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PLAYER INFORMATION
Name: Pia
Age: 28
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Timezone: EST
Other characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Robin Buckley
Canon: Stranger Things
Canon point: S04E09, after volunteering at the survivor's shelter
Age: 18
History: Stranger Things Wiki (most of Robin's backstory comes from the companion novel (and it's companionception podcast), Rebel Robin)
Suitability: Robin comes from a canon with an alternate dimension, hellish beasts and mysteries abound. While she's a more recent addition to the gang who investigates the Upside Down, and everything else surrounding it, she's acclimated well into the whole rigamarole of investigating holes in dimensions, fighting devil bats, being kidnapped by Russians, etc. While being in game will definitely be different from being in Hawkins, it won't be something she's totally unfamiliar with -- and she has had dreams of running off to France. Italy is the next best thing, and she can read all the signs!
Is this a re-app? No
Inventory:
Powers, abilities and/or inhuman traits: Robin doesn't have any inhuman powers or supernatural abilities, but she does have some pretty nifty skills for a human:
MANIFESTATION
Character flaws/traumas:
( FEAR ) STAGNATION: On an existential level, Robin fears being stuck in a place like Hawkins — a place she sees as beneath her, not accepting of her and that contains so many people that will never understand her, that could ultimately harm her in so many ways. Robin wants adventure, freedom, the ability to live life without a camouflage, or the repression that comes with it. And yet sometimes it feels like such a fleeting, impossible dream — she's poor, born in this Indiana shithole that feels like a pit she can't crawl out of. She's found good things in Hawkins, don't get her wrong...but Hawkins is representative of everything Robin feels she has to cloak herself as, a shackle that keeps her true self from being visible. In the Rebel Robin podcast episodes, you can hear the desperation in her voice as she describes to Mr. Hauser just how badly she wants to run away and leave Hawkins, literally confused and disgusted when her teacher describes how he's left and yet chosen to stay in their podunk, conservative town.
( REPRESSION ) CLOAKING: Robin spends a great deal of energy trying to blend in. She could be the smartest girl in school, wear her true alternative interests on her sleeves — and yet she gets Bs in basically every class, wears the right kind of clothes to label herself as being part of a scene, but nothing too extreme. She's average in attainable ways. To stick out, to be someone that a spotlight is placed upon? Never. She's uncomfortable being the center of most people's attention. Robin is essentially the definition of "Jack of all trades, master of none": she's got too much pent up energy not to expend it someplace, but flaunting talent or brains isn't her thing.
( FEAR ) VULNERABILITY: When Robin does let someone see the more vulnerable side of herself, the reactions aren't always so positive, which is something Robin is self-aware of. Meeting Steve and growing close to him has opened up her social world, lowered her defenses slightly — when hanging out with Nancy, she acknowledges that she's not the easiest pill to swallow. She knows; she's always known. Robin runs her mouth, she has shoddy boundaries, her interests are somewhat obscure, brain bouncing from one thing to the next at warp speed...letting people truly see this side of her denotes she's truly comfortable around them, and has some faith that they won't be a meathead about how abnormal she truly is.
( REPRESSION ) QUEERNESS: As a continuation from the last fear, to be her true self is to stand out for all the wrong reasons. To be a mega-nerd, band geek, alternative girl? And to top it all off — to be a lesbian, too? Nothing about any of those monikers are how you succeed in survival in Hawkins. It's a small town, during the Reagan 80's no less, meant to build nuclear families that give birth to generation upon generation of similar small town drones. When she passively describes being queer to her English teacher, Mr. Hauser, Robin describes it as:
( TRAUMA ) THE UPSIDE DOWN: While there isn't some canon-specific evidence that links to this to Robin directly, Stranger Things definitely touches upon how some characters have lingering emotional effects due to their knowledge and experiences within the Upside Down. Robin has been involved with the monsters there, and she's also been the victim of kidnapping and drugging at the hands of Russian soldiers involved with investigating the alternate dimension in question. It's hard to think that a seventeen/eighteen-year-old wouldn't experience some trauma after having to fight off creatures trying to kill her, or soldiers who had her life in their hands. This also includes horrifying moments where she's had to see people she cares about in mortal danger, and she knows people have died — and how she's lucky not to have been a casualty of Hawkins' supernatural underbelly.
Manifestation name: Paula
Character trait(s) the Manifestation reflects: The fear of staying in place, sapphic desire, repression
Description: Paula stands at about 5' 10", and is female in presentation. This can be sussed out by the long, coifed hair that spills from its head, the apron it wears across its form, the pointed pumps it wears on its feet. What was once perhaps a beautiful woman, however, is a mottled corpse with missing features — its jaw is gone, dangling and rotting flesh not enough to cover a view that shows straight through to its trembling windpipe. The naked flesh beneath the apron is missing in places, some areas deeper than others. One breast is nearly torn off, the culprit of a deep blood stain underneath that particular area of the apron. In general the apron has seen better days — various fluids stain the fabric, tears help to showcase the yellowing skin underneath. It's becoming more difficult to read the embroidered name stitched on the righthand hem: Paula.
Attacks and behavior:
Resolving her Manifestation will include being comfortable enough around people to fully be herself and express her fears related to cloaking herself. Despite this setting being a European city, which is Robin's ideal place to run away to, she'll come to realize that the people there are still strangers, and you can be afraid of who you are and how people will take you no matter where you are geographically. She'll need to open up and slowly ease into being comfortable in her own skin around other people, fully unafraid to be who she is around people she doesn't totally know. It will also mean being out to others, as both a means of being comfortable enough to accept herself as she is as a lesbian, but also to receive acceptance from others.
SAMPLES
One and two
Name: Pia
Age: 28
Contact:
Timezone: EST
Other characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Robin Buckley
Canon: Stranger Things
Canon point: S04E09, after volunteering at the survivor's shelter
Age: 18
History: Stranger Things Wiki (most of Robin's backstory comes from the companion novel (and it's companionception podcast), Rebel Robin)
Suitability: Robin comes from a canon with an alternate dimension, hellish beasts and mysteries abound. While she's a more recent addition to the gang who investigates the Upside Down, and everything else surrounding it, she's acclimated well into the whole rigamarole of investigating holes in dimensions, fighting devil bats, being kidnapped by Russians, etc. While being in game will definitely be different from being in Hawkins, it won't be something she's totally unfamiliar with -- and she has had dreams of running off to France. Italy is the next best thing, and she can read all the signs!
Is this a re-app? No
Inventory:
- ❧ A copy of Anna Karenina, in Russian
❧ A movie poster for 1983's The Hunger
❧ A cassette player with attached headset
❧ A marching band trumpet
❧ Her bike
Powers, abilities and/or inhuman traits: Robin doesn't have any inhuman powers or supernatural abilities, but she does have some pretty nifty skills for a human:
- ❧ Can play the French horn and the trumpet.
❧ Polyglot: Robin can speak English, French, Italian, Spanish and pig latin. She learns language easily, and has learned some Russian due to having to translate a coded spy message in Season 3.
MANIFESTATION
Character flaws/traumas:
( FEAR ) STAGNATION: On an existential level, Robin fears being stuck in a place like Hawkins — a place she sees as beneath her, not accepting of her and that contains so many people that will never understand her, that could ultimately harm her in so many ways. Robin wants adventure, freedom, the ability to live life without a camouflage, or the repression that comes with it. And yet sometimes it feels like such a fleeting, impossible dream — she's poor, born in this Indiana shithole that feels like a pit she can't crawl out of. She's found good things in Hawkins, don't get her wrong...but Hawkins is representative of everything Robin feels she has to cloak herself as, a shackle that keeps her true self from being visible. In the Rebel Robin podcast episodes, you can hear the desperation in her voice as she describes to Mr. Hauser just how badly she wants to run away and leave Hawkins, literally confused and disgusted when her teacher describes how he's left and yet chosen to stay in their podunk, conservative town.
( REPRESSION ) CLOAKING: Robin spends a great deal of energy trying to blend in. She could be the smartest girl in school, wear her true alternative interests on her sleeves — and yet she gets Bs in basically every class, wears the right kind of clothes to label herself as being part of a scene, but nothing too extreme. She's average in attainable ways. To stick out, to be someone that a spotlight is placed upon? Never. She's uncomfortable being the center of most people's attention. Robin is essentially the definition of "Jack of all trades, master of none": she's got too much pent up energy not to expend it someplace, but flaunting talent or brains isn't her thing.
( FEAR ) VULNERABILITY: When Robin does let someone see the more vulnerable side of herself, the reactions aren't always so positive, which is something Robin is self-aware of. Meeting Steve and growing close to him has opened up her social world, lowered her defenses slightly — when hanging out with Nancy, she acknowledges that she's not the easiest pill to swallow. She knows; she's always known. Robin runs her mouth, she has shoddy boundaries, her interests are somewhat obscure, brain bouncing from one thing to the next at warp speed...letting people truly see this side of her denotes she's truly comfortable around them, and has some faith that they won't be a meathead about how abnormal she truly is.
❝Maybe I'm broken. What if there's just something about me that drives people away? [...] Because I can't seem to keep any friends. And before you say anything about how "that's just how it goes when you're a teenager," that people fall in and out of friendships every other semester, just. Just don't. Because it really doesn't seem like that's the case for anyone but me.❞Whenever Robin reveals too much of herself...it's had a history of not going so well. It speaks to how truly trusting (and drugged) she had to be when she discussed herself with Steve, and from then on not being afraid to be who she truly was around him.
( REPRESSION ) QUEERNESS: As a continuation from the last fear, to be her true self is to stand out for all the wrong reasons. To be a mega-nerd, band geek, alternative girl? And to top it all off — to be a lesbian, too? Nothing about any of those monikers are how you succeed in survival in Hawkins. It's a small town, during the Reagan 80's no less, meant to build nuclear families that give birth to generation upon generation of similar small town drones. When she passively describes being queer to her English teacher, Mr. Hauser, Robin describes it as:
❝There's something wrong with me. There's something inside of me that's just like...rotten. And there's nothing I can do to fix it.❞Robin doesn't like revealing who she is to just anyone, because to reveal herself to people is to become a target, and to showcase a trait that she hasn't fully accepted as a person yet, having only told two people in the whole world. When she confessions her identity to Steve Harrington, you can hear the pleading in her voice for understanding from him, both on a literal level (as she's not explicitly saying she's gay, but also saying anything but) and an emotional level because she already feels like "my whole life has been one big error." Please let her instincts be right, please let her trust not be misplaced...because to be out to the wrong person means more than just being a pariah. It means being in danger, and that's an ugly position to be in.
( TRAUMA ) THE UPSIDE DOWN: While there isn't some canon-specific evidence that links to this to Robin directly, Stranger Things definitely touches upon how some characters have lingering emotional effects due to their knowledge and experiences within the Upside Down. Robin has been involved with the monsters there, and she's also been the victim of kidnapping and drugging at the hands of Russian soldiers involved with investigating the alternate dimension in question. It's hard to think that a seventeen/eighteen-year-old wouldn't experience some trauma after having to fight off creatures trying to kill her, or soldiers who had her life in their hands. This also includes horrifying moments where she's had to see people she cares about in mortal danger, and she knows people have died — and how she's lucky not to have been a casualty of Hawkins' supernatural underbelly.
Manifestation name: Paula
Character trait(s) the Manifestation reflects: The fear of staying in place, sapphic desire, repression
Description: Paula stands at about 5' 10", and is female in presentation. This can be sussed out by the long, coifed hair that spills from its head, the apron it wears across its form, the pointed pumps it wears on its feet. What was once perhaps a beautiful woman, however, is a mottled corpse with missing features — its jaw is gone, dangling and rotting flesh not enough to cover a view that shows straight through to its trembling windpipe. The naked flesh beneath the apron is missing in places, some areas deeper than others. One breast is nearly torn off, the culprit of a deep blood stain underneath that particular area of the apron. In general the apron has seen better days — various fluids stain the fabric, tears help to showcase the yellowing skin underneath. It's becoming more difficult to read the embroidered name stitched on the righthand hem: Paula.
Attacks and behavior:
- ❧ Paula ascribes to the It Follows methods of capture and kill. She moves at a steady pace, constantly going towards her target: Robin. She never runs, never makes chase, but is always on the move and has a flexibility and strength that can allow her to scale things, doing whatever it takes to reach her goal.
❧ There's an intensifying presence that Paula exudes the closer you come into her proximity. At a distance of about 30 feet, you can feel it start to prick at your muscles, making movement begin to feel uncomfortable, body feeling a little taut. The closer you get in proximity, the more it feels like muscles are being frozen in place. Movement is only fully suspended if she's touching a target, but being very close makes utilizing range of motion feel like wading through syrup, almost impossible.
❧ Paula makes no moves for weapons, focusing wholly on strangulation as a method of murder. By the time she reaches a person, it's easy enough as they can no longer move. She's definitely an enemy that requires teamwork to beat, with larger numbers and long range attacks being much more effective than melee blitzes.
❧ The weak spot of Paula is how fragile she is in form. She's rotting, human flesh that is squishy and pliable with age. Damage can be done to her easily, but she makes up for this vulnerability with tenacity. Take off an arm, run her through with something, hell — chop off a foot. Paula has one single mission, and it's moving forward towards Robin. However she has to make that happen, she will.
Resolving her Manifestation will include being comfortable enough around people to fully be herself and express her fears related to cloaking herself. Despite this setting being a European city, which is Robin's ideal place to run away to, she'll come to realize that the people there are still strangers, and you can be afraid of who you are and how people will take you no matter where you are geographically. She'll need to open up and slowly ease into being comfortable in her own skin around other people, fully unafraid to be who she is around people she doesn't totally know. It will also mean being out to others, as both a means of being comfortable enough to accept herself as she is as a lesbian, but also to receive acceptance from others.
SAMPLES
One and two
POST-APP ADDENDUM
- contrary to evidence presented, I can read, surprisingly
- I'm just gonna casually brush Robin's Italian language stuff under the rug, nothing to see here, man behind the curtain, etc
- please flog me for I am ashamed