beautifulmemer | Intro & CR Plotting Meme #1

Player Name & Pronouns: Ink | he/him/his
Contact:

mister_inkwell ; I am also available in the game discord!
Introduction: Hi! I'm Ink, a 30 year old scrungled trans guy who lives in Baltimore with his partner (also playing in this game) and our two cats. I like doing an art, listening a weird music, and recently I became a smalltime Warrior Cats youtuber? Idk man the 2020s have been a hell of a decade. I am currently on that 'figuring out medication' merry go round so please grant me a lil clemency while I wrangle my brain.

Character Name: Stanford Pines

About: Ford Pines is a 70 year old man with twelve PhDs who speaks thirteen languages fluently and also, coincidentally, is a huge idiot. He can tell you anything you might want to know (or not know) about obscure subjects you didn't know existed, but he has the emotional intelligence of a slug. He's not mean, he's just deeply short-sighted and allergic to letting anyone get close to him. He's convinced as a person he's unlikeable, so he has to get people to like him by his accomplishments instead and never let them know anything else about him ever. It's easier to spend all his time shooting monsters, working out, reading, tutoring, maybe writing the occasional scholarly article... that thing about sharks always having to move or they die is a myth (he will explain this to you at length) but in his case it's true and he is the shark.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Long term my goal is for him to essentially get the character development he did in canon: He needs to unlearn his 'trust no one' lone wolf martyr mentality he has built up around himself. He's got to figure out how to let down his walls and be emotionally vulnerable with other people, or he's never gonna unfuck himself as a person.

Short term I have nothing really set in stone beyond settling in, cementing pre-existing relationships, that sort of thing. I would like him to get assigned a mentee or two. I like to think he's been avoiding it because of his whole 'on this dark weird road I walk I'm afraid you cannot follow' bullshit so getting forced to work with someone he is also responsible for would be good for him.

Desired CR: Mentees, as I said above! You'll be in for a wild time and it probably won't be a strictly safe learning environment, but you'll get to see a real pro at work, so... it evens out?

Students he knows through tutoring, since he does that regularly at Promised Morning. Which subject? All of them. Twelve PhDs. We can make it work.

He's also been with the Dreamer Union basically since it was founded so it's likely any more experienced dreamers know of him, if only as 'that guy who regularly jumps out of windows in the waking world oh my god is he okay' (he is not)

Also if there is anybody in Kihada who goes on morning jogs/does park workouts at like 5am I think it would be very funny if they were vaguely aware of each other mostly through this.

Anything Else?:

I think we were talking earlier about Ben’s mentor knowing Ford in some form or another?

Given the ages of everyone involved, ~~Qui-Gon Jinn~~ Quincy Jameson would probably be in his fifties now if he was still alive, which means Ford is hypothetically old enough to have been HIS mentor, back in the very early days of all this dreamer nonsense.

…which would hypothetically mean we could make Ford be Yoda, if we wanted.

I mean. He is a weird old man who can whup your ass and talks in riddles so really this is surprisingly accurate. I personally am only very vaguely knowledgeable about the Starred Wars beyond general cultural osmosis, but I know enough to know Ford being Yoda is not a thing I should pass up.

He awakened in the early 80s or so, if that fits in with your timeline?

That about fits. So then if we're going for this maybe he had Quincy around as his sidekick for a while in the late 80s/early 90s, then Quincy went his own way and ended up taking on BEN as a sidekick in the late 90s/early 00s.

EDIT: I am proven to be a fake fan in this AU Ford is playing the role of the treacherous Count Dooku.

It doesn't really matter the point is having the endless chain of masters and apprentices.

Edited 2023-04-24 15:49 (UTC)

Perfect. And since then Ford just hasn't had a mentee/sidekick because he's been doing his whole I AM A LONE HERO I WALK THIS LONELY ROAD garbage. When he took on Quincy he was still young enough to be like 'yo this could be fun'

Also okay that's even funnier because imagine Quincy was also his last mentee because he went to the union like hey real talk this guy is good at fighting but he fucking sucks at like. talking to people

And then Quincy went up and fucking DIED in a Nightmare battle in 2003 and Ford was probably like "YOU SEE I TOLD YOU NEVER TRUST ANYONE THEY ONLY LET YOU DOWN" or something.

oh absolutely NO MORE MENTEES THEY WILL DIE EVENTUALLY ford everyone dies eventually YEAH BUT PEOPLE HE'S ATTACHED TO AREN'T ALLOWED TO DIE IT MAKES HIM HAVE EMOTIONS AND THEN HE HAS TO LIKE. THINK ABOUT THOSE EMOTIONS

Thinking about emotions takes up time that could have been spent fixing problems caused by never thinking about his emotions.

/jeannette follows ford out the window

See. Jeannette knows what's up. Doors are overrated windows are efficient

and if god smiles upon their purpose He will never let them be harmed!!!!
optimal exit, this

Literally all I want is a old Jewish man and a tiny Catholic girl to talk theology while disrespecting school property

where else are you supposed to practice comparative religion, really

Fully one of his PhDs is in Jewish Studies there's no way it's not

'Ink it's a Disney show' no they're Jewish the Pines Pawns shop had a literal mezuzah on the fucking door and both Stan and Ford canonically had bnai mitzvah. They just eat bacon because they know it'll make Filbrick Pines rotate at mach speed in his grave which is what he deserves

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darcangel - 2023-04-24 19:51 (UTC) - Expand

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meteorman - 2023-04-24 19:58 (UTC) - Expand

Hey, fellow Baltimorean!

Oh man I want Ango to meet Ford, he would haaaate him (but also secretly respect him). Ango is also an over-educated academic (but he only knows 5 useless languages!) who's walking that dark weird road straight to hell, so once they stop bickering they might actually get along!

PLEASE I love people for Ford to get into completely pointless pedantic arguments with. If someone can keep up with him he usually winds up at least respecting them, so it feels like it could be a fun kind of frenemy dynamic.

This guy graduated (somehow) with a philosophy degree from a Buddhist university, so he's totally down for pointless pedantic arguments! He's currently living on a park bench, so maybe they can meet at the park?

lmao please

'why are you out here doing pushups at 5:30 am i am trying to sleep'

The only time Ango is awake before noon is when he didn't go to bed the night before!

[GRABS NOVVY'S HAND AND WAVES IT IN THE AIR FOR MENTEE CR]

Man I would love that so much. Teach the guy how to be a magical fighter and also provide Elder Queer hours. They're like 'we can't give him a child to take care of we cannot trust him with that he has to be in charge of the tired dad'

novvy hasn't been wide eyed and impressionable since the aughts this will work!!!!

oh also I apologize in advance because part of getting mentored is absolutely gonna be a waking world exercise/meditation regimen. gotta be in peak condition always not just when you're asleep

like. a ballerina is gonna handle that way better than most but it will probably still be obnoxious

Novvy before he realizes being ford's mentee means he has his irl info: sure i will "do" "that"

Novvy after when he gets a phone call with a time and location and ford's physical presence and realizes he can't just lie and say he did the routine:

Edited 2023-04-25 18:48 (UTC)

YOUR MIND AND BODY ARE YOUR MOST IMPORTANT WEAPONS YOU NEED TO MAINTAIN THEM

ok grandpa have a snickers and take a nap

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