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App for Rhodos
PLAYER INFORMATION
Name: Brandi
Age: 18+
Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
funshine
Timezone: CST
Other characters: None
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Chrissy Cunningham
Canon: Stranger Things
Canon point: s4,ep 1
Age: 17
History: wiki
Suitability: On the surface, Chrissy seems like a character that wouldn't be suitable for the environment. She dies in the first episode of the season, and she's a popular cheerleader, which usually die pretty quickly in horror movies. She's seen as being a weaker character, due to her mental state before her death. However, Chrissy is far more capable of surviving than even she realizes. She may have died a terrible death, but by coming out the other side of that in game she'll be in a mindset that has her more fiercely determined to stay alive.
She's young, but has experience taking on a leadership role. She's worked hard to earn head cheerleader, and it makes her capable of stepping up and taking charge when it's absolutely needed. And since she's been in cheerleading for a while, and is obviously skilled enough at it to be the lead, she's athletic enough to physically make it. She's not a fighter, but will be determined to learn how.
Survival elements she'll need to learn to adapt to, but she's been through a traumatic event that puts things into perspective for her. She'll learn to do what it takes to survive, and the goal is to get her into a final girl mentality.
Beyond being able to cope with all the dark themes and elements of horror that are present, Chrissy is someone that is a genuinely good person. She is sweet and kind to everyone, and while that can make her easy to take advantage of, it also offers her a unique strength. She's capable of caring for others and keeping them motivated. She offers a supportive role to those that need one, and can add a little levity and light when things seem their bleakest.
Is this a re-app? No
Inventory:
→ pink backpack containing her cheerleading pom poms
→ Walkman tape player with Duran Duran's Rio album on tape inside
→ woodworking hand tool set (hand chisel, hand shaver, wood carver) - she's in Woodworking II at school, okay.
→ Caboodle containing her makeup, hairbrush, and a few scrunchies
→ pair of roller skates
Powers, abilities and/or inhuman traits: She's a baseline human with no powers.
Some general abilities she brings to the game are:
✨ Athleticism - Chrissy is a flyer on the cheer squad, and is physically fit as a result. She is flexible, relatively fast on her feet, and is able to run for long distances. She's also able to do things like cartwheels, flips, and roundhouses with ease.
✨ Small Size - She's very petite, which means she's able to do things like fit in tiny spaces. Or stand on someone while they act as a human step stool or ladder, to reach higher heights.
✨ Woodworking - Her counselor's profile at school shows her as being in Woodworking II. Meaning, she took and passed and liked Woodworking I enough to do another year of it her senior year. It's one of her better grades at school, besides Cheerleading, so it's easy to assume she's pretty good at it.
✨ Sunshine Energy - Bring her your best dark, sinister, and grouchies. She's here to be the emotional support for anyone with a rain cloud over their head. Yes, she may really be going through a time right now, but she is unwaveringly kind and patient.
MANIFESTATION
cw: eating disorder discussed in depth below
Character flaws/traumas:
Unattainable Perfection - When Chrissy is made to have auditory hallucinations at Vecna's hand, we hear the voice of her mother berating Chrissy for her weight. It's insinuated that Chrissy grew up with her mother verbally abusing her into perfection. Chrissy developed an eating disorder from this, in order to stay thin and her mother's definition of pretty. She is seen throwing up in the school bathrooms during the auditory hallucinations about her weight.
In order to accommodate the need for perfection that's been thrust upon her, Chrissy wears a variety of masks. When her boyfriend prior to her death calls her out in the middle of a school pep rally to tell her that he loves her, Chrissy wears a thin, tight smile. She wears a mask of sweetness in order to appear perfect to the rest of the school. She is guilty of wearing a smile like armor, to keep people from thinking anything is wrong with her. However, in her scenes with Eddie Munson, the mask is pulled away and Chrissy is able to relax enough to genuinely laugh and smile wholeheartedly.
Striving for perfection turns Chrissy into a perfect victim for Vecna. She doesn't really realize until it's too late that it's impossible for anyone to be perfect, and she's had so much weight forced on her shoulders by those closest to her. She may be the head cheerleader and the queen of Hawkins High School, but she's suffering quietly on the inside because she doesn't want anyone to see how she struggles to be this ideal version of herself.
Suppression - A large part of Chrissy is suppressed behind the expectations that are put upon her. Some are put there by herself, how she feels she should act as the head cheerleader, how she should act as the girlfriend of the most popular boy at school. Others are put upon her by the time period she lives in (1986), the small town mentality of Hawkins, and the friends and family that she's close to. Chrissy is expected to be a good girl, get good grades, and be popular. She tries her best to do all of these things, but as Vecna begins to extend his power over her and torment her, she slips further and further away from being able to do much of anything.
She can still do her head cheerleader things, still participates at school. She remains entirely kind to others. But her smiles are tense and forced, exhaustion showing as sleepless nights from her nightmares lead her to seeking out drugs as a means of coping. Her grades are shown as slipping in her counselor's profile. She goes from being full of life to barely clinging hold of the edge of existing, and tries to suppress her own fear and torment in order to project that everything is fine.
Mental Instability - Chrissy naturally isn't mentally unstable. Vecna's prolonged torture of her before he kills her is what leads Chrissy to suffer and have trauma in this area. He forces both auditory and visual hallucinations upon her, which terrify her and wear her down mentally. They turn her into a shell of who she was before, and make it difficult for her to project the image of perfection. She's being attacked from the inside, by an invisible enemy that doesn't show himself to her until it's her time to die. Her mind is fractured because of it. Even before her death, she's on thin ice when it comes to hanging on. The method that Vecna used to kill her will leave her in a place that is damaged. She will be highly anxious and will give into fear easily. And she will run, because she didn't run before and that's how she managed to get herself killed. She's going to have to learn how to pick herself up, stand strong, and stop running.
Accepting that her trauma has left her in a more fragile mental state that's often unstable is going to take some processing time. It really falls back to that image of perfection that she thinks she has to have. Learning to accept herself for who she is will take time. It's not something that's going to be easily fixed, if it can even be mended at all.
Isolated - When Chrissy is struggling, she doesn't reach out for help. She's going to the school counselor, likely for her eating disorder. But it doesn't seem as if the counselor is actually doing much to help her with her progress, as Chrissy is seen throwing up in the school bathroom. Even prior to Vecna getting into her head and mentally destroying her to the point of withdrawal from everyone, Chrissy isolated herself. She has friends, she has a boyfriend. She's the most popular girl at school. But none of these connections are shown to be deep or meaningful. And when Chrissy desperately needs help, she doesn't reach out to any of them. Chrissy didn't even tell her boyfriend a hint of what was going on, likely out of fear of his reaction to her not being perfect. Instead, she keeps things to herself and sinks further and further into herself.
By the time she tracks down Eddie Munson and asks him for drugs, that really is her last resort. She isn't sure what else to do. But she finally reaches out to Eddie, hoping he'll throw her a lifeline.
Guilt - Chrissy's guilt comes in the form of not doing anything to save herself. In the end, she tries reaching out to Eddie Munson for drugs to help ease her mind. But it's too late at that point. She's already too far gone. With her death, Chrissy carries a great deal of guilt. She will carry the weight of getting Eddie involved in her death, and it will be something that is difficult for her to come to terms with. If she hadn't gone with him to his trailer for drugs, he wouldn't have been present during her death. And if he hadn't been around her, he never would have been blamed and very literally tracked down in a satanic fearing witch hunt. She will blame herself for everything that Eddie goes through, and it will take some time for her to come to terms with the fact that she doesn't need to be blamed for anything.
The guilt of dying in a way that leaves her body a mangled and crumpled mess on the floor of a trailer in a part of town her parents would definitely not want her to be in will weigh heavy on her mind too. She has a complicated relationship with her mother, but Chrissy does love her. She would never want either of her parents to have to see her body in the condition that it ends up in. She'll have a lot of guilt related to her parents - guilt that she wasn't ever good enough, guilt that she didn't get a chance to tell them goodbye. But mostly, she's just guilty that she knows they likely had to identify and see her body in the terrible condition it was in.
Manifestation name: Tick Tock
Character trait(s) the Manifestation reflects: The manifestation best reflects Chrissy's unattainable perfection that she continually harms herself to obtain. It also displays Chrissy's trauma in taking on aspects of Vecna, the monster that tortured and killed her.
Description: Tick Tock is a humanoid looking mess that looks like her mother. Tick Tock is made of a pearlescent black sludge like substance, and leaves trails behind her wherever she ambles. A key feature is that because of the sludge-like substance it is made of, it is a variable height. It can stretch tall or shrink back, screeching loudly when it does. When threatened or ready to provoke, Tick Tock stretches as tall as possible to look intimidating. The maximum height it can reach is 12 feet tall.
The manifestation has no discernable facial features, apart from a large, sharp toothed smile permanently etched onto the top of its head.
Tick Tock's primary sound is a loud clicking of its tongue that sounds identical to a clock ticking. This is in reference to the clocks that Chrissy is made to hallucinate by Vecna that count down to her death.
It is also capable of repeating phrases that her mother has yelled at her, criticisms about her size and appearance. The manifestation will never change what is said and will never respond with words. It can only produce distorted copies of her mother's words.
Attacks and behavior:
→ Movement is largely a broken down shuffle, almost as if its legs are uneven and broken into pieces. However, it can snap to attention and move with agility if in attack mode. As an idle movement/pose, the manifestation can snap its limbs into grotesque angles, arms and legs making a sickening crunch despite the fact it has no bones of any kind.
→ It will primarily pay attention to tormenting Chrissy, much like her mother's singular focus was on her growing up.
→ However, anyone that seems to view Chrissy in a positive light — particularly anyone that sees her as being anywhere near perfect — they will become targets that the manifestation wants to get rid of.
→ Large spiders will crawl out of its mouth at random. The spiders will never bite or attack, but will mindlessly move about. They seem to be made of sludge themselves, and never run far from Tick Tock before fading away. This is reflective of Vecna using spiders in the hallucinations he forced upon Chrissy.
→ Much like Vecna's ability to create tentacles, Tick Tock will be able to produce up to eight tentacles up to 12 ft in length. They are able to slither out and wrap around things, and are solid enough that they can be used to stab through someone with enough force.
→ Tick Tock is vulnerable to light. It can be temporarily warded away with a flashlight or other light source.
Path towards resolution: Chrissy's mental state when she enters the game means she is going to be absolutely terrified of her manifestation. It will have elements that remind her of the monster that killed her, and she will do whatever she can to not have to see or engage with it. One of the primary things she will have to deal with is the trauma caused by her death. If she can figure out how to move on from it, she stands a better chance at being able to tackle what else the manifestation represents.
Eventually she'll come to connect the dots that everything about the manifestation is strange and grotesque. As this manifestation represents the deterioration of perfection and exposing that she is far from it, Chrissy has to finally accept herself for who she is and stop trying to attain something that isn't possible. She will also have to confront the issues she has with her mother, and find a way to make peace with the fact that she doesn't need to be so desperate to seek her mother's approval and love. She can find both of these things in herself by learning to be comfortable in her own skin.
SAMPLES
One and two
Name: Brandi
Age: 18+
Contact:
Timezone: CST
Other characters: None
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Chrissy Cunningham
Canon: Stranger Things
Canon point: s4,ep 1
Age: 17
History: wiki
Suitability: On the surface, Chrissy seems like a character that wouldn't be suitable for the environment. She dies in the first episode of the season, and she's a popular cheerleader, which usually die pretty quickly in horror movies. She's seen as being a weaker character, due to her mental state before her death. However, Chrissy is far more capable of surviving than even she realizes. She may have died a terrible death, but by coming out the other side of that in game she'll be in a mindset that has her more fiercely determined to stay alive.
She's young, but has experience taking on a leadership role. She's worked hard to earn head cheerleader, and it makes her capable of stepping up and taking charge when it's absolutely needed. And since she's been in cheerleading for a while, and is obviously skilled enough at it to be the lead, she's athletic enough to physically make it. She's not a fighter, but will be determined to learn how.
Survival elements she'll need to learn to adapt to, but she's been through a traumatic event that puts things into perspective for her. She'll learn to do what it takes to survive, and the goal is to get her into a final girl mentality.
Beyond being able to cope with all the dark themes and elements of horror that are present, Chrissy is someone that is a genuinely good person. She is sweet and kind to everyone, and while that can make her easy to take advantage of, it also offers her a unique strength. She's capable of caring for others and keeping them motivated. She offers a supportive role to those that need one, and can add a little levity and light when things seem their bleakest.
Is this a re-app? No
Inventory:
→ pink backpack containing her cheerleading pom poms
→ Walkman tape player with Duran Duran's Rio album on tape inside
→ woodworking hand tool set (hand chisel, hand shaver, wood carver) - she's in Woodworking II at school, okay.
→ Caboodle containing her makeup, hairbrush, and a few scrunchies
→ pair of roller skates
Powers, abilities and/or inhuman traits: She's a baseline human with no powers.
Some general abilities she brings to the game are:
✨ Athleticism - Chrissy is a flyer on the cheer squad, and is physically fit as a result. She is flexible, relatively fast on her feet, and is able to run for long distances. She's also able to do things like cartwheels, flips, and roundhouses with ease.
✨ Small Size - She's very petite, which means she's able to do things like fit in tiny spaces. Or stand on someone while they act as a human step stool or ladder, to reach higher heights.
✨ Woodworking - Her counselor's profile at school shows her as being in Woodworking II. Meaning, she took and passed and liked Woodworking I enough to do another year of it her senior year. It's one of her better grades at school, besides Cheerleading, so it's easy to assume she's pretty good at it.
✨ Sunshine Energy - Bring her your best dark, sinister, and grouchies. She's here to be the emotional support for anyone with a rain cloud over their head. Yes, she may really be going through a time right now, but she is unwaveringly kind and patient.
MANIFESTATION
cw: eating disorder discussed in depth below
Character flaws/traumas:
Unattainable Perfection - When Chrissy is made to have auditory hallucinations at Vecna's hand, we hear the voice of her mother berating Chrissy for her weight. It's insinuated that Chrissy grew up with her mother verbally abusing her into perfection. Chrissy developed an eating disorder from this, in order to stay thin and her mother's definition of pretty. She is seen throwing up in the school bathrooms during the auditory hallucinations about her weight.
In order to accommodate the need for perfection that's been thrust upon her, Chrissy wears a variety of masks. When her boyfriend prior to her death calls her out in the middle of a school pep rally to tell her that he loves her, Chrissy wears a thin, tight smile. She wears a mask of sweetness in order to appear perfect to the rest of the school. She is guilty of wearing a smile like armor, to keep people from thinking anything is wrong with her. However, in her scenes with Eddie Munson, the mask is pulled away and Chrissy is able to relax enough to genuinely laugh and smile wholeheartedly.
Striving for perfection turns Chrissy into a perfect victim for Vecna. She doesn't really realize until it's too late that it's impossible for anyone to be perfect, and she's had so much weight forced on her shoulders by those closest to her. She may be the head cheerleader and the queen of Hawkins High School, but she's suffering quietly on the inside because she doesn't want anyone to see how she struggles to be this ideal version of herself.
Suppression - A large part of Chrissy is suppressed behind the expectations that are put upon her. Some are put there by herself, how she feels she should act as the head cheerleader, how she should act as the girlfriend of the most popular boy at school. Others are put upon her by the time period she lives in (1986), the small town mentality of Hawkins, and the friends and family that she's close to. Chrissy is expected to be a good girl, get good grades, and be popular. She tries her best to do all of these things, but as Vecna begins to extend his power over her and torment her, she slips further and further away from being able to do much of anything.
She can still do her head cheerleader things, still participates at school. She remains entirely kind to others. But her smiles are tense and forced, exhaustion showing as sleepless nights from her nightmares lead her to seeking out drugs as a means of coping. Her grades are shown as slipping in her counselor's profile. She goes from being full of life to barely clinging hold of the edge of existing, and tries to suppress her own fear and torment in order to project that everything is fine.
Mental Instability - Chrissy naturally isn't mentally unstable. Vecna's prolonged torture of her before he kills her is what leads Chrissy to suffer and have trauma in this area. He forces both auditory and visual hallucinations upon her, which terrify her and wear her down mentally. They turn her into a shell of who she was before, and make it difficult for her to project the image of perfection. She's being attacked from the inside, by an invisible enemy that doesn't show himself to her until it's her time to die. Her mind is fractured because of it. Even before her death, she's on thin ice when it comes to hanging on. The method that Vecna used to kill her will leave her in a place that is damaged. She will be highly anxious and will give into fear easily. And she will run, because she didn't run before and that's how she managed to get herself killed. She's going to have to learn how to pick herself up, stand strong, and stop running.
Accepting that her trauma has left her in a more fragile mental state that's often unstable is going to take some processing time. It really falls back to that image of perfection that she thinks she has to have. Learning to accept herself for who she is will take time. It's not something that's going to be easily fixed, if it can even be mended at all.
Isolated - When Chrissy is struggling, she doesn't reach out for help. She's going to the school counselor, likely for her eating disorder. But it doesn't seem as if the counselor is actually doing much to help her with her progress, as Chrissy is seen throwing up in the school bathroom. Even prior to Vecna getting into her head and mentally destroying her to the point of withdrawal from everyone, Chrissy isolated herself. She has friends, she has a boyfriend. She's the most popular girl at school. But none of these connections are shown to be deep or meaningful. And when Chrissy desperately needs help, she doesn't reach out to any of them. Chrissy didn't even tell her boyfriend a hint of what was going on, likely out of fear of his reaction to her not being perfect. Instead, she keeps things to herself and sinks further and further into herself.
By the time she tracks down Eddie Munson and asks him for drugs, that really is her last resort. She isn't sure what else to do. But she finally reaches out to Eddie, hoping he'll throw her a lifeline.
Guilt - Chrissy's guilt comes in the form of not doing anything to save herself. In the end, she tries reaching out to Eddie Munson for drugs to help ease her mind. But it's too late at that point. She's already too far gone. With her death, Chrissy carries a great deal of guilt. She will carry the weight of getting Eddie involved in her death, and it will be something that is difficult for her to come to terms with. If she hadn't gone with him to his trailer for drugs, he wouldn't have been present during her death. And if he hadn't been around her, he never would have been blamed and very literally tracked down in a satanic fearing witch hunt. She will blame herself for everything that Eddie goes through, and it will take some time for her to come to terms with the fact that she doesn't need to be blamed for anything.
The guilt of dying in a way that leaves her body a mangled and crumpled mess on the floor of a trailer in a part of town her parents would definitely not want her to be in will weigh heavy on her mind too. She has a complicated relationship with her mother, but Chrissy does love her. She would never want either of her parents to have to see her body in the condition that it ends up in. She'll have a lot of guilt related to her parents - guilt that she wasn't ever good enough, guilt that she didn't get a chance to tell them goodbye. But mostly, she's just guilty that she knows they likely had to identify and see her body in the terrible condition it was in.
Manifestation name: Tick Tock
Character trait(s) the Manifestation reflects: The manifestation best reflects Chrissy's unattainable perfection that she continually harms herself to obtain. It also displays Chrissy's trauma in taking on aspects of Vecna, the monster that tortured and killed her.
Description: Tick Tock is a humanoid looking mess that looks like her mother. Tick Tock is made of a pearlescent black sludge like substance, and leaves trails behind her wherever she ambles. A key feature is that because of the sludge-like substance it is made of, it is a variable height. It can stretch tall or shrink back, screeching loudly when it does. When threatened or ready to provoke, Tick Tock stretches as tall as possible to look intimidating. The maximum height it can reach is 12 feet tall.
The manifestation has no discernable facial features, apart from a large, sharp toothed smile permanently etched onto the top of its head.
Tick Tock's primary sound is a loud clicking of its tongue that sounds identical to a clock ticking. This is in reference to the clocks that Chrissy is made to hallucinate by Vecna that count down to her death.
It is also capable of repeating phrases that her mother has yelled at her, criticisms about her size and appearance. The manifestation will never change what is said and will never respond with words. It can only produce distorted copies of her mother's words.
Attacks and behavior:
→ Movement is largely a broken down shuffle, almost as if its legs are uneven and broken into pieces. However, it can snap to attention and move with agility if in attack mode. As an idle movement/pose, the manifestation can snap its limbs into grotesque angles, arms and legs making a sickening crunch despite the fact it has no bones of any kind.
→ It will primarily pay attention to tormenting Chrissy, much like her mother's singular focus was on her growing up.
→ However, anyone that seems to view Chrissy in a positive light — particularly anyone that sees her as being anywhere near perfect — they will become targets that the manifestation wants to get rid of.
→ Large spiders will crawl out of its mouth at random. The spiders will never bite or attack, but will mindlessly move about. They seem to be made of sludge themselves, and never run far from Tick Tock before fading away. This is reflective of Vecna using spiders in the hallucinations he forced upon Chrissy.
→ Much like Vecna's ability to create tentacles, Tick Tock will be able to produce up to eight tentacles up to 12 ft in length. They are able to slither out and wrap around things, and are solid enough that they can be used to stab through someone with enough force.
→ Tick Tock is vulnerable to light. It can be temporarily warded away with a flashlight or other light source.
Path towards resolution: Chrissy's mental state when she enters the game means she is going to be absolutely terrified of her manifestation. It will have elements that remind her of the monster that killed her, and she will do whatever she can to not have to see or engage with it. One of the primary things she will have to deal with is the trauma caused by her death. If she can figure out how to move on from it, she stands a better chance at being able to tackle what else the manifestation represents.
Eventually she'll come to connect the dots that everything about the manifestation is strange and grotesque. As this manifestation represents the deterioration of perfection and exposing that she is far from it, Chrissy has to finally accept herself for who she is and stop trying to attain something that isn't possible. She will also have to confront the issues she has with her mother, and find a way to make peace with the fact that she doesn't need to be so desperate to seek her mother's approval and love. She can find both of these things in herself by learning to be comfortable in her own skin.
SAMPLES
One and two