[Other FULL] Astra Story ★ OOC

ASTRA STORY
a SBURB roleplay based on Homestuck. Rated M; things tend to die.

IC

You are a teenager living somewhere on planet Earth. One day, you get an e-mail containing some files and a polite and exciting invitation to play an "important game" called SBURB. It appears that more people got the invitation, because as soon as you install and start up the attached game file, there is also a chat program called Pesterchum with a list of "chums" that appears to be more and more other players connecting to the game. Very well, time to get playing?

If you only knew what you were getting yourself into. Before too long, you will realize that you have inadvertently caused the end of the world. And if you care at all about your own life and humanity as a whole, you'd better finish playing SBURB. Sorry, but it's destiny. Or is it something else?

Clarifications / Rules
This is a RP connected to the Homestuck fanclub here on PC. As such, the players are more or less already recruited and all of us know Homestuck and the canon workings of SBURB decently well. We'll figure the details out as we go! If you are not part of the HS fanclub but would still like to join, please send me (Pikachu) a private message and tell me a little bit about yourself :3 Or just join the fanclub, you know. It's fun!

Aspect / Class
I'll provide a list of canon aspects and classes and we can discuss in this thread who should have what. But I think that I'll reserve TIME for myself, because it's probably easiest for the GM to deal with shenanigans like that, don't you think? Or perhaps one of you think you can handle the time troubles well enough c:

When deciding on aspect and class, consider this: SBURB is a real bully. Aspects determine WHAT you can do/manipulate/have an affinity with. Class determines HOW or WHEN you should do it. If you are selfish, you are likely to be given a class like KNIGHT or ROGUE to evolve in the other direction. If you don't believe in yourself, perhaps you'll become a PRINCE or THIEF and learn that you're doing great when you benefit yourself. Etcetera! Here's a great post on aspect dualities.




Need to know more?
You'll get to decide your own strife specibus, living arrangements, denizen, consorts, name of your LAND etc. If it can be assumed that we all try to be as canon when it comes to SBURB as possible, and discuss here in the OOC thread whenever things dive into unknown territory, I don't think I need to go about explaining every part of the game in detail here. Right? But basically, as soon as we start RPing, I think the players should strike up conversations with each other by simulating pesterlogs in our IC posts :3 Check out an old Homestuck RP of mine to see how we did it there. Quirks are hella annoying unless they are very carefully done and light. But you should have your own distinctive color and two letter abbreviation of a chumhandle, of course! All of this will become clear once we begin. Don't worry c:

But a basic idea you can carry with you is that this session, as I've planned now at least, won't be nearly as glitchy and stressed as Homestuck's Beta kid session was. Rather, it will be more like the Alternia troll session. We go through our respective planet quests, preferably with a friend or two by our side, and build our houses up towards Skaia when we get enough grist and other resources to do so. And we alchemize. A lot :D:D:D But I can't promise there won't be any weird twists at all ;)

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Players

Pikachu: PRINCE of TIME ♀
Ash / temporalTarget [TT]
PROSPIT dreamer - Land of Traps and Seasons LOTAS


Aiden: HEIR of HEART ♂
Gav / odiumLeviathan [OL]
PROSPIT dreamer - Land of Crystals and Trees LOCAT
has a SISTER


Omicron: THIEF of MIND ♂
Adrian / courageousCanine [CC]
DERSE dreamer - Land of Moss and Portals LOMAP


Fairy: MAID of HOPE ♀
Gwen / crimsonAllegory [CA]
DERSE dreamer - Land of Plains and Rays LOPAR
has SLIMY and SCALY stuff (and a MOTHER)


aeternum: KNIGHT of SPACE ♂
Timothy / nacreousChampion [NC]
PROSPIT dreamer - Land of Mazes and Frogs LOMAF
has an UNCLE and a GEOLOGIST


DLMuerte: MAGE of BREATH ♂
Ryan / rhetoricalSymphony [RS]
PROSPIT dreamer - Land of Towers and Oceans LOTAO
has a MOTHER and a SIS


Milotic: WITCH of VOID ♀
Belle / reclusiveReverie [RR]
DERSE dreamer - Land of Rain and Pumpkins LORAP
has a PAPA


Davepetasprite^2: ROGUE of LIGHT ♀
Nadia / impurrfectStraggler [IS]
DERSE dreamer - Land of Salt Domes and Milk LOSDAM
has a big BROTHER


Wizardman11: PAGE of LIFE ♂
Evelio / monstrousMoss [MM]
PROSPIT dreamer - Land of Rocks and Riddles LORAR
has a CAT


Hopeless Masquerade: SEER of DOOM ♀
Evelyn / virulentErudite
DERSE dreamer - Land of Turtles and Dances
has an Aunt

Name: Ashling "Ash" Jenkins
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Theme song: Crystalanthemums (default), Crystalmethequins (battle), Crystalguitarthemums (tender moment), Crystalanthology (dreamself/god tier)
Appearance: Ash is a rather PETITE girl, standing at a mere 160 cm height and weighing below 55 kg despite her relatively well shaped, almost MUSCULAR build. Her skin is very fair with an abundance of FRECKLES, and her hair is of an orangish RED variety. She most often keeps her curls in a long BRAID, reaching down below her "behind". On each side of her freckled button nose, sits a big eye with sea green iris. She doesn't bother with piercings but she often paints her nails black, possibly just to counter the overall bright kind of aura that her complexion and hair gives her.

Her normal style of clothing consists of dark leggings under short tunics of various colors, sometimes with chest prints. Usually armless, coupled with hoodies, also most often in dark colors.

Family:

Home: She lives in a CASTLE, is the simplest way to put it. On ENGLAND's countryside, somewhere pretty unimportant and green and RAINY. Her father inherited the large building from an unknown relative who apparently had no other relatives left, and now she lives there without really fitting into it. It's got one main body and two wings, so it's shaped like a horseshoe, kind of. One of the wings is for Ashling's father and his nefarious projects, and the main body is where they all really live. The second wing isn't really used and has many strange rooms and things. It seems like the old relative who used to live here, the COUNTESS as Ash mostly calls her, was either an explorer herself or just a really dedicated collector of artifacts from all over the world. There are too many rooms to count but Ash has made her home in one of them in the main body and it's huge which makes it feel rather EMPTY.

Personality: (make this in-depth! Not just a tiny paragraph. Expand on who your character is!)

History: (as much or little as you feel is necessary. Perhaps you want to leave some for ideas you'll get later, or simply leave it shrouded in mystery for the others)

Preferred class: PRINCE
Somehow, Ash managed to get a class that sounds distinctly masculine. When she finds out, she's going to be a bit offended. But also empowered and triggered to fight harder. Hopefully.

Preferred aspect: TIME
Ash wages a constant war with time. It always moves too slowly or too fast, and is never on her side. She hates it deeply and wished that it was more like a physical dimension she could walk through as she saw fit. How she will react when she finds out what her aspect is? Well...

Chumhandle: temporalTarget [TT] the color is "seagreen"
LAND: LOTAS (Land of Traps and Seasons)
Denizen: Jormundgand (midgard/world serpent in Norse mythology)
Consorts: Chameleons
Dream moon: PROSPIT

Name: Ryan Grove
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Theme song:
currently -~- HS Volume 9 ; Portrait
battle -~- HS Volume 9 ; Stress
god tier -~- Break of Reality ; Helix
Appearance: (picture or written)

We're got a decent appearance or two.


You have tanned skin, and soft brown hair. Your eyes are a dark blue like your mother's, but the hair is all Father's fault... not like you dislike your hair. It's cool and wavy and the tips reach your shoulderblades. You have a scar running across the bridge of your nose, but you sometimes wish you didn't because it's a reminder of your once-terrible cooking skills. You wear a sweet pair of glasses, mang. You were about six-foot-none last you checked, but it's been a while and you're due for a physical exam soon. You usually wear a white t-shirt and some really comfortable blue jeans, and for colder days you've got a gray t-shirt, a darker gray jacket, and... more blue jeans. Sometimes some shorts, like swimming trunk-y shorts. Or just normal shorts, too. You're also very well built, and somehow, your glasses refuse to slip off no matter what gravity says. It is a miracle. You tend to wear sandals and a necklace with a key on it.

It's actually the key to your house. Shh, don't tell anyone.

Family: Ryan's- well, your mother [in true HS fashion] is a blonde lady who has always considered herself well-off; well, she always did, anyway, until you got stuck with her in this incredibly old beach house. She's a bit of a drinker, but not enough that it's a defining trait. She used to work at some department store in New York City, but ever since the argument with your once-estranged sister, she's moved to an odd beach house with you and refuses to move back. It's nice, you can't lie, but you think she's overreacted. She paints for a living now that she can coast off of some inheritance she neglected to tell you about, and seems to be affectionate towards you often. Her room is full of paint supplies. As of late, she's fallen ill with some super stomach bug and needs to stay home to rest, and takes some sort of medicine for it. She'll be down for about two weeks, apparently.

Rufus is a young golden furred puppy that is probably a Golden Retriever but according to the vet he's actually a mutt. This doesn't change the fact that you love him anyway, especially once he quickly learned to pee in the sand instead of in the house. He's an intelligent fellow, although he tends to prefer lounging around under your bed instead of learning things, which is okay with you because you don't have to worry about much if he's there.

Sis is a rabid party hippie who goes to NYU and is studying to become some kind of emergency room doctor. She got into some big fight with your mom at some point, but she comes over anyway, and that's pretty cool. She gives really big hugs and got more of Mother's genes in terms of appearance, as well as is well-grounded in her future and knows what she wants out of it. She once lived with you all the time and played with you when you tended to be alone, which was always cool. Probably is your role model, except not really. Currently taking care of you while Mom is ill. Her name is Lissandra.

Father disappeared on your 13th birthday, and hasn't been seen since. He was a cool guy, always trying to get himself into some new trade to replace whatever old one he'd learned previously- being a college dropout- and usually could do well in many things but never focused on grounding himself. He seems to have passed that problem on to you.

Home: It's a gray beachhouse put together by what looks like driftwood. It stands on stilts but is in fact ridiculously sturdy. It sits on top of a large sand dune which apparently does have some kind of dirt base. It's about thirty minutes from civilization, and is on a small island incredibly close to Bermuda.



It's nice and cozy. You and mom get your own rooms, and besides that there's a kitchen and a small living room. The walls aren't drab, but of a gray wood and are pretty cool. You lament that your uncle or whatever had to die to give you this stuff, but you probably don't lament that much because not only did he want to, you didn't even know him too well. Your room is full of brainteasers and a secret stash of peanut butter under a certain plank which you hope mom doesn't know about, along with a spoon. Your hammock is nice and well made; it's yellow-y niceness lulls you to bed at night. You have a desktop on your desk and a tablet stashed away somewhere. Books line your bookshelf and you can't help but notice that most things are gray in your room! At least, the furniture is, sans the hammock. You don't have a lamp in your room other than your desk-lamp, and although it can illuminate the room well you're usually asleep or in another room whenever you'd need it. There are loads of other things in your room, including rubix cubes which you could never bring yourself to solve, and the machete which leans on the wall. You also have a mesh bag filled with shells hanging from the ceiling, a few hatchets under the dresser, and ropes under the hammock. You keep a camera hanging from a wall, next to a picture of you, mother, father, and sis.

There's also a bunch of sick loot hidden under the stilts, such as some of mother's stuff.

Personality: Well, let's get the elephant out of the way first.

You're mute, due to a small accident which no one talks about anymore as a kid. It wasn't a big deal, but you can't speak, so you suppose that must mean that you should be using sign language? But that's kinda mainstream so you'll stick to carrying a notepad around instead. Due to your insistence on writing your words instead of signing them, your handwriting is extremely quick, precise, clean, and clear. You imagine you'd be good at mother's job due to this, but you've just never held much interest for it, just some respect. ...You sometimes daydream about how you'd sound if you could speak now and have an idea of what you'd sound like if you could, but you can't, so that's a moot point, you suppose.

You're quite a bit laid back, for sure. It seems to run in all ends of the family, and you don't know who to blame except for everybody who had a part in contributing to your genes [so, father], so you do. You tend to enjoy laughing a lot; of course, your laughs are actually wheezing and smiles, but they're close enough. Like your dad, you don't have a feeling of direction, even when presented with abundant freedom, and this is a problem that you'll need to face sooner or later, undoubtedly. Unlike your dad, you do have natural directional instinct, but you don't trust it enough to actively use it. Actually, you could say you haven't found it yet, except you can't, because... well no, you can say that. Your sister is living proof of it's existence, at least.

In general, though, you're silly and happy and many times teasing. You might do little dances here, or quick hops to the left, and in general just things that wouldn't always be considered the norm. Then again, you don't have your other standard form of communication, so your body expressions are more defined and brash. You also have a "healthy" obsession with peanut butter.

In person, you tend to seem quite aloof, since you're unable to speak and by extension are a bit of a lone wolf when… well, doing things, in your nondescript way. You find that you're adventurous and athletic, but although you think your freedom isn't too bad, you are pretty sure you're literally going nowhere in life. Generally, you find yourself spending days just talking with your internet friends instead of actually doing much. Besides Rufus and the village half an hour away and your Mom, they're basically your only friends since you can't be bothered to make the trip. In general, you're pretty sure you're one of the calmer ones in your network of friends, and can usually make educated decisions on things rather than rash ones. You also tend to be a bit of a leader, but usually only tend to step up when no one else wants to.

You've got a smartwatch to keep in touch, because you've usually found yourself wandering the beach and looking around and many times just chilling out on top of the radio tower which provides internet connection to your "humble abode." You never really asked whether that was legal or safe, but you're the only one who does anything there ever, so you doubt anyone cares. Although you live on a beach, you brought all your stuff over from the city, so you're pretty well connected with anything. You enjoy a lot of things, such as reading or using your brainteasers. You very much like exploring, but you tend to feel like there's so much exploring to be done around you that it bothers you, confuses you. You are amazing at somersaults and parkour, and your academic skills are average at best because of your self-driven education that wasn't 100% self-driven to begin with.

You don't take authority very seriously unless you treat said authority as an equal due to your parents' carefree nature in raising you. In terms of your physical ability, it works out pretty well and is one of things that you have in your favor. You learn well from experience and note-taking; textbooks just don't work for you, since although your working memory is really good your long term memory requires way more reinforcement. In terms of your personal thoughts, you've long been moving around all over the place, so you tend not to get too close or connected to people or things. This bothers you, but you're so used to never staying in one place for too long that it hardly matters; plus, you're mute, so it's not as easy to make close friends when communication is tough.

Yet another reason why you have internet friends.

History: As a very young child you used to run around with undies on your head and pretend you were a superhero. That was your first memory.

Your voice was high-pitched and adorable then, but even as it deepened and quickly went out it didn't change the fact that Mother and Father were both very dear to you- and you to them- throughout your life. Okay, maybe not so dear. But they were kind, at least, and they were some of the better parents you could ask for. Sis was always a few steps ahead of you, but that didn't stop her from playing with you. In general, you had a pretty supportive family. You didn't hate any of them much, but you hated the moving. You sat in the moving truck a lot. When you were about 12, it was in a moving truck where you can't remember much and something happened to your throat and suddenly you couldn't speak! Well, you could make noises. You could wheeze, and form hoarse whispers which you just decided to forgo altogether.

You would think you'd remember, but apparently you'd been asleep at the time of the incident!

You've always been used to moving. It's one of the things that comes to you easily, packing up and going to a new place. It's also why you never made any heavy social interactions, preferring the internet which remained constant. As you grew and eventually found your internet friends, it became a lot easier for you to have a bit of consistency in your life since you were always able to rely on the internet. When your dad disappeared when you turned 13, you weren't too surprised. He'd been home less and less often due to a "job he needed to do," and eventually he just left a note the day after your 13th birthday.

Things went downhill from there. You weren't heavily affected by it after you'd read the note, but your mom and your sister were, getting into a big fight and eventually drifting apart when you turned fourteen. You were already a bit of a loner then, so it was fine. You'd also already been fit, running across the city and jumping over bars. Since then, you got a puppy and live a few miles out of Bermuda on some decently sized island with a small town for residents and a decently sized forests and really nice beaches. It was a pretty tropical place, kinda like a getaway. You enjoyed it and enjoy it still. Rufus is growing well, and your mother recently fell ill, and needs rest and medicine. Sis came over to help out, since she and mother are now on decent terms. You, however, have spent the last two years exploring, wandering, and being pulled on the whims of the scent of adventure which the waves bring in. And speaking with your friends on the internet while you do so.

Getting a really beefed up smartwatch was a really good idea.

Preferred class: Mage
You know some parts of your aspect, although you have a deficiency in directional confidence. You will know your aspect and use it to your full advantage. The only issue for you is, of course, that you'll have to learn how to control your aspect first.

Preferred aspect: Breath
You're well-versed in the concept of freedom and how to use it to your advantage; however, you lack direction. This remains a hurdle to your development, and something you'll have to overcome before you can get far into the session, as well as learning to rely on your information and sense of direction.

Chumhandle: rhetoricalSymphony [RS] The color is Royal Blue.
LAND: Land of Towers and Oceans [LOTAO]
Denizen: Cetus
Consorts: Turtles. Lots of em'.
Strife Specibus: HANGERKIND and CUBEKIND. He also uses his machete from time to time, but Hangerkind got in the specibus first.
Other:
>> Father is, in fact, Ryan's ectobiological parent.
>> Ryan's moon is probably Prospit. If needed he could default to Derse though.​