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here's a quick and dirty Halloween plot SOTP just because...

Baz: Won't be doing the plot. The most painful things in his past are mainly things that happened to him, like getting bit by a vampire and losing his mom at age 5, getting kidnapped by the Numpties, etc. Like he probably regrets fighting with Simon during HS but they're fine now and it's not really nightmare stuff.

Matthias: Won't be doing the plot. He's a great candidate because he was a literal piece of garbage for awhile and did some pretty sketchy stuff, but he worked through it so long ago (and with a similar sort of plot) so I can't really see the point in repeating all that.

Nicaise: Undecided. I could have him see the Regent, and flashback to all of that, because while his past relationship with the Regent was more something that was put on him, he does still feel shame and has a lot of self-blame, and he wasn't very kind. There are just a couple problems with this one, a) it's trauma he is already still dealing with, albeit functioning mostly okay, but either way it's triggery stuff (childhood sexual abuse)... b) that someone(s) would have to be willing to read/play through with me and it's heavy subject matter.

The main reason I would put him in this plot is because I could use this as an opportunity for Nicaise to open up to someone(s) about his past. Aside from Laurent, who already knows because of canon, Nicaise has been here for almost 2 years now and has still not told anyone about any of the past sexual abuse or his suicide attempt. So...maybe?

Verity: Probably. Verity is the best candidate for this plot for the sheer fact that she would be interested in the movie and go see it, which is honestly the #1 reason I want to put her in. XD So again if the past shame fits at all for this plot, then she would probably start hallucinating her past suicide attempts. AGAIN, TRIGGERY. But I'd need at least someone close with her who isn't doing the plot to thread off of. (That's my one concern with the plot, like if everybody is participating they're gonna be wrapped up in their own mindfuckery. (Though that could be its own extra mindfuck.))

Strange: Has to. I wasn't going to put him in, but I just realized while writing this that I kind of have to, because when he hears something's cursed HE'S GOING TO LOOK INTO IT. fuck. XD Well...I guess he'll be seeing past patients he turned away? Being a dickhead to people? DRIVING LIKE A FUCKING IDIOT AND RUINING HIS HANDS? Anything else? idk

I think mostly he'll be pissed off that he can't protect himself using his magic. Damn that Darrow magic... *shakes a fist at clouds*

Hello! I just got back from a weekend trip to Hocking Hills which was amazing. I have a week long trip coming up at the end of the month (Aug 29 - Sept 3), which will put me on a longer hiatus, plus I have about a billion tags to get through so I figured now's a good time to write an SOTP instead! /o\

Baz - Baz is currently proposing to Simon! They are also adopting two kids from the aftermath of the Wish Plot, and saying goodbye to Peter, buuuut I think Green Gardens is also starting to get kids there again (npcs, but still!). Baz is my oldest pup in game (in terms of playing, not his age) and has fallen a bit into that Old Pup rut where they've been around awhile, friends have disappeared, then you start to feel like no one cares about them anymore (or is that just me). So I would like to work on his CR with old and new pups, especially adults. I'm not worried about his voice, it's more that I don't tag around with him as much as the others and I need to do that.

Matthias - Matthias has moved into a cabin in the woods! He would very much like his gf and bf to come live with him, but it's unlikely. BUT AT LEAST HE HAS HIS WOOF. He's also currently working through mixed emotions of Marcus having lived with him and then bailing (not his fault! dumb wish plot!) and then disappearing to go fight demons for two weeks. HE IS VERY DOMESTIC. HE NEEDS THINGS TO CHILL OUT FOR A MINUTE MAYBE. (but where's the fun in that?) Still working as a life guard til the end of summer, the body guard thing (tho Stark is vacationing from Iron Man I think), and his permanent florist job. No real plans for him at the moment.

Nicaise - Wellllll you know what, everyone got kind of back burnered when I got Stephen so same as my other pups (except Baz's proposal) there's nothing major going on with Nicaise right now. He's still doing his ballet stuff, he went to the country rock fest with the smooch squad and HATED IT. Eponine also broke up with him, but he's okay because it was really random. But he did like holding hands. ?_? Still has crushes but doesn't know one damn thing about how to try and initiate or approach an actual relationship so ?_? He doesn't wanna talk about it. He'll be starting HS back up next month as a Sophomore. And also be growing even taller. No plans! fail

Verity - I love an outgoing pup. V can literally talk to anyone and it's easy, because she's a brat but also she's really earnest and she Cares So Much but tries not to show it because feelings are hard. She has two part time jobs, one at Phoenix Records, the other one at Panoptes as a paid intern. SHE LOVES THEM BOTH. She also secretly~ enrolled in college since Panoptes pays for it and so she'll be starting as a freshman next semester with an engineering degree in mind. I assume then that she might do PR shifts on weekends and Panoptes during the week. She prooobably doesn't need the PR job but it's her aesthetic and she's buddies with Neil. Also recently she and Tony saved a dog that had been hit by a car and now the doggo lives at Panoptes and her name is Red Zeppelin and she has a leg prosthetic. Continues to have a crush on All Pretty Girls but especially Ellie, and is gay and thriving thx. No future plans, she wasn't involved in the recent exorcism but eventually I should probably start to do something involving her past trauma. I wish I was better at coming up with plots in general!

Stephen - ngl I am struggling with him a bit. I was blinded by how cool he was and all the things I could do with him, that I don't think I took into account how...not great? he is with people. Like I knew that about his personality, but then actually threading it is a whole different thing. XD I don't do as well with reserved / anti-social type characters because I tend to feel like I'm not giving enough in tags, so I worry threads are boring for the person threading with me, or the character is unlikable (which is okay because a character doesn't have to be likable), or ???? And then because he's such a well known character I'm constantly worried he doesn't sound like himself, or I'm getting something wrong, etc etc. So his tags take forever because I'm second third and fourth guessing everything.

I'm not worried on a drop level, I really deeply love him, my worry is more that I'm not doing a good job with him and I'm disappointing people. But I'm going to keep pushing through and hopefully it'll get easier and I'll improve with him. idk

Plus I have an EP I'd like to write soon for him! I'm going to create a Darrow version of The Bar With No Doors for Darrow's magic users. I'd like to get this up tomorrow, even though I have a lot of current threads going with Strange, because I only have 2 weeks until I'm in Atlanta. At least it'll be a gathering post so folks don't actually have to tag me, plus I think I'm gonna start ftb the longer threads in his debut soon as well.

Anyway I also have a general question for those of you who have seen Ragnarok!

In your opinion, can Strange only do the teleportation thing he did with Thor because he was in the Sanctum, or could he do that anywhere? I was talking to Lys and we thought it was a Sanctum-specific thing, but also he's so powerful...maybe not? :E

Either way, I'd like to bleed some things from comic!Strange into my Strange, because his magic and all that hasn't been too deeply explored yet in the movies and I don't want him to only be able to do the spells we've seen and be limited to them, because I can assume after two years of studying/practice and having been in that time loop with Dormammu he knows how to do A Lot, but idk how much is allowed... >.>

Oh but also game-wise he took over Dorian's lighthouse and made it his new Sanctum. He fought a tentacle monster which will be part of the KIRIN plot, performed a blood transfusion, went to two birthday parties and was kind of awkward about it, adopted an adult man, and his best friend in Darrow is Tony Douchebag Stark so it's been weird.

NO REALLY

Lila: Tiny Antari baby is due in February, so what better environment to go into labor / potentially have the actual baby than at a Magnus Bane party? (And having the baby on Valentine's Day would at least mean I'd remember one of my pups birthdays >.>) I think the best way to make it playable is for her to start having contractions in her top level, think they're just some fakey ones again (since pregnant women can get them a lot leading up to the actual birth), also maybe it's earlier than the due date so she's just like UGH NOT AGAIN and won't leave the party. But then they get worse during the threads of whoever tags, so that there can be actual threads before she Realizes and then goes GO GET KELL and fucks off to have the baby somewhere.

If anyone can actually deliver the baby, she's gonna have it right in the mansion (unless Kell insists otherwise?). If not, she can just go to the hospital like she probably should. XD

She'll be glad to finally get the tiny monster out of her BODY and it'll be her whole world and she'll set anyone who messes with it on fire. >:0 Baby Antari still doesn't have a name.

Baz: Basil really enjoyed being human for a week so he's probably been kind of melancholy about his undead LYFE since then, but doing his best not to mope. He's a good moper, though. HE JUST WANTS TO BE ALIVE. He probably also has a better understanding of Simon's power issues, probably trying to figure out how to help with that, but just stumped. :( also needs some friends / keep up with his friends, which is my own fault cause I don't get him out enough. IDK IDK I need to figure out somewhere to go with him or a plot of some kind?? Not a temporary plot, like the power swap, but...something. Although I don't think all pups necessarily need plots, I just feel like I'm not sure what to do with him.

Matthias: Umm fuck I feel like specific things I want to do with him are kind of far on the horizon~ which is basically I want to canon update him TO HIS DEATH, and also this summer he's finally gonna build himself a nice little house in the woods, which I wanted to do last year and just never got around to it. omg i suck at SOTP. Well...he still has two jobs, at the florist and at Kagura (cause it exists til March, right?). He was a Grisha for a week, and like with Baz I think I failed at following up with that. It's so tough because threads take such a long time. I think he's kind of struggling with himself, though, which is nothing new, but it's probably worse now. I just need to convey that in future threads.

Nicaise: I have a really hard time with Nicaise in that, his past is super gross, and I have a hard time even eluding vaguely to it in tags because it's like...no one wants to read that, which has me questioning why I didn't realize that before I apped but ???? I'm dumb. so that's my struggle with Nicaise. Also he's so...stiff. LOOSEN UP. he's a tough kid to play because he's not great at being social so it gets exhausting, and then I feel like no one likes him which makes me not want to tag folks with him. idk I think I get the most insecure with him.

WELL ANYWAY he's fifteen (as of November) and in the middle of a growth spurt because puberty comes to those who wait, and he's gonna get tol. The endgame is taller than Laurent which is gonna be hilarious (to me). Laurent is 5'10" and I currently have Nicaise at 5'3" so he's got a bit to go. I just sort of update his wiki when the mood strikes me, like the height fairy. Also he's doin ballet stuff.

(I have also fabricated a high school bully btw, his name is Ted and he has unnamed friend bullies, so feel free to use Ted as an NPC bully.)

Verity: I haven't posted her yet! I'm excited to get her out into the world. First off I want her to become everyone's big sister at the Children's Home because a) it's just in line with canon and b) found family is the trope of my HEART. which is part of why I love Darrow so much b t w. SO DOES ANYONE WANT A SISTER? Although I'm predicting that at first she's gonna be pretty withdrawn at the Home because she's gonna really miss her foster family badly. pls just love her.

One thing she'll need to take care of is getting some meds in Darrow, as I headcanon she takes stuff for anxiety and depression, so she might need some help with that. Longterm I want to explore her dealing with getting kicked out of the system~. As an aside, when the time comes I don't think she'll like living on her own, at least not at first. Also figuring out if she wants to/is able to try college someday?? And working out her issues re: her sexuality. There's so much I want to do with herrrrr.

Future: WELL okay so. I've wanted to app someone from Red Rising basically since I read it, because they're my favoritefavorite books. but the characters are SO INTIMIDATING TO ME. I think part of it is actually because, at least imo, the world is so complex! But when it was announced there were new characters in Iron Gold, I'd been hoping one of them would ping me and be someone I could app. I had my heart set on Ephraim because Trigg was so goddamn dear to me. (I KNOW I KNOW he was alive for like 5 minutes stop judging me) and I just couldn't believe Pierce was giving me this gift. I was looking forward to reading him so much, but I didn't realize what sort of character he would be. So...at the point I'm at I do love him despite things. I'm not gonna go into it because of spoilers, but I will vaguely say that if I still like him by the end of this book I'm seriously going to consider apping him. *crosses fingers*

me: back from San Diego! and tired af! really hoping to tag back plotty / not-yet-req-length threads tomorrow when I will also hopefully be less tired. though I don't imagine myself actually making reqs for July, I just hate dropping threads so early. obvs if it's been too long don't feel obligated to tag back.

Noah: I've decided to finally sex swap him before the shit hits the fan with the Unmaker plot, and he's going to be

SO

HAPPY

probably doing this early August, but if anyone wants to private pre-play anything lmk because you know how week-long plots are.

Baz: was just kidnapped by his boyfriend-turned-dragon and that needs to be played. Also just lost one of his best friends and is gonna have a major sad. :(((((((((((((((((((( and Saoise won't let him heal her arm why -______-

Matthias: is in the process of learning secrets about his girlfriend? possibly?? maybe will try to track down Khylen to no end? lol... other than that, not much going on and all around pretty happy! should do a gym bros post at some point.

someday I want him to learn about the POI group though, randomly XD

Lila: pregnant and trying to deal with it. still not telling anyone! probably up to other things but I'm v tired right now.

Nicaise: well he watched Laurent be kidnapped by a dragon so there's another thing to add to his ptsd. XD also still needs to be resolved as we started threading right before my trip. Aaand he also watched Aggie raise someone from the dead or something lol.

SOTP stuff stresses me out, but here's things:

Noah - I'm still ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about this guy. He's not up to anything in particular. I don't have any plots going for him, or any plans, and I'm wondering if that's a problem or if it's okay that he's just existing right now. It's just weird for me because I feel like in a way he's always been my happiest, loudest pup, but right now I feel a little lost with him.

He has a tl at the St Patricks party if anyone wants to thread.

Baz - Green Gardens has officially~ opened and I'm really happy the place has non-NPC workers and even two non-NPC kids living there currently. So he's in a very happy place right now with all of that. If anyone has a pup who wants to work with kids or in some other capacity, just let Sarah or I know!

Matthias - Matthew is going to disappear early next week, and it's probably going to gut him. Despite his hardened soldier upbringing~ Matthias is actually a deeply loving person, and a dumb romantic, and Matthew had just moved in with him- even though Dutch hadn't he was still planning to build them all a qt house when the weather got better and make a little life.

I'm not sure exactly what he's going to do- like he might worry all the time about Dutch leaving next, especially because he's already lost Inej the first time, and Jesper- but he's going to be v sad.

Lila - Lila has a bad case of me needing to do stuff with her, but not actually doing it.

* She's in a prank war with Sirius and James, but we haven't threaded any of the pranks.

* She knows Solo's identity now and has probably been lowkey stalking him to find out more about him, possibly to ruin any of his future heists.

* Has been thieving in general here and there, but that's difficult to convey in threads? Like I could EP her stealing but the logistics of how other people would tag that make my head hurt. I'd LOVE to have her team up with another thief-y pup and have them steal something together. AND I wanted to do something involved with superheroes like she's some kind of Catwoman (although the Bat-crew don't have superpowers, but then Catwoman also doesn't know magic)

* Thieves guild?

* Girl gang?

* Uh I still want her to have a baby with Kell XD

* Her item post! But this can happen at any time.

...I just haven't done any of it. /o\ Other than that, she's in love~ with Kell and also pointedly trying to not Feel Things about Tauriel disappearing.

Nicaise - He's hopefully making some friends his age (they've all had like 1 on-going thread, but still), which is new for him. He also has some adult friends who don't want to use him for their own schemes~ which is also new. He doesn't completely trust it/them/anything lol but he's trying to adapt. Darrow is totally different from anything he's ever experienced, and even if he has lived things that have pushed him beyond childhood, he is still a kid.

He loves Laurent so much. He got his stitches out, he's going to therapy, he has a doggo. He had an EP recently but if anyone wants any private threads or anything I'm always happy to play him.

Me - haha well my health could be a lot better, my mental health could be better, my job could be better, my own weird paranoia that no one likes me could go away. So basically, same old. As always I apologize for being such a slow tagger. I always feel like I'm never tagging fast enough to hold anyone's interest.

We're in the process of moving, SORT OF. It's like, so close to being done, but also not that it's driving me nuts. Once I get out of this house I'm really hoping my quality of life fucking goes up some. I'll have a kitchen to cook in, a space to work out (thus upping my physical health), I'll be able to shower without it being an apocalyptic choice, I'll be able to do literally anything without being criticized and yelled at (thus upping my mental health). I'm in my fucking thirties, my life is a joke. I can't wait to just live apart from these people and be able to go to bed without the house being noisy af, and my cat be able to roam the house without it being a big deal. etc etc /VENT

Future pups - idk probably no one. I feel like I'm already slow enough with tags that adding another pup would be a bad idea. However, I still want to play a comic book character because I love comic books. And I am so obsessed with the Red Rising series that I'd LOVE to app someone from it, but I also don't know who. I started the third book last night and I just can't tell if there's a better book series in the world, aside from The Dark Tower which is lodged in my heart forever.