Player Name: Holo Contact:hologramblue Introduction: ...closes my eyes. Okay so if I do do this then it will almost certainly not be in the next cycle, work is so busy it's unreal, and also I would need to do quite a bit more research to iron out the details here. But uh. My brain is full of creatures right now and this will either shoo them out or multiply them. Let's find out.
About: Erika leads a rather normal life with her parents and elder brother until she and her parents are caught up in a car accident that ends in their death and her acquisition of a traumatic brain injury. This is basically canon. The divergence is what happens after that because the Cyber Sleuth universe is nutterbutter.
...At this point I have a gajillion options about how/where/when in her backstory to engage with the game's central premise, but the core vibes from canon remain: recovery is hard and leaves her with a strong sense of alienation not just from life and her peers and everything but also from her former self; the whole thing is massively traumatic for her brother, too, who is a fresh adult and now an orphan and his little sister's legal guardian; Erika becomes something of a shut-in (it's not school refusal if you have a medical reason, but...); she becomes very fond of the Butterfly Dream metaphor to express how she relates to, like, existence; there is a metaphorical caterpillar perhaps? Also she's kind of rude and mean. Some of which is understandable but like.
Here is an incomplete list of ideas about what I could do around and after that, many of which are mutually exclusive: - ????something with that mention of "Figments can become detached from their original selves and break off into their own entities" that I'm gonna ask for more info about when I'm slightly less feverish???? That's so eerily close to [foghorn noises cshm spoilers] that it might be a sin to ignore it - She comes to Yumemigaoka for treatment at some point because ??something with the above?? or Nightmare attack or some other Dream Sphere malady complicates her condition further, and so has been here for a few years - She does not come to Yumemigaoka until very recently because she's been fucking around as a solo Dreamer for a little while and now she's here to be wrangled into doing it properly but boy howdy has she developed some bad habits - She's been a Dreamer for a while and has been hiding it from her brother and care team for complicated interpersonal reasons, but there's really only so long you can keep that up - She's been a Dreamer since the accident and everyone knew about it and it's another source of stress for her poor brother - She starts out unpowered and someone can be involved in her Awakening because she's like...she's got issues and maybe that would be fun? Is that a thing we do here? - This is Dreamer Butterfly she's my dreamersona and metaphor for my experiences with traumatic metamorphosis from one person into another slightly different person. Is she real? Wouldn't you like to know weatherboy - ?????????????????? Oh my god there are so many options for how to spin this.
Short Term & Long Term Plans: Her canon signature thing is literally called Infinity Dream she was made for this shit (identity stuff via dream metaphors and turning into a butterfly-themed hero to kick monsters around).
Starting her off as a somewhat feral Dreamer and Incredibly Rude (socially anxious) (but so rude) Child who learns to play nice over time. Maybe. Or at least just be more selectively rude. Sometimes she's rude to you but will also kill a man for you. It be like that.
Letting her be people's Weird Friend who doesn't go to school. Or maybe she does and despises it. She's like 14-15 years old? Idk maaaan
Letting Erika Mishima Cause Problems And Fix Other Problems.
Also probably some, like, personal arc/conflict about her using the Dream Sphere to feel cool and powerful and unhindered, which is valid, but maybe she's kind of neglecting her own Waking World recovery and life for it? With the whole digging in her heels about going back to school and socializing thing?
ULTIMATELY THOUGH since I would be apping her next cycle rather than this one, I'm less interested in pitching CR than I am in batting around ideas for how the recent history part of the AU plays out, and what kind of intro people might want to play with - new weird kid at school, solo Dreamer learns teamwork bullshit, delayed Awakening, or whatever else.
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Introduction: ...closes my eyes. Okay so if I do do this then it will almost certainly not be in the next cycle, work is so busy it's unreal, and also I would need to do quite a bit more research to iron out the details here. But uh. My brain is full of creatures right now and this will either shoo them out or multiply them. Let's find out.
Character Name: Erika Mishima
Canon: Digimon (Story Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory.)
About: Erika leads a rather normal life with her parents and elder brother until she and her parents are caught up in a car accident that ends in their death and her acquisition of a traumatic brain injury. This is basically canon. The divergence is what happens after that because the Cyber Sleuth universe is nutterbutter.
...At this point I have a gajillion options about how/where/when in her backstory to engage with the game's central premise, but the core vibes from canon remain: recovery is hard and leaves her with a strong sense of alienation not just from life and her peers and everything but also from her former self; the whole thing is massively traumatic for her brother, too, who is a fresh adult and now an orphan and his little sister's legal guardian; Erika becomes something of a shut-in (it's not school refusal if you have a medical reason, but...); she becomes very fond of the Butterfly Dream metaphor to express how she relates to, like, existence; there is a metaphorical caterpillar perhaps? Also she's kind of rude and mean. Some of which is understandable but like.
Here is an incomplete list of ideas about what I could do around and after that, many of which are mutually exclusive:
- ????something with that mention of "Figments can become detached from their original selves and break off into their own entities" that I'm gonna ask for more info about when I'm slightly less feverish???? That's so eerily close to [foghorn noises cshm spoilers] that it might be a sin to ignore it
- She comes to Yumemigaoka for treatment at some point because ??something with the above?? or Nightmare attack or some other Dream Sphere malady complicates her condition further, and so has been here for a few years
- She does not come to Yumemigaoka until very recently because she's been fucking around as a solo Dreamer for a little while and now she's here to be wrangled into doing it properly but boy howdy has she developed some bad habits
- She's been a Dreamer for a while and has been hiding it from her brother and care team for complicated interpersonal reasons, but there's really only so long you can keep that up
- She's been a Dreamer since the accident and everyone knew about it and it's another source of stress for her poor brother
- She starts out unpowered and someone can be involved in her Awakening because she's like...she's got issues and maybe that would be fun? Is that a thing we do here?
- This is Dreamer Butterfly she's my dreamersona and metaphor for my experiences with traumatic metamorphosis from one person into another slightly different person. Is she real? Wouldn't you like to know weatherboy
- ?????????????????? Oh my god there are so many options for how to spin this.
Short Term & Long Term Plans: Her canon signature thing is literally called Infinity Dream she was made for this shit (identity stuff via dream metaphors and turning into a butterfly-themed hero to kick monsters around).
Starting her off as a somewhat feral Dreamer and Incredibly Rude (socially anxious) (but so rude) Child who learns to play nice over time. Maybe. Or at least just be more selectively rude. Sometimes she's rude to you but will also kill a man for you. It be like that.
Letting her be people's Weird Friend who doesn't go to school. Or maybe she does and despises it. She's like 14-15 years old? Idk maaaan
Letting Erika Mishima Cause Problems And Fix Other Problems.
Also probably some, like, personal arc/conflict about her using the Dream Sphere to feel cool and powerful and unhindered, which is valid, but maybe she's kind of neglecting her own Waking World recovery and life for it? With the whole digging in her heels about going back to school and socializing thing?
ULTIMATELY THOUGH since I would be apping her next cycle rather than this one, I'm less interested in pitching CR than I am in batting around ideas for how the recent history part of the AU plays out, and what kind of intro people might want to play with - new weird kid at school, solo Dreamer learns teamwork bullshit, delayed Awakening, or whatever else.
Desired CR/AU Castmates: idk man
Anything Else?: play cyber sleuth.