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ungratefuloz) wrote2025-01-11 02:06 pm
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ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Pace tends to be inconsistent because, unfortunately as you know, retail. I'm usually more active late night/evenings though~
BRACKETS/PROSE: Brackets, please. I don't mind playing off prose but brackets is INFINITELY preferred.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Please tag anything relating to trypophobia and warn me for suicide before it comes up! I will do the same.
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ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Pace tends to be inconsistent because, unfortunately as you know, retail. I'm usually more active late night/evenings though~
BRACKETS/PROSE: Brackets, please. I don't mind playing off prose but brackets is INFINITELY preferred.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Please tag anything relating to trypophobia and warn me for suicide before it comes up! I will do the same.
IN CHARACTER
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Oh dear god, Dorothy will actually push someone off if she doesn't know them. She is not a fan of casual physical affection in the slightest, but if she knows you and trusts you (a more herculean feat than you might think) she will initiate. Please let her be the initiator.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Oh absolutely. Like Dorothy is thankfully nerfed from the borderline indestructability of Nikke in general (who are human brains piloting sexy anime girls), but always feel free to fight her! She will fight back, and she will fight dirty, be warned.
RELATIONSHIPS: She's hard mode. Like, legitimately hard mode. Go for it if you want but jesus christ you can do better, just talk to me first.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: Dorothy has no method to defend against this! Please let me know if your character can do this, and I'll let you know what they find!
MAGICAL INFORMATION: sighs gently. look nikke is fucking Weird, something something nanomachines that don't fully and wholly matter here??? but dorothy is a robot pure and simple made of a weird recently discovered element that has been nerfed hard. i can try to explain more, but she also has water manipulation here to blast you with a water gun, ig!
MEDICAL INFORMATION: So. Dorothy is a Nikke, aka a human brain piloting a sexy anime girl! Nikke have very hard skin and are pretty durable by default, but they function somewhat similarly to humans in that they bleed, though Nikke are more prone to losing parts and just needing to be repaired. She doesn't have a heart, though; in place of it is a thing called a Core, which powers a Nikke and essentially acts like a human heart. Don't make me explain Nikke shit. Just assume she's a robot with blood and a brain in it and it'll be alright--
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: STRAP IN KIDS, THIS IS. KIND OF A LOT SO IT'S GOING UNDERNEATH A GIANT SET OF SPOILERS. Spoilers for the majority of GoV: Nikke's plot (up to chapter 26), and the following events: Red Ash, Old Tales, and Overzone.
I will say as something not entirely a spoiler and more obvious about her: Dorothy is not fond of humans by default due to reasonings I'll go over below. She is only slightly justified in her hatred of them, but please be warned that she will treat most human characters coldly at first. I am hoping to develop her out of this with enough time, but please be aware that Dorothy's IC feelings are not indicative of my OOC ones! Dorothy is just. A Bitch, to put it basically, but a very layered onion of issues as well.
Please please please feel free to opt out of playing with Dorothy or ask me to tag for any elements of her that may be uncomfortable. I will absolutely do my best to accommodate, though some elements are unfortunately very likely to come up if you ask for backstory things. Please comment below if there's anything you wanna avoid! All comments are screened.
war time trauma: There's really no nice way of saying that her stint with the Goddess Squad has given her a fucklot of trauma that she's basically shoved deep down in herself. To put it very simply; the Goddess Squad lost the war against Raptures to keep humanity on the surface, and Dorothy herself had to watch her leader and one of her friends in the Goddess Squad assumedly die of corruption before her new orders were issued in Overzone. To buy time for humanity to construct the Ark, an underground safe space for humanity, Dorothy took the late Liliweiss's position as leader and fought hard to give humanity time. Between being forced to kill Pinne, a mass produced Nikke that was her sole solace for quite a while during that mission, humanity abandoning her and what was left of the Goddesses to die on the now Rapture-ridden earth, and Dorothy's own other traumas, she is. Dorothy is a mess to put it bluntly, and she's been a mess for about a century, given that Overzone (the event that broke her) took place over 50 years ago and she's been fighting for a century plus now. A mess with a lot of trauma and trust issues against humanity out the wazoo. This is sadly unavoidable if you ask for backstory, but I can try to avoid the more major parts of this.
Nikke Rights Problems: So. This isn't actually something that'll come up with Dorothy herself, but she has a fair amount of knowledge on the problems that humanity has with Nikke. Namely that they're borderline indestructable pretty anime women that most people don't believe deserve human rights. Literally only within the last sixty or so years (there was a recent retcon about when the Goddess Fall took place that made the story place it further out, pls cut me some slack--) that Nikke were able to obtain some level of rights, though many humans view Nikke as disposable weapons at best and active dangers to humanity at worst. Hell, Nikke by default can't even HARM humans because of an inhibitor chip in their head. It's fucked! This is easily the most avoidable part of the many many CWs in Nikke; this won't come up unless one asks Dorothy about it and this will be an opt-in only element.
Hallucinations: So uh. Thankfully Dorothy does not actively deal with this now, but remember Pinne, that mass produced Nikke Dorothy had to kill? Yeah, Dorothy started to actively hallucinate her after she died and as the mission continued, her delusions got worse up until the point they forcibly shattered. This is more of an opt-in backstory element, but it could end up coming up. But uh. Dorothy is not mentally stable! That is the biggest takeaway from this. Lemme know if you wanna deal with this at all, she's unlikely to talk about it unless it comes up in backstory talk.
Attempted suicide: ...So before the hallucinations, Dorothy actively tried to take her own life after being forced to take Pinne's. It is not treated lightly in the slightest. This is another thing that will only come up in backstory, but it's the more likely thing to potentially come up again depending on how things go. Please let me know if you wanna avoid this entirely! Any talk of this or suicidal ideation will be tagged, though.
Cruelty: As a forewarning: this element is going to be significantly toned down due to the nature of the game, so this is more of an opt-in element. But suffice to say, Dorothy is cruel, unkind, and has in the past not hesitated to manipulating people into losing battles or abandoning them to fend for themselves with certain death on the horizon for them. She has been willing to get rid of less useful people by sending them to their deaths before, and while she definitely won't do that here, I do feel the need to bring it up so it doesn't shock anyone. But yeah, this is opt-in only, if you somehow want Dorothy to tell your character they're useless or have her manipulate them into their own death??? But yeah. Off by default because friendship game.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Oh absolutely. Like Dorothy is thankfully nerfed from the borderline indestructability of Nikke in general (who are human brains piloting sexy anime girls), but always feel free to fight her! She will fight back, and she will fight dirty, be warned.
RELATIONSHIPS: She's hard mode. Like, legitimately hard mode. Go for it if you want but jesus christ you can do better, just talk to me first.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: Dorothy has no method to defend against this! Please let me know if your character can do this, and I'll let you know what they find!
MAGICAL INFORMATION: sighs gently. look nikke is fucking Weird, something something nanomachines that don't fully and wholly matter here??? but dorothy is a robot pure and simple made of a weird recently discovered element that has been nerfed hard. i can try to explain more, but she also has water manipulation here to blast you with a water gun, ig!
MEDICAL INFORMATION: So. Dorothy is a Nikke, aka a human brain piloting a sexy anime girl! Nikke have very hard skin and are pretty durable by default, but they function somewhat similarly to humans in that they bleed, though Nikke are more prone to losing parts and just needing to be repaired. She doesn't have a heart, though; in place of it is a thing called a Core, which powers a Nikke and essentially acts like a human heart. Don't make me explain Nikke shit. Just assume she's a robot with blood and a brain in it and it'll be alright--
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: STRAP IN KIDS, THIS IS. KIND OF A LOT SO IT'S GOING UNDERNEATH A GIANT SET OF SPOILERS. Spoilers for the majority of GoV: Nikke's plot (up to chapter 26), and the following events: Red Ash, Old Tales, and Overzone.
I will say as something not entirely a spoiler and more obvious about her: Dorothy is not fond of humans by default due to reasonings I'll go over below. She is only slightly justified in her hatred of them, but please be warned that she will treat most human characters coldly at first. I am hoping to develop her out of this with enough time, but please be aware that Dorothy's IC feelings are not indicative of my OOC ones! Dorothy is just. A Bitch, to put it basically, but a very layered onion of issues as well.
Please please please feel free to opt out of playing with Dorothy or ask me to tag for any elements of her that may be uncomfortable. I will absolutely do my best to accommodate, though some elements are unfortunately very likely to come up if you ask for backstory things. Please comment below if there's anything you wanna avoid! All comments are screened.
cws for the following: war time trauma, humans being turned into weaponry and the rights problems that come with it along with nikke's general fuckery and dehumanization of nikke, talk of hallucinations, talk of suicidal ideation/a suicide attempt, dorothy being a lot more cruel than she initially appears, dorothy being infinitely more broken than she initially appears
war time trauma: There's really no nice way of saying that her stint with the Goddess Squad has given her a fucklot of trauma that she's basically shoved deep down in herself. To put it very simply; the Goddess Squad lost the war against Raptures to keep humanity on the surface, and Dorothy herself had to watch her leader and one of her friends in the Goddess Squad assumedly die of corruption before her new orders were issued in Overzone. To buy time for humanity to construct the Ark, an underground safe space for humanity, Dorothy took the late Liliweiss's position as leader and fought hard to give humanity time. Between being forced to kill Pinne, a mass produced Nikke that was her sole solace for quite a while during that mission, humanity abandoning her and what was left of the Goddesses to die on the now Rapture-ridden earth, and Dorothy's own other traumas, she is. Dorothy is a mess to put it bluntly, and she's been a mess for about a century, given that Overzone (the event that broke her) took place over 50 years ago and she's been fighting for a century plus now. A mess with a lot of trauma and trust issues against humanity out the wazoo. This is sadly unavoidable if you ask for backstory, but I can try to avoid the more major parts of this.
Nikke Rights Problems: So. This isn't actually something that'll come up with Dorothy herself, but she has a fair amount of knowledge on the problems that humanity has with Nikke. Namely that they're borderline indestructable pretty anime women that most people don't believe deserve human rights. Literally only within the last sixty or so years (there was a recent retcon about when the Goddess Fall took place that made the story place it further out, pls cut me some slack--) that Nikke were able to obtain some level of rights, though many humans view Nikke as disposable weapons at best and active dangers to humanity at worst. Hell, Nikke by default can't even HARM humans because of an inhibitor chip in their head. It's fucked! This is easily the most avoidable part of the many many CWs in Nikke; this won't come up unless one asks Dorothy about it and this will be an opt-in only element.
Hallucinations: So uh. Thankfully Dorothy does not actively deal with this now, but remember Pinne, that mass produced Nikke Dorothy had to kill? Yeah, Dorothy started to actively hallucinate her after she died and as the mission continued, her delusions got worse up until the point they forcibly shattered. This is more of an opt-in backstory element, but it could end up coming up. But uh. Dorothy is not mentally stable! That is the biggest takeaway from this. Lemme know if you wanna deal with this at all, she's unlikely to talk about it unless it comes up in backstory talk.
Attempted suicide: ...So before the hallucinations, Dorothy actively tried to take her own life after being forced to take Pinne's. It is not treated lightly in the slightest. This is another thing that will only come up in backstory, but it's the more likely thing to potentially come up again depending on how things go. Please let me know if you wanna avoid this entirely! Any talk of this or suicidal ideation will be tagged, though.
Cruelty: As a forewarning: this element is going to be significantly toned down due to the nature of the game, so this is more of an opt-in element. But suffice to say, Dorothy is cruel, unkind, and has in the past not hesitated to manipulating people into losing battles or abandoning them to fend for themselves with certain death on the horizon for them. She has been willing to get rid of less useful people by sending them to their deaths before, and while she definitely won't do that here, I do feel the need to bring it up so it doesn't shock anyone. But yeah, this is opt-in only, if you somehow want Dorothy to tell your character they're useless or have her manipulate them into their own death??? But yeah. Off by default because friendship game.
OUT OF CHARACTER
BACKTAGGING: I'm okay with this, but I do tend to prioritize more current threads in short-term games, as a warning! I tend to get bogged down if I stay on something too long orz. So I'll keep stuff going for a week or two plus, but after that, please talk to me about handwaving!
THREADHOPPING: Ask first, but if it's a public/free for all thread, by all means.
FOURTHWALLING: Please no~
NOT INTERESTED IN: Nothing, really? Admittedly I'd prefer to have her get better than worse, so maybe let's not encourage her more. Psychotic tendencies.
THREADHOPPING: Ask first, but if it's a public/free for all thread, by all means.
FOURTHWALLING: Please no~
NOT INTERESTED IN: Nothing, really? Admittedly I'd prefer to have her get better than worse, so maybe let's not encourage her more. Psychotic tendencies.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
VISUAL: Dorothy looks like this! Standing at about 5'11'' (5'8'' without heels) mostly due to her heels, she's actually pretty decently tall and carries herself with a prim and proper air at almost all times. Her gestures and hand movements are measured and graceful, and Dorothy always does her best to carry herself with a regal air.
AURAL: Dorothy's voice is very soft and pretty, and y'all can hear it here. Dorothy's very good at giving her tone the inflection she wants it to, whether it be gentle and demure, or cruel and calculating, and she shifts through it as easy as breathing.
OLFACTORY: Dorothy probably smells vaguely floral; not even due to perfume, but just due to being around flowers in Eden a lot. This'll fade with time.
DEMEANOUR: Dorothy is exactly what she feels she needs to be in a moment; if she's not sure how to act, she'll act demure and sweet and erudite, every bit a polite lady raised in high society. That can easily snap back to a cold cruelty, or calculating, or outright shrieking if she gets truly riled up; she tends to keep herself composed or tries very hard to, but she's a lot more unstable than she appears, and it can come out at just the wrong moment with the wrong buttons pressed. Dorothy is a dangerous little mess who can be sweet and delightful or manipulative and anger fueled, depending on how her emotions reign over her today.
AURAL: Dorothy's voice is very soft and pretty, and y'all can hear it here. Dorothy's very good at giving her tone the inflection she wants it to, whether it be gentle and demure, or cruel and calculating, and she shifts through it as easy as breathing.
OLFACTORY: Dorothy probably smells vaguely floral; not even due to perfume, but just due to being around flowers in Eden a lot. This'll fade with time.
DEMEANOUR: Dorothy is exactly what she feels she needs to be in a moment; if she's not sure how to act, she'll act demure and sweet and erudite, every bit a polite lady raised in high society. That can easily snap back to a cold cruelty, or calculating, or outright shrieking if she gets truly riled up; she tends to keep herself composed or tries very hard to, but she's a lot more unstable than she appears, and it can come out at just the wrong moment with the wrong buttons pressed. Dorothy is a dangerous little mess who can be sweet and delightful or manipulative and anger fueled, depending on how her emotions reign over her today.
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