.", and "We're not trapped in this building with them, they're trapped in here with Jenkins.", and also: "What if they capture Jenkins?" "If they're lucky, it won't come to that.")

Character Quirks:
-Fears bugs.
-Makes jokes and sarcastic comments in the face of danger and bad guys.
-Gets annoyed when things don't follow the laws of science.

Mundane Skills:
- Used to clean the house and lab of someone with OCD (Nikola).
- Can do a Jack Benny impersonation. (Or any 1930's - 1950's radio comedian).
Unique Skills
- Zen Shooting: The ability to take in all the factors needed to accurately shoot a gun without actually thinking about it. Range, wind, movement speed, ect. Can be applied to gun like things (Nerf, bb's, paintball, ect.)
- Knowledge and understanding of advanced principles one of these fields: physics, electrical and mechanical engineering, nuclear physics, aeronautics, astronautics, robotics, or high-dimensional mathematics.

Desco (OU) & Tachikoma

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Your Nickname:Walker
Character's Name: Desco Kazamatsuri (Disgaea) tyrantball
Exchanging With: Tachikoma (Ghost In The Shell) genkibot

Normal Memories:
Trigger Warning: Murder
1. Punching a Bio-Suit so hard it snapped in half and how Daddy praised her for that.
2. Her first taste of chocolate.
3. Months spent in solitary confinement in Hades, sealed under so many wards she wasn't able to move.
4. Her first session as a Senator in the Dark Congress and the taste of the cotton candy she was bribed with. (Even though she was bribed, she still voted against him.)
5. Killing talking mushrooms on a moonbase.
6. Teaching a class on being an effective minion at Evil Academy.
7. Providing three different personality engrams to install in her mass production clones.

Traumatic/Important Memories:
Trigger Warning: Death
1. Her baby sister, Lady Des-X, crippling her, scooping out her eyes and eating them, and then smashing her skull like a watermelon, directly after decapitating Big Sis while Desco watched helplessly.
2. Pledging eternal loyalty and devotion to her Big Sis and being formally accepted as her little sister.
3. Watching Big Sis draw out her hidden powers and teaming up with her to defeat Lady Des-X once and for all.
4. Destroying the seething mass of overflowing malice known as Fear The Great, a doomsday planet-killing weapon built into the very fabric of the universe by God.

Character Quirks:
1. Talking in the third person almost constantly - i.e., 'Desco will do her best!'
2. Chews on the tip of her tail or otherwise fidgets when nervous.
3. Exaggerates her childlike body language deliberately in order to appear more 'cute' when she wants something.

Mundane Skills:
1. Making over-the-top ice cream sundaes and parfaits.
2. Swimming.

Unique Skills
1. Speaking the blasphemous, sanity-shattering language of the Outer Gods.
2. Unaware that the fourth wall ever existed in the first place.

ROULETTE SWAPS

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Reply in this section if you want to tempt fate and get a swap with someone completely randomly! The cutoff signup date for this is the 15th OF MAY AT 11:59PM EASTERN TIME.

Robin (FE:A)

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Hopefully somebody else is up for the roulette ;;


Your Nickname: Dr. Shika McDeer III, Esq.
Character's Name: Robin (Fire Emblem: Awakening)
Comfort Level: I'm good with anything :|a

Normal Memories:
1. Spending time at the barracks
2. Eating bear meat around a campfire, listening to her friends complaining about eating bear meat around a campfire
3. Marching with a large number of people (an army) across a desert
4. Reading a strategy book by the light of a lamp, and having a loved one (hi Chrom) come tell her it's time to turn in
5. Running her hands through a bunny-boy's soft fuzzy hair (sorry Yarne)
6. Holding a baby in her arms (hi Lucina) and thinking that she is the most adorable baby in the world
7. Being stalked across an army encampment (hi Tharja)

Traumatic/Important Memories: SPOILERS EVERYWHERE ALSO MATRICIDE WARNING
1. Her very first memory of waking up in a field
2. Chrom confesses his love for Robin
3. Ffinding out that she's Grima (replace generic male avatar guy with Robin plz)
4. Threatened with death by her own daughter (also she chose yes) oh hi Lucina
Character Quirks: Reads a LOT; plays strategy games; gets along easily with others; wears robes; tends to be brutally honest; enjoys liver-and-eel pie; gets flustered easily, but doesn't ever panic

Mundane Skills: Speed reading, horseback riding

Unique Skills: Military strategy, casting magic from tomes

EXCHANGE OFFERS AND/OR PLANNING

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If you'd like to discuss or offer characters for swapping, you are free to do this here! Remember, there's always the roulette option!

Re: EXCHANGE OFFERS AND/OR PLANNING

[badluckhealer]

Soo...Anyone want to swap memories with a cursed girl or a fighter?

ETA FOR MORE DETAIL:

Agatha is a walking plant bane, and believe me when I say she's got good reasons for being so snippy and withdrawn. Serious trauma in some memories. Some of this trauma is actually secondhand - her entire family is basically traumatized people, and they have been for a very, very long time. ... On the bright side, Aggie knows how to anon on the network! Yes!

Haseo has some traumatic memories, but definitely not on Agatha's level. However, she did die before arriving here and has been repeatedly injured in combat, so please keep that in mind. Even so, she's managed to keep going, so...there's that.

Randomized Sign ups closed!

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The randomized sign ups are closed and we have the results for you! They are as follows:

Q and Mikale Godono (since there was an uneven number, we put Q in there to make things interesting)
Zelgius and Gale
Avitus and Kanji Tatsumi
Faris and Labrys
Akane Awakusu and Robin
Germany/Ludwig Beilschmidt and Nikolai Volkov
Earl Ciel Phantomhive and Atoli

Be sure to get in touch with your partner for the event and have fun!