January 2025 OOC Intro & CR Meme

[labyrinevents]

• OOC INTRO + CR MEME •

Welcome to the game, newbies! To our current dreamer crew, glad you're still with us! This post will act as an OOC intro for new players and a CR meme for everyone. Below you will see the CR meme form as well as a Event Outline for our current TDM. There will also be a "Sleepr" post later this month, next weekend infact! Low stakes fun CR building. Look forward to it!

• Event Outline •

Expand to see our TDM Outline

Garden of Dreams

• dreamers are brought to the enchanted garden
• two flowers, Agapanthus and Snapdragons causing sleepiness or energy
• dragonkin arrive to guide new arrivals from the garden and take them to the new portal that has appeared.

Within Somnius

• sun is up, still snowing 24/7
• Locals want the dreamers to leave Somnius and go to Lumindeas, but THEY DO NOT HAVE TO, nor do they have to move their business - can if they want, but not required
• Seravo's voice welcomes the dreamers to the new setting
• Passing through the portal, dreamer feels their greatest current desire in an overwhelming manner

The Land of Lumindeas

• the land is large and varied with plenty to explore.
• it is winter and snowy, though crisper and lighter than the atmosphere in Visium
• Portal Settlement outside of the city is where Dreamers wind up
• Farms with animal and crop specialties exist and require hands to help
• Yhaveh Forest is labyrinth like and dangerous, it's possible to get lost
• There's a seashell gathering contest for those who want to participate and street food vendors for anyone visiting
• The airships offer travel to an overnight trip through the Air Cliffs and an overnight trip to the hot springs in the Crystal Spires

Into Starlit Walls

• the city is massive, and overall welcoming
• Dragonkin are a dominant race of locals
• Vaeros will have a funeral, a lantern lighting ritual as proclaimed by Seravo, his brother.
• The royal quarter, the place where all dreamers have the option to live is looking to decorate with emotion-filled streamers
• The greenery is having a paint-fight-contest for fun and profit
• The dockyards are looking for a few good fishermen, but the water sure seems to have strange properties...
• There's a criminal element evident in the city and appropriate locations such as bars and smoking dens and card parlors to hang out in.

Gilded Wishes

• Dreamers are drawn to the golden crystal in the center of town
• The crystal here replaces the crystal used for rewards in Visium (here)
• The golden bracelets (seen during the 4th wall event) may contain memories of the original wearer or dreams/visions of their world if taken care of
• Dreamers are encouraged to change their grand wish (the wish that made the contract); IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO SO, please respond to your original application with your updated wish, or it won't be counted
• The crystal is offering welcome gifts; you can choose any ONE out of the five options per player

New Characters <b>Player Name and Pronouns:</b> <b>Contact:</b> Your best contact. Be sure to let others know if they can add you! <b>About Me:</b> Your hobbies, timezone, where you're from, whatever else you want to go here. <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>General Info:</b> Their personality, role in the story, what they do etc <b>Housing Plans:</b> Where are they going to live? Who are they living with? This can help everyone plot out housing/neighborhood CR! There will also be a top-level for characters looking for roommates. <b>Desired CR:</b> What it says on the tin. What sorts of relationships are you looking for? What personalities go best/worst with your character? Who would attract them and who would repulse them? <b>Monthly Plans:</b> What are you looking to do this month? Do you have a top level up on the TDM, are you looking to participate in some of the questboard quests? There's a lot to explore in Lumindeas that isn't covered in the TDM, what might you be interested in playing with? <b>RP Wishlist:</b> List out some scenarios you really want to RP, or a character arc you'd like to work on! <b>Anything else:</b> Put up a funny gif or do whatever you want here. PLEASE RESIZE ANY IMAGE TO UNDER 300 PX WIDE You can link your permissions post and a recent top level too. Established Characters <b>Player Name and Pronouns:</b> <b>Contact:</b> Your best contact for plotting <b>About Me:</b> Your hobbies, timezone, where you're from, whatever else you want to go here. <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>General Info:</b> Their personality, role in the story, what they do etc <b>Desired CR:</b> What it says on the tin. What sorts of relationships are you looking for? What personalities go best/worst with your character? Who would attract them and who would repulse them? <b>Monthly Plans:</b> What are you looking to do this month? Do you have a top level up on the TDM, are you looking to participate in some of the questboard quests? There's a lot to explore in Lumindeas that isn't covered in the TDM, what might you be interested in playing with? <b>RP Wishlist:</b> List out some scenarios you really want to RP, or a character arc you'd like to work on! <b>Anything else:</b> Put up a funny gif or do whatever you want here. PLEASE RESIZE ANY IMAGE TO UNDER 300 PX WIDE You can link your permissions post and a recent top level too.

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Takuto Maruki | Persona 5 Royal

[placation]

Character Name: Takuto Maruki
Canon: Persona 5 Royal
Character Age: 35
General Info: Non-spoilery: Maruki is a former cognitive psience (P5R psychobabble for the study of how we perceive things and how our perceptions shape reality) researcher turned high school counselor. He's a very kind, generous, altruistic man who wears his heart on his sleeve and will bend over backwards to help anyone with anything. A little sardonic at times, a LOT incurably nerdy all the time. Has a preternatural way of setting people at ease and getting them to open up. All around good dude.

Permissions and warnings are here!

ONLY CLICK IF YOU'RE CHILL WITH P5R SPOILERS

jazz hands!! He is the level 99 endgame boss, lol.

In canon, Maruki's quest to heal everyone of their emotional pains and traumas leads him to quite literally rewriting all of reality to remove any instance of pain or suffering from the world. If you think this sounds like loss of free will and brainwashing... you are correct! The Royal part of Persona 5 Royal is all about the Phantom Thieves trying to take Maruki down and restore the true reality.

The thing is that Maruki's intentions for this are never anything but altruistic. He truly believes that people are better off having never suffered, and will throw away everything in his life to make it so. Even in the bad end of the game where the ideal reality takes over and everyone lives out their perfect, pain-free lives, it doesn't apply to him. Everyone he knew has forgotten him, and he has to live alone as the sole keeper of the memories of their prior reality until he dies(??? unclear if he can die at that point lol he's kind of god)

SO YEAH. Sympathetic antagonist of all time! Complicated dude! However, his original canonpoint in game didn't include any of the spoilery bits above, and he's since regained bits and pieces of that through the altered memories event in August, so he's a weird mix atm.

TLDR: Your existence in this world is an amazing miracle.

Desired CR: Maruki has a super solid established core of close CR (and some extremely beloved by me negative CR ♥ please hate him) but this month I hope to use Sleepr to branch out into more new and fresh CR, especially with new characters! Honestly, he bounces well off pretty much everyone because he is such a "let's talk about YOU" guy. He's also even more difficult to put off than before because..... uh well look at who he hangs out with here lmao SO YES I'M DOWN FOR ANY AND ALL NEW CR!! If you've been waiting to get Muki'd, let's do it.

Oh, I do have a special place in my heart for CR in-laws! If you play someone who has ties to his existing close CR (Akechi, Venat, Eren, Dolph - pretty much anyone here) and we don't have CR, I would love to get some started hehe :3c

Monthly Plans: Sleepr is my main focus for Maruki this month, and CR developed from that can springboard into other threads based on all the things to explore in Stellari, the quest board, etc.! His main home is in Somnius and won't move just yet, but he'll be setting up a base in Stellari as well, so as ever he is everywhere. I want to keep his plate pretty empty til after Sleepr though, just for my own sanity!

RP Wishlist: (leans into the mic) he's gonna infiltrate that Stellari cult and get a memory bracelet if it fucking kills him. Network post about that coming soon, once the newbies are all in!!

Anything else:

[belheir]

first

[placation]

cr in-laws - why did you introduce my soulbond to linkin park

[belheir]

because it was funny and perhaps linkin park could have saved eren

just think if he had had screamo bands instead.

[enteloki]

a little attempted murder makes u strong. its like spinach for the heart.

[placation]

i hope they die together in february

[enteloki]

feburary 3 even <3

[asixthsense]

idk when yet but maruki is absolutely going to be mistaken for the wrong kind of doctor. just wait. he can thank basil later.

[placation]

contrary to popular belief, the phd does not stand for pretty huge dragon dick

[photographists]

it does now, thanks caitlin

[placation]

so you've chosen death

[photographists]

wow, mean to me

[savagest]

I'd love to have Maruki meet Qi Rong someday. As Maruki's hard to put off, that works out great, because Qi Rong is very off-putting!

And of course, I always want to do more with Kuro and Maruki.

[bountyfull]

caitlin are they no homo






or are they homo
also i can't believe you don't have a cr chart entry for vash (i am kidding)

[abandonhumanity]

I'll slip ya a pan token if you tell them I was first

I couldn't not leave a comment I love you too much
we never need plans we just be doing shit idk

MORE MUKIS ALWAYS MUKIS AND NEILS and also neil and charlie...oh...just every type of cr I can possibly get with you in every direction

ALSO? ALSO????? CHARLIE AND OMORI

[miseriainfernum]

I want to shove both my dudes at Maruki some more. Especially James (see, network thread) since he's so chronically out of it they can only go to crazy places.

Also James is completely insane already, so it'll be fine!

Re: Takuto Maruki | Persona 5 Royal

[requiemofanightmare]

I crave more interactions with this character, for better or for worse.

(and the fact that everytime I see his name, I jump on behalf of my character because my dislexia absolutely eats my brain and oh-no's. Thanks, Muraki.)

Also down to help infiltrate the Stellari Cult. Let's go

[maidenofrelief]

BACKFLIPS IN HERE Hello!!!!!!!!!! I want Everything. At some point they should bond over how much they love Akira LMFAO