Ongoing Enable Me Meme

[oversight]

Enable me, Sensate!

What Do:

• Make one separate top-level comment for each character you're considering playing.
• Fill out the form below for each of them.
• Due to the nature of the game, characters must be firmly over 18 years old both physically and mentally.
• Browse other people's pitches, get excited about the prospects, comment to them to shoot the shit, spitball ideas, or just keysmash.

<br />Player Name:</br><br />Contact:</br></br><br /><br />Character Name:</br><br />Canon:</br><br />Starting Canonpoint:</br></br><br /><br />Skills / Powers:</br></br><br /><br />Flaws:</br></br><br /><br />Themes & Desires:</br></br><br /><br />Canonpoints To AU:</br></br><br /><br />Anything Else?:

General tips for filling out the form:

Skills / Powers: List what your character can bring to the table to use in the cluster! this can be anything from karate to cooking to emotional vulnerability to a street drug connection.

Flaws: List any flaws you'd like to play around with, to make other characters endure or address.

Themes / Desires: List some general themes you want to explore; these can be as abstract or as specific as you want. for example: father issues, the concept of humanity as a whole and whether or not it's redeemable, self-improvement, learning to read, getting help through a more social or mature sensate cluster member to improve interpersonal relationship dynamics, killing some specific guy, dream-sharing a recurring nightmare, having a memory-share of x/y/z event in a character's past, either first-person or from a safe distance, and so on...

Canonpoints To AU: Any ideas for specific moments in your character's canon that you may want to play out — either to replay with exactly the same outcome, or to drastically change the events of your character's canon, the sky is the limit.

Anything Else?: Include anything noteworthy you think is worth mentioning, or just post a sexy gif to win everyone over.

Comments

[cognitivus]

Player Name: Em
Contact: paingravy or righteously on discord
Character Name: Will Graham
Canon: Hannibal
Starting Canonpoint: S01E01

Skills / Powers:

Empathy Disorder - Probably his most notorious trait, Will Graham has 'pure empathy'. He can assume the point of view of anybody he meets, whether they're alive or dead or even just a pile of evidence at a crime scene. The unique way his mind works also grants him such a vivid imagination, he's capable of reconstructing events, rebuilding and replaying moments in his mind, and comrehending greater abstract truths which I fully intend to use to have him navigate the psychologically abstract fuckery of Sensate Stuff.

Keen Mind - According to the prosecuting attorney at his murder trial, he's one of the most intelligent people you're likely to ever meet. This is more to do with raw brain processing power than higher education, though he is a master of criminal psychology and associated branches of psychology. He's familiar with therapy tactics, and there isn't much about the field he doesn't know.

Police Training - Will was a police officer before he left the force to join the FBI as a consulting special investigator and criminal psychology teacher at Quantico.

Fishing - It counts

Dogs - It also counts.

Flaws:

Empathy Disorder - it's as much of a weakness as it is a strength. Will can easily lose himself in the point of view of others, and he struggles with his mental health and his sanity when he doesn't have proper barriers erected.

Hyperfocused - he has a tendency to miss obvious details or clues to bigger issues when his mind is focused on one specific task.

Prickly Bitch - sometimes he really just do be.

Strings Attached - he comes with a Hannibal problem, and he's going to descend down a trail of encephalitis-induced therapy-encouraged insanity that I'm going to make you all suffer through, culminating in a full-on jail sentence arc.

Themes & Desires:

Abstract Psychological Fuckery

The transcendental nature of the bond

Trauma processing

Loneliness and the sudden lack thereof; loyalty kink

Having friends and connections for the first time in his life

Being understood For Real for the first time ever

Canonpoints To AU: Everything from Episode 1 through getting nearly disemboweled to be honest, it's a riot and we can do so much stuff. There's so much room for activities!

Anything Else?:

[wwrench]

Player Name: Andie
Contact: stickyholograms
Character Name: Wrench
Canon: Fargo TV
Starting Canonpoint: I haven't nailed this down yet, but I welcome all input! Possibilities include:

S01E06
Wrench and his partner Numbers have just faced off against rival hitman Lorne Malvo. Numbers is dead, but Wrench doesn't know it yet. He's been hospitalized under police surveilence after being shot in the abdomen by a police officer. I am thinking in this version I would deviate from canon and the cluster would be the ones to help him escape from the hospital. He'd never have the encounter with the rival hitman who clues him into his partner's death, so he'd likely still be desperately searching for Numbers for some time.

S01E08
Another possibility is that I start him following his escape from the hospital, aided by the rival hitman who killed Numbers and obliterated the entire syndicate. Wrench would now know that his lifelong partner and everyone in his syndicate are dead and he's entirely on his own. He'd also be recovering from a gunshot wound and trying to find a safe place to post up, heal, and deal with the annihilation of his entire way of life. Fun times.

S03E10
Here's Wrench skipped ahead five years. He's been captured once and was bound for prison, but managed to escape and is now on the run from the US Marshals. This Wrench is 10 years post-syndicate and he's far more feral. Dude's been largely underground for nearly a decade, subsisting almost entirely on his own. He's probably not had much in the way of a conversation with anyone in the last half-decade, so he's primed to have his world rocked by connection of any kind.

Skills / Powers: Wrench is, first and foremost, a survivor. He was raised by a mob boss and spent ample time working as a contract killer, which has given him a proficiency with a wide variety of ranged weapons. He's an excellent shot and can wield hatchets, axes, and tomahawks with similar brutality. At the end of his canon he's spent five years evading capture by the US Marshals, subsisting on what he's been able to hunt, forage, and construct with his own hands. Wrench is able to move among people without being noticed and stalk his prey, whether that's human or animal. And he knows how to do all of this without leaving a trace of himself behind. He can police his brass after a firefight and gut big game without wasting the offal. Wrench is also fluent in American Sign Language and English. He's a proficient speech reader (which is admittedly less proficient than most hearing assume), but will make every effort to hide that fact from others. Nevertheless, he's a man with a keen eye, adept at reading even the slightest microexpression. Perhaps most advantageous, he's a man with no concrete identity who is neither known nor missed by society at large.

Also, while Wrench is technically a squishy human, the Fargo canon generously incorporates elements of the supernatural throughout each of its seasons. Additionally, if I take him from S3 canonpoint, Wrench himself has had at least one direct encounter with an immortal being, and was subsequently granted his life back. This experience has been interpreted as a linchpin moment in his characterization, and the point at which he became something of an avenging angel figure. As such (and supported by his grooming from childhood), Wrench is more resilient than average. He requires significantly less sleep than the average person and can subsist on very little food and water — levels that would induce starvation in most. He's also quite a bit more resilient, and can heal from injuries other people would succumb to.

Flaws: Strong "everyone I have ever loved is dead" vibes around this one. If the canonpoint I pull him from includes his awareness that Numbers is dead, that will come with extreme guilt. Numbers wanted to finish the job and go the hell home, and it was Wrench who insisted on gathering more information. Their pursuit of that ultimately led to Numbers' death. He's also really susceptible to letting himself become the henchman in someone else's plan. Wrench was groomed from a young age to kill at another man's behest, so he's already gone through all the mental gymnastics that allow a person to do that. He's essentially rudderless without a mission and a person controlling and guiding that mission. He's got no clue how to live for himself. Worse yet, he's been trained that needing, wanting, or enjoying things are all weaknesses that other people can use to manipulate you, so he's terminally un-fun.

Themes & Desires: Please help this man experience emotions. Teach him that it's okay to want and to like things. Wrench is a murderer who has tortured people to elicit confessions and desecrated their corpses to hide their identities. He will likely try to hide this, and be horrified at the first sign that he's not capable of concealing it from his cluster. I'm not big on the idea of a redemption arc because that seems too tidy, but anyone who wants to talk about the complexities of the human condition is A+. He's also Deaf. I haven't decided yet how I want to handle that in the midst of all this sensating, but I know it's a big thing. I know that I'm not interested in every sensate experience that he has in another person's world inherently coming with their ability to hear transposed onto him, but I'm not averse to playing around with it a few times when the moment is right. Inversely I am very okay with other characters experiencing his deafness when they are sensating in his body.

Canonpoints To AU:

• His partner Numbers' death. They had gotten separated in a whiteout snowstorm and Wrench was shot while Numbers was dying elsewhere.

• His escape from the hospital following his shooting.

• S03 re-introduces Wrench on a prison transport bus, which is subsequently run off the road and boarded by men looking to kill his seatmate. He's chained to said seatmate and they escape into the woods while being stalked and pursued by the henchmen.

• Wrench is mortally wounded as a result of this and the two find their way into a bowling alley intended to serve as a manifestation of purgatory. In the bowling alley he encounters an immortal being who explains that Wrench's life has been spared.

Anything Else?:

[oversight]

I'm eager to help with some of these canonpoint changes!!! If Blake can pick up medical knowledge from Remy, then maybe he can serve as a savior at some point. I'm also game for any of the prison-related stuff because that's something Blake's not familiar with by any means. Orphan things are also a possibility, of course.

Are you thinking of *saving* Numbers? To torture Wrench for even longer? Any interest in people seeing that maybe that relationship isn't the most... equitable? Give me allllll your thoughts!

[wwrench]

G o d. I had actually not given any consideration to an AU where Numbers ends up living, but that could be utterly fascinating. I think the fact that Wrench never got to see the body and verify for himself that Numbers had actually died leaves a lot of doubt in his mind. He was really forced to take Molly and Malvo at their word. But now I'm imagining an AU where Wrench was told he died and... stopped looking for him? Just abandoned him completely? And so Numbers was possibly captured for a time.

Though I say all that not knowing how that would work in this world, unless someone were to briefly NPC Numbers. So that is very much a lower-priority item for me, I think. Though rife with juicy drama!

[oversight]

We will just say that it's a possibility and we never know where things might go!! I am so sure I could BRIEFLY pretend I write Numbers, but my god would I hate it (affectionate).

I am curious what Blake can see, though. Maybe they can share a snippet of a dream or something.

[cognitivus]

Oh boy, do I have just the guy to help Wrench unpack the concept of things being used against you to manipulate you

Also

allow me to pitch: Wrench experiencing Will's empathy disorder and fuckin. experiencing other people's emotions firsthand whether he wants to or not

(am i moving glacially slowly, yes, fuck you play with me anyway)

[symptomatic]

Player Name: kaye!
Contact: virginiawoolf (i also have a discord i am notoriously terrible at using!)
Character Name: remy "thirteen" hadley
Canon: house md
Starting Canonpoint: midway through s07e18! blanket cw: incarceration, euthanasia, fatal & degenerative illness — she just got out of prison for euthanizing her brother, so the idea of throwing her to the cluster for immediate connection where she can't just lie and stoic her way through it? big fun!

Skills / Powers: she is an internal medicine doctor who for some reason helps with surgery sometimes in the eternal quest to help the sherlock holmes of medicine with 1001 diagnostic problems, so whatever, that's canon for you. she did an ER rotation in miami, but primarily she is an internist. she also knows her way around street drugs because she spends like half a season ruining her life with hard drugs! (i use the term "ruin" loosely.) also, ✨ canon bisexual. ✨ there's some uncannily observant stuff happening too: spotting where someone has been (a strip club), identifying whether someone is carrying a gun on their person (and what kind). very light and casual breaking and entering!

Flaws: she lies about everything! wants desperately for her life to matter because she has a shorter lifespan than anyone else. dealing with the crushing guilt of "i killed someone and i am a doctor" vs. "i did it for the right reasons/to alleviate his pain". has an incredibly strong overdedication to keeping her promises even to the point of putting herself in physical harm's way, because in her brain she promised her brother and if all promises mean nothing then why did she DO it, what was it all for. you can see where i am going with this. also there is one point in canon where when she is in a monogamous heterosexual relationship her boyfriend asks her if she ever misses having sex with women and she's like "yeah duh". this isn't so much of a flaw as it is i would like her to kiss all genders thanks. does not have a super warm personality actually! most importantly: lowkey so lonely and isolated in the world that she thinks she has no one to turn to if she inevitably wants to be euthanized herself.

Themes & Desires: crushing guilt and loneliness! an acute awareness of mortality! making her life matter! being hypervigiliant about exercise and monitoring her physical condition every day in case her nerves are deteriorating rapidly rather than 'at an expected rate for my diagnosis' and having someone pop in and ask what the hell that's all about. sudden cluster medical knowledge? arguing with other visiting members of a cluster the best way to dig a bullet out of someone? memory share of: the time she got shot! and being with her brother! and all the time she spent in prison! (canon is so vague about this time of her life but it doesn't seem like it was a smooth ride.) i will also accept volunteers for flashbacks to her notorious drug fuelled sex binge with women?

Canonpoints To AU: i mean essentially everything that happens after she gets out of prison? practicing medicine illegally? i am basically all out on this drastically changing the outcomes of canon ride.

Anything Else?: early on in the series thirteen upsets a psychopath who develops a fixation on her and then she's cured or something, but in the interests of this gpsl, i could..... npc her.... for a potential villain?? if anyone wants that?? is that anything??

[oversight]

Heyoooo, I am down to explore so much of this! We only played together once at Dup (I had Neal Caffrey), but I really enjoyed Remy and I'm sure she'll create a fascinating dynamic. :>

I definitely would like Blake to use some/all of Remy's medical knowledge to help out in a situation in the near future. Saving a life in a complicated way, you know?

Pretty much everything you've got down tickles my taste buds, tbh. So many things Blake's never experienced that I think he should. I'm especially interested in stuff with the brother since Blake's an only child. He's also doing the working out thing, so they could certainly see each other in the gym or jogging or whatever's easy.

Related, too, if you're interested: Blake's not afraid of party drugs and he could surely give Remy some feelings about it if she's staying clean and if you're into that kind of struggle.

[cognitivus]

Don't mind me moving at glacial pace with mediocre brainpower but my first thought is

she could help him save his not-daughter's life after she gets her throat slit open?? also possibly help Will when he gets fuckin disemboweled??

Will can also Definitely Help Her process her issues, psychology and shit is like
his whole thing
(so is crushing loneliness
he compulsively adopts strays, am i saying she's a stray? well, i'm not not saying that.)

John Blake | Nolanverse | Karen

[oversight]

Player Name: Karen
Contact: PM or discord

Character Name: (Robin) John Blake
Canon: Nolanverse

Starting Canonpoint: In the years prior to The Dark Knight Rises, while Blake is still a fairly new addition to the GCPD.
Ongoing Plotting Post

Skills / Powers: While Blake technically has no powers, he has a general aptitude that helps to comprise a surprisingly well-rounded skillset. Early on he possesses some of the expected skills: tough and scrappy hand-to-hand, small arms proficiency, basic triage and first-aid, interrogation and surveillance. As his skills develop, he will take on further training in espionage, cyber-surveillance, pain tolerance, technology and engineering, and many of the other skills deemed necessary in taking on the mantle of Batman.

Flaws: He's convinced he's got more flaws than anyone in the world, but he's arguably vanilla when it comes to anything too glaring. Blake chief weakness lies in his somewhat shaky sense of self. Having lost his parents early in life, he grew up in foster homes and the orphanage for his formative years. During this time, discovering who he was became that much more difficult. Ever since, the struggle has been finding a place to fit in. Of course, by faults very much his own, he hasn't really succeeded.

He is severely idealistic, which can interfere with reality. At times, his focus on what should be will outweigh what needs to be. Losing proper perspective, Blake will find himself fixating on what seems most pertinent. While he can self-correct, occasionally it does require a gently guiding hand.

Depending on his mood, he can also be interpreted as cynical, humorless, and aloof, which tends to effect how he fits in with others. This typically doesn't help with bolstering his overall sense of self and can arise from his insecurities, causing a destructive loop.

Themes & Desires: A destructive romance and/or it's lasting fingerprints. A scene where Blake demonstrates he doesn't mind a beating (likely for the purposes of saving someone else from taking said beating). A delve into Bruce Wayne's methods of sink or swim mentoring, which will inevitably leave Blake with less support than he needs. Someone to observe or allow Blake to perform cathartic chores in order to get some handle on his emotions. An opportunity for Blake to go into heroic safe mode where his brain essentially goes offline to do whatever's necessary to get the job done. Opportunities for Blake to be a papa wolf and either protect all the kids, or protect his found family. There are no therapists trope: In short, trauma is not taken seriously enough, especially when kids are involved. Triple shifter stuff, in that Blake's almost always got two jobs and no time for himself. Themes involving insomnia, depression, relationships, etc. When internal affairs gets involved, someone who understands what it's like to be one of the few guys that actually does their job. Feelings and thought on whether to leave the force, and all the complicated crap that come with that eventuality. Being taken off a case. A very rare moment where Blake desperately craves attention and someone gives it to him, no questions asked. "I should have done better" comes out of his mouth and everyone knows that's not possible. A storyline where perfection becomes addictive and Blake's forced to slow down. Someone to share party drugs with, especially if being used to revisit the past. John Blake is held hostage and Batman's presence is demanded so someone needs to pretend to be Batman instead. Blake is forced to make a sadistic choice. Poisoning is involved. Blake must care for a baby for/with someone. An opportunity to go Back to the Future (1, 2, & 3) with someone and maybe see and/or change the past/future for the better. Batman: Year One stuff because it's going to be a rough time. General loneliness content, including Blake knowing he won't ever have a family or kids of his own. Perhaps touching on the unsolvable family crime in his past.

Canonpoints To AU: This is really up for debate, as Blake really doesn't have a ton of canonpoints to consider. Instead, the majority of the beats involved here will be from extensive headcanon that incorporates the Nolanverse films and select Batman lore. I'm really not opposed to altering his canon timeline starting from first blush (although I would like to keep the through-line of becoming Batman if it makes sense for the setting).

Anything Else?: I would prefer if there isn't any direct fourthwalling, because I feel like it might generally cheapen the overall concept we're going for here. I'm not strictly opposed, though, and would like to discuss it first. In the same vein, I intend to avoid fourthwalling unless it's specifically requested for plotting purposes.

Options always available for character interactions in any of the following places:

• Blake's apartment
• gym/jogging/laundromat/coffee shop/out in the world
• police cruiser (w/ or w/o Blake's NPC partner, Ross)
• public transportation (bus or elevated train)
• favorite waffle place (diner-style)

[chuju]

Player Name: Amy
Contact: taintedcrimson on plurk/discord
Character Name: Daisy Johnson
Canon: Agents of SHIELD (MCU)
Starting Canonpoint: After 5x22 when she's off on her space adventure

Skills / Powers: She's got a list, y'all.

INHUMAN POWERS — "Vibration Manipulation"
Daisy is an Inhuman, a human with alien genetic material mixed into her DNA that, when activated, changes the person at a molecular level. Through her Inhuman powers, she can sense and tap into the vibration energy of everything around her, manipulating what is vibrating and at what frequency.

» concussive blasts She can generate and focus powerful concussive waves of vibrating air in the form of directed concussive blasts, varying in intensity from breaking glass to crushing bone to toppling a solid structure. She can also use the blasts to propel herself into the air and cushion her falls.
» vibrational absorption She is able to absorb a larger quantity of vibrations, such as from an earthquake, but can only hold them for so long or risk causing irreparable damage to herself.
» disintegration She can cause molecules to vibrate violently enough that the bonds between them are destroyed, causing whatever she is using her powers on to disintegrate into the atmosphere.
» force-field generation She is able to shape vibrating air into physical fields that can block both energy and physical objects.
» sound manipulation Since sound is the vibration of air molecules, she is acute to sounds that other people can not hear and is able to reproduce certain sound frequencies.

» physical consequences Attempting to forcefully internalize and hold back her powers or using them excessively without proper protection puts an excessive strain on her body and may lead to internal injuries like ruptured veins, hairline bone fractures, or other severe consequences.

GENERAL SKILLS

» hand-to-hand combat Trained by Melinda May, one of SHIELD's most skilled fighters, Daisy's style is a mix of kickboxing, boxing, Krav Maga, and Jujutsu.
» weapons training She has expert marksmanship that has previously allowed her to take out an entire team of Hydra agents with just a pistol. Since then, she's had experience with dozens of types of firearms.
» espionage She is highly trained in espionage and deception and has learned great tactical skill during her years with the agency.
» hacking Daisy is an extremely skilled computer hacker whose skills are often utilized for intelligence gathering and data interpretation. Her expertise in hacking has made her a master at pattern recognition and analysis.

Flaws:

— Mistrustful of good things. After a childhood of being in and out of foster homes and an orphanage, Daisy suffers from a deep mistrust of good things in her life, particularly "home" and people genuinely caring about her. She always expects something to go wrong, whether by her own doing or something beyond her control, and it's something that the wrong person could easily take advantage of. Even after finding a "family" with SHIELD, Hive is able to emotionally manipulate her longing for connection to the point that nothing short of physical intervention could break through his sway.
— Can't always put the greater good first. Every so often there comes a time, usually involving something big, when Daisy gives into selfishness and disregards orders for personal reasons. When faced with a warning that saving Coulson's life will lead to the end of the world, she doesn't care and tries anyway because he's the most important person in the world to her. And when the opportunity arises to take out the future head of HYDRA who lead to the death of millions, she's willing to risk the permanent, drastic alteration to the timeline to save those lives because of her own terrible experiences with the organization.
— Self-sacrificing to a fault. When Daisy blames herself for something, her guilt is so extreme that she ceases to care about her own life. She was ready to sacrifice her own life to atone for the terrible things she did under Hive's sway, and when Lincoln sacrificed himself in her place, she spends the next year running herself into the ground and putting herself in horribly dangerous situations in an attempt to pay penance for his death that she blames herself for. And when the team travels to an apocalyptic future where someone with her powers tears the world apart, Daisy insists that she stay behind when the team returns to the past so that the time loop can be broken without her presence.

Themes & Desires: This woman desperately needs to feel wanted and like she matters beyond what she can do for others. She needs to address her extremely conflicted feelings over her mother's death (and her mom attempting to murder her), process her grief over losing Coulson, and have someone help her overcome the trauma of Fitz's betrayal.

Canonpoints To AU:

— being high on alien junk food on a casino planet and fighting off robot aliens (no big changes, just sharing the wtf of her life with others)

— fighting more robot aliens while traveling through time! or just freaking out over being in another decade. options: 1930s, 1950s, 1970s

— being stuck in a time loop where she's one of the only ones aware of the loop and everyone will die if she can't solve the problem. (no changes, just more wtf)

— being kidnapped and experimented on in the same way her mother was (maybe changes? or maybe just helping her through it)

— connecting with her alternate timeline mom in the 1980s and then watching her die again (possibly big change here of maybe saving her mom? would need to think on it)

Anything Else?: Once you're in her circle of People, Daisy will go to the ends of the Earth and beyond for you. She dug up her mother's corpse in an attempt to save the life of the man who was practically a father to her, and she spent a year traveling through space helping her best friend search for her missing husband. There is nothing she won't do for her people... Do with that what you will.

[cognitivus]

"Mistrustful of good things."
"Can't always put the greater good first."
"Desperately needs to feel wanted and like she matters beyond what she can do for others."

She's in the right cluster, that's for sure.

I'm fully here for time loops and experimentation traumas with Will. Team moral support, brain shit, and psychological processing. She's got the combat handled just fine on her own, he'll help out with the Other Areas. The gross feelings and shit.

[chuju]

The gross feelings are the worst. She fully acknowledges she should be in therapy, but also her last therapist turned out to be a shapeshifting Inhuman monster who hunted down and killed their kind, so... Trust Issues with Therapists. Might be a little something they could relate on.

[cognitivus]

what a fuckin coincidence
we sure do hate it when therapists do that