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Starter selection time!

I got this ’here fella and want to do some things with him. I’ve got options!

Want to meet him in the park while he’s still under the weather and mostly armless? Got that in a prior post and it is still open for takers.

Want to be there when he gets the arm back? Can do, just drop me a line so I know who to aim the starter at.

Wanna be the one to tell him he just got isekai’d and get to see his first rounds of culture shock? Hit me up

Wanna do something after he’s got his legs back under him and can actually try to adapt to the new setting he finds himself in? Yeah, lets do it.

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💖 dax! (hullo o7)

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He was purpose-built and specced out for information gathering. It may, possibly, have a bit of a hiccup in the early phase and boundries probably should be spoken about, it'd have its advantages.

He won't forget important dates, be able to recall and relate to past dates or conversations. He'd be able to keep track of other friends or details from stories about your day and be actively listening to every word and filing it away.

If you ask where you left something, chances are he probably would be able to tell you where it was, or would have grabbed it for you when he noticed you missed it.

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A reason to not date Dax: with basically one exception, if he's taking an Active and Invested Interest in someone that far, he's doing it for a specific purpose.

Maybe the target has access or connections he wants access to. Maybe there's suspected ties to Maverick activity that he's wanting to find out. Maybe it isn't so much the person themselves but it is something to help give his cover some more texture to blend in better.

The point is that there would be a specific goal or purpose to the courting.

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Due to in-jokes and ongoing stuff, a collective headcanon/running joke is that Pallet writes ship -fics. The trashiest extra things with no regard to rhyme, reason, or good taste. They tend to still get smuggled around and produced en masse despite any authority figure tending to want them removed and destroyed when found.

They have been enough of a problem that one plot arc involved an off-the-books disciplinary action of getting unceremoniously launched by cannon into the ocean from the Nuvola.

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This is where my story begins

It had seemed like….well, not a good plan. Anyhing borne of enough desperation that one man was trying to steal something from a Corporation was not a good plan to begin with. But it had seemed doable. He knew the location of what he was trying to steal, had a route in and out. Had his escape plan timed out, and would be using the Corp’s own famously reliable transportation to get away.

He’d even had a backup escape plan. They weren’t cheap and he’d only get one use out of it, but the little teleporter would shunt him away from any danger too severe.

It had all seemed to be going so well, till the end. Once he got on the train it should have just been a quick ten second journey before he’d be five districts over and trying to find a buyer for the suitcase-sized box he’d swiped.

It hadn’t been ten seconds. He’d lost count after what seemed like ten days, and by that point some of the other passengers were starting to panic and fights were breaking out among the passengers more and more. Eventually he couldn’t keep himself out of the melee.

He got hurt. Not fatally, but bad enough that the next one might be. The escape device didn’t know where he was, or where it was aiming at, only being concerned with getting him away from the current danger on the train.

Ceryx found himself no longer on the train, which was already a good improvement. He had no idea where he ended up but it was a great deal less violent so he’d at least have time to figure that out.

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daxwebster

So I did a thing! There’s not much on the page yet but I have a new character starting to putter around, native to Project Moon’s setting (Lobotomy Corp, Library of Ruina, Limbus Company) but isekai’d into whatever setting I want to interact with people in.

I’ll be putting more up and some kind of starter once I get home from work.

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As much momentum as he thought he had, Dax had to collect himself after that. He’d file away the small win to process later: Zero had just admitted that there had been Doubt. That was an important detail and something that he’d been wanting to know about. Part of what he had decided to dig for once the conversation had been forced open.
But the indignation needed to be handled first. “So you weren’t certain. And you still killed your way through our roster. I know more than most how tense relations between Repliforce and the Hunters were at the time, how much friction there was between our two groups. I knew that we still had some gaps to bridge. But I never would have thought it was bad enough to turn into a rout like that. And I certainly would not have expected you to be leading the pack in body count, of all of the Hunters. I had gotten the impression that you liked us.”
That wasn’t enough.
“Bloody Hell, you even killed Iris. And I know that went beyond just liking.”

The silence was only broken by a quiet metalic creak, as Zero’s hands tried to ball into fists despite resting on his legs. In the background of his mind there were a couple notes added to the Deferred Repairs list, but he was too angered to consciously notice the scrape on the armor or that one of his fingers had strained against itself so hard that there had been internal sparking.

“Shut up! You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

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daxwebster

“I assure you I do. My mission was to facilitate and report on how well Repliforce and Maverick Hunter assets were cooperating. That was, in fact, my business. While I wasn’t going to go around talking about it to anyone, I bloody well knew about it. You were the most promising part of my reports most of the time, you know that? Even without directly interacting with you, you’d pop up, and be a shining example of what could probably be if the problems could get sorted. You worked well with us. Had established a good rapport and friendship with Colonel while still working with our Rank and File.”

He paused, letting out a brief sigh. “My hope was that by finding out a bit more about your connections I could figure out why you were making such promising strides while the friction between our organizations as a whole was still chafing.”

Dax went right back on the offensive, “So yeah. I listened to whoever would wag their chin and I hear yours talking about you taking time off, or being uncharacteristically happy, or not immediately jumping on extra duties, I look into it. Find that there’s a pattern with the times and the rosters. It was not hard math to add up  So ….what the absolute falterdan fuck happened?”

Despite himself, Zero found himself drifting back a little to the happier memories at the recounting. He really hadn’t taken time off before finding he found something…. someone that made him want it.

He’d actually started to smile at the memories before the present reality snapped back to the front of his mind. It just made it hurt more. “It seemed like the only option at that point. We couldn’t go back.”

“You know, I almost get that? ‘We’ve already done this much, might as well go in the rest of the way, huh?’ What a horrid way to base decisions. But I guess it does make a certain amount ot sense. As quick to judge as everyone was I imagine if anyone had pulled their head out their arse to second guess it would have just gotten bit off for the hesitation.” Dax paused a moment, before looking directly at Zero, his face calm and innocent as he tried to dig deeper.

“But you eventually did stop. When was it? It wasn’t when you found out the truth. You’d known, or at the very least suspected, before that. You admitted it yourself. So at what point did you stop? Did the hunters stop? What finally pushed the needle far enough that we had any survivors left?”

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//May be setting up an additional character of different stuff

BUT ALSO looking for starter or shenanigans

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Let’s play a drinking game!

For every 🥃 my muse gets– they have to either answer a personal fact about themselves…. Or take a shot!

For those who like to play a more daring version, they have to take a shot AND choose a victim to pass the drink onto (via tagging)!

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😏 (But... will he tell the truth?)

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Dax is, by design, an exceptionally proficient liar. There's a lot of variety and nuance in The Lie and the application of them, and he's got a collection of tools for his arsenal. Need to talk convincingly like you belong somewhere to get access to a restricted zone? Need to buddy up to someone to make them more comfortable telling you important information?

Even without actually saying anything, it is still possible to lie. Body language can work. Pretending to be in an emotional state can sometimes be just as helpful at working your way around sentient obstacles. A calm purposeful "Get out of my way I'm late and you're not important" stride and resting jerk face can dissaude questions, but if you need someone to slow down and get distracted wandering around nervously like a lost puppy can melt people enough that they'll notice.

By no means does this mean he's a compulsive liar though, and he has a tendency to only resort to simple and direct lies in there's no other way around it and much to gain from it. He still has Standards that he holds himself to.

There are some few areas where he's had more experience lying than speaking honestly about, especially about himself when not 'on the clock', but he's got a wingman helping him work out the finer points of dealing with that.

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Ask muse how good they are at..

💋 - kissing 👼 - babysitting 🍛 - cooking 💃 - dancing 🎭 - acting/performing arts 🍻 - tolerating alcohol 😠 - managing with their temper 📝- planning and following their plan 🎤- singing 🙊 - keeping secrets 🌷- taking care of plants/pets 😈 - manipulating with others 🏊 - swimming 😂 - telling jokes 📰 - keeping track of world news 📚 - worlds history knowledge ⌚- keeping track of time 💪 - staying fit 😏 - lying 🚗 - driving a car 👗 - dressing with style 🔮 - magic 🔪 - melee weapons 🔫 - ranged weapons 💞 - expressing their feelings 😓 - acknowledging mistakes 🎺 - playing an instrument 🎁 - making gifts ✊ - keeping promises

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//I’d reblog that “Get my character’s reaction if they were called a monster” but....that’d really only work once before it got old and monster is a little tame. Call him something with teeth in it. : D

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As much momentum as he thought he had, Dax had to collect himself after that. He’d file away the small win to process later: Zero had just admitted that there had been Doubt. That was an important detail and something that he’d been wanting to know about. Part of what he had decided to dig for once the conversation had been forced open.
But the indignation needed to be handled first. “So you weren’t certain. And you still killed your way through our roster. I know more than most how tense relations between Repliforce and the Hunters were at the time, how much friction there was between our two groups. I knew that we still had some gaps to bridge. But I never would have thought it was bad enough to turn into a rout like that. And I certainly would not have expected you to be leading the pack in body count, of all of the Hunters. I had gotten the impression that you liked us.”
That wasn’t enough.
“Bloody Hell, you even killed Iris. And I know that went beyond just liking.”

The silence was only broken by a quiet metalic creak, as Zero’s hands tried to ball into fists despite resting on his legs. In the background of his mind there were a couple notes added to the Deferred Repairs list, but he was too angered to consciously notice the scrape on the armor or that one of his fingers had strained against itself so hard that there had been internal sparking.

“Shut up! You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

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daxwebster

“I assure you I do. My mission was to facilitate and report on how well Repliforce and Maverick Hunter assets were cooperating. That was, in fact, my business. While I wasn’t going to go around talking about it to anyone, I bloody well knew about it. You were the most promising part of my reports most of the time, you know that? Even without directly interacting with you, you’d pop up, and be a shining example of what could probably be if the problems could get sorted. You worked well with us. Had established a good rapport and friendship with Colonel while still working with our Rank and File.”

He paused, letting out a brief sigh. “My hope was that by finding out a bit more about your connections I could figure out why you were making such promising strides while the friction between our organizations as a whole was still chafing.”

Dax went right back on the offensive, “So yeah. I listened to whoever would wag their chin and I hear yours talking about you taking time off, or being uncharacteristically happy, or not immediately jumping on extra duties, I look into it. Find that there’s a pattern with the times and the rosters. It was not hard math to add up  So ....what the absolute falterdan fuck happened?”

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𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂 ; 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒; bold what applies, italicize what sometimes applies. feel free to add on!   [ source: x ]
addition: strikethrough traits the muse doesn’t want to acknowledge!

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. being unable to stop smiling. laughter. bear hugs. happy tears. waving arms around. dancing. contently sighing. eyes twinkling. laugh lines. childlike playfulness. skipping. talking more. affection. cracking more jokes than usual. gesturing more when talking. higher pitched voice. squealing. jumping around. clapping. calm smiles. gentle words. gradual eagerness. warmer chest.

𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. tearing up. self-hugging. one-arm cross. an aching chest. scratchy throat. a runny nose. turning away. deep breaths. quivery smiles. crying. infantile sobbing. hands gripping each other or an object. covering mouth. puffy eyes. eyes appear red. voice breaking. a distant or empty stare. monotone voice. asking for comfort. faking a smile. crumbling. shaking. whimpering. depression. abusing an unhealthy habit. withdrawing from others. big teary eyes. doing something even if it could hurt them. 

𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫. furrowed brows. baring teeth. passive-aggressive comments. avoiding eye contact. sarcasm. headache. sore muscles. hiding clenched fists. irritability. jumping to conclusions. raising voice. going silent. demanding immediate action. keeping it all in until exploding. body tensing. making risky decisions. middle finger (British variant). caclulated retaliation. eerie calm. rarely seen rage. roaring.

𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫. wanting to flee or hide. what-ifs. images of what-could-be flashing in mind. uncontrollable trembling. rapid breathing. screaming. a skewed sense of time. irritability. keeping silent. denying fear. turning away from the cause. pretending to be brave. nail-biting. lip-biting. scratching skin. a joking tone but a voice that cracks. fainting. insomnia. panic attacks. exhaustion. substance abuse. tics. rushing adrenaline. face draining of colour. hair lifting on the back of the neck. feeling rooted to the spot. making body as small as possible. staring but not seeing. crying. a shrill voice. whispering. gripping something or someone. stuttering. flinching at noises. pleading. bravery through face of terror. throwing self into work.

𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. constantly yawning. blurring words together. dark circles or lines under eyes.(although he’s got natural eye shadow so who knows) mood swings. hallucinations. calling people by the wrong name. dizziness. denying they’re tired. slow blinking. trouble concentrating. stumbling. leaning on a doorframe for support. sluggish movements. falling asleep someplace that isn’t a bed. becoming irritated by the smallest things. “i’m awake, i’m fine.” shaking so bad they spill their drink. fall asleep in their clothes. lay their head on the table because they’re so tired. passing out. careful calculated days through exhaustion.

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