#ts:intro

[februaryschopin]

(audience booing track) okay hear me out before you guys throw your tomatoes at me because i killed off a previous chara i had just HEAR ME OUT… as always i’m 9688385 dms behind but trust me i will get back to you all one like at a time :-) it’s me anwar (not hadid) + thank u! yapping below on a particular visitor from allara!

liam fanning-ngoc, 25 / general (footnotes wip if i ever get to it lmao)

ENTER the life of a former weird boy (still is actually) from the allara server and more specifically from boston, massachusetts, usa where finding a wasian of irish and hoa vietnamese chinese descent is as easy as 1-2-3. his parents had a meet-cute back in their college days so whenever liam tells people how his white dad and asian mother met he’s always met with dreaded questions alluding to his dad going out of his way to find an asian wife (you know what i’m talking about don’t play with me) and liam’s like “yo dude what are u talking about lmao my dad met my mom on accident in boston college’s dining hall”. SO the now berklee college of music professor marries his long time girlfriend, a vietnamese chinese immigrant woman from terra who’s a musical therapist for children

all was technically well until some unaddressed hiccups concerning their marriage tho? as in cultural differences and backlash on the mother’s end who refuses to fully assimilate to allaran/american society which didn’t translate too well for the white side of his family that are “pseudo true” americans as far as having more than 4+ grandparents who were born in allara. so plenty of misunderstanding stemming from xenophobia and liam’s dad is a deadbeat emotionally especially bringing up the fact that liam is very visibly mixed looking and not at all white passing (more on that with his first cousin on the fanning side of the family *side eyes emoji*) which made him the butt of the joke for shitty “stinky lunches” and anti-viet/sinophobic sentiment while growing up overweight and as a continual afterthought

his dad is an amazing lover, a wonderful husband, a love bomber to infinity which is probably what convinced his mother!! BUT.. the downside like we mentioned above is having an emotionally neglectful/deadbeat dad who simply filed an app to terrascape for a kid by the expectations of his wife (lowkey to shut her up hahahahshafjgj ah shit) and the same shitty tired ass excuse of being “married to his work/career” comes into question. bro can’t name any of the 2 childhood friends liam grew up with, but his mother can. after a certain age his father ends up not knowing a damn thing about his kid and i think. at the end of the day. it’s because he’s unable to fathom his son’s biracial identity and refuses to help confront his son’s difficulties.. with such? especially considering that his wife raises liam with a strong arm because she REFUSES to have a useless whitewashed child that embarrasses her so.

this is the part where liam’s dad starts to hate his wife who is a person outside of being an object of his desires which is fucked as we all know and spoiler alert: he doesn’t have the fucking balls to break up/divorce her because men love making their problems everyone else’s so :-) but do keep in mind that liam’s mom isn’t emotionally avail either, very much the “here’s some fruit i cut for you” immigrant mother after she emotionally abuses you because she always thinks what’s best for her is what’s best for You so no she’s a mother who never apologizes but will. cut up some damn fruit or cook his fave northern viet dishes for him and it’s probably why liam was a fat lil boy

he’s def that weird kid you shared an honors class with that people just left alone after making shitty jokes about? but you feel kinda bad for him despite not knowing much about him? liam grew up on making friends from rpg games, forums, aside from the 2 buddies he’s known all his life. he was a band kid and was fairly good at playing the upright bass, but didn’t have aspirations to pursue music the same manner his parents did. instead he’s working on his 20th-21st century comic book/manga collection and can flawlessly imitate the voice of bruce lee speaking in english (and LOVED play fighting with his loser friends after binge watching 1970s hong kong martial arts movies).

tho eventually he stops feeling bad for himself (which honestly partial to blame is america’s amazing job at emasculating asian men which is totally a conditioned culprit!!!) and ends up losing the weight upon sophomore year of college, gains an interest in fitness and attempts to finding a personal style which honestly still he’s not really fashion conscious. painfully looks like a frat boy and is used to the allegations but the fuck ass loser in him hasn’t left, but he realizes how people treat him in the last recent years due to being relatively conventionally handsome(?) and only hot people get to be weird and have niche interests apparently

AND ALAS it’s been three years since he graduated from umass boston with a vietnam + ireland flag sash draped around his neck lookin like a goof but reppin hard for both sides lmfao and rn he lives in the megabuildings with a roommate (plot? anyone?)! a bachelor’s in communications + marketing with a minor in digital arts. since he was a kid he used to mess around on a hand-me-down terra-esque-photoshop-based-software and since then i’m afraid we having the coming of herb lubalin except in the year 3024. bro was making his family homemade birthday card graphics, eventually websites and now is working on prototype designs for apps, etc. he works for the gaming company that has launched the ever so successful iron fist which has been his latest project atm and man is he psyched, so much that he was offered to position in their physical office in terra’s server so long as he migrates with the proper visitation/work documents AND YEAAAH i’ll quit yapping here bg-wise but i can happily :-) expand if needed be. i fucking love expanding..

personality

truthfully and i know i always say this but he’s definitely leaning towards the ambivert side of people, give him a topic that he’s well informed on/interested or if you guys have a common interest then BOOM. it’s all over, i fear that you have a yapper in him. but that aside genuinely quite friendly aaaaaaand keenly leans into his intuition too a lot of the time? naturally curious about people and things so believe me when i say he just Has to fuck around and find out or else it’ll kill him to not? want to do that? very trustworthy, almost just as reliable, enjoys being someone’s rock or pillar to lean on because he didn’t have that as much growing up so it’s really the least that he can do. half a strategic planner, half a “fuck it we ball get up everyone today’s the day”, one hundred percent hypocritical and conflicting and very much a social/emotional chameleon. despite being a yapper also do trust me when i say that his yapping is purposeful (the aquarius mercury is doing so much heavy lifting in his chart). uh also is pro-terra bc bro is not tryna die out he just would like to enjoy his time in this simulated reality so!! idk man people hate him for his boyish whimsical nature but that’s neither here or there

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jinhyeok at his dad’s funeral banquet like the big back he is

LMAO hi everyone and happy opening! i’m anwar (not hadid) and this is my first chara — kim jinhyeok, part of the glitched out subplots as well (harvey). super excited to plot and write with you all, so by all means kindly leave a heart and i’ll get back to you asap! i’m also the mun behind @everymandeadman so anticipate another intro later today as well, thank u!

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tw / boy mom behavior.. girl i know (closes eyes)

kim jinhyeok, 23, some guy working in tech and on allah he doesn’t know what he’s doing for the most part but anyways: the youngest kid born to a mother who filled for divorce from her first husband (sorry big sis @iscariotish). her current husband helped her out and was like “yo i’ll marry u bc ngl i need a wife and some kids” so she took that as an opportunity and also? i expect that south korean societal beliefs have transferred (kinda) to terra so the notion that divorce is highly stigmatized against women is a thing so. she married her second man and filed for a child asap under the assumption that she’ll be secured for life. the first boy is born and we all cheered

this is a woman who doesn’t really want to be a mother but whatever, right? so she’s like “what do u mean you want another kid just one is enough” (also she’s carrying a whole second marriage too) when her husband’s filing for another child (ie jinhyeok). bro is born a preemie and ngl chances at survival was kinda slim. his mom was lowkey gonna call the baby off with terrascape co but said “mm nah, guess i’ll keep the child” and so kim jinhyeok is born unwanted from the start but who cares

kim dongmin (dad) is a radiologist tech who signed his life away to terrascape co as a medical professional in the outer world. they never see their father who’s dedicating his life out there to support terrascape’s advances. his wife is hella lukewarm bc the money is gonna look crazy good when he ends up dying, but anyways i think being in a second marriage applied pressure to jinhyeok’s mom in order to make shit work out in the marriage. so it made her tune out to her kids initially bc she was so busy doing fuck all to please her man OK MOVING ON

jinhyeok’s relationship with his dad’s “okay” except he doesn’t see him like at all bc bro works in the outer world/earth and agreed to spend his whole life for terrascape. his mom is trying to heal from her bullshit first marriage and basically expects emotional support from her two sons in place of how her first marriage went wrong + in absence of her current husband so basically she’s a boy mom who is entitled to her son’s affections and the rls becomes very emotionally dependent on her kids.. this is not good! (cue jinhyeok’s expectations of skewed masculinity in relation to being a victim of a boy mom)

but like shit goes crazy with jinhyeok bc every birthday he gets tossed into a new avatar in the north american server (allara) so he has to live in a body of an asian american girl and navigate thru that for a whole 24 hours while instead every year someone inhabits his body back in terra’s sk. jinhyeok hasn’t been able to celebrate his birthday since then, and once he gained consciousness he tried to open up about it to his family which didn’t go well. it’s a big ass faulty glitch and he feels deeply violated bc he doesn’t know what’s happening in his body/avatar back home while in a separate avatar in north america every year on february 1st. so essentially this glitch peeks his interest in coding/it/compsci, but under the guise that he’s pro terra bc it’s all a programmed facade and all that

but like u know he gains an unique experience being that asian american girl which broadens his knowledge about gender and the asian diaspora. largely he grows up insanely misunderstood by his family and peers because of this unique experience that jinhyeok’s been having as a child, in spite of never being able to properly celebrate his birthday and hasn’t been able to, which.. yeah. very sad and because of the glitch jinhyeok hates it when his birthday approaches for plenty of reasons. also since his mom saved his life kinda she thinks jinhyeok’s hella ungrateful and shit for questioning terra’s ethics and morals like we should not be doing this or be existing for a reason maybe?? she enjoys gaslighting him by using the “i saved you!” rhetoric with the typical “you got clothes and a nice home what else do you want” type shit

fast forward: his dad ends up passing away in the last year. he’s been having health problems as a result of working in outer earth and it’s basically evidence(?) of how terrascape has labor issues. they lowkey view their professionals as expendable to their needs which heightens bro’s suspicion of the corporation while acting like he don’t know a goddamn thing. and well, he doesn’t have enough merit to prove terrascape’s shadiness, but in recent events with his dad’s passing and with bae gyuok, jinhyeok’s like.. um? wtf. this is weird

personality

very extroverted! it doesn’t take long for him to strike up a conversation with anyone and everyone, so jinhyeok doesn’t mind having to constantly break the ice. he knows what to say and when to say it, so i think he tends to mirror the personalities of others very well (libra rising + mars for all my astrology hoes), but this is initially before he can truly be himself (he likes testing the waters with people before finding out ohh okay i can REALLY be myself). but with this, he tends to lean into his people pleasing tendencies (lmao AGAIN libras.. am i right) which was conditioned since childhood having been raised by the mother he has, but he has a limit and a temperament before you get the chance to walk all over him. naturally intuitive, enjoys thinking out of the box, has an acute sense of justice even if his priorities are scattered. impulsive-heavy, says things he doesn’t mean when angered/irritated and always falls back into his regret. not the easiest to be made frustrated, but once he is, there’s really no turning back and he’ll gladly ball your face up because well. he’s a man and men do love fighting or getting worked up so lmfao

plots

i prefer brainstorming, but bare bones for connections remains: friends, lotsa exgirlfriends, maybe a group of gen z-ers (ok i know there’s probably gonna be a name for the 2997-3012 generation but bear with me) in tech who’s doing their best out here lmfao BUT YEAH BYE

HAPPY PLOTTING I’M DONE

[fiskesprett]

yea i'm so back this time with maruyama reina, a tryhard no-good daughter of disgraced ex-terrascape software engineer, dr maruyama akemi! if you've ever known of a prissy nerd with like 2 friends and a lot of shit to talk then you definitely know her! as usual, i've got a lot more info under the cut but in the meantime, please hit that LIKE button to plot with reina! thank u luv u mwah! 💖

capricorn sun / aquarius moon / taurus rising

reina's basically only had one parent her whole life: her mother. dad was never really in her life. they had a falling out when reina was really young and have been separated since, and their divorce was finalised when reina was ~7yo. mom got full custody!

because reina's only parent was only really her mom, reina really looked up to and idolised her! akemi was a phd graduate in computer science and a weapon in her field. she was fast tracked into everything and landed her role in terrascape at a relatively early age. her dad cited her mom's workaholic tendencies as a reason for their divorce which... he's not wrong except he tried to use that to justify his cheating so

point being, reina idolised her mom but her mom was never really around either : / reina was mostly left to her own devices as a kid. like of course she had a nanny to take care of her, but a young reina definitely felt a certain type of way about the whole situation that she wasn't really able to process at that age

anyway! this meant that growing up reina was just really conflicted about a lot! on one hand she idolised her mom and tried her best to be exactly like her, which meant giving up going out with friends to study, always trying to get the best grades, and generally being a high achiever! long term goal was that she wanted to follow in her mom's exact footsteps and eventually get an internship at the company her mom's working in ( the one and only terrascape ) as a software engineer, just like mom!

the other hand comes into play when she's ~19. basically, she's been noticing her mom spending a lot more time at home in her study, and one day she found out that her mom was laid off. to her it was like her whole world was crumbling down because she couldn't believe that her mom, of all people, would be let go

that is, of course, until she finds out that her mom was one of the handful of terrascape scientists that basically spoke out against the zero glitch policy and tried to get people to speak out against terrascape so they would actually do something

...yeah, so basically what reina ( and a lot of other people i'm sure ) gathered from this is that her mom is a gifted scientist who went a little mad : > of course, reina gets really weirded out by her mom and starts to think all this time her mom neglected her wasn't because she was out there trying to make the world a better place, but because she's bought into some wild delusion and is genuinely embarrassing

there's talks of how her mom and a group of scientists went a little crazy and reina's brought into it so her resentment for her mom which was once kind of in her subconscious starts to really surface

but never mind all that! reina's in too deep now and sunk cost fallacy is a real thing, so she's told herself that she's just going to pretend her crazy mom doesn't exist and keep working hard to get that internship and be the akemi that they wish they had!

...except reina shares her last name with her mother ( who shares her last name with reina's worthless father ) so even though she surpasses all their requirements for a fast track internship as terrascape's software engineer, they refuse to let her in

so yeah... she has nowhere else to go so she applied for any company and finally got in at re:skin! reina absolutely hates her life there because she frankly doesn't care much for aesthetics, but it's the only place that'll have her so who's a beggar to choose?

personality-wise: reina is honestly very earth sign heavy ( i swear she has a virgo placement somewhere too so really the rock trifecta ), so you can expect her to be very practical, leave your emotions at the door kind of person. reina can also be quite judgemental and resistant to making new friends, but when she does make a friend, she truly does not let that person go! that said, her care and concern for the people she actually vibes with can be hard to spot sometimes!

ugh yea so i haven't learnt to be concise but anyway! here's some plot ideas! i really hope they're helpful but i'm also incoherent most of the time so🧍‍♀️

because i'm uncreative i'm back once again with childhood plots 🤲 someone her nanny's let her have playdates with, or maybe her nanny happens to be your muse's older sister / cousin so the both of you end up being really close and you're possibly one of her besties?

not sure if anyone's watched sweet and sour but i would love! a plot concerning two interns at re:skin who are kind of battling it out trying to impress the superiors and are later forced to work together! i think it'd be cool to explore workplace drama and having them step on each others' toes!

on that note, anyone working at re:skin, please adopt her! this is also kind of... bad to say but reina being reina thinks that re:skin is just a place for bimbos so i'd love to see you prove her wrong ( or right )! maybe she ends up accepting her role here and actually learns to enjoy it?

i genuinely have no idea how reina acts in front of celebrities, but it would be cool for her to maybe interact with her favourite singer! if i had to think of songs she'd like, i'd imagine it'd be more alt stuff, but i'm def down to discuss! not sure how they'd meet either but i'm just putting the feelers out!

on that note imagine if reina kind of wrote your muse off when you guys were younger because reina was always that smart high-achiever and now your muse is rich and famous and she's in a job that she fucking hates? like it would genuinely be sweet revenge though i don't know how relevant reina would be to your muse at that point 🤷‍♀️

reina just graduated from her computer science undergrad! she skipped a grade in high school so she started her degree @ yonsei university between 18-20! it'd be cool to have some uni friends in her life! imagine your muse got into terrascape and she didn't get in when everyone thought she'd be the first pick given her grades and extracurriculars too! might be fun to explore!

reina currently lives in the megabuildings so i'd love for some neighbours! could be friendly or otherwise, i'm down for anything!

[serialeclipse]

muse no2 here we go! raising the curtains on miss lee rumi, who's just your run of the mill regular girl! also the most coach user of all time who just can't break the 85% compatibility rate </3 still no pages rip but regular drill, info / plots are under the cut & pls like to plot or ask for my d/scord! 💗

info

rumi is rlly the most regular person ever!! one of those terra users who's just chilling & living life yk she's got small dreams of getting her dream megabuilding skin & respectably medium dreams of finding her person, no big dreams

she also comes from smaller beginnings, born into the care of terrascape corporation & just naturally graduated at age eighteen. officially, her parents are unlinked & she's never really tried to find them. says she's just respecting their decision or whatever that way, but mostly she's afraid she might find them & realise they didn't want her for a reason. no thanks!

she thinks she's doing pretty well for herself though! minus the loneliness that occasionally takes over & the void of whatever that she gets late at night idk but doesn't everyone feel that way at 2 in the morning?

right now she's ur local barista who's lowkey like an npc bc she works at multiple coffee shops! hustling to survive & maybe have extra money for her dream megabuilding skin it is what it is we live in an economy

uses coach a lot. she's that friend who's been online dating for nearly a decade </3 kinda embarrassing but she's putting herself out there in tiny steps yk

( and? she isn't saying that weird things are happening to her. not at all!! she's regular!! but there's something about how she gets deja vu once in a while about a match she made on coach even though she knows for sure that she never met them

weird. maybe it's fate? it's not like terra has glitches! )

chart facts: libra sun cancer moon taurus rising, chill & goes w the flow most of the time. not the type of person to fight back but she might have some emotional walls up to protect herself! doesn't have a lot of ambition, she's happy with her slice of terra life as it is right now. likes being around people but is careful about who she lets in, clingy with the ones who stay. bad at keeping in touch. good at making coffee.

she's a work in progress & also pls pretend i didn't give my muses really similar names pls

plots

fellow coach users: a) 84%, the highest match she's ever had but it didn't work out even though she really tried; b) the 60%ers that she's matched on because what if coach was a little wrong but not totally wrong!; c) a 50% match she swiped on as a fluke (?); d) failed dates that she got a friend out of... or a blocked number rip

u think she's an npc after seeing her at multiple coffee shops & get a jumpscare seeing her out n about with thoughts of her own

found family, other people who grew up under the terrascape care or smth else? thee most important person in her life

other regular guys & gals just living their npc life

she's on the lookout for a megabuilding roomie to split rent but u disagree on what display skin ur flat should have

ur trying to get her to try real dating ( meeting ppl at the bar ) but it flopped

she's too cheap to buy the official cosmetic mod so she's begging u ( coder? reskin guy? ) to help out

regulars on the menu: besties, childhood friends, enemies, fwbs, exes! i also love a brainstorm too we should do that 💗

[1acuna]

hello! im eury (21+, s/h); super jazzed to be here + can't wait to start writing with everyone!

please excuse me if things sound all over the place it's my brand i'm still in the process of sorting things out for nahye !! + like for plots though obvi

aries sun aries rising cancer moon (let’s… go? let’s fucking go?) 

to note: she hasn't gotten over anything in her life ever. (ye ultimate grudge holder has cometh.)

mom's claim to fame has always been the girls. she'll dress them up, preen them for the public's eyes. a single mother and her beautiful, wonderful, darling girls. what better way to shove down the shame of being abandoned by her husband?

nahye doesn't see her father often—from year 12 to 16, it's from a distance in the crowd at talent shows, plays, graduation, and pageants (yes there was a chapter, no you couldn't pay her to retell it. when she hears of his new son, she stops meeting his eyes in the audience.

her relationship with her mother is complicated. the more expectations placed on her, the more nahye resisted mom’s affections. it was different when she was younger—what child doesn’t want to appease the center of their world?—but as her world grew, she no longer needed her.

got into iron fist alongside her sister > ofc mom jumped at the chance and proclaimed herself their manager/pr guy/anything rly. **also the one to come up with the shtick to keep them in the rankings. nahye personally doesn’t care + only stuck with it because her sister was okay with it (but deep deep down she’s also an aries who likes 2 win…). 

has a couple endorsements on the side w her sister b/c she’s pretty, avidly avoids variety shows b/c shes just… lol 

generally matches energy i.e. gives what she gets

public image is… *spins wheel* government-assigned cool/chic girl but irl 100% sore loser = grudge holding petty bitch, gross binge consumer of any sort of media, stalked her hs prom date on forms of social media for 2 days straight b/c she had a dream abt him and thought it was a Sign, kinda sorta very superstitious (not in an avoid all the cracks on the sidewalk for the sake of mom’s back type but also in a believes in jinxes and runs her life a certain way to keep things going good sort of way) 

that said, religiously takes 15-20 minute ice baths the day before matches for Good Luck (at 2am, always at 2am).

v serious about her career (likes the money, the house, all the perks) but doesn't express any interest in expanding it (acting, etc etc). basically, the plan is to use her face until the public is bored of her while trying to save as much money as possible in the meantime

[indolamine]

hey y'all 🤍 here's a link for INFO on jiyeon, but i'll include some bullet points here with all you need to know. in case anything here sparks ideas for your muse and you'd like to work on a plot, hmu. i do prefer dscrd, so don't hesitate to ask. oh and i'd appreciate it if you could shoot me a dm first so my account doesn't get banned trying to touch base with the likes (say literally anything, hit me with a send it to me rachel if you'd be so kind). still, if you'd rather just hit like it's fine, i'll reach out once tumblr allows me!

jiyeon is what you'd call an Interesting Girl. someone you don't call or arrange schedules with, just happen upon. someone who never calls you but can be your best friend between 11pm and 3am. a fun girl, you just don't look too long.

both her parents are dead for all intents and purposes, which's proven to be a very character defining event in her life. one of her fathers passed away before she was even code, and the other chose to virtually die to work as a doctor for terrascape when she turned 18.

as single beneficiary to both her fathers, jiyeon found herself young, alone and newly rich. she's not particularly self destructive, but choices were made. luckily? for the most part, she was too stunned by grief and anger to blow away her fortune, which now affords her a cushy life she doesn't dwell too hard on.

she's emotionally stunted, still reliving the loss of her parents somewhere in her mind at every moment. she knows a lot of people, calls them friends but struggles to connect with them, blinking in and out of their lives. death is a constant thought, not quite a morbid fascination but more of a haunting. she knows, poor little rich girl.

she writes -- tries to, anyway. she's got some essays published, wrote for a column for a hot minute, it's her definitive trade of choice. but, and not to get too meta, the thing about writing is that you do have to write. that's the tricky part. merits were a good incentive, though once they're no longer an issue, she finds herself ignoring deadlines and putting off work on the novel she's been writing for the past 4 years. she instead "gathers experiences". she has many talents that she has no interest in seriously exploring, so she entertains herself while the high lasts.

between her writing and her party girl fame, at some point along the way she amassed a following on social media that she hesitates to cut loose. they make her more interesting than she, merely human, could ever hope to be, and she doesn't know how to kill the part of her that answers to their call. it's a lie when she says she doesn't look at what they say.

adult life for her breezes by in parties with half-friends and long bouts of reclusion. she wants to be a little of everything. she enjoys reading, skiing, playing silly little meta indie games about living in hyper realities. she doesn't commit to romantic relationships, yet enjoys the hunt anyway. she takes her time, and it never seems to align with anyone else's.

& here's a rolling list of canons that could also serve as potential connections for anyone interested, will add more as they come to me:

she once got involved with a couple for some brief months and it didn't end well

one of the few things she gets competitive about is skiing

she's fucked someone's significant other purely out of spite

she has a writing group whose meetings she misses often but she isn't the only one so she feels like it's a safe space

the person she plays a random weird rpg with incognito is maybe the most consistent relationship in her life, their chats can get very personal and strange and they can go weeks on no contact but go right back to where they left off

the events surrounding gyuok pique her interest because it's the first time terra residents could potentially be hearing from a virtually deceased and because he's essentially a virtual ghost which she thinks is neat

one of her published essays focuses on a celebrity she knows personally and doesn't portray them in the best light, which soured their relationship

[flnderseekers]

heyyy! i'm bird (s/th) and i'm joining you guys with top actor turned public enemy, do jihan, who is filling the role of genesis in the rising star subplot. aka... he's the guy who played the role of terra's founder in the blockbuster biographical film! and then lost his fucking mind! without further ado...

born oct 1 2993 (30 yrs old)

libra sun / aries moon / capricorn rising... interpret this as you wish

an extreme attention-seeker from birth. the boy who cried wolf x1000. would fake injuries (and consequently fake glitches), would lose shit and spin elaborate stories of being robbed, would throw insane fits when he didn't get his way like... something was (and is) fs wrong with him but his parents kind of brushed it off under the guise of him just being a bad ass kid, being brushed off by his parents fueled his behavioral issues, you know how it goes

he was (and is) a bored, lonely kid with a tendency to latch on to anything that made him feel something. in early teens, the “anything” became acting - he had a natural talent for it (as proved by the outrageous shows he put on earlier in life) and having an outlet to express big emotions in a way that didn’t result in him being reprimanded or eye-rolled was cool!

so it goes, time passes and by age 18 he was playing supporting roles in daytime dramas; a few years pass, he’s proved his worth, and he was a top star appearing in emotionally loaded films. his name was known. he got a 5.0 star rating, the public counted days on their fingers - he broke a record, a record that he still holds, for the most days spent consecutively at the top.

throughout it all, his pr team held a firm grip on him. he had aged out of the worst of his attention-seeking behavior, but he had never really learned to bite his tongue and smile; his excessive, hungry existence was a threat to his reputation. because of this, he very rarely did interviews or any type of fan meetings—if you asked his pr team, this was because he was a method actor, always preparing for the next role, and a loud public appearance would disrupt his character immersion. like... pretentious as all get out but, well, he was a damn good actor, so his loyal fans begrudgingly dealt with his minimal public appearances

ten years being relatively liked came to a crescendo in 3022, when the biographical film where he stars as the creator of terra was released - it was a hit, his performance was praised, but for the FIRIIIRIST TIME!!! he opened his big ass mouth. tldr is that he did extensive research on kang suho / terra, deep-diving, days without sleep, head in the books type shit and sleep deprivation + the discovery of information he'd have been better off not knowing resulted in extreme paranoia and a sense of obligation to "wake society up". what i mean is, he no longer saw terra as a utopia and he became extremely fearful for his own life......... and he convinced his pr team to let him do a talk show...... promised he'd behave himself...... and dude started ranting and raving about "the evil nature of terra", "kang suho's dark intentions", "life or a lack thereof?" and YEAAA the hosts were thrilled to have a top star losing his fucking mind on live tv (now THAT'S entertainment!) but his reputation tanked. fast.

here we are now... dude's still regarded as being mentally unwell. he's no longer a top star, HASN'T been for two years now. it doesn't matter that he's a good actor, what matters is that he's trying to disturb the peace / spreading slander, what matters is that he shit on the name of the man who enabled him to play his biggest role to date. so now no one wants to cast him... boohoo... good news is, he's always been incredibly frugal so he's still living on money from the good ol' days.

as far as his personality goes, he talks an awful lot now that he doesn't have a bitch in his ear telling him to be quiet (re: his former team has turned their backs on him). plays devil's advocate as often as he feels he can get away with... and then some. no outright malicious motives, but he likes seeing what gets people worked up. will piss people off and then (attempt to) be the one to calm them back down. spends a lot of time at home, but has been spotted getting drunk and going on long tangents at bars in the city on occasion. well-mannered at his best, volatile at his worst. as mentioned before, he clings to anything that makes him feel something, and in recent times, that "anything" has been the idea that terra isn't what the people are being told it is. want to get existential? he's your guy.

[gumspine]

HELLO this is horrendously late work was kicking my ass but YES i'm juice and i'll be writing for jung namoo! he's a 22 y/o production assistant/audiovisual technician (yes they still exist) (i like to imagine that it's a bit of a simultaneously hyperfuturistic but also a thing of the past type paradox that namoo precisely loves) + he's also part of the glitched-out subplot as moneybags!

linking namoo's profile + wip plots page for easy access and there's more abt him under the cut, but b4 i get into it: if you'd like to plot, please like this post and i'll msg you <3

BACKGROUND

family: parents were low level but pioneering programmers for iron fist! which would've been well and good if they hadn't gotten themselves embroiled in betting on matches/tournaments to the extent that they would tamper with code or collude with fighters to win bets. orbit found out and suddenly mom and pops were "volunteering" to "work" in the outer world

namoo and his older brother (gureum) were 9 and 12 at the time; guardianship went to a family relative who squandered their parents' payouts liberally. namoo and gureum tolerated it for a bit, but eventually found a good chance to run off w/ what little money was left and live in the belt by themselves

spent his teens doing odd jobs and gigs, picked up a lot of skills along the way. procedural learner and is what one wld describe as being good with his hands

in light of the above ^ he opted for vocational training instead of university! financially it was also the most practical choice. got introduced to PA work by an instructor he had at vocational school, and he follows orders well enough to be delegated miscellaneous grunt work around set without worry. eventually wiggles his way up to actual PA tasks, w/c is where he also picked up a lot of his initial av tech knowledge!

decides to stick to tv/film/event production by the time he's 20, and currently has trade certifications on electronics/communication systems, audiovisual tech, modern media + three-quarters of a term in event management (this is namoo pretty much)

currently still project-based/freelance, but he's rarely out of a gig because he's got that head-down no-complaints hardworking reliability that cost-cutting bosses just luuuv (it's a capitalist corporatocratic world after all)

(ok but seriously he's cultivated a rep for like. being helpful and having initiative and needing little supervision to get stuff done so it follows that he always gets called on whenever production/event companies need PA/tech help!)

PERSONALITY

at a glance: u can immediately tell he's the youngest child/baby brother bc he's very. cutesy and affectionate? loves to tease and be a lil gremlin

despite his boyish tendencies, he's far from immature. brother raised him using their parents and relatives as cautionary tales (in the sense that they sucked as human beings lol) so he grew up a decent kid, if a bit of a doormat

carries himself well on the outside but deep down he has pretty much internalized the prejudice he's experienced due to living in the belt and being poor so his self-esteem is six feet in the mud. not in a wallowy self-pitying sense but like. his instinct is to make himself small and take up as little space as possible. also of the thinking that if he's treated badly he should just put up with it because who is he to complain? he's nobody

growing up his mindset has shaped up to prioritize survival over pride so if self-esteem has to take a backseat it'll take a backseat

his glitch (moneybags, aka he gets unlimited merits for an hour if he claps under a very specific circumstanceㅡw/c he's unaware of! so it isn't something he can intentionally replicate yet) has also put him in a tough spot w/ authorities before (basically he thought the amt of money in his acct wasn't real and just went around clicking "buy" on a bunch of stuff... sorry he was 13... anyway yeah the transactions went through. cue police sirens bc what is a boy from the belt doing w/ that much money)

managed to evade interrogation/escalation by the skin of his teeth thnx to his big bro but like! ya boy is traumatized indefinitely. hates coming across/potentially talking to the terra equivalent of law enforcement or authorities

not to mention that their relatives (to a certain degree aware that their parents were virtual-deathed (?) bc things went sideways with orbit and their gambling) used to taunt namoo abt receiving the same punishment for any little thing so

he has actually accidentally triggered the glitch twice more after that first instance, though he's handled those two times a lot better and with more tact! thnx again in part to his bro so he's not as terrified of his glitch as he initially was. used it to pay the bills and purchase a couple other stuff LMAO but he still gets anxious around authority though

he's also a bit of a conspiracy theorist because he's well-aware that glitches can exist! he's proof of it! doesn't go so far as to interact w/ the tinhat community but he reads the posts n forums... has a bit of a vested interest as well in like. people being sent to the outer world via virtual death against their will because of what may or may not have happened 2 his parents (he doesn't rlly know the truth yet)

sidenote: even though iron fist is somewhat entwined w/ the way his childhood has tumbled downhill, he still luvs the game (as an audience; he can't play for the life of him) and luvs being part of the tech team for iron fist events/tournaments bc it was a big part of like. being a teen in the belt and just having this outlet regardless of how tough life was

MISC

very much artistically inclined, which is why he was initially drawn to tv/film PA work! my 31st century tech lore is that production sets use hyper-realistic life-scale "holographic" projections instead of props or shooting on location which! def sucks for propmasters and authenticity but like. even though this world is virtual and crazy advanced and the sky's the limit, it would still take a creative eye to make beautiful things! u could have the tools but w/o that human touch it wouldn't quite be the same. so he's out here sticking it out as that should-be-a-thing-of-the-past human aspect to a creative endeavor that has endured literal millennia. even though ofc it prolly has changed a lot from our time

his work is predominantly on the technical side but he's interested and has a knack for design! specifically w/ holography as the medium. one of the stuff he probably bought w/ his glitch money is the holography version of a wacom tablet

one day would love to lean into that and pick up design as his main fare but for now he earns steadily with PA/av tech work and he's really quite good at it to the point that he's kind of moving up in the world a little? so he's content! not to mention all the backstage perks of getting to work iron fist gigs lol he's just a boy fr

has had the opportunity to be additional tech help with both of last year's iron fist majors so he's hoping he'll get called on to that gig again 🤞

POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS

ppl he grew up with in the the belt, roommates (they were able to move out of the belt eventually so he currently lives in a megabuilding! give him roomies he's super neat and considerate 💙 though downside is that he snores like a cartoon character), celebs he's either had the pleasure or displeasure of working with, iron fist folks (staff, fighters, maybe people whose parents knew his parents?), fellow tinfoil hat wearers, whatever it is let's write it!

[psychdeath]

cha wontaek. 3d environment artist @ orbit gaming. penned by ares (21+, s/h, gmt)

hey hi hello. it's me again after shamefully changing muses. like if you wanna plot, y'know the drill.

tw family death

NOBODY TO SOMEBODY

what sort of parents sign up for a kid only to abandon him and sign him over to the state? cha daehyun and lee bitna, a celebrity couple. thought that their relationship could stand the test of time and fandom. what the public didn't know was that they had plans to get pregnant, to start a family.

papers were signed and a baby was on its way. only, once news of their marriage broke, daehyun's rating started to plummet and the cowardice began to show. he promptly ditched and like a contagion, bitna's fear of losing her spot in the limelight became all too consuming. so she signed wontaek over to the state, giving him nothing but his life and a name.

life in the orphanage wasn't too bad, for the most part wontaek's needs were met. he didn't have to ask for much. but the sting of not being wanted even after the trouble of applying for him in the first place did not miss him. and where do all those feelings go?

he was a terror to all of those who knew him, volatile in personality with a short fuse to boot. pain has a way as masking itself as anger and wontaek donned his mask at too young of an age.

he's eight when a man comes to the orphanage to claim him. he introduces himself has his grandfather, the one responsible for his worthless son who had abandoned him.

from orphan to future heir, life really hit wontaek FAST. his grandpa being from a long line of simulation tech investors, wontaek was shuttled from the belt to the the gated districts where he would come to call the sprawling cha estate home.

generational wealth wasn't something he could put words to but the magnitude of change was. he became more confident and less angry, more talkative, made more of a presence in the rooms he walked into. it was almost if wontaek came into himself.

as he grew older he fostered a connection to the arts, painting being his preferred medium. he went to art school and came out the other side as a 3d environment artist (don't you just love nepotism?). he's done a lot of jobs, his resume spanning from designing simulation environments for coach to orbit gaming, working currently on the iron fists games.

he's twenty seven when the news of his grandpa's degenerative illness breaks and although he still has a few years on him, there are talks of the inheritance and who the cha assets should be passed on to. wontaek is his grandfather's likely pick but as of recent daehyun has been rearing his ugly head to claim what should be his. risking revealing to the world a near thirty year old misdemeanour, he has come for the cha inheritance and he won't go down without a fight.

terse conversations before family lawyers become a standard routine these days and daehyun's return to the cha estate has seen wontaek having to confront the ugly trauma of his early childhood.

but right now? he's just trying to make good with what he's got and the very little time he has left with grandpa.

PERSONALITY

leo sun, pisces moon and leo rising.

if you thought he was a cocky bastard, then you’re right. 

has always been here for a good time not a long time but as of late he's been roped into doing a lot of family stuff and Stepping Up To The Plate now that his gramps is sick.

his upbringing and estranged relo with his parents makes him cerebral and prone to moodiness, and rather than causing trouble nowadays he airs out his shit on the canvas.

when he’s in that place he’s selfish (more than usual), callous, and self critical.

otherwise he’s good vibes on a good day. if you can get past the entitlement.

[masquerites]

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okay i'm a little ashamed of myself for taking way too long to make this intro but i swear i got in too much of my head and was desperately trying to make sense of my ideas. not to mention i still need to work on her dossier and background but anyway! i'm fae ( 21+ , she/her , gmt +8 ) and here's my little two-faced angel who always love to take advantage of her pretty privileges. so just drop a like and i'll be running into your dms to start! ( in tumblr ims or discord at your request, whichever you prefer! )

SUMMARY

isn't it the strangest thing to be born as a pair? to be one half of a whole and always have the other by your side — only to end up becoming completely antithetical from each other, different like night and day. haechan is the chaotic beauty of a tempest ; all sharp gazes and lopsided little smiles that barely even contain emotion. she's ocean blackness and crashing waves. she's sharp like the reflective edge of a polished knife. hae-in, on the other hand, is the polar opposite of her twin sister. she's soft eyes and whimsical laughter. she's sweet like honey drizzled over cinnamon toast, and exudes an aura warm like july's late evening sun. you'd see her and think of delicate windchimes, of sun catchers, butterflies and golden clouds. who would dare to believe beneath such angelic façade lay something so utterly grotesque ?

perhaps she had always been destined to be a little twisted. how could she not in that household built upon a fragile foundation, and a loveless marriage barely hanging onto it's last hinges. the real purpose of the twins' existences was for them to be no more than consolation prizes for their mother; to be her pretty little dolls all so she could cherish and love to her heart's content, saving herself from the misery she's been granted from having a negligent husband with wandering eyes.

the twins have never been taught to share one's love and attention properly between the both of them, and hae-in has always been a gluttonous and greedy creature to a fault. so eventually, a bitter rivalry grew between the twin sisters, breaking their once inseparable bond in their relentlessly strive for love and affection. this is when hae-in discovers her penchant for distorting the truth to her favor.

small little lies roll off the tip of a saccharine-tongue, woven into intricate tapestries under her skilled touch and orchestrating her sister's downfall little by little. eventually, she's doomed her own flesh and blood ( her better other half ) to a fate of fading into obscurity, knowing all too well that she could get away with it and always did ( who would ever believe the madness of a black swan over the sweet and dutiful white swan? ); all for the sake of grasping onto every silver of adoration that she could not bear sharing.

haein grows up knowing all too well that her beauty is desired and appreciated. with a face like hers, it's no wonder people around her were so often drawn to her ( and so willfully blind were they to the predatory smile that lay beneath doe like eyes ). haein, of course, couldn't help herself but to find weaponry in her own gravitational pull if not utilize it to the best of her abilities.

she completes her studies at a prestigious university and ( with mother's luck ) takes on a job at re:skin as an aesthetic designer. obvious but absolutely perfect for someone like her, who admittedly always cared too much of the way she looks to others.

PERSONALITY

every day was simply a reflection of her own personal masquerade. a dozen of masks to don herself with, for each and every persona was perfectly curated for her audience in front of her. kim hae-in is what always people want to see, and what they want to trust. a soft spoken, delicate doe eyed beauty with a heart of gold, who have long since been hailed as the beloved darling of the house. always so gentle, and always so sweet. no one seemed to know or even care that such perfection was only manufactured because she made it so, because everything about her was no more than illusion.

but what truly lies beneath the layers for the girl who dons only her masks? something truly monstrous in the shape of a girl? for there's terror in beauty and kim hae-in is the living proof of such. with eyes coated in glitter, and tongue coated in honey, it's always been too easy for her to spun her webs of manipulation to ensnare others in her control. by then, she'll take and take and take whatever she can, not even caring whether she's been taking too much. and worst of it all? she'll do it gladly with the prettiest smile

CONNECTIONS

at the moment, my brain is currenly fried so her plots and prompts are still much a working progress but i do have a lot of vague ideas that we can use to brainstorm with!

a close circle of friends have see through her façade of perfection, have seen her real and twisted personality and yet still stayed with her. ( and maybe some even enable her )

or maybe ex friend's who didn't, unable to handle her true colors ( not that i blame you for that one bit, but hae-in unfortunately will )

workplace rivals at re:skin where they can't stop competing against each other, trying their best to outdo one another. the perfect place for workplace drama with a lot of instigating and sabotaging.

people she couldn't help but be jealous of for multitudes of reasons, people who sparked certain insecurities within herself that she absolutely hates nor have the will to acknowledge.

people who gets suspicious of her perfect persona, catching a glimpse of her real personality.

maybe some enemies that she might have sabotaged because she simply can.

exes that she'd broken hearts of, or exes who finally escaped from her webs of manipulation ( RUN, MAKE YOUR ESCAPE, SAVE YOUR SELF ) or exes who haven't and somehow always come back to her one way or another, lured by her sweet honeyed promises despite knowing full well she's hiding her poison underneath.

and maybe a first love that she still have a soft spot for, secretly pines after them but can't or wont do anything because that person is too god for her and she doesn't have the slightest bravery to show her real self to them.

[violueta]

who else ready to YAP! hihi i go by a ton of aliases and forgot which one i applied with my bad but im mika and im here with jangmi, a brand new muse that i cant wait to develop with u all :D just drop a like and i'll send u a dm to get plotting :3 (my about section for her is coming soon..a lil busy atm T^T)

just some ooc info before i go on a massive ramble about her, im currently a full time student dealing with end of semester assignment rush and exams so excuse me if replies are sporadic..if i ever take over 24 hours please just bump me or something... im also really new to tumblr so..excuse any mistakes :3

sry 4 this i wrote it out n im too lazy to proofread

BACKGROUND

lee jangmi, born 3003 to a middle class family, being her parent's little girl who got spoiled beyond belief. the amount of stress her parents went through to have her made them treasure her greatly, always making sure she was always happy.

family life was good! family life was happy! until both her parents lost their jobs due to sizing down, leaving the family with a complete lack of income. her father found a job rather quickly but it paid significantly less than what they originally had and they were still relying on one income so things were a bit tight. jangmi was blissfully unaware of this fact at the bright young age of one, her parents always putting on their happiest faces to their daughter and still going out of their way to give her a wonderful childhood. with the help of her maternal grandmother, jangmi was raised in the most loving household a girl could ask for.

however, this lack of money was catching up as her mother fell behind in terms of systems, her father needing added packages and upgrades to work but not being able to afford any for his wife. this meant that her family had fallen to a socioeconomic status that terrascape paid less care to. one day jangmi's mother dropped her off at her grandmother's so that she could spend the day trying to find a job, as she had been doing for around three years at this point. that night, her mother never picked her up and her father called up, wondering if she was with jangmi.

she was not.

after a week or so, jangmi's father had accepted that his wife was gone. unable to deal with life without the woman he loved and a daughter that was constantly distressed with the lack of her mother, he gave jangmi to her grandmother and disconnected from terra to search for his wife, knowing she might've left him but she would've never left jangmi.

so from the age of four, jangmi was raised by her grandparents and their elderly neighbours and they raised her just as she was used to, loving and a little bit spoiled. being raised in such a good for environment, the girl is quite unaware of the bad side of the world; she thinks that terra truly is paradise where everyone is always happy and thriving, simply because that's how she and the people she's aurrounded herself with have done in life.

well, she tries to think that way at least. having her parents leave with the only explaination of 'they went on an adventure!' even at the age of 20 has her craving to know more, has her wanting to figure out what happened with her parents. once she hit her teens and started actively staying awake at night, she discovered a glitch in which the entire server just frozen in time? she's never actively done anything during this hour as the idea of fucking up something scares her greatly but, she's always blamed that glitch on the reason why her parents are gone.

for now she prefers living in ignorant bliss, treating terra the way that terrascape wants her to, as a modern day garden of eden which, it kind of is considring how lucky she's been in life. maybe her ignorance is just to avoid losing her lifestyle of living upper middle class, knowing the place is a lot darker than she puts on. even after bae gyuok, she chooses to ignore this massive event, acting as if nothing has happened in the first place. (although, in her own time she's trying to figure things out but, she isn't getting very far)

PERSONALITY

she's soft spoken and gentle, often just going along with the crowd and trying her best to fit in as she would rather die than ever be seen as different. she puts herself out as confident yet not cocky, extroverted but not loud; a perfect personality that will have people love her, just as she's always been loved by those around her. though her gentle nature and willingness to go along with people is natural, she's hardly the social creature she seems to be, preferring a night in with her grandparents and their dog watching old movies. she lacks her own perception of self as a consequence for trying so hard to fit in and she sometimes gets jealous of others who are more willing to be themselves, arguing with people who disagree with her out of sadness, not anger. she can let herself get carried away when spurred on and can be quite reactive at times, a reason why she surrounds herself with people so similar to her; she can keep her image.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

u see i kinda suck at these? i like coming up with plots with specific characters in mind BUTT!! here's some vague ideas.

friends, ex-crushes, aquaintances, neighbours, all that stuff. maybe someone who she finally expresses her worries to? like late night talks about terra and how theyre realising the system seems a lil..Off..

IDK! im okay with anything :D just (as i said before) give this a like or send a dm to me first if ur in the mood to plot with her! i can use dc if it's easier :3

[striikers]

hello friends ! my name is jae, 21+, est timezone, and i go by she/they pronouns. dropping this intro to yall definitely not on time, but when am i ever truly prepared for opening with an intro already made ? the answer is rarely. i am bringing to you seo suyeong, better known as striker for the game iron fist. the youngest child of a rich family whom because of his choices is largely seen as the disappointment of the family, but we'll get more into that down below. i would prefer to plot over discord, so feel free to ask. thanks !

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born as the youngest of three children, suyeong was the final child that seo sung-il and nam areum would choose to have while living in terra. while many might believe that choosing to have a child in a virtual world as their own was an act of love, for the couple whose name would be known in headlines, in fact it was an act of brilliance in furthering themselves into the lives that they wanted.

each child cultivated to specific standards by their parents, ensuring that each child would be a benefit to their father's burgeoning political career. one son to carry on the father's legacy, a singular daughter to push into a socialite like role and eventually marry into another prominent family and cement new ties through marriage, and a final son to support the endeavors and ambitions of their eldest son to its fullest.

by the time that suyeong was born or rather plugged into terras, sung-il had rose past his previous lower standing and in the sphere of politics he was ever on the rise. it was only the beginning of the restriction and a life that suyeong's parents would work their hardest to craft for him to further themselves.

growing up, there were a lot of expectations put upon the boy and his siblings, it did not take long before hours of play turned into the extremes of ensuring they had the best education. tutors and teachers outside of school that meant a ton of extracurricular activities including learning to play an instrument, finding a physical activity or sport, and learning additional languages that they hardly needed when there was an easy button to push on one's panel to translate into their own language.

as the years went by and the success of sung-il in the political realm, suyeong would see less and less of his parents and more and more of the nannies that would watch over them instead of the parents that decided to bring them into terra. the idea of fatherly and motherly love became less and less and though he would claim these days it had no effect on him, well he would be lying.

while suyeong's siblings easily fell into their expected roles and flourished in the expectations, suyeong felt more and more like he was a bird in a gilded cage. for a time he felt aimless. the hobbies and interests he would develop would were not something his parents approved of once they learned of them. gaming was especially one interest that his parents thought very little of and saw as nothing more than a useless distraction that their youngest son was for some reason obsessed with.

after school suyeong would sneak away to vr rooms to play the latest games that had caught his interest. when asked of where he had been after school, then the young boy would easily lie that he had signed up for additional tutoring at school and that was enough to satisfy the hawk-like expressions for the moment.

it should come as no surprise that of the games offered in terra, iron fist, the most prominent fighting game on the market would catch his attention. he had started out as a casual player like most, but the more he exposed himself to the game and played with the generated characters the most he fell in love with it and the adrenaline rush he felt from it.

throughout his teenage years, suyeong would continue to sneak out and play the game at any given moment. he never gave his parents a reason to suspect or question as he kept his grades in school at levels expected of him and never shared where he was with his siblings so they couldn't rat him out.

in college it was harder to continue to play, but suyeong would sacrifice sleep to not only ensure that he earned a degree that was expected of him but to also to continue to grow in his skills as a player of iron fist. this would be the start of his immense caffeine addiction and a constant supply of coffee auto-shipped to his apartment in one of the gated districts once he had a place of his own away from his parents.

after graduating with a degree in communications, suyeong had since upped his dedication to iron fist, so much so that it got him noticed by orbit gaming around the age of twenty three. one thing lead to another that ended up in suyeong signing a contract with the company and becoming one of their newest professional players.

needless to say, suyeong's parents do not approve of him becoming a professional player especially when his siblings have done everything expected of them. to them they cannot understand why their youngest has turned out to be the disappointment of the family.

outside of his professional gaming competitions and salary from orbit gaming, suyeong has started something of a modeling career. due to his natural looking aesthetically pleasing avatar in terra, companies have reached out to him to be involved in ad campaigns for sought-after products in terra. he doesn't mind modeling at all, in fact it has added to being able to live without his parents' money or inheritance.

𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐑.

suyeong's randomly generated fighter would come to be known as striker. striker is a gun-wielding individual whose lore is based upon his past of once being a high-ranking member of the military. striker is adept with a plethora of guns at his disposal but being in the military doesn't come without its sacrifices. time in war has lead the character to suffer from poor hearing and is vulnerable to stealth based attacks. despite this when suyeong is playing as striker he has become adept at being far more aware of his surroundings than most and relying on his other senses while fighting to cover for his weaknesses. ( celebrity ranking 2.9 stars )

while orbit gaming has claimed that none of these game effects are supposed to be felt outside of the game, suyeong has been having moments of hearing issues. sometimes like a spontaneous ringing in his ears that is shrill that he knows shouldn't result in a what he surmises as a splitting headache. for the most part he shrugs it off, but since the two years that he has been playing as striker, the harder it has become to ignore.

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘.

suyeong is something of a contradiction when it comes to the things he wants and the things he allows himself. as said earlier, a lack of parental love in his life has had an impact on suyeong's own self worth. if a parent whom had decided to bring him into the world of terra could not show him love, then why would another person ?

as such suyeong isn't the easiest person to open up to others and has developed a reticent nature despite the fact that one of his love languages is physical touch and quality time. those who somehow manage to push past his barriers will find the damage his childhood has done to his heart and his relationships in life.

to a select few they see that he is quite intrepid and enjoys a good rush. he's not willing to let things hold him back once he has set his mind to something as he is especially stubborn in nature. for the most part he is kind and passionate and can even be generous but not everyone gets to see that side of him. instead fooled by his supposed introverted nature.

he pretends to have a tight grasp of his feelings, but the truth is that he holds his emotions tightly to his chest to the point of bursting. when it all becomes too much does he fall and fall hard into his emotions that rarely feel cathartic because of how much he has repressed them.

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒.

as a given, connections with people who work at orbit gaming and/or other professional players of iron fist. i'd love to see different kinds of dynamics with them, good and bad, give him some animosity with another player that has been spun in the media for fans. maybe give him someone who was like a mentor when he first started out.

a close friend or two growing up. maybe someone who lived in a similar rich family as he did. two who grew up with a lot of expectation and without each other they couldn't have really gotten through it like they did.

a close friend that is entirely opposite of him, someone who is very different to him both in personality and in lifestyle. someone he wouldn't have met if he had continued in the realm his parents had kept him in for years.

an ex that broke his heart, perhaps someone who only began to date him when he first rose to prominence as a professional player, flings, enemies to lovers, anything romantic i'd be up for plotting.

nothing catch your eye, we can definitely plot it out !

[moonsnitch]

choi haerin. iron fist's very own archangel. penned by ares (21+, s/h, gmt)

excuse my tardiness, i'm never prepared for anything. i've split this intro into parts that'll give you the full tea on my angel but i will have a bio and profile up at some point. bear with me... shoot this a like and i'll come swinging into your dms to plot. i prefer 'scord majorly but i'm open otherwise. ciao.

PRIEST CULT DADDY

if you're to understand anything about haerin, we'll first start with her bloodline. choi insu, priest of the new kingdom parish, a cult hiding behind the moniker of religion. a zealot in the name of piety, he believed that terrascape was the judgment plane and to meet the true kingdom, the real one, one needed to commit a virtual death. choi jinae, thy mother, lived in the shadow of her husband. she played the devout for long, made sure their only daughter did the same. but something in the foundations were beginning to crack...

insu urged the faithfuls, under pretence and discretion, to live a modest life, to give their merits to the mission and to remember that life on terra was temporary. knowing very well how illegal this was, he preached the good word clandestinely. those who joined the 'church' were chosen and apostasy was forbidden.

haerin grew up isolated; was not encouraged to make friends, to follow trends. when she left school she was forced to carry out her chores, then study the holy text before homework. she learned very quickly the merits of doing things in secret, adopted the ways of doublethink and doublespeak. made friends on the sly, got up to what her parents would have deemed no good in the shadows.

but whatever lays in darkness will soon be bare under light, right? and suddenly there are whispers among the parish of a lamb being lead atray and she's put under house arrest, a princess in a locked tower, a sacrifice in a holding pen.

a week later her mother goes missing and before the congregation insu announces that she has gone to glory to be in the real world, the new kingdom.

fear hatches a new plan and haerin begins to play the game. you see, maybe she underestimated her mother and so in a way she becomes her. dutiful, pious, the more eager of them all. father trusts her in ways he's never before. and soon, she's secretary of the church, the key to the treasury in her grasp.

running is easy, especially when you know how to move in silence. before long she's out in terra and she's hiding out in vr rooms and gaming cafes, places where he father and his cronies wouldn't think to step foot in, but money is running out and she's sure she saw a faithful watching her eat dinner the other night.

the iron fist competition comes as a god send and the many nights fighting sleep so she can watch her back, see that her gaming skills grow in turn. one day, she finds herself the glory of victory and signs a contract. they brandish her with wings, name her archangel. irony is a dish best served on ice.

that was seven years ago. and now? maybe she's flying high? she's a celebrity professional gamer and she holds onto her ranking with a vice like grip, looks over her shoulder when she's out in public, chews her nails whenever she hears a bell toll. she'd tell you she's haunted by her past but she'll never divulge.

ARCHANGEL

has been playing iron fist competitively for 7 years. per the fighter’s lore, archangel is a messenger of god sent to exercise his judgement. they have two large wings on their back that can be used for flight, shielding, and shooting projectiles but their wings are prone to atrophy from overexertion and damage blocking, causing immense pain to the fighter. their wings cannot regenerate during battle, hence must be used sparingly. ( celebrity ranking: 3.9 stars. )

in game, she's a formidable force. haerin doesn't pull a punch. the same could be said for her blur outside of iron fist which feels like her wings are regenerating from her back, causing excruciating pain.

PERSONALITY

pisces sun, scorpio moon, cancer rising

this babe is full of water. where she is emotional, empathetic, loving and kind (for the most part), but she is independent (to a fault) and feels EVERYTHING. sensitive to criticism which she had a lot growing up. demands the spotlight whilst at the same time shying away from it. loves hard but holds a grudge even harder.

doesn't trust easily and thinks that anyone who shows too much interest in her could potentially be from her father's cult

if she's around someone she trusts she gets in her head, might stop talking in a middle of a sentence and fade off into dream land

PLOT POINTS

this girly needs friends, maybe someone close who knew her from her days in the cult (and might have even helped her escape) or people she got to know in her glory days as a professional iron fist gamer

that being said, iron fist gamer buddies! people who like her or despise her are welcome to apply!

someone who wants to expose her cultdaddy and ruin her celebrity rating

exes or flings, people who taught her the hard knock lessons of love when she had emancipated herself from the cult

neighbours! people who notice she doesn't sleep much and might have bumped into her walking around the complex at night

anything you can think of i'm so open!!

[queriys]

❪ INTRO !! ❫ itō himari ╱ verve ( RS7 ). the girl & star — industry plant, secret lover. hiding the secrets of the industry. can she even be trusted? inspired by: popstar by k/da, mima kirigoe ( perfect blue ), nina sayers ( black swan ), tonya harding ( i, tonya ), nana komatsu ( nana )

user loading. . . ITŌ HIMARI. your current avatar is registered as UCHINAGA AERI. you have been logged in for 23 years since 31 OCTOBER 3000. your highest ranking stats are ENERGETIC and SELF-DESTRUCTIVE. please select your playlist from BEING A STAR or LATE NIGHT TRIPS TO THE CONVENIENCE STORE for today. last saved activity: resume your ongoing game for VERVE as RS7?  • • •  ( sol, 21, she/they, none. )

❪ BACKGROUND !! ❫ tw: mentions of depression.

born in osaka, japan as itō himari. her parents were simple mechanics who dreamed of making their daughter a star. from a young age, himari, who went by hime, loved performing. she was constantly singing whatever song popped into her head and dancing with the idols she saw on tv.

when she switched to terrascape, she made sure she would be the perfect idol — and it was with terra that she became a star. she rose to fame quickly, with her perfect voice and visuals, which had been carefully crafted by her agency. quickly, she shot up the ranks of 4 stars with her first release, and there was no one more perfect or more loved than her in terra.

the longer she stayed in the spotlight, the more she strived for perfection — and the more others realised how lucky she had been to be so successful at a young age. her talent was one that couldn’t be questioned . . . but people couldn’t help but think that perhaps she was planted by terra.

in order to be perfect, himari lost all of her memory when she switched to terrascape. she shed the name hime and switched to mari — forgetting her family and poor background. she was the people’s star and japan’s princess. as one of the biggest stars in terra, she has extreme troubles with depression and the pressure of being liked and needing to be perfect.

she occasionally has fuzzy memories of her past — but it is public record that she was perfectly crafted by terrascape to be loved by the public. it is only a very select few people who know of her old name, hime, and it is best never to call her by that.

❪ CONNECTIONS !! ❫

connections i want to explore: those who know of her past, obsessed fans, anti-fans, terrascape antis, programmers who are sick of her requests, exes, childhood friend she does not remember, fake boyfriend planted by her agency, on-and-off friends/relationships, a manager, best friends, secret enemies, neighbours, secret friends, those who see through her mask, a girl to experiment her curiosities with.

❪ PLOTS !! ❫

tbd, sorry!!

however, if you would like to plot for the event and brainstorm plots/connections, i am so down!!

[fiskesprett]

ayo what's good it's gemma ( s/h, 21+ ) rolling in fashionably late to bring you wasteman manboy park jaehyun, a pro iron fist gamer who's filling in for the rage canon! he's a pretty old but consistent muse of mine, so to anyone who knows him, he's very much the same old angry at the world dude who really just needs to stop making it everyone else's problem and start going to therapy... anyway! under the cut is a little more about him, but please hit that LIKE button and i'll come 🏃‍♀️! p.s. i also have zero self control and brought in reina who i'll be introducing shortly after this, so stay tuned!

aries sun / gemini moon / leo rising

he's born to a lower-middle class couple who barely scrapped by in one of them megabuildings! they didn't have much but they had each other, so in other words, jaehyun's childhood was pretty smooth sailing and he honestly couldn't complain all too much

...at least until his mom was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer and was told that she only had a couple of months left to live by the outer world doctors before her body gave out :< jaehyun was around 4 at the time and couldn't really comprehend what was happening, but one day his mom aka favourite parent was just gone

of course this made a young jaehyun inconsolable and likewise, his dad took it really, really hard. didn't help that he was growing to be the splitting image of his mom which made it even harder on mr park :< with everything happening and them losing their house, his dad found it really hard to cope and couldn't move past his grief, so he dropped the kid off at his mother's place with the promise of returning when he got better, but he never came back

all this to say that jaehyun's been living with his paternal grandmother on the belt from 5yo onwards! his grandmother wasn't really present for him emotionally but she made sure all his needs were met. it's a stark contrast from where he was just a year ago, so naturally jaehyun found it really difficult to adjust and cope to his new life! this, paired with a lack of parental guidance, resulted in one of those kids in those vr rooms belligerently screaming and yelling at his teammates in game as some form of escapism

honestly, he was really good at the game too! you'd hope he was, considering he was there every day and often skipped classes for it! was pretty up there in rank from a young age ( in case you're wondering, no he thought tyrant was a pretty useless fighter overall and never touched him once; jaehyun always went for the more agile fighters and that overall became his playstyle! )

teenagehood is mostly fucking around with friends and girls and gaming until around the time he turned 16, when his grandmother sat him down and ordered him to quit school and get a job because she was laid off of work and didn't have enough in the meantime to support the both of them

so yeah anyway! jaehyun kinda cleaned up his act a little cause he do be loving that woman even though they've never hugged or said i love you or anything like that ( you know how it goes )! he didn't want to see her suffer and it was the first time she ever asked something of him so he signed up for apprenticeships and ended up working as a mechanic! he still made time for iron fist at the start, but when work got more demanding and more responsibilities came in, he kind of fell off with the game

life's been pretty mundane since, at least until he's around 26 when his grandmother confessed that she signed up to work in terrascape co. in their outer world department i.e., she was signing up for virtual death. she told him that she wanted him to do something better with the money he'd get from her, because honestly their lives have been pretty miserable and she felt that only one of them had to suffer. of course, because she's his grandmother, she decided to bear that responsibility

yeah so jaehyun isn't losing another parental figure so he's spiralling, trying to find any way to earn some cash ( considers even joining anonymous because don't they do crime? but like he has literally no tech knowledge and he doesn't know how to contact those motherfuckers anyway, also doesn't buy into their weird ass beliefs he just wants money fast! during this spiral he remembers that there's an upcoming iron fist competition coming up around this time of the year and they allowed casual players to participate and there was prize money involved for first place, so jaehyun signed up out of desperation

amazingly he won? the money was wired into his account and he gave the entirety of it to his grandmother, made her promise she was never going to consider virtual death again if he also promised to keep bringing in more cash! and that's what he did! quit his job as a mediocre, low-level mechanic to play iron fist full-time, signing up for any competitions from neighbourhood to country-wide particularly when people started talking about how good he was at the game and how he has the potential to be signed!

true enough, slightly before the majors at around 27, he gets scouted! signs the contract without a second thought and generates the fighter, rage, and this is where his problems start up again really... because jaehyun works really well with agile fighters and rage is someone who needs to get hit to actually be a good fighter yikes... needless to say he had a piss poor performance in his first major ever and everyone wrote him off and gave him a bad rating so he tanked, people were claiming he was overhyped, etc.

but yeah! since then he's just been gaming and trying to learn how to work with this damn fighter and get used to the playstyle, and jaehyun's realised that he really needs to tap into the tilt mode he had as a kid which has sort of mellowed out... so if you hear lots of yelling and shouting from a whole grown man, just like... look away yeah

personality-wise: with that gemini moon he's very loud and talkative and can sometimes be seen as a little uncouth cause he's got a sailor mouth on him, but he's a friend for life if you get on his good side! he's lost a lot in his life so he tends to hold onto things very tightly, which can mean that he can be very protective but also very selfish! he also doesn't really have much of a filter on him and can sometimes piss people off, and it doesn't help that he's starting to feel weirdly angry like 24/7 thanks to the blur between his avatar and fighter... doesn't think much of this though, personally. he's leaned into his anger a lot in order to try to synchronise better with rage, so he thinks it's just a consequence of that. you know, kind of like when you play lots of gta and you start to feel some type of way even when you've logged off and you're just walking on the street... just me?

as usual i can't be concise yikes... but yeah i've got some plot ideas that we can hopefully work with! here's to hoping it drives enough inspiration for a thread 🤞

he lived majorly on the belt until he signed his contract sometime last year! since then, he's moved back into the megabuildings with his grandma which triggers a lot of memories of his childhood. that aside, i'd love to see some neighbours! people living on the belt and wreaking havoc on the streets with him as a teen, or childhood friends he had when he was <5 when he was living with his parents in the megabuildings! maybe even new neighbours considering he's just recently moved back in?

would also love to see people he went to school with! he dropped out when he was 16, but he was barely there anyway. say, remember that kid you had to do a group project with who never showed up, annoyed the teachers to no end, and had crazy bad attitude? what do you mean he's an iron fist player now? ✊ ( i'm kidding please don't give him a bad review )

iron fist players wya!? i'm looking for someone he mains, someone he fucks with heaavy, and someone he hates even outside of the game ( maybe their fans have labelled the two as archenemies? ouu )

jaehyun's been pretty popular with the ladies too im not going to lie, everyone has that one toxic deadbeat ex living on your couch who you can't get over... if you need an ex or a fling ( before iron fist cause he's trying to change up his game, his rating is tanking as is ), he's your man

this is a reach but i'd love to see someone who knows his dad! his dad ditched him with his grandmother and dipped, so can you imagine if jaehyun finds out the man is doing well now? maybe the man is your muse's neighbour or your muse's mother's newest husband... i don't know how we'd navigate that, but it's definitely something i'm interested to explore!

in the past, he's worked as a mechanic but probably also a convenience store cashier, a waiter, a dog walker, you name it he's probably done it! maybe they could've met somewhere there and had an out of the ordinary experience?

ah also! he was scouted from small-scale competitions, so i'd love if there were others who participated in them with him! maybe a friend or a rival, either way works! bonus points if you were both sort of in the deep together before he moved up!

[sparedpart]

introducing: nam wonshik

hi! i'm super excited to be here and introduce you to my boy wonshik! please like to plot and i'll come running, preferably on discord but ims here are good too. info under the cut!

nam wonshik, registered in december 2997. he's got an older brother (hyungjun) and sister (eunbyul) as well as a younger sibling; his mother raised them on a minimum wage salary, his dad has been a deadbeat for as long as he can remember.

he's scouted at a trip to the mall when he's four years old. starts earning merits first modelling boy's clothes, then acting in commercials, before he gets casted for a disney channel-esque sitcom as the little brother. his mother encourages the acting massively (it's extra cash for the household!), wonshik enjoys himself (although he's definitely overworked).

the older he gets, the better the roles. he plays the lead in teen dramas, is typecast as the boy next door. wonshik is barely attending to his studies at this point, but he manages to graduate somehow. when he's 19, he gets his breakthrough role in a heist movie - he plays a conman.

life, after that, is going extremely well. he gets a new place to live in behind closed gates, he can afford all sorts of luxuries, he's got friends, sends money to his family and parties hard. it's good! really good! ...until gyuok disappears, and suddenly wonshik is forced to question if terra is really all that.

what does your muse know him for?

if not for his quick wit on talkshows or his reputation for getting a little too drunk at that one costar's party, then they've seen him on screen as the killer in a horror movie, the love interest of a jane austen adaptation, or in marvel's 50th reboot. (tentative filmography here. please take this with a grain of salt, i'm very indecisive.) wonshik's interested in (e)sports and will talk about it in the terranean version of instagram live.

let's write!

no specific plots, let's brainstorm! friends, fans, exes, flings, friends or exes of family; people who grew up in the same (lower class) neighbourhood, fellow dog parents, and, of course, people whom wonshik has rubbed the wrong way, and anything else we can think of. you can find more info about wonshik on his stats page.