Quiet Minds Plotting Post

[plungeintofire]

This was requested by quite a few people, so here it is!

Quiet Minds Event Plotting Post


What are your plans for the upcoming event? Are you going to have your characters infected? Or are your plans more along the lines of getting that sweet bounty? Perhaps you've got something else in mind.. Announce them here, get in on someone else's or get someone new involved!

Don't forget to review the questions other players have asked or ask your own!

Also don't forget to check-in if you haven't already!

Comments

I GUESS BREAKS FIRST???

[whiteas]

Only participating with Weiss for this event for my personal sanity. Emerald will be involved in others' plots. Alice is going to be trying to sue the mayor bc her restaurant can't be open bc you can't serve food without good water god. And Babs is off trying to figure out what to do with herself somewhere else.

NEGATIVE
Bad!Weiss is going to be the Weiss with the anger issues, destructive-level ambition like in vol. 1, refusing to listen to the advice of others, thinks more of herself than others, controlling, the spoiled parts basically where she believes she can get whatever she wants... Especially if you look at season one, Weiss is really similar to her father in some ways. It's the good parts that balance her out and the character development that's made her come so far. She's also really smart which is neither positive nor negative, so both sides are going to be smart, which means negative attributes + being clever (at least when it counts, not with word play) uh... Honestly, I feel like she'd be able to figure out what happened fairly quickly and feel like she doesn't deserve to be stuck in some foster home for school dropouts after the bad guys took her home from her, that she deserves to have SDC and be treated like she's More Than. BC if you look at volume 1, she's clearly had Thoughts. "I may not be perfect, but I'm still leagues better than you." was kind of a telling sign that at least until she learned otherwise and learned things like empathy and teamwork and a load of positive traits yes, she did think she was better. I'm not going to have the racism deal be an issue because that was more or less bred of ignorance and not a personality trait.

So for me I think the important part is to decide what her negative side is going to be doing, because what she has now is because of that aggressive ambition, but put in check by her more positive traits. Which means without all the positive ones to put that in check... Weiss could be a pretty dangerous person, particularly given in-game events that have already made her a little less stable and a lot angrier without being able to really accept criticism.

POSITIVE
Positive!Weiss is tricky because while her negative traits are, well, negative.. a lot of them help to give her outlets for things and are good when informed by her more positive attributes. That aggressive ambition helps her want to do things when it's kept in check and illuminated by what i believe to be the positive side of her ambition, things like a sense of honor and wanting to respect the love she feels
for her family, her ability to work well with others, and her continual want to become a better person. Her ability to empathize with others is another thing, which she had to develop after sometime (highlighted most when instead of defending her family name like she had from blake in volume 1, she apologized to Flynt in volume 3). She can be self-sacrificing in a lot of ways, always putting the team first from volume 2 onward. She literally takes a fall instead of moving for a landing because she's using the time to cast a glyph for Blake in one of the fights, then very literally jumps into the fire to protect Yang in the fight against Flynt.

Then lord does it get complicated when it comes to her self-worth versus her self-respect because of her father. Weiss respects herself a lot because she knows what it feels like not to be respected- if she doesn't force herself to accept her own worth, no one will. Her sister helps support this in canon but, especially in Genessia, she's had a lot of incidences that have chipped away at that confidence. Without some of her "negative" traits that have been allowing her to fight through it because of her attitude of 'don't be stupid, you deserve better than this Weiss' and some aspects of her controlling nature help her to really fight back when she lacks control, that lack of self-confidence she's had lately is going to bite Positive-Weiss in the ass. Without her controlling traits, Weiss is going to feel like a lot of things are out of her control. It's not going to have a great effect on her self-confidence either when in conjunction with most of her anger being fuel to try to prove that she's worth more. Honestly, positive!Weiss might act a little more submissive as well, like how she yielded immediately to Blake in volume 3 when things started going badly instead of trying to take charge (her leadership abilities have been honed in a different direction here in Genessia, but not necessarily in all positive ways). She'll certainly have a better sense of justice and right/wrong and respect for others and their feelings/opinions though.

PLANNED THINGS:
-Bad!Weiss is going to hire Mercury as a Deputy Guardian despite objections from her current deputies because bad!Weiss thinks she knows best and thinks her idea to only act as a team is a stupid waste of her time.

-Bad!Weiss may think her opinion is more important and she's better and that good!Weiss has proven to be weak and has only lost everything she cares about bit by bit. She's going to want to make sure that she can't take the cure, which means she's going to want to find a way to keep good!Weiss from taking it because good!Weiss will know that her unchecked negative attributes are bad for everyone and want to fix it even if she personally benefits from her actions.

-Good!Weiss is forgiving. The past is the past, and she might be able to start moving on from certain things even if she's not about to put anyone who's still a threat on the good-to-go path, it'll at least help her. Because not letting go of things is having a negative impact on her moreso than anyone else, and being able to do that will probably put things in perspective for her later.

-MAYBE: What if Bad!Weiss just takes her money out of the current house and gets her own place that's really fucking nice?? Maybe Whitley can come she wants to keep an eye on him idk. Winter can come. Keep it in the family.

IDK PLOT WITH ME i kind of want weiss to do something intense / big but i'm not sure what

[sarcaskick]

yo bad merc thinks bad weiss is kinda hot js

[rubyrosegrimm]

Depending what bad!Merc does (if he really going to murder someone idek at this point??? I'm going to wait and see what happens), Ruby will be confused by bad!Weiss poor life decisions. :D; If there is an opening for a discussion with the good!Weiss, and then a later encounter/discussion with the bad!Weiss, Ruby will compare and contrast her decisions and question/challenge Weiss's leadership abilities. And the talk doesn't have to be physical, it could be over video.

I can see this maybe a tense and driven a wedge between the two friends and former teammates. Friendship turned rivarly??? What say you?

Re: I GUESS BREAKS FIRST???

[nrgsvr]

Does Bad!Weiss want one of Mayu's house keys? He's still offering to let random Remnant people live with him if Weiss vouches for them.

[sarcaskick]

WHITLEY SCHNEE will not be affected by the event - but he will certainly observe and see if he can find some way to work it to his benefit like encouraging Bad!Weiss to buy a really nice fucking house

MERCURY BLACK on the other hand... hoo boy.

-GOOD!MERCURY is a side that he's only really started to uncover recently, and is mostly driven by a fear of his worse side - the side that reminds himself so much of his father. More than anything he's going to try to make sure that his worse self can't fulfill its desires. He's not actively a hero, not selfless or righteous because he honestly doesn't feel that kind of pull in his heart. His only attachment, his only REAL attachment, is to Emerald, who he will be more protective of than ever. Other people he's allowed himself to become close to at all may also be watched a bit more closely, because he knows that...

-BAD!MERCURY is planning to kill again. It's been too damn long, and he knows that no matter what he tries to tell himself, no matter how he tries to dress himself up and play along and feign friendships, he's a killer. He likes to hurt people. It's the only thing that makes him feel anywhere near genuinely happy. But he's also not an idiot, and he knows he'll only get one shot at this, so he's going to pick his target very carefully. Someone he can abduct without much of a fight. Someone much weaker than him, physically. Someone he can knock out and take somewhere else to, once again, murder on a live feed in front of all of Genessia. Because he's sick and tired of trying to pretend be nice when no one's going to believe in him anyway, so what's the point? Let them all know he's still just a monster.

WHAT I NEED:
-A "victim"! I say this in quotes, because Good!Mercury will literally fight himself to protect whoever is abducted. He won't be alone, however, as he will have the help of a certain someone that is especially prepared to shut down Mercury quickly and effectively. This victim should most likely be someone that's come to trust him, because Bad!Mercury wants to see the look on their face, but anyone who he can capture without a fuss will ultimately do if no other such person is available.


Now that's just what I've already come up with that I definitely want him to do - I'm also open to other things outside of this miniplot, so hit me up if you want to deal with Good!Mercury as he fights his inner demons (who have become an outer demon, I guess) or Bad!Mercury, a worse version of himself than you probably thought possible.

[enchantressofore]

I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE

But seriously she currently has a pretty high opinion of Mercury, devil's advocate or not. Initially wouldn't be too difficult to KO and capture if he really wanted to, considering there's no reason for her to distrust Mercury right now.

Regardless of that happening I would like to bounce Adela off of one of the Mercs, whichever one works -- if only to establish CR further in case other stuff happens. Depending on how open the news is about what's happened in Nova City she'll probably be pretty understanding over what's happened too.

That's all I've got so far, attempted victim or not.

[gastronomics]

i was gonna have alice not involved but if you need a volunteer and she's not actually gonna die, unless there's someone else you have in mind... ONLY IF NO ONE ELSE FITS THE BILL THOUGH I DONT WANNA HOG YOU ALL TO MYSELF

[filchedfruit]

Mayu or Joruk would be easy to catch, but neither of them trust Mercury. I volunteer either of them.
Joruk actually thought Mercury was a nice guy before he killed Armin ( he liked that horrible looking Secret Santa cake).

[rubyrosegrimm]

You know after this is over, if Ruby ever watch Bad!Mercury murder someone and that goes live in front of Genessia's network, she'll probably never be convinced he has a good side. xD;

Maybe, if there's an opening, she can speak to the good!Mercury first and have a conversation? Doesn't have to be a physical face to face, but over video. But then later, if that murder feed ever goes live, she'll call him a liar and thinks he can never be trusted, and this will make Ruby questioned bad!Weiss's leadership and choice of her picking him as the deputy of Nova City.

Can you see this where it's going? I can see a possible wedge between Ruby and Weiss friendship, and that friendship is going down to a possible rivalry.

[aurabble]

Jacques may participate in the event, but he won't be affected. He'll probably finally be impressed and accept Bad!Weiss and I'll go from there. I'll be introing Harvey later, so as for Jaune...

He's already recently had some brushes with his worse qualities and just how far he could spiral down. His anger and resentment, mostly toward himself, is being pushed outward as he lashes out on people. His encounter with Battler that could have destroyed everything important to him if it hadn't been for Dave has left him more withdrawn and meek, but his struggles haven't been so much accepted and overcome as buried out of fear.

Good!Jaune will be all about protecting other people and making up for his past mistakes. He has a lot of guilt, but without caring about how he's perceived he'll be a lot more determined. Good!Jaune is a lot like Whole!Jaune, only salt-free because he's too busy trying to help everyone. He'll still feel negative emotions like sadness, but he'll be bottling them up or using them as motivation to put himself in harm's way because empathy. He'll probably be the dorkier of the two.

Bad!Jaune thinks his good self is boring. Bad!Jaune is selfish, manipulative and intelligent. It's not that Good!Jaune doesn't share his intelligence, but Good!Jaune will be focusing on Is This The Right Thing To Do while Bad!Jaune will be focusing on what's the best way to use my surroundings to potentially leave that jerk in the hospital? As a more exaggerated parallel of how he cheated into Beacon, if he wants something, he won't care if it's against the law or it puts other people at risk. He'll probably steal whatever weapons he thinks look relatively cool, among other plans I'll elaborate on below. He'll also be very snarky.

What I plan to do with this so far is:

Bad!Jaune isn't going to actively seek out random people or people he's neutral to in order to hurt. However, without his ability to feel empathy or remorse, his goal will be to injure anyone who has wronged him. Characters who have badmouthed or treated his friends badly could be possible targets if the you want them to be. Bad!Jaune doesn't feel any attachment to his friends or family, so any injustices they've experienced will be interpreted as attacks against himself to reflect his more selfish choices. When it comes to characters he has strong positive CR with, he's willing to protect them, but only because it makes him look good. Whole!Jaune has had some hurtful and emotional outbursts in the past, and he's fairly good at reading people's strengths and weaknesses (neutral). Without his empathy to keep him from using that as ammunition against other people, he'll probably verbally hit people where it hurts most-- especially if he gets something out of it. He'll also be prone to lying for no reason, because it's easier/he wants to/etc. He'll be attempting to murder Emerald, which won't go well for him. Considering her abilities, Emerald will probably be his final battle, so if anyone wants to run into him before that, we can plot something out.

Good!Jaune will be adamant about stopping his other half at any cost. What that entails is he's going to pull a Joan of Arc, only he probably won't go the entire martyr route and will just injure himself to the point where Bad!Jaune is unable to fight.

[rubyrosegrimm]

I'll sign up Ruby for this to assist Good!Juane to stop his other half. She doesn't Jaune to hurt himself and injure himself, but she'll be confused by bad!Juane actions too. I'm definitely in for the verbal abuse/trash he spouts, and Ruby will be hit so hard it hurts.

Like why most of her BFFs are so out of it? D: Help, I got bandaids, here!

[nrgsvr]

They don't have much direct CR, but Bad!Jaune is welcome to try to verbally hurt Mayu.
If he can get through the Nozaki denseness.

[swordprincess]

I don't plan to have Karla or Liora affected, but if any of their CR want to do anything with either of them, I'm open.

Or even if you don't have CR with either of them, I'm open for new stuff as well...

[black_black_heart]

The main course: (as far as my characters go)

As one might surmise by my asking what happens if one half kills the other (one of my alts is amberdrake), one of my characters is gonna do the thing. It's Tannusen. He's going to beat himself to death with his bare hands (and claws, and teeth). Literally. It's going to be fun, lighthearted times in that thread. But it's already been plotted out with who-all's participating in that part.

Afterward, I assume he'll wake up 'cured' in the hospital, whether it's three days or six hours after he croaks. So, he might(?) be around for part of the event as his whole self after... murdering himself. Hospitals hurt Faeries, it's like their soul is being dunked in acid, so he'll be stumbling out of there pretty much as fast as possible. He won't be able to teleport himself, as that's what he's giving up to come back.

So if anyone wants to run into him in the aftermath, hit me up. And if you want to drag him into other shit, hit me up. He'll be pretty free for whatever... and wanting to avoid his existing friends, because that's healthy. He's fucking unhinged on a good day, okay, and that is not going to be a good day.

Alts:

These are my alts. If you want any of them for anything, hit me up. Amberdrake's an amazing goddamned medic and Healer, for example. Saitama is invincible to whatever bad!characters might throw at him. Koumyou is a high priest with a holy relic on him that reacts to his whims. Etcetera.

If no one wants any of them for anything in particular, I'll just tag where appropriate and otherwise let them hang back.

[02crusnikabel]

Can't enough of your priests frands? Abel will volunteer taking Mr. Tiger out of the hospital and escort him back home.

Stuff?

[sonicosuper]

So...Sonico is pretty much a nice person through and through but...

Bad!Sonico is sloth and glutton, basically, since she can be a real sleepyhead and she has a sweet tooth. She's going to be quite nasty and demanding with it though. Good luck to anyone who decides to pander to her?

Good!Sonico is selfless to a dangerous degree. She'll be trying to give away all her belongings, and she might be found lacking in any sleep at all as she tries to do all the good deeds ever.

Nothing drastic, but could make for interesting CR? Idek.

Re: Stuff?

[megabond]

I can't decide if Sycamore can either help Good!Sonico or endure Bad!Sonico's habits... It's too much to decide!

[acrostic]

Dave - NOT PARTICIPATING because there's already more than enough Dave with time shenanigans.

Ed - ohhhh boy okay. good time for him to go posting on the network since both would ultimately be working as Genessia Scientific Research Foundation guy to try and help solve the problem. Being whole is better. I'm not going to go into too much detail about which is "BAD" and which is "GOOD" because they'll agree to act the same. Mostly. Either way there will be riddles.

ED VERSION A:
This is going to be the one sticking in the lab to make a fix for this. He'll post asking people to test the potential cures or help him make them. Obviously none are going to be successful until the event is over. Maybe the test batches are secretly just poison because this is a prime opportunity to collect test subjects and the goal is to investigate those new guys that collect the bodies OR he's 100% genuine about this and it's safe.

ED VERSION B:
He'll be out and about. Collecting samples and talking to people to gather information to help version A. Find out what gets considered negative and positive traits / if it works differently with people. Isn't this fascinating? He also wants to know how prone people might be to doing things without that side that keeps them in check so he'll be trying to keeping note on any murders that go on at this time. Or... participating in them and provoking people's darker halves. Who knows.

[puppet_guardian]

Bad!Anise - 'Lusty' and greedy, would definitely try and hit up all the rich men to try and marry them. If marriage results, may even try and murder after a will is written to make sure she has all the things. Is ruthless over her goals of money and power.

Good!Anise - A guardian, protector, defender. She is justice for the weak and stands tall for all who need her. She shows acts of kindness through small gifts of food. Don't know if she would really try and stop her other self since she doesn't know the darker intentions behind a marriage? Would only fight her self if other self came at her which more than likely wouldn't happen since she's gonna be fishing for a marriage partner.

[hellish_butler]

Do u leik rich men? Because Jade and Sebby would hit that gurl


Ruby would like Good!Anise, she would be encouraging especially in the defender and justice area. :3

[cursed_analysis]

Okay so, I do actually want to do this event, but as I've already said, I am not. At least not with Arro. I might consider it with Sync.

As for why I'm not doing it, well I would like his CR to be a little stronger so they can feel a little more betrayed by what he isn't telling them about himself, especially after they've grown close. That said~ Let me say I am totally okay with being hit up for the event by participants to see if he can help come up with a solution, and secondly, I am very, very, very down with him scraping with anyone that messes with his CR, this being anyone he's actually spoken to, as that could work him up enough to reveal he's not quite what he seems. I will also add if your character needs just a small, just a touch, of a push to do something bad; Arro is very amoral in the definition of; "unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something" as it is defined by human standards. Except killing, but I'm sure we can work out phrasing so Arro can unwittingly enable your character to kill. Otherwise, he's going to content to very closely examine everyone's behavior here as he can deduce the "two halves of a whole" angle and put together a much clearer view of everyone's personality so he can effectively handle them 'correctly' in the future.

As for Sync, well his view of the world sucks, to be frank. Both halves will say LIFE IS TERRIBLE GO DIVE OFF A CLIFF AND STOP SUFFERING, more or less.

Positive!Sync will be more willing to work with others and try to find a place to fit in, even if he does believe life isn't worth it from what he's seen. He'll probably sign up for the bounty so if you wanna plot that out if he gets on the list poke me.

Negative!Sync is going to be the punk with a chip on his shoulder and an armload of martial artes and fonic artes to put you in your place if you mess with him. Unprovoked he'll mainly be alone somewhere and/or saying negative things to try and get you see how pointless life is.

Nothing concrete on what I wanna do with him yet since he's in a very delicate transition phase where he is on the cusp of leaning towards what his good-half wants to do and find a place here.

Anyway, come at me for either.

[jadedkill]

I'll throw Jade and Ruby at yah bruh, because Sync need more frands. For better or worst.

Jade will put negative!Sync in his place cause Jade is the sassmancer, and Ruby will do well with Positive!Sync, and yeah totally in for the bounty sign up as well.

[puppet_guardian]

Count on Anise to aggravate both of them

;Db

For the bounty!

[rubyrosegrimm]

For the event, my characters, all of them, won't be affected and remain whole. They will however would like to participate in the bounty hunt of the Doctor Guy, Doctor Seek who is responsible for the water or rememdy.

So if you're planning to do a manhunt for the guy responsible and wanted to hunt as a pair or group: You can pick one of my characters to join for the hunt:

Ruby (for restoring justice)
Abel (to heal the town out of the goodness of his heart)
or Sebastian (to save his customers - almost selfish reason)
Jade (to heal the town out of the goodness of his heart) is up for it if he's your choice.
Kratos will not participate.

[orlokbutterfly]

Blaze will not be participating, since he's already faced his Shadow so another 'dark side' event wouldn't make much sense for him. And he probably never leaves Attleton or Genessia City.

Gale though... hoo boy.

Good!Gale will essentially be how he was prior to becoming a cyborg. A doting big brother figure that's actually willing to put protecting others before money from the jobs he receives. He'll be more cautious and mindful of the ways of the law as opposed to his usual tendency of only following the rules when he sees fit. He'll be more generous towards giving to charities, and say, the flirting coming out of his mouth suddenly seems awfully romantic!

Bad!Gale (who I will dub Orlok for simplicity) is kind of dicey. Where his counterpart can be seen as a kind protector, this one is selfish and manipulative. Caring only for himself and arrogant as hell, he'll backstab people as he sees fit if it's to his own benefit, even those he'd come to care for over time. His own needs come first, and the well-being of others would be an afterthought at best. He'll be prone to sadistic bouts of violence, going as far as killing either for fun, or as an act for revenge (if he'd witness a murder? He'll murder the murderer, with or without a bounty regardless of the law). He's an unpredictable lunatic with no respect for 'authority' figures, and can be swayed into doing most anything if the end game is in his favor. And while his good half brought out a hidden desire for romance, Orlok is heavily driven by lust, even going so far as to ignore boundaries of others to get what he wants. Sex and violence are his jam, essentially. He'll also be the half with access to his HUD mask that lets him track people easily if he so desires.

If anyone would care to do anything with Orlok, please tell me what would be okay! Especially with the last lines about him (which only qualifies for adult characters regardless), please please please let me know if that is okay for you/your character or if it's totally uncool and want it avoided entirely! He's an antagonist in his canon for a reason, and he'd probably even badtouch Good!Gale if they happen to run into each other. He's that off his rocker.

ALSO, the good side will probably want to leave his two dogs Gunner and Ivy in the care of a[n unaffected] friend until things settle down, if anyone wants to help him on that front! He doesn't want his fluffy companions to be potentially hurt by Orlok.

[swordprincess]

I'd be up for interacting with both sides of him. As long as Orlok doesn't outright rape Karla, anyway. He can badtouch her, but if he goes too far with it, she might try to knock him out with her sword.