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MEME ∞ EMP — May 2025
Meme ∞ EMP
May 2025
Welcome to our first EMP! If you're unsure of who to app, are deciding between characters, or simply want to see who's bringing who, you can participate below. It is not a reserve. Reserves will open May 28.
The EMP is open to all. You don't need an invite to post to it. If you're curious about the game and are looking to see if you click, you can start here.
The EMP is open to all. You don't need an invite to post to it. If you're curious about the game and are looking to see if you click, you can start here.
- If considering multiple characters, post each one individually under a top-level comment with your PLAYER NAME in the subject line.
- The TDM is scheduled for May 15. It will be open to all. No invite required to participate.
- Invite requests will open with the TDM on May 15. You're welcome to submit earlier but we will not be answering them until after the TDM opens.
- The TDM will have a section where you can express interest in receiving an invite if you don't know anyone in the game. Requests are public but replies to requests will be private.
- For the first round only, all invited players can app up to 2 characters provided they are not from the same franchise or canon. Playing from the same franchise/canon is allowed, but you can't apply for both in a single round. See the FAQ for more.
In the future, we'll also have a separate ATP form. Since the game is brand new, however, you'll find a small ATP section in the EMP form instead where you can ask for castmates alongside your EMP post!
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possibility 1: eric | the crow
Name: Eric
who does not have a definitive last name although I'll probably default to Draven eventuallyCanon: The Crow (primarily comics-verse, with some details from the movie/Stairway To Heaven/interviews)
About: I kind of assume most of you are familiar with at least the vague plot, so I'll keep this one brief and snarky:
Eric and love-of-his-life Shelly, recently affianced, were unceremoniously yoinked from this mortal coil (for reasons even less interesting than -- as in the movie -- protesting a tenant relocation/insurance scheme, and also somehow even more horrifically). A vaguely defined death spirit in the form of a crow only he can see took interest (in an extremely pedantic way), and now he's back for extremely violent undead revenge.
Also: a lot of despairing to The Cure/Joy Division/Bauhaus etc, quoting everyone from Milton to ...his own terrible puns, adopting a dead neighbor's cat and giving the neglected little kid down the street probably the only hugs she's ever had.
He loves very hard, and he also hates very hard and isn't necessarily entirely...stable about that.
Also in the comics cats just...follow him around? It is never explained but it could be a bonus
if there are cats here.Plans/Ideas:
What do you do with a man on a mission who gets pulled from his mission?
Variously my ideas are:
- He will probably want to fuck up whoever interrupted his vengeance, before he figures out that's...not a thing he can do. But that could keep him occupied for a while.
- Protecting people who need protecting. Not just kids, though he has a soft spot for kids. But people who are afraid or clearly in a shitty rock-and-a-hard place situation that he's better equipped to deal with because he's a) used to it b) um, undead and c) sliiightly fucking crazy
- CR, man, just gimme CR.
Like. At heart Eric isn't just looking for an excuse to murder. Revenge gives him something to do with despair and guilt and fixation. But he wants the world to be better, he has a deep funny and also sweet streak that can both be tapped into; hell, there's even some weirdly touching dialogue with people he's just fatally injured where he's kind of just -- done, and is both not sorry and knows their horrific-ness isn't their fault. (He also doesn't hurt anyone in the comics without first asking if they remember what they did, which I think is really interesting.)
So, most of my ideas go along with bringing him on an arc from "who do I kill to get back to avenging my dead wife" to "maybe I get to exist for other reasons besides her?".
Any characters you want to see in the game? I mean, unless someone wants to bring in Sherri (or her movie counterpart Sarah), not from his canon, but there are SO many characters I would love to interact with. Musicians; fellow vengeance-seekers or just maybe people to spar with; 80s characters; 90s goths/nerds who would have to clamp down on their fourth walls; anyone who could help him find a The Cure cassette for his car?; Supers or vampires or other undeads...THE POSSIBILITIES, MAN.
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but we're not listening to the cure
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.....who're we talking.
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I had to take a look at Julie bc I didn’t recognize the canon and whoa, it looks freaky and delightful, I have to check it out for sure! She sounds like a lot of fun.
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#2! camilla hect | the locked tomb
Name: Camilla Hect
Canon: The Locked Tomb
About: okay so think of the nerdiest kid you know. Not the one who's constantly getting lost in their own plans and scribbling notes and can turn The Discourse into a whole thing about history, but hang onto that thought for a minute. The one who Cornell Notes everything and is an obsessive perfectionist and prepares for everything, and has a sport they're really good at because their brain does not actually allow them to stop practicing things.
Now make #2 the sworn protector ("one flesh, one end") for #1, who is incidentally both a necromancer (which kind of means what you think it does, and kind of doesn't) and the youngest-ever leader of his...nation-state? kinda?, and make her sport "dual wielding curved blades and being an acrobat". (And/or, "getting people to underestimate her".
That's Cam!
Who sounds really OP, and yeah, but a) everyone in her circle of friends/enemies is OP in some way pretty much, 50% of them much more magically, and b) her whole Self kind of glomped onto doing anything she does with Nerd #1 (aka Palamedes) at age Tiny, including, by age 12, aforementioned Protecting His Entire Life...which can throw a lot of caveats into her choices. Especially when he ends up um, well, SPOILERS.
Luckily, she (unlike Eric) compartmentalizes like a PRO, so she may be screaming on the inside if she's on a planet without Pal, but she will find other things to keep her busy.
Plans/Ideas:
Finding things to do that aren't thinking about her necromancer. Studying the Storms, Diffusion Zones, etc! Taking a LOT OF NOTES ON GLOOP. Handling weird horror pretty smoothly, given her entire canon.
Fighting things and/or people. With swords, not guns. She's familiar by either of the two points I'd drag her from, but she'd prefer not to, really.
Learning how to drive, or, depending on when I bring her from, having already done so and kind of enjoying doing it.
The sheer amusement of her knowing little about ...a lot...of Earth stuff while probably running into quite a lot of Earth people and stuff, and also being confused by the state of technology.
Any characters you want to see in the game?
Canonmates! She is one that I do always love canonmates for. But also, fighters, fellow nerds, people who get along with people who don't talk much, etc.
eponine thenardier | les miserables
Name: Éponine Thénardier
Canon: Les Misérables
About: this got SO long and I think a lot of people know who Eponine is at least in the musical so let me try again. Tough, scrappy street urchin type with cons for parents and has been in a women's prison at least once by the time she's 16. A survivor: has lived on the street and frequently without food, as well as protecting a younger sister: so having ANYTHING to call her own is frankly, luxurious (and she will absolutely be protective of it). Still also a whimsical 16 year old who likes to dance around the room, has crushes on the nearest nice boy and dreams about being swept off her feet or romantically dying together; also, sometimes nice for the hell of it, even when (or maybe especially when) it involves standing up to much bigger, armed men and challenging them to kill her or get the hell out of her way.
She wants affection; she'd have no idea what to do with it. She could use some self preservation instinct but that got lost a long time ago.
Plans/Ideas:
I heard people are looking for murderteens?
Pretty much, I love to throw this survivor into weird scenarios and watch her tough it out, and also to let people protect her sometimes and see what happens.
She's canonically extremely good at keeping an ear to the ground and befriending the right people, which is not only fun to play, it seems like it could be useful in this particular scenario. Also, her reacting to advanced or even more-advanced-than-1832 tech would just be fun.
Any characters you want to see in the game? I wouldn't say no to a Marius or even a Cosette (or a Gavroche! we're in an RP that would actually let you play him!) but Eponine likes to talk to other people, so any and all?
She'd be INTERESTED in knowing teens of all stripes, even if she can't always relate. I think she'd especially vibe with kids/teens who are surviving/survived bad situations, and an adult who WAS might be interesting to play off of too. A paternal figure who's very unlike her father wouldn't be a bad thing. Etc etc. You may notice my CR wishlist is often "I can figure something out!" lol.
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TEEN MURDER SQUAD! Street urchin! The shadow guy! … the ugly one! sorry, I had to
No, that’s awesome though — hearing about fully crazy-sounding hard times would be both intriguing AND weirdly relatable, I think. I don’t know that much about his canon but I can see Eponine appreciating a fellow teen who’s a little more world-weary and cautious than they should be (though that might mean someone new dragging him into shenanigans, oops, sorry…)
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