OOC INTRO 01

[robbies]

WELCOME TO WE'RE STILL HERE

We're in the mood for fresh meat.

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Helloooo, neighbors! Welcome, everyone, to We're Still Here. Officially, the game doesn't open until December 1st, but we still wanted to give you guys a chance to get to know one another. Feel free to use this post to introduce yourself, share your contact info if you so desire, and mingle with your new neighbors before the real fun begins in a few days. We, as mods, would also like to use this space to address a few points about what to expect in December as well as how our next application round is going to pan out. Firstly, We're Still Here's first month is going to be a plot-heavy month. December is a crazy time for all of us, and we realize that not everyone will have the time to devote to roleplay, so we've decided to make the event a low stakes one and split it up into two halves with the first part beginning the day the game opens and running until the 15th, and the next half picking up right after that and running until the 25th. An announcement and plotting post will be going up in a few days. At the end of the month, we'll post a recap for the event that will also function as a public discussion where you can ask questions and provide the mod team with feedback. Secondly, since December will be a plot-heavy month with January being a relaxed month, this means that January will be our next application round. Not including potential drops, we will have seven slots available for new players. We will post a reminder announcement on the mod plurk as the date draws closer. Additionally, we will also be posting a new TDM in January for the new application round. For exact times on all of these dates, please refer to our calendar. And that's all! Break out your best gifs and get to mingling!

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[spaghettimonster]

Hiya all, I'm Swirl and I'm bringing THE GREAT PAPYRUS from Undertale, your favorite game of petting dogs and dating skeletons. He's coming from the same timeline as his brother (to the relief of them both), which means he's been training under the exiled queen to be a great mom. It'll surely help him to be a great dad to random human teenagers, somehow.

Papyrus is very loudly very cool, in a way that is definitely not covering insecurities, doubts, or loneliness - or the stress of living trapped within a mountain, with no prospects for sunlight or escape from the occasional roaming murderous human. He's happy to tell you so, in surprisingly practiced detail, and happier still to drop the matter and just emphasize his coolness, or narrate the shenanigans as he and his brother collaborate and/or compete in pranks. Smiling and making the best of things: it's the Snowdin way.


Either way, he dresses as coolly as you'd expect somebody who sometimes speaks in the third person to dress, with sunglasses any time of day, and either a costume or the... uh... hottest of fashions on display. As a human in Santa Rosita he'll be adapting more to the styles of the people he sees around town, and best of all he now has hair to style, and will be doing so with a gusto. See: icon.

I'd love for his various TDM threads to be canon, at least in the sense of characters remembering them - even with the conflicting realities of who lived where or did what on Halloween. I'm planning for him to only really remember these highlights through the month, so that the whole thing will be dreamlike, and being human thing will be fresh for him to experience with the game's proper beginning.

You can find me on plurk at swirlingflight - I plurk about games I'm in or have been in, a bit about work stresses, and a fair bit about other interests (videogames, art, ttrpgs, cute animals, etc).

[prodigalhairess]

okay

like

rapunzel and papyrus HAVE to be best friends, right

because 100 percent they would get along SCARILY well

[spaghettimonster]

It might be dangerous levels of practiced positivity, but oh man, I think you're right and very much want to see how they get along! Imagine the encouraging speeches. Imagine the decoration for parties.

(I gotta admit that I'm only familiar with the movie and a tiny bit of fandom osmosis, so everything with the series and the ongoing adventurers in her kingdom are new to me.)

(Also, driveby appreciation of the username, I love when good puns are right there like that)

[prodigalhairess]

A sort of dangerous amount of positivity that will be NEEDED once the horror shit starts hitting the fan. Clearly they just have to be the emotional cleanup squad and get everyone HAPPY again whenever bad things happen.

THE DECORATIONS. YES. IT WILL BE SO OVERBLOWN BUT SO BEAUTIFUL. Oh god especially with Christmas coming.....

(oh man I can't recommend the series enough! At the very least, the songs are worth a listen. They're some of Menken's best work tbh, and one of the utter showstoppers in s2 is what finally got that man his EGOT.

also thank u I am SO proud of this name)

[spaghettimonster]

It might be hard work, but it's the kind of hard work that's clearly needed and also distracts them from their own happiness, all the better to keep them at it!

And yes, encouraging holiday cheer and decorations will be just the thing. After how important those jack-o-lanterns were, clearly there'll be some protective measure in the Christmas decor. Besides, it's just not a winter celebration without a maze of snow walls in the front yard.

(I will check it out, see if it's available anywhere I can get to easily - I've still got a Netflix account, and I know a little about sailing the seven seas. I still very strongly remember how well Mother Knows Best summed up so much of the dynamic there, so I can imagine the songs get at a lot of other significant plot & character notes)

[feudalladyshandmaid]

I'm ready to toss someone that's honestly pretty Undyne-like at Papyrus (except she's not in the royal guard)

[spaghettimonster]

Oh no, that's wonderful - he's already missing her since they haven't been close since she took power, and he can take the prickly anger out of protectiveness in stride.

It's so tricky getting in the Royal Guard, but thankfully there ARE other valuable things in life, like being parents in an alternate kidnapping reality apparently.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

It's even trickier when your dad is captain of the guard!! Lemme tell u

But there ARE other valuable things, like being true to yourself and standing by your friends!! Not that Cass ever thought about becoming a parent though...

let me just spam with undyne icons in this thread

[spaghettimonster]

Being true to yourself and standing by your friends, now that's the right energy to bring to life!!!

The parent thing is a new development, though Papyrus at least had been considering adopting the next human child to happen by, so he's a little more braced for it. He can offer some hot tips, extremely paraphrased from more sensible things Toriel once told him?

Oh man, I'm feeling excited for the pending cr for Papyrus and the Tangleds. Good tonal matches, familiar themes, maybe even some M/M and F/F solidarity.

there she is, fish-cassandra

[feudalladyshandmaid]

god PLEASE feed me that good mlm wlw solidarity!!!

though I can't say that Cass wouldn't EVER have children. But she'd absolutely be the sort of person that just picked up a child one day and suddenly realized she never put them down.

So hopefully more children get into the game??

[spaghettimonster]

Hopefully! I want to see how the family sorting will work as is, but more kids could only add to the chaos

So is Cass the sort to embody the "I've only had [this child] for a day and a half, but if anything happened to them" protective energy meme?

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Oh absolutely. By the time she realizes she'd die for the people she cares about, it's way too late.

[petsthedog]

HEY THERE

so sorry i never got back to your tag on the tdm, life and holidays hit me real hard dfkjlas

i loved the few comments of tags we did in imaginary island, though, and would love to get some cr going with the best skeleton

[spaghettimonster]

Everything has been a Lot this year, I went hyper on the tdm precisely to hide from it all, so I get it

SO yeah, I'd love another shot at these two having cr! Papyrus doesn't come with a fluffy plot hook this time, alas, but he does have skin and hair and a car of his own, so it's not all downsides.

(Don't let on to Papyrus that he's the best skeleton, or he'll be lording it over Sans - who's already saddled with the ridiculous surname "Undertale - for the rest of the game)

[ribticklers]

(I mean, Sans would also agree that Papyrus is the best skeleton)

[spaghettimonster]

(But is he saying that because he means it, or as an excuse not to try to be as best as Papyrus??)

[ribticklers]

(yes)

[spaghettimonster]

(See, that deliberate ambiguity nonsense is what he doesn't want to encourage! After the triumph of crowing about being the best skeleton, Papyrus would be left realizing he'd just enabled Sans into being even more chill. The worst.)

[webdesigned]

if papyrus needs boy hair to practice on peter has So Much and he never does anything with it himself.

[spaghettimonster]

What a waste! Going a whole childhood and never properly enjoying it... If Peter ends up Papyrus' kid, he's at least going to gently nudge some fashion.

[webdesigned]

he keeps it clean and that's about all he knows how to do. at least he doesn't have a spider hood to make it as messy as usual, but i promise you that won't stop him from looking like a disaster

please papyrus he needs you :( HE NEEDS HELP...

[thepsyingnun]

I had fun with them on the TDM, while they won't remember it I'm looking forward to future game CR!! They are next-door neighbors and all.

[spaghettimonster]

Heck yeah, I look forward to their being neighbors, and promise there'll be shenanigans in this neighborhood with the mix of personalities in it!

I'm not sure if you're opting to downplay the TDM or no, but in case you missed the little note down bottom - the TDM is "canon in the sense that characters are free to remember its events when they app into the game," and "dream-like" so they can remember conflicting family setups and all. So if you wanted to keep any of the threads from the TDM, you're free to do so!