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Ouroboros Retrograde - plot role info

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You’re a soul embodied in the wrong era. Whether you have science fictional dreams of the future or historical fantasies of the past, in your speech, mannerisms, and dress, you try to emulate what you believe the era you hope for is like. You research, learn, practice - this other time was so much better and truer than where you’re stuck now with wrong-thinking people. You’re sort of an immersive, really method cosplayer.

This skill at immersion helps you understand and interact with other Champions - when one suffers from a Nightmare, you’ve learned how to emulate them and dive into their dreams, tracking down the psychological root of the problem in a form you can fight. This ability to move between levels of dreaming may have other applications, your Oracle-senpai says, but you have yet to find them.

Thread expectation: three threads per week, at least one with your own era and at least one with the era you’re obsessed with. Please consult the appropriate Council of Senpai member or the mods for more details on the time period.

Plot Skill: Dreamjump. once per week in Jaunt, or once per month afterwards, leap from the level of dream you’re in deeper into the metaphorical, entering another’s mind to confront their demons or see their ideas take shape. This ability to jump between consensus reality and interior metaphor may have other uses for a creative player.

Yes hello, I'm here and read through all this and I think we'll go with historical fantasies of the past for her.

Then Rise of the Advrsaries era it is! Do you know what species you'll be infiltrating Usagi as?

Most likely elf? That or human, but I've been mostly thinking elf for her especially since Mikasa is going to be my human champion. ...Can Dreaming be her archetype? I mean, just my first thought from those dream words/skill in her info.

Okay! As an elf, she would have heard stories about the era where they were ruled by the devils from the stars, aka the Diabolin, and bold heroes fought for their freedom with stolen weapons!

Hm. In a way, everyone is 'of dreaming', so you may want to find a way to make it a trifle more specific. 'of wishes' or 'of daydreams', maybe?

But the stars are so beautiful, why do the devils come from theeeere? I mean, wow, she'd have been super impressed by their heroes fighting against them and now she can dream of historical times where there'd be no Diabolins coming to them. Everything was fine until the Diabolins attacked!

Hahah, yeah, I realized that as soon as I posted the question! 'Of wishes' it is without contracting all the cute girls for their souls, though she spends a lot of her time daydreaming but that's just a very usagi like thing in general to do!

Anything to report from week 1/plans for week 2?

She met Mamoru's overlay (twice, but the thread's on-going just like all of mine are atm) and heard that he is from the Rise-era to give her even more reasons to dream of being from there. ...yeah, their history of falling in love for each other just keeps repeating itself. She's also meeting Allura on first week but that thread is just starting, so we'll see how that goes and keep you updated too.

But she also met some people from her own timeline (because why wouldn't I throw her at archetypes of Internet and Machines when this elf could live without technology just fine! Meeting not-horses-Jean too but his archetype is pleasure at least, so that's nice for her too!) and she went to ask questions from the Future Senpai. Because apparently she decided that if she wants to jump into the past, getting some answers from the future should also be a thing.

Week 2 plans or more like ideas are uh, getting around more and meeting more people! More research on everything and falling for Mamoru even moooooore. Maybe dreamjumping if there's a good chance to do that. ... other than that or more real plans, not yet, but when I'll have them, I will let you know.

Ummm, I really need to be faster with tagging but this week wasn't very good for that so all of my threads are short atm and maybe there will be even more of them later even to this first week. I'm really sorry about this week's speed from my side!;;; I'll do better from week 2 on in the actual week too and not just with backdated things!

Sounds great!!

So, Dreamjump skill and next week's choose your destination thing made me think of options. ...Could she jump with that from one path to the other? Like if she went to the Rise era first, could she jump to the forest from there somehow? ( first idea for that being something along the lines of if mamoru goes to the forest and usagi uses that skill to follow him there)

Yes.

Oh hello Rose~. ....but also eeeeeeeexcellent, most likely gonna do that or something like that then!

Anything to report from week 2/plans for week 3?

I fully admit that I didn't actually get anything done this week with everything happening on the OOC side of AoT cast.

She met the Oracle Senpai from the Past as soon as the mingle began / before anyone headed to any paths, I have a Dreamjump to backdate for her to go help Mamoru/Endymion in the Starquake lands and I am gonna do my best to backtag something with someone from her era too.

No plans for week 3 except that now when we got problems solved on my other cast, I full on plan to actually do things in that week and I am really sorry for how terribly bad this week was with activity. I want to fix this, I really do!

If she didn’t go to the past, Adversarybel can come and shout at her for romanticising the time of Occupied Faerie, cause he’s just been and it’s horrifying. He needs to get that off his chest before he can go Oracle from the revelation. (Also please call this lost, sassy child Nellarin, it’s his real name and will accidentally annoy him.)

Sound like fun?

I mean... She went there (past) but then she jumped away from there to the forest because that is where Mamoru went. But we should / could do that at some point sure!

Link us to the Dreamjump when it happens, please! :-)

Anything to report from week 3/plans for week 4?

Her Spirit Companion is repeating "out of time" and Usagi wonders if that has something to do with how she feels so misplaced or if it's something else.

She was in the forest, handwavedly helped with the problem there and not-handwavedly wondered about possibilities of Dreamjumping to follow the music to track down anything about it. She's thinking of ways to get creative with it, I just got there really late...

Next week she (and Endymion) will be in the cabochon group! ... No idea how well or badly that will go, see if her real magical girl form's silver crystal appears there at some point to help if they get into too much trouble. Since in theory it's with her all the time somewhere (unless it's with her real body...) though she wouldn't even know what it is right now but magical girl crystals seem to know how to tell their girl what to do anytime, so maybe possibilities of using Sailor Moon powers even when she is not herself??

Ohh and I will link you to that backdated week 2 Dreamjump soon.

Edited 2018-02-09 05:36 (UTC)

Sadly, it would likely be with her real body.

Ah, thought it might be so that is very good to know for sure. And just means I get to possibly figure out her Champion powers and see how this goes without her always depending on that crystal.

Anything to report from week 4/plans for week 5?

One last check-in for the road: What are your character's plans to resolve what they see as the biggest issue of their era?

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Ouroboros Retrograde - plot role info

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