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the HANDWAVED-CR MEME

The Handwaved CR Meme!

Our characters live in close quarters, and it's impossible to thread out the minutiae of each and every day-to-day interaction! That's what this meme is for: helping establish some of the less "exciting" details of what our characters are up to and what acquaintances they might have!

Examples:

Folks on the SS Bishop with Tadashi might frequently see him in the kitchens, desperately trying to recreate a mixture of protein gel that tastes ANYTHING like a Reese's cup.
People on the SS Blue Fish probably hear Katara and Sokka arguing loudly about something REALLY dumb at least every three or four days.

I'm going to put up headers for each ship, for general ship-related things (like what I've listed above), but please feel free to just take those as jumping off points, and don't at all feel like you're restrained to only commenting on your own ship (e.g., Jade has probably been lurking around the Wonderduck for the past week despite being currently assigned to another ship.) Make your own top-levels, build some handwaved CR, and let's smush our characters together!

EDITED TO ADD: HERE'S THE LINK to what each upgrade "means"! So you know on-hand what each ship is working with.

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If you ever wish to interact with Allen on the Blue Fish, he can usually be found either in the medical bay or at the exercise equipment in the cargo bay during the day, or in the kitchen around meal times. He is often accompanied by Timcanpy. Timcanpy may also be found in other spots of the ship where Allen isn't (just let me know if you decide to have him around)- but far away from any cats.

Other things to note:

Ino, Crowley and Clay may often be visitors to the ship to see him - or in Crowley's case, use their bathtub. Sorry guys he's family.

He eats a lot. Luckily for all, his appetite is reduced from how it is in canon- but he still eats about 2-3 times more than an average person.

Is your first mate! Is probably regularly bogged down by paperwork thanks to it. WHERE IS ALL THIS PAPERWORK COMING FROM? WHAT IS IT EVEN ALL ABOUT? WE JUST DON'T KNOW.

He is the main handler of the budget of the ship. Thankfully, he's very good at it. To help make sure there's enough funds for ship repairs, supplies and upgrades- he asks each crewmate to give a certain amount of money a month to a shared account (exact amount is handwaved - but you can imagine it's a reasonable amount unless they totally blew all their income). He'll work with someone that's short on funds, but refusing or neglecting to pay will get them an all protein diet until they pay up. PULL YOUR WEIGHT FREELOADERS.

Bringing any large debts you've racked up from shenanigans might make him cry.

Asteffiel pretty much lives in the medical bay/science lab. Sometimes he remembers that he has his own bed and probably should sleep there, but he will also just.. sleep on any clear surface in the med bay.

Things to note:
- Asteffiel glows in the dark. That's what the purple spots in his hair are, his glow.
- He's a terrible cook, so unless there's some sort of meal going on that he can get food from, he.. tends to just eat either things he's grown, or straight from the machine stuff.
- He sings children's songs at his potted plants.
- Sorry for anyone's allergies, Asteffiel does give off pollen.

Sokka can usually be found playing about with the engine or any of the ship's other mechanical parts, or in the kitchen, eating. He can also be found sitting in the captain's chair, but generally that's only when they're actually moving.

Is your valiant captain! (Not allowed to speak publicly to anyone)

He loves meat. He made a bunch of freezers that are currently in the cargo bay to store frozen meat in. Every time they go planetside, he'll hunt some of the native fauna, fix it up nice and put it in the freezer. He can't COOK the food, but by god he can hunt and prepare it.

He also made the metal statue in the cargo bay. It used to be a lot more ugly, but Toph made it better.

He has his trusty boomerang. Also every cheap tacky tourist thing their destinations offer (like the shitty laser sword and the GLOW FISH!!!) There's a reason Allen is in charge of the budget.

Also they TOTALLY WILL hear him and Katara bickering about stupid things. On the regular. They love each other really.

Thanks to Allen, he's learned what video games are, so you may see him once in a while playing on the Drift Fleet systems they have.

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Crowley spends most of his time on the ship sleeping. You will almost never find him at his communications console, unless he's putting some troll-y game on the network.

He's making a bar on the Iskaulit (in pretend competition with Varric, they actually plan to purposefully keep the same prices. So Crowley gets the classy folks and Varric gets everyone else) So he's there quite a bit right now.

He's an alcoholic so he's drunk about 90% of the time, tbh.

Also Tek's mate, though he's still in denial about that, he sleeps in the giant nest bed a lot.

Also on occasion sets up pranks in the ship to fuck his crewmates off. We're talking wet paint without a sign, buckets of water on doorways - that level of childishness.

He grows houseplants and has them dotted around. He threatens them regularly (it makes them grow better)

Cheese is your resident TINY HORSE. And is actually...rarely at the ship, unless he's working on someone's party.

He's a drifter, so when they're planetside, he tends to live outside the ship, travelling a lot and sleeping outside. Also, due to the drifting thing, he doesn't sleep in his own bed very often. It's hard for him to sleep in the same place all the time. So when they're flying, he can sometimes be found curled up in various places around the ship: one of the pilot's chairs, on the kitchen table, etc.

He sings and plays his accordion. A LOT. Yes, he's horrendously annoying.

If you want to know how tall he is compared to your character, Equestrians are pretty much around the same size as a Falabella horse. So tiny.

He's a herbivore so you'll never see him eating meat. Gross. He has some oats and hay and other various horsefeeds from the last planet stored in the cargo bay.

His room is basically full of balloons and streamers. PARTY SUPPLIES.

He ALWAYS has his rubber chicken Boneless Two with him. He often talks to the thing like it can talk back. He also sometimes speaks in a Clint Eastwood esque voice for no apparent reason. (Look, he's kinda batshit, ok)

Fenris can be found in the armory or in his room. He actively avoids spending time with...pretty much everyone. Not just his crew.

His eyes glow in the dark. Like a cats. It's an elf thing and it's hella creepy.

This is important because he has nightmares every damn night, as so can often be found in the wee hours, sitting in the kitchen - eyes glowing.

Don't touch him please don't touch him, he hates it. Those markings are made of lyrium, which means he's in pretty much constant pain.

He has a greatsword he picked up from Mor.

He actually brings a lot of money into the ship! He works on every single planet, and gives some of his earnings to the running of the ship. He doesn't make a big deal about this.

He's learning to read, so he might sometimes be found squinting at a book angrily, trying to figure out WORDS.

Stefan can regularly be found in the med bay, or if it's meal time - in the kitchen. When he's feeling restless, he'll venture towards the exercise equipment in the cargo hold. Also, since he's running the interfaith center, he'll also regularly drop by that room in the Iskaulit.

Prays five times a day, without fail or hesitation, usually in the med bay. The prayers last between 5-20 minutes, depending on what's happened that day. On that note, he can often be found muttering prayers. The more stressed he is, the more likely he is to pray - and the less likely it is to be translated.
He doesn't sleep often - if he's in the bunks, it's because he was that bored (or he was talking to Alex about something and fell asleep there).
On that note, he cooks a lot! Partially to blend in, but also partially because he sees the processed protein as a big science experiment. His food's as edible as it's gonna get without a cooking augment.
He drinks tea almost all the time. Seriously. You'll be hard-pressed to find him without a cup of black tea in his hands.
His most prized possession is the replicating tea stash in the kitchen that Alex charmed for him. The quality isn't as good as it could be, but it's black tea. It's enough.
His second-most prized possession are his blood pills; he keeps those along with the other supplies in the med bay. They're labeled as dietary supplements.
His locker in the bunks has various souvenirs from the planets they've visited; he keeps blank notebooks stashed around, in case he has something he wants to write down. (His diary, however, stays with him 24/7.)
First mate of the ship - and thus, the guy usually doing paperwork for everyone!! He may also be in charge of the budget. This means that he will make frowny-faces if he realizes people aren't managing their credits / chips wisely. YOU DON'T WANT YOUR GRANDPA MAKING FACES AT YOU, OK
Trains and spars with Kirito frequently - first aid lessons happen in the med bay, and sparring lessons in the cargo hold! Any crew member or visitor is welcome to join them, though Stefan gets antsy about sparring and will pretend to be a weak puny human if caught by someone not in the know.

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Jennifer Keller is the ship's doctor. Her main hangout is the medbay- she even keeps a cot in there in case she's up late doing some medical research- though she can also be found exercising or in the kitchen trying to push her cooking skills into something resembling decent with the protein.

-She suffers from insomnia, and it tends to flare up when she's under stress, so if she can't sleep she works out to try and tire herself out, or sits in the medbay reading whatever books or other material she can get her hands on.
-Jennifer is very good at her job, but she's less good at People, so she can be shy and reclusive when she's not doctoring.
-She is also willing to make housecalls to other ships that lack a medbay if need be.

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