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meta moderators ([personal profile] metamods) wrote in [community profile] metaooc2023-03-20 11:16 am
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MARCH ACTIVITY CHECK

ACTIVITY CHECK-IN

GUIDELINES

This game has no minimum activity requirement for posts and comments. To this end, links to threads are not required. Please read the guidance below for how to check-in and register a continued interest in playing.

NEW PLAYERS
Players accepted in this calendar month do not need to reply to this post. Instead, visit the TAKEN CHARACTERS page and ensure that all character information is posted and up to date. Double-check that all your character's game information is correct — including community membership, character tags, and the listing on the GUILDS page.

CONTINUING PLAYERS
All continuing players must check in. Failure to complete the form below by the last day of the activity check-in period may result in characters being swept from the game. Players can reapply for their swept characters during the next application cycle. Players have until March 25th to reply.


FORM

The form below asks players to summarize their character's actions for the month. When completing the form, players should consider aspects of their characters' lives like work, resource gathering, interpersonal relationship development, personality growth, and how the character's reputation with the guilds and the world at large may have changed.
Players of these characters have passed their decision deadline and lost their residency in the Diadem Hotel. Therefore, this month, these players must link to the character's comment on the GUILDS page in their summary. (Remember that there is an Unaligned header!) This form creates a resource for others to check membership status as well as a record of employment and housing.

Please also remember to comment on the HOUSING page with any preferences. Characters who have commented to the Guilds page but not the Housing page will be randomly assigned housing at the end of the activity period.

Links are otherwise not required, but players who include activity links to threads in their summaries and/or make clear reference to the resources they're gathering and relationships they're building may find that their characters ICly receive extra support from the guilds when attempting to run plots.

Player Name:
Character Name:
Character Journal:
Summary: What has your character been up to this month? What are they doing for work or to make money? How have they changed? Consider goals, behaviors, relationships to others, etc. What have they done lately that might change their reputation to the world as a whole or to the Guilds?




RUE MOORE SUBMISSIONS
Now that you have a summary of what your character has been up to written up, now would be a great time to submit to RUE MOORE's gossip column!
The submission post is here.



NOT CHECKED IN YET

hevenly: (Default)

[personal profile] hevenly 2023-03-20 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Chris
Character Name: Angela
Character Journal: [personal profile] hevenly
Summary: Angela attended MCU-Loki's inaugural ball, where she wanted to fight the ice demons but was instead turned into a cat. Later on, she caught up with 616-Loki about life, love, and loss. She also met up with Tony Stark to discuss his previous time in this universe (thread ongoing).
infirmiere: (Default)

[personal profile] infirmiere 2023-03-20 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: emma
Character Name: lila bard
Character Journal: [personal profile] aspyrata
Summary: arrived and immediately tried to get home again despite her antari magic not worked, almost passed out on steph & jason, broke a drone because she's from 1819, learned what a credit card is, has not been able to find a decent cuppa

Character Name: willa lisieux
Character Journal: [personal profile] infirmiere
Summary: willa is newly arrived and met up with her friends from home and asked ripley to pick out her clothes (demanded, more like) and decided that she will probably take the mantle of hero so she can get a house for emmet
stale: (Default)

[personal profile] stale 2023-03-20 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: bobby
Character Name: fabian levasseur
Character Journal: [personal profile] stale
Summary: fabian just got here and has spent most of his time using his endless credit card to drink and be sad, and met with some of his friends (and also an enemy). he has absolutely no plans, but will likely be kicked into gear in short order to get a job at the very least.
Edited 2023-03-20 18:55 (UTC)
blackvoid: (Default)

[personal profile] blackvoid 2023-03-20 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: oli
Character Name: emmet ramsey
Character Journal: [personal profile] blackvoid
Summary: Emmet's just arrived, reunited with some of his besties from home and is trying to balance acceptance and a healthy amount of skepticism about the new living sitch. He wants to move out to Little Love and die on a farm but otherwise may end up having to choose something other than unaligned.
Edited (uGHH) 2023-03-20 20:37 (UTC)
reneger: (Default)

[personal profile] reneger 2023-03-20 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: jessi
Character Name: julian keller
Character Journal: [profile] contemns
Summary: officially joined up with the society and shoved his bags into josh foley's place because it's cheaper and jobs are for dorks

Character Name: jason todd
Character Journal: [personal profile] reneger
Summary: arrived! intentionally antagonized the local batcrew, did some research on central city's nightlife, decided he was bored and would pull tony stark and kyle rayner into mobrobbing. didn't die

Character Name: sylvain laurent
Character Journal: [personal profile] resurveil
Summary: fell out of the sky and found a few friends, as well as an enemy. didn't decide to battle royale it out yet, but that's a work in progress
welcome_summer: (Hey I needed those organs)

[personal profile] welcome_summer 2023-03-20 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: ReneeTwist
Character Name: Mayuko Shiraki
Character Journal: [personal profile] welcome_summer
Summary: Mayuko came out of the bubble and found out that she had gotten the Deputy Mayorship of Sunset Falls. And the death-curse that comes along with it, funny how that wasn't in the campaign materials! So she checked in on Mayor Loki, attended the inaugural ball and got transformed into a cat. She made time to visit DCAU!Jason at the Descendant and got some good advice about which gods to make a deal with to keep from getting murdered to death.
Edited 2023-03-20 23:18 (UTC)
fearfully_symmetrical: (floating)

[personal profile] fearfully_symmetrical 2023-03-20 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: C
Character Name: Galatea
Character Journal: [personal profile] fearfully_symmetrical
Summary: She's essentially an extremely powerful hobo - crashing wherever she can and figuring out how one actually makes money. And she's also dealing with the loss of the idyllic lifestyle she had as a married hero in the strange alternate universe.

She is dealing with it in typical Galatea style, which is "extreme rage." This may make her seem a loose cannon to one guild, and a potential recruit to another.
voicelog: (054)

[personal profile] voicelog 2023-03-20 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: laws
Character Name: tony stark
Character Journal: [personal profile] voicelog
Summary: tony just got here! he learned that another him was here previously and started up a very successful sex toy company, which was weird. moved in with stephen. agreed to make jason a new mask/bodysuit. got temporarily booted from stephen's haunted house, so now he's living with jason. oh yeah, he also agreed to rob the mob with jason and kyle because that's somehow the trajectory his life has taken. he's doing great otherwise though. pretty fucking happy that he has his extremis suit back.

Character Name: lavrentios argyris
Character Journal: [personal profile] harries
Summary: larkin also just got here! he ran into a few folks from back home. haven't done much else 'sides from acclimating and learning more about this world and staying on the DL while he tries to figure his shit out.
robintohood: (I am real and the pretender)

[personal profile] robintohood 2023-03-20 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Pinky
Character Name: Jason Todd (DCAU version)
Character Journal: [personal profile] robintohood
Summary: Thread log for March

Jason met Comics!Jason Todd and has complicated feelings about that. This, on top of his post-AU event emotional hangover, has Jason in a Mood. He's dealing with his feelings by not dealing with his feelings and trying to bury himself in his work. He's also realized how much he platonically care about Sleeper and will eventually confess to them.

In addition, Jason's been trying to comfort Nico and Dylan after certain people left and gave Mayuko advice on what type of deity she could make a pact with.

On the Red Hood front, he's warned his gang about someone who might seem really similar to him and is hoping to keep the mistaken identity problems to a minimum. Also, he and Steph are beginning to set up their covers as criminal allies before they're joining the Society.
Edited 2023-03-21 00:02 (UTC)
sixthdeadliest: (Leaning against a wall)

[personal profile] sixthdeadliest 2023-03-21 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Cybra
Character Name: Six
Character Journal: [personal profile] sixthdeadliest
Summary: Six has been largely on standby with the Alliance as he cleans up from winter storms. However, he has been furthering some smaller goals around Little Love.

To further lower the cost of a used 4-wheel drive truck, he's been helping the previous owner out with things around his property. At the same time, he's using the opportunity to learn how to better care for a house since he's never had one before. (Thank goodness his neighbors are friendly and are willing to answer stupid-sounding questions or offer suggestions like wrapping the pipes so they don't freeze!)

He hasn't put together a full obstacle course yet, but he's started setting up some traditional martial arts training equipment on the grounds. He can regularly be seen between "jobs" training.
effiomsfavorite: (...Maybe)

[personal profile] effiomsfavorite 2023-03-21 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Kia
Character Name: Huvrye Tirvio
Character Journal: [personal profile] effiomsfavorite
Summary: Huvrye has moved into Guild-subsidized housing with Leo; he's also helped with Expo security, and thanks to Mark there may be some very public professionally taken photos of him helping kids set up in the artist alley and defending them from a would-be villain. He's also working odd jobs, keeping tabs on Nico, and getting a crash course in internet usage from Leo, and he may be planning a sting on Fantastic in order to ruin Fantastic's reputation and any possible bids he might make for Alliance leadership. It's fine.

(It's me, hi, I'm the burnout it's me)
levelshift: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] levelshift 2023-03-21 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Pan
Character Name: Accelerator
Character Journal: [personal profile] levelshift
Summary: Arrived and had to get his brain hooked up to a brand new low-powered supercomputer provided charitably by the Alliance so he can function. Otherwise he's staying at Diadem hotel, getting settled in and learning about the world, and spinning up fake rumours online with Leo about Fantastic taking credit for others' heroics.
daybroken: (Default)

[personal profile] daybroken 2023-03-21 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Tsa

Character Name: Link
Character Journal: [personal profile] daybroken
Summary: He's been getting settled, and is a little bit horrified that children are being treated like soldiers! He went to a party and did some neat-o parkour to fight some ice demons and learned what an elf is.

Character Name: Dylan Brock
Character Journal: [personal profile] codicies
Summary: Dylan went to a rave and partook of some underage drinking, then got on the network and started roasting some big names in his homeworld with his fellow 616 kin.

Character Name: Alec Hardison
Character Journal: [personal profile] hacktivision
Summary: I'm just really not feelin' it, tbh. Sweep him. I'M SORRY EVERYONE!
a_gaggle_of_ghosties: (H-06)

[personal profile] a_gaggle_of_ghosties 2023-03-21 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Saint
Character Name: Darth Nox
Character Journal: [personal profile] a_gaggle_of_ghosties
Summary: Nox turned himself into a cat a few times (first accidentally, and then a couple more times because it was a novel form of experimentation and he shouldn't be left unsupervised), and also made sure to attend Loki's inaugural shindig because he did vote for the guy after all.

That second one could potentially significantly impact his reputation among both the general populace and the guilds due to just how enthusiastically he'll be killing the demons trying to spoil the party, though I don't know in just what direction when it comes to the public's opinion. There's probably at least some support for jumping right to lethal force when it comes to supernatural threats, but at the very least I suspect the Alliance wouldn't be too comfortable with it. I'll have to defer to mod discretion when it comes to what the reaction would be (and especially when it comes to whether the Society would even care).
Edited 2023-03-21 07:07 (UTC)
torchbearer: (Blade Of The Immortal)

[personal profile] torchbearer 2023-03-21 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Timmy

Character Name: Loki Odinson
Character Journal: [personal profile] dothelokimotion
Summary: Loki had a brief falling out with Sephiroth which they overcame, he became Mayor and held a little ball in his honour.

Character Name: Ripley Arkwright
Character Journal: [personal profile] exasperation
Summary: Ripley met some new arrivals and talked to Dylan about Eddie's disappearance.

Character Name: Kyle Rayner
Character Journal: [personal profile] torchbearer
Summary: Kyle went on a mob-busting adventure with Jason and made a twitter post about dumb superhero names.
unkindled_madness: (cat)

[personal profile] unkindled_madness 2023-03-21 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Yinza
Character Name: Sephiroth
Character Journal: [personal profile] unkindled_madness
Summary: Sephiroth set a car on fire as part of his excellent coping mechanisms in the wake of the AU bubble bursting. He and Loki had their first real fight, but they later worked things out at Loki's inaugural ball... while Sephiroth was a cat. Just normal Sunset Falls things.
portolan: (Default)

[personal profile] portolan 2023-03-21 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Taylor
Character Name: Balthier, Tina
Character Journal: [personal profile] portolan, [personal profile] skagzz
Summary: I'm on an unforeseen hiatus for health and family stuff. Hoping to be back in April.
beatscissors: (Default)

[personal profile] beatscissors 2023-03-22 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: michele
Character Name: korg
Character Journal: [personal profile] beatscissors
Summary: celebrated loki becoming mayor! except now he has to try to recruit new mods for his streaming gig.
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2023-03-22 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Churby

Character Name: David Alleyne
Character Journal: [personal profile] helpdesk_hero
Summary: David helped out some at the Confluence, and made the acquaintance of Tony Stark, updating him on things going on here. He also learned about the Fantastic Speech and went just a LITTLE angry at that. Finally he spent time helping out at the Guild Expo Set Up where he developed a rivalry with a POS (point of sale but he accepts the insult as well) system that was coded in Python, didn't like him, and kept hissing at him.

Character Name: Mark Bryant
Character Journal: [personal profile] atypical_echo
Summary: Mark attempted to deal with the post Bubble Blues by offering people emotional support, hugs, and hot chocolate. With his friends he actively sought them out to try and help. He also did a lot of assistance with planning and executing Loki's Inauguration Ball. Because, you know, fun. And took pictures of things being set up at the Guild Expo.
kazimieras: (053)

[personal profile] kazimieras 2023-03-22 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Joann
Character Name: Kaz
Character Journal: [personal profile] kazimieras
Summary: So far, Kaz has had not that much success convincing people that he's actually a legit doctor via an OurPowers post, but he has attracted Jason Todd's attention by treating some idiots at his bar. Off-screen, he's been begrudgingly attending Sky High, where some competent adults for once got him screened for ADHD and got him on meds and he shitposted to celebrate. He's also low-key looking for a medical job while I try to decide if he should actually be able to find one. And he's planning to join the Alliance, I just haven't updated because I haven't decided on his home city or job yet.
forceforlight: (Default)

[personal profile] forceforlight 2023-03-22 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Shard
Character Name: Dick Grayson/Nightwing
Character Journal: [personal profile] forceforlight
Summary: Dick's mostly been keeping quiet, though keeping an eye on his various siblings and working at Descendent. Also dealing with the fact that Bruce has gone. He's also started a TikTok account called 'circusbrat', though there's nothing on it just yet. Haley, on the other hand, is making everybody aww over the cute puppy. Though she's getting a little less puppy every day and more actual dog.

Dick will be remaining Unaffiliated for the moment, but he's keeping an eye on Fantastic and the goings on.
eatsnutsandkicksbutts: (SG - *whistles innocently*)

[personal profile] eatsnutsandkicksbutts 2023-03-23 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Molly
Character Name: Doreen Green
Character Journal: [personal profile] eatsnutsandkicksbutts
Summary: Doreen worked at the Expo doing some heavy lifting, tailed a guy with some squirrels, caught up with Tony Stark, advised other!Jason to not pick up strange red helmets, and dunked on Dr Doom with Dylan! It's been a chill month.
qualityfriend: (Default)

[personal profile] qualityfriend 2023-03-23 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Hyatt
Character Name: Dana Tan
Character Journal: [personal profile] qualityfriend
Summary: Bumming around, been somewhat out of sorts with Batman disappearing reminding her of Batman-less Gotham.
bag_has_snapped: (Default)

[personal profile] bag_has_snapped 2023-03-23 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Knux
Character Name: Tsubomi Hanasaki
Character Journal: [personal profile] bag_has_snapped
Summary: Sticking back after confirming that ridiculous speech from last month

Character Name: Sakura Haruno
Character Journal: [personal profile] weakest_ninja
Summary: Keeping her head down at the moment and trying to gauge what to do.
harageous: (Default)

[personal profile] harageous 2023-03-23 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Kimmeh
Character Name: Edalyn Clawthorne
Character Journal: [personal profile] harageous
Summary:
Great news, she landed a job! In the government even! Bad news is that she's the official hellmouth wrangler! Time to put some ghosts in the hole!

Eda has been taking a breather after all the au stuff last month because it hit her a little hard and trying to settle into her new home.
rehandle: (Default)

[personal profile] rehandle 2023-03-23 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Gee
Character Name: Stephen Strange
Character Journal: [personal profile] rehandle
Summary: He's done things this month!! Imagine that!! Granted, they've mostly been Hermit Life Things, but things have been done. With not only Tony but also Jason showing up, he spent a good chunk of time just being Pleased and settling them both in (Tony more than Jason but he did get day drunk with Jason for moral support and mourning purposes so), moving Tony into his stupid haunted house pretty much the day that he arrived - then temporarily forcing him out by inviting Loki to stay while they both have a little mourn of kid Loki 😢 miss you kiddo. he's also starting to discuss cult stuff with Nox wrt how they handle that moving forward.
definecat: (Default)

[personal profile] definecat 2023-03-23 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Bugly
Character Name: Bart Allen
Character Journal: [personal profile] kid_flash_found
Summary: Bart has been around and about. He's planning the entire seasonal vegetable lineup from the farm, trying to keep his head low and out of the political maneuvering in the Alliance, and just getting by.

Character Name: Sleeper
Character Journal: [profile] solo_sleeper
Summary: The cat is beginning to see there are benefits to giving up a certain degree of independence. They're honestly talking about feelings and stuff with Jason Todd and looking to do more than just help out with business ventures and gang stuff. Who knows where this will actually go, but a bond is a serious thing.
doctopoda: (Default)

[personal profile] doctopoda 2023-03-24 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Lu
Character Name: Otto Octavius
Character Journal: [personal profile] doctopoda
Summary: Otto lost one of his housemates, Peter Parker, and worked on bouncing back from that and the whole AU experience!
formerspybrat: (028)

[personal profile] formerspybrat 2023-03-24 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Roach
Character Name: Danny Chase
Character Journal: [personal profile] formerspybrat
Summary: Danny officially joined the Alliance, and was set up with a foster family in Sunset Falls. He also semi-anonymously voiced concerns about Fantastic and might be planning a sting on him.

Character Name: Thaddeus Thawne II / Inertia
Character Journal: [personal profile] mirror_soldier
Summary: He started school and got partnered with Dylan to take care of a robot baby.
nerdylilspidey: (let me read you this science book...)

[personal profile] nerdylilspidey 2023-03-24 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Hika
Character Name: Peter Parker (1610)
Character Journal: [personal profile] nerdylilspidey
Summary: Not much at all, just been sad about his friends who've left. School like a normie by day, costumed patrols by night.
tiaraaction: ★ OOOOOH NO ★ (Default)

[personal profile] tiaraaction 2023-03-24 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: dani
Character Name: usagi | billy | jinx
Character Journal: [personal profile] tiaraaction | [personal profile] camarod | [personal profile] whimsikills
Summary: USUAL EXTENDED NOTHINGNESS which ends next week (hurray hurray hurray). jinx does have a plot coming soon (new dates tbd with mods), usagi may ... do something cool. billy literally just making money off of nudes, i am very behind.
ikols: a little more interesting (to come off)

[personal profile] ikols 2023-03-24 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: em
Character Name: loki laufeyson
Character Journal: [personal profile] ikols
Summary: setting up a player plot about being a thieving little shit!! in its first stages!!
slowmotionbuscrash: (101)

[personal profile] slowmotionbuscrash 2023-03-24 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Marie
Character Name: Tommy Shepherd
Character Journal: [personal profile] slowmotionbuscrash
Summary: Still living in Sunset Falls but taking advantage of being a speedster to do whatever he wants. Been chatting it up online with Galatea (call him!), Kyle, David, and I’m probably forgetting people but I’ve got a horrific ear infection so I’m sorry. The Galatea thing might catch the Alliance’s eye, as he is in the guild and she is Most Definitely Not.

Character Name: Tim Drake
Character Journal: [personal profile] mostdangerousbird
Summary: Still picking away at some AU things with Kon, Dick’s arrival, and some Loki stuff. Tim’s been meeting up with the new Jason and is probably putting himself on a collision course with SOMETHING because he followed up intervening in a car chase with Old Jason and the D’Amicos with pointing New Jason at the D’Amicos. Oh, and as Tim’s really cautious about his social media, I want to note that he did admit via his [personal profile] timdrake account that Dick Grayson is his brother and his anon twitter account [personal profile] chirpchirpchirp finally replaced the default egg image with a picture of a Robin egg. Thrilling!

Character Name: Nico di Angelo
Character Journal: [personal profile] demigoth
Summary: Went to a rave with Dylan and Leo. Still in school, although his attendance is thready right now. He took Will Solace vanishing badly. Still in the guild, although he doesn’t do much “heroing”. He turned up at old Jason’s a wreck when the Confluence happened, and he’s spent a lot of time emo-ing dramatically. Apologies to Dana, both Jasons, Huvrye, and anyone else who tries to deal with the little gremlin.
Edited 2023-03-24 21:10 (UTC)
pinball_wizard: (Default)

[personal profile] pinball_wizard 2023-03-24 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Allen
Character Name: Chuck Taine/Bouncing Boy
Character Journal: [personal profile] pinball_wizard
Summary: Picking up money from hustling, planning on putting together a business, and going out of his way to make it very clear he doesn't like the Guilds and especially Fantastic.
cichy: (Default)

[personal profile] cichy 2023-03-25 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Bri
Character Name: Pavetta
Character Journal: [personal profile] cichy
Summary: Pavetta's slowly been getting out there and meeting new people on the TDM
determinationtofist: (Default)

[personal profile] determinationtofist 2023-03-25 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: OddEyes
Character Name: Hibiki Tachibana
Character Journal: [personal profile] determinationtofist
Summary: Continuing to work as both a singer and a superhero
louder_than_words: (Default)

[personal profile] louder_than_words 2023-03-25 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Ken
Character Name: Cassandra Cain-Wayne
Character Journal: [personal profile] louder_than_words
Summary: Cass has been keeping quiet while angsting about dealing with Bruce returning to Gotham.

Character Name: Link
Character Journal: [personal profile] reborntobewild
Summary: Link has been adjusting to this strange new world and connecting with his heroic ancestor.
heartthumpingexcitement: (016)

[personal profile] heartthumpingexcitement 2023-03-25 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Tyranno
Character Name: Mana Aida
Character Journal: [personal profile] heartthumpingexcitement
Summary: Continued to establish herself as a hero.

Character Name: Chris Yukine
Character Journal: [personal profile] trustheart
Summary: Mostly vibing this month, lying to herself that she doesn't miss a certain person.
wordiness: (Default)

[personal profile] wordiness 2023-03-25 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: exxie

Character Name: billy kaplan-altman
Character Journal: [personal profile] wordiness
Summary: he hung out some with his brother and loki, but not a whole lot else. worked, i guess..

Character Name: jon kent
Character Journal: [personal profile] exponentially
Summary: he's.. done...... nothing, i should've hiatused. probably out there superheroing.
eggplanting: (and an elastic heart)

[personal profile] eggplanting 2023-03-25 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: justine
Character Name: steph brown
Character Journal: [personal profile] eggplanting
Summary: things are still super awkward with cass! a second jason is here and that's weird! bruce left and that's a whole thing with the rest of the fam! its mostly family drama at the moment for poor steph