meme: more than meets the eye

[seriesofbaddecisions]

It's a slow work day and I've spent the last like hour and a half trying to decide between memes and here's one we haven't done since last September that might be helpful for people, and new characters can ping in too!


There are certain characteristics about the people we play that *we* know, but we get tired of repeating in every introductory ping. There's also stuff that players wouldn't really be able to figure out just looking at an icon--how tall someone is, if they have an accent, what kind of clothes they are wearing...and in some cases, if their eyes/hair/whatever are different than the PB we've picked.

So wax poetic about what your characters look/sound like, if they have tics or scars, if they have a distinct singing voice, etc!


Go forth and let the notifications fill my inbox!

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Duke Crocker

[betterthanaplan]

• 34 years old
• Tall (6'2") with a slim build and fairly broad shoulders
• longish hair that has a tendency to hang in his face, even when he's got it in a ponytail
  • when it's in a ponytail, you can see grey at his temples and in his sideburns (visible in a couple icons), leftover from his brush with being aged to death
• has a chin-beard and a mustache (which are definitely visible in all his icons), both with a couple flecks of silver in them, too
• has dark, dark brown eyes
  • that turn BRIGHT FREAKING SILVER when his trouble goes off
• 99.9% of the time, he's wearing either a button down shirt or a henley, unbuttoned to halfway down his breastbone, and an undershirt
  • also multiple necklaces, one of which is a large whistle (the long, narrow kind, not the high school gym coach kind)
  • if it's at all cold, he's also quite possibly wearing a shapeless cardigan
  • in the winter, he'll add a puffy vest or a sheepskin lined denim jacket to that
• none of his pants come all the way to his ankles
• he's usually wearing boat shoes with no socks, or boots that come up high enough that you can't tell if he's wearing socks or not
  • Seriously, dude's got a very specific, very strange fashion sense
  • the pants thing is mostly because living on a boat means trying to avoid getting your cuffs wet, though
• TATTOOS! He has four that are regularly visible:
  • one on his left shoulder, which is some sort of circular, vaguely Asian . . . thing
  • a text-based one on the inside of his upper left arm that says . . . something about taking the less traveled path or something, I'm having no success in looking up the exact verbiage right now. It's hard to read anyway
  • a filigreed skull covered in butterflies on the opposite shoulder cap
    • you can actually watch his actor get that one on youtube
    • which is kinda weird but okay
    • it was an episode of one of those tattooing shows
    • with Kat von D
    • I am really really digressing here
  • a minimalist, vaguely tribal shark on the inside of his right forearm
    • this is the only one I've added so far
    • but there will totally be more!
  • we see MOST of Duke through season one (they like giving him nude scenes) so unless he's got one on his ass (which is entirely likely), that covers it for tattoos
• says almost everything with in a dry, ironic sort of tone
• has a somewhat husky voice
  • though not nearly as husky as it gets by season five holy crap someone give him a lozenge
• has a very nice -- if fairly husky -- singing voice
  • the actor's the front man for a band that can't decide on a name, but I kind of hate their music so I'm always going to link to that one song from RENT as the go-to "here's Duke's singing voice" reference
• is VERY physically expressive when he talks
  • I mean all the gestures
  • I try to cover this at least a little in pings but there's no way I could get it all in
  • Just -- if his mouth is open, his hands are moving
• his mouth is usually open, even when he's NOT speaking. Dude's kind of a mouthbreather
• smiles when he's freaking out
  • like, you can probably gauge his mental state by how hard he's instinctively covering and showing his teeth
  • again, I try to cover this in pings, but it doesn't always work

I thiiiink that's everything? Yeah, that probably covers it. Also, I'm very impressed with myself for getting all the bullet levels coded properly on the first try! (So naturally I had to edit the comment to put his name in the subject >.<)

Also, sorry-not-sorry I wrote a book. :P