MEME ∞ INTRO & CR — June 2025

[thediadem]

Meme ∞ Intro & CR

June 2025

Travel — Setting — Locations — Network Info — Journal Codes

Welcome!

It's time to introduce yourselves! Use the form below to get out there and start plotting. New and old players alike are encouraged to post to the Intro & CR.

A mingle log will be posted on June 8.
While we won't be doing intro/mingle logs every application round, we'll have one for the first two rounds (June and August) to help everyone get settled! You can also check out the Bulletin for information on weather, broadcasts, and incidents.

Notes

• Characters can arrive in-game on any date throughout the month of the TDM. This means characters do not have to, and typically will not, arrive all at once. Arrivals will be scattered and more difficult to predict. Use this to stagger CR, give characters a couple weeks without seeing each other, or whatever you feel makes it interesting!
• Since base AC is low, players need to make AC for their first month. TDM threads continued into the month are perfectly acceptable as long as the comments submitted take place in the current month.

Updates

• We've made some updates to the Invites page to reflect the game's current player cap status and added a player cap count to the Taken page. Our player cap is formally 70 players. The FAQ has also been updated to reflect these changes.
• A reminder that the 2 characters per round allocation was for the first round only. Moving forward, all players, current and new, can only apply for one character per app round. (You may still have a total of 2 characters.)

∞ Intro & CR Form ∞

<!--- BEGIN OOC INFO ---> <span style="font-family: arial, sans serif;font-size:20px;color: #514060;font-weight:bold; text-transform: uppercase;text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-color: #A78397;text-decoration-thickness: 2px;text-underline-offset: 5px;">Player</span> <b>Name:</b> <b>Pronouns:</b> (optional; delete if you don't want to say) <b>Contact:</b> @USERNAME.plurk / USERNAME @ Discord / Other <b>About:</b> (Say a few things about yourself if you want or delete the section if you don't!) <!--- BEGIN IC INFO ---> <span style="font-family: arial, sans serif;font-size:20px;color: #514060;font-weight:bold; text-transform: uppercase;text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-color: #A78397;text-decoration-thickness: 2px;text-underline-offset: 5px;">Character</span> <b>Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Age:</b> <b>Links:</b> (Link to info, permissions, inbox, or anything else) <b>About:</b> (Briefly tell us about your character) <b>Wanted CR:</b> (CR themes you're interested in) <b>Plots/Plans:</b> (What your character's been up to and/or anything you want volunteers for or would like to get involved in.) <b>Limits:</b> (Anything you're not interested in or are looking to avoid) <b>Free Space:</b> (gifs, memes, or anything here)

Main Navigation ::: ⇅ Top

Comments

Mart | Maelle (clair obscur: expedition 33)

[virtuose]

Player

Name: Mart
Pronouns: they/them
Contact: riyuji @ Discord preferred! Otherwise, riyuji. Feel free to add me on either.
About: Just a huge nerd who loves video games, board games, ttrpg, movies, and consumes way too much youtube content. Also I live in a weird timezone land of GMT+8.


Character

Name: Maelle
Canon: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Age: 16
Links: info (which I will fill out later), inbox, permissions, and just for fun, have a playlist

About: Year after year, the Paintress paints a number and everyone of that age dies in a event called the Gommage. Wanting to end the cycle of death, the city of Lumière sends out an Expedition to deal with the Paintress.

Maelle is the youngest member of Expedition 33 at half the age of her companions. Though it is still nine years until her Gommage, she has always struggled fitting in, bouncing around orphanages and families since the age of three. Finding little semblance of fulfillment in Lumière, she felt that setting off to the Continent will provide her the escape she needs, and perhaps sate her curiosity in finding some place where she truly belongs. Though she is Gustave's ward, she is a bit of a problem child, a bit of a loner, and is sassy to say the least. Shocking, I know. She is also adept with a rapier and can pack a much harder punch that one might expect. That way, she'll be able to burn you with her weapon and her words.

Maelle might also leave a trail of destruction in her wake, driving around with the same chaotic energy of Mr. Bean, tiny car included.

Wanted CR:
» More people she might accidentally run over. Or teach her to stop doing that.
» Friends closer to her age! She's never really had many of that back home.
» Good (or bad) parental figures or similar. Teach her the ways of the world.
» Someone she can duel or spar with. She'll go easy on you... at first.
» Tech-savvy people, because what is a phone even?
» Absolutely happy to have our TDM threads be canon. Please let me know!

Plots/Plans: Getting to know other people and familiarizing herself with this new world, first and foremost, and catching up with the rest of the Expedition who've found themselves here. Maelle will try to also get a lay of the land, so she can learn the ins and outs of the city, and hopefully possibly diffusion zones in the future. Someone will need to help her out with technology though considering that's one of the more advanced things that she will need to get used to while she's here.

As for the bulletin, I'm interested in Bowling Ball Homicide, so if anyone wants to do something with that, hit me up.

Limits: Open to almost anything, really, but ping me if you're unsure. Considering how new the game is, I will be marking spoilers accordingly and avoiding them as much as possible for non-canon mates (and those who are playing/plan to play the game) until the end of the month.

Free Space:

[primepool]

I'm so excited for Maelle!!! please you have FULL PERMISSION for her to run over wade. she can even put it in reverse and back over him again if needed

[virtuose]

AAAAH, I'm excited to get things going with her! That absolutely needs to happen. Imagine her seeing his regenerative abilities and thinking that at least Verso's isn't as bad to watch.

[primepool]

this is really funny to think about because verso's definitely did not include any crude images of gore....... sORRY GIRLIE

[reverso]

okay but can she run over verso bc i think that would be funny,

[virtuose]

oh that would be funny. Verso will be fine anyway.

[reverso]

wrong he will be heartbroken if you don’t apologize, ma’am

[godjr]

Hello it is Dee here, so happy to see Maelle! That image is hilarious. I think she and Jack here would actually get along as youngsters with heavy weight on their shoulders who have lost close loved ones and never felt like they belonged at their home.

[virtuose]

Hello hello! Both Francois and Esquie can be right at the same time.

I don't know much about Jack, but I'm absolutely down for this. Would be good to have someone she can share the burden with.

[littlemushroom]

but what if... they ran over each other....!!

I have consumed a stream of the game since the TDM because gustave and sciel lured me in and I want Maelle to have friends badly.

[virtuose]

Welcome to pain the fold! I'm glad to hear Gustave and Sciel made you interested in the game. Kira and Kal have been doing wonderfully with them.

And new friends she will accept! Slowly, but eventually. We can definitely hit each other up on the mingle.

[sodark]

Cable is a dad with a daughter back home who will see this girl running people over and probably try to help teach her some Basic Modern Life Skills.

[virtuose]

She's going to need it Modern Life Skills. The age of Belle Epoque is strong in her. Take her under your wing, Cable.

[exarched]

Hi Mart and welcome!! I have been trying to plow my way through exp33 and adore Maelle!

My name is Freya and I can humbly offer a...catboy? He has a good friend (that is also around Maelle's age) that as a similar desire to do good with a fiery, take-no-shit attitude that I think he would be fond of in Maelle as well. He's more geared towards magical technology but he could help figure some of the things in this world out.

[virtuose]

Hello, nice to meet you, Freya. Terra's said good things about you.

Honestly, I was thinking of hitting G'raha up too. Maelle's met the rest of the FFXIV crew, and we absolutely have to collect them all. I don't know much about the critically-acclaimed MMORPG FFXIV though, but I'd love to play with you and the rest to learn more about it. Maybe they can exchange some notes on magic too, considering she has some ability in it when she summons her weapon.

[stonethrow]

sounds to me like you won't be needing your bro/dad while here hmm...

[virtuose]

SHE ABSOLUTELY DOES. no one can replace bro/dad Gustave

[nashua]

As for the bulletin, I'm interested in Bowling Ball Homicide, so if anyone wants to do something with that, hit me up.

Hey! I've got a character that can see/hear ghosts and was planning on poking around, if you'd like them to link up for investigating. Maelle can be the dashing Errol Flynn to Nashua's idk mediocre Benoit Blanc.

also, so much love for Maelle
Her ending broke me
And then I did this; peers at the next TDM
(This is partially my way of saying I'm good with full spoilers!)

[virtuose]

her ending... It's so rough to watch!
also omg Clea, grabby hands at
Noted on spoilers, thanks for letting me know!

I'd be down to do the bulletin with Nashua. I was thinking Maelle might've come across it on accident and stuck around due to curiosity.

[heritors]

MAELLE'S CAR... what a good choice

anyway i'm happy to keep our game thread canon!! i'm also happy to keep it going or swap it out for something on the mingle depending on how you're feeling. i think they're very sweet and maelle reminds lucina of some of her ride-or-die friends from back home 8(

[virtuose]

Not me looking up French cars and finding THE TEENIEST MICROCAR. I had to do it.

Yes! I'm cool with keeping it canon, too. So sorry for my slowness with it. I'm thinking we can handwave the rest and pick up something new on the mingle, that sound good? I am imagine they at least exchanged names then.

[longtooth]

mart!! i'm so glad that you're here and we get to share a game again

i love maelle, as you know. i'm pretty close to beating the game now, too!! basically just gonna do the frozen hearts dungeon and then go beat the game, since i finished all the relationship tracks, and then i'll go back and do all the other side stuff after that. (because yes, you totally needed an update.)

ANYWAY... fern and maelle!! i'd like more of them. while fern's only got a dagger on her here, she is actually also very accomplished with using a rapier, so she'd be really interested to learn that about maelle and maybe they can become sparring partners one day? fern's only like... six years older than her, but it'd be cute if she took on a little bit of a mentor role because she's never gotten to do that before!

[virtuose]

COURT! I will continue to grabby hands at you as we get more threads together. Thank you for the game update. It makes me happy to hear your progress through the game.

Oh, we should get Fern a rapier or something adjacent. Maelle would absolutely love another sparring partner and to possibly learn more from others along the way. Absolutely down for this idea.

[yeahmagnets]

jesse can absolutely bring some big brother type of cr to the table. he gets mixed up in some not-so-good things, but has a pretty decent moral compass and is 1000% protective of those younger than him.

[virtuose]

You know, I think Jesse and Maelle would absolutely have interesting CR together, especially because they're both problem kids. Would definitely want to see where we can take this!