December EMP Meme

[enablemeplz]

ENABLEMEPLZ meme goes up on the last Saturday of every month FOR GAME ADS: ➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / fetish you want for your game under the correct game header. This meme is primarily going to be focused on DWRP games but IJ and LJ games are allowed. ➤ PLEASE NOTE A RULE CHANGE HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding (no font size > size 4 or 3 "big" tags, no oversized banners (they must be 250px in height or less), no blinking text, no obnoxious table html that doesn't collapse easily, no sparklies, no large pictures). Use all the colors you like, but please remember 3 "big" tags is the limit and that's only for headers or title text rather than for all the text in an ad. FOR GAME QUESTIONS: ➤ RPers interested in a game can create a header for the game and ask questions about that game that aren't easy to find on faqs, such as the actual pace vs. what's listed/what kind of plots are run/if the game leans more towards plotty or slice of life/if a game leans more towards network or logs, etc. Both anon questions and anon answers are welcome in this section just like in the rest of the meme. ➤ This thread is not for speaking about wank or drama in a game. There are anoncomms that exist for that. This thread is specifically for general questions about a game that rpers want to get perspective on from players already in the game. Answers can be slightly negative (such as saying app response is slow or that the plots are repetitive or similar things) but this should at least be worded politely. Unnecessary vitriol, any mention of personal drama or wank, or mod teams/individual mods/players being singled out, will be either frozen or screened (based on what seems right based on the content). FOR CHARACTER ADS: ➤ Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL ads, there is a separate subthread but for character ads for games, post directly to the meme post. Others will comment to you with the games/casts they want you to join. ➤ There is a "Find a Castmate" section, where you can talk about a cast you play in at a game, and try to lure people to join it. Not all games post to the meme or have a "wanted" section, so players that want to tempt people to their cast on their own can use this section for it. Please format this the same as the PSL section, where you post your character's canons in your subject. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find a Castmate" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. When listing who's currently in a cast, please do this in sentence form (with commas) rather than in list form. ➤ There is a "Find Crosscanon" section, where you can talk about a character you play and and desired crosscanon for that character. Please make sure this is not too generalized a search, because just wanting general crosscanon can be accomplished with the other sections of the meme. This is for specific characters or character types you're looking for. In the subject, please list the "Looking for [canon you're looking for]" rather than your character's canon. If looking for a character type, list the character type in as few words as possible. Do not make the subject huge or I'll screen your comment. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find Crosscanon" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. This section is only for game crosscanon as in the psl section people can list their preferences. ➤ Examples of crosscanon you can search for: You play The Flash from DC Comics and your dream CR is fellow speedster Quicksilver from Marvel. Or you might play a witch and want cr with other witches in general. Or maybe you play a good character messed up by evil parents and want to play against a villain character you know has evil parents, because you know it'd lead to some interesting negative CR. ➤ ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding, with the same rules as the Game Ads Section above. ➤ If you're recommending a game to someone, try to match your suggestion to their needs. It's okay if part of your game rec is copy-pasted (such as what the game's about), but at least some part of the rec must be personalized to their ad. Try not to recommend the same game to every single ad, either. Ad spam that isn't individualized in some way will also be frozen or screened. 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Comments

[dominuslapidis]

Sounds good to me, I'm really fond of that idea! I think ideally Zhongli would be very incognito in his position as the head of the underworld organization, since a lot of the fun there would come from Childe not knowing that he's anything beyond the kind of pretty face, knows a lot about history, but lacks common sense guy he seems to be on streams.

When I was writing down the idea I was really undecided on if it'd be more fun for Childe to have any connection or not to the underworld or just be a regular, albeit very famous guy, so I'd love to hear your thoughts there... Thinking about it a bit more, it might be a lot of fun shenanigans for Childe to have to deal with all of Zhongli's mafia weirdness while being a normal dude, albeit one who adapts very quickly. But Childe having his own sidejob does line up with canon more and I'm cool to go with what you think would be more fun, too! Let me know your thoughts on this and any other things you'd like to see out of the PSL.

[unrulychilde]

I do like the appeal of having him be a normal, super famous guy and having to deal with Zhongli's mafia weirdness but it'd make so much more sense to have him with a side job.

What about the concept where he starts off normal but through some events ends up as Zhongli's like... bodyguard or something? Realizes he actually likes killing things outside of video games. It's just an idea but I think it could be really fun! Also it would mean him getting even more possessive over Zhongli (he's my boss but also he's really pretty.. etc) and always wanting to do what he can to make sure nobody can harm him.

It's just a couple of things but it's a start :>

[dominuslapidis]

That sounds perfect to me! I can totally see Childe being a normal guy but he gets drawn into all this underworld crime stuff and is so weirdly okay with it and then is just good at it... and hey, if his boyfriend is the top dog, it only makes sense for him to be involved too! How nice that his hand-eye coordination and fast apm translates over to real life aim and reflexes.

Eventually cue hanging around at Zhongli's HQ to pick him up for dates and signing autographs for the newest recruits and getting tips on the best way to murder a dude from the upper echelon while he's waiting for Zhongli to finish up a meeting.

And personal weapons lessons from the boss - that's strictly boyfriend privilege.

[unrulychilde]

YES! Perfect! I love the sound of all of this!

I am SO excited to play this all out now. Esp. where they first end up meeting irl! also i did go ahead with making my diluc acct so there's that

[dominuslapidis]

Me too c: And awesome! Let's start off with one thread and then we can try some Kaeluc once we've got this going.

Is there a particular place you want to start?

And also for housekeeping, do you prefer a musebox/journal entry/meme?

[unrulychilde]

Sounds good to me! On both starting with one and doing the other later on once we've made some progression on this one! :)

Hmmm. Maybe perhaps shortly after that image that inspired this AU? Even the next day?

I do prefer museboxes if that's ok with you.

[dominuslapidis]

Musebox works for me! Did you have a particular scene in mind for after the comic? I'm trying to think of how that might go for an interaction. Something where they're meeting in person or where Childe is finding out that Zhongli is involved with the Underworld may have more to work with.

[unrulychilde]

Hmmm. I like the idea that perhaps Zhongli had contacted Childe after that donation and comment and had asked perhaps if they could meet up face to face? We could start with that and go from there and if we hit a block or spot where we don't know where to go, we can always skip up if we need to.

[dominuslapidis]

Sure, that works! No one expects Zhongli to actually agree to meet, but Zhongli's like, well, he was nice enough to donate so much... LOL. And then something happens during the meeting with maybe a rival group trying to target Zhongli to clue Childe in that something shady is going on?

Let me know if that works for you or not, and if so, I can get a starter up for us.

[unrulychilde]

Ooh yes! Perfect!

That actually works wonderfully for me ^^