Player Name: Salsa Contact:eternities and in the Discord server; I tend to do plotting (and commentary) on Plurk unless directly engaged on Discord, so add me there if you want a little more information on my bad ideas Introduction: Retail Hell associate. Magical girl and band girl appreciator; also a fan of games involving Cute Girls Doing Cute Things if we still use that genre descriptor, and also heavy JRPGs and visual novels. The Madoka mobage came out, I'm having A Time.
Character Name: Lisa Imai Canon: BanG Dream! Girls Band Party
About: University freshman; Team Mom who went through some bullying in middle school and had a hard few years failing to deal with it properly. She's fairly good at outwardly playing her ideal, bubbly, caring, outgoing self, but it's masking some moderate insecurities that can cause her to react unexpectedly and show visible cracks in her facade. She's working on the worst of her emotional excesses, and it's showing, but she's having a hard time and so is a little unstable again. That's manifesting as her being clingy and a little submissive, letting others lead her instead of putting herself forward, along with seeming a little distant and unusually quiet. Big into fashion and bright colors, so long as her mood's not bringing her down; makes her own clothing and accessories. Bakes cute and tasty sweets and gives them away freely; still stress bakes sometimes. Practicing her bass guitar again, and carries it when there's space on her shoulder beside her school bag. Doting on her girlfriend, Junna, recently rescued from a Disturbance, while also drawing strength from her. In the Dream Sphere, protects others with her Sandglass bass guitar as Dreamer Rhodonite. Signed on to a unit with Ai and Hibiki, but...
Short Term and Long Term Plans: To recap last month: Lisa went from soul-deep terror, to cautious relief coupled with deep longing, to one evening of immense tension, to about a week of healing bliss, to one more evening of immense tension, to more healing bliss. Then the rumors started in earnest, and now Lisa is all over the place again. Her mood is better, but she's still struggling a little. Just not as much as this time last month.
Lisa's formally apartment hunting again, but this time it's for two, as she and Junna are planning to move in together in the late spring or very early summer. This is balanced by the fact they don't have income beyond their Dreamer bounties, so while they look for a place and scope out furniture, they're also trying to save every single coin they can. But in the interim, she's recovering from her girlfriend going off to war with herself, as someone so aptly put it to her, and holding her as close as she can. Which presently means she and Junna are living together! It also means that, if you're looking for one, you'll likely find the other. That's not a bad thing, nor is it entirely unexpected, but it's a change she's adjusting to. Hanami kind of got pushed back a little with the combination of burning her cookies on the morning Ai's rumors hit the big time (more on that in a sec) and the typhoon coming in, so she's doing her flower viewing this weekend - it'll nominally be a date, but Lisa also has people she'd like to see, so if you catch them out, please stop by and say hi! She'll share her fresh batch of not-burned sakura cookies she always makes this time of year, too. Her early month will also involve hitting the DU job fair, because she definitely needs a job now, and will intend to cut back on class hours to make it fit. Not that she got to her classes much in February, so she also isn't... in great standing... but it'll be fine! Probably! Maybe... um, so the job's going to be important to get something on her resumé, in addition to getting something into her checking account. She's also raiding the World Market, but I think I'm going to have her do that offscreen, I think she's had a thread in the market for every catch-all I've ever written and she's about more than produce!
But her larger concerns will kick in a touch later in the month, largely. She's already on edge after the rumors started, having marched herself to the Dreamer Union as soon as she heard and done whatever she could to support Ai and the rest of the Union, but as the first part of the month rolls on, she's going to be on a low simmer waiting for the other shoe to drop; she'll file the paperwork to return to full duty just after the first of the month. She's scheduled to get into trouble with some combination of the press and the occasional rando at least once over jerks that can't keep their mouths shut about Ai and stop asking stupid questions; if that sounds like something you want to see her do or assist her with, lemme know! When the 10th hits and everything goes to hell - including her footing and her emotions, because she is not going to take well to being at the epicenter of the earthquakes - she's going to freak out. Not quite as bad as the last time, but... Lisa's not going to be in a good way. She'll debate organizing a search party to confirm the details and location (anyone want in for that Excursion?), but once the Disturbance opens, she'll again devote a lot of time to exploring it. She'll have a lifeline this time to keep her from going truly crazy about it again, but... Ai is important to her and it will show. Expect her mood not to crater quite as hard, at least? Her mood will be darker but more stable; she will, as is traditional for her, be a little bit irritable and a touch cynical. Also expect her to socially disappear at times, and idol music to disappear from her Rhodonite playlist until and unless she needs it for something specific.
Long-term plans are largely unchanged: she and Junna are moving into a place in a month or two (moved up from mid-summer), and I'm still thinking about maybe her mental state going critical sometime in the summer-ish. Lisa is not stable but she has an anchor and that is. Helping a little, though definitely not enough. Her other concerns and emotional weaknesses are not gone, but for the duration of the current crisis, they're being pushed aside for larger problems with greater risks to her psyche.
Desired CR: Musicians and those with related vocations! She's actually starting to enjoy singing, even if she insists she's still a bassist first. College students! Young adults! New residents! Dreamers, though her opinions are going to be all over the place! And honestly, probably anyone else I haven't mentioned yet. She's still happy to meet new people, she's just a little off in general. But hey, if you didn't already know her, you don't know anything's wrong, yeah? She's going to have a harder time being social and pretending to be normal and well-adjusted, but she'll give it an honest try if the chance comes!
Anything Else?: Feeling better about things! Lisa's black mood during the Disturbance didn't help my mood, which is why I spent a lot of time doing cute threads to help balance things out. I now have a whole bunch of cute threads I absolutely adore, my morale is high, and my inbox is on fire, send help-
Lisa Imai ♫ Dreamer Rhodonite
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Introduction: Retail Hell associate. Magical girl and band girl appreciator; also a fan of games involving Cute Girls Doing Cute Things if we still use that genre descriptor, and also heavy JRPGs and visual novels. The Madoka mobage came out, I'm having A Time.
Character Name: Lisa Imai
Canon: BanG Dream! Girls Band Party
About: University freshman; Team Mom who went through some bullying in middle school and had a hard few years failing to deal with it properly. She's fairly good at outwardly playing her ideal, bubbly, caring, outgoing self, but it's masking some moderate insecurities that can cause her to react unexpectedly and show visible cracks in her facade. She's working on the worst of her emotional excesses, and it's showing, but she's having a hard time and so is a little unstable again. That's manifesting as her being clingy and a little submissive, letting others lead her instead of putting herself forward, along with seeming a little distant and unusually quiet. Big into fashion and bright colors, so long as her mood's not bringing her down; makes her own clothing and accessories. Bakes cute and tasty sweets and gives them away freely; still stress bakes sometimes. Practicing her bass guitar again, and carries it when there's space on her shoulder beside her school bag. Doting on her girlfriend, Junna, recently rescued from a Disturbance, while also drawing strength from her. In the Dream Sphere, protects others with her Sandglass bass guitar as Dreamer Rhodonite. Signed on to a unit with Ai and Hibiki, but...
Short Term and Long Term Plans: To recap last month: Lisa went from soul-deep terror, to cautious relief coupled with deep longing, to one evening of immense tension, to about a week of healing bliss, to one more evening of immense tension, to more healing bliss. Then the rumors started in earnest, and now Lisa is all over the place again. Her mood is better, but she's still struggling a little. Just not as much as this time last month.
Lisa's formally apartment hunting again, but this time it's for two, as she and Junna are planning to move in together in the late spring or very early summer. This is balanced by the fact they don't have income beyond their Dreamer bounties, so while they look for a place and scope out furniture, they're also trying to save every single coin they can. But in the interim, she's recovering from her girlfriend going off to war with herself, as someone so aptly put it to her, and holding her as close as she can. Which presently means she and Junna are living together! It also means that, if you're looking for one, you'll likely find the other. That's not a bad thing, nor is it entirely unexpected, but it's a change she's adjusting to. Hanami kind of got pushed back a little with the combination of burning her cookies on the morning Ai's rumors hit the big time (more on that in a sec) and the typhoon coming in, so she's doing her flower viewing this weekend - it'll nominally be a date, but Lisa also has people she'd like to see, so if you catch them out, please stop by and say hi! She'll share her fresh batch of not-burned sakura cookies she always makes this time of year, too. Her early month will also involve hitting the DU job fair, because she definitely needs a job now, and will intend to cut back on class hours to make it fit. Not that she got to her classes much in February, so she also isn't... in great standing... but it'll be fine! Probably! Maybe... um, so the job's going to be important to get something on her resumé, in addition to getting something into her checking account. She's also raiding the World Market, but I think I'm going to have her do that offscreen, I think she's had a thread in the market for every catch-all I've ever written and she's about more than produce!
But her larger concerns will kick in a touch later in the month, largely. She's already on edge after the rumors started, having marched herself to the Dreamer Union as soon as she heard and done whatever she could to support Ai and the rest of the Union, but as the first part of the month rolls on, she's going to be on a low simmer waiting for the other shoe to drop; she'll file the paperwork to return to full duty just after the first of the month. She's scheduled to get into trouble with some combination of the press and the occasional rando at least once over jerks that can't keep their mouths shut about Ai and stop asking stupid questions; if that sounds like something you want to see her do or assist her with, lemme know! When the 10th hits and everything goes to hell - including her footing and her emotions, because she is not going to take well to being at the epicenter of the earthquakes - she's going to freak out. Not quite as bad as the last time, but... Lisa's not going to be in a good way. She'll debate organizing a search party to confirm the details and location (anyone want in for that Excursion?), but once the Disturbance opens, she'll again devote a lot of time to exploring it. She'll have a lifeline this time to keep her from going truly crazy about it again, but... Ai is important to her and it will show. Expect her mood not to crater quite as hard, at least? Her mood will be darker but more stable; she will, as is traditional for her, be a little bit irritable and a touch cynical. Also expect her to socially disappear at times, and idol music to disappear from her Rhodonite playlist until and unless she needs it for something specific.
Long-term plans are largely unchanged: she and Junna are moving into a place in a month or two (moved up from mid-summer), and I'm still thinking about maybe her mental state going critical sometime in the summer-ish. Lisa is not stable but she has an anchor and that is. Helping a little, though definitely not enough. Her other concerns and emotional weaknesses are not gone, but for the duration of the current crisis, they're being pushed aside for larger problems with greater risks to her psyche.
Desired CR: Musicians and those with related vocations! She's actually starting to enjoy singing, even if she insists she's still a bassist first. College students! Young adults! New residents! Dreamers, though her opinions are going to be all over the place! And honestly, probably anyone else I haven't mentioned yet. She's still happy to meet new people, she's just a little off in general. But hey, if you didn't already know her, you don't know anything's wrong, yeah? She's going to have a harder time being social and pretending to be normal and well-adjusted, but she'll give it an honest try if the chance comes!
Anything Else?: Feeling better about things! Lisa's black mood during the Disturbance didn't help my mood, which is why I spent a lot of time doing cute threads to help balance things out. I now have a whole bunch of cute threads I absolutely adore, my morale is high, and my inbox is on fire, send help-